Date: August 06 2021 9:34 PM Title: Chapter 11, Week 6: Mrs. Hulme
Hello there! :)
I didn't write a review for the last chapter, but I figured that being stubborn about leaving one for EVERY CHAPTER would make me unable to ever catch up. Although I know that a CONSIDERIBLE amout of time had passed since the last chapter before this one was published and I'm just being quite lazy about it.
Moving on to the topic at hand, the combination of last chapter and this one not only gives (perhaps false) hope that one of the characters we were sure would die could actually live, but that another character is in mortal danger INSTEAD.
Another good point of this chapter is that a case of someone opposed to treating tinies as if they weren't humans is mentiond briefly, yet directly. I think the setting benefits pretty much from having a multiple perspectives of the world's environment.
I also realize that non of the characters in this story are meant to be purely good or evil, but if I had to pick one character who seems to be the best for the position of evil character (or even genius of evil), I think that Mrs. Hulme would be the best bet. (I actually vaguely pictured her with exaggerated evil laugh on her face in my mind, so this must mean something. xD)
Multiple senses of morality, action that keeps you in suspense and variety of different characters is what keeps this story cool.
I still hope that Brayden will make it out alive and that main group of friends won't lack any members (and even if it does, at least not because of someone's death).
Keep up the good work and have a nice week! :)
P.S. I've watched volleyball matches from Olympic Games. Congrats for Canada for beating Iran 3:0 while Poland lost and then didn't make it through the quarterfinals for the FIFTH TIME IN A ROW (Poland's quarterfilnals oponent was France, btw.).
P.S. 2 If it isn't personal informarion, I am curious about your timezone.
I know that curiosity is a first step to hell, but I consider this information very interesting. :)
Author's Response:
Lol yeah I sort of went on a break to collect my thoughts. Think it was about 5 or 6 weeks in between chapters. No worries about not writing a comment for every chapter. I know how busy life can get and just making time to read a chapter can be a struggle. But I’m always excited to see your reviews when they do come though :) Feedback and brainstorming new ideas is by far my favourite part of this whole process. Even though it’s got my username at the top of the story, it really becomes all of our story because your comments definitely do influence my ideas for the better.
I think I know who you’re talking about and all I’ll say is it would be a shame if we couldn’t see an in-person meeting between two of the characters who shared a pretty wild experience. To me, that would be a golden opportunity for a heart pounding, awkward moment wasted :) At some point an author can only do so many fake-outs before they need to come through and just let it happen though… Hint hint (but I won’t say when, who or how that’ll happen). It doesn’t hurt to load up a few times before the final blow though. My strategy has been to build the “stars” of the story and then accompany them with a multitude of “supporting” characters. That way you can sort of bond to each character, but because there are quite a few, it wouldn’t be particularly shocking if one of them were to be killed or sent off. Suspense has definitely been what I’ve been going for. I want all the characters to feel unkillable, while still being able to kill any of them at any time (because I think that would be a common feeling for anyone who was shrunken down to an inch or two tall). I’m glad to hear that you’ve felt this too. We shall see what happens to everyone :)
Lol I would be willing to agree that Mrs. Hulme can be considered an evil character. You definitely don’t want to end up on her bad side, that’s for sure. But your comment that the rest of the characters are neither good nor evil is actually pretty accurate. Everyone sort of has a background. There are definitely characters who are much gentler than others though.
I actually didn’t watch any indoors volleyball this time, but I kept pretty close tabs on beach volleyball. I thought Canada was going to have a chance at a medal this time with two teams in the quarterfinals… and then they both lost on the same day lol. We may be seeing a beach volleyball chapter in the future though. I had a few interesting ideas come up while I was watching the games.
Lol yeah I’m in the Eastern Timezone. I don’t live in Toronto, but I’m in the same timezone as Toronto. I can see how that’d be useful to know though, cause that way you can sort of predict when I might be responding or uploading relative to whichever timezone you’re in.
[Report This]Date: August 01 2021 12:28 AM Title: Chapter 11, Week 6: Mrs. Hulme
Wow, this chapter is crazy!
I do like what you did with Mrs. Hulme. I didn't even know Brayden actually knew her until this chapter. I thought he saw her as a random teacher, so now that they once had history in the past, it must be even weirder for Brayden. Now I'm imagining Brayden having a crush on Mrs. Hulme and suddenly he ends up in this situation. Now I'm curious how this will all play out.
I didn't expect this whole heirarchy of tinies. So Rachel has her own personal tiny man that I guess she considers to be on a equal level to her. Then she also has other tinies that obey her. And lastly, there's the rest of the tinies that she just uses for fun.
I also was surprised about the use of the kids. It does make sense since they are a family and such, but I hope there isn't much action involving them.
Would love to see Rachel take over in part 2, and see what she is capable of. I love her description physically, and how tight her clothing was as Brayden explained. That alone was good foreshadowing that Mrs. Hulme isn't your typical giantess.
One thing I noticed about this chapter is that Mrs. Hulme doesn't really address Brayden that much. She barely interacts with him and compared to the other chapters, the other giantesses were focused on each tiny. Even in the locker room scene with the girls, they were focused on the tinies and you felt like something might happen at any second. Here, it feels a little slower since we see Brayden get introduced to this whole world in Rachel's home. Well, it looks like the fun stuff will continue in the next chapter.
I like this house scene better than Mrs. Johnson's house setting. In Mrs. Johnson's house, tinies are scattered here and there and while the playtime seems fun, there isn't much to it. In Rachel's home, this is a lot more interesting. I'm even kinda fascinated to see and learn about all the crazy stuff that Mrs. Hulme does with her tinies.
This guy trying to escaped got sentenced to the jar. Now I'm imagining a clear cookie jar that this tiny will be placed inside of. Since it's the cliffhanger, I guess it's some crazy punishment, but it's hard to predict what exactly might happen. Especially since we haven't seen anything that fucked up in this story. My only guess is that Rachel puts him in the jar and maybe she takes a shit in the jar on top of the guy. Otherwise, I'm excited to see what happens next.
I love giantess contraptions for tinies and I would be impressed to see a new form of punishment.
Well, I can't wait for the next chapter!
Author's Response:
Haha in a way I suppose there is a hierarchy of tinies. Would definitely agree that Ryatt is number one on that list. I would say that Josephine is (was) second on that list. Then the men are sort of just there, trying not to do something that would justify a death, acting as Rachel and Shawn’s tiny toys.
Bowyn was definitely a one-off character. She was really just in the story to build up Mrs. Hulme’s character a little. She’s also sort of there to tease the idea of “what if young girls were gifted their own personal tiny man that they could grow up with”. Inevitably there would be some sexual discovery at some point, but I think a story like that would be pretty interesting in terms of coming of age, self discovery, and friendship. Obviously a story like that would have to be carefully planned so not to overstep any bounds.
Mrs. Hulme is really everything that Ms. Johnson isn’t. She’s got a family, married, and is brutally sadistic with tiny people. Tiny people to her are merely little objects to play with. Ms. Johnson on the other hand generally respects tiny people and allows herself to bond with more than one. Now we’ve seen that she can let loose, but even when she does, she does so in her own Ms. Johnson way. The difference between the two women really shows when they’re interacting with tinies they know, or sort of know.
The gas chamber jar idea probably wasn’t all that new or inventive but at least the chastity cage idea was :)
This review was a bit shorter since the next chapter had already been released but I’m still glad to hear that these chapters have been resonating with you!