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Favorite / Least Favorite Tickling Story Tropes or Plotlines

BlueLine7045

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Hi all! What are some of your most and/or least favorite tickling story plot lines or tropes?

For me, I absolutely love random unplanned tickling. One of my all time favorites is when people get stuck somewhere and are discovered by someone else who then mischievously tickles them. I alos love when people claim theyre not ticklish and end up being broken by the tickler, or when they actually aren't ticklish but end up being ticklish by the end of the story. Tickle wrestling and overpowering someone is also another favorite of mine.

For a plot line or trope im not as crazy about? No offense to anyone, but probably the whole "knocked out and waking up tied up" thing. No offense to anyone that likes this or authors that use this. It was cool for a while but I feel like it is overplayed at this point. But sometimes it works and it depends on the story and situation. Like falling asleep on the beach and waking up buried.

Anyway, I'd love to hear some of your most/leaat favorites
 
I'm chaotic af so there's too many faves to count...

But as for LEAST faves? I abhor two things: 1) ultra-violence and/or peeing. Just... ick. And 2) COPY AND PASTE WITH THE SAME PHRASING AND CONCEPTS REUSED. Like jeez, some writers (in the minority of the talent pool here, thankfully) are so far up their own butt-- err, I mean "comfort zone" that they have no interest in changing things up. No change in genre, character archetypes, plotlines, tickling scenarios... it's all the same! It might as well have been copy and pasted from their previous works it's so unoriginal.

Anyways, thank you for coming to my Ted-Rant.
 
Serums/lotions that make you X times more ticklish. It’s not really something one’s mind can fathom and subsequently I start skimming through when I find this trope.
 
I am not a fan of stories about real people. I don't know why but it's just a turn off for me if the story isn't entirely fictional. As any reader of mine knows, I love stories about playful, erotic tickling.
 
I'm done with "No! No! Not my feet!" I have the opposite of a foot fetish, so I have no interest in worship and not much more in foot tickling. Yet almost every story goes straight for it. That's fine, I just don't read those very often. But what's worse, is a story that does seem to be catering to my tickling tastes, then suddenly the feet are by far the most ticklish place and the tickler is going there to finish her off. Give me a heroine/victim who is ticklish from knees to pits with the max regions being near her sex like inner thighs, groin, lower abdomen..., (yes, I like 'naughty' tickles) but who can yawn through people trying to tickle her feet!
 
I'm done with "No! No! Not my feet!" I have the opposite of a foot fetish, so I have no interest in worship and not much more in foot tickling. Yet almost every story goes straight for it. That's fine, I just don't read those very often. But what's worse, is a story that does seem to be catering to my tickling tastes, then suddenly the feet are by far the most ticklish place and the tickler is going there to finish her off. Give me a heroine/victim who is ticklish from knees to pits with the max regions being near her sex like inner thighs, groin, lower abdomen..., (yes, I like 'naughty' tickles) but who can yawn through people trying to tickle her feet!

Def guilty of that, especially in my story im working on now. I'll keep that in mind though for future stories. You are 100% right. Almost everything on this site is foot dominated; lot of foot fetishists.
 
I'm a big fan of "helpless in public" stories. That is, someone is placed in a vulnerable position (locked in the stocks at the renfaire, buried in sand at the beach), and then just left there, at the mercy of whatever random stranger might happen upon them. Also a big fan of itching powder on a restrained person. I know it's not actually tickling, but I consider it tickling adjacent. The idea of something as mundane as an unscratchable itch being amped up to the point that it's actual torture is very appealing to me.

I guess one of my biggest dislikes is the idea of an injection or other chemical making someone physically more ticklish. It doesn't necessarily kill the story for me, but it does hurt my suspension of disbelief a bit. Which might be a bit contradictory on my part, given my love of the itching powder trope.
 
Honestly I'm very in line with you where my favourite and least favourites lie. As soon as I'm reading a story and everything suddenly went black and they wake up in a random room bound in an X-frame, I tab out. The only time I'll actually stay is if it's a character from something I've seen, in which case I'm at least interested in that. I'm also not a big fan of stories that normalize tickling, like sci-fi esque stories where tickling is the norm. It sort of kills it for me because I like tickling to be a random, spur of the moment option for the ler to get what they want.

As for favourites, I mostly just like to see an interesting scenario where the lee has to hold onto something or hold in their laughter while being tickled, eventually breaking. Anything outside of the lee being strictly bound in an X-frame in a basement/warehouse is good for me.
 
LEAST FAVORITE tickling story tropes or plot lines:

- I don’t care for the “deus ex machina” elements in some stories. I think it’s kind of lazy writing and immediately sucks a reader’s focus out of the story because it not longer holds weight. Simply put, it’s any super convenient way to get from A to B in a story or solve a pretty unsolvable problem by just throwing out a bullshit reason for it. It’s probably most commonly seen when tickle victims just “wake up” from being knocked out and are already transported, tied, and ready to be tickled in the first few paragraphs of the story. I understand that the stories on this forum are just tickle smut, not meant to make Oprah’s book club. But extremely lazy writing is annoying.

- Not a big fan of “Barbie” characters. Perfect 10 cheerleader types that just so happen to be insanely ticklish everywhere on their body are actually incredibly boring to me. Those people don’t exist in real life.

- As far as plot lines, I’m not turned off by much. Like movies, there really are a finite number of possible angles to take when telling a story. Unless you get super weird with it. So if you understand the same plot angles are going to be used repeatedly no matter what, it just depends on how well someone does with the content within the framework. I guess the only thing I don’t care to even give a chance are stories that go something like “two gorgeous women who don’t have tickle fetishes decide to passionately/sexually tickle each other randomly even though there’s no plausible explanation” What? Why? That sounds like a bad porno.


FAVORITE tickling story tropes and plot lines:

- I love power play dynamics in stories. A character’s personality, profession, or circumstances can add a lot of flavor as far as the power dynamics and shift when they’re tickled. I enjoy reading/writing about women who don’t expect to be tickled. The sudden forced submissiveness, the embarrassment, the unfairness/randomness of victims who happen to be in the wrong spot at the wrong time...I love it all.

- I’m in the minority here it seems, but I appreciate victims being tickled until the wet themselves. To be clear, I don’t have a thing for pee. To me, it’s not about the actual substance. Getting someone to that point is a physical manifestation of their mental state after they’ve been broken down. It’s visual confirmation that something has been accomplished, usually a breaking point in their holding out against the tickling. Yeah a lot of readers will say that’s gross. I agree with you about the actual substance portion of this point. I’m just saying I like to read about characters that have been reduced so much that they lose control over everything.

- I’m also a HUGE fan of the whole mental ward/straightjacket vibe. Specifically female characters that did not want to be in that situation and are slowly reduced to giggling babble. Not to get too far ahead of myself as a writer, but my story bucket list includes writing something with those elements. Possibly even a celebrity-themed story about a tickling asylum.

- Plot lines...I’m a fan of interrogation plots where characters give it up eventually. A classic that’s always fun and pretty easy to set up in a variety of ways. I like plots where a guy gets to tickle a chick he never thought he would get to. I think most guys have been in that position where they wonder what it would be like to do XYZ with their crush. Or it can be someone else that isn’t necessarily similar in age or status. For example, tickling a mother-in-law, teacher, neighbor, etc. I also really enjoy celebrity content. I don’t know why it isn’t more prevalent than it is on this forum. For those of you who claim to suck at writing, I mean...celebrities from movies or shows is basically already set up for you. All you have to do is be somewhat faithful to how they would act and you can guide that however you see fit. I plan on writing a lot more celebrity content in the future so maybe that will trigger more authors to get the itch.
 
I just really don't like the celeb stories / fanfic stuff.

But I don't have a great dislike for much else aside from jailbait type characters / "early life experiences."

I think people should write what they want tho, as long as it's in line with TMF rules. Can never please everyone and some folk treat it like they're getting paid to give literary critiques. Like chill, Michiko Kakutani.
 
- I love when the ticklee is someone who normally would be in a dignified position socially, or someone (male or female) who is very physically strong.

- Fitting into that, I'm a huge fan of the "accidentally stuck" trope or the having to hold a certain position/hold something over one's head. I also love social situations where the victim can't react or has to try to disguise their reaction.

- I get why some people roll their eyes, but I love "weak spots" especially in stories with varied tickling, or where the victim is able to temporarily restrict access to parts of their body from the tickler.

- I can enjoy a story despite a number of turn-offs if it is well written. One popular trope that has always left a sour taste is the classic ending "and then we'll take you to our endless tickle dungeon/tickle Hell Dimension where you'll be tickled forever!!!" It's a distinctly unsatisfying resolution to what I enjoy about most stories, which is that the subject on some level does enjoy their torture but are trying to control their reaction (especially if they cannot admit this), or that they are otherwise trying to control themselves in some way (not laugh, not let go, not orgasm or pee themselves) and the tickling overwhelms them and breaks their control. I want to care about them as a character and care about what they desperately want, even if they are unsympathetic and deserve a comeuppance. Showing how they are broken or how their relationship with the tickler has changed (or, honestly, aftercare) are all part of an actual story I'm invested in, and Tickle Hell Forever is not.
 
I'm a big fan of stories featuring superpowers/magic/tickling machines/basically anything that isn't normally possible. To me, stories are a great opportunity to exercise my imagination for exploring tickling scenarios you wouldn't be able to get in a video or the like.

For dislikes: As time goes on I find myself disliking stories where some random schmuck is kidnapped and tickled purely "because it's fun". I understand that the tickling portion is the meat of these stories, but skipping over the setup strikes me as lazy. Putting at least a little motivation behind the characters' actions goes a long way in fleshing them out. I also tend to pass over any stories featuring real life people being subjected to mind breaking torture. Those just strike me as needlessly malicious.
 
Alien abduction stories are cool. Probably unpopular opinion but meh lol
 
I love any type of implied tickling, for instance when character(s) hear the sound of laughter/begging/taunting from another room and are forced to kind of slowly connect the dots as to what's causing it.

I also like stories where couples are tickled by a third party.

Least favourite tropes are ppl being knocked unconscious/poisoned and waking up in bondage or any type of potion/serum/device that enhances ticklishness.
 
Reading your previous posts, helped me to focalize what I'm into and what I'm not, in a plot.
Certenly I dislike "she went to sleep in her bed and she waked up tied up in a basament. Noooo!
I personally like the "little" non consensual side of tickling, not loving too much the female who specifically love to be tickled, because sexually aroused. Even if it could be interesting for many people, I don't connect tickling with sex, so I prefer a story in which the victim is not fucked, totally naked or have orgasms while being tickled.
But I love the casual side of tickling. Victim that, for any reason, are accidentally involved in situations, in which the tickling occurs without being expected. Reinfairs, collage or birthday parties, or any social happening that starts as a common event, but suddenly becomes the situation in which the unsuspecting partecipants are tickled completely out of their minds, for an unattended very long time. And I like the fact they will return to their normal life, with the unforgettable memory of theese experiences.
For the same reason, I'm less intrigued by stories about appointments, in which the protagoinsts meet themselves, with the intention of tickle or being tickled. I find the evolution of these stories too predictable, so less surprisingly fashinating.
In some stories, a brief, rapid tickling situation, maybe to some other carachters, make the victims more worried, or fade the circle around them, sending the victims in the web of the ticklers. I think this "step by step" evolution, if well written and described, is always the main ingredient for a good story.
Obviously, the conclusion, must end up with the real intense tickling of the girl/girls life.
 
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Reading your previous posts, helped me to focalize what I'm into and what I'm not, in a plot.
Certenly I dislike "she went to sleep in her bed and she waked up tied up in a basament. Noooo!
I personally like the "little" non consensual side of tickling, not loving too much the female who specifically love to be tickled, because sexually aroused. Even if it could be interesting for many people, I don't connect tickling with sex, so I prefer a story in which the victim is not fucked, totally naked or have orgasms while being tickled.
But I love the casual side of tickling. Victim that, for any reason, are accidentally involved in situations, in which the tickling occurs without being expected. Reinfairs, collage or birthday parties, or any social happening that starts as a common event, but suddenly becomes the situation in which the unsuspecting partecipants are tickled completely out of mind, for an unattended long time. And I like the fact they will return to their normal life, with the unforgettable memory of theese experiences.
For the same reason, I'm less intrigued by stories about appointments, in which the protagoinsts meet themselves, with the intention of tickle or being tickled. I find the evolution of these stories too predictable, so less surprisingly fashinating.

I pretty much agree with everything you said
 
Oh boy... Here we go.

My pet peeves:
Introducing a character by giving us a cross between a milk carton description and a model site profile.

Barbie was 5'9" with blonde hair, blue eyes and tanned skin. She had a perfect 38-24-36 figure and perfect size nine feet which were unbearably ticklish.

Barbie sounds boring as fuck.

This has already been said but I usually stop reading when a story starts with a character waking up stripped and bound. It's even worse (and lazy) when the characters are celebrities because hot naked celebs equals hot story, right? Wrooooong.

Gal Gadot woke up to find herself naked and tied spreadeagle on soft satin sheets. You could see her boobs and everything. "Well this is odd," she thought to herself. "Last thing I remember I was singing Imagine on my iPhone and now I'm naked and tied spreadeagle on soft satin sheets. This really is a thundering nuisance."

In walked Charlize Theron and Alexandra Daddario. They were both naked too. "Oh good, she's awake." Said one naked hot celebrity to the other hot naked celebrity....


Lastly I have to say the idea that typing "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" (CTRL+C, CTRL+V lather, rinse, repeat) is a good way to describe someone laughing being tickled is a terrible one. Show me how they're reacting, don't tell me.

The stuff that makes me read on

Characters! Milk carton descriptions and celeb fic is not going to cut it but if you introduce your characters through their thoughts and actions, that's a different story. Get that bit right and you can get away with being less descriptive as the reader builds the image inside their head.

Dynamics! A strong woman brought low by tickling, a cheeky date taking advantage, blackmail, foreplay... The power and relational dynamics between the characters can really add some spice to a story. Non-cons fantasy is super hot, which is kinda weird when you think about how horrific non-cons reality would be.

A decent set up. I've seen some great writers here preface stories with an apology for taking so long to get to the actual tickling. If I know a bit about the characters and their situations first and you build a sense of anticipation then you definitely have my attention.

A three course meal, not fast food. If a story looks to be at least 1,500 words I'll be more inclined to give it a look as it's clear some work has gone into it. Then you get legends like TickleMantis who will basically publish stories that qualify as novellas if you published them to kindle.

I'll get off my soapbox now. :D
 
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Likes:
Characters being tickled with implements (feathers, brushes) instead of hands (exception: long, manicured fingernails doing the tickling).
Machines/getting stuck in a machine.
Sexual tickling; forced orgasms; denied orgasms
Really strict bondage.
Dungeons, hospitals.
Overal: stories that have elements of non-consent but are more sexual than just sadistic. I do like the trope of someone ending up liking the tickling, or at least liking the orgasm that comes with it.

Dislikes:
Violence, intense non-consent or sadism. It's a really fine line, but when a character is truly terrified or distressed, it grosses me out.
Really young characters (blech)
ANIMALS. OMG, like cats licking someone's feet. That's putting a cat in the same part of my brain where sex is. Gross!
 
I forgot to add one thing to my previous post.
I personally dislike the PART ONE Story, if doesn't exist PART TWO. Sometimes we start to read stories that never have a conclusion. And I feel it like a waste of time!
 
Yeah, not really a fan of where the Ticklers imply or outright tell their victim they are to be tickled forever...

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I do connect tickling and sex. My favorite stories are the ones where the lee is both scared of the tickling yet turned on by it. But I don't like humiliation or pain in my stories. I also don't like when it's portrayed as true torture or the situations where the lee will be tickled forever. I love most of TQLR's stories. There's a non-consensual element at the start, but the lee is converted.

I also want my ler to care about the lee. I like to see a relationship or at least a connection between them. In the TQLR stories the relationship is not deep, but the ler never comes off as mean or hateful. And I always like how caring the ler came off in the Jenny stories.

Other stuff:

I tend to prefer finger tickling rather than tickling using implements.
I strongly prefer forced orgasm/orgasm denial in my stories.
Celebrity stories don't really do it for me. Some are good, some are bad, but the celebrity inclusion detracts more than it adds for me.
 
Thank you.

I do connect tickling and sex. My favorite stories are the ones where the lee is both scared of the tickling yet turned on by it. But I don't like humiliation or pain in my stories. I also don't like when it's portrayed as true torture or the situations where the lee will be tickled forever. I love most of TQLR's stories. There's a non-consensual element at the start, but the lee is converted.

I also want my ler to care about the lee. I like to see a relationship or at least a connection between them. In the TQLR stories the relationship is not deep, but the ler never comes off as mean or hateful. And I always like how caring the ler came off in the Jenny stories.

Other stuff:

I tend to prefer finger tickling rather than tickling using implements.
I strongly prefer forced orgasm/orgasm denial in my stories.
Celebrity stories don't really do it for me. Some are good, some are bad, but the celebrity inclusion detracts more than it adds for me.
 
I've always been a fan of stories that start out as non con but in the end the lee comes raound (whether through enjoyment, arousal or whatever) and finds themselves not wanting the tickling to stop. Even if it's afterwards and they find themselves fantasising about doing it again. I guess that's probably because people who share our kink are such a minority that the idea of converting someone into a fellow ticklephile appeals to me.

Off the top of my head I can't think of too many things that I don't like in stories. Personally I'm not a huge fan of stories that have really, really long introductions before the tickling is introduced, but I realise that those stories can often use the intros to build up characters and that really works for a lot of people. Maybe I just have a short attention span haha.
 
Oh boy... Here we go.

My pet peeves:
Introducing a character by giving us a cross between a milk carton description and a model site profile.

Barbie was 5'9" with blonde hair, blue eyes and tanned skin. She had a perfect 38-24-36 figure and perfect size nine feet which were unbearably ticklish.

Barbie sounds boring as fuck.

This has already been said but I usually stop reading when a story starts with a character waking up stripped and bound. It's even worse (and lazy) when the characters are celebrities because hot naked celebs equals hot story, right? Wrooooong.

Gal Gadot woke up to find herself naked and tied spreadeagle on soft satin sheets. You could see her boobs and everything. "Well this is odd," she thought to herself. "Last thing I remember I was singing Imagine on my iPhone and now I'm naked and tied spreadeagle on soft satin sheets. This really is a thundering nuisance."

In walked Charlize Theron and Alexandra Daddario. They were both naked too. "Oh good, she's awake." Said one naked hot celebrity to the other hot naked celebrity....


Lastly I have to say the idea that typing "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" (CTRL+C, CTRL+V lather, rinse, repeat) is a good way to describe someone laughing being tickled is a terrible one. Show me how they're reacting, don't tell me.

The stuff that makes me read on

Characters! Milk carton descriptions and celeb fic is not going to cut it but if you introduce your characters through their thoughts and actions, that's a different story. Get that bit right and you can get away with being less descriptive as the reader builds the image inside their head.

Dynamics! A strong woman brought low by tickling, a cheeky date taking advantage, blackmail, foreplay... The power and relational dynamics between the characters can really add some spice to a story. Non-cons fantasy is super hot, which is kinda weird when you think about how horrific non-cons reality would be.

A decent set up. I've seen some great writers here preface stories with an apology for taking so long to get to the actual tickling. If I know a bit about the characters and their situations first and you build a sense of anticipation then you definitely have my attention.

A three course meal, not fast food. If a story looks to be at least 1,500 words I'll be more inclined to give it a look as it's clear some work has gone into it. Then you get legends like TickleMantis who will basically publish stories that qualify as novellas if you published them to kindle.

I'll get off my soapbox now. :D

I would actually read your Gal Gadot story in all its (minimum) 1500 word glory. "This really is a thundering nuisance" had me laughing to myself at work earlier.
 
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