@distressedegg Imagine how annoying this would have been given the clothing of the day. Would people bring scissors and a change of hoop skirts for afterwards? Would it be riskier if you were tethered (so someone could easily yank you back to earth in flagrante delecto) or loose (so you'd risk floating off into the weeds while thus distracted)? Would the sheer difficulty be part of the appeal?

What I'm saying is that you could make this a monthly theme option pretty easily!

@Ferrovore see that's tempting but i feel like there'd be a bunch of inflation fetishists who'd misread the prompt and then get REALLY disappointed

@distressedegg Maybe word the prompt so there's room for both? Some people want to be IN the balloon, some people want to BE the balloon, it's fine. If it's sufficiently old-timey it'd be like those horse furries who get pictures of themselves done up like carousel figures, right?

@Ferrovore y'know, TF Into Inanimate Object isn't actually a half bad option for next month