OK, all! I don't expect - or really intend - to bring my quadsuit to AC this year. However, a big part of that is because no one I know is going who I trust to handle. I usually don't like people I've never had handle for me at smaller cons do larger ones, but there are some friends on FA that I think I can trust, so I'm asking this last time whether anyone's up for it. I'll have lots of fun either way, but I know it's always special to see a quad and even at AC there aren't so many that they seem common.

See everyone there on four feet or two!

The cutoff this time was 5! If a sub had 5+ faves after the 2-3 week period the GIF was up in main gallery, it stayed. The rest are in scraps now. I SO would appreciate them implementing folders. It's almost enough to make me switch to Weasyl.

I don't think I've ever posted a birthday journal before, but I sort of feel like it now. Things are going well if very busily, and I'm kind of happy with the things I'll be doing today and over the weekend.

1. Best cake ever
2. Laser Tag
3. Art from  foxpawmcfly
4. Doing the forms for my new townhouse in Pittsburgh where I'll be going to CMU this fall
5. Going to  lunasparkle s house.

I'm scared but happy. So it's a pretty good birthday all around. Even my main RPG is back up today!

I'm not quite half way through uploading the sequences from Morphicon so it might be next week before they're all up. That said, do people have a preference for what I'm making? Longer in Flash, quick GIFs, or longer GIFs that are smaller to keep within the 10MB limit? Also do people like these better than picture subs with links to actual video on YouTube? I can do that instead of taking sequences, but it means having to go to another site to see them. It also means not doing the silly ones like butt rubs, tail wags, and waving.

Also, is anyone I know going to AC? And up for handling me in my quadsuit? I'm not planning on taking it unless I have a handler lined up before I get there since the Westin's going to be a pain for taking a big quad around.

Took this from  lunasparkle

Arrival and Departure?
Thursday around 2, but I often get tired of waiting and just leave so I could get in earlier :p
Since they post check-in as 4, I'm going to have conflicting motivations.
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Leaving Monday

Where are you staying?
Columbus-Worthington Holiday Inn (main con hotel)

Mode of Transportation?
Con car (one day it won't be my only car)

Who will you be with?
 lunasparkle until she gets tired of me, then probably just wandering around with no one unless there's a sudden change in who I know will be there.

What are your Major Plans?
Quadsuiting at the fursuit handling panel, was going to be on more but they lost my panel docs ;^^

What fursuits do you have?
I'll be bringing Thrak (quad), Allura(Lynx), and Chepi(Coyote other people wear because she's too tiny for me). No Daria this con!

Attending Parties?
Probably not but who knows? Will there be an egg cream?

How do I find you?
Look for Allura, or the bloke in the Australian armored vest.

What is your gender?
Male-ish, but negotiable ;)

How old are you?
Merlin-esque

Can I talk to you?
Yes, but it takes me awhile to gear to conversation mode so give it a minute for the brain to turn over and warm up

Can I hug you?
Eh, sure. Preferably in suit but I'm not picky

Can I buy you a drink?
Whatever floats your boat

What's your poison?
Nogatch hemlock, or Coke. Whichever is less lethal.

Can I commission you?
If you can afford it

What events will you be attending?
Fursuit parade, fursuit handling, otherwise not sure. I didn't see much on the calendar that attracted me.

How tall are you?
5'11" on a good day

Are you nice?
When I remember other people exist

Are you friendly?
Same deal. It helps if the other person knows what I'm talking about.

Can I touch you?
You already hugged me, hypothetical person

Are you Cliquey?
Never was in one, so I can't say

Can I Stalk you?
You'd be a pretty lame stalker to either need my permission or get caught

Can I Dance with you at the Dances?
No, because my shoes are too tight and I have forgotten how to dance (such a geek/emo answer)

Can I buy Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner?
For yourself.

Can I get a Picture with you?
Yes, but PLEASE for the love of Pete whoever he is either give me the pics or post them and tell me!

Can I Steal you Away for *Censored*?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rfNlSuxgAc ALAKAZAM!

You Wanna Cuddle at the Con?
Maybe in suit. I'm a bit restless and a bit touch-phobic so I might not last long.

How long are you going?
Four days-ish

Do you have an artist table?
One day I will pitch the Harlan Tent. But not today...

Can I give you a gift?
As long as it isn't ticking. Unless it's one of those snazzy Atomic Pocketwatches I've heard so much about. But then you'd be giving me something worth 30 grand and which requires a background check to own, so that could get awkward.

If I see you, how should I get your attention?
Loudly so as to be heard above the noise in my brain.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe.....-bunny-costume

SIGN IT! The current Presidential Bunny is a disgrace! Here's a picture: http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slide.....79156_free.jpg

I couldn't fit the whole petition on the page, so here it is:

The United States is justifiably proud of the hard work and thought that goes into its celebrations, especially those held by the government. Across the country thousands of festivals, concerts, fairs, and other events are put together by creative and enthusiastic Americans. Those held at the White House symbolize and show off our best efforts as a nation to honor and celebrate our shared cultural heritage. The annual Easter celebration is no exception, being a great experience for all ages with activities attended and often run by the President personally.

As such, it is troubling to see that the dedicated public servant who works very hard to bring to life the Easter Bunny for the lucky children who are invited to be part of the Easter Egg Roll must be given such an outdated and poorly made costume. While there is no doubt that the federal acquisition process procured the best Bunny suit that fit both requirements and budget, there can be little doubt looking at it that the requirements were lacking and given everything else done that day that some more could have been spared from the budget to procure a better quality costume that could easily be used for many years. It is an embarrassment to this great nation that in a well publicized event - that is seen around the world - the President is accompanied by a substandard Bunny.

Our anthropomorphically inclined citizens produce superior quality costumes every day for themselves and their fellows, including many bunnies, rabbits, and other Leporidae. These are great examples of the artistry and craft of American bunny costumes, and should be celebrated by the inclusion of a well made bunny costume in the Easter Egg Roll. So we petition the White House to retire the current Easter Bunny suit and instead buy from an American small business or independent artist who can produce a product superior to the one currently in use with minimal overhead. We accept that most – in fact, likely all – of these artists are lacking in a CAGE Code or other credentials required for the federal acquisition process, but if it were known that they could compete to have their craft and costume art seen at one of highlights of the national calendar, I am sure that they would be willing to work with the government to satisfy any statutory requirements.

I wonder what they'll do with this now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr67ztF96JQ

I don't know anyone to join me in it, but I'm sure if I found a way to buy this I'd get takers!

Commissions somewhat open

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I'm going to AC for sure, but I don't know if I ought to bring my quadsuit. It's hard to carry and the hotel is so busy with elevators that I may just not bother. It depends on if anyone is willing to handle for me - only people I know reasonably well and can trust. Any takers?

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Currently working on personal stories.
Expect:
Personal (new)
Personal (new)
Comm (maybe)
Personal (probably going back to do another installment of Staying in Character

I got accepted to Carnegie-Mellon for a Masters in Robotics System Development.

I really didn't expect to get accepted, so I'm a little confused right now. I'm going for sure, but I was starting to get comfortable here. My job was boring, but otherwise everything was pretty nice. Still, I'm better off doing this and will likely end up working somewhere a lot more interesting when I'm done.

Going to G-Con soon. Hopefully will write something soon after I get back.

Current list of $5/1000 word stories. If bought now, will be done by end of April.

Here's the current list of stories I'll do for the minimum rate. The catch is two things. First, the customer gets almost no input (if any). You're buying a premade concept. Second, most of them will end up being over 10,000 words and some are 20,000+, so the price may end up being the same as a shorter piece at the usual rate. It's not so much a discount as extra length for the same cost. However, I will also make my quote at the start and if the story is less than 2000 words more than the quote, I won't charge for it.

Most continuations of a current series.

Unicorn Power: The now well regarded princess Calastria's inner circle is sent into a frenzy by the arrival in court of the Valkyriorn Queen who they recognize immediately as Calastria herself in a magically secured black wig. The fake Calastria is very relieved when the queen tells her that the reason for her visit is to speak to her, but not to accuse her of impersonation. Instead, she is worried that her subjects may soon realize she isn't a true Valkyriorn and she is in desperate need of a Unicorn Blessing! SUPER ULTRA LONG Maybe 30,000 words

Catburglar: #27 below, but it's the Starling who is called in to assist the police in return for a full pardon. Spoiler: The villains will win if you buy the story without her!

Keeps (also very long): Our dashing hero/ine is back at Sir Jinns' castle, this time as a barely tolerated visitor on a state visit with his father. While the older knights discuss diplomacy (and keeping the hero from causing trouble in Jinns' lands), the hero/ine is busy getting into trouble.
Other possibility: Sir Jinns sends some of his girls to smooth over the troubles between the two lands with some intimate diplomacy, but our hero/ine is suspicious...
Variant: Ronal's father the king thinks he's so good at acting like a girl that he's been having Ronal stand in for his sister, since Ronal is better at getting information about the realms of potential suitors. Gets complicated when one of the suitors is Sir Jinns! (pretty much merging Keeps with idea #16 below)

The following:

Original stories
1. Vixen costume, different premise. Universe in which human augments are the upper class and usually are known because they look like anthro animals. Unmodified guy is looking around in old boxes when he finds pictures of his mother with the vixen. His mom has a collar and leash, but doesn't look like she minds. The pics start out friendly, then get more intimate with kissing and bedroom pics until the vixen pops out male parts and takes off the mask and face prosthetic to show it's his father. Then the pics switch to similar ones of his father with the vixen, first helping his mom into it. He finds the suit and slave gear. After some thinking, he calls up a friend to tell him he has a way for them to get into the night club for gene mods only. Of course, since it's his suit, he gets to be mistress first.

2. One of those cartoony situations where the antagonist suits to catch the main character but the main guy twigs and glues him into it. Possibly then rents him out as a call girl.

3. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10436163/ If the artist doesn't mind me taking the concept and going further. The dragon pulls the puppet away so fast that the knight doesn't see her go. When the knight strikes at the dragon, the puppet falls from his hand and on to the knight's squire, who almost immediately sees a chance to rise in station.

4. A wealthy overprotective father won’t let his daughter’s boyfriend see her. He tries to get in posing a large dog she’s supposed to watch but when the father insists she get rid of him, she sneaks him back in and then when her father barges into her room, she shoves the boyfriend into her bathroom with last year’s Halloween costume – a full bodysuit of Jean Grey. Her brother immediately falls in love with ‘Jean.’

5. Guy wants to go with girlfriend to party but doesn’t have an invitation. Girl wears full body dragon suit with a very large and surprisingly animated tail to the party. Guess where her boyfriend is.

6. All the prettiest and most popular girls at school are having a slumber party. A group guys who run a popular web show dress one of their number as an attractive newcomer who they wrangle into getting an invitation. Disguised member of the podcasting group arrives at party with a variety of interesting toys for their game of truth or dare. All the toys have hidden cameras in them.
WARNING: I plotted this out and it's long. Possibly over 20,000 words.

7. A bloke who dresses as a pretty girl to get free drinks at a local night club sees that his friend and roommate has decided to go to the club he frequents as a girl rather than the one they usually go to together. Feeling naughty, the disguised bloke seduces the roommate and when they wake up in bed the next day… Could be a shorter one if I stop it shortly after the discovery and separate the aftermath to a second part.

8. A mangy rat bank robber combines disguise with hiding place by ducking into a nearby ladies room and stuffing the curves of his vixen suit with the money. Things get complicated when a fox detective spots the vixen and chats her up under the pretense of seeing if she’s a witness. The rat doesn’t want to make the fox suspicious, but he sure as hell doesn’t want to go on a date with him!

9. The brotherhood of the traveling bodysuit - a female suit keeps getting worn, discarded and picked up by people who saw it being taken off.
This one can pretty much be extended indefinitely, so feel free to pay a few bucks every so often for the next person in line to get the suit.

11. A man has had a crush on his best friend’s sister for awhile. The friend lets slip that his sister’s so vain that she spent a month’s salary on a full body costume of herself so that if she develops even the tiniest zit she can put it on and be perfect. Now the man has a hard decision. Should he steal the costume and wear it himself so he has complete control over his crush or try to get his friend to wear it since he’d know his sister best?

Possible variant: Kid brother goes into his sister's room to steal some of her clothes because he's getting interested in crossdressing, finds her 'vanity suit' and puts it on. The sister's boyfriend arrives just as he's put the finishing touches on a lolita gothic ensemble, praises her for not being late for once and takes the kid brother on the date they'd been planning.

12. Animal rights group intercepts and steals an invitation by a wealthy and influential hunting enthusiast to his annual Halloween Ball. Since they don’t want to be recognized later and refuse to exploit their female membership, they put one of their male members in a girl suit and a sexy animal costume. At first the idea is to just ruin the party, but when the host takes a fancy to the sexy young predator girl, an opportunity comes up that can’t be ignored. A doe costume, some glue and a gag which makes the deer mating call later… LENGTH WARNING: 15,000 words minimum

13. I don’t usually do Looney Tunes but: Elmer and the hunting dog know Bugs and Daffy are near. Elmer puts on a Lola Bunny (or something similar) suit and sticks the dog in Minerva Mink. Meanwhile in the forest next to the lake, Bugs and Daffy know Elmer’s on the way, so Bugs puts on a girl suit and bikini while Daffy’s in a female dog suit. They pretend to be a sunbather and her pooch while the hunter and dog find them while in their Lola and Minerva disguises. Neither side is entirely sure the other is what they look like while they have to pretend to be exactly what they appear to be and so can’t make any overt move. The voice box can’t totally hide Elmer’s speech impediment, the dog may look like Minerva but has to stay silent or bark, Daffy occasionally sheds feathers which escape from the dog suit’s mouth and Bugs’ ears have a tendency to spring back up and out of the girl’s head, along with her butt occasionally sprouting a cotton tail.

14. A man buys a cute female cat costume and bribes his friend to wear it to a party. The friend takes the money but uses it to give the briber a surprise.

15. A pool party involving a sexy sea monster costume.

16. A princess hates meeting the now tens of suitors trying for her hand and her brother has the idea of disguising himself as her and using the many 'private walks' her suitors like to go on to get military secrets and tactical capabilities out of them in the guise of asking about their 'daring exploits' and 'strong kingdoms.' His best friend has a secret crush on his sister and he's got a crush on his best friend, adding to the difficulties of being a stand-in noblewoman.
WARNING: This one is in the same vein as Unicorn Power, so it could stretch past 20,000 words

17. I've seen a lot of manga and anime where people (especially females) occasionally shed their skin.

A. Guy whose girlfriend is out of town so he puts it on to feel closer to her and ends up having to stand in for her when someone barges in.
B. Someone puts it on to embarrass another / Guy puts on skin of girl he can't have and ends up going out in it, causing huge damage to her reputation as he does all the things he always wanted her to do
C. Guy's friend owes him a favor so he puts on a shed skin of a girl the guy wants to ask out.
D. Uses it to go somewhere they normally couldn't.
E. Girl asks guy friend to put on her shed skin so she can see how some of her outfits look from the outside. Knock at door and she asks friend to get it since she isn't dressed. It's her boyfriend, who whisks the guy friend off before he can say anything. Girl yawns and goes to bed. She was tired and wanted an early night. Further shenanigans can ensue during and after the date.
F: SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL - I want to do this one soon anyway so I'll do the first 10K words free. A politician's assistant puts her boyfriend in the shed skin of the politician and then herself as the politician's chief aide. They go to a bar to 'mingle with voters' and get into a game of strip pool amongst other mischief.

19. I've never even watched MLP, but: Two very young dragons want to impress their elders by getting some rare jewelry, so they make a pony suit and infiltrate, stealing shinies whenever they're alone.

20. Two guys are asked by their girlfriends (who are best friends) to house sit. The first is a casual crossdresser and after trying on a couple of outfits he finds a box containing a skinsuit of the other girl, remembering then the time they'd gone as each other for Halloween and teased their boyfriends the whole time. He puts it on to try it out and then the very revealing outfit that his girlfriend had used to show off her BFF'd body. Just then the doorbell rings and he looks out the window to see his friend, whose girlfriend he now looks like. Could possibly slot into the shed skin idea up in 17 with the two female friends keeping each others' shed skins as friendship items.

22. A studio wants to make sure that their newest sensation is never seen outside of venues, so they record a real singer and have a man in a skinsuit go out and lip sync hoping that no one would ever suspect that the blue haired rocker chick is a man and if it were to come out they'd first have deniability and second be able to spin it into lots of press.

23. Two friends who know their third friend likes crossdressing buys him a skinsuit. At first he isn't really interested, but after trying it, he decides to thank his friends in a very personal way.

25. A girlfriend of a pokemon trainer wants to propose to him in a super special way and with the help of a sexy costume and one of his pokemon, she gets herself into a lot of trouble in the process.

26. A footsoldier sees the general of the armies die nearby and goes to bring her body back to HQ. As he gets progressively more tired, more of her armor replaces his as he decides that he needs to get rid of as much extra weight as possible and distribute what's left more evenly.

27. The police are at a loss as to the identity of two waifish criminals seen at several large thefts. Meanwhile a socialite and her two voluptuous daughters have recently built a mansion just outside of town.

29. A young man is told by his friend to go down to the beach to see something fantastic. He arrives and there's a mermaid sitting on a rock out in the bay singing. SPECIAL: After the suits get distributed, I have no idea what to do with this so you can actually get an exception to the 'minimal input' rule on this one.

30. A couple want to win the costume contest at that year's Halloween party so they go as twins with the boyfriend in a bodysuit.

31. Bowser's daughter, Princess Koopa, has a crush on Mario. She comes up with a plan that not only nets her Mario but keeps Peach from being rescued when Bowser kidnaps her. SPECIAL: After a certain point, I'm clueless as to where to go with it, so same exception as 29.

32. A pair are tired of their female boss being so nasty and ... bossy. One dresses up as her and goes out to discredit her by making huge orders at their suppliers in person which she'll have to cancel and explain away the next day. The opportunities grow as the disguised employee meets other people his/her boss knows. F2F or M2F by choice of commissioner and could be a 'shed skin' type. SPECIAL: After around word 20,000, I'm open for suggestions for an ending.

33. A wife who is away on business a lot knows her husband has a very realistic sex doll and doesn't mind until she starts to wonder if he's doing the doll better than her. She dresses up as the doll to find out.

34. Two cats spend a typical Looney Tunes episode trying to get a dog's steak away from him. Eventually they agree to work together and put on a collie suit with one in front and the other in back. They flirt and then the front cat quickly falls down, making it look like the collie is in heat and wants servicing. As the rear cat is being taken advantage of, the front cat tries to eat the steak at which point the rear cat opens the flap partly to fight over it. The dog notices the sudden lack of interest and just as he looks up, the cats see he's about to and the rear cat pushes the front cat into a kiss. Back and forth until they agree to share, but when they try to escape they both smell of steak and are easily tracked, requiring them to take to the costume again and pretend to 'help' the dog track whoever stole his dinner. So on and on with the situation getting worse as more dogs smell a female dog in heat and/or meat. May eventually end in adoption of the collie suited cats as a dog.


35. A set of housemates are moving away and give one of them a sendoff prank for the ages by turning him and themselves into girls and redecorating the house while he's asleep.

36. A girl who knows a guy has a crush on her and that another male friend has a crush on him dresses up in a kigurumi costume and invites him to come up to her room at a convention. He goes and finds the same character waiting...

37. It's Halloween and a married couple decide to get candy the fun way and scare all the kids into dropping their bags. The plan is for the wife to answer in some normal costume, claiming that she's a werewolf and when the kids say they don't believe, she theatrically starts to fall about, stumbles around a corner and after a tearing sound a werewolf comes out wearing a ripped version of her costume far too quickly for it to be a costume change. Of course, the easier way would be for the husband to be the werewolf version of his wife, but that wouldn't be the most fun!

38. A couple of guys need to get into an all girls pool party. Too bad the suit store is sold out of all but one model.

39. Emile has a crush on Gann. Gann has a crush on Alexandra who sort of likes him but doesn't want to start anything. Emile seduces Gann disguised as Alexandra, but then says he's Shelly disguised as Alexandra because she has a crush on him and wanted to get him interested. Alexandra is having trouble with her boyfriend and asks Gann if he wants a date. Gann thinks it's Emile-Shelly and that she's role playing. She gets offended when he treats her like Emile-Shelly and when she stalks off, Emile dressed as Alexandra shows up and teases him by telling him that was the real Alexandra but that she's the fake. Then the real Shelly also breaks up with her boyfriend and goes after Gann, leading to a love parallelogram with two of the people not realizing there's a third impersonating them and the fourth being run off his feet and beginning to suspect there's a third but not sure who
she really is.

40. Dr. Scratch'N'Sniff is frustrated that the Warners always do what his nurse tells them to but won't listen to him. He tries doing a session in a Minerva Mink suit and his success is soon a pain because all his patients start asking to be analyzed by Dr. Mink instead of him. Ending may involve the suit falling onto Chicken Boo on his way to a Hen party.

42. Beauty Pageant stories
A. F2F. Female (human or fur) needs to win a pageant for some kind of important prize. Isn't a pageant cute species, too slender, too curvy, etc to win. Suits to get it or is suiting to get in and sabotage the pageant but ends up winning in the process.
B. F2F Female suits as a big celebrity to make sure she wins
C. M2F. Is either sabotaging, trying to see a contestant or just wants to perv up close to the pretty girls. Probably ends up winning and possibly being unmasked by angry competitors.

43. An outnumbered army comes up with operation Centaur-Werewolf.

44. A man wakes up to find an adorable furry girl climbing into bed with him. When he takes her costume off, she's wearing a similarly cute cosplay underneath. When he wakes up, however, his best friend is next to him and acts as if he's always been the girl wearing the fursuit who visited him the night before.

45. Survivor-type finds out that living in the woods is harder than he thought. Cold, about to give up, sees couple in fox costumes, ends up stealing vixen, then skinsuit, then goes to town, couple's home, club, back to couple's home when caught, new pet/roommate/plush/love partner for 'family' who lives there.

46. A hound dresses up as a sexy fox during a hunt in order to lure foxes over to his friends. Things get complicated when the other hounds think he's a new female dog, and he has to also maintain some amount of trust with the foxes or the trick stops working.

47. Very Looney Tunes. Two foxes trying to get chickens. First fox is painted and fur styled by the other into a sexy collie to distract the farm dog, and while he's at it, the other glues feathers on and puts on a beak to lure the roosters/hens (buyers choice).

48. A man is put in a zero suit Samus cosplay by his girlfriend/wife and the mask is locked to the bodysuit. His 'punishments' start becoming more for the girlfriend than for him when he takes off the zero suit and realizes the girl suit makes him the same size she is.

49. Group of guys go all out in their outfits for the pool party with a 'crossdress' theme. The newly minted girls are admiring the boy costumes of the girls at the party from very close up when one of the disguised boys whispers 'we're at the wrong party.'

50. Cats in a totem pole skinsuit pretending first to be a babysitter, then going on dates for food.

51. More a comic idea: an RPG-like CYOA sort of story with skill points where the player ends up getting deeper and deeper into a skinsuit story after breaking into a house and having to stand in as someone's girlfriend

52. Two very small tennis players are being forced into retirement, and return to the field as one athletic, pretty, rather tall woman.

53. Wolf(bottom) and cougar(top) intercept a letter dropped by a terrified mail carrier that the marriage-age niece of a local well off shepherd is canceling her visit to meet the bachelors near her uncle. With the help of some stolen gear from a theater troupe, they dress as her and take her place. A couple of weasels want in and fill the gestalt girl's bodice. The sheep notice the wolf tail visible at the hem of the skirt and the cougar tail she hastily wraps under her belt and decide to lure the predators out with their own totem pole wolf and cougar suits.

54. Two friends of an introvert want to try to give him confidence and convince him to go to a costume party. He often uses a bunny sex doll when he's afraid to go out, so they decide to buy a copy of the bunny doll and dress one of them in it. There's a mixup and both of them buy bunny dolls and wear them, and then arrive at the party to find another identical bunny already there...

55. The city is overrun by stray dogs and the local dog catcher's office - lacking the staff and unwilling to hire more for a temporary problem - offers a reward per dog caught to the public. Enter three kids with a sexy dog suit and an eye for the reward. Of course when they're wildly successful and the news wants to interview the 'intrepid young person and their dog', one of them has a not-so-bright idea about how to make it an even bigger story for them...

56. Like above, but more Halloween party themed. Short cartoon character dresses as a sexy dog to infiltrate dog party (maybe working for dog catcher, not sure), and then dresses as a sexy CAT as the 'costume.' Success, popular, then dogs decide they want to know about the cats and 'dog-in-cat-costume' agrees to go in, swapping layers to pretend to be a cat in a dog suit to the cat party. Human in costume is picked up by catchers, and then both dogs and cats disguise themselves in totem pole trench style as young women looking for their first pet. A fight ensues at the pound, comical switching of tops and bottoms in scrum, exit pursued by squirrels in a bear suit for no reason.


57. Guy buys a cat costume for a party, but it turns out to be a female cat. He decides he may as well go for it, dresses up, and ends up being hit on by an enemy. He coordinates with friends to have an "encounter" filmed where he also bites and scratches, making sure there's plenty of evidence.

58. Guy has a crush on a straight forest ranger. Wears a vixen suit and pretends to be a lost partier to get close. Insists on sharing the ranger's cot because "nothing's going to happen with this on."

59. There's a gender swap dance where one person in a couple and anyone coming alone has to crossdress. The protag bets his friend he can be such a convincing girl that he could go as the friend's date and be totally convincing. Protag wins, and goes with friend (mask, bodysuit, prosthetics, not sure). After getting the dinner and drinks he won in the bet, protag starts dancing with all the ladies who are mostly just wearing suits and drawn on mustaches. Ends up offering "lesbian" kisses to simulate the experience without any danger of embarrassingly bi activity. After dancing with and kissing a girl who has a crush on him, story becomes a romance between them, with him not sure if she loves him or the woman he dresses as to go shopping with her.

60. Spy needs to get into a costume party without being recognized. Cue sexy fursuit with doll mask beneath and way more success than he planned for.

61. Boy skunk with a high voice can't get any notice as a singer. Dresses up as a vixen and wins American Idol.

62. Crossplayer has everything ready for a new cosplay every day at a con, but when he's trying on one of the outfits and his unsuspecting roommate develops a crush two days before con time, he has to decide how he's going to break it to the poor boy that the love of his life isn't who he thinks she is.

63. Based on that short animated piece where Harley captures a Batgirl cosplayer and Ivy has to break the bad news. They force him to pretend to be Batgirl for a heist, and he ends up being known as "Toots" in the Gotham underworld. He's willing to pretend to be any costumed person, hero or villain for a price. Maybe someone starts threatening him and he gets taken on as a subcontractor by Deathstroke.

64. Streamer wins a convincing female skunk suit in a rigged 'loot crate.' Does a humorous unboxing video where he leaves the room with the camera on and the skunk "creeps" out of the box to do her own gaming stream. Skunk is so popular that it only makes business sense to pretend she's a new addition to the streaming group and rope his roommate/partner into it as a doe that she meets in another "unboxing" video. Gets super out of hand when all four are supposed to be at a convention.

65. Girlfriend sneaks her boyfriend into her house in a two-person horse suit that's edging onto toony logic by being one where the person in front has their arms in the forelegs, making the horse smaller but more intimate. Excuse is that she and the 'girl' in back really need to practice for a play where they wear the costume. Escalates with hijinks including the mare suit, a girl suit they get when excuses begin to run out, a brother who has a crush on the 'girl in back' and a suspiciously amorous two-person stallion.

Concepts I had revolving around shepherds and wolves:

1. Toony/Dark –Wolf pack attacks (or arrives shortly after a massacre of) the carriage of the daughter of a wealthy land owner being sent to marry an equally wealthy land owner who happens to have an enormous flock of sheep. They flay and consume the daughter and her maids, then dress in the skins and clothes so as to get into the household. They all have difficulties with being uncomfortable and having to deal with amorous servants for the maids and the lead wolf having to deal with the new fiancé. At least one of the wolves begins letting his tail hang out all the time and hiding it under layers of skirts with the expected near-misses and mistakes. They don’t even have to go out into the fields because they’re fed by the new husband’s household.

2. Toony/other side - A wolf is stalking some lambs, who trap him by disguising two of their number as a hot female wolf. When they spring the trap, they knock the wolf unconscious and find that he was another pair of lambs the whole time! To get revenge, they put the two pranksters in the wolf bitch suit, break off the zipper, dye the original wolf suit another color and Pepe Le Pew them when they wake up.

Commissions somewhat open

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Moving most of the lower rated GIFs to scraps now. Thanks for enjoying them and I hope to have even more next con!

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Currently working on a paid comm and negotiating another in addition to personal stories.
Expect:
Caught
Personal (new)
Comm
Personal (probably going back to do another installment of Staying in Character)

Commissions somewhat open

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I'm still working, but work's been busier than usual in addition to holiday travel so I haven't gotten back in the groove entirely. Done about another 4000 words on Caught, so that could be done by next week but don't hold your breath since there are holidays and I usually only edit on weekends.

After MLK week, though, I'll try to get some momentum going and with luck I'll have two or three stories done by G-Con and another disruption.

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Currently working on a paid comm and negotiating another in addition to personal stories.
Expect:
Caught
Personal (new)
Comm
Personal (probably going back to do another installment of Staying in Character)

Sort of open for comms

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I've done quite a few now from MFF and I'd like to know if people enjoy my snippets of fursuiters in motion. I'm starting to fill up my gallery with them and though I get a smattering of faves each time, it'd be nice to know if I'm also getting any interest and if people want to see me keep doing them.


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Currently not much in the works, but hoping to start up again on writing next week.

Since GrangeCon has moved to March, I'm open for AC this year. I didn't have the much of an experience last time I was there, and I'm still not very comfortable at large cons, but I'm also interested in meeting people I haven't seen much of.

If a lot of people comment here saying they're going, I'll give serious consideration to it. I want to know now so I can start planning since I know hotel reservations open early in the year. I don't want to seem demanding, but I don't see a reason to tote out to Pitt for a con that'll be too packed and busy for me to feel good unless I'm likely to run into more than a couple friends from FA.

So is anyone else planning on going? I might try to organize a meet if there's interest.

It was a blast, though I continue to be leery of the con in general. I'm still not that comfortable with so many people - especially fursuiters! - in such a small space with the limited movement available.

Friday:
Got in early - as usual. Found out when the photo shoot was, saw  bixx-katt almost immediately and got a quick chat in with her, followed by walking around, buying a staff from Butch that I'd wanted for a few years, another talk with Bixx, the photo shoot (unfortunately there were comm issues with Bixx that weekend, so I couldn't do it with her), talking to Bixx, and being scanned by the 3D printer people! Allura's going to have a miniature!

Then I got to have dinner with Bixx, which was nice because I interact with people best in quiet, relaxed atmospheres.

Saturday:

Started out with some fursuiting and ended up running back to my room flustered by Shawshank. If that Crux shows up again next year (and I'm not too far away to come to MFF), I'm going to be ready. I got busy in the gaming room and managed to miss the parade :/ I wasn't sure I wanted to go, but I would have liked to have the choice.

Bixx's suit and comms were down, so in the end I quadsuited alone (except of course for my wonderful handler for the con,  lunasparkle who unfortunately had dinner plans so we had to make it a quick one. I hope pics of Thrak and Allura surface eventually). I would have done the photo shoot in quad, but I got there at 5:04 and it closed at 5:00 >:(

 demuto missed Thrak, but I got to talk to him just after, which was a good conversation.


Sunday:
Then came the evacuation, which I was sort of happy for since it meant I got another three hours to talk to Bixx and say goodbye to her. I hadn't expected to and she's the biggest reason I do MFF. In the end it didn't seem worth going back to bed, so I ended up bailing early from the con. Still worth it, though. I'd rather spend the time with her than have a couple extra hours of con time.

All in all I had fun, but MFF remains a con I have trouble relaxing at. If I'm doing it again next year, I'll see how much time off I can get and maybe make it an extended one. Not sure yet.

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Too tired for full journal. Will post another tomorrow. Does being caught in a suspected chemical attack warrant a day of sick leave? I'll see how I feel in the morning. After the evacuation, I got 3 hours hanging out with  bixx-katt that I didn't expect, so it's still in the 'win' column.

Stolen from  bixx-katt


Where are you staying?
Main Hotel

What day are you getting there?
Friday by 12

How are you traveling?
Con car

Who will you be rooming with?
No one, unless someone I know (personally) really needs a room

How is the best way to find you?
The collapse of my waveform

Are there any panels you might be attending?
Any writing, science or military/greymuzzle meets

What do you look like?
Sometimes a wizard lynx, sometimes a big white tiger

Will you be suiting?
As much as I can stand!

Do you do free art?
Depends who you are

Do you do trades?
Ditto

Do you do badges?
I should start making Purity Seals

What is your gender?
Somewhat male

How tall are you?
<2m

Can I talk to you?
I'd love that, but I might not reply immediately. It takes time to reroute power to my talky brain

Can I touch you?
With what?

Can I visit your room?
Decided on a case by case basis

Can I buy you drinks?
I like eating with people, so sure

Can I give you stuff?
What is it? (Paranoia! It's what keeps me insulated from the drama - and most human contact)

Can I hug or snuggle with you?
Pet the tiger! But not hard. People always scratch the head - bad! But so rarely pet the back - good!

Are you nice?
Not at first. I look angry when I'm thinking and get lost in the thoughts, so I usually seem like I don't want contact when I really do, but switching gears fast makes them grind and I only look more unfriendly. So yeah, don't trust the face. If I'm still like that after a couple minutes, pike off because you're probably boring, scaring, or annoying me. ;) Oxford commas!

Do you have an artist table?
No

Will you be going to parties?
Only if there's an egg cream involved. Or publishers. Are there publishers at furcons? I don't think so. I need a literary agent, so if there's a party with them or a publisher I'm in. Or the egg cream, but I don't think you get those in Chicago :/

Will you be performing?
I always try, but then I get busy looking at other suiters. Plus I have my rod half the time and if I try to perform while holding it I usually end up hitting Mori (true fact, 100% of my near misses have been with him right behind me. I'm like Helga Pataki when he's around).

If I see you, how should I get your attention?
Call for me. If it's an emergency, touch, but lightly. I'm a high strung kitty and have trouble being touched outside of suit unless it's a big deal or someone I know super well.

Where will you be most of the time during the day/s?
Probably resting, but otherwise out walking around or trying to find panels.

What/where will you be eating?
Mostly the hotel or my room

Can I come with you for food/fun/etc?
Yes, but expect DEEP conversation. I'm not good at small talk and I love to discuss really arcane things.

Can I look in your sketchbook?
If you can find it

Can I draw in your sketchbook?
Likewise

Can I take your picture?
Try to get my FA name before you do! I want to see them.

What's your goal(s) for the con this year?
Quadsuit with  bixx-katt , find the people I didn't get to say hi to last year, and try not to get quite as hung up on doing things. I wasn't very relaxed last year.

Results of previous poll
Option Total Avg %
Only when focus 33 51
All the time 17 49

So it’s only when focused on. I pretty much expected that.

This story is going to have a LOT of costumes and byplay. I’m still trying to think of what the characters are investigating/trying to get, so feel free to comment what you want to see in an civilized environment (real estate, secret treasure buried under a statue, etc). I’m totally open to suggestions. And while you’re making them, here’s the final poll. I may start this week, but I won’t be doing much work on stories the next, so though it’ll be done by Halloween, it won’t be done SOON.

What disguise do you MOST want to see:
1. Werewolf
2. Were-something else(bear, cat, badger, etc)
3. Zombie
4. Skeleton
5. Evil version of the character investigating
6. Angry zoo animal
7. Ghost
8. Dragon (though you’ll have to give me a clue as to how a dragon is showing up in a town/city story)
9. Statue/golem guardian
10. Carnivorous plant
11. Evil version of the investigating character’s friends/lovers
12. Authority figure (boss, police) telling them to clear off
13. Former lover trying to get at them while current is watching
14. Evil version of character’s pet
15. Random pretty person distracting them (and probably turning out to be a monster in disguise)
16. Alien/Insectoid
17. Other (comment)

Results!
Option
Votes Avg %

Camping
7 13.575

Exploring
19 37.125

Urban/Suburban
33 49.325

Sorry dragon people, option 3 led a come from behind in this poll. If there's a big call for it and it fits the placement I may still find a place for a dragon. This admittedly makes it easier for costumes to show up, but I’m going to have to think of something they’re after. I don’t want to give away too much of what I’m thinking of doing, but I also want to be sure people get what they want. So!

Should we see characters disguising themselves:
1. Only when they are the main focus (so you don’t know who the monster is when the focus character is being chased and you may not even know who the hero is when the monster is being focused on)
2. All the time (so you know who is who in the whole story)

The results are in and it’s … sort of a draw:
Option Total votes Avg %
Female on Male 26 41.3
Male on Male 9 14.225
Female on Female 29 34.13333
Male on Female 22 25.5

Female on male had the highest avg percent (by being really upvoted on one site) but not the most votes. Sooooo, I’ll do both! ^-^ Integrating a very good suggestion I got in a couple places which you’ll see the fruition of in the story.

So! Next question: Where?
1. Camping/hiking in a forest (mostly animal monsters)
2. Exploring ruins (animal and ghosts, maybe a dragon or something similar depending on where the ruins are)
3. Urban/Suburban (anthro animals and maybe zombies, could involve escaped zoo animals as well)
Region of the world is likely western Europe or North America unless there’s a big commentary outcry for some other part of the world

Next poll sometime tomorrow or Saturday so here's a journal of all the ideas currently listed as $5 per 1000 words. If bought now, will be done by end of November.

Here's the current list of stories I'll do for the minimum rate. I'll even do the first 2000 words for free if the person buying them doesn't have anything they want included. However, most of them will end up being over 8000 words and some are 20000 or more, so the price may end up being the same as a shorter piece at the usual rate. It's not so much a discount as extra length for the same cost.

Most continuations of a current series.

Ex.
Vera: The boss is trying to land a big client whose tastes run towards teenage girls. He doesn't trust anyone else to do it, so he uses one of the robot suits and tells the client he's his own daughter. The plan is to flirt and tease, but after their humiliation at the boss's hands, the engineers have a different idea about how the meeting ought to go.

Unicorn Power: The now well regarded princess Calastria's inner circle is sent into a frenzy by the arrival in court of the Valkyriorn Queen who they recognize immediately as Calastria herself in a magically secured black wig. The fake Calastria is very relieved when the queen tells her that the reason for her visit is to speak to her, but not to accuse her of impersonation. Instead, she is worried that her subjects may soon realize she isn't a true Valkyriorn and she is in desperate need of a Unicorn Blessing!

Allie: The Event.

Catburglar: #27 below, but it's the Starling who is called in to assist the police in return for a full pardon. Spoiler: The villains will win if you buy the story without her!

Keeps: Our dashing hero/ine is back at Sir Jinks' castle, this time as a barely tolerated visitor on a state visit with his father. While the older knights discuss diplomacy (and keeping the hero from causing trouble in Jinks' lands), the hero/ine is busy getting into trouble.
Other possibility: Sir Jinks sends some of his girls to smooth over the troubles between the two lands with some intimate diplomacy, but our hero/ine is suspicious...
The following:

Original stories
1. Vixen costume, different premise. Universe in which human augments are the upper class and usually are known because they look like anthro animals. Unmodified guy is looking around in old boxes when he finds pictures of his mother with the vixen. His mom has a collar and leash, but doesn't look like she minds. The pics start out friendly, then get more intimate with kissing and bedroom pics until the vixen pops out male parts and takes off the mask and face prosthetic to show it's his father. Then the pics switch to similar ones of his father with the vixen, first helping his mom into it. He finds the suit and slave gear. After some thinking, he calls up a friend to tell him he has a way for them to get into the night club for gene mods only. Of course, since it's his suit, he gets to be mistress first.

2. One of those cartoony situations where the antagonist suits to catch the main character but the main guy twigs and glues him into it. Possibly then rents him out as a call girl.

3. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10436163/ If the artist doesn't mind me taking the concept and going further. The dragon pulls the puppet away so fast that the knight doesn't see her go. When the knight strikes at the dragon, the puppet falls from his hand and on to the knight's squire, who almost immediately sees a chance to rise in station.

4. A wealthy overprotective father won’t let his daughter’s boyfriend see her. He tries to get in posing a large dog she’s supposed to watch but when the father insists she get rid of him, she sneaks him back in and then when her father barges into her room, she shoves the boyfriend into her bathroom with last year’s Halloween costume – a full bodysuit of Jean Grey. Her brother immediately falls in love with ‘Jean.’

5. Guy wants to go with girlfriend to party but doesn’t have an invitation. Girl wears full body dragon suit with a very large and surprisingly animated tail to the party. Guess where her boyfriend is.

6. All the prettiest and most popular girls at school are having a slumber party. A group guys who run a popular web show dress one of their number as an attractive newcomer who they wrangle into getting an invitation. Disguised member of the podcasting group arrives at party with a variety of interesting toys for their game of truth or dare. All the toys have hidden cameras in them.
WARNING: I plotted this out and it's long. More than 8000 and possibly over 10,000 words.

7. A bloke who dresses as a pretty girl to get free drinks at a local night club sees that his friend and roommate has decided to go to the club he frequents as a girl rather than the one they usually go to together. Feeling naughty, the disguised bloke seduces the roommate and when they wake up in bed the next day…

8. A mangy rat bank robber combines disguise with hiding place by ducking into a nearby ladies room and stuffing the curves of his vixen suit with the money. Things get complicated when a fox detective spots the vixen and chats her up under the pretense of seeing if she’s a witness. The rat doesn’t want to make the fox suspicious, but he sure as hell doesn’t want to go on a date with him!

9. The brotherhood of the traveling bodysuit - a female suit keeps getting worn, discarded and picked up by people who saw it being taken off.
This one can pretty much be extended indefinitely, so feel free to pay a few bucks every so often for the next person in line to get the suit.

10. A mother is annoyed that her teenage son has no interest in celebrating Halloween and won’t put on the costume she got for him to go to a party. She convinces her husband to dress up as a voluptuous teenage girl in a sexy Halloween costume and ring the doorbell to try to seduce him into his. Things quickly get out of hand with the husband having to wear more and more revealing outfits and doing more and more to get son to go to the now apparently girl-filled party. Not sure whether to end this with

A. All a plot with son involved to get son a date and more for the Halloween party
B. Son holds out and dad decides that while he’s dressed up like this he may as well go and have some fun with the neighbors
C. Son eventually goes, but now the mother has to put on one of the disguises to keep an eye on them

11. A man has had a crush on his best friend’s sister for awhile. The friend lets slip that his sister’s so vain that she spent a month’s salary on a full body costume of herself so that if she develops even the tiniest zit she can put it on and be perfect. Now the man has a hard decision. Should he steal the costume and wear it himself so he has complete control over his crush or try to get his friend to wear it since he’d know his sister best?

Possible variant: Kid brother goes into his sister's room to steal some of her clothes because he's getting interested in crossdressing, finds her 'vanity suit' and puts it on. The sister's boyfriend arrives just as he's put the finishing touches on a lolita gothic ensemble, praises her for not being late for once and takes the kid brother on the date they'd been planning.

12. Animal rights group intercepts and steals an invitation by a wealthy and influential hunting enthusiast to his annual Halloween Ball. Since they don’t want to be recognized later and refuse to exploit their female membership, they put one of their male members in a girl suit and a sexy animal costume. At first the idea is to just ruin the party, but when the host takes a fancy to the sexy young predator girl, an opportunity comes up that can’t be ignored. A doe costume, some glue and a gag which makes the deer mating call later…

13. I don’t usually do Looney Tunes but: Elmer and the hunting dog know Bugs and Daffy are near. Elmer puts on a Lola Bunny (or something similar) suit and sticks the dog in Minerva Mink. Meanwhile in the forest next to the lake, Bugs and Daffy know Elmer’s on the way, so Bugs puts on a girl suit and bikini while Daffy’s in a female dog suit. They pretend to be a sunbather and her pooch while the hunter and dog find them while in their Lola and Minerva disguises. Neither side is entirely sure the other is what they look like while they have to pretend to be exactly what they appear to be and so can’t make any overt move. The voice box can’t totally hide Elmer’s speech impediment, the dog may look like Minerva but has to stay silent or bark, Daffy occasionally sheds feathers which escape from the dog suit’s mouth and Bugs’ ears have a tendency to spring back up and out of the girl’s head, along with her butt occasionally sprouting a cotton tail.

14. A man buys a cute female cat costume and bribes his friend to wear it to a party. The friend takes the money but uses it to give the briber a surprise.

15. A pool party involving a sexy sea monster costume.

16. A princess hates meeting the now tens of suitors trying for her hand and her brother has the idea of disguising himself as her and using the many 'private walks' her suitors like to go on to get military secrets and tactical capabilities out of them in the guise of asking about their 'daring exploits' and 'strong kingdoms.' His best friend has a secret crush on his sister and he's got a crush on his best friend, adding to the difficulties of being a stand-in noblewoman.
WARNING: This one is in the same vein as Unicorn Power, so it could stretch past 20,000 words

17. I've seen a lot of manga and anime where people (especially females) occasionally shed their skin.

A. Guy whose girlfriend is out of town so he puts it on to feel closer to her and ends up having to stand in for her when someone barges in.
B. Someone puts it on to embarrass another / Guy puts on skin of girl he can't have and ends up going out in it, causing huge damage to her reputation as he does all the things he always wanted her to do
C. Guy's friend owes him a favor so he puts on a shed skin of a girl the guy wants to ask out.
D. Uses it to go somewhere they normally couldn't.
E. Girl asks guy friend to put on her shed skin so she can see how some of her outfits look from the outside. Knock at door and she asks friend to get it since she isn't dressed. It's her boyfriend, who whisks the guy friend off before he can say anything. Girl yawns and goes to bed. She was tired and wanted an early night. Further shenanigans can ensue during and after the date.

18. A divorced dad is ordered to stay away from his 4-6 year old son, so he dresses up in a female bodysuit to spend time with him. He has fun by seducing the teenage son that his ex-wife got when she remarried. Eventually the ex-wife becomes suspicious of the girl and calls the cops and he throws them off the scent by putting his son in the suit with him since the police are looking for a teenage girl with a young boy rather than a pregnant woman.
Possibly long. Not sure.

19. I've never even watched MLP, but: Two very young dragons want to impress their elders by getting some rare jewelry, so they make a pony suit and infiltrate, stealing shinies whenever they're alone.

20. Two guys are asked by their girlfriends (who are best friends) to house sit. The first is a casual crossdresser and after trying on a couple of outfits he finds a box containing a skinsuit of the other girl, remembering then the time they'd gone as each other for Halloween and teased their boyfriends the whole time. He puts it on to try it out and then the very revealing outfit that his girlfriend had used to show off her BFF'd body. Just then the doorbell rings and he looks out the window to see his friend, whose girlfriend he now looks like. Could possibly slot into the shed skin idea up in 17 with the two female friends keeping each others' shed skins as friendship items.

21. It's Halloween and Beast Boy has set up for a great costume. First making sure that Starfire has a very thorough costume (of maybe Blackfire or Slade or one of the other villains), he turns into a copy of her, sprays on skin bronzer, puts on a red wig and steals one of her uniforms. B plot of Cyborg and Raven taking bets on what Robin will do and when he'll realize that the ditzy Starfire who claims she thought he meant her hero costume when he told her to dress up is really Beast Boy.

22. A studio wants to make sure that their newest sensation is never seen outside of venues, so they record a real singer and have a man in a skinsuit go out and lip sync hoping that no one would ever suspect that the blue haired rocker chick is a man and if it were to come out they'd first have deniability and second be able to spin it into lots of press.

23. Two friends who know their third friend likes crossdressing buys him a skinsuit. At first he isn't really interested, but after trying it, he decides to thank his friends in a very personal way.

24. A pair of high schoolers decide to base their science fair around Halloween and gender perception. They trick-or-treat as themselves (pretending to be younger) and then as two attractive females in similar costumes. They're invited to a party as girls and the experiment continues unbeknownst to the science fair judge when he asks to meet their 'assistants' pictured on their board and they arrange for him to go to the party with one of them while the other sees what it's like to go unattached.

25. A girlfriend of a pokemon trainer wants to propose to him in a super special way and with the help of a sexy costume and one of his pokemon, she gets herself into a lot of trouble in the process.

26. A footsoldier sees the general of the armies die nearby and goes to bring her body back to HQ. As he gets progressively more tired, more of her armor replaces his as he decides that he needs to get rid of as much extra weight as possible and distribute what's left more evenly.

27. The police are at a loss as to the identity of two waifish criminals seen at several large thefts. Meanwhile a socialite and her two voluptuous daughters have recently built a mansion just outside of town.

28. Boyfriend's girlfriend goes to an all girl's school. Wanting to stay close, he disguises himself and alters the records to get into all her classes.

29. A young man is told by his friend to go down to the beach to see something fantastic. He arrives and there's a mermaid sitting on a rock out in the bay singing.

30. A couple want to win the costume contest at that year's Halloween party so they go as twins with the boyfriend in a bodysuit.

31. Bowser's daughter, Princess Koopa, has a crush on Mario. She comes up with a plan that not only nets her Mario but keeps Peach from being rescued when Bowser kidnaps her.

32. A pair are tired of their female boss being so nasty and ... bossy. One dresses up as her and goes out to discredit her by making huge orders at their suppliers in person which she'll have to cancel and explain away the next day. The opportunities grow as the disguised employee meets other people his/her boss knows. F2F or M2F by choice of commissioner and could be a 'shed skin' type.

33. A wife who is away on business a lot knows her husband has a very realistic sex doll and doesn't mind until she starts to wonder if he's doing the doll better than her. She dresses up as the doll to find out.

34. Two cats spend a typical Looney Tunes episode trying to get a dog's steak away from him. Eventually they agree to work together and put on a collie suit with one in front and the other in back. They flirt and then the front cat quickly falls down, making it look like the collie is in heat and wants servicing. As the rear cat is being taken advantage of, the front cat tries to eat the steak at which point the rear cat opens the flap partly to fight over it. The dog notices the sudden lack of interest and just as he looks up, the cats see he's about to and the rear cat pushes the front cat into a kiss. Back and forth until they agree to share, but when they try to escape they both smell of steak and are easily tracked, requiring them to take to the costume again and pretend to 'help' the dog track whoever stole his dinner. So on and on with the situation getting worse as more dogs smell a female dog in heat and/or meat. May eventually end in adoption of the collie suited cats as a dog.


35. A set of housemates are moving away and give one of them a sendoff prank for the ages by turning him and themselves into girls and redecorating the house while he's asleep.

36. A girl who knows a guy has a crush on her and that another male friend has a crush on him dresses up in a kigurumi costume and invites him to come up to her room at a convention. He goes and finds the same character waiting...

37. It's Halloween and a married couple decide to get candy the fun way and scare all the kids into dropping their bags. The plan is for the wife to answer in some normal costume, claiming that she's a werewolf and when the kids say they don't believe, she theatrically starts to fall about, stumbles around a corner and after a tearing sound a werewolf comes out wearing a ripped version of her costume far too quickly for it to be a costume change. Of course, the easier way would be for the husband to be the werewolf version of his wife, but that wouldn't be the most fun!

38. A couple of guys need to get into an all girls pool party. Too bad the suit store is sold out of all but one model.

39. Emile has a crush on Gann. Gann has a crush on Alexandra who sort of likes him but doesn't want to start anything. Emile seduces Gann disguised as Alexandra, but then says he's Shelly disguised as Alexandra because she has a crush on him and wanted to get him interested. Alexandra is having trouble with her boyfriend and asks Gann if he wants a date. Gann thinks it's Emile-Shelly and that she's role playing. She gets offended when he treats her like Emile-Shelly and when she stalks off, Emile dressed as Alexandra shows up and teases him by telling him that was the real Alexandra but that she's the fake. Then the real Shelly also breaks up with her boyfriend and goes after Gann, leading to a love parallelogram with two of the people not realizing there's a third impersonating them and the fourth being run off his feet and beginning to suspect there's a third but not sure who
she really is.

40. Dr. Scratch'N'Sniff is frustrated that the Warners always do what his nurse tells them to but won't listen to him. He tries doing a session in a Minerva Mink suit and his success is soon a pain because all his patients start asking to be analyzed by Dr. Mink instead of him. Ending may involve the suit falling onto Chicken Boo on his way to a Hen party.

41. A woman finds a mask of a teenage girl while straightening up in the attic (there will be a good reason). She puts it on but forgets that her son's friend gets out of school early that day and when he comes over she can't figure out how to get the mask off.

42. Beauty Pageant stories
A. F2F. Female (human or fur) needs to win a pageant for some kind of important prize. Isn't a pageant cute species, too slender, too curvy, etc to win. Suits to get it or is suiting to get in and sabotage the pageant but ends up winning in the process.
B. F2F Female suits as a big celebrity to make sure she wins
C. M2F. Is either sabotaging, trying to see a contestant or just wants to perv up close to the pretty girls. Probably ends up winning and possibly being unmasked by angry competitors.


Concepts I had revolving around shepherds and wolves:

1. Toony/Dark –Wolf pack attacks (or arrives shortly after a massacre of) the carriage of the daughter of a wealthy land owner being sent to marry an equally wealthy land owner who happens to have an enormous flock of sheep. They flay and consume the daughter and her maids, then dress in the skins and clothes so as to get into the household. They all have difficulties with being uncomfortable and having to deal with amorous servants for the maids and the lead wolf having to deal with the new fiancé. At least one of the wolves begins letting his tail hang out all the time and hiding it under layers of skirts with the expected near-misses and mistakes. They don’t even have to go out into the fields because they’re fed by the new husband’s household.

2. Toony/other side - A wolf is stalking some lambs, who trap him by disguising two of their number as a hot female wolf. When they spring the trap, they knock the wolf unconscious and find that he was another pair of lambs the whole time! To get revenge, they put the two pranksters in the wolf bitch suit, break off the zipper, dye the original wolf suit another color and Pepe Le Pew them when they wake up.

Poll 1 is over and Scooby-Doo won!
Votes total Votes(avg %)
Votes total Votes(avg %)
1 37 30.75
2 19 12.5
3 5 11
4 16 22.75
5 11 17
Dark 24 6

‘Dark’ was an addition on the Yahoo group that got a lot of votes. I’m thinking about how to do it, since the only dark I can imagine right now involves live surgery with organ removal and flensing while still alive. Pretty nasty stuff that I prefer to not write. My problem is that when I think dark, I think GRIMDARK.

Anyway, on to the sex. Simple poll, no additions requested. There may be more than two, but I want to know what people are thinking about in terms of their mains. Remember that right now the costumes are undefined but since our plot is goal-based, it’s very likely to involve monster costumes more than pretty girl suits. I’ll say I’m personally partial to the girl in a monster costume idea, but let’s see what other people think.

Should the primary characters be:
1. Female in costume, male being scared
2. Male in costume, male being scared
3. Female in costume, female being scared
4. Male in costume, female being scared

As Halloween approaches and I read yet another delicious deception piece by Euphrosyneunlimited , I found myself in the mood to do a costume prank piece that wasn’t romance or even primarily sexual. So I gave it a hard think – take that as an entendre if you want - and the images that came back were so numerous that I decided to throw this one open to a poll. Maybe I’ll make it an annual thing.

This will be a series of polls going from the most basic plot to specifics about characters and costumes. Each poll will last for 2-4 days so that I start somewhere near the middle of October and it’s done by Halloween.
Note to any people commissioning me when I officially open Oct 1: when the last poll closes, all work ceases until this project is done.

So, the high level. Should this be:

1. Character 1 wants something and sets up an elaborate Scooby-Doo style scheme. Character 2 investigates.
2. Like 1, but infiltration rather than scaring people
3. Character 1 decides to scare character 2 (or more people) for fun
4. Characters 1 AND 2 (perhaps more) team up to do the scaring
5. One or more characters defending something by using costumes and disguises to make people scared to go there.
6. Leave a comment (you can vote for a number if you do). Should be thematic with a plan towards making mischief / achieving a goal rather than any sort of romance, sex, or even primarily revenge. This is about either having fun or getting something tangible through disguises and scaring people. If it’s adequately mischievous I’ll allow it to be defensive, but it should be an entertaining defense. If 10% of the poll votes go to it, I'll do a run-off.

Some people write about their male protagonists having trouble balancing in heels. I often don't have that trope because - well - I don't, I bought a pair of 3-inch pumps and walk almost the same speed I normally do. I'm now breaking in a pair of knee high patent leather 5-inch spike heeled boots. A little slower and I can't go down the stairs, but I'm still going around the house pretty much normally. Some change in how I walk, but it wasn't really much to learn.

Any real experience of balance issues out there? Maybe it's because I grew up doing gymnastics and used to run along the balance beams.

And yes, you'll be seeing them on Daria soon. They're part of my Dakimakura promo outfit.

Crossposted from a comment I made on  lunasparkle 's submission about it.

I was across the river in Brooklyn in seventh grade. My school was run by people who didn't want to 'make waves' (ie. upset a student who then upsets their parent with being upset) so they told us nothing about it. There was some good reason on the day since there was no telling whose parents might have been in the towers at the time. What was worse was that they barely even discussed what happened in social studies in the days after. What they did do - since there was no telling if a blitz was coming - was close all the heavy canvas shades over the windows and refuse to release students except their parents.

My dad was stuck on the bus for four hours in the colossal traffic jam, so he ended up picking me up around the end of the day anyway.

My sister was in high school further north west of me and the river and in the school yard when flaming pieces of wallpaper fell on her. She brought a chunk home. I don't remember what happened to it.


I remember the days of confusion, paranoia. Clouds of dust that made you hold your breath for fear of a respiratory ailment. Stuyvesant High School which was across the street being closed for weeks while they cleaned the ducts and then the reports years later of graduates who weren't even students when the towers were hit dying of lung cancer. The reports that the inspectors had been bribed and that had they been up to fire code that they wouldn't have collapsed. It wasn't long before a hole in the ground full of rubble and construction equipment became a shrine and the NYC ethic had people selling 9/11 knicknacks on the edge of the Bathtub.

And now the Freedom Tower, which feels like a surrender. No more office space than a single one of the twin towers, 1776 feet tall only because they stuck a spike on top. A monument to the fact that it still isn't business as usual. People still squabbling over minute details of the museum. Most New Yorkers don't really care. We'd rather have rebuilt, but the nation needed a symbol. That and the insurance insisted it was one event rather than two, so the owner of the property couldn't get enough money to build more.