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by WildRoxann (aka Porn-Cakes)

@kisupure

The priority lesson scene was marvelously well-done. The foreshadowing of the arrival of the dreaded brass effectively illustrated how the officer class is a vastly different tier of Corps society. Sipping tea while corporal punishment was administered was like something out of the Belgian Congo. Wesson was the true subject of the demonstration, as the transition from slave to overseer cannot be easy or painless. That dude must be really messed up. Mandatory transfer seems like it would be a mercy.

As complete as the officers’ control over the corpsmen is, Wesson grabbing Gray and sniffing her undershirt still seemed like an excessive liberty. Couching the whole exchange amongst Gray’s fears that her treason would be discovered was a deft misdirect. If she’s clever, Gray can throw Wesson off the scent by masking the greater betrayal with the lesser.

Gray imagining Rice observing the priority lesson was another good feint, as we didn’t know until the last moment who from Brown Toon was getting punished, and the reader was free to suspect it was Gray. If it was Gray up there with the chopping block, would Rice try to save her? Gray probably doesn’t think she deserves to hope for such a deliverance, but she obviously would anyway. Like I said, doomed.

Finch is a puzzle. The standard trope is that she should be possessive of her special relationship with Wesson, but here she seems to want Gray to join her in trading favors, possibly so it won’t feel so dirty to her. Or maybe she’s just trying to earn the position of Most Cynical Bitch in the Toon.

“Rice, what’s a pairing?”

“You don’t wanna know.”

Like hell we don’t.

@foreverlurk I think he did a fair job of acknowledging that his personal preferences were not universal among Size fans. Where he could (as in the passage you cite) he used gender-neutral terms, which is proper because the sentiment expressed is applicable to all Size configurations.

@kisupure Those arms…

@kisupure

This was great social scenery in Alpine. Wesson keeps running hot and cold, and I think you do an excellent job keeping Gray—someone we’ve come to know is worldly and competent—plausibly mired in self-doubt.

I’m a little uncertain what was going on with Wesson, his cup, and the bond inspection. I get that it was an opportunity for Gray to observe Wesson and make internal commentary, but why did Wesson want her there? By the end he had lost interest in her. Why did Wesson make a point of having Gray return his cup to the mess tent, and why did the mess corpsman not want to touch it? Was Wesson just trying to show everyone that Gray was his to command?

Missus? What rank was that? Was it a specialty?

Warrant officer, natch.

The whole exploration of the ethics of trading favors with officers makes me curious if female officers similarly extract favors from corpsmen. Clark and Harper sound like they might be grateful for such an opportunity.

I was drunk when you posted this, and I’m hungover now, so the attempts at describing the flavor of whiskey were extra special.

On that note, I’m somewhat dissatisfied by the poker game being so blurry to Gray (and therefore to us). You write dialogue so well, and the Gray-Wesson-Finch triangle is so integral to this story that I think we deserve to hear all the quips and backpedaling. Particularly since the ultimate consequence is Wesson pulling a Cosby.

@SmolChlo I’d be very interested to hear your experiences, thoughts, and feelings on this topic. If you’re so inclined, you can leave a comment on the blog page (that goes for any reaction one might have to any element of the podcast).

I actually don’t know that much about Hammer’s remarks, who his intended audience was, or whether this was an invasion of privacy.

Update: I just discovered that this was by Unknown Hand. For some reason, it took me until today to discover the long, ancient thread collecting his size art on Giantess City. His work is from the 90s and early Aughts, and while it is mostly F/m, there’s some good M/f stuff in there, which I will add to the queue for my daily posts here.

@kisupure

“It’s amazing that whoever made the Algo—all those governments, those business people—didn’t see this coming,” Gray mumbled. “It’s like they got tired of managing their own shit and gave up."

I’m gonna think of this every time I read about how our society refuses to save itself from Covid-19.

@SmolChlo Has there been any investigation into whether they were roleplaying?

@sloppy_amy More like rubbing one out.

@technomage No higher praise; thank you!

@SmolChlo Yeah, that’s not something you spring on someone unless you’re 110% certain beforehand that they’re into it.

Who leaked the DMs, and what did they think Hammer meant?

@btbutcher Seems to me she’s left her outlet wide open.

@ghostwriter44 Who?

@Kisupure