What motivates writers of erotic transgender romance?

There is an interesting conversation going on over at Crossdream Life, where I asked this about the transgender romance sub-genre:

"What has surprised me, however, is how many of the story-lines are driven by  the MTF  protagonist's fascination for - or attraction to - men. Many of the books give detailed descriptions of the main male character's personality, physique and appearance. Many of these books, if not a majority, are transgender or crossdreamer romances, where the crossdreamer's attraction to - or desire for - a cis man is the whole point. Then there is, of course, science, magic and crossdressing that let them become the person this man desires.

"In these books the men are not faceless and they do not function as a device for the confirmation of the crossdreamer's femininity only.

"Many of the books are also stories about accepting a suppressed identity, and not forced feminization of unambiguous cis men. Many of the authors are trans women, closeted or openly so. I might be completely wrong about this, but something tells me that these authors do not come from the transfeminine part of the gay community.

"So I am wondering:  Have I been wrong the whole time? Have I simply been blind to existing transgender romance literature, simply because I was not that interested? I am definitely more into women, to put it that way. Or has something changed, in the sense that a new generation of writers are genuinely androphilic? If so, what has made this happen now, and not before?"

The discussion has made me adjust my understanding. MTF TG fiction writers are as likely to androphilic (man loving) and/or bisexual in their orientation as they are to be gynephilic (loving women).

In the discussion princesitanatty made me aware of a  very interesting source of relevant information, namely Jenny Raven's interviews with TG erotica writers, including Jane Futa, Julia G. Slater, Lady Alexa, Lilly Lustwood, Kenzie McKay, Diane Woods, Yummi Cox, Nikki Crescent and many more.

You can read these interviews here. 

How Australians react to a body swap

We do not think the CrackerMilk People are crossdreamers, but they clrealy understands what a body swap might mean, even for cis people.

 Video on YouTube.

The Sam gender bender movie is now on YouTube, for free

The Sam movie is now available on YouTube, for free.

Back in 2016 I wrote the following about it:

Nicholas Brooks has made a comedy about Sam, a misgynistic a**hole, who is transformed into a Sam, a petite brunette of great beauty.

It looks very much like a crossdreamer fantasy to me. There is even the much used TG fiction motive: The old man in the "curiosity" shop bringing on all the magic.

Brooks is the son of Mel Brooks, who is also listed as executive producer of Sam.

Sam is starring Natalie Knepp, Sean Kleier, Stacy Keach, Morgan Fairchild, Bryan Batt, James McCaffrey and Tom Pelphrey.

Is it any good? Well, it depends what you expect. This is definitely a B movie, both as regards directing and acting.  However, when the protagonist turn into ta female, there is also an amazing improvement in acting. Natalie Knepp does an excellent job as a man finding himself in a woman's body.

How to make your own gender bender photo comics

 

Over at Fem Fluxx Xandra has published a guide to making your own gender bender photo comic.

I am not going to repeat what she has to say here, beyond making the point that it is probably much easier than most people think. 

If you are able to make a TG caption with a story and one or more images, you should be able to make a photo comic.

That being said: Photo comics have never caught on in the same way TG captions have. It does require some  more work, after all.

The people behind TG Comics had a separate site for comics based on movie screenshots once, but that one is gone. TG Comics has instead focused more on 3D generated imagery for comics published at that site.

However, Fem Fluxx is still publishing new erotic male to female transformation comics and Feminized has a large archive of old ones.

Add a comment if you know of other sources of TG photo comics we should know of.

How to make your own gender bender comic.

New crossdressing YouTube channels

Lena has started two crossdressing video channels with crossdreamer stories you might want to listen to.

Stunning Truth

Stunning Truth is a channel for crossdressers "in the US and Canada", but I would say it is for any crossdresser or crossdreamer who understands English. 

Lena is using AI tools to design imagery and voices, but the stories are hand made and written by her.  

The stories are affirming and positive and it is clear that she wants crossdreamers to see themselves, accept themselves and embrace who they are.

Each video presents a tableau with a story that you can use for fantasies.

Crossdressing Story

Crossdressing Story or TransformHER has a lot in common with Stunning Truth, but the focus is here on male to female transformation stories. 

Again the stories are original and written by Lena.

Miss Mako is experimenting with AI movies

 

Miss Mako, a creative trans women, has made a lot of TG movies over the years, and now she is experimenting with AI.

These are short scenes only. She is clearly testing out the possibilities AI can bring. I guess that in a year or two we will see some real masterpieces of MTF transformations.

These are 18+ YouTube videos, so I cannot embed them here.

Miss Mako AI Transformation: For Whom The Belle Tolls (For Ages 18+)

Miss Mako AI Transformation: Pick Your Poison (For Ages 18+)

Miss Mako AI Transformation: The Princess Of Power (For Ages 18+)

Another male to female transformation music video

Here's a great crossdreaming music video made for Filatov & Karas' song Satellite.

It was recommended over at Crossdream Life by Paridae.

Filatov & Karas are two songwriters, electronic music producers and DJs from Moscow.

Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, the 1971 gender change horror movie

Back in 1971 the British production company Hammer Film Production presented another Gothic horror movie: Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde. It was based on the 1886 story The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.

(The movie should not be confused with the 1995 comedy Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde).

The Hammer movies has never been considered high art by any means, but the effective use of clichés (amazing Victorian characters and sets, to name one) and clever filming and editing continue to be fun to watch. The company is still around.

Dr. Jekyll is looking for an elixir of life and realizes that giving flies female hormones make them live longer. They also turn males into females.  

Planning to use himself as a human test subject Dr. Jekyll has to get hold of bodies of women to get access to said hormones, and while he starts out buying corpses provided by grave robbers it all soon escalates into murders of the Jack the Ripper kind.

Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde does have some crossdreamer qualities. The first transformation scene is clearly an erotic one, and much more explicit than the clip below may indicate. The movie also makes use of a trope from TG fiction, where the female personality - sexy, alluring and obsessive - threatens to take over completely. 

All in all it is not a bad movie, as far as B movies go. Do not expect realism, though. It takes only 30 seconds from the doctor drinks a glass of female hormones until "Sister Hyde" takes over. We wish!

See also discussion over at Crossdream Life.

New body swap movies and TV series of interest

It seems the interest in gender body swap movies and TV series come and go, but recently we have had quite a few you might want to take a look at.

This post is partly based on information shared over at Crossdream Life.

Body Swap (2011)

Timothy Morton has made an independent movie starring Ella Jordan and Jimmy Kustes, called Body Swap.

As is often the case with such movies the plot is there to explore gender differences and how men and women can learn to better understand each other. 

It is not made by a crossdreamer.

I see that it is found on Amazon, Tubi and Plex in some areas.

 

Swap Me Baby  (2022)

This is one seriously trippy movie, and not only because one of the main characters is using magic mushrooms.

Lily, business woman and control freak, ends up in bed with Philippe, a French mushroom tripping gigolo. So they get pregnant. Their therapist recommends a trip to a cabin in the woods, introducing them to a magic box that... you know, does magic. Hence the body swap.

I do not know what to make of the film. First and foremost it is some kind of crazy romantic comedy. But it has some serious undertones as well. 

I also made note of the fact that whoever made this film is a sucker for body swap movies in general. There is even a reference to the original Freaky Friday movie.

This is not a crossdreamer movie, either, but it is a lot of fun.

Using AI to create dream images of your other self

AIs like Dall-E, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney makes it possible to create close to photorealistic images of people. 

The better you are at describing the image you want to see, the closer the image is to your inner vision of what you'd like to see.

This means that it is now possible to generate an image of your inner dream girl for free or for a relatively low price.

I have been testing out Midjourney version 5 for a day or so, and is impressed with the results. Midjourney can now produce images that are nearly photorealistic, or – if you prefer – art inspired paintings and drawings.

It is possible to make images where people change gender, although you have to work a bit harder to make that work.

I have shared some more images over in the Crossdream Life forum. If you have done anything similar, please share your images there.

How to use Midjourney.

The Superman Gender Bending Universe

A world in which he Superman is Superwoman, Supergirl is Superboy, and Wonder Woman is Wonder Warrior? 

Sure. 

Sasha Wood from Casually Comics has the story about Superman #349 from 1980: "The Turnabout Trap!"

Let us know in the comments below if you know of more comics like this one.

By the way, Casually Comics has also a video about gender bending pink kryptonite. More about that over at Crossdream Life.

Interview with Miss Mako, the MTF movie hero

Erika Dapkewicz has probably been the most prolific MTF transformation movie maker ever. Many have enjoyed her many stories published over at YouTube. 

She has also made full length movies with MTF transformation components, like the Paradox Alice science fiction movie. 

Monika Kowalska has interviewed Erika over at her transgender heroines blog, where Erika also talks about how transgender fiction helped her come to terms with her own identity.

Monika: Your YouTube vlog attracted almost 150 thousand subscribers. What inspired you to create the Miss Mako persona?

Erika: Oh, that’s a story from a long long time ago. When I was little and suffering from gender dysphoria… I was transfixed by fantasy stories of men transforming into women.I used to write stories and draw comics of this when I was a little kid and kept doing it when I became a teenager. It was when the internet came around in the mid-1990s that I found a website called The Transformation Graphics & Story Archive. It was the first time I found similar people like myself doing some of the same stories and art. To not use my real name at the time I picked the handle of MAKO (after my love of sharks).

Everyone had a handle then. I started to gain a bit of an underground following. I was pushing myself to do these stories in different mediums. So I started to do my own animated shorts. Comics. Live-action shorts culminating in a live-action feature called, “Paradox Alice”. I was asked to start my own YouTube Channel and I did so in 2006. I also started to do my own Vlogs and you can see me pre and post-transition on those.

Over the years… more and more people followed me. And many suffering from gender dysphoria from around the world and sharing their stories with me. I changed my handle to MISS MAKO after I transitioned. I don’t nearly post much on the channel anymore. As again… I’m trying to have a better balance of being able to enjoy life as much as I can now.

Miss Mako is using her experience from making MTF transformation movies to editing Disney movies!

Miss Mako on Deviant Art

I'm a Killer Maid

Slash Film reports that the comic book "I'm a Killer Maid" is to be made into a TV series.

"I'm a Killer Maid" is a Chinese comic about a man who swaps bodies with his female housekeeper, only to find out that she is really an assassin. 

Watching the trailer I do not think we have to take this series to seriously.

The comic is available over at Kiss Manga.

How to use Faceapp and Remini to make a photo of your female self

 

Over at Crossdream Life Megan describes how you can use Faceapp and Remini to create an animated  photo of the way you would look as "the other gender".

The implementation of Artificial Intelligence has made the new crop of smart phone apps so much better at manipulating photos and animations. 

All you need is a clear photo of yourself (preferably your younger self), a smartphone and the apps.

Click here to read the manual on how to deepfake your inner woman (or man, as may be).

Faceapp selfie editor.
Remini photo enhancer (Android)
Remini photo enhancer (Apple)

Finally, a nonbinary femme Flash

 In the forthcoming DC Pride anthology queer writers will write queer stories about queer superheroes.

Den of Geek explains  that Lore, a non-binary artist with ADHD, has made a comic featuring the non-binary Flash of Earth 11.

Rosie Knight writes:

It was also the chance for Lore to tell a story about a non-binary hero who wasn’t defined by their appearance. That was something Lore could relate to as a non-binary person who loves makeup and colors but was worried about not being percieved as non-binary due to the connotation of those things being “femme.”

New MTF body swap horror movie with Vince Vaughn: "Freaky"

Freaky is a new gender bending body swap movie where Vince Vaughn, playing a psychotic mass murderer, swaps bodies with a high school girl played by Kathryn Newton.

The reviews are mixed, but many seem to find this horror slasher comedy worth watching. I have not seen it yet.

The name Freaky is clearly a reference to the more innocent body swap movie called Freaky Friday. The Atlantic calls it "The Most Purely Enjoyable Horror Movie Made in Years".

Vaugh plays the Blissfield Butcher, who murders unsuspecting teens until an Aztec dagger delivers the necessary magic needed for the swap.

Tomris Laffly writes:

"Freaky" is a fun, frisky, and nostalgic ride that delivers laughs, various inventively bloody kills, and on occasion, even some 21st-century-appropriate observations on gender norms and sexuality. Just don’t expect to be surprised a great deal by it.

Lovecraft Country may be of interest to you

 This post includes minor spoilers.

The Corona crisis has made me see far too much TV, I'm afraid. But some of it is very good. After binging Watchmen I went over to Lovecraft Country, the HBO horror series inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, the author, and based on the book by Matt Ruff.

There is a story arch, but each episode focuses on one particular story, all with a strong horror, fantasy and/or science fiction vibes. It is very well done.

And now for the spoilers: The series contains one of the most creative gender transformation scenes I have ever seen. There is also a two spirit character. That is all I am going to tell you.

As safe place to talk about all kinds of gender variance

This post is not exactly off topic, but it is about erotic MTF transformations in media either. It may still be of use to you.

I have been hanging out over at Crossdream Life for a while. That forum is not about sharing feminization fantasies, but it is a place where you can talk about gender, gender variance and gender identity. You can also talk about what it is that causes you to have such fantasies.

You may think of yourself as cis, trans, nonbinary, a crossdresser, a crossdreamer, a drag quee, queer or whatever. You will be welcome. The only thing they do not like is people telling trans women they are nothing but fetishists. But we knew that already, didn't we?

You may also use the forum to find support if you are struggling with your gender identity. The other members cannot tell you who or what you are, but they may help you find out.

If you are interested in transgender and queer issues in general, you will also find a lot of interesting information over there.

Visit Crossdream Life here!

TG Comics and The Champagne Room

 

There are a lot of new stories over at TG Comics, and if you haven't visited in a while, you should definitely take a look. Many of them are free.

One such story is The Champagne Room by Kara Comet, a feisty feminization fantasy about a night club owner who gets his own magic used against himself. One for the sissy enthusiasts, I suppose.

If you are looking for some really good artwork, you should take a look at the MTF transformation superhero comic, Lady Valiant, by TeamLV.

 

Zeus as a Crossdreamer

 

Over at Crossdream Life, the forum for crossdreamers, crossdressers, trans and nonbinary people, there is an interesting post on the myth about the god Zeus and the nymph Calisto.

In order to seduce Calisto Zeus AKA Jupiter changed himself into a woman.

This gave a lot of male artists the excuse to depict woman on woman sex in their paintings, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries. I wonder if some of these painters were crossdreamers themselves.

Read The day Jupiter took the form of Diana in order to seduce the nymph Calisto over at Crossdream Life.