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

My Week #10

 As we in the UK enter lockdown for the second time I was able to get one last clothes shop in and bought a new dress from a charity shop partly because I decided I need some more colours in my wardrobe other than black and blue. Ok, so it's still blue but a lighter blue and with some red flowers all over it. Probably a bit too late for such a summery dress but I wore it last weekend and it was rather nice. 

One slightly odd thing I've been thinking this week is about taking a course in fashion. I did do fashion briefly as part of a BTEC course in art I did back in college over 20 years ago and I approached it rather gingerly and I do wonder whether I was repressing something back then. Maybe if I had taken more of an interest it may have helped me but I think I was just too young at the time. The main part I did though was to write a brief history of fashion and I really enjoyed researching it and looking into it all. I'm only thinking about doing a brief online course though, perhaps leaning more towards a history of fashion rather than the design part. Designing would be an interesting thing though but I doubt I would be that good at it or even know what I'm trying to do. Maybe it's just this little fantasy I have of wanting to be a fashionista type girl or to have that kind of persona. Anyway, that's just something that's cropped up this week. 

To round off, it's been quite hard to escape the ongoing US election this week and while I haven't really got any US election themed captions, I did do a UK one back in 2015 and it's always been one of my favourites perhaps because it involves a 'he'll become what he hates' scenario. 

This was created for the April 2015 caption contest on Rachel's Haven with the theme of The Backfire. 

Tory Girl (2015)

Check-Up #4

So how is everyone doing?

Well, I'm a little up and down at the moment but my work at least breaks up my week and I'm getting a bit more free time which means I'm feeling less tired of a night so at least that's something. As I've said previously, I've started leaving my nails painted all week and this week my boss came into the office which was something I was only half expecting. My nails were all painted different colours, by the way. If she did notice something then she didn't say it. The same thing might happen again this week however now I have bright blue nails. I did initially hide them in gloves but now I just don't care. 

These days I do wonder what would happen if I was 'caught' dressed. I'm not sure it would bother me too much as I'm so used to it as being a part of myself. It now feels so natural to be wearing skirts dresses and tights and in fact I think the only thing that would make me ashamed is other people's reaction and getting caught in that emotion. This also led me to wonder what if I was to get caught while on a video Zoom chat with people from work. I know there are quite a few people out there who love the humiliation part of it. Imagine getting caught on camera unexpectedly, dressed up to the nines clad in a wig and coated with make-up? What if you were then blackmailed? What would you do? 

What about if you have to answer the door as well? Delivery drivers and various post people have seen me dressed over the past few years and have never really made comment on this. I expect, especially during this lockdown period, there are much stranger things out there than me. However I imagine that would feed the humiliation though, imagine being caught by many a caller. What would you say to them? Would you have something planned out or would that just make it better?  

I do have a few more captions I may put up shortly. It seems those are often my most read posts on this blog especially the Role Exchanger ones so I may see if I can feature more on here.