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Reviewer: Divediveburners Signed [Report This]
Date: May 17 2022 9:08 PM Title: Frigid Planet

This particular story has been my favorite one-shot in recent memory. Some of my favorite giantess tropes have been depicting typically mean/cruel scenarios such as crush/vore/scat in a gentle context. I also enjoy the trope of having evil-looking characters turning out to be sweethearts. And finally, a giantess feeding off of predatory creatures while sparing the tiny is *chef's kiss*.
Despite Ymyr's limited vocabulary, you are able to portray her with a lot of character. She appears to be a kindly soul, if lonely. This does remind me of your Naga story somewhat, where instead of using one-word phrases, the character is mute. The tiny guy, as depicted here, works, he seems to have a sense of bravado that makes him easy to root for.
Best scene here was when Ymyr reveals that she can't regurgitate. A great depiction of a ... crappy situation.



Author's Response:

Hey-o Dive, thanks for the review again! I'm very happy to hear you like my work. I obviously enjoy some of those same tropes as you, otherwise I wouldn't have thought to write them out. I wanted Ymyr to be visually intimidating, and then try to make her do her best to calm down the tiny protag. I wanted to mention that her limited vocabulary would actually be much more efficient if she were to find another of her kind, and that she was having to limit herself to communicate in a way a human can comprehend. It's hard to explain, I suppose. I suppose it is similar to the naga story somewhat, I think. Different in small ways. But I agree, I love how usually cruel situations hit so much different when thrown into a gentle context. I also love stories where giantesses are either aware of unaware of the power dynamic they have over their tiny friends. If they're aware how scary they are, it's cute to watch them try and minimize how imposing they are, and work to eliminate those nagging thoughts at the back of a tiny's mind: that they could be hurt or killed so easily... Conversely when a giantess is unaware of how scary she seems, and causes the tiny to suffer mini heart attacks just by her presence, being hugged or kissed or whatnot, I find it cute as well when they do not quite grasp their own power, but have no intention of being malicious. All the while, their tiny is aware and thankful of their situation. :)

Reviewer: Milla Signed starstarstarstarstar [Report This]
Date: May 15 2022 8:52 AM Title: Frigid Planet

Wow! I ABSOLUTELY loved this story! This is pretty gentle and is for sure one of your best stories so far, in my opinion.

What I liked most is the perfect detailing of the world your built. It can even be the very Earth, billions years later, and the female creature can be some sort of Homo Futurus or something lol. But considering what you wrote about the ship's direction in outer space, it probably just went to another very very distant world.

And the creatures, the icy nature... girl you're very very good at this! You managed to create an initially intimidating, but currently a very gentle creature, one that many astronauts would die to live with! You could use that to write a full story, what about it?



Author's Response:

Hello Milla, and thank you for the nice review! I'm happy you enjoyed that chapter.

If you like, by all means, I wouldn't mind if you considered that story as a future version of Earth, but it would have to be way before 5 billion years have passed because the Sun would have turned into a red giant by then I believe. Earth will be quite toasty in the distant future.

I feel like a broken record saying this, lol, but I can't accept a compliment. I'm very grateful for what you've written, but I'm never ever satisfied with my entries. In addition I'm usually too depressed and scatterbrained to make my stories longer so I try to make them short and simple. If you, or anyone else reading this, want to take one of my stories and add to it, feel free to. <3 

Again, I'm in a bad place mentally, I wish I was a better writer. However, I will say I do think I'm better at writing gentle stories when I'm feeling under the weather. Short stories, that is. I lose motivation the longer they get, and my writing quality suffers horribly.

Take care!!

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