Talk:Forest Life
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Devin said ...
Bartlett said ...
A very good story, very well written and thought out. The pics are good too. More please. :)
--Bartlett 23:47, 11 June 2008 (EDT)
- Thanks! The pics were a pleasant surprise for me too, I guess I caught Ian's fancy when he read this. :) I'm not sure if there's more to write in this particular universe, though. I'd need to come up with some brand new plot elements to make any sequels interesting, otherwise it's just a relatively short TF scene. Bryan 15:29, 12 June 2008 (EDT)
James said ...
The story is written in a very talented manner. I also considered the plot to be wonderful till the moment when the character was completely transformed into a deer. I liked the anthrodeer form very much and considered it perfectly suitable for a human to live the particular world. So I was very disappointed when the character had lost the form and had been completely transformed into a deer despite all he’s fear and all the mental efforts to avoid it. This turn of the plot was especially unpleasant as Bryan being a very talented writer described all character’s feelings and emotional state after the final transformation extremely well. Actually, reading the end part of the story made me feel being afraid of transformations. I disliked the feeling very much as I like the idea of transformation. Though the transformation must be either a controllable one or at least it should be into something suitable for the character and for the current environment for me to like it. As for the brand new plot elements to make any sequels interesting, may be it could be some kind of external threat for the tree spirits’ world. If it would make the spirits to give the transformed people the ability to change back to the antroanimal form for them to defend the world, I would be interested to read the sequel.
--James 11:09, 18 August 2008 (EDT)
- Well, everyone has their own preferences. I don't mind full-animal TFs, for example, but stories really turn me off when the TF wipes out the memories of the original person. I'm glad you liked the earlier bits, though. :) Some of my other stories involve anthro forms so hopefully there's others more to your taste.
- I suspect the tree spirits would not have gone for anthro forms since they would have required a lot more 'policing' than non-anthros; once you give people hands they can easily start back down the tool-making road, which includes tree-felling and fire-starting and all the other things that the tree spirits abandoned Earth to get away from in the first place. I suppose non-anthro deer can still wreck trees but it's a lot harder and there'd be no benefit in it other than sheer spite.
- I've occasionally considered writing sequels to this story but none have every really caught hold. When I wrote Forest Life I had absolutely no plot in mind, I didn't even know what was going on myself until I got near the end, but a sequel would start in a pre-established world and would need to build on it in some way. An external threat to the tree-spirits' world is actually a neat idea, but I don't have any ideas about what threat would actually be. Perhaps someday. Bryan 13:45, 18 August 2008 (EDT)
I love how gradual the change in this story was. I dont ussually go for transformation storys built solely around the actual transformation itself because I cant help but feel sometimes like if you've read one scene about a guy transforming into X you've read em all. But this story really took the transformation itself a step further.
--Devin 02:25, 20 August 2007 (EDT)