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@littlest-lily I was waffling between “Evie gets the flash drive out unscathed and makes it back to Aiden without incident” and “Rats.”

@SmolChlo It must be exciting, though, to be someone’s secret. Maybe one day he’ll let you talk him into taking you out of his office, hiding somewhere on his person, eavesdropping on his conversations.

Maribeth Monroe in Downsizing

@littlest-lily I had a poorer reaction to the cop’s appearance than Evie did. Cops are worse than vermin.

Bravo to Aiden for keeping his composure. Time to fabricate some interior cuffs for his pant legs. And shoes for Evie.

It’s probably too soon for Aiden and Evie to share a bath to get all that grime off.

Potential anti-climax: the flash drive only contains Dr. Little’s SW porn stash.

@littlest-lily This is totes adorbz. I’m getting a real Toy Story vibe here.

@tiny-ivy said in Missed Opportunity:

That movie was such a disappointment.
Not only am I sad that it was bad, but it means that any sizey-story that I dream of - or even put effort into - turning into a screenplay is pointless: studios would just compare it to this crappy movie, and have zero interest. It wrecked ‘adult-oriented size story’ as a movie category for a while. And there’s no way to make one without a budget.

This precisely captures my frustration and dismay with Downsizing. A huge step backward.

I first heard about it when an early draft of the screenplay was being shopped around. I came across a copy on a screenwriting forum. You will be vexed to learn that during the “second act” three of the downsized characters (those played by Matt Damon, Hong Chau, and Christoph Waltz) leave their community and travel to the home of Christoph Waltz’s twin brother, who has remained at full-size, along with Christoph Waltz’s wife. Their reunion dinner has a nicely bawdy conclusion.

Anthony Lane, film reviewer for The New Yorker, has recently been chided for letting his libido intrude upon his reviews, but I don’t believe anyone begrudged his criticism of Downsizing that essentially implied that it needed more giant-tiny sex. He even cited the Brobdingnagian maids of honour from Gulliver’s Travels.

We can do better.

@littlest-lily 🤩 Jesus, Lily, I have to go to work now.

I’ve been able to develop feelings for him without any kind of size-related kink.

I’ve been waiting for her to figure this out, but I couldn’t say anything. A crucial aspect of their relationship is that for almost the entirety of the time that they’ve known each other they’ve been at different sizes. That conversation would have gone much differently had they already known each other and checked each other out before Evie got shrunk.

I just hope Aiden doesn’t turn into a size geek and dump a bunch of new jargon and scenarios on her.

@SmolChlo He needs to get a jacket or vest with at least one pocket with a zipper.

@frollo I would have forgiven them if we had only gotten Hope holding a finger before her face for ant-mounted Scott to land on. Woulda looked great in the trailer and been excellent fanservice for us.

@littlest-lily Many thanks for sharing this story with us and leaving us at a nice place for the chapter break!

@tiny-ivy And you know he gets off on hearing his girlfriend verbally abuse his pet. “I know I can be scary sometimes, pet, but you don’t want me to let her have you, do you?”

Needs source

@littlest-lily It would be a lie to say that my opinions about police hasn’t evolved in the ten years since I wrote Little Trouble in Big Sky. Nevertheless, I think I was rather cynical in my depiction of society in general and cops in particular as corrupt and craven. There are very few “good cops” IRL and even fewer in Big Sky.

If the flash drive is Dr. L’s size porn stash, it might be somewhat educational for Evie.

@BigCuddlyGiant I’m surprised Tink hasn’t found a way to shrink Wendy.

@frollo Gotta make me some tiny stirrups.