FUNNY SEARCH OF THE DAY

"Muscle smut babes" via MSN search.

A SUPER-STRONG KATE BECKINSALE?

While the idea has some draw, I'm having trouble believing Kate Beckinsale as a super-humanly powerful action hero in Underworld. She's just too cute and girly, though at 5'8" she's nice and tall for a starlet.

She doesn't seem to have very good sense for which scripts are worthwhile - most everything since Much Ado About Nothing has been a dog, and the writer on that one had a pretty good rep even before the release.

BEST IMDB ENTRY OF ALL TIME?

Lingster's Big Mouth is accempting submissions for the best female IMDB entry. Right now we're going with Tera Patrick's, which is reasonably hilarious. In addition to having been in some humorously named films, i.e. Foot Lovers Only II and Nice Rack IV, Miss Patrick is a registered nurse and is sometimes credited as:

Brooke
Tera Hopkins
Sadie Jordan
Tara Patrick
Linda Shapiro
Brooke Thomas

"Linda Shapiro?" What the hell is that about? Anyway, send 'em off to lingster@email.com.

Tera Patrick [IMDB]

ACCOMPLISHING THE IMPOSSIBLE: HUMANIZING HARVEY PEKAR

Tonight I went to see American Splendor, at the Sunshine Theatre on Houston St. For those of you unfamiliar, American Splendor is a comic book about the life of Harvey Pekar. In the mid-70s, V.A. hospital file clerk Pekar was inspired by the comics success of his friend Robert Crumb - of whom many of us are fond - to begin his own comic book series, about the mundanities his own life.

I've always considered Pekar to be kind of an asshole, but I was surprised that the film managed to depict him as a sympathetic character. And it was done without causing the viewer to pity him, which is what Pekar usually aims for in his comic books.

GROAN

I found a new story on DtV today - "Triple Threat". It begins:

In Massachuttes their was a set of Tripleletts that were genicaly engineered by a renogade scientist by the name of Dr Sinester to be his ultimate wepons.

Dude - six misspelled words in a 27 word sentence has got to be some kind of record.

FROM THE TIMES BEFORE

I was looking for female bodybuilding art prints, but found this instead. It comes from the time before "phallic symbol" had entered general parlance. It's the most hilariously homoerotic thing I've ever seen.

OH MY STARS AND GARTERS

Lookie lookie what Fistman found. She's like a brawny Britney clone. Just 19 years old.

BOJAY OFFERS ART COLLECTION ON CD

Many of you are probably familiar with the work of Bojay, an artist who works mainly in the age-regression and -progression fetish areas. His work often overlaps into growth topics and he occasionally depicts female muscle growth. Breast growth is a frequent topic. The figures he draws are extremely expressive - their faces transmit joy and horror with tremendous force. It's this expressiveness that really makes his work something special.

I believe the first time I encountered Bojay's work was when it accompanied an essay in a muscle magazine - possibly Muscular Development - around 1990 or 1991. The essay was entitled "How Bodybuilding Beat the Bully" or something similar, and was written by a woman who recounted how, when she was in school, lifting weights had helped her turn the tables on a larger girl who'd been harassing her. The artwork was stunning. From the similarity in style - and at this point I can only see the work in my mind's eye - I'm about 80% sure the artist was Bojay. There were at least three separate drawings -

1) Small, scrawny, feeble-looking redhead being harassed in front of lockers by large, chubby-but-powerful girl.
2) Red-headed girl doing curls on bench, while father looks on approvingly, small biceps popping.
3) Girl standing in front of lockers - expression of confident glee on her face, with her newly-muscled chest puffed out. Her shoulders and arms show similar development - overall gymnast-type build.

Nomdreserv's site has several examples of his work, The Chamber being the best example for our purposes.

I'm telling you all this because Bojay has now released a CD including his sketchbooks and some finished work. The CD is $35 and includes 750 scanned pages of his drawings. There's a bunch of information about the CD here, and if you click down through "Even More Samples" you'll get to this page.

I haven't seen the CD yet, but based on the past quality of Bojay's work, I'm very excited about it. If you're into transformations in general, this CD is a must-have. I expect that female muscle growth and breast growth fans will also be very pleased with it. 750 pages! It could take weeks to work your way through that! You can order here.

HELLUVA RENDER POSTED

I'm not 100% sure how he created it, but "ssqarooni" posted this image to Renderosity the other day. My suspicion is that he attached Victoria 2's head to Michael's body, and then used "magnets" to feminize it a bit while bulking up the arms. I'd love to have those arm magnets.

TETSUKO PROGRESSING

David C. Matthews posts that he has finished another five pages of the "new" Tetsuko story. The art is terrific, of course, but the muscle-honey, Tetsuko, hardly appears at all! Come on, Dave! You're killing us! Must go faster!

LIVE FROM THE GIANTESS BOARDS

Reader Kevin sends a lengthy message:

Mighty Lingster,

I was disappointed that when you changed the site design recently, you also changed the description of the blog. You took out the "growing" bit. There are innumerable pages on the web for fans of busty women, but it was really the phrase "growing bustier and more powerful" that told me your blog was one I wanted to watch.

I'm a sucker for the growth thing, see. Busty is good, powerful is great, but I find what I really like to watch is the woman's process of discovery as she explores her newfound power over both physical and sexual subjects.

I mean, you post growth stories, so I believe you already know this. I just thought you might need reminding, since your tagline changed.

While I'm writing to you on the subject, I should mention that ZZZ's hotboard forums occasionally have some good content, even if the interface is rather terrible to browse. Do you know anyone who would offer to host works that appear there, so that you could actually find a story and it wouldn't disappear after it fell off the end of the forum?

Thanks for writing,

- a reader

Well, I dropped the "growing" part because I'm trying to draw a wider audience. Not everyone is a FMG fan. Also, I find that my real life is intersecting more and more often with my blog life, and that has spurred me to de-emphasize the meta-fetish itself - shifting power relationships - in favor of its mechanism and outcome - muscular and busty women. That isn't to say I won't still write about it, but I don't want to push people away from the blog or from me as a real person.

Kevin went on to include links to several stories on ZZZ's boards, only one of which really grabbed me by the crotch rocket, if y'know what I mean. And so I give you Imposer 1.0, by Au Goose. So far only part one has been posted, but hopefully the man will get off his ass and post again soon.

Other links:
ZZZ's Phoenix Ashes

STARGATE SG-1 ANALYSIS

Well, there were several athletic women on Stargate SG-1 last night, one of whom was bodybuilder-level muscular. None of the burly babes had speaking roles, unfortunately, and I didn't recognize any of them. Still, the introduction of amazonic characters on this episode of SG-1 bodes well - the show is self-referential and frequently draws on past characters in new episodes. The stargate is now open to all sorts of musclegirl potential.

JESSICA SIMPSON'S SISTER MAKES THE SCENE

Apparently Jessica Simpson's sister has begun her show-biz career. I don't know anything about her, but I can see two things the girls have in common.

WELL, THAT WAS SOMETHING

I wish I'd been in the subway when the power dropped - that would have been fun.

ONE OF US HAS PASSED

Gregory Hines passed away today - some of you may know that he was engaged to Negrita Jayde, a very foxy bodybuilding pioneer. It's a shame - he seemed like a nice guy.

ATTACK OF THE SNIPPER

The next time you're griping about how difficult it is for you to get off, think about what this freak must go through. I guess his imagination isn't enough. I make fun of the situation in the expectation that he's mostly harmless, or at least intends no real harm. Hopefully no one will get hurt.

AMAZONS ON STARGATE SG-1

Looks like next Friday Stargate SG-1 will feature a group of female "Jaffa" - alien warrior-types. They're normally male, so this is one of those special things that happen sometimes when you're not looking for it. Star Trek's Jolene Blalock plays their leader. From the preview I saw, there wasn't any femuscle. But in crowd scenes in the past female Jaffa have been played by bodybuilder extras - so we might get lucky. They look really tough and beat the crap out of a lot of people, so that's good. I'll post more info as I get it.

VERY SEXY RENDER

Nudity here, but nice work from a guy who claims inspiration from Boris Vallejo.

ANOTHER KELLY PRESTON PHOTO

God, I love her. On looks alone, she ought to be a major star. And she's got such a nice, curvy figure.

KILLER OF GIANTS

Artist Jon has posted a new image at Renderosity.

IRON VIRGIN JUN

I managed to get a copy of this old anime the other day - Iron Virgin Jun. The animation is pretty poor, but from a FMG perspective it's still worth the trouble. 18-year-old Jun looks normal most of the time, but when she goes into battle becomes a muscular amazon. In her first battle scene, she flexes her muscles and bursts right through her dress. I'm quite fond of it.