I actually lol'd @ "clot-breath".
LMAO. Awesome piece, hilarious series, and wonderful spooky work, as always!
You know....I was rereading this and had a thought: you know what's so amazing about your stuff? Among many other things, I feel like your work kind of normalizes the tickling fetish. I felt the same way about Yenny when it first came out over a decade ago. I'd read a Yenny comic and think to myself: "This is really funny, and well-drawn, and professional. I could show this to my vanilla friends and they would probably get a good chuckle out of it and not be all like - what the hell weird fetishy nonsense are you showing me??"
My point is that your stuff not only is well-executed, and clever, and funny, and professionally put together - but in so doing you kind of help bring more credibility to this genre, or community, or whatever you wanna call it. Your work makes tickling seem not-as-unusual. More easily accepted. Just more...sane. Which might not be what you were going for - but it sure is a cool side benefit. I feel like someday someone outside the tickling fetish is going to fall upon our little art world and think to themselves that there's some pretty cool stuff happening here. I think all this would shock them. Not because it's kinky and taboo. But because for a genre that IS kinky and taboo - there some next level shit happening here. There's some pretty awesome stories being told. There's some truly funny art being created. There's more than one might expect from teh fetish pron. Even if their expectations were high - I doubt they'd expect to find the feast that awaits them here. And much of that is largely thanks to your stuff.
So....thanks for helping to make this genre everything it is.
And for the whole beacon of transcendence-thing.
B
No no. You're on to something Deets. As I see it, its all about context. While we within our kink love to cut to the 'money shots', sometimes that can make us seem narrow in the minds of those without the kink. And one-off money shot single panels that play to what we desire, might be indulged by us, but that same focused piece might also be
too focused for someone without the fetish.
However, set our fetish in a life context, a familiar touchstone framework, and it might be perceived as little more easy to understand, or at least swallow to those on the outside. A spanking scene set in a full length Hollywood movie about a couple and their long love affair and their lives, becomes a "spanking porn vid" if you chop off the proceeding 60 minutes of story, and the 60 mines of story after. You get a 6 minute spanking porn vid.
We don't live in the fetish vacuum of our tickle pron, even though it may feel that way sometimes. Every Lee and and Ler has an entire life history, and that happens to include a tickle fetish as part of it.
When we are gathered here among our own and focused on our kink, it might seem like C.A.B. and Jim and Deets do nothing but eat, sleep, and breathe tickle fetish... but we all know that is the farthest thing from the truth. Now, If you excuse me, I have some mundane vanilla laundry to do.
Good observation, Deets. Thank you.
~C.A.B.
