Recent comments

@Gooose do their powers work on each other?

Okay. You will need a translator to know what they're saying. I have removed the exact translation, but here's a summary. The two men realize that they have somehow lost contact with their agent, and they're not sure what's going on and what to do. At this point, they seem to know less about what's going on than the readers do. There's also Easter eggs for those who actually DO translate the text, and a reference to a meme that might be lost in translation.

tl;dr you don't have to know/translate Russian to get this episode. We aren't meant to know the evil scheme and Cork just hid a lot of Easter Eggs instead.

Yes, you know something's up when a bunch of boys recognize a Street Fighter II cabinet one minute but the next don't remember a prominent character from that game and instead get confused with a character from Taming of the Shrew. :) That conversation was hilarious, by the way.

You should check your opening quotes, a lot of them are combining with the character that comes next. Random accent marks on letters that should be an opening quote followed by the letter makes it weird to read.

This is a brilliant episode, in writing and direction.

The name Twyla was chosen in honor of Twyla Tharp, one of the most respected and accomplished dancers and choreographers of the 20th century.

I liked it until her name was Twyla. No it isn't. No one is that mean to their kids. Name reads like it's said with a speech impediment. (just wait, it's the authors real name and I am going to look like a jerk)

I love the work you're putting into this one. This set-up can go several very fun directions, and I can't wait to see where you're taking it. Please continue!

Not sure if this one is worth trying again. I didn’t like my last attempt but thought I’d give it another go, probably no appetite for a side story with Michelle and Trevor but thought it was worth a try

This rework is quite good

Technically (unless the terms are different in the US compared to Australia) the opening statements from the defence attorney sound like they're actually coming from a prosecutor. The defence attorney would represent the defendant who in this case is self representing.

That said... I look forward to reading the next few chapters as I like where this is going!

Haha very good pickup! I thought it was just displaying 2 comments for me, not everyone else!

Nice. So basically some of them have superpowers now

@buyerinternet Seems like Susan isn't the only being that got duplicated. :P

What an abstract and fun idea. I love it!

What an abstract and fun idea. I love it!

That was unexpected! Funny, though.

Hey, thanks for the feedback. They won't just be straight swaps though. She has fun little added experiments to add on for each pair.

Making a wish for a competent magic instructor, one capable of handling all of the girls in the Sisterhood would be a smart idea. Don't rely on a potentially too powerful unpredictable artifact to cast your magic, learn magic yourself and grant your own wishes. Smaller, simpler, noticable, reversible wishes, but those just may well be features not bugs.

Nice one. Thanks for taking my suggestions

And yes, you're right about the Cheerleader Gun, too. Lots of potential for mischief there, especially given all the options it has.

As far as body dysmorphia goes, it depends on the Random Gun and how it effects people's mental state to some extent. But as said several times, the Random Gun's effects are random. You're right in that Biff is suffering - so much of his identity is tied in to his being able to play sports that he can't play in his current transformed state. Fortunately, he has Sarah to help call attention to his plight.

As for Jon, Jon certainly seems to sort of fluid right now as far as gender goes, and seems all right with being a girl. It might not be just one thing that's causing this. As for how Jon's perception of movie stars might have changed, that's an interesting question. But yes, Jon is certainly going to be looking in the mirror over the next day or so, and will have to come to a decision sooner or later.

Anyway, with the MTI Day One arc concluded, the story will be getting back to Jon and Karyn, as well as the various jocks, cheerleaders, Goths, geeks, and so on. I've been wanting to get back to them in more than just brief 'checking in on them' bits for quite a while.

What's next? Well, the 'Sisterhood of the Stone' (as Zoe called their little group of people who know about the stone) will meet. A lot of people (not just Jon) will have to make some decisions soon. And maybe Lake Point High School's rivals will get into some of the Transformation Gun related mischief. We'll wait and see.

Yay! I felt unable to contribute during the MTI arc, I'd live to see Jon and Karen talk. And I'd like to see Linda talk with Jon just to probe what he/she is feeling.

Actually, since Jon and Karen are watching movies (because live TV is kinda a no-go tonight, with all the chaos and all. Just immagine if the Dallas Coybows got hit with the Cheerleader Gun!) but I'd love some of Jon's perspective as she processes what happened to her, how much of that prior personality is left in Jon, and if she still has any changes. Like, in lots watching movies, it's boud that they see one actor who was a heartthrob in their day. Maybe Brad Pitt, Maybe Tom Cruise. Shoot Ronald Ragan turned heads back in the day. How does any of that make her feel as a girl, compaired sitting next to Karen?

Looking at her own reflection, what does Jon see? How does Jon feel? Does she cup her boobs or her hips because it's the first time that she's had access to a girls flesh, or does her brain focus her thoughts on the I securities most girls have. Is she perturbed that she looks so small/young and envies women with fuller figures? Does looking cute or pretty feel good, better than felling masculine? What degree of body dismorphia is there. Biff seems to be suffering lot, but Jon not so much.

@Gooose tbf if some of the bridesmaids aren’t attractive and Linda gets swapped with one of them she would still be in a position to be jealous of Pete. Would it be better if Mikey or Zoe end up as Tatiana?

Author's note: Can you believe that this story has been taking place on the same day for 100 or more episodes which were written over the course of several years? It's crazy that it took this long to get to the end of Day One.

But now we're here. Jon, Karyn, Sarah, and everyone from Lake Point High School and McMillan Tech Industries can now move on to the next day and beyond. I've been looking forward to this for quite a while. I have some ideas for where things might go, including an arc revolving around the Lake Point High School vs. Forestville High sports rivalry and the special 'tiebreaker game'. In any case, we're done with the Day One arcs now, and can now move forward.

@Endless They're interesting. I think Stephanie will swap with Hilde, the German instagram model, but I'm less sure of the other ones. I want to have a mix of exchanges where the Gibson group got the better end of the deal and the other way around, so Karyn might end up as one of the plumbers or Tatiana's bodyguard. I kind of want Linda to be in a position where she's jealous of Pete as well. Lots to consider.

@Gooose what do you think of those suggestions?

@Gooose Karyn as the German instagram model and Stephanie as Tatiana or swapping them around could work as well. Linda with one of the bridesmaids. And Mikey and Zoe swap with each other

That's the current plan! With a few little tweaks thrown in by Kalea. Then his dad with the bachelorette/sorority girl. The others are shakier, so please share your suggestions if you have them.

I suspect Jon will end up as Eleanor

I'm reading it now.

Scabbling?

Interesting. Curious who Jon and Karyn will swap with if that is what’s going to happen

@Gooose wonder how that will happen with Karyn still having the stone. Surprised she didn’t put a safety measure on the stone yet in case someone else tried to use the stone

I see what you did there with the acronym.

Eventually the two plots will come together, but for awhile Karyn is going to be too preoccupied to realize what's going on with her mom or discover the linked wishing. Honestly Kyla is probably going to figure both swaps out before either swapped pair clocks the other.

This kinda of reminds me of Moriarty Arms and Swapping Hotel on writing.com, can't wait for the updates.

So will Karyn find out eventually or would this be b plot of this branch?

Looking forward to this branch

I deleted that account, and a handful of other accounts for a couple of reasons. I was getting too goon brained, too obsessed with adult stories. I don't intend to continue that story. It was basically just porn. I'm going to focus my efforts on more story content when I write tg/tf at all. Every additional channel was a new investment of time and attention. Restricting it to here, one of the oldest websites I engaged with when I first started writing tg content, has simplified this hobby, and made it easier to manage.

Heya Perri, couple of questions for ya regarding this story. First off, do you plan to import the other 'episodes' to this website? I noticed a lot are missing. Second, may I ask what happened on the tgstorytime website? I was keeping up on this story and now it says, "Access denied. This story has not been validated by the administrators of this site." Hope everything is alright.

In the days before I indulged this website religiously enough to consider the words "I wish" to be a terrible omen, the most ominous phrase one could possibly utter to me was "what could go wrong?"

Now we have both dangit

Curious where you will take this

Would love to see a thread where one of the next changes causes Jon to change genders due to genetic lottery or something, and we see him swapping places with the various Lake Point females.

Can't wait to see more. Zoe almost lost more than she realized!

What if Jon volunteered to crossdress - pads, fake boobs, photogenic mask; wig, skirt, blouse, stoxkings, mary janes all in men's sizes. I could see Jon willing to suffer what he wrought, and testing the wish to see how loose the requirements for 'girl' are. Stephanie could pull Jon out of class an hour early, help him get set up, help him get in character enough to be a her, and stay with him when the Switch happens.

What wishes would Jon wish for? Maybe wish for a magical insurance policy with transformation and ontological riders? A magical bookmark that can bookmark his life, so he could return to his current state at a later date? To remain (along with Stephanie
) (somewhat) aware even if he himself gets swapped?

Since Jon never asked for this compound switching, Jon could reinterpert the wish to include one last swap that undoes all negative swaps.

I could see Jon going to the local police/FBI branch and say I did something bad, I wish you could help me. If there's magic, then there ought to be some kind of magical community. Jon messed up, but it's not like there's a werewolf in the comunity turning others into werewolfs in a magical epidemic, or anything.

How I come up with a bunch of new names at once: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tom Stoppard are playwrights,so Andrew Stoppard is a theater geek. Tyler Herro and Duncan Robinson are NBA players, so Tyler Robinson will also be a basketball player. Paul Simon wrote a song called "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright," so Frank Simon will be a guitar player. And, as you surmise, Mitchell Webb will be a class clown type, after David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Joe Robbie and Don Shula were both major figures for the Miami Dolphins NFL team, so Joe Shula gets to be a football player. And I don't actually know that much about football, so Richard Joo is just the name of a Korean-British classical pianist and comedian that I like. But the character will be a generic football player, 'cause I think that's funny.

Mitchell Webb? Someone knows their British comedy :D

Very interesting setup! One thing I love about magic … there’s no off button. It looks like this will snowball ;)