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@kisupure Everyone talks about recklessly destructive giants, but there’s a lot to be said for working with the authorities and monetizing an appreciative audience.

@kisupure 9th-years. Oh yeah, that makes sense. Should be some snappy jargon to refer to “graduates.”

Regarding Gray and her “hatred” of the Corps, it’s perfectly reasonable for her to resent the Corps as its regulations impinge more and more upon her interest in the sentinel. It’ll be totally subconscious, tho.

@kisupure It’s the sheets.

So this forum doesn’t have a [SPOILER] format to hide text, so I’ll just type a bit more so anything I reveal will be too far down for it to show up on the preview sidebar.

The only Sizey scene was Emma shrinking part way out of her clothes after Sam ridicules her. She doesn’t purge to shrink, so the implication is that she might be able to control her size by inducing certain emotions. We’ll have to wait until Season 2 to learn more.

@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?

@sloppy_amy You’re neglecting the possibility that he’s the swag.

@foreverlurk said:

I must say I like that shrinking method a hundred times more.

I’m not fond of the purging either, but I’d rather watch that than watch someone make Emma feel like shit in order for her to shrink.

@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?

(source needed)

@Nyx Commission an array of different sizes (and ethnicities, and cut/uncut…).

@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.

@giant_feelings said in Hello Little One:

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Thanks! The Tumblr is empty now. Do you know of a current account for them somewhere?

@giant-me Yup, even multisize tinies for some shoebox drama!

I just wish some of these talented artists would put out some M/f content…

@littlenichole

What a fucking bastard.

I really like how you hint at the (pre-shrinking) history between Andrew and Nia without giving us more than we need to know. Similarly, we get to imagine for ourselves the range of tortures and humiliations he inflicted upon her, which of course makes them worse.

“Before you always looked down on everyone…so we made it so you could never do it again…"

That “we” is highly intriguing…

On a technical note, I wonder if the narrative might flow better if all the action was in the past tense rather than the present. This could easily be just a matter of taste, but to me it would feel more organic and less like, say, the transcript of a roleplaying session. YMMV.

Also, “you’re” instead of “your.”

But yeah, he really played her desperation like a fiddle, and it was delicious.