Pink Library #12: Our Girl In Blue

Recently I've found a new author to enjoy over at MC Stories and The Changing Mirror. 

Grace Fairway's work involves F2F transformations and usually sees a straight-laced lady being entranced and enticed into a new subculture. I'm always a big fan of clothes based transformations and her stories so far have involved not a direct clothes swap in some cases but clothes with history, clothes that have been worn by another and they look like it. Descriptions of stepping into laddered tights and pre-worn pants, for example, sound like putting on another person's skin and therefore their persona especially the smell which usually involves cigarette smoke and the protagonist taking up the habit themselves. The story A Case for the Lawyer involves just that - a lawyer finding a mysterious suitcase full of clothes that look like they belong to a hooker and a particular one at that...

All too often as well the either the changer or the changee are unlikeable. Sometimes the person being changed is so loathsome or the life they then are forced into seems a bit mean for what is sometimes a minor misdemeanour or attitude while the person doing the changes just seems go overboard in their smirking cruelty. I recall a 'humiliation conga' story I read years ago about a man whose life is completely ruined with next to no way out of a horrific situation and all because he was a mild chauvinist and, while I know some would enjoy this a lot, it left me cold and I do think about it now and then when regarding stories of similar ilk. One thing that drew me in to Grace's work was the story The New Housemate which has just concluded and sees lesbian goth Alice moving in with straight laced Amy and making her the same. Amy never seemed to mean and Alice was a pleasant character, a world away from the moody goths of some stories I've read. Each to their own of course, some stories fit others better. 

Anyway, one I keep coming back to is Our Girl in Blue, which sees a police officer investigate some illegal raves and encountering a group of cybergoths. 

Our Girl In Blue by Grace Fairway

Grace's other work on MC Stories can be found here: https://mcstories.com/Authors/Grace-Fairway.html

Check Up #12

So what have I been doing recently? 

Well, nothing really. Nothing to note anyway. I had my first vaccination today though which is good news and things seem to be opening up again slowly. I bought a new stripy top today which was nice although I don't seem to have the impetus to do much else recently. I used to enjoy shopping and having a look around clothes stores but the mood has changed now so it doesn't feel quite like it was before plus I seem to be running out of space. I still have a few worries about my living situation but that's hopefully going to be sorted out soon so if I can at least get used to a new normal it will help. I'm still very fortunate to have a job at least even if I do find myself getting worried about money a little. I've started captioning regularly again which is a lot of fun and there are some other sites I'm thinking about joining to write more prose. 

I've also been thinking a lot about cosplay recently and in some cases whether or not to continue it at all. I'm sure once the cons start up it will be nice to go to some again and there are still a lot of costumes I would love to wear but I worry about whether it's still worth it. There are people who can do this sort of thing a lot better than I can and it feels a bit pointless to try sometimes. I've never been one for full on female impersonation but I still think that I may need to start doing wigs and make-up, neither of which I'm much good at. To be fair, I haven't really tried with make-up apart from some Harley Quinn cosplay which involved me putting some talcum powder on my face. I've never liked wigs that much either - I always think I look silly in them. Me in a wig looks like me in a wig. Maybe I should just stick to the clothes but then there's a part of me that wants to do the look justice and that means trying a bit harder. Or maybe I'm just too old for it now although I still have a lot of friends who do cons so it's still fun when I'm going with them. Hopefully I'll get the chance to soon.