Dan really, REALLY, wants to be forcefemmed.
Hunter, Dan's cisgender male best friend, is forced to listen to Dan's constant prattling on and on about all the different, vivid, and creative ways someone could get turned into a woman.
Unfortunately for Hunter, he lives in a world where Dan might be onto something...
This is a really fun story that makes fun of all the force-femme cliches. Very meta, with one of the main characters a self-described expert in gender bending, constantly criticizing everything going on. The first part really sets up a world where every gender bend cliche is in force. The second part is even better with the two of them facing against the classic Evil Corporation, revealed to be a bunch of incompetents. The only solution is to show them how it's done!The history of the forced-femme genre is tricky. As a late transitioner, I spent a lot of time reading these types of stories (literal decades). There are a lot of really nasty things to unwind mixed in there, but they aren't all bad. This story is a critique of the genre, showing how the core can be mode quite trans positive and affirming. It is also, and I can't stress this enough, very, very funny.
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A lovely, if comedically absurd at times, story that pulls at the heartstrings only just barely infrequently enough that you feel its full impact each time. Well worth your time!
Triply so if you have memories of being inexplicably intrigued by or drawn to forcefemme stories as an egg.
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One of the silliest, goofiest, and funniest stories I have ever read on this site! ??&Nbsp;
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Before I keep going with Book 2, I just want to drop a review of everything I've read so far; it started out about what I'd expect for the setup, but then dove HARD into the complex and ethical and feelings and Gender (tm) and all the good stuff. This is my CATNIP and I loved every moment I've read so far.
As an added bonus, I've added this to the "Must Read" channel on my Discord server, and when I posted it I said this in review:
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So this one has me crying...I often wind up loving the media where the MC is in some fashion relatable to me. (I mean, duh... Ranma 1/2, Trouble with Horns, She-ra, MLP, etc.) But sometimes, one must take what one can find, and back in the 1980s and 90s... trans fics were thin on the ground. We literally had to take what we could get when we could find it, and there were certain set expectations for how these things went.
And some of these stories were BAD. Both from the literary and the ethical standpoints. But in all of them, there were some tropes that arose, some nuggets that came out of the sifting through crap. And, of course, every time someone found something good that worked a dozen few hundred imitators would come out of the woodwork. It was inevitable that an inversion to the tropes would come about, and this one is probably the best inversion I've ever encountered. The main characters are well aware of the genre they're in:
... especially after a few events that at first seem to be coincidences come together to make everything that happened up to that point clearly orchestrated events.
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