I'd never have felt driven to create targeted tickle-related entertainments without the sort of support you refer to, not for strictly private edification; such effort would forever have remained nebulous, restricted to my fantasy musings.
Alas, I had only one friend who vaguely shared my appreiation of tickling hotties, but I don't really correspond as often as i'd like, now that he lives abroad. There have been Fox sisters comics since 1998, but they were going nowhere. this forum has been a real boost to my creativity and confidence.
Babs might be willing to make the trip for dispassionate scientific purposes, prepared to hunt down Sid as a rare, exotic specimen! I can see plenty of potential in that!
I don't think the venture would be as 'dispassionate' as Babs would let us think! She has a thing for all things tentacled and slippery.
"Three quarks for Muster Mark"… cool! I hadn't ever read that before and really like its common-man lyrical quality (I've never read "Finnegans Wake" or any other James Joyce that I can recall. My cultural literacy, outside of certain narrow parameters, is pretty abominable and my reading habits only grow worse with time). It's terribly flattering that you'd compare any aspect of my writing to that of literary icons like Joyce or Swift! My most grateful thanks!
I've not read Joyce either but I know the line appears in his work, principally because the name for quarks was taken from it by Murray Gell-man when he discovered them, and there are always three. it struck me as similar in tone to your own work. As for my own Literary habits, i'm not a fan of fiction, even the classics. I generally go for non-fiction.
Need I relate how much I likewise admire your skill at crafting the delightfully saucy stories you spin so winningly?… filled with lovelies whose lack of inhibition compliments their myriad jiggly gifts in such a joyfully playful fashion? Most definitely, yes! I'll continue to do so at ever available opportunity!
If only. In truth, the Fox sisters were, for the large part, just attractive dolls built from my ideas of perfect women and didn't get personalities until about five years ago, and it was a gradual process of accumulating attractive but different traits that might help them behave as individuals, rather than three bimbos who can only be told apart by the colour of their suits. I would also never want them described as 'feisty', which is always used by an actress when she has to describe the sci-fi/comic character she's playing in a press junket. I've always read feisty as 'full of attitude, confrontational, a right old bitch'.
Barbara is reserved (in non tk situations), perhaps aloof, yet sensitive; Nina isn't very sensitive, has a dry sense of humour and is brazen about her appetites, and Lucy is playful, extrovert, compassionate (she was flippant with people as a teen but has grown up) and sometimes a little kooky. She is, in the story arc, the most popular sister, if perhaps somewhat credulous, as you've pointed out since. The older two are more wary, but not impolite (usually) whereas Lu gives people the benefit of the doubt a little too often.
I think they are uninhibited when such delights as tickle-sex are upon them, and each has a different take on that, but in their day to day existence, despite their dress sense, they can be somewhat difficult for plain ordinary guys to get to grips with, Barbara being the most fickle, while Lucy is fairly unfussy for a girl of her pulchritude and has a bit of a thing for 'geeks' (more maternal than sexual perhaps, if not flat-out sympathy), although the geek will always finish second place behind the guitarist. Let's be a little realistic! The strength of a fantasy is ultimately based on its believabilty.
Sorry to witter on, but I know you like Lucy, and those are some character-defining traits that i've worked out for her and her sisters. I think her singing ability (she wins the lead in the Prickly Hills play because of it) would heighten the sexiness of her being tickled. That is something not conveyable in a comic but if I could animate these stories to a level of competence, then the voices of the three girls would be of paramount importance. To have three distinct gifted female voice artists provide the giggles to the big eyes, sexy smiles and healthy chests would be tickling heaven, and make me a rich man. Plus, live action would forver place a real person's face into the fantasy, which detracts from the broad appeal. My idea of actresses t play the girls may ruin the visions of others. It just wouldn't work.
In the meantime, I shall continue the endeavour of portaying 'jiggly gifts' (mind if i nab that?)as long as i'm able. Thanks for the compliments friend.
