I don't have time to read this now, but I'm saving it for later, cause this is interesting! I only got to "Day 1", but it already made a good impression!

Thank you very much. I gope you enjoyed the story so far. Curious to read what you think of the entire story when you read it.

Alright! I had plenty of distractions, but I finished it at last. It was very interesting for sure, with a lot of detail. The slow process certainly contributed to the immersive feeling of realism. I definitely liked the multiple perspectives of the blog, the report and the regular narration, painting a more thorough picture together.

After this, I also read Karou's comic with the similar premise. Which I feel is worth mentioning because of the relatedness. That one was less detailed, by virtue of its format, and said a lot less about all the various physical aspects of the transformation. But also, it felt relatively more expressive on the social front. Your story mostly just has one other character besides John and the others are a background without much to them. I'm not actually sure if they get less exposition than in the comic quantitatively, but all the anatomical detail surely dwarfs it. Which is fine considering that the transformation is the main point of the story.

I really have nothing to complain about, but by making the story so serious and realistic, you raised my expectations a lot and left me wondering about all the unexplored possibilities with this theme. How did this trans-species initiative came to be? How is it perceived by society? How does it fit in with the rest of the world? (The other aspects of the world are fairly mundane, it seems.) That's enough questions to warrant multiple stories, really...

but yeah, if it was my choice, I'd probably want at least some more social aspects about it. One thing I liked in the comic is how the lemur guy came in with an entirely opposite set of sexual body parts. It's really subtle, but I appreciated it a lot. Adding a real world theme like this gave the story some extra depth and provided more insight into the fictional world. Arguably, the concept of a "trans-species institute" already says TRANS RIGHTS explicitly enough... but yeah, arguably. I'm sure there's a lot of transformation enthusiasts with starkly different sets of beliefs from each other.

So that's some of my insights. I'll just conclude it be once again saying, good job! You wrote a solid piece of fiction and it sure engaged my mind quite a bit.

I may have more to say, but I just wanted to write down some impressions right now to make sure I won't procrastinate and put off writing this comment forever.

I just saw this comment after clicking on this submission after the longest while... and I feel like I should reply to it. ^^

There is a bit of an overlap between both works, but it's more like two takes on the same topic, in a way. It was a scenario that I had on my mind for a while, and I wanted somebody to write a story about it. MTT3 felt like a perfect fit, so I commissioned him. While that work was in its beginning stages, I became more obsessed with the idea, and before I knew it I was writing this comic - and drew that over a period of time. So both MTT3 and me created two versions of the same idea simultaneously in the end. ^^ In either way I wouldn't want anyone to try to see which one "made the contest", but rather how they complement each other. MTT3 delivers the plot and the realism, whereas I am more interested in the psychology and interactions. I guess. :D I just love character-driven stories.

And yus, I very purposefully dropped that lemur guy in there, on exactly the basis you mention there. Heck, I'm non-binary after all, so I have a stake in it. *g*

Either way, glad to see you liking both sides of the coin, so to speak. :)

Thanks for commenting! It was nice to get reminded of this story and see your perspective.

Heck yeah, agender squad unite! I didn't put anything agender-related in my bio cause I'm still on the fence about it. I guess I'm gender agnostic for now. Gray gender. meta-agender. Nonbinary squared.

Apology for somehow missing this comment. Thank you very much for your very detailed explanation of your ideas, thoughts and feelings about what I wrote here, that truly means a lot to me. Will surely help me with more ideas and concepts in the future.

That was one of the most well written transformation stories I've read in quite some time. You certainly seemed to get the realism aspect pretty well down pat.

Again great job on this!

Thank you very much for your praise. Put really a lot of thought into it, and mostly into things people forget when it comes to Transformation and what effects it would have.

I told you this in person before, of course, but let me stress it again here: You really wrote an amazing piece, Matt - and you gave it your all!

Hehe, thank you very much, my friend. Next time I write on something like this I will hopefully work on it a lot faster. *fingers crossed*

Dude, this is so good. Outside of my dragon obsession I'm a pretty sciency guy so I reaaaally appreciated how you tried to make this a full on society that accepted this sort of thing happening regularly.
I don't comment much but... This did almost make me cry for a bit... What I wouldn't give to live in this society...

Well done man. Well done.

Society seems to take TF for granted. I more like stories where it is just starting out and there is a lot of Future Shock.