What Do You Like/Dislike In A Story?

Remmy: Yeah, I'm referring to a random character. I should've elaborated more.
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Revolution, the only solution
The armed response of an entire nation
Revolution, the only solution
We've taken all your shit now it's time for restitution
The plan was mastered and called genocide
Took all the children and then we died
The few that remained were never found
All in a system of down
P.L.U.C.K. by System of a Down

I don't know, I don't think there needs to be an explaination so long as they don't overly alienate themselves as different from humans. I mean I didn't bother to explain it in my new story but thats only because it can easily be assumed that somewhere along the way Humans for some reason or another decided to genetically engineer themselves into different animal races.

Ok, it couldn't be that easily surmised. :/

^Not sure what's going on up there.

I don't really remember everything I like/dislike in a story, so please bear with me. I'll update this when I remember more.

Likes
- Cute, comforting stories, but ot entirely focused on being cute(like totally affectionate stories. We need some form of conflict)
- generally turned furry/babyfur stories, as long as you can understand why the main event is happening(why person became a furry when they were in a human world, etc.)

Dislikes
- Sex
-Foul language
- no plot(there's gotta be something that can potentially grab a reader's attention in a story or it's not a story)
- unrealistic reactions to certain events (not everyone is going to accept suddenly becoming a fur and not everyone is going to accept that someone is in diapers).
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Joined : 14 Mar 2007 Posts : 1

it seems every tiny like and dislike is countermanded here? farao

always someone like what the other dislike and vice versa ?

Age : 17 Joined : 05 Feb 2007 Posts : 91 Location : Quebec,

Well... we can't all share one opinion...

If you aren't of the disposition to digest comprehensive rationale for personal preferences skip this over, though I don't consider it any thicker than some previous posts.

What I Like

Coherency: There are few people of any degree of formality that I am acquainted with that are as nonplussed as I about proofreading. However, even Shakespeare revised and journalists excited about completing their most insightful and poignant columns have to ensure that their work is legible and understandable.

I don't tear new cavities into people for failing to remember a mechanical rule known only to esoteric circles of PhDs, but I expect spelling and syntax to make logical sense. I don't care if you end a sentence with a preposition so long as you aren't conjugating verbs out of tense.

Perhaps it's a happy curse of mine, but I don't feel right posting something that I've poured passion into writing unless I'm sure that I've said what I meant. Be sure that your sentences are establishing not only literal meaning, but the mood and tone of the story.

Use of Anthropomorphic Animals: I love the aesthetic of furries (who could've guessed?). Synthesizing the human experience with the anatomical diversity of the animal kingdom (at least the chordate phylum) has produced some of my fondest childhood memories and favorite fantasies.

I'm highly picky about my transformation story content and prefer to only read AR that involves furries or other animals at some point if it can be helped. Knowing how few of these stories are actually out there, I don't decline to read human AR, but I'm here primarily for furry matters!

No, it has nothing to do with some deluded irrational hatred of my own majestic species. I simply prefer the furry element for itself.

Detailed Age Regression: Take some time turning back the clock! Getting younger is a crazy phenomenon, and there's bounty of opportunities to explore in the models of biological activities and the awkward process of aging gone reverse.
Along with them is the chance to develop the characters by showing how they respond to what is confronting them. Most begin from young adulthood, and there are three major developmental stages beneath it poised to displace one another.

Animal Aspects Mentioned During Regression: If an adult male lion regresses into a cub, he’ll eventually be without his mane and have a pattern of spots all over his dorsal and laterals sprouting up. Muzzles tend to be smaller when an animal is young, and paws are larger in proportion to the body. At an early stage, a bear or a kangaroo should be comparatively tinier even with respect to other infants. Look up a few examples of young animals online or in an illustrated encyclopedia and try to incorporate what you discover.
Nursing: Breasts aren’t simply mate-attracting instruments. Whenever I use female caregivers, nursing is almost certainly involved. Its practice is a tender and bond-inducing activity that can establish a genuine filial bond.
However, females don’t lactate by default. Milk production is a consequence of pregnancy and birth, which brings me to my next little favorite element.

Unbirthing: I’ll give you a moment to clean the vomit from your clothes and buy a new keyboard. Alright, I know it’s an odd liking even for a furry, but I believe that the act of unbirth may be applied for more reasons than simple sexual kinks. The idea that any individual would be able to trust another so fully and feel such security with them that they can choose to place their entire fragile life with them moves me, as does the notion that the second party could care so extremely as to accept that responsibility. With proper explanation, it capitalizes on the existence of raw, uncompromising love. Additionally, I see finding a descriptive style of depicting the birthing process in reverse as a personal challenge and extension of thorough regression.

No AR past conception, though!

Response to Helplessness: A former adult is definitely going to have several powerful emotions relating to a demotion in age and status. Have regressed characters, and those responsible for them, behave in their according ways to diaper changes, bathing, suckling, dressing, being cradled, etc.

Light Hearted or Compassionate Motives: I’ve read enough AR fiction to come to the conclusion that not only are these techniques less in quantity than vengeful or malicious intents, but they tend to be more imaginative and rewarding to write. This doesn’t mean that everything must go according to plan or that errors in judgment don’t exist, but I believe that good intentions such as an odd expression of love, desire to protect, or salvation from a worse fate make for fewer repeats on the whole and broader storyline evolution.

Fatherly Male Caregivers, Especially Father/Son Relationships: This connection is unjustly neglected and carries a perspective that is often ignored, should masculinity actually be factored into characterization. I’m not opposed to other parent/child pairings, but I’m most attracted to decent father/son pairings because of their hidden richness. I strongly think that many people need to get beyond the angst-ridden childishness of looking upon all male bearers of life as bigoted and irredeemable autocrats.

Original Storylines: A scarce commodity among internet drafters, they are indispensable to the reputation and critical impression of an author and stamina of a story confronted with review and analysis. Developing unique plotlines and experimenting with intriguing circumstances to inject one’s personal fantasies into elicits joy concertedly with gripping writing.

Fantasy with Essential Logic: The tremendous advancements in technology and applied discovered knowledge of science fiction and the potent defiance of natural inhibitions present in fantasy literature should be governed by their own respective limitations. They are utilized to accomplish what is otherwise impossible, but not to recklessly destroy reasonable consequence and reaction as a cheap shortcut.

A Reasonably Measured Cast: Introducing too many entities from the outset makes the series of events too complicated if the characters are roundly profiled or hollow if they are treated in a cursory manner. It’s a wiser option to begin with a limited group of subjects that the author is comfortable with and introduce new members should the progress of the tale demand it.

Cloth Diapers: I’ll only say that I’m bored of reading about disposables.

A World with Investment: Put some heart into your imaginary societies and cultures, if you have them. They make everything more captivating.

What I Dislike

Fursuits Masquerading as Furries: What makes humanized animals such fascinating options for characters is that they retain certain bestial qualities despite bearing noticeable physical and psychological resemblances to mankind. Perform some minor research or consider what commonly known traits of the animal could embellish their personality or make their character more original. Would a wolf be a polygamist or a lion a monogamist? Shouldn’t hyena males be something less assertive and aggressive than their female counterparts? Why would a bear be especially social?
I’m not asking people to be as extreme as inverted knees or three pairs of breasts, but don’t forget why your subject is of a certain animal persuasion and how that potentially impacts their mind frame.

Irrational Responses: I understand that many of you are infantilists, but pause for a moment to consider your true current life. After accumulating years of physical and mental experience, having faced immense private challenges and proven oneself in arduous tests, and suffered humbling but educational defeat, an attachment of some kind is sure to exist between a person and their current life. Think of all your responsibilities, relationships, goals, and interests. Then place yourself in a situation where everything comfortable, proud, and under control is suddenly jeopardized and inverted. Suddenly, there’s much you are no longer able to do even if you completely understand how.
That’s the shock of transformation. I guarantee that the first response of any but the mentally ill to being converted into a wolf pup would be internal paralysis. There ought to be some reluctance or hesitation about having to be bathed by another individual, after all, unless sufficient warning and preparation are involved.

Superfluous Waste Imagery: We know what dung land urine look like and it doesn’t need a meticulous explanation. Diaper changing sequences only need to be restated once per story, unless something different is happening during them.

Regression That Stops Short of Infancy: Even ending regression before toddlerhood disappoints me. I suppose it feels undone and that much potential is wasted.

Anything Older than a Toddler in Diapers: Like Astolpho has stated, I’m not an AB/DL/TB etc. in any sense. I find it unbelievable and repellant to think of things old enough to use the toilet running about in ruined undergarments. My cutoff age is three as well.

Mental Regression: Not only do I find eliminating a person’s entire essence in the form of memories, personality, and individuality appalling on a moral level, but it also destroys an entire sub-plot of action and feeling. Reducing what could have been a fully functional presence with symbolism, empathetic potential, and clear reception of surrounding happenings to a bundle of juvenile motifs is a sad waste. Authors that can intelligently reverse behavior patterns to a degree, like being unable to hold back tears when stubbing a toe, without sacrificing mature mentalities are taking the best route.

Vampires and Other Hyper-Powered Monsters: Nobody seems to be capable of balancing out their incredible supernatural powers with fatal or otherwise threatening weaknesses. Supernatural beings, other than perhaps divinities, are as unsympathetic and lacking in inspiration as they are irritating and dull. Part of a character’s charm is their confrontation of adversity and vulnerability before ominous obstacles. Rendering them completely immune invalidates the premise for a provocative story. Vampires, for example, ought to be constrained in their otherwise excellent athletics and preternatural skills by such common means as susceptibility to silver or vulnerability to UV radiation. But no, they’re only good for god-modding and invincibility fantasies by literary and creative failures.
In short, fuck vampires. Seriously.

Misanthropic or Otherwise Fur-Supremacist Drivel: Often tied in with fursecution complexes, this scenario would be good for humor if it weren’t so pitifully depressing in its obnoxious ignorance. Firstly, none of us are escaping humanity any time soon. It’s just as well because that humanity is precisely what enables us to come up with such idiocy as this to begin with in addition to more pleasant thoughts.

Secondly, superior furries defy several conventions of good writing. They create generalized races based on polemical windbag philosophizing devoid of sympathetic qualities and rational acceptability. Dehumanizing furries to make them vastly superior separates them from their fundamental utility and does even more damage than relegating them to primal instinct. Diluting the possibility of a diverse culture faced with different, but relatable issues into stations relative to human flaws renders them useless as personalities and impossible to connect with adequately.

It isn’t very likely that a furry people of many inherit differences are going to be racial egalitarians without growing pains even worse than that of mankind. Furries aren’t going to have a sacrosanct opinion of nature without having severely retarded certain scientific endeavors and retarding their market evolution. It is doubtful that there would be no bitter conflict and ambition to accompany advanced intellect, especially in matters of philosophy and religion (powerful governing principles). Spiritualism implies religious beliefs that can’t be broken down to pure logic. No conscious individual is free of generalizations or prejudice. Pick between cool logic and riptide passions, but don’t be dumb enough to juxtapose them without indicating drastic repercussions.

Such condescending is completely without substantive support in addition to rendering anthropomorphic animals walking billboards without reasonable impediments or drawbacks to be taken with any preferable qualities. Characters can be examples, but not manuals or textbooks.

You know who you are…

Human supremacist stories are equally useless, but less offensive to me because the prospect is actually original and hard to pull off. However, the last furry story I read that included superior humans essentially used them as vampires without actually calling them such.

Cruel or Sadistic Motives: Simply put, I regard them as ethically disgusting and tantamount to smut. Spanking or discipline with a point outside of abuse is one thing, but beating up on people for pleasure is not something I derive my jollies from.

Mugshot Characterization: No good story should begin with a head-to-toe profile of the character’s physiques and mindsets. Action and behavior are far more interesting and useful methods (though I’m guilty of having done this before).

Sociological/Political Tirades: I prefer to separate these concerns from my transformation wanderlust. Besides, arguing genuine real world problems deserves attention to legitimate facts. Creating an imaginary scenario where every element in synthesized to perfectly prove a point is a dismally lame form of debate no better than a bumper-sticker argument. I don’t mind general moral lessons that are artfully revealed, but transparent rants are best reserved for direct sharing.

Strong Sexual Overtones: I can appreciate the romantic element if sincere love is a factor but if I wanted to read about gratuitous burst porking, I’d try yiffstar or a similar service. Sexuality is unimportant as well, as long as it isn’t oriented to make a haughty statement.

Most Fanfiction: If the storyline you have planned could sensibly operate within the universe you have borrowed, then the writing could be quite entertaining. Unfortunately most fanfiction warps the content of the parent reality to fit the personal quirks of the fan and ultimately show a silly disrespect for the original author’s work. Somehow I think that Bowser is more concerned with overthrowing the Mushroom kingdom than finding a comfortable size of Depends.
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I think I'm the only person on this forum who writes in third person. I don't like first person perspective... it's just so boring.

So...

Likes: Third person

Dislikes: First person
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No seriously I do post third person past tense in my stories, only because I was a stupid person and attended lots of creative writing classes in my past.

Now that I'm older though, and wiser, I start to see the kinda coolness of first person if done right. I read this book called 'The Lovely Bones' and I was a bit skeptical at first because it was in fact first person. But as I kept reading I figured out that the first person perspective was only their for narritive purposes.

I guess another example would be a diaper story I read a long time ago. Even though it was the cliche diaper fantasy it had a neat way of being written, which was from a narritive. Somebody on the outside watching a scene unfold from the inside.

since I greatly enjoy reading and am going to try to give some constructive critisism to as many stories as I can, it's only fair to be ble to get any sort of bias plot lines out in the open so here we go.

Likes

Definatly a plot line that has continuity to it. It's frusterating to read a story where there are events happening left right and center and you're contantly woundering about just what is going on.

Grammer is another huge thing in my books. If you're going to put the effort into writing a story, at least make the effort to make it literate, run it through word grammer or something, who cares?

Character developmet is big. I need to have some change in the character to make the plot enjoyable and the end result more satasficing or alternativly disturbing.

I'm inpartial towards humans or furs although I find that human changes can become repetitive.

Nothing off the wall, some plot line with situations that we in the community can relate to.

I'm physical changes are always something that has given me cause for interest. It makes the plot more inevitable to happen. As someone said before, if my parents tried to force me into diapers, I'd tell them to shove it and walk out.

Dislikes

Mental chances have always been iffy with me, I don't enjoy not being the person you were. There can be a change in the character where they perhaps come to terms with their situation, but full regression makes everything less enjoyable, for me at least.

Overkill on puns and cliches

Repeating and overuse of words, use a thesaurus...which brings me to my next dislike

IMPROPER USE OF A THESURES - this is my far the worst and can be found in many stories made by children worldwide who are trying to learn new words but don't bother with the proper context in which to use them.

To much sex. Okay, we're adults here, or mostly suppost to be so no big deal but don't make the story revolve around the natural process of how we f***.

Starting a story with "Hi, my name is such and such and here is my story of ______". Name one succesful book where they did it because I can't think of one that was meant for a reading audience over the age of 12.

Can't think of much else for now

Age : 20 Joined : 11 Apr 2006 Posts : 109 Location : uk

personally i still dont agree with this thread, a story comes from the heart in the end i dont really give a s**t about the prefences people have. i dont create a story round what one person likes. i revolve it round what i like unless that story is a request or commision

but... there are bits and peices i do and dont like

i like grammer... but not to the point where i gonna flame someone til they leave the board for the sake of one or 2 spelling mistakes (while thats not happened yet...i think. there are people who take grammer a little too seriously) i dont mind a few mistakes...hell! i make 'em' all the time but there is a difference between a a story done with a moderate level of grammar or a block of text that is confusing and unreadable

i couldnt care less if it was a human story, furry story or regession ill read em all though i have lost a lot my afiliation with regression..

like the guy before me said "Hi i am ______, im a ______ with ____eyes and ____ hair" is a huge turn off and most stories that start like that i never look at again even if the sotry is good... i was told that most people decide on whether to continue reading the story while reading the 1st paragraph. i dont know if that is true but that's what i was told

the speed of a story is important. not too fast that its all sudden. i once red one that rounghly went like this in the space of 1 or 2 paragraphs (basic story line)
'Hi i'm a 15 year old wolf emo
oh no! i'm been kiddnaped
now im being diapered
i want to resist but i cant
ow ow i'm being spanked i'll be good i'll be good
i'm stuck here... maybe i'll like it'
putting it short... length is a good thing

i dont like all out babying from the begining of a transformation. the Kit fox story is a good example. the new parent tries to baby the main character from the start but there is some resistance. if that ever happened to me in real life sure i would think it was a dream come true... but i have a lot of pride and i'm one stubborn git... it takes time to break someone in. i prefer the idea of them wearing diapers for a reason... not because the new parent wants a dependant child. in short i like to see resistance to a unusual concept

again like Straight backwards said if my parents forced me in diapers i would tell em 'go shove it up their arse' and get outa there real quick.

repetition of the same words. mainly in speech, there more than 40 ways of saying 'he/she said' use em!

again like the dude before me, too much mating can lead to a crap story. sure i enjoy terrorising my main character with a dominating female ^-^; but in the end if i did write anything 'yiffy' it wouldnt be on this forum.

i prefer 3rd person stories... as you can focus on more than one character... that and i cant write 1st person too well

i think thats all of it... sorry if anything on there upsets anyone... i had no intention to do so
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well Kais, I'll find it hard to find anything more hypocritical then your last post