Posts made by Olo

@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?

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@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.

@sloppy_amy C’mere, you.

@sumguy13 said in Gift of a Tiny Woman:

Author’s comment has me turned off to them though.

He’s outside his comfort zone. Everyone deserves some space to experiment. There was a time I would have echoed his comment.

Aborigen has recently done a couple of quickies about a man vexed by his sudden and unsought custody of a tiny woman. Incomplete at present.

Part One

Part Two

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by WildRoxann (aka Porn-Cakes)

@nephilim More like Photoshop.

@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.