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Hey, guys! Remember that genderswap plot I tentatively proposed about a month ago? Well, it has just received official modly approval. I'm shooting for a start date of August 4, and the plot will run for approximately one week.
Here's the short version: On Saturday, Artie will breeze through Milliways on his way to a mad science convention. However, he will accidentally drop a container of gender-swap tablets, which will be distributed throughout the Bar by an well-meaning patron (who shall for the moment remain nameless). After several days' absence, Artie will return to the bar, witness the havoc wrought by his creation, and explain how to counteract it. Thus everything returns to whatever passes for normal around here.
Q: What are they?
A: Gender-swap tablets are a joint creation of Artie the Gerbil and his creator, Helen B. Narbon. They look and taste like ordinary breath mints of the sort usually marketed as "curiously strong," but they're laced with a chemical which causes a complete gender reversal when ingested. The swap itself is instantaneous (and makes a humorous "splort" noise), but there's a 30-second delay between eating the tablet and being genderswapped--just enough time for you to realize how truly screwed you are.
Any tablets you eat after the first one will have no effect. Sorry, you don't get off that easy.
Q: What exactly does 'gender reversal' mean in this context?
A: The chemical alters the victim's body at the genetic level, swapping out one X chromosome for a Y or vice versa. Physically, you still look more or less like yourself, but with the primary and secondary sexual characteristics of the opposite gender. It may also alter the subject's phenotype in less predictable ways--Dave Davenport was considerably shorter as a woman, for example. How recognizable your gender-swapped pup is will be up to you and the people you thread with.
For some unknown reason, the chemical also tends to alter people's hairstyles into something more gender-appropriate. (Hey, whaddaya want, it's from a comic strip.)
The change affects the mental and emotional components of one's gender as well. This is mostly noticeable in the realm of sexual preferences. For example, if your pup is ordinarily a heterosexual male, he will become a heterosexual female, and find herself physically attracted to men. Basically, your Kinsey scale score stays the same, but it'll be relative to your new gender.
Q: So how do I switch back?
A: In order to reverse the swap, one must ingest the bodily fluid of someone of the opposite gender who has also been gender-swapped. Usually, this is accomplished through deep-mouth kissing, i.e. "swapping spit." There are other ways to do it, of course, but most of them shouldn't be done in public.
The gender-swap chemical lingers in one's body indefinitely after the swap is reversed, so someone who's already been brought back to normal may continue to cure others.
Q: Can my pup the (god/demon/angel/alien/mutant/jellyfish/superintelligent shade of blue) take part in the plot?
A: If your pup is a biological entity whose species has more than one gender, then go for it.
Q: Sounds awesome! What do I need to do to participate?
A: Upload an icon of your pup as the opposite gender. That's it. This is a standard-issue crackplot with no signup sheet required.
If you have any further questions, comments, or suggestions, please reply to this post or ping me at leeshajoi on AIM.
Here's the short version: On Saturday, Artie will breeze through Milliways on his way to a mad science convention. However, he will accidentally drop a container of gender-swap tablets, which will be distributed throughout the Bar by an well-meaning patron (who shall for the moment remain nameless). After several days' absence, Artie will return to the bar, witness the havoc wrought by his creation, and explain how to counteract it. Thus everything returns to whatever passes for normal around here.
Q: What are they?
A: Gender-swap tablets are a joint creation of Artie the Gerbil and his creator, Helen B. Narbon. They look and taste like ordinary breath mints of the sort usually marketed as "curiously strong," but they're laced with a chemical which causes a complete gender reversal when ingested. The swap itself is instantaneous (and makes a humorous "splort" noise), but there's a 30-second delay between eating the tablet and being genderswapped--just enough time for you to realize how truly screwed you are.
Any tablets you eat after the first one will have no effect. Sorry, you don't get off that easy.
Q: What exactly does 'gender reversal' mean in this context?
A: The chemical alters the victim's body at the genetic level, swapping out one X chromosome for a Y or vice versa. Physically, you still look more or less like yourself, but with the primary and secondary sexual characteristics of the opposite gender. It may also alter the subject's phenotype in less predictable ways--Dave Davenport was considerably shorter as a woman, for example. How recognizable your gender-swapped pup is will be up to you and the people you thread with.
For some unknown reason, the chemical also tends to alter people's hairstyles into something more gender-appropriate. (Hey, whaddaya want, it's from a comic strip.)
The change affects the mental and emotional components of one's gender as well. This is mostly noticeable in the realm of sexual preferences. For example, if your pup is ordinarily a heterosexual male, he will become a heterosexual female, and find herself physically attracted to men. Basically, your Kinsey scale score stays the same, but it'll be relative to your new gender.
Q: So how do I switch back?
A: In order to reverse the swap, one must ingest the bodily fluid of someone of the opposite gender who has also been gender-swapped. Usually, this is accomplished through deep-mouth kissing, i.e. "swapping spit." There are other ways to do it, of course, but most of them shouldn't be done in public.
The gender-swap chemical lingers in one's body indefinitely after the swap is reversed, so someone who's already been brought back to normal may continue to cure others.
Q: Can my pup the (god/demon/angel/alien/mutant/jellyfish/superintelligent shade of blue) take part in the plot?
A: If your pup is a biological entity whose species has more than one gender, then go for it.
Q: Sounds awesome! What do I need to do to participate?
A: Upload an icon of your pup as the opposite gender. That's it. This is a standard-issue crackplot with no signup sheet required.
If you have any further questions, comments, or suggestions, please reply to this post or ping me at leeshajoi on AIM.
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It is going to be very, very difficult for many people to find icons of opposite gender PBs who look exactly like or are similar to their pup's original PBs. Is there any way we can, uh, work around the whole "they look exactly like this pup, except in the opposite gender" thing?
Although I'm thinking maybe someone can upload an opposite gender icon for their character and say that as a a person of the opposite gender, the character now looks vaguely like (opposite gender PB) but also like themselves? If that makes sense?
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Also, if you're looking for a good facial resemblance, MyHeritage.com's face recognition app (http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/face-recognition.php) is a good resource to fall back on.
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...I will see what I can find on my own. *shifty shifty*
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Muahahahaaaa.
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*a lot*
*with great eyeing*
*completely and totally innocently*
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Her name is Muffin. She has a band too.
Also, there is this
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That eyeing is SO, SO SECONDED.
Bluuuues Explosion!
Oh, man, I love Boss Hog, too.
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The fabulous -- most groovy -- Bellbottoms!
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By the way, I'm thinking of putting Emma in this plot, but I'd need an illustrated picture of a blond man with green eyes.
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*is only doing this to one male, out of three or four possble ones*
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Oh God. So tempted.
(Femme!Puck would look like Moiraine. *serene*)
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I blame you.
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And now I blame you.
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(See Venkman as a teen girl like last year or two)
And I love gender bending crack. Muahahahah. *eyes her pups*
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Hawkgirl to Hawkman.
She-Hulk to Hulk.
...yeah, you don't wanna see what either of them will do if gender swapped, but I will sit and read everyone else's threads with GLEE.
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And oh, how tempting it is to volunteer Estraven to pick some of these up and pass them around as a gesture of goodwill, quite innocently, because they would do bugger-all to him, and he REALLY needs to meet new people...
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Gleevil. Yes.
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Just so you know.
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They can have the music discussion. According to 8.5 out of 10 people polled, the music discussion leads to sex. Usually
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Question, though: are we going to have some sort of running list of pups who are involved that muns can post to, so people know who's going to available to do the spit swapping? Not a sign-up sheet, just a, "Hey, my pup's participating and needs someone to play tonsil hockey with for a minute."
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REALLY.
...............I wonder how Kara would dress as a boy.
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*skips off to find iconses*