About Dreamtales, please educate me

[xrattletrapx]

So the other week I was checking Yard Work 8, which has shrunken mom content, and then I looked at Dreamtales' other Yard Work stuff with shrunken women and even GTS. Yard Work's characters are typically Luke, his sister Amy, their Mom, and sometimes Luke's girlfriend (?) Nicole. The plots usually involve having Luke (originally a young adult) de-aged (age regression) to below 18, but his mind remains to be that of a dude over 18. I think this is the same with the character "Nicole." What's clear, though, in most of Dreamtales' stories and comics, that in their age-regressed states, they DO NOT have bodies that look over 18, and they get into scenes that would be considered inappropriate.

How come Dreamtales doesn't get into trouble for this? Is it because the age regression mechanic means that their minds are over 18, and this becomes some sort of loophole? Maybe they're not based in the US so the restrictions are lenient? This has been on my mind for a while now, and I'm wondering if anyone has an opinion (or even an intelligent guess) on this.

[rscholar]

Unfortunately I don't have an answer for the logistics side, but I've bought one or two comics when they were still somewhat focused on size - wasn't the best I've seen and the art can be hit and miss. They started dipping into AR more often and after Yard Work became a massive hit they've just been pushing the dynamic a lot more often. I should mention that Amy is the reverse issue - she started as a kid and AP'ed into an adult so technically she's still mentally a child while flaunting her body everywhere. Then there's the incest undertones where Amy and the mom seem like they get somewhat handsy with Luke and they're naked a lot and it's *super* uncomfortable. I think the age dynamic in the other stuff is to emphasize the humiliation and recycling the "stole my man" stories (again, with characters who are mentally still children).

I like some body morphing and skinny-fying in the shrinking process (especially with larger women like warriors or athletes), but I worry some of the stuff that I try to make that features this could skirt the line and be considered AR (in the Shrinkfan story "Clearance Sale," I wrote an athlete who gets shrunk and loses most of her muscle mass, becoming short and puny - I thought it would be an interesting emphasis on her stature by putting her overalls, but I realize that it looks weird [she doesn't participate in anything sexual and I tried to show she still had breasts, but still]). Dreamtales just goes for it seemingly without a second thought and the constant focus on pointing out the woman becoming a child and all the issues with her body and not being sexy anymore just gets creepy. I check in every so often to see if there might be anything of somewhat of interest, but I don't feel like I could ever buy anything from them again.

[Prof Sai]

I should mention that Amy is the reverse issue - she started as a kid and AP'ed into an adult so technically she's still mentally a child while flaunting her body everywhere. Then there's the incest undertones where Amy and the mom seem like they get somewhat handsy with Luke and they're naked a lot and it's *super* uncomfortable. I think the age dynamic in the other stuff is to emphasize the humiliation and recycling the "stole my man" stories (again, with characters who are mentally still children).

I agree about this. IMHO, the principle is that it is the person that laws should protect, not images or appearances. So a child is a child, no matter what they look like. The reverse situation is a bit more complicated to me. If they are clearly not children I can relate to them, but that requires some subtlety and taste that I don't trust Dreamtales to have. Dreamtales characters act like idiots much of the time. Even the ones who stay adult exhibit deplorable behavior, so I just don't want to be reminded that such people exist. Not something that laws can help with, but DT product is not for me.

[Firewall]

Yeah, I have to say at first, it didn't bother me. But after reading the most recent release of Yard Work, it bothered me the more I thought about it as a whole. It makes me wish that Dreamtales would go back to the Suzy, Frank, and Marilyn series instead of going all in on AP/AR

I suppose Dreamtales is realizing they like that stuff more than size kink.

[scidram]

It makes me wish that Dreamtales would go back to the Suzy, Frank, and Marilyn series instead of going all in on AP/AR.

Agreed wholeheartedly. The AP/AR stuff is kinda creepy.

How come Dreamtales doesn't get into trouble for this? Is it because the age regression mechanic means that their minds are over 18, and this becomes some sort of loophole? Maybe they're not based in the US so the restrictions are lenient? This has been on my mind for a while now, and I'm wondering if anyone has an opinion (or even an intelligent guess) on this.

I don't know where they're based, so I can't comment on any restrictions based on where they are. The loophole may very well be that they're illustrations and not real people. Real people would definitely be illegal, but illustrations... maybe not? Still Icky, though.