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What made the first sparks that grew into your passion for transformation?

My first experience I can remember quite distinctly. It was a brief moment in the BBC television program version of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are thrown out of a Vogon airlock, and just before getting picked up by the heart of Gold they begin to turn into penguins. It wasn't so much a transformation as the suggestion of a transformation, but it was enough. The scene affected me in a powerful way, although I could not explain it at the time. It almost hurt, but it was a wonderful sort of pain, the kind which I would eventually learn to crave. It was the voyeuristic pain of watching another person totally out of control in ways far beyond ordinary understanding. That amazing combination of perfect surprise and total shock. The one transforming also watches as their own transformation unfolds. The bewildering moment of "What's happening to my body?!?"

What first moved you?