Misty F Fiction

090 – Giantess at the World’s End


Years from now, in a future blasted by heat, all but the most elite of humanity live as nomadic hunting bands. One such band stalks the wastelands of the American Northeast, the home of creatures infused with saurian DNA through unknown means...

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216 – Full-Time Magical Girl


AMAB, Hitomi Tanaka got the chance of a lifetime when she became Magical Spice Sailor Mint. Thanks to the transformation's magic, she finally had access to a body that felt right. However, that made changing back feel like withdrawal. So about a month ago, she made a decision to never change back unless she absolutely had to. Suffice to say, that has had some interesting effects on her life...

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Her Story


A woman's body modification fantasies lead her to another world where size fetishes are part of everyday life. There, she clones herself to pursue her conflicting bodily desires...
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212 – A Binding Arrangement


For trying to revolt against Taulic, the Deamon-Lord Closest to Heaven, the daemoness known as Kylbyi was sealed into a book. Her life was twisted and warped, turned to stories for other's enjoyment. That is until the book tumbled into our world. There, she was freed when a human with great magical potential cut herself on the book's cover. What happens next remains to be seen, but this is where it all began...

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210 – Witchy Shit Ch.1


It was, of course, a stormy night when Lenore first seriously tried to do the “witch shit” in the old three-ring binder she had gotten as a twenty-third birthday present. It was not like she had planned or waited for such an evening to provide ambiance. In fact, the autumn Nor'Easter was something of a hindrance. The lightning kept messing up her chant and after the fourth time she jumped then lost her place, Lenore decided to try again later.

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Tt asks


Betty Boop and Jessica Rabbit

I feel like Mrs. Rabbit is probably the bigger “oh, she’s just cheesecake” of the pair here, and I will get to that. First, though, I feel like many people fail to realize how much Jessica embodies what Betty stood for. Far beyond both of them being “sexy” singing characters, there is so much feminism in both of their characters. They might both seem like soft women, but both of them have cores of steel.

Betty_Boop_1933_v_1939Let’s be honest, despite the “damage” done by Paramount adopting The Hayes Code in 1934, Betty Boop was an icon of sexuality in her time (and still is, really). She was one of the first cartoon women to appear on-screen whose existence was intended for a mature viewership. More than that though, she was a representation of the flickering hopes of the Jazz Age as the Depression wore on. And sure, there are elements of that aspect of her character which are a bit contentious. Since she was originally a caricature of Helen Kane, a lot of her style is based on the white co-opting of the culture of Harlem. Either way, she was so wildly popular that the anthology series she had debuted in was eventually turned into The Betty Boop Show.

In one of the first episodes of that show, Minnie the Moocher, Boop was portrayed as an older teen railing against her strict, Yiddish parents. That spirit of rebellion had long since infused her heavily caricatured, Flapper-inspired design. Coming from an era where women represented in animated features were either intensely childlike or merely feminized versions of their masculine counterparts, Boop being a sexually mature woman, who wore “sexy” feminine clothes, was a titanic shift.

That sense of female power was not just in her “challenging to power” appearance. Boop’s cartoons also dealt with the male-gaze baggage that came with her identity, especially in the featurettes Chess-Nuts and Boop-Oop-a-Doop, where she directly encountered attempted rapes after rejecting men. Her claim to bodily autonomy in a media production was years ahead of its time and a huge step in both representation and the ever present fight that “cartoons” are just for kids. When the Hayes Code took effect, however, a lot of that faded away and Betty became a more demure housewife.

Actress Mae Questel (circa 1935)

Mae Questel, 1930

Fast forwarding to the 80’s Boop’s cameo in Who Framed Rodger Rabbit, where she was once again voiced by long-time VA Mae Questel, was a passing of the torch in a way to the next generation of cartoons. Jessica Rabbit, devoted wife and career woman at the same time, was a send off of the 50’s-nostalgia-fueled sitcom wisdom that once a woman had gotten married, she had to stop being sexy and start being a housewife. Hell, we still have yet to get past that preconception.

Jessica being the perfect hourglass filled with distilled femme eros while being happily married to a guy who was gaga over her for not for her appearance but her passion and drive was also a challenge to men who treated women as objects to view and own. Mrs. Rabbit knows full well she is sexy, but she also has zero time for some guy’s bullshit with regards to that. Going a bit more canonical, I feel like, if Boop had not had to deal with her own harassment, then Jessica’s character would have ended up very differently. However, we got a woman who “grew up” looking up to Boop as a toon who was both sexy and her own woman.

For another take on the idea of performative appearance, watch Iliza’s new special Elder Millenial where she has a tremendously funny take on how women are socialized to be noticed and how that’s honestly (a little) fucked up.

198 – More Than One Way to Be a Stud


A bookish, introverted man wants to shake that persona and be more popular. Trust his cousin, a witch, to give him exactly what he is looking for--and more.

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