Shim's Circle: index post

Shim the kobold is a doctoral student in runic magic with focuses on computer-aided magic and human transformation. Or "human", rather, because ey is an alter - a nonhuman person born with a human body - and for eir thesis project, ey has designed and is testing a computer-controlled magic circle system to automate (and therefore make more accessible) the process of transforming alters to their natural forms.

Eir current stage of research is simple on paper: solicit volunteers to go through the process and document the outcomes.

As Shim is discovering, however, alters are a more interesting lot than one might assume...

So, back in, like, October 2020, we were on a now-inactive fediverse instance called Monsterpit, and - already having a fediverse account - we (well, Packdragon, in practice) decided to use our new side account for writing a series of transformation fics: stories focused on people's bodies changing shape in ways that aren't commonly seen outside fiction. It was a fun creative exercise and we're proud of the two stories we posted there, but with the site down, they've not been available and we've not been writing any others.

This is us trying to change that. We're gonna make a new "fiction: shim's circle" tag and update this post with a list as each post gets posted.

On which note: stories in the series so far:

1. Connected* (originally posted 2020-10-10)
2. Hypothetically (originally posted 2020-11-18)

(* Story name changed to be less of a spoiler.)

Shim's Circle 1: Connected

( Transformation fic, 743 words )

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Originally posted 2020-10-10

Shim's Circle 2: Hypothetically

( Transformation fic, 667 words. )

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Originally posted 2020-11-18