Try to steal clothes by wearing them out of the changing room, and you'll be having them on display for a while longer than you expected, I guess?

*giggles* Might be a fun way to spend a week, I might try it out if I knew I'd be changed back...

There are actually a couple of short texts to go with it, both from a slighlty different angle. The shortest involves a brief conversation between the manikin and "Ms. Medusa," who claims that turning people to stone is old fashioned. There aren't any old Greek temples either. So she's updated her techniques and turns people into manikins instead.

You know that reminds me of a twilight zone/outer limits/scary door episode where each manikin in a store had a few days to be human.

I know the one, "The After Hours." It's based very loosely on a short story by Charles Beaumont I think... or one of those other "slick" magazine fantasy writers. (Bradbury was one, but the other one I'm thinking of doesn't come to mind.) They made a frighteningly real looking manikin or the actress, Anne Francis. I wouldn't mnd having it standing in a corner of my apartment. Wonder what ever happened to it?

Exactly! That's the one!

That manikin could be used to creep a few people...

I would imagine it made Ann Francis a little nervous too. If it could learn lines, the actress might be in real trouble.

Well, there is this Korean trying to build a robot girl...

I have a notion that if technic civilization survives the varius crises threatening us, we might eventually come to realize that real people are not our best companions. Real people inevitable act selfishly, act in annoying ways, discourage you, exert a bad influence, etc, etc, etc. The perfect robot, on the other hand, would not just be a flunky who did everything you wanted of it. The perfect robot would offer just the right amount of challenge, encourage a person to greater effort, open a human's mind to new ideas, and used a sophisticated model of what made a person happy to make the best person possible of them. It might someday be a sort of perversion to want to know other "real" people....

I see your point: with such robots (androids?) around, they would make it easier for people to avoid interacting with each other. I mean, if it treats a person better than another human would, why would a person seek other humans?

Brave new world

So given your liking for petrification and immobilization, I'm assuming that this display dummy was once a live person?

See above.

Glee!

you should attach the text!

I more or less *did* in that reply.

She's a cute dummy, though.

There's a whole fetish out there for mannequins... and yes, the "stealing clothes and getting turned into a mannequin as (ahem) punishment" idea does feature in a few stories of that ilk. And the fact that the mannequins are female doesn't necessarily mean the thieves were originally.

Seen a lot of that sort of thing, but only recently seem to be doing much with it. I've found out that some people who can take the inanimate transformation get really bent out of shape by the gender switch though.

Being turned into a mannaquin would be horrible if you ask me. I prefer to keep myself intertained. and being immobile would make that kinda hard.

Well, yes... but I see a lot of fantasies -- vore for example -- that have unpleasant outcomes in the real world. But it doesn't keep people from fantasizing that these activities would somehow be sexually exciting.

I don't get a lot of fetishes...Like the vore you just brought up. That and being crushed.

and for completely different reasons, being a rampaging macro. I couldn't live with the idea of killing so many people...

Most fetishes don't do anything for me either, but sometimes I get a hint of what its about. The leather/rubber thing, for instance. It meant nothing to me. Then about two years ago I saw design possibilities in it. Of course, I still don't understand the extremists who wear total body rubber suits, with tubes to breath through, or have to be actually bound up. That's their thing, but not mine.

My own quirks I canonly partly explain. But I have a firm grip on what's real and what's not.

Presumably it wouldn't be unpleasant to be a minikin or statue for the simple reason that it wouldn't be like anything at all. Not unless you believe in a soul or something like it being imprisoned in an inanimate form. More realistically it would just be like being dead.

lol being dead huh? Well like i siad. no fun. lol

No gain, no pain. Whudda ya gonna do? Stay away from witches, wotches, gorgons, basilisks, and alchemists with an odd gleam in their eye whenever they look at you.

lol What about shapeshifting kitsune like my fursona who enjoys turning people into random things?

No real comment on shapeshifters and kitsune. I turn a blind eye to other fantasies than my own. Otherwise... CHAOS!!!

lol well i don't use it as a fetish, or sexual fantasy. all my stuff is clean. I just find it fun to turn other peaples fursona's into random things

*turns you into a fruit bat* like so! lol

Very cute mannequin TF. I especially like the color scheme.