Posts made by Olo

@sloppy_amy Of course. It’s not very comfortable for her, but it’s convenient for me.

Keychain by berrysmall

@sloppy_amy His. We wanna see her expression so it’s nice that he’s curling his left arm back instead of holding himself up with both arms (as I would have done), but it was clever of KP to have him guarding the magazine on his kicker. Either way, that brachioradialus is flexed.

I originally thought this illustration would be from Gray’s POV on the ground, looking up at the crouching sentinel. But seeing her grimace while trying to read him is better.

@kisupure Those arms…

NSFW Tumblr art by Dtv

Conn’s Bowl Of Yummy Ladies by Jessica Rae

@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)

@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

@sumguy13 It’s alright. If I was being patronizing, it was toward Aborigen, who can speak for himself.

@kisupure said in Gift of a Tiny Woman:

The GTS community definitely still has a lot of baggage to unpack wrt their internalized misandry, though.

A entire separate forum could be devoted to this and similar inquiries, if the willingness and industry existed to sustain them.

For one thing, I don’t think everyone comes to size fantasy by the same path, so how many “misandrist” sentiments are actually compensations for or deflections from other pathologies is anybody’s guess, let alone those engaged in long-game gaslighting.

@sumguy13 At the risk of sounding patronizing, I don’t think Aborigen was speaking out of conviction, but rather his personal aesthetic. Both his male and female characters display a full range of moral worthiness, and none of them are exempt from narrative judgment upon their actions. He was just expressing some understandable hesitation about writing a story intended for sexual gratification of the reader that features distress being visited upon a female character.

Nazis do have it coming to them, but that is a straightforward judgment upon the (well-understood) consequences of Nazis’ statements and actions. In fact, the uncomplicated nature of punishing Nazis makes it less interesting for me to incorporate into a new story. I’d rather write about more intimate transgressions.

@sloppy_amy We’ll have a taste and find out.