{
  "submission_id": "1572908",
  "keywords": [
    {
      "keyword_id": "34661",
      "keyword_name": "acceptance",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "103"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "23293",
      "keyword_name": "bladder",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "531"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "69926",
      "keyword_name": "body horror",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "615"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "247992",
      "keyword_name": "bodyhorror",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "57"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "38590",
      "keyword_name": "body modification",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "733"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "57",
      "keyword_name": "bunny",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "114231"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "603",
      "keyword_name": "cow",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "12614"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "398",
      "keyword_name": "demon",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "40716"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "21",
      "keyword_name": "dragon",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "152216"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "1444",
      "keyword_name": "family",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "6948"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "1659",
      "keyword_name": "fear",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "2797"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "123",
      "keyword_name": "female",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "1107934"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "679",
      "keyword_name": "herm",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "44531"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "1440",
      "keyword_name": "human",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "110222"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "165",
      "keyword_name": "male",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "1219062"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "6718",
      "keyword_name": "pissing",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "5233"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "3280",
      "keyword_name": "plant",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "6832"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "3233",
      "keyword_name": "reunion",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "172"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "17600",
      "keyword_name": "small cock",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "1378"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "33630",
      "keyword_name": "small dick",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "1247"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "5477",
      "keyword_name": "small penis",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "7311"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "5913",
      "keyword_name": "succubus",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "5122"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "2622",
      "keyword_name": "tentacle",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "7320"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "720",
      "keyword_name": "tentacles",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "20584"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "1335",
      "keyword_name": "tf",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "14907"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "1242",
      "keyword_name": "tg",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "2815"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "16112",
      "keyword_name": "tgtf",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "919"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "1336",
      "keyword_name": "transformation",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "45139"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "14627",
      "keyword_name": "urethra",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "1095"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "29026",
      "keyword_name": "urethral",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "1138"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "26230",
      "keyword_name": "urethral insertion",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "1385"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "30218",
      "keyword_name": "urethral penetration",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "1296"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "1327",
      "keyword_name": "urine",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "10436"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "1135",
      "keyword_name": "watersports",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "18675"
    },
    {
      "keyword_id": "17646",
      "keyword_name": "ws",
      "contributed": "f",
      "submissions_count": "1189"
    }
  ],
  "hidden": "f",
  "scraps": "f",
  "favorite": "f",
  "favorites_count": "2",
  "create_datetime": "2018-03-27 09:22:07.656555+00",
  "create_datetime_usertime": "27 Mar 2018 11:22 CEST",
  "last_file_update_datetime": "2018-03-27 09:10:36.207152+00",
  "last_file_update_datetime_usertime": "27 Mar 2018 11:10 CEST",
  "username": "NaughtyThorn",
  "user_id": "103194",
  "user_icon_file_name": "121236_Thornbrier_thorn_brier_head_100_.jpg",
  "user_icon_url_large": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/large/121/121236_Thornbrier_thorn_brier_head_100_.jpg",
  "user_icon_url_medium": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/medium/121/121236_Thornbrier_thorn_brier_head_100_.jpg",
  "user_icon_url_small": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/small/121/121236_Thornbrier_thorn_brier_head_100_.jpg",
  "file_name": "2235104_ThornBrier_joining.png",
  "file_url_full": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/full/2235/2235104_ThornBrier_joining.png",
  "file_url_screen": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/screen/2235/2235104_ThornBrier_joining.png",
  "file_url_preview": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/preview/2235/2235104_ThornBrier_joining.jpg",
  "thumbnail_url_huge_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/preview/2235/2235104_ThornBrier_joining.jpg",
  "thumbnail_url_large_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/large/2235/2235104_ThornBrier_joining_noncustom.jpg",
  "thumbnail_url_medium_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/medium/2235/2235104_ThornBrier_joining_noncustom.jpg",
  "thumb_medium_noncustom_x": "120",
  "thumb_medium_noncustom_y": "72",
  "thumb_large_noncustom_x": "200",
  "thumb_large_noncustom_y": "120",
  "thumb_huge_noncustom_x": "300",
  "thumb_huge_noncustom_y": "180",
  "files": [
    {
      "file_id": "2235104",
      "file_name": "2235104_ThornBrier_joining.png",
      "file_url_full": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/full/2235/2235104_ThornBrier_joining.png",
      "file_url_screen": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/screen/2235/2235104_ThornBrier_joining.png",
      "file_url_preview": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/preview/2235/2235104_ThornBrier_joining.jpg",
      "mimetype": "image/png",
      "submission_id": "1572908",
      "user_id": "103194",
      "submission_file_order": "0",
      "full_size_x": "713",
      "full_size_y": "428",
      "screen_size_x": "713",
      "screen_size_y": "428",
      "preview_size_x": "300",
      "preview_size_y": "180",
      "initial_file_md5": "29291c44e7d7ff22f0190caf616a3fbc",
      "full_file_md5": "6fe9d635f1587361ec93fb881432618c",
      "large_file_md5": "6fe9d635f1587361ec93fb881432618c",
      "small_file_md5": "1bff29e8884515da78414739422a58e8",
      "thumbnail_md5": "4133b2775d5b45367a13367d7e86310e",
      "deleted": "f",
      "create_datetime": "2018-03-27 09:10:36.207152+00",
      "create_datetime_usertime": "27 Mar 2018 11:10 CEST",
      "thumbnail_url_huge_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/preview/2235/2235104_ThornBrier_joining.jpg",
      "thumbnail_url_large_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/large/2235/2235104_ThornBrier_joining_noncustom.jpg",
      "thumbnail_url_medium_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/medium/2235/2235104_ThornBrier_joining_noncustom.jpg",
      "thumb_medium_noncustom_x": "120",
      "thumb_medium_noncustom_y": "72",
      "thumb_large_noncustom_x": "200",
      "thumb_large_noncustom_y": "120",
      "thumb_huge_noncustom_x": "300",
      "thumb_huge_noncustom_y": "180"
    }
  ],
  "pools": [
    {
      "pool_id": "43939",
      "name": "Random Scenes of Debauchery",
      "description": "This is a random collection of kinky scenes I just had to write but didn't necessarily have a larger story for. I might expand them into proper stories or they might just stay in this form forever.",
      "count": "27",
      "submission_left_submission_id": "1501873",
      "submission_left_file_name": "2127039_ThornBrier_jessica_s_sex_ed.jpg",
      "submission_left_thumbnail_url_huge_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/preview/2127/2127039_ThornBrier_jessica_s_sex_ed.jpg",
      "submission_left_thumbnail_url_large_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/large/2127/2127039_ThornBrier_jessica_s_sex_ed_noncustom.jpg",
      "submission_left_thumbnail_url_medium_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/medium/2127/2127039_ThornBrier_jessica_s_sex_ed_noncustom.jpg",
      "submission_left_thumb_medium_noncustom_x": "120",
      "submission_left_thumb_medium_noncustom_y": "41",
      "submission_left_thumb_large_noncustom_x": "200",
      "submission_left_thumb_large_noncustom_y": "69",
      "submission_left_thumb_huge_noncustom_x": "300",
      "submission_left_thumb_huge_noncustom_y": "103",
      "submission_right_submission_id": "1631450",
      "submission_right_file_name": "2327722_ThornBrier_winnie_s_fathers_day.png",
      "submission_right_thumbnail_url_huge_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/preview/2327/2327722_ThornBrier_winnie_s_fathers_day.jpg",
      "submission_right_thumbnail_url_large_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/large/2327/2327722_ThornBrier_winnie_s_fathers_day_noncustom.jpg",
      "submission_right_thumbnail_url_medium_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/medium/2327/2327722_ThornBrier_winnie_s_fathers_day_noncustom.jpg",
      "submission_right_thumb_medium_noncustom_x": "120",
      "submission_right_thumb_medium_noncustom_y": "78",
      "submission_right_thumb_large_noncustom_x": "200",
      "submission_right_thumb_large_noncustom_y": "130",
      "submission_right_thumb_huge_noncustom_x": "300",
      "submission_right_thumb_huge_noncustom_y": "195"
    }
  ],
  "description": "A random bit of non-sexual tf smut I thought up years ago. I've been slowly working on it in stages. I sometimes imagine this being in the same world as my Who Am I? story, other times I'm not so sure. \n\nEven as tame as it is, this is probably the second most extreme water sports related thing I've ever written, and I'll probably never share the first. Because of this, I actually can't even see this submission in my gallery since it has keywords I myself block. That is really weird.\n\nIf you'd like to support my free work consider donating with [url=https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Thornbrier]BuyMeACoffee[/url].",
  "description_bbcode_parsed": "<span style='word-wrap: break-word;'>A random bit of non-sexual tf smut I thought up years ago. I&#039;ve been slowly working on it in stages. I sometimes imagine this being in the same world as my Who Am I? story, other times I&#039;m not so sure. <br /><br />Even as tame as it is, this is probably the second most extreme water sports related thing I&#039;ve ever written, and I&#039;ll probably never share the first. Because of this, I actually can&#039;t even see this submission in my gallery since it has keywords I myself block. That is really weird.<br /><br />If you&#039;d like to support my free work consider donating with <a href=\"https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Thornbrier\" rel=\"nofollow\">BuyMeACoffee</a>.</span>",
  "writing": "Tom sighed heavily as he looked down the overgrown road, all of the half covered garages indicating where driveways once held mighty metal machines to transport people across the now-defunct pavement veins of the old world. Children, or what he assumed were children, played out in the greenery between the buildings as the sun hung low in the sky. \n\nAs Tom walked up the remnants of the road he saw many strange and wondrous creatures observing him from rooftops. Some were familiar gryphon and dragon models, a Pegasus Charger10 Rubius even eyed him from behind a fence on a well-manicured lawn. Many other creatures were newer hybrids he’d never seen. He tried not to think on how many of them might have once been human.\n\nThe children mostly ran home as the sun finally cast its last rays of the day and Tom turned up a walkway to a familiar door. Even before he could knock, the door flung open and a large cow woman threw her arms around him, her bare breasts engulfing and surrounding his entire head.\n\n“OHHH TOM! You finally came back.” She pulled back to look down at him.\n\nTom was stunned and had difficulty finding words. “Maddy, is that you?\" He looked over her form, not quite believing it. “Why a cow?”\n\nMadeline guided him into her living room and directed him to the couch. \"Well, we aren't really sure. Most turn into something they think of as their true self. Me, I just... plumped up and turned ... cowish. But what about you, Tom? I haven't seen you in years, and you’re still human. I’m surprised. Is, is that why you left?\"\n\nTom removed his backpack and set it beside the couch. \"I know sis. When people started changing, I just couldn't stay. I... I wasn't willing to face what I think I'll become.” He sat down, his bony hands fidgeting in his thin lap. “I’m still not entirely comfortable with it, but being the only human left is getting really hard. So I came home to make the change among loved ones.\"\n\nMadeline twisted uncomfortably in her oversized recliner, “Well, mom and dad are plants now, we potted them at their realty offices. But now they are resource managers for our new government.” She twisted her hands nervously, “And, not to drive you away, that’s the last thing I’d want to do, but, I mean, you know, in the interest of…”\n\n“Maddy, just say it already.”\n\n“Um, well, you aren’t the only human. There’s a small quarantined commune living in a park in Bishopwood Hollow. I think there’s about 12 of them, not entirely sure. I’ve never been there, I just kept an ear out on ‘em in case you showed up there.” She saw as Tom’s eyes widened and immediately wished she’d never mentioned the humans. “But, but there’s no use going there now, they seal the gates just before sundown, and in the dark you wouldn’t be able to make it there without being changed first yourself.  So, uh, why don’t you stay here tonight and think once more if you really want to join us or if you want to join them and keep your humanity.”\n\nTom sat in the couch, dumbfounded at this news as Maddy got up to prepare things for his stay. His fingers caught in his rusty beard and he didn’t really notice until she called him up.\n\nMaddy arranged an upstairs room for Tom just down the hall from where she and her dragon slept. She turned on the bathroom light as well as the hall light, just to be safe. Tom couldn’t sleep though. Knowing there were still other humans remaining threw him for a loop. All these years of searching and here they were, only one town away from his childhood home.\n\nIt would be so nice having a safe place in the city with others like him, so much easier than the years he spent alone making sure to return to the wilds each day before nightfall. Even in this, his own house, he worked hard to suppress the drive of his survival habits.\n\nOne advantage of living alone all this time meant that he could only rarely get his hands on any alcohol. When he could, the entire supply vanished rapidly in a hollow attempt to drown his loneliness. It also meant he couldn’t hurt anyone.\n\nWhen Tom realized he needed to pee he searched through his pack for a suitable container to piss into only to realize that he hadn’t been planning to need another one. Perhaps Madeline had something he could use. Looking down the lit hall past the restroom and into the inky black of her room, Tom wasn’t very confident he could make it to her, let alone survive the darkness of her closet and its own master bathroom.\n\nHe’d come so far, gotten so close, but this would be the end of it. \n\nLooking out the window into the suburban jungle, Tom took a deep breath and reconciled himself once more to the same conclusion he’d come to every night for the past week. He was home, and even without his family around, now was the time.\n\nHe stepped out into the hall, one foot slowly coming in front of the other. Each step felt like an eternity as his desires battled one another, one of the loudest in the fight being the throbbing of his bladder. Clenching his legs tight, he turned to face the bathroom. He placed his hands on the jamb for support and examined the forbidden chamber where he had so often masturbated as a teen. \n\nLittle had changed here in all these years. Clearly, Maddy couldn’t use it. She’d probably had the master bath modified for her new form. That, or the kitchen. One advantage of joining with everyone, soon Tom would never have to scrounge for food ever again.\n\nThe porcelain death trap sat between the sink and the tub with the lid taped shut. Tom had left his knife back in his pack. This wasn’t going to be as easy as sitting down and accepting the change like he’d planned. He could just shut off the lights and let it happen, but his ingrained habits wouldn’t let him flip that switch. He reasoned that it was a coward's way anyhow.\n\nTom slowly removed his patched and tattered shirt to reveal the spotty white skin underneath, the loose skin barely holding onto his scant muscles and lanky bones. Examining himself in the mirror he pondered what he would see the next time he passed this revealing portal. He removed his camouflage cargo pants and the Britain’s Best Breeders underwear he’d won in a dice game over a year ago.\n\nIn the mirror, his penis was almost invisible in his wild red bush. While it wasn’t very big, he was often thankful he had a penis when out in the wilds. Far less of a mess to clean up than the women he’d traveled with for the first couple years.\n\nFiguring it might be the last time he’d see it, Tom reached down and pushed back the red hair while pulling out his little cock. The ache of his bladder surged into his mind and he looked to the tub while still holding that tiny member in his fingers.\n\nHe removed his socks and climbed into the tub. Even his old rubber ducky was still in the soap tray. Sick of these reminders he took the duck and threw it across the room. It bounced off the medicine cabinet and landed in the sink, out of his view.\n\nOnce more, he took a deep breath to steady himself on his path. He moved forward in the tub and leaned back. He aimed toward the drain between his legs and tried to pee. Despite how full his bladder was this was still a strange position for him. He tried to relax, but that just brought a flood of memories of all he’d been through to avoid this very day.\n\nIt took several minutes for the first trickle to drip from his member, but then the urine shot like a fire hose. Tom closed his eyes and waited as he kept peeing. His only consolation in that moment was the feeling of relief from finally letting it out.\n\nWith his eyes closed, Tom didn’t see, didn’t want to see, the slimy pink tendrils emerging from the drain. They backed away from the light while also trying to follow the trail of urine. His stream was strong and the tendril drank it all in, following it to the source.\n\nWithout any warning, Tom felt the tendril dive into his tiny prick. He gasped and pulled back, but almost as fast another tendril shot from the drain into his asshole. They both swelled inside of him and pulled his body closer to the drain. The pleasure shooting through his body was unimaginable.\n\nHe’d heard countless people speak about how wonderful the joining was, but nothing could have prepared him for the truth of experiencing it himself. While the sensations started only in his cock it wasn’t even sexual, it spread through his entire being, it filled him entirely. The glory of the joining was intoxicating.\n\nHe finally understood what all those faithful people at his AA meetings said about finding a connection to a higher power. Gods had never made sense to him, but this, this did.\n\nPart of his mind was aware that his body was shifting, but most of his perception focused on the flood of information pouring into him through the tendrils. He could feel everyone, almost everyone, in the whole world. Their minds, their echoes at least, were all present in the Joining. \n\nHe searched through the world even as his legs grew longer and his muscles regained their lost mass. His parents were easiest to find. Their dedication to their business, their love of country and family, even as plants that hadn’t changed much, and in their echo he could feel their love for him. He followed their connections to find his sister and her old high school boyfriend who now slept beside her as a dragon.\n\nTom’s fingers grew into long, delicate claws, but he focused on the echoes in the Joining. Seeing the memories of loved ones was easy, but the dragon was a virtual stranger to Tom. He delved into the dragon’s memory and found a love of flying from city to city carrying packages. Even though it was often easier to have a teleporter send it, he still loved the experience of the flight, and through the Joining, others knew this too. They still sent him on deliveries and he shared the experience with the world, as did many others like him.\n\nTom shared his experiences, making them available through the Joining. Within seconds he became aware of thousands of others across the world who were enjoying his life experiences that very moment. One thanked him immediately for the wonderful life he shared, others said they would explore it in more detail later and thanked him for offering it to them.\n\nAs Tom’s back split open he felt someone criticising his survival strategies. He shot back that it was the best he’d known at the time and dozens of other minds came to his defense against the troll.\n\nReturning to his family he found that they were present as minds in the Joining as well. They embraced him fully with their love and acceptance, welcoming him back, not only into their lives, but into the connected world.\n\nThe tub was becoming too small for his new body, so he climbed out of the tub with a little bit of difficulty, his long red legs, and black toe claws catching on the edge. The tendrils receded from his body, breaking his link with the world, but he knew that he could return to it now with ease. \n\nHe carefully stepped toward the mirror, his new wings pressing against the walls supportively. Before he got into position he looked to the toilet tape. “Don't need that anymore.” With a focused flick of new muscles, his spade tail sliced the silver fabric with ease.\n\nLooking at his reflection he welcomed the image he had always feared. His hands stroked at the curvey horns of his head with admiration, his jet-black hair flowing over and under the exposed bone elegantly. \n\nA new pair of hands reached up to feel the powerful abdominal muscles before cupping his new pair of breasts. His small cock pulled into his new vagina, yet he knows it would return, and more, any time he needed it.\n\nThe only thing in the mirror that surprised him was the bunny ears and nose and the red peach fuzz like fur covering his red skin.\n\nHe sighed with relief and cried tears of happiness. All those years of running, fearing this change, this body. Tammy was just happy to finally be home with her sister. Peace at last.\n\nShutting off the lights she returned to her room to fall asleep and let the tentacles return her to the Joining.",
  "writing_bbcode_parsed": "<span style='word-wrap: break-word;'>Tom sighed heavily as he looked down the overgrown road, all of the half covered garages indicating where driveways once held mighty metal machines to transport people across the now-defunct pavement veins of the old world. Children, or what he assumed were children, played out in the greenery between the buildings as the sun hung low in the sky. <br /><br />As Tom walked up the remnants of the road he saw many strange and wondrous creatures observing him from rooftops. Some were familiar gryphon and dragon models, a Pegasus Charger10 Rubius even eyed him from behind a fence on a well-manicured lawn. Many other creatures were newer hybrids he&rsquo;d never seen. He tried not to think on how many of them might have once been human.<br /><br />The children mostly ran home as the sun finally cast its last rays of the day and Tom turned up a walkway to a familiar door. Even before he could knock, the door flung open and a large cow woman threw her arms around him, her bare breasts engulfing and surrounding his entire head.<br /><br />&ldquo;OHHH TOM! You finally came back.&rdquo; She pulled back to look down at him.<br /><br />Tom was stunned and had difficulty finding words. &ldquo;Maddy, is that you?&quot; He looked over her form, not quite believing it. &ldquo;Why a cow?&rdquo;<br /><br />Madeline guided him into her living room and directed him to the couch. &quot;Well, we aren&#039;t really sure. Most turn into something they think of as their true self. Me, I just... plumped up and turned ... cowish. But what about you, Tom? I haven&#039;t seen you in years, and you&rsquo;re still human. I&rsquo;m surprised. Is, is that why you left?&quot;<br /><br />Tom removed his backpack and set it beside the couch. &quot;I know sis. When people started changing, I just couldn&#039;t stay. I... I wasn&#039;t willing to face what I think I&#039;ll become.&rdquo; He sat down, his bony hands fidgeting in his thin lap. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m still not entirely comfortable with it, but being the only human left is getting really hard. So I came home to make the change among loved ones.&quot;<br /><br />Madeline twisted uncomfortably in her oversized recliner, &ldquo;Well, mom and dad are plants now, we potted them at their realty offices. But now they are resource managers for our new government.&rdquo; She twisted her hands nervously, &ldquo;And, not to drive you away, that&rsquo;s the last thing I&rsquo;d want to do, but, I mean, you know, in the interest of&hellip;&rdquo;<br /><br />&ldquo;Maddy, just say it already.&rdquo;<br /><br />&ldquo;Um, well, you aren&rsquo;t the only human. There&rsquo;s a small quarantined commune living in a park in Bishopwood Hollow. I think there&rsquo;s about 12 of them, not entirely sure. I&rsquo;ve never been there, I just kept an ear out on &lsquo;em in case you showed up there.&rdquo; She saw as Tom&rsquo;s eyes widened and immediately wished she&rsquo;d never mentioned the humans. &ldquo;But, but there&rsquo;s no use going there now, they seal the gates just before sundown, and in the dark you wouldn&rsquo;t be able to make it there without being changed first yourself.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, uh, why don&rsquo;t you stay here tonight and think once more if you really want to join us or if you want to join them and keep your humanity.&rdquo;<br /><br />Tom sat in the couch, dumbfounded at this news as Maddy got up to prepare things for his stay. His fingers caught in his rusty beard and he didn&rsquo;t really notice until she called him up.<br /><br />Maddy arranged an upstairs room for Tom just down the hall from where she and her dragon slept. She turned on the bathroom light as well as the hall light, just to be safe. Tom couldn&rsquo;t sleep though. Knowing there were still other humans remaining threw him for a loop. All these years of searching and here they were, only one town away from his childhood home.<br /><br />It would be so nice having a safe place in the city with others like him, so much easier than the years he spent alone making sure to return to the wilds each day before nightfall. Even in this, his own house, he worked hard to suppress the drive of his survival habits.<br /><br />One advantage of living alone all this time meant that he could only rarely get his hands on any alcohol. When he could, the entire supply vanished rapidly in a hollow attempt to drown his loneliness. It also meant he couldn&rsquo;t hurt anyone.<br /><br />When Tom realized he needed to pee he searched through his pack for a suitable container to piss into only to realize that he hadn&rsquo;t been planning to need another one. Perhaps Madeline had something he could use. Looking down the lit hall past the restroom and into the inky black of her room, Tom wasn&rsquo;t very confident he could make it to her, let alone survive the darkness of her closet and its own master bathroom.<br /><br />He&rsquo;d come so far, gotten so close, but this would be the end of it. <br /><br />Looking out the window into the suburban jungle, Tom took a deep breath and reconciled himself once more to the same conclusion he&rsquo;d come to every night for the past week. He was home, and even without his family around, now was the time.<br /><br />He stepped out into the hall, one foot slowly coming in front of the other. Each step felt like an eternity as his desires battled one another, one of the loudest in the fight being the throbbing of his bladder. Clenching his legs tight, he turned to face the bathroom. He placed his hands on the jamb for support and examined the forbidden chamber where he had so often masturbated as a teen. <br /><br />Little had changed here in all these years. Clearly, Maddy couldn&rsquo;t use it. She&rsquo;d probably had the master bath modified for her new form. That, or the kitchen. One advantage of joining with everyone, soon Tom would never have to scrounge for food ever again.<br /><br />The porcelain death trap sat between the sink and the tub with the lid taped shut. Tom had left his knife back in his pack. This wasn&rsquo;t going to be as easy as sitting down and accepting the change like he&rsquo;d planned. He could just shut off the lights and let it happen, but his ingrained habits wouldn&rsquo;t let him flip that switch. He reasoned that it was a coward&#039;s way anyhow.<br /><br />Tom slowly removed his patched and tattered shirt to reveal the spotty white skin underneath, the loose skin barely holding onto his scant muscles and lanky bones. Examining himself in the mirror he pondered what he would see the next time he passed this revealing portal. He removed his camouflage cargo pants and the Britain&rsquo;s Best Breeders underwear he&rsquo;d won in a dice game over a year ago.<br /><br />In the mirror, his penis was almost invisible in his wild red bush. While it wasn&rsquo;t very big, he was often thankful he had a penis when out in the wilds. Far less of a mess to clean up than the women he&rsquo;d traveled with for the first couple years.<br /><br />Figuring it might be the last time he&rsquo;d see it, Tom reached down and pushed back the red hair while pulling out his little cock. The ache of his bladder surged into his mind and he looked to the tub while still holding that tiny member in his fingers.<br /><br />He removed his socks and climbed into the tub. Even his old rubber ducky was still in the soap tray. Sick of these reminders he took the duck and threw it across the room. It bounced off the medicine cabinet and landed in the sink, out of his view.<br /><br />Once more, he took a deep breath to steady himself on his path. He moved forward in the tub and leaned back. He aimed toward the drain between his legs and tried to pee. Despite how full his bladder was this was still a strange position for him. He tried to relax, but that just brought a flood of memories of all he&rsquo;d been through to avoid this very day.<br /><br />It took several minutes for the first trickle to drip from his member, but then the urine shot like a fire hose. Tom closed his eyes and waited as he kept peeing. His only consolation in that moment was the feeling of relief from finally letting it out.<br /><br />With his eyes closed, Tom didn&rsquo;t see, didn&rsquo;t want to see, the slimy pink tendrils emerging from the drain. They backed away from the light while also trying to follow the trail of urine. His stream was strong and the tendril drank it all in, following it to the source.<br /><br />Without any warning, Tom felt the tendril dive into his tiny prick. He gasped and pulled back, but almost as fast another tendril shot from the drain into his asshole. They both swelled inside of him and pulled his body closer to the drain. The pleasure shooting through his body was unimaginable.<br /><br />He&rsquo;d heard countless people speak about how wonderful the joining was, but nothing could have prepared him for the truth of experiencing it himself. While the sensations started only in his cock it wasn&rsquo;t even sexual, it spread through his entire being, it filled him entirely. The glory of the joining was intoxicating.<br /><br />He finally understood what all those faithful people at his AA meetings said about finding a connection to a higher power. Gods had never made sense to him, but this, this did.<br /><br />Part of his mind was aware that his body was shifting, but most of his perception focused on the flood of information pouring into him through the tendrils. He could feel everyone, almost everyone, in the whole world. Their minds, their echoes at least, were all present in the Joining. <br /><br />He searched through the world even as his legs grew longer and his muscles regained their lost mass. His parents were easiest to find. Their dedication to their business, their love of country and family, even as plants that hadn&rsquo;t changed much, and in their echo he could feel their love for him. He followed their connections to find his sister and her old high school boyfriend who now slept beside her as a dragon.<br /><br />Tom&rsquo;s fingers grew into long, delicate claws, but he focused on the echoes in the Joining. Seeing the memories of loved ones was easy, but the dragon was a virtual stranger to Tom. He delved into the dragon&rsquo;s memory and found a love of flying from city to city carrying packages. Even though it was often easier to have a teleporter send it, he still loved the experience of the flight, and through the Joining, others knew this too. They still sent him on deliveries and he shared the experience with the world, as did many others like him.<br /><br />Tom shared his experiences, making them available through the Joining. Within seconds he became aware of thousands of others across the world who were enjoying his life experiences that very moment. One thanked him immediately for the wonderful life he shared, others said they would explore it in more detail later and thanked him for offering it to them.<br /><br />As Tom&rsquo;s back split open he felt someone criticising his survival strategies. He shot back that it was the best he&rsquo;d known at the time and dozens of other minds came to his defense against the troll.<br /><br />Returning to his family he found that they were present as minds in the Joining as well. They embraced him fully with their love and acceptance, welcoming him back, not only into their lives, but into the connected world.<br /><br />The tub was becoming too small for his new body, so he climbed out of the tub with a little bit of difficulty, his long red legs, and black toe claws catching on the edge. The tendrils receded from his body, breaking his link with the world, but he knew that he could return to it now with ease. <br /><br />He carefully stepped toward the mirror, his new wings pressing against the walls supportively. Before he got into position he looked to the toilet tape. &ldquo;Don&#039;t need that anymore.&rdquo; With a focused flick of new muscles, his spade tail sliced the silver fabric with ease.<br /><br />Looking at his reflection he welcomed the image he had always feared. His hands stroked at the curvey horns of his head with admiration, his jet-black hair flowing over and under the exposed bone elegantly. <br /><br />A new pair of hands reached up to feel the powerful abdominal muscles before cupping his new pair of breasts. His small cock pulled into his new vagina, yet he knows it would return, and more, any time he needed it.<br /><br />The only thing in the mirror that surprised him was the bunny ears and nose and the red peach fuzz like fur covering his red skin.<br /><br />He sighed with relief and cried tears of happiness. All those years of running, fearing this change, this body. Tammy was just happy to finally be home with her sister. Peace at last.<br /><br />Shutting off the lights she returned to her room to fall asleep and let the tentacles return her to the Joining.</span>",
  "pools_count": 1,
  "title": "The Joining",
  "deleted": "f",
  "public": "t",
  "mimetype": "image/png",
  "pagecount": "1",
  "rating_id": "1",
  "rating_name": "Mature",
  "ratings": [
    {
      "content_tag_id": "2",
      "name": "Nudity",
      "description": "Nonsexual nudity exposing breasts or genitals (must not show arousal)",
      "rating_id": "1"
    }
  ],
  "submission_type_id": "12",
  "type_name": "Writing - Document",
  "guest_block": "t",
  "friends_only": "f",
  "comments_count": "0",
  "views": "748"
}