TSF Showcase 2025-11: Getting Into Her Shape

Would you swap bodies with your pudgy 45-year-old Korean engineering professor?

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TSF Showcase 2025-11
Getting Into Her Shape by Swapper123

Before capping off this year’s run of TSF Showcase, and putting the series on a hiatus (not a forever hiatus, just a regular hiatus, unless I get disappeared or something), I wanted to cover another written work. This is something I always find difficult, due to the sheer deluge of TSF writings that are scattered across the broader internet. Between dedicated hubs like Fictionmania and TGStorytime or more general fiction dumping grounds like Scribble Hub, Royal Road, or AOOO, this world is simply too brambly for me to explore in detail. Plus, it is so difficult to gauge a written work at a glance, unlike a work that relies on more visual elements.

So I am going back to another email recommendation I received from a reader by the alias of GuyRandomz, recommending me the Literotica story Getting Into Her Shape. A student professor body swap story that, per the title, naturally incorporates working out as a core part of the story… at least for a while. Spread across two parts and resulting in almost 100,000 words of story. As someone who has written quite a couple novels that passed that word count… you can do a lot in all that time. Or you could waste a lot of time. Where does Getting Into Her Shape stand in that dichotomy? Well, for now let’s just say it’s sprawling wild story with more than a few bits of intrigue to prevent the story from feeling aimless or going through the motions… at least to an extent.

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Part 1: Trading Gains 4 Grades

Getting Her Into Shape wastes little time in laying out its premise. 20-year-old White college student Ryan Nosurname is a fitness enthusiast with a toned body and a particular dislike of his early morning Calculus class. 45-year-old Susan Li is a Korean college engineering professor who’s not happy about her appearance, but also lacks the dedication to go to the gym every day and work out. Through means never fully explains, Susan contacted Ryan about using a body swapping machine, so the two could impersonate each other for a few hours each day for their mutual benefit. Ryan gets to have a teacher pose as him, letting him cheat his way to an easy A in a manner that has to be breaking some academic dishonesty rule. While Susan gets all the benefits of regularly working out with none of the tedium. …Though, she will need to deal with the soreness.

Now, how is all of this possible? Why does this random professor have a body swap device? Well, one, she’s got a doctorate in engineering, and engineers are freaks like that. Two, over the past summer, Susan worked with one of her students on a prototype body swapping device. Specifically a portable headset-based device with oodles of wires, knobs, and other less polished elements. Basically a mad scientist prop. It’s something that warrants more than a little suspicion, but Ryan does not ask any important or pertinent questions about their vague arrangement, and instead goes along with the body swap from the get-go. Likely because that’s a good way to hook readers, rather than have characters hash out logistics and what boundaries should be.

The set-up moves fast, but it also makes a point to add some uniqueness to the body swap process. Rather than have it happen instantaneous, body swapping in GIHS is a gradual process, where a mind transfers over into a new body, bit by bit. The world and all sensation slowly fade away as buzzing fills their ears and their synapses pop as thoughts come and go through their brain. All before Ryan lands in Susan’s body, feeling it, the weight of her boobs, the tight gym clothes she’s wearing, before even taking off the headset and noting that the world seems different through another’s eyes. It’s a fancier, more deliberate, way of facilitating the body swap, brought to life with prose that, much like the flavorful character descriptions, does a lot to bring the reader into the world and keep them invested from the jump.

It’s a good, dramatic, introduction, but it has a twang of contrivance because, right after switching bodies with Susan, Ryan heads to the gym in her body. He’s off to do physically demanding tasks, navigate a social space, and examine his teacher’s body up close and personal. All after having been given virtually zero tips, training, or really even time to see what this body can do in private. Not even a chance to make sure he can pull off Susan’s cheery personality. It’s a decision meant to throw Ryan into the deep end, where everything is new, surprising, and represents a small challenge, as he has no familiarity with anything but his general location. …But it’s also a really stupid decision, and that’s something of a recurring theme throughout the first quarter of the story. Susan shoving Ryan into the wet and wild world of womanhood with nothing more than a do your best.

This leads to an uneasy first time at the gyn for Ryan. From his awkward banter with the receptionist who scans his badge to prove he’s Susan. To the uneasiness he feels as he runs on the treadmill, his breasts bouncing about and his panties riding up his fat “heart-shaped” ass. Or his run-in with Maya Weaver, a girl he’s been crushing on since he started college, and the third main character. (Well, sorta.) Maya’s a 20-year-old Black woman with a “golden brown” complexion and a “striking” body honed by her fitness regime. She’s also a lesbian. And if you know how power play works, you can probably hazard a guess as to where things are going. Not that I’m complaining. It’s important to have contrast in a body swap story, to have characters familiar to the protagonist treat them differently, allowing them to socially exist and act as another person.

This initial conversation only lasts long enough for Maya to ask ‘Susan’ out to attend a cycling class on Monday, with today being Friday. This, somehow, eats up all the time Ryan has allotted for the day, but before he can return to normal, he needs to use the toilets and see what equipment he’s working with down there. Forcing Ryan to glance down at his professor’s “pudgy navel,” past the “chubby mons,” and “sweaty vulva” as he comes to grips with what it’s like to have a different sex, before composing himself enough to pee. Addressing the ‘surreality’ of seeing something different during bathroom time and introducing Ryan to his sex before the story can pursue anything overtly lewd. It makes for a strong, efficient first chapter that takes enough time to establish important details with flourishes, shows an understanding of the genre, and gives the reader plenty of hooks to keep them reading.

Chapter two similarly wastes little time before getting into its first set piece. Ryan, as Susan, shoving his overweight body on an exercise bike with teensy seats, trying to keep up with an intermediate-level class, while exercise shorts keep riding up his ass, grinding his panties against his pussy. Putting it so plainly, that just sounds like a weird thing to attempt to write, let alone attempt to make sexy. Though, as a daily exercise biker, and someone who has masturbated while cycling (both ways), I think Swapper123 was really onto something here.

Exercise bikes get one’s heart racing, blood flowing, and are one of the few forms of exercise where they can sit on your ass while still doing something. This helps pool blood near the core of their being, where they are sitting, and with their legs pumping, it sets a rhythm that can be followed with one’s hand as they stick their fingers around their sex. Now, I would not recommend it as, like many exotic forms of masturbation, it sounds more pleasurable than it actually is.

However, this is a trans-sexual fantasy. And a fantasy that is given an appropriate weight, describing the fatigue, frustration, irritation, and burgeoning arousal that Ryan feels, while desperately trying to keep his cool. Trying to not cum in a public place, overwhelmed by his new body as he is unable to cope with his “activated lady-parts,” including Susan’s massive clitoris. Not a feature I’m familiar with writers emphasizing, but they really should. You don’t need a D when you’ve got a bean.

In the end, Ryan gets to the precipice without passing through. He swaps back with Susan shortly thereafter, going about his classes while fantasizing about being back in Susan’s body. …Until she emails him, asking him to visit her office. He assumes the worst as he heads there, wanting to preserve this opportunity and the relationship he’s developed with Susan. Upon arriving to her office, he immediately apologizes… only for her to come onto him, like a cougar.

Ryan left Susan so aroused that, even after heading home to shower, even after having hours to cool off she was still too worked up to maintain her focus for the day, and needed to relieve herself. I’d say that she could have just masturbated alone in her office— like a normal person— and not break at least three rules by having sex with a student, on campus. But the dramatic, risky, animalistic, and impulsive make for good television. …Or erotica. Plus, she was probably dealing with her own penis problems during class.

Commentary aside, this is a spicy little sex scene where the young, strapping, male student is plopped into a chair as the eager milf teacher aggressively latches his cock before sticking it into her folds. The fear of someone knocking and barging into the room leads them to pause and stifle themselves in order to not ruin their lives, but that only enhances the thrill. Their limited experience, knowledge of what the other person is packing, of what it feels like when they’re aroused, is enough to carry them through this, going far enough to share in almost simultaneous climaxes.

I would say that this non-body-swapped sex scene might not be what body swap enjoyers are looking for, but I consider this to be an important scene for establishing the characters’ bonds. Ryan and Susan had maintained a friendly rapport since the start of the story. But by doing this, by crossing the Rubicon of taboo so early, and having the two amicably end what may be a life ruining move, represents a level of trust that is at the forefront of much of this series. Ryan and Susan trust each other, absolutely, and are willing to do whatever it takes to help each other. Even though they are student and teacher, even though they are a generation apart, even though their relationship is likely temporary and one of dozens they would otherwise sift through in a year.

Now, should Susan have this level of trust in Ryan? Well, no. No matter how smart or kind Ryan is, he’s effectively a teenage guy who does not know how to live or act like a middle-aged woman. She is a professor, she knows how guys like Ryan walk, talk, and act. Knows that being a handsome, tall White dude is easy mode. But she, somehow, still thinks it’s a good idea to let Ryan figure things out.

Case in point, chapter three opens with Susan asking Ryan to start showering as her after gym class. When he rightfully starts asking questions about this, she says “You’re 20 years old… I think you can figure out how to take a shower. I’m a woman, not a calculus problem.” Which is almost hilarious in how wrong it is. Ryan might know how to rub soap over himself and throw shampoo in his hair, but he would not know how to use conditioner, do beauty routines, or put on a bra over some DD cup tits. Ideally, Susan should just walk him through the process, make sure he knows what she expects him to know— be a damn teacher.

Instead, Ryan proceeds to figure things out on his own while at the gym, opting to do some squats with weights. …Where he starts out at 165 pounds, a pretty insane figure for someone in the body of an out of shape 45-year-old, and then upping it to 185 pounds, because gym bros like to skip steps when they feel motivated, health be damned. This stupid young guy decision nearly gets Ryan crushed until he’s saved by an an attractive blonde man named Hunter, who spots him and slots the weights back.

Hunter is a bit character, but he is the first definite person who makes Ryan question his sexuality, thinking that it must be tied to the body as he looks at hot guys work out, looking at him with desire. He tries to brush it aside, only to venture into the women’s locker room, which is predictably full of young college girls in the midst of getting changed, breasts galore, and nobody looking at him like he doesn’t belong. Because to everyone with eyes, he is just another one of dozens of women who uses these facilities every day.

This is furthered with a brief run-in with a fellow middle-aged processor, Marie Collins, who strikes up conversation with Ryan. A minor obstacle he needs to deal with, fumbling his way through a conversation, guessing how office politics work, before rushing over to the showers to do his business. …Which he does, and then some. This leads into the first ‘full-length’ erotic scene in the story, where Ryan irresponsibly masturbates during his first shower as a woman. Yes, in a public shower where he is audibly gasping, moaning, and making the sounds of someone performing masturbation. Not because people actually make sounds when masturbating. You’re weird if you do. But because it better sells the intensity of what he is feeling, and erotica is not always meant to mirror real-life sexual scenarios, despite being primary education on the subject for… too many people.

I will say that this scene captures the mystique and surprised of unclothing Susan’s body, highlighting the contours and details of her body. She’s basically built like a fertility goddess of yore— lots of meat, fat, big tits, and very ‘breedable’ despite being post-menopause, and the story spends a lot of time to describe her form in loving detail, extending even to her dense, fluffy, jet black muff. And while the initial sexual exploration is slow, it feels more deliberate— it’s his first time feeling this or seeing things from this perspective. I’d say that the exhibitionism angle is not necessary with a hook like that, but I guess it keeps Ryan’s time as Susan locked into the gym and lets him wash away the evidence.

After this extra hot shower, Ryan then leaves, being the only person left in the showers except for Maya, who was curiously in the stall next to him. But before we can delve into that foreshadowing, the story pivots over to the following evening, where Ryan is unable to sleep. He’s too hot and bothered by his sexual experience earlier today, desperately trying to get off with his 6.5 inch dick, but he keeps on thinking about Susan’s beauteous vagina and all the wonderful phalluses he could shove in it. While the mere thought is enough to get him off, he is so horny that he cannot let this be a mere fantasy, and ventures off into “the seedier side of town” to grab a 6 inch tan dildo from a sex shoppe. Which I’m just going to assume is the same one from many Koikatsu comics, or from TSF Monogatari.

Now, Ryan has a perfectly good orifice that he could shove this dildo into, but he isn’t hungry for something inside a hole, he wants something inside Professor Li’s holes. So, he covertly hides the dildo away in a bush on campus with plans to recover and use it tomorrow. He doesn’t know how as he hides it, but after he gets a midnight text from Susan, saying that Maya invited him to yoga, he starts getting ideas.

…But before getting that— now that I’m at the 20% mark of this story and showcase— I think a tangent is in order.

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Tangent 1: Mishmashed Details

When writing a story, writers need to walk a fine line in how many details they can or should embellish. A writer can conceive an entire life for each and every character, create a history for the setting, and write out the entire day of each character. But they don’t. Well, most don’t. Because while details are good, while they are the spice that turns a recounting of events into something worth reading, you can have too many details.

Simultaneously, if you omit details, if you space out, do not explain certain things, or leave them up to interpretation, it can make the story seem too vague. It may make things feel unfinished, make characters feel like cardboard homunculi. And if details are inconsistent, then characters will feel inconsistent, like hazy beings whose appearance and personae are adjusted based on what hazy concept the writer was vibing with. I am a big fan of lengthy elaborate details. Of trying to paint images, settings, and key moments with a brush of prose and capturing it in the mind’s eye of a reader. But I also have limits that I try to stick to, and despite how crazy my word counts have been getting, I try to keep things succinct.

All of which is a preamble to my point with this tangent. GIHS offers a lavish adoration for details, creating a deluge of lovingly expansive sex scenes. But it also is bizarrely, almost nonsensically, sparse with other details. Basic stuff like Ryan’s last name, his major, any connection he has to anyone outside of the core cast, or much of a life beyond swapping bodies with Susan or attending classes out of obligation.

We do not know where the story is meant to take place, just that it is in America, on the other side of the country from California, and in a weirdly seasonally agnostic location. This isn’t so much a problem in Part 1, which takes place in October, and October can range from the end of summer to the beginning of winter depending on the year. But come Part 2, February is the start of spring, jackets are optional, and it’s a prime opportunity to plant tulips. I’d say this is the South, but there are no illusions to that beyond basic seasons, no real cultural identifiers. And in a story where the three central characters are a Korean woman, White man, and Black woman, I think the location would sorta matter.

We do not know what exact classes of subjects Susan is meant to teach, just that she has a doctorate in some flavor of engineering, when this is a very important part of her life. And nobody seems to have any real interests of hobbies outside of body swapping, working their muscles, and working their genitals. Throwing in stray details or references does a lot to make characters feel more real or tangible, just mentioning an album, show, or movie can do a lot. Yet Swapper123 seems adamant about not doing that.

They will mention what type of car someone drives, down to the year in some cases. But they won’t assign a numerical height or weight to Susan, when so much of the story is about her body, but they will eventually say how much weight she lost. Which… means so little unless we know the starting weight, dude! I understand that these details might not be interesting, or the most relevant to the story, or that certain details might make characters seem less palatable, relatable, self-insertable, or otherwise moe. But when a story wants the reader to follow these characters for nearly 100,000 words, the details are what keeps them invested. The sex is nice, it might be what they are here for, but they stay for the characters. The foreplay, the banter, the drama, the character scuffles, they all assign meaning essential to the swelling act of sex.

And, on that note, there is simply too much time, energy, and wordage devoted to describing these sex scenes. Up until this point, they have not been bad, but from here, it gets progressively worse. The writer has this need to make the sex scenes these major events, fawning over them with so many details and words that I found it genuinely hard to pay attention and care. I know the mechanics of sex, I know what they are doing, and I get that these characters are hot. You have established that. You can move on.

It’s purple prose that would only benefit from a trimming. You do not need to have a sex scene go on for 5,000 words. I’ve done a few that have brushed up against 3,000 words. I’ll admit that even that was a lot. And if the goal is to write something that can be read with one hand, thinking with their lower reptilian Godzilla brain, then I don’t see how something this lengthy, this verbose, would be the ideal.

To reiterate, I do not think Swapper123 is a bad writer. They’re a good writer by my metrics. Much of the series is a treat to read, and I am grateful that they shared this story with the wider world, as I enjoyed it as a whole. They just have a few fixations and quirks with their approach that drives me a little nuts, as I think this story could be excellent if these things were worked out. I’d say that they could benefit from an editor, but I’ve come to recognize that’s a rule for most writers.

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Part 2: Exhibitionist Sex Piston

So, you know how I was harping on Ryan for being too impulsive and risky given his situation— acting too much like some himbo with more charisma than brains? Yeah, that gets considerably worse in chapter four. This is the peak of his bad decisions. It starts with Ryan, who has spent a whopping three mornings in Susan’s body, shoving his hot new dildo into his pants before yoga, as he wants to do yoga with six inches of silicone inside him. Like, dude, shove a vibrating egg inside there instead. Like a normal horny woman! …Or a guy who got trapped in a skinsuit.

In all honesty, this has to be one of the dumbest things I have seen a protagonist do in a good while. He’s doing this, having never done yoga as a woman, with not even a pair of panties on, in a room with oodles of others, a giant mirror, while gawking at his crush as she teaches this class. Though, the worst part is that Ryan has every opportunity to leave. He arrives early, can run off to the restroom, pluck out the dildo, and just do yoga like a sane degenerate, leave early, and then masturbate in Susan’s office. But NOPE! Rydawg’s gotta do it the Rydawg way!

This ideas is so brazen, so wild, that I cannot help but love it. It’s like the fucking machine made by Mio in Transformed Into A Busty Blonde. So stupid, problematic, and absurd, but it makes for a fun story. And it does here. The lead up captures Ryan’s terror, hesitation, the growing arousal as the yoga studio becomes full of hot women in tight clothes. Ryan adjusts to the dildo rocking about in his vagina, he thinks about how he could remove it and get back if he is fast enough, but he’s unwilling to budge. Then, once Maya arrives, he’s trapped. He goes through this workout, painfully trying to follow Maya’s lead as his body urges him to stop, only for him to finish the job, and conclude the “slow, sensual fucking” he’s subjecting himself to.

The fatigue, the arousal, the edging, the fantasies flooding Ryan’s mind culminate with Ryan’s pussy exploding with juice, knocking him out for a few minutes. When he finally recovers, the locker room is mostly empty, classes have begun, and he cannot help himself from pursuing this new, succulent, and ever-tempting fruit of pleasure lingering inside him. So he starts dildo-fucking himself in the shower, not even turning on the water to hide the sound of his gushing juices, and rapid penetrations, for her is too sexually addicted to care about anything other than the end goal. His next orgasm!

Then, right as he is about to reach this high, he feels a cool breeze hit his back, and turns to see Maya, phone out, snapping pictures while telling him, Professor Li, to keep going. Here, it becomes clear what happened. Maya overheard Ryan masturbate yesterday, thought it was strange that her professor was such a freak, and invited her to yoga last evening, just to see if she would do the same thing. And not only did ‘she’ masturbate again, ‘she’ did it in her yoga class, and in the showers, with a silicone cock! But why would Maya trail her processor along like this? For blackmail? No. At least not entirely. Maya’s a lesbian, and she wants a show.

Horny, confused, and already caught in the act, Ryan makes like a Rydawg and finishes his business, leaving him floating, his body like jello, and when he returns to Earth, Maya is gone, leaving behind a note reading “Good work, Professor!” Having monumentally fucked up, Ryan cleans himself off, gets dressed, and throws the dildo in the trash, hoping nothing comes from it. Because it is easier to ask for forgiveness than to own up to your mistakes.

The next day, chapter five, marks the first overly horny chapter in the series. The majority of its duration is spent on a scene where Ryan in Susan, fresh from a cardio day, goes into the shower, and is joined by Maya for a lesbian sex scene. The shower section had already been done in chapter three, and sorta chapter four, so the preamble of prose leading up to the sex scene feels like more of the same. Especially when Ryan goes down to the floor to masturbate, like a dog.

As Ryan gets started, Maya opens up the shower curtain and joins him with a coy “hello, Professor” before the two proceed to have a vocal and very clearly publicized conversation in the showers. Ryan tries to deny what happened, but Maya take advantage of her professor, acting like a startled teenage boy, and they proceed to have standing hand and mouth sex in the shower.

It goes on for over 3,500 words, because the writer wanted to add so many steps before the characters could just get off. The dirty talk helps add something to it. It is Ryan’s first sexual experience, but it starts up with less than a thousand words between Ryan getting CAUGHT by Maya. There’s not enough foreplay, build-up, or time for the reader to get back into the groove after the sex scene last chapter. Sex is cool. I once put eight sex scenes in a single chapter, because I’m a goldarn loon. But that was a 27,000 word chapter, and the scenes were, like, 1,000 to 1,500 words each, and all explored different character pairings. There are few hard rules of mathematical balances with how to mix sex and plot, but this balance just doesn’t do it for me.

Fortunately, chapter six kicks off later that day with some wet hot plot.

Hours later, Susan calls Ryan back to her office, he tries to play it cool, act like he didn’t just fuck a student in his teacher’s body, only for Susan reveal a photo of her body sticking a dildo up her cooch, sent from Maya. Yep, Maya contacted Susan after their fling, oblivious to the swap, and leaving her fully aware of what Ryan was getting up to. Susan rightfully explodes at Ryan, but quickly backs down, saying that she’ll take care of it, and knowing that she doesn’t really have the moral high ground here. She had sex with Ryan earlier this week, admits that she wouldn’t have been able to resist Maya if she came onto her while she was in Ryan’s body, and says that she understands why he did what he did. She could, probably should, cut her losses and excommunicate Ryan, recognizing this as a failure. Instead, she… asks Ryan to recap the hot student-teacher shower sex she missed out on.

Yeah, this is a bit of a stretch. Susan, you could lose your job, be blacklisted from teaching anywhere. Hell, your doctorate could be revoked! Your career is on the line, and if word about this gets out, your life’s toast. Instead, she insists that she will just take care of things, and asks Ryan to recount his first lesbian experience, treating his summary like it’s a piece of erotic fiction, getting hot and bothered with every passing sentence.

It’s a scene that I like conceptually, the protagonist is getting someone off by telling them about what they did while in their body. It shows off the sexual prowess of the protagonist, their way with words, and how needy the listener is. A novel concept at the least, and something different while still distinctly erotic. The problem is that we just saw the details play out and have only had 1,500 words to breathe.

On that note, Susan eventually teaches her breaking points, flipping up her dress and demanding Ryan to rawdog her RIGHT NOW. Ryan complies, and another office sex scene plays out, like in chapter two, but with a notable deviation once the pair get into the groove. Susan decides to test out the body swapping headsets while she and Ryan are fucking. A move that is one of the most reckless things I have seen a supposed scientist do in a hot minute, but also a highlight for this story as a whole.

While still in the throes of sex, their bodies and minds filled with some of the greatest and most pleasurable sensations possible, Ryan and Susan’s consciousnesses melt into a singular entity spread across both bodies, flowing between them like a loose “ever-rotating goop.” They feel every inch of their skin, the burning of their erogenous zones, and their very concept of self just melts. The narrating ‘I,’ the concept of Susan, the concept of Ryan, and the two bodies all congeal into this murky shared unit. With possessives and identities shifting with every sentence as the bodies continue to go at it like a pair of horny rabbits. They see out of both eyes, feel their contrasting features mesh against each other, and as they near a climax, they lose sight of which ‘singular they’ they truly are.

It’s a type of dissociative weirdness that I did not know I wanted until I saw it, something so cool and against the grain that I think you could make an entire novel exploring it. …Rather than do that, at least for the time being, Swapper123 has the two’s minds sort themselves out, leading into regular old body swapped sex between the two. And I was impressed by their approach to the subject matter, particularly how much attention was put on Susan in Ryan and her form. Which makes sense, as that’s what Ryan in Susan is looking at.

Ryan comments on the invigorating sensation of having a hot dick stimulating the innards of his vagina. How handsome Susan is in his body with her chiseled features, fierce blue eyes, rough hands, and general handsomeness. How impressed he is by how she wields her cock, deeming her “worthy” of it. And how he just looses himself in being pleasured by a man, not questioning or doubting his sexuality as he just goes with it, thrilled by everything that Susan offers him. From kisses, to the experienced rhythmic penetrations.

It’s an appreciated change in focus, enhanced by the bits of stray humor that go to humanize the characters and activity, epitomized by what Susan says after climaxes. “Fuck that was so hot. The male orgasm… that felt like… a sneeze. But longer. And more… intense? Like I just sneezed through your dick!” I would never think of describing a male orgasm like that… but it’s not exactly wrong either.

In the end, Ryan’s forgiven for the little joyride he went on and Susan, still floating, invites Ryan to her house for dinner tomorrow to celebrate a ‘successful’ first week of body swapping, leading into the finale of the first part of this story

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Part 3: Put All of You Inside Me

Chapter seven begins with Ryan arriving at Susan’s house Friday night. A large, well-furnished home that’s presented in stark contrast to his rinky-dink student apartment. A home full of books, good wooden furniture, and a few mementos that clue Ryan into her past life. Such as a family photo that leads Ryan to learn that Susan was married and has a teenage daughter, but she got divorced last year. He husband, Jacob, a tall, slender, handsome Asian man, retained custody of their daughter, Chloe, who looks like a taller and skinnier version of Susan. Originally, they all lived in California, but after the divorce Susan wanted to build some distance between her family, so she moved to… wherever here is.

With this added layer of background, Susan treats Ryan to a glossed over dinner before engaging in more character building banter, along with an expected body swap after their meal. Something that probably should have done partway through dinner, so Ryan and Susan could taste her cooking with a different set of taste buds, but whatever. They comment on how other people perceive them differently, how tastes differ from body to body, and regale stories of how both of them visited the same sex shop to get masturbatory aids— Ryan, a dildo and Susan, a “flashlight.” Yes, not a fleshlight, but a flashlight that you can stick your dick in.

Susan mentions that she used this flashlight earlier this morning, without telling Ryan until now. A weird move since they met up in her office afterward, but I have to wonder if she was so hot and bothered on Monday or Tuesday that she rubbed one out in the men’s room. …She also apparently kept the flashlight and hands it to Ryan for him to fiddle with. It is such a surreal idea— this teenage guy is in a woman’s body, fingering a fleshlight, comparing it to the real vagina he’s wearing— but I kind of love it.

Once the banter quota is met, Susan brings up the reason she invited Ryan here. During their body swap office sex sesh, she felt an intimacy with him that she has never felt with anyone, not even her ex-husband. She developed a bond with Ryan, and after melding her brain with his as they fucked, she feels that she cannot just go back. She really liked the time she shared with Ryan, spent as Ryan, and she wants them to be something more. Ryan agrees, and with their swapped bodies both getting in the mood, they head upstairs to her dimly lit bedroom to have sex.

Counting some of the foreplay, it is another 3,800 words section and most of what I enjoyed were the sillier, more absurd moments that mingle so well with erotic writings like this. Such as Ryan commenting on how huge his 6.5 inch dick was. How he shaved his junk the other day after feeling the bristling of his pubes when they had sex yesterday, making me realize that, yeah, pubes really have no place in sex. Shave your boys, men! Ryan just becomes a little brat as he begs Susan to suck his dick. “But I want to! I want to make you cum with my mouth, just like you made me cum!” And I enjoyed the roleplaying that Ryan got into in the end, choosing to embrace the role as a slutty milf teacher.

The two wind up fucking until they pass out, leading into the final chapter of the first part, and I really appreciate what Swapper123 does here. Ryan wakes up alone, covered in the remnants of sex, bearing the fatigue that comes with it, and as he ventures into the bathroom, he sees Susan’s body in its raw form. No makeup, messy hair, a couple gray strands visible, stretch marks, burgeoning wrinkles, and bags under the eyes. Emphasizing her age, and realizing that this, this is what Susan wakes up to every day. That she polishes into the form he’s been seeing for months and piloting for the past week. He has been her, but he has never seen her like this, and now, he knows what this feels like.

As the weight of being a woman lingers in Ryan’s mind, Susan comes in with a tray of food and coffee to start off the day with breakfast in bed. But before they can eat, they reflect on what they have done. How Susan couldn’t have gotten Ryan pregnant, as she already went through menopause. How Susan feels a burning desire to impregnate her own body because of her male sex drive. And how, despite knowing that their situation is wrong— that Susan is easily old enough to be Ryan’s mother— they both feel loved and desired in a way they have not in a long time. For Susan, she says that she feels like she’s in her 20s again when around him, and for Ryan, last night was the greatest night of his life.

They are already in this deep, already committed, and with the morning sun still shining down on them, they decide to have some breakfast in bed… followed by “breakfast in bed.” (That’s the novel’s bad joke, not mine for once.) It’s a multi-step tour de force that begins with a comfortable amount of foreplay as they tease each other, roleplay a little, and venture into a more experimental direction. They start with some oral— 69-ing because that’s a nice thing to do— have standard PIV bed sex following that. But at this point, it was hard for me to really care about much beyond a couple bouts of banter and character. Like when Ryan squirts in Susan’s face and apologizes, like a kid.

Then, for its grand finale, Getting Into Her Shape fulfills its promise with one of the most unique body swap sex scenes I have ever read, and also one of the most confusing. Something so captivating that I’m going to give Part 1 a pass on every repetitive sex scene.

Susan pulls out the body swap headsets and reveals that she made certain modifications this morning. She considerably increases the twenty to thirty seconds it takes for them to swap, when their consciousnesses bleed together, allowing them to spend more time in a synched mental state. Ryan is giddy at the idea, and soon finds himself filled with a fuzzy feeling as he becomes aware of every part of his current body, and sensations between bodies overlap. Ryan feels both sides of the penetration, both sides of his nipples getting touched, while Susan feels the same as their bodies move as one, under the control of a shared mind. Their consciousnesses dance between their forms, hopping back moment-to-moment, as they fuck their lover, get fucked by their lover, and fuck themselves, all at the same time.

They stare at each other through the same eyes, synapses pop as their sense of self becomes malleable. Names switch as roleplaying, identity, and the concept of a fixed narrator dissolve away into something nebulous. Then, as they continue to feel one another, they gain more than sensations. They gain memories.

Ryan remembers Susan’s wedding day, giving birth to Chloe, teaching impassioned students, and so much more. The highlights of Susan’s life flicker before him, carrying her perspective and emotion. He may be unable to see through the headset, while feeling everything. His and hers becomes ours and we. The two operate as a single entity between two bodies. And with their desires in complete synch, their connection refining into love, they share in a state of euphoria. They spasm from back-to-back orgasms, before collapsing onto each other, returning to their original bodies. Back to normal, but forever changed.

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Tangent 2: Becomes As One; Become As All

I need to pause and gush about this ending. Because I think this is one of the coolest conclusions you can ever give to a body swap story, and I was kicking myself for not even considering something like this in the past. Gosh, how do I even phrase this…

Part of the reason I am so partial to body swaps over a standard transformation is because they involve people being placed in pre-lived bodies, with their own baggage, background, and lives. As such, body swaps are a great way for characters to broaden their horizons, increase their understanding, and embrace something different in a manner only possible in the wet and wild world of transformation fantasy. The ability to be seen as different by others, without being something new, fresh, or unfamiliar. Just someone different. And I love how (some) body swap stories are not the story of a single person, but of two or more, each dealing with parallel stories. Stories that can easily be interwoven, requiring people to come together, cooperate, and develop a mutual understanding as they develop powerful bonds.

I know that sounds really basic when I phrase it like that, but it is in the nuance, in the execution, the messy conflicts and feelings that the genre prospers. And I would say that not only Getting Into Her Shape does those things, but it aims to go beyond just a body swap, into something more. From this curious decision to not have the body swap happen instantaneously, to have this bleeding effect, Swapper123 laid the seeds for some of the coolest things I have seen a body swap story do in unison.

Have character share multiple bodies, have their minds (temporarily) meld and operate as one, and have their memories bleed into each other. Thus allowing them to be someone else, share their thoughts, and know the full context behind what they are experiencing, all while still holding onto their own sense of self, and even body. They become as one being, and they each become both people in a single, brief, yet elating instance.

It’s weird, messy, complex, and raises many, many questions that I could ask about the logistics, but it still manages to remain true to the idea of body swapping strengthening one’s bonds and understanding.

Susan and Ryan share their bodies, their memories, and grow as close as two people possibly could, all while doing the most intimate thing that two people possibly could. They become deeply linked, fulfilling their goal of becoming each other while still remaining themselves. And while this bombshell escalation and conclusion could make for a satisfying end to a story… this is the only end of part one.

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Part 4: Four Months Later

The second part of Getting Into Her Shape picks up four months later, in February, where Ryan and Susan’s relationship has… escalated. Much of the first chapter is just going over the many things that have changed in this time, so I’ll just start by listing out the highlights.

• Ryan and Susan have moved in together and trade lives throughout the week and throughout the day, with Ryan barely going back to his apartment.
• They swap bodies before their evening activities, leaving Ryan waking up in Susan’s body while Susan and Ryan goes out running in the morning, as she loves running in his body.
• Ryan takes care of Susan’s hygiene routine in the morning, from cleaning it up when he first wakes up to schlepping over to the gym for workout by 6 AM, cluster of bags in tow.
• The two switch cars depending on their current body, with Ryan’s body driving an old ‘masculine’ pickup truck while Susan drives a schmancy Honda.
• Ryan has become something of a women’s clothing aficionado, picking out what Susan wears most days and assembling a proper collection of gym clothes he has many thoughts and preferences on.

There are a deluge of great little details that show just how much Ryan has acclimated to being Susan, and it’s exactly the sort of thing I want to see from a story like this. For as much shock, surprise, and the bold, imposing new can drive a body swap story, I have a deep respect and fondness for ones that jump ahead in time. Away from the initial thrill of the swap, to show how characters have adapted and adopted this new life. How they add little flourishes and improvements as they ease into a new body and life. How what was an imposing experience becomes just another day in their life.

Oh, and on that note, Susan’s body lost 56 pounds— down from what, I don’t know. 200 pounds? 250 pounds? Regardless, this means the fitness arc of this story is over. Ryan successfully got into Susan’s shape, and changed it to be something tighter, which is something of a bold choice. The idea of swapping bodies with a chubby Korean milf attracts a different audience compared to the idea of swapping bodies with a fit Korean milf, probably strong enough to overpower the average 20-year-old guy. I personally like this detail, as it illustrates both a passage of time and the impact of the body swap. …But sadly, this being a novel, weights are not emphasized as much as they would be in a visual medium, and it’s easy to forget this detail when things are getting hot and hectic.

This weight loss, and the fact that Ryan has worked out as Susan a hundred times, also means there’s a lot less gym scenes compared to the first part. And by a lot less, I mean two ‘gym’ scenes and no scenes of Ryan describing what it is like to move his body as he flexes, does cardio, or keeps this body limber. Here, Ryan basically makes a beeline to the locker rooms where he chats up with a teacher, Marie Collins, like they’ve been co-workers for the better half of a decade. Hell, Ryan says that he gets along with her better than Susan does. It’s a small callback to a minor character from the first part, but it does a great job of illustrating how much Ryan has grown over time, the impact he’s had, and how much he has made being Susan a part of himself. …But, he needs to go back to being Ryan sometime.

Genuinely, he does. In a bit of banter later on, Ryan say to Susan, “You and I both know damn well I couldn’t help you out with teaching. It’s funny, you know? I have this distinct memory of SOMEBODY giving me a C+ in that class…” Which… I don’t know how to interpret. Did Susan deliberately gave him a low grade, was Ryan never a good student, or was he too busy being Susan to listen to what she had to say during her lecture? Obviously, he lacks the skill and poise to teach a college level class. But this line keeps me wondering. I’m not saying that he should be able to slot into a teacher’s professional career, like this is a Student Transfer route (or the Wendy route from Palladium) but it’s surprising how succinctly the story shoots down that premise.

Anyway, Ryan heads to Susan’s office and finds Susan in Ryan, where the two hit it off, their banter more playful and familiar than before, and their sex drives still sky-high. Then, a crisp 10% of the way through the story, things kick off with the first sex scene between the two as they ‘rush’ through a 30 minute long blowjob. Warped timescale aside, I actually appreciate this scene though. The writer peppers it in with a good degree of dirty talk, with Ryan applying the context behind it and making it clear that this is part of their routine, part of the messy lives they’ve shared. It is a continued part of the reintroduction to these characters, while having just enough to satiate the lower brain. Good sex scene. Grape Job, Swapper123!

Everything’s sunshine and sarsaparilla in Ryan and Susan’s life, but… wasn’t there something, or someone, some lingering thread from the first part that needed to be addressed? …Oh. Right.

While walking from his classes— classes that Ryan is, more or less, just going through the motions with— someone places a note in his hand as he walks through the crowded hall. A note… from Maya.

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Part 5: Maya’s Revenge

So, you know how Susan said that she would take care of the stint with Maya? Well, Susan ultimately let Maya in on their little secret, explaining that she invented a body swap device. That the person she fucked in the shower, and caught masturbating, was actually Ryan. Maya knows everything, and with this knowledge, with the blackmail photos backed up in The Cloud, she’s calling in a favor. Susan reveals all of this to Ryan later that afternoon, and insists that he not make her angry, leading the three of them to arrange an off-campus meeting at Susan’s home the following Saturday morning.

With Ryan and Susan in their original bodies, Maya arrives and is given a notably gushing reintroduction. With Ryan— meaning the writer— trying very hard to emphasize how attractive she is with six paragraphs of descriptors. Descriptors with choice phrasing like “Her mocha-brown skin, a creamy tapestry of caramel and honey, exuded a fertile radiance that coursed through her willowy figure.” Basically, she’s a hot, fit, Black woman with her hair “woven together into a single, chunky braid.”

Maya cheerily makes her way through Susan and Ryan’s house and over to the body swapper, grabbing it like it’s her present, before proceeding to make a big deal out of what should really be a straightforward conversation. Even though the incident with Ryan happened four months ago, she is PISSED that she was deceived like that. Saying she would have never done it with him if he knew she was fucking a man before simmering down, getting the point and saying that she wants Ryan’s body. …Not in that way. In the normal way.

Maya re-explains that she is a lesbian, but adds that she was in a relationship with a bespectacled blonde cutie named Claire Parker. Art girl, pudgy, has a pixie cut, a big reader, and the child of Evangelical Christians who probably HATE the fact that she is so much as friends with a gay, let alone a Black. So… if Maya had a good upbringing, she would know that girls like that are too dangerous to save. But she’s implied to be on the ‘light skinned’ end of the Black spectrum, and this takes place in who knows, America, so maybe it’s a ‘fly in the milk’ scenario, and she was raised without ‘Community.’

Racial commentary aside, Maya knows Claire has a huge crush on Ryan— and why wouldn’t she, he’s hot— and Maya wants to borrow his body for an evening. Specifically so she can scare Claire back outta the closet by being a mid-as-hell dude. A deeply flawed goal, but one that the next half of the novel (technically a novella) is going to be building towards. Teaching Maya how to fuck like a man! …And Susan’s going to help by using a strap-on— that Maya brought with— to show her how!

Conceptually, I love this idea. A Black woman is pressuring a White guy to lend her his body so she can manipulate someone into being gay. But first, she needs to take Body Swap Sexology 101 from a pair of rising all-stars. However, I was not kidding when I said that this part of the story— the teaching Maya how to have sex part— eats up most of this novel. Part 2 chapter 3 is 9,000 words long. Part 2 chapter four is 5,500 words. And Part 2 chapter five is a three-part fuck-a-thon that goes on for over 9,600 words. That’s not quite half, and there are other threads that break up this storyline, but that is a long time to focus on this concept, and a LOT of it is just devoted to sex. Probably close to 70% of it.

To reiterate, the sex scenes are not bad. They do their job just dandily. But they also go on for too darn long. Swapper123 practically writes the characters as sex fiends with how much they thirst for their next orgasm. Everything I said about the sex scenes lasting too long previously gets cranked into overdrive here. I’ll try to skirt around them, but fair warning if I wind up saying ‘and then they fucked‘ a lot.

Chapter three kicks off with Ryan taking time to perfect his appearance as Susan. Showing how attractive he finds her when she is at her best and how he’s fully committed to being Susan when in her body. Because she would want to look her best even under these less than ideal circumstances. He comes out to the sight of Maya and Susan preparing to use the device for the next swap, but before they can actually exchange, the reader is informed that Susan upgraded the body swapper in recent months. Cleaning up the design, incorporating better controls to gauge the speed of the swap, and cutting back the visor. Really important things to not highlight until after the body swapper has been used or presented twice.

Regardless of how it looks, the reactions to the body swap show the gulf of experience between the participants. Susan is just peachy about her new body, in part because she swapped with a younger woman before, Emma Kent, the woman she made the body swapper with, so she’s well versed in what to expect. While Maya is the first character to have a good and proper body swap freakout, just losing her shit as she feels her new boy parts. Adam’s apple, broad pecs, a pointy Caucasian nose, and a strange organ called a penis that has a mind of its own. Also, a “bright” complexion that looks like she’s “reflecting all the light in the room.” …I have a feeling that lines like this are just rampant in niche fiction like this, especially erotica. (I REALLY need to find some Black TSF creators whose work I can triumph.)

With Maya already hard, Ryan and Susan try to set the stage for her, ease her into what it means to have sex as a man. Though, rather than throw her into the deep end, they decide to have some fun first. Susan strips for Maya, relishing in her limberness, admiring her perky features, and adopting the role of a temptress, transfixing Maya with her own form. Ryan lathers up Maya’s dick with lotion to help provide her with a more frictionless handjob… and plays with her balls, which seems a bit advanced for a first time penis-haver. Same with the lotion. Some writers seem to think you need it for a better masturbation, but it really doesn’t.

This eventually leads Maya to climax, or as she puts it, “I just fucking squirted from my dick!” leaving her in awe over how strongly men feel about sex, but not necessarily perturbed. If anything, she’s gung ho to go in for the real deal. But Ryan insists that guys need to wait 20 minutes or longer before they go again. So, to keep her entertained, Susan and Ryan decide to have some lesbian sex in front of Maya. Except this time it’s a lot of mouth stuff, with the two taking turns as they lather up each other’s privates, kissing them, and pointedly not using the strap-on to show Maya how to fuck like a man. Even though this would be the perfect time to demonstrate such a thing.

Instead, they delay the sexual exploration until later in the evening, as Ryan and Susan are “a little spent” and he needs a nap. This strikes me as an arbitrary delay considering how everybody here is pretty damn fit, and all they did was hand and mouth stuff. But whatever. It’s an excuse for a break between chapters.

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Part 6: Maya’s Revenge SEX

Refreshingly, chapter four begins with some introspection from Ryan. Musing about how he and Susan shared an unspoken need to be each other after their memory melding thing from the end of the first part. Even now, that experience still lingers in Ryan’s mind. The elation of Susan’s wedding day. The lust and emotional adoration she felt for her ex-husband. The bliss she felt upon holding her newborn daughter in her arms. All memories Ryan holds dear, but knows that he only received them by accident. That Susan did not want to share these memories with him. While he knows he shouldn’t pry over this, he cannot help himself from lingering on these memories. He wants to immerse himself in these memories, to have more, to have more of Susan, in general, lingering in his mind.

These memories have also loosened Ryan’s grip on his own life, saying that “I didn’t feel like much of a student these days. Some days, I wasn’t even sure who I felt like anymore.” While clarifying that he has not been living as himself for about half of his evenings, choosing to become Susan on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings, taking on her household responsibilities. He’s losing his grip on himself, on his own life, and is just going through the motions, increasingly investing himself into his relationship with Susan.

While I am clearly a huge fan of people trading bodies day in and day out, Ryan’s more somber narration and lines here really do highlight a sense of disassociation that comes with routine body swapping. He is so invested in being someone else, in living this new life, that he is becoming less invested in himself, in his own life goals and desires. Classes are an obligation, spending time in his own body is becoming a mechanism to make his time as Susan more exciting, and I have to wonder if Susan feels something similar. For Ryan, this is something new and exciting, the opportunity to be someone different and with a unique history. And for Susan, this is also new and exiting, but she has the freedom of youth, a blank slate, away from a lifetime of baggage, accomplishments, and mistakes.

Once the musings end, Ryan heads down to the kitchen to see Susan prepping dinner, where he adopts his role as the horny young stud and fucks a middle-aged woman as she slaves over a hot stove. I consider this to be a callback to the more exhibitionist angle of the first part, an opportunity for the characters to get hot and bothered in a new place for the sake of variety. And here, it works. Their experience earlier today has left them thirsty, they are trying to finish quickly, and there is enough novelty or uniqueness in this sexual scenario to make it engaging conceptually. It’s not a TSF scene, because both Ryan and Susan are in their own bodies, but it is important to have scenes like this to demonstrate that they are switches in bed, eager to play both roles.

Right after Ryan ‘jerks it into Susan’s ass,’ Maya waltzes on, leading into a dinner scene that’s awkward for many reasons, since she and Ryan cannot really be considered friends. However, Ryan eventually finds a through line by talking about Maya’s yoga classes, leading her to give Ryan some yoga tips, before drifting into discussion about women’s exercise clothes. Ryan just goes off on this subject, talking about outfit pairs, brand names, and what fits would look good on each other. Maya, as a fellow workout enthusiast, completely matches his energy, leading into this glorious bit of girl-talk that shows just how deep Ryan is in his new role. From fashion to gossip, to, uh, basketball. Because Maya’s Black, so of course the writer decided she needed that trait.

As they banter and eat a good home cooked meal, Maya realizes that Ryan’s not like other boys, and her aggression and thirst for revenge has completely dissipated. She even says that they’re “even,” so long as she can still use his body to “fuck the shit out of Claire.” Yep, she changed her mind and rather than give Claire mediocre sex to make her a lesbian again, she now wants what’s best for her, and to give her a wonderful night of sex instead. But to do so, she will need to attend another session of Body Swap Sexology 101. Specifically, she plans on swapping with Ryan. Also, Maya clarifies that even though she calls herself a lesbian, she’s bisexual (who isn’t these days?) and mostly shies away from men due to psychological reasons. Which… is fair. A lot of men suck and choose a simulacrum of ignorance and belief that the world is wrong, rather than try to improve their minds or demeanor.

With the plan in place— with Ryan finally getting to fuck Maya— things lead into chapter five, the longest stretch of sex in the entire series. So I am just going to skim over it, because it is just a barrage of erotic scenarios smooshed together. Mouth stuff, penis in vagina sex, and then strap on funsies when Susan barges in to give Maya a further lesson while watching her body get railed by the hottest professor at school. It takes a while before anything overtly sexual happens, feeling repetitive after such a similar scenario was seen in chapter three. Ryan fawns over Maya’s body, offering so many embellishing comments that they start obfuscating what she’s actually supposed to look like. And while the writing is, again, not bad, it was a slog for me to get through it. Even if I wasn’t speedreading my way through this, I would still have gotten bored trying to read this in one sitting.

Fucking is fun, fucking is serious business, but if you fuck too much, you’re gonna get make the reader delirious!

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Part 7: I Am You, You Are Me

With the conclusion of chapter five, at the 67% mark, Part 2 of GIHS completely changes its direction and focus. The following Monday, Ryan, as Susan, sees that someone dropped a letter in her vintage red flagged mailbox and opens it to be met with quite the surprise. It is a letter from Society of Women Engineers, saying that Susan has won an award for her contributions to “neural pathway signal detection and mapping.” An award she will receive at a ceremony at a nearby hotel in about two weeks. Yep, just two weeks, because it’s not like engineers have busy schedules, and this news is sent exclusively via a letter. Which could easily get lost, get stolen, or get misplaced. Ideally, you want to tell someone this news via a phone call, so you know they heard it.

Before Ryan can tell Susan this momentous news, he tells Marie about it after his morning workout. Even though he doesn’t know what Susan did, he plays along well, presenting Susan as a scatterbrained genius who forgot where her paper was published, before he’s asked about who he wants to invite. Actually meeting with Susan, she is in awe, thrilled that she is getting an award of this prestige, but her joy quickly sours as she realizes they’ll need to work out the logistics. The ceremony is on the same day that Ryan was going to loan out his body to Maya, meaning they are going to need to do some body swapping shenanigans. To have Ryan swap with Maya before the event.

However, the more pressing matter is Susan’s family. She wants Chloe here, does not want her to travel alone, and despite divorcing Jacob, she still cares for him, and owes some of her success to him. She knows the best option is to invite both of them, but she worries that the reunion will be too much for her, especially when combined with receiving an award she thought was beyond her grasp.

From this point, I could already tell where the story was going. That Susan is going to bust out the body swapper, share more of her memories with Ryan, and give him the confidence, context, and emotional connection to pose as Susan during this event. Thus allowing him to become her in a true professional setting, and blurring the lines between the two. It would be a consistent continuation of what was featured in the first part of the story, further the bonds that I gushed about in that tangent, and could lead into a hectic three-part conclusion.

Just think about it. Maya in Ryan is trying to be a suave dude around her former girlfriend, juggling her girl feelings and boy hormones at the same time. All before giving Claire the most thrilling night of her life, inadvertently making her Team Het forever. Susan in Maya is reconnecting with her daughter, filled with the memories of a mother, the sexual experiences of a man, in the body of a sapphic and “fertile” young woman. A combination that leads her to get frisky with her own daughter, discovering that Chloe is also a bisexual, and feeling a sense of joy and regret after indulging herself in a make out and fingering sesh. All while Ryan in Susan, burdened by the sense of accomplishment and importance, tries to uphold himself as a strong independent woman, yet feels a lingering sense of longing as he is approach by Jacob. Thereby forcing him to reassess his sexuality and responsibilities as Susan, either choosing or refusing to rekindle a flame he knows all too vividly.

That’s a full house, splayed on the table, just waiting for the writer to call and make their move. They have a premise for a veritable playplace for body swapping romantic drama and tension. Exactly the type of thing I love to see, and love to create. …But Swapper123 biffs it. They had to see the potential they were dealing with, yet decides to take things in a different, and less interesting, direction.

Back to the story, things cut ahead to the following evening, where Ryan returns home to find Susan in the basement, her engineering workshop. She is immersed in work, setting up two high capacity top of the line servers. Servers that, per Ryan’s comments, she seemingly bought, brought into her basement, and installed over the past few hours. An absurd turnaround by every metric— you can’t just buy something like this off the shelf at Micro Center— but whatever.

Ryan asks what they’re for, and Susan answers that she needs high capacity storage to create backups of their neutral networks so that they can later be restored to their original bodies. Why does she need backups? Well, Susan has a harebrained idea, and one that I don’t think I’ve ever quite seen before. She plans on intensifying the bleeding effect of the body swapper and use it to only swap their “consciousness.” Which effectively means their short-term memory and nebulous sense of self. “No swapping memories, personalities, emotions, impulses, desires… all that will stay in our original brains.”

Susan wants to do this because she cannot bear to handle the award ceremony, her reunion with Chloe, and meeting Jacob again all in the same night. She needs someone else to handle this emotional burden, and believes that all she needs is the consciousness of a 20-year-old man. Then, once the event is over, she will restore their minds from the backup and the two will regain their old consciousnesses. An idea that has so much room for error, so many things that could go wrong, and such a narrow, short-term goal. Even Ryan thinks that this is bonkers.

“Susan, that’s… that’s crazy. What you’re proposing… that’s not just a superficial body swap. That’s us BECOMING each other. That night we experimented with the device… we promised not to try that again. Remember? If we did this we’d never be ourselves again…”

Susan is risking identity death and erasure, creating so much work for herself, because she does not have the emotional maturity to do something uncomfortable when… bitch! You’re 45 46! (She had a birthday in January.) Maybe you should be a grown-up now! And do you even comprehend how unfair it is to put Ryan, this KID into this situation? What makes his consciousness so much stronger than yours? She simply lies to him by assuring the safety of the device, fully knowing that, as a doctor of engineering, even the safest bets have some risk, especially when you have never actually done something before.

I think it is a huge waste of opportunity and muddles up who the characters are, or have been up until this point by having them do something so risky yet cowardly. From a TF, let alone TSF perspective? This just does not carry much allure to me. I enjoy a nice mind alteration, in having a character’s identity be so cobbled together that you run into a Ship of Theseus scenario. But this is not that. Ryan is not being given all of Susan’s memories along with his own. These characters are NOT becoming each other, as Ryan claims. This is just a fairly small mind alteration.

Functionally, there is no difference between this and a short-term memory swap. If Susan was given Ryan’s short-term memory and brainwashed to think that she is actually Ryan in Susan’s body, we would reach the same place. And that’s not an interesting transformation to me! At least not in this context.

Susan, age 46, then has sex with Ryan, age 20, throwing her arms around him, kissing him, and inviting him to fuck her on the dirty basement floor, stripping her of her oversized and sweaty work clothes. Its unnecessary, distracting, and defuses the tension the scenario warrants. The best thing it has going for it is how Ryan muses over how he will see this scene, and many mothers, from Susan’s perspective after they swap in two weeks. And with that, onto the final chapter.

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Part 8: I Will Become You By Staying Me

Part 2 chapter seven marks the final stretch of the story, and it fortunately wastes little time before getting into what was promised in the last chapter. Ryan and Maya switch bodies using the ‘old’ set of headsets in Susan’s office after class, pushing Maya out of the story ASAP. She literally does not even get a single line before being shoo-shooed. This leaves Ryan to return to his home as Maya and get ready with Susan, leading into some lavish summaries of their dresses, and underwear. In short, Susan’s in black, Ryan’s in white, and both look like a million-dollar bill as they head down to the new headset hooked up to the servers.

The set-up looks incredibly janky, rushed to be functionally complete, but with Susan’s assurance that everything will be fine, Ryan goes through with it, agreeing to become her. …By putting a very small aspect of himself inside her. Then, when Susan presses the switch, everything crashes down on them all at once. Electricity explodes across their brains they scream in agony, their eyes filled with abject fear, all before their vision fades into darkness.

From here, the perspective shifts to Susan’s body, but the narration regularly refers to the person in Mayas body as Ryan, as he. A creative choice I understand, but one that adds another layer of confusion and ambiguity to what was actually swapped, and who these characters actually are. The narrator is Susan, but with latent knowledge and memories that she is ‘actually Ryan.’

In practice, the effect is so subtle that this may as well just be a perspective change, rather than any sort of mental swap. As such, I’m going to say that this is Susan’s story now, for we are following it from her perspective. She is the narrator, we are treated to her insights, insecurities, and technical knowhow. Meanwhile, Ryan is prattling around in Maya’s cute yoga girl bod as a somewhat ancillary hanger-on.

Before I continue, I want to make something perfectly clear. I respect Swapper123 for doing something different, for experimenting with what a body swap story would and could be, and how the concept can itself be transformed. I think such transformation should only be encouraged in the world of TF, and creators should not be afraid to write weird shit for the sake of weird shit. Because even if something bold or strange does not work, it is still an attempt, still a contribution, still a neat idea that, somehow, some way, could inspire someone to do something better. Maybe just Swapper123 themself, maybe someone else. That being said, I am a critic, and per my critical eye, I do not think that this particular idea worked out.

With some musings, more pointed observations, and some less generous comments towards her own body, Susan then grabs Ryan and drives over to the hotel. A luxurious place, perfect for an awards ceremony, yet one that leaves Susan nervous, wondering if she fits in with the high society types socializing around the ceremony hall, before running into her family. Jacob is depicted as the hottest tall, dark, and handsome man, dressed clean, with refined movements, and a slender yet not too slender form. Looking just as attractive as Susan recalled.

Meanwhile, Susan is surprised by how much Chloe has grown, offering some rather… curious comments. “Her long, slender legs carried her with grace and poise, her black hair streaming down her back like a river of silk from her neat little bun. She wore a beautiful emerald dress that complemented her pale skin perfectly, hugging her waist and highlighting the fact that her hips and chest had grown fuller–swelling with fertile potential.”

…Bruh, what sort of mother looks at her daughter and thinks about how fertile she is? Did her time as Rydawg give her an incestuous breeding kink?

Before the gang can do much more than say hello, the ceremony begins, and Susan is called up stage along with nine other engineers. Which seems a bit small for an award show, particularly one with hundreds of people in attendance, but they did only give people a two week notice, so there might be 25 no-shows. The actual ceremony is just glossed over in a paragraph and change, not getting into the nitty-gritty details that should define an acceptance speech, leading into the real reason why this plot device exists. To get Jacob and Susan back together for a night, where he pulls his moves on her. Complimenting her on her deserved award, isolating her at the sparsely populated hotel bar, giving her some chardonnay, fawning over her improved her appearance, and pining over old times.

Jacob emphasizes how much he misses her, how much Chloe misses her, and how he wants them to try again, one more time. The sexual tension that defined their earlier relationship is then rekindled and, with Susan’s body having been primed for sex over the past few months, she cannot resist him. They rush out of the bar, head to a “single-use bathroom” and proceed to toilet fuck like a couple of teenagers. Or wild birds. Same difference.

It’s messy, raw, filled with allusions to their past times together, and they swiftly get back into their old groove, rushing through sex as Jacob’s hands intuitively go where they need to, knowing where Susan is sensitive. It’s a good, ‘compact’ sex scene that does what it needs to, and ends in an appropriate amount of regret. The Susan part of her mind regrets how she fucked her ex-husband, a man she tried so hard to cut out of her life, even if it meant abandoning her daughter. And the little bit of Ryan in her regrets not having the resolve to resist Jacobs charms.

In the aftermath, with their bits still hot and wet from sex, Jacob clears his throat and tells Susan to look after Chloe for the next two days and get her back at the hotel by 6:00 PM on Sunday. No thank you, no request to get together, not asking to head over to her place. This sleazeballl came onto his ex-wife, got his fuck, and now he’s good, ready to get back to his single dad life back in Ca-li-for-ni-a. Susan rightfully blows up at him for this, burning with rage that Jacob would just use her like this, not showing a modicum of regret in his actions. Jacob, in response, tells her to shut up, calls her a bitch when she claps back, and walks away.

Without telling the reader what exactly led to their divorce, this scene tells us all we need to know. Despite the fiery passion they can feel at times, Jacob refuses to give his wife the emotional support, or general support, she needs, and resists whenever she calls him out on his bullshit. It’s precisely the type of relationship decay that defines far too many marriages and keeps women living with shitty dudes who believe that empathy and love makes them less of a man.

After this encounter, Susan, Ryan, and Chloe all pile into the car. Ryan clearly spots that something is wrong, but Susan is too emotional to share the truth with him. As she drives away, she looks over Ryan, thinks about much he cares for her, and how he fell in love with her even when she was just some “pudgy middle-aged woman.” He loves her so much that he is willing to be her, and would Jacob be willing to do that? Hell no. Ryan’s a good man, a better man, and he helps her forget about all that pain that came from her divorce.

Then, she looks back at Chloe in the backseat, seeing her snooze away, looking out the window, and thinks back to the little girl she raised. How much she has grown, how much she missed her, and how she wants to be with her. As she recollects in the past, Ryan places his hand on her leg, reassuring her that, even when Chloe leaves, he will be here for her. That, for as much pain as she might be in at the moment, she will have him. They will have the life they made together. And, in the end, everything is going to be okay.

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Part 9: To Be Continued? Who Knows!

…So, that’s the end of Getting Into Her Shape! Yep! This story wraps with an open ending after a swap that, frankly, did not follow through with the story’s premise or core themes. Swapper123 uploaded both parts of the story to Literotica on October 14, 2024, marked it as incomplete, and has been inactive since then. I thought about leaving this story on my to do list because of this. But 100,000 words is a lot to cover and, while the ending is open, there is a strong enough sense of finality and escalation to make this feel satisfying enough.

So, what do I make of Getting Into Her Shape? Well, I am of two minds about it. I have offered it many criticisms about how it handled the frequency and length of its sex scenes, often coming off as needless, reparative, or just boring in how long they were. Not necessarily bad in their writing, frequently featuring elegant and flavorful descriptions, but if over a third of your story is just sex, you are way too horny! While the conclusion just biffs an obvious concept that I thought would be an excellent way to expand the story in terms of its perspective, themes, and general things to explore.

On the other hand, this story was full of interesting and unique applications of body swapping, and I just adore so many things Swapper123 did here. The way they eroticize the concept of exercising in another body and using equipment one does not fully understand, languishing in the erotic thrill of being another. I think they offered some splendid character moments, finding a way to make Ryan and Susan feel like defined people despite some iffy decision-making. The particular way the body swapper is designed, in letting the two share sensations, share memories, while slowly fading into a new form, is an idea so good, and so cool that it makes me uppity that I didn’t come up with it first!

It’s a story with shortcomings and things that I did not particularly enjoy sitting through. But when it hits, when it gets going, it delivers something special. It neatly aligns with my sensibilities and preferences, I’m grateful that it was brought to my attention, and am happy that I’ve had this opportunity to share with others.

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…So keep that in mind with future TSF Showcases. Because while I might be planning a hiatus starting next year, I will always be open to recommendations and suggestions. Because somebody’s gotta talk about and spread the good word about TSF, and there aren’t that many people willing to do so as thoroughly as me.