Best posts made by Olo

@SmolChlo Whatever power your fella has to shrink people, I hope she never gets access to it.

I hope he posts the design plans for your enclosure on Etsy; it sounds delightful!

We Thought It Was An Earthquake by KryptonLives

@SmolChlo I ain’t goin’ nowhere.

@maladaptivetiny An intriguing introduction, it’s mostly from her perspective but we get a few glimpses of this thoughts and intentions. I’m very curious about the village of voluntary tinies whose consent is always respected. Unmentioned is whether anyone has ever asked to be returned to full size, and what his response was.

@SmolChlo This is getting better and better (if more distracting). I think he’d want some kind of cover or lid in case Ms. Spray-Tan wanders in.

Maribeth Monroe in Downsizing

@Technomage I’m working on a long post about dark fantasies. One thing that’s very clear is that when sexual desires are involved we don’t trust people to have honest motives.

@maladaptivetiny The whole narrative (so far) turns on Susan considering how much she can trust Richard. What she knows about his character and intentions are crucial to her decision.

@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.

@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.

@blehb Flipping the telescope around is always instructive.

@littlest-lily I will refrain from asking follow-up questions and simply enjoy the extra glimpse into Blue’s life and her world.

I cannot help but be reminded of the time we tried to foster a second dog from the same rescue agency from whom we adopted our first dog. The second dog, Pax, must have been abused by a man because he never responded to my calls and always slunk away from me, even when I had treats. Pax constantly tried to escape, most notably digging under the backyard fence. We gave it three stressful months before I had to return him (on a Father’s Day, too). Fortunately he didn’t seem to teach our first dog any bad habits (like digging). On our recommendation the agency placed Pax with a woman who lived by herself.

I’m very proud of Blue for finding Lucky a new home, however long she stays. Something tells me FaeCo isn’t very diligent about vetting customers paying those prices.

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

@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.

@DrPym82 Capitalism makes tinies of us all.