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[Melissa N.] Collection

Honestly one the few reasons I actually enjoy Melissa's current K-pop story is because since it is going for the "idol" aesthetic the MC's outfits tend to lean on the cute/girly side compared to the usual tight/bimbo side that most Melissa stories follow.

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Honestly one the few reasons I actually enjoy Melissa's current K-pop story is because since it is going for the "idol" aesthetic the MC's outfits tend to lean on the cute/girly side compared to the usual tight/bimbo side that most Melissa stories follow.

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It feels like each slide depicts a different character. Not like stages of transformation, but rather completely different people.

And between 4th and 5th, the phenotypes are completely different – a different body type, height, build, age, skull shape. I understand that this is essentially what almost all trans stories suffer from, where a 6'1" athlete transforms into a 5'5" fragile cheerleader.

But here's another question: This kind of variation is normal for AI generators, but in this case, it seems like Daz3D (or something similar) is being used, where you can manually adjust the details.
 
"An Innocent Game" is a very early story by Melissa, before she went 3D. It used images from some game, like the ones in the first version of K-Pop. I think it might still be in her DeviantArt page... let me see...
...yeah, here it is:
I like stories like this one where the motives are clearly explained and so is the process even if unrealistic. Not like in Aphrodite's where "there's no hypnosis" she just hypnotized herself by method acting, and somehow that changed her entire sense of self, and her sexuality?!
Or like Bestie where she's just changing her husband into her BFF for the lolz?
It doesn't matter if they deserved it or not, I wanna know why they're doing that to them.
 
The first story I ever read from Melissa was Barbie's Life on fictionmania and then I found tug of war years later and those were some of my favorite TG fiction stories despite their flaws. They tap into a melodramatic flair that I think the combination of the patreon model and visual based storytelling exacerbates rather than highlights. rendering 8 somewhat similar poses and slapping some text on it that has minimal progression is lazy in comparison to the richness of her previous works. She'll probably never go back to those text heavy stories.

I think there is a sweet spot between the glacial pace of Melissa N and the rapid, often off-screen transformation that someone like Cassie Rose Watson paces her work with.
 
One of Melissa’s big problems is that she’s unable to shift tone and genre.

Aphrodite’s Mirror should be a claustrophobic body horror story about a man losing his body and mind (instead it’s like a bad mystery that abandoned the TG element years ago because the main char is completely okay with what happened). A Bestie in the Making should be a romantic comedy about a couple getting into low stakes escapades as they expand their boundaries *together* (instead because its tg tropes are played so straight the wife will almost certainly whore her unwilling husband out at some point (at which point the husband will realize he loved cock all along)).
 
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