Gigacake and I have been discussing inflation works, the best and the worst, which ones have the best sense of physics, etc. She raised me a question which I hope you can answer.

Basically, she observed that there were two major types of inflation works, each separated majorly from the other... Type 1 consists of inflation works done by younger artists and "children-at-heart", utilizing or overutilizing inflation tropes and gags in pure or naive form because they "like them a lot". Type 2, by contrast, utilizes inflation in more erotic ways, turning balloons into a direct metaphor for the pleasures of the flesh, engorging and swelling in response to sexual stimulation. Basically irreconcilable.

Gigacake wanted to know whether there was something in-between, where balloon characters were neither silly or sexy, but rather sensual, romantic, or cuddly. True love to be found in something so squishy and puffy, the biggest, warmest hugs, and the feeling almost like being bubble-wrapped in the protection of a fated mate, who just so happens to be made of rubber and filled with air. Obviously, as something of an asexual, I would find this much more agreeable, and I love to write rubbery romance when I get around to it, but I have to wonder why it's hard to find.

Even weirder is that she finds that macrophiles/sizeplay-fans have more examples of fluffy love than inflatophiles, which I find hard to believe personally given that I tend to conflate the two fetishes - it's just that one inflates with air and the other with... matter and organs... Basically, both fetish fantasies are illogical, so I can't understand people who favor one over another with their own syllogisms.

Again, these are our observations. Rather than bite our heads off over how wrong we really are, try and give us a little understanding as to where we can find a bit of love to counteract this like and lust gap. She says it's for research, but I wouldn't blame her if it had something else to it.