Zeus by Mikester65

@littleknight Welcome! We see you!

In the order that I encountered them:

@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?

@dr-tol Dude…

@shrunkenlaura I want my little ladies to be able to dine like civilized people. Assuming I don’t have the capacity to simply shrink plates, glasses, or utensils, what do you suggest for dining paraphernalia?

@cygnusjkins13 Endosoma sounds are the best. I often fall asleep to them.

@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.

@dr-tol said in Casual encounters:

@olo what?.. I know, I know, my English is not that good X3

I just thought your post was stupendous. I wish I could borrow your toy.

@giant-man-1984 Absolutely.

by Kitn-Underfoot

@tiny-ivy I don’t know how many times I’ve started a Magic School Bus fanfic and then dropped it because I didn’t want anyone to think I wanted to write smut featuring minors.

@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.

@hentaihunter1 Not at all, I just wanted to clarify that it’s not my work.

Here’s a follow-up question: Of the women in your life that you’d like to see tiny, how many do you imagine would prefer/embrace a shrunken life, and how many do you imagine would protest/resist?

That’s been a common exercise for me as I get to know new people; does X have a personality best-suited to becoming giant or tiny, or should they remain normal-sized but in the presence of a giant or a tiny me? Endlessly diverting…

@giant-me

Amusing footnote to Bad Channels: At the end of the film, one minor character, Bunny (Daryl Strauss), was not restored to full size and remained eight inches tall.

The studio behind the film, Full Moon Pictures, wanted to have a crossover between three of its franchises, Bad Channels, Dollman, and Demonic Toys. The result was Dollman vs. Demonic Toys, pairing Dollman with the last shrunken woman from Bad Channels. Unfortunately, Daryl Strauss was unavailable (perhaps she got some better career advice), so they retconned the end of Bad Channels and made “Nurse Ginger” the one woman who remained tiny. Happily, Melissa Behr brought her obvious charms to the role.