Permanent Popping...

I'm personally not into popping. I find the idea of death a complete turn-off, especially a gory death. However, I agree that it is good way to wrap up a story with a definite and final ending. Some stories need that kind of ending, and popping would seem to be the natural course to go.
I'd like to hear more opinions myself, especially what it is about popping people find desireable/undesireable.

The reaction to knowing they're about to explode is the biggest turn on for me. It's all about the reaction to it all that I love. That's why I love when people freak out during inflation. One of my favorite scenes is Leprechaun 3, and the reason I love it so much is her reactions. From the freaking out, to the screams for help. Plus the look on her face when her fat ass gets stuck in the door is priceless. She knows she's going to pop and can't stop it. Ah. I love it.

I particularly like DizzyOniGirl's stories for depictions of inflatees who willingly succumb to their destruction. There's something very sexually intriguing about it where the concept of obliteration is still strong. They shouldn't want to explode, yet they do.

But also I like it when she is scared, not mortal fear scared, more roller coaster scared, and when she ponders things like the sound of the explosion, the destruction, the aftermath and whether anyone will hear.

i started work on a story I never finished years ago where the girl who is inflated isn't worried about her own demise as much as the fact she will take out the entire building with all her friends inside, and so she has to escape.

A few years ago I wrote my body inflation "fetish manifesto" in which I explained in detail the ins and outs of why body inflation is attractive to me, and that lack of control is a common theme among many of my fetishes.  Popping, and the permanance of popping, was one of the subjects I hit on.  You can read the full manifesto on my DA if you wish, but here's the popping excerpt, which mirrors a lot of what has already been said:

Personally, I think a woman dies after she bursts.  As imaginary as body inflation is, I prefer to treat it with as much realism as possible, and the thought of her somehow surviving the blast doesn't jive with my logic.  However, my standpoint is a little different, and it took me a while to figure out why that whole concept was arousing to me.  It all goes back to lack of control.

Let's use a lower stakes example to illustrate my point.  A woman sits on a couch with a half-gallon of ice cream and watches TV.  She likes the ice cream, and next thing she knows she's eaten the whole thing because it tasted so good.  The next morning she steps on the scale and sees that she gained 3 pounds.  The taste of the ice cream basically caused her to lose control of her weight, even if for just that one day.

I see bursting the same way: a woman is so helpless that she cannot prevent herself from inflating larger and larger, and she does not even possess the most basic ability to ensure her own survival.  So it's not that "doubleintegral gets turned on by chicks dying," but rather I get turned on by the fictional events and circumstances leading up to a fictional woman bursting.  And to continue my previous point about women voluntarily inflating, if her own indulgence in turning herself into a blimp causes her to burst... well, even better.  That's like a woman intentionally eating 20 cartons of ice cream knowing that she will gain weight and she either wants to or doesn't care.

I totally agree with you—I take pleasure in the popping of a girl who is freaking out. I like ten. To feel pain and enjoy the popping to be bloody.

The difference between popping and death is going to be difficult to understand for someone who doesn't get it. If you just apply logic to it then it's hard to avoid, you would say 'well if she's been obliterated, and doesn't get reformed and doesn't go anywhere, surely that's the same as death'. The beauty of fantasies is that they don't have to follow logic. I think if you're into popping but aren't into death, then from an early age your brain has been conditioned as the fetish was forming to see them as two totally separate things. But if you haven't got that, and can only see the logical connection then no amount of explaining is going to cut that link.

For me in RP, I don't just stop writing right away, I enjoy to linger a little on the aftermath. Describing what the explosion felt like for any people caught in the blast, scenes of destruction, little touches... smouldering shoes left where she was standing is a little favourite of mine, but I have others. But it doesn't go on long after the explosion, that is the climax of the RP... and then it's not as though we just stop talking and sign off, we'll still chat afterwards.

Let's revive this lovely thread! ^_^

I used to be a rather bloodthirsty guy - until I got married to a girl who dreams of popping herself into nothingness. So, I'm not a popping fan anymore, but this fantasy is preserved in the family ;)

World-wise a big part of the thrill is the importance of the pop for the character. What is a better way to make the pop unforgettable, than to make it single and unique?

And by making it permanent - you rise a beautiful issue of social implications: technology, sports, creative arts. Let me give one example. If popping is permanent, the characters of imaginary world will strive to walk the edge while avoiding the actual pop.

well im a person who love popping girls. but remember its always a fantasy so you would not kill a real person. think about you playing "call of duty", do you feel sorry for al the soldiers who you had shot in the game, i think not, they are fantasy to.

and in fantasies Pops are a kind of permanet, yes. as you pop a balloon its not the same after as bevore, and you cnt inflate it again. but imagen the persoon you pop in your fatasies, you had tought more times about it so in that way its not permanent, you can pop them al ofer again.

about the "the end"part. well it doesnt turn me off, she cant pop without to end. and remember the part its just fantasy, she doesnt die for real. some are happy to pop. i dont think about all the drama of death, i just focus on the pop i really like. and i willlive worry free after it

This is one of my biggest problems with other people who like popping.  Permanent popping and whatnot is murder.

I just can't sexualize murder, that's wrong.

This is just my opinion, obviously, but I worry about the morals of someone who thinks murdering someone via popping is arousing.

I like popping because I like inflation, and popping is inflation taken to the greatest extreme. It’s inflation turned up to 11.

I’m not all that concerned with the morality of it. Fantasy is not reality. As a gamer I've racked up an impressive virtual body count. I've wiped out entire civilizations. Popping a few characters doesn't seem like that big a deal in that context. But I understand why some people are put off by it.

Regardless of whether one likes popping, I think the possibility has to be there in order to create any credible tension. I remember a time way back in the day when nobody wrote popping stories. I found it difficult to take a character who shouted “Look out, she’s going to explode!” very seriously. It was certain that something, somehow, would halt the inflation before she went boom.

Nowadays, no such certainty exists. And I think that’s a good thing.

i enjoy it and the whole reforming/regenerating thing is a huge throw off for me unless it's foreshadowed or some unexplainable magic crap it's just completely stupid for me

I go along with Carnatic regards popping. The idea of being forced to inflate against my will by a beautiful woman and then popped into obliteration, just completely gone, smacks of overwhelming sexual power. The gradual build-up of pressure, the taunting by the woman and the knowledge that I'm doomed/not getting out of it is the turn-on for me.