TG Cooper & TG Trinity Collaboration
Added 2021-09-12 15:11:44 +0000 UTCFor anyone interested, before my sickness I collaborated on a script with TG Trinity. It is now being posted on TG Trinity's Patreon along with a lot of other great material. The story is called Witness Protection: My Wife's Twin. Check it out!
https://www.patreon.com/tgtrinity/posts
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I had the desire to write a story where the message was feminine positive. Even though it was a forced femme story and Carl suffered some embarrassment as he transformed, in the end if became a positive. I also wanted to show that much of the embarrassment came not from anything innate about being female, but continued societal bias-- which one reviewer noted and did not like! You make a fair point that the old Sunni is gone-- at least in the reality of the story. Thanks for such a thoughtful response!
Taylor Galen Kadee
2021-10-30 23:44:30 +0000 UTCYou surely masters the narrative voice. I would be interested to discuss about what this voice says, and the sharp contrast between the vision it proposes and what the characters experience... But maybe this topic is more linked to politic than literature, so, I don't push it. About the end: it's very well crafted, as the whole book. So, you have done a great job. I confess the ending frustrates me, but many good book deliberatey frustrate their reader, and some even are good because of that. Once Sunni solves the mystery, he wants nothing but set everything back to normal... meaning, turning back to a girl, and Carl to a guy as a consequence. Meaning also destroying the romance between him and Carl + all the wonderful trip to feminity Carl is experiencing. She doesn't seem to mind at all about that. Carl, on the opposite, worries a lot, and I easily empatize with her. Once more, it's not a storyteling flaw. There are two very good reasons Sunni would act as he does: 1) Sunni is currently a guy. So, he is much less sensible that girl-Carl 2) Sunni wants to be a girl again. If the second interpretation is right, then the book delivers a weird but fascinating message: nothing is more desirable than feminity. Even love isn't. I demonstrate: - Suni wants his girlhood back, no matter the consequence on his romance with Carl - He doesn't even consider being a girl again means he will be killed (according to what his mother says) - Carl, on the other hand, fight as a tigress to keep his new feminity and Sunni's manly love... - ... even to the point she redesign the world to keep things this way, without considering Sunni's feeling about that. OK, Sunni seems happy at the end. But we know very well he's not the same Sunni we have known when the book started. The perversion of the time machine is that it doesn't only reshape the facts, but also the character's personalities. It makes Sunni's behaviour at the end perfectly consistent. Once more, no storytelling issue there. But... it's not the same Suni. Previous Suni is dead... without any funeral notice.
Alexia
2021-10-18 01:58:58 +0000 UTCAlways great to hear from you! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. One of the ideas I had and wanted to play with on this one was that more distinct narrative voice, so I am glad you noticed! Probably didnβt like the end, though?
Taylor Galen Kadee
2021-10-08 16:51:50 +0000 UTCJust passing by and saying hello to you, Taylor, and also to your elite community of tasteful fans! :-) Taylor, I hope you are doing well and that your life is moving in the direction you want. I was recently re-reading Carolwood and admiring how well the story is crafted. The choice of the setting (a school of genius...) is great because it makes both the transformation and the acceptance of the community around believable. But, as often, it's more the details, the dialogs, and the inner feelings of the characters that makes the story great. I also appreciate the narrator voice. I see it as ironic, so big is the gap between the message it delivers (deconstructing the so called gender stereotypes) and this deep dive in feminity/masculinity the characters experiment. But it's just my interpretation...
Alexia
2021-10-06 06:26:15 +0000 UTCCool. Glad you are enjoying it. This is my first time collaborating on a comic, so I check each week excited to see how TG Trinity brought it all to life. Good to hear from you!
Taylor Galen Kadee
2021-09-24 14:13:21 +0000 UTCI have joined TG Trinity's Patreon and read the two first episodes of your collaboration. It's very interesting. There is a nice suspense. Curious to know where it goes.
Alexia
2021-09-23 17:24:54 +0000 UTCHave to check hit definitely. And I will be back here with feedback. π
Alexia
2021-09-17 09:01:42 +0000 UTCHope you are feeling well, will definitely check it out.
Joe Blow78
2021-09-13 16:15:54 +0000 UTC
