Best posts made by Olo

@SmolChlo

We’d need a wide staff of writers to handle all the variations.

It me IRL

For those of you who like to imagine themselves being used as a living fleshlight, do you prefer to be held face-up or face-down? I’m told I make scary faces.

@kisupure Nice misdirect with the opening Manual excerpt. I was partially expecting Gray to be promoted.

Also surprised that Gray reported the sentinel’s calling off the pursuit. It doesn’t incriminate her in any way, but it does put a spotlight on his loyalties.

Did . . . Gray rub one out after her stroll and before her nap?

Hypnotic by GrowingMachine

@kisupure

@smolchlo

@kisupure said in Petrichor - a novel in "open beta" - [M/f, minigiant, post-apocalyptic dystopia, slavery, military setting]:

The enlisted/officer divide is a staple of military fiction, but what was once rooted in static social classes became more permeable with the rise of “professional” soldiers and recruitment. With the Disruption sending us back to serfdom, however, a battlefield commission is less a promotion than an ennobling.

Corpsmen are still enslaved, as Finch’s lack of good choices demonstrates. Captains leading armed bondsmen aren’t quite overseers or feudal lords, but the 'Naks and harsh environment seem to provide the rest of the discipline necessary to keep the corpsmen loyal. Until now, that is.

Still, Gray suddenly didn’t like how [Wesson] was taking up space.

Not as much space as some do…

animal impiety

Nice.

As far as I can tell, you haven’t disturbed the conventional wisdom that there are no female Anakim, but you have allowed that it might not be possible to engineer an humanoid effectively for combat without giving it a libido. I don’t suppose I have to remind you how non-neutered adult human males have historically behaved in prolonged single-sex environments.

What does fear pheromone smell like to other 'Naks? Pleasant? Noxious? Undetectable? Is suppression against orders?

From the film’s Indiegogo page:

AMIRA, an Asian refugee wakes up in a Victorian English bedroom. The door is locked and it’s pitch black outside. Strange happenings unfold; she gets thrown around the room without her control, loud noises, gusts of wind fly through the room and suddenly a small dog appears at her feet… how did it get there?

Suddenly a huge eye peeks through the window at Amira within. We discover that she’s trapped inside a dolls house. She has been belittled to has become little. Amira must stand up for herself in order to grow. While escaping with her new canine friend, our heroine learns that her cultural belittling has become her physical state. As Amira learns to find her voice and stand up for herself, she and the dog break free from the miniature house and grow in size, ready to make their own way into the world.

@kisupure I love any situation where tinies punch above their weight.

@sloppy_amy

@kisupure said in Petrichor - a novel in "open beta" - [M/f, minigiant, post-apocalyptic dystopia, slavery, military setting]:

What was he doing? His words were plain, but they were slippery, muddy, hiding things. Is this how he talked to Finch for a whole week? He made this seem so strangely urgent, like she was running out of time.

Like the pheromone, she can detect the foreboding but she cannot see the cause.

@Jitensha Unavailable in USA

@tinysupervicki Take a big ol’ whiff or ten.

@mrgoblinging7 I think I’ll just print out this post and tape it to the wall of the terrarium and look kind by comparison.