If Ivy weren't so intense, she'd be adorkable. Knowing Rachel, she'll short-circuit the awkward first date cliches so we don't end up in a rom-com, "He's Just Not Into Your Esophagus."

I wonder if full-size Kal ever put any part of himself into Anna's rectum.  If not, this was a helluva introduction.  I'm looking forward to Rachel's and Ivy's and Sam's reactions when (if?) they hear about this latest descent.

Swimming is an excellent pasttime.  Improves lung capacity.

Sounds like a pretty racy website.  At least Ivy's smart enough access it in the privacy of her home and not (like me just now) on a phone during a crowded bus commute.

Fascinating. A frequent theme of size fantasy is that civilized respect for others is a fragile construct that collapses when a dramatic size difference is introduced. The implication is that humans are naturally hierarchical and will dominate the weak unless acculturated no to do so. In fact, human culture has codified all manner of hierarchical domination, slave societies being only the most blatant. 

I love that May makes a distinction between anonymous Losers and someone with whom she had a peer relationship prior to the Bow. It's the (instant!  arbitrary!) transition between castes that makes this so tasty. May's parents educating her in how to treat Losers so wonderfully mirrors wealthy people in our society telling their children how they deserve their station and to look down on the bums and savages who won't get a job.

Best of all, Annie can't let go of how absurdly unfair this whole arrangement is. I hope she takes a LONG time to break.

I've previously read a couple of your stories on this site over the years, and I just went back and read all of them.  I really appreciate that you're trying to do something different than the typical story around here.

I'm not a connoisseur of the Unaware aspect of size fantasy, but your stories have given me a good taste for it.  Tiny people being physically overwhelmed by giants is a core element of size fantasy, but it is often neglected (including by me) and your stuff does an excellent job of describing the gulf between giants and tinies.  The most banal or careless activities for a giant becomes momentous for tinies, a force of nature that is futile to resist.

I also appreciate that your giants truly are a different order of being than your tinies, even if previously they were peers with an established relationship.  Any attempt at relations (of any kind) between the two is mocked.  The lives of your tinies are filled with awe and loneliness.  It's a bleak perspective, and I like it.

Thanks for writing!

Jade's lack of a peer relatinonship with the protagonist really shows through in her silence while she's making breakfast.  Crêpes are hard to make; if my friend were watching me make them, I'd brag about it.

So I went back and re-read the whole story from start to finish.

I note that you completely revised the "Halftime" chapter.  The extra exposition is helpful, but I what I remember from the original version was very impressionisitic, and I thought it might be the perspective of an older woman, either remembering her youth or fantasizing about a childhood experience that never happened as a way of escaping from her current traumas.  Jade seems like a nemesis figure, a warning against the danger of trusting others too easily.

The protagonist calls Jade her best friend, but she never acknowledges any attraction to Jade.  Jade, in contrast, doesn't seem to recognize any boundaries between friends and lovers (among girls, anyway).

So I'm a little disappointed that we never got to see Jade fully defend her decision to shrink her friend (Sofia's sudden arrival and the precipitous shift to the sex scene really makes Jade look like a ninny).  Jade also never explains why she thought it was okay to drop her tiny friend between her breasts.  The protagonist clearly didn't enjoy being used as a sex toy by a giantess, but surely Jade got something out of it.

The major theme here is the inability to communicate.  Even the final chapter suggests that you don't have to be shrunk to struggle to hold a conversation.  Still, I'd have like to have seen the final confrontation with Sofia played out.  Sofia and Jade already talked about shrunken sex; surely Sofia is curious about the protagonist's experiences.

Obviously, the only appropriate fate for Jade is to be shrunk herself.

This story was frustrating, but I think that was the point.  The protagonist escapes her peril through perseverance, but she hasn't really learned anything about herself or how to avoid such a fate in the future.  Betrayal by a friend alters your sense of your place in the world, but the protagonist doesn't seem to have been changed that much.  Her suffering while being caught between two horny giantesses is purely physical; we don't know her sexual preferences or whether she finds the experience arousing.  Her (new) friend in the final chapter shows a little curiosity, but the protagonist just finds the whole thing embarrassing.  Jade's violation of her trust has more meaning than her violation of her body.

I think you could have done more with the protagonist, if only to give us a better sense of her understanding of Jade and why they are friends.  Your revised "Halftime" chapter makes the case for the protagonist's vulnerability due to loneliness, but we don't see her process her experiences with Jade in terms of that vulnerability.  Both Sofia and Jade are the protagonist's friends and both Sofia and Jade are attracted to girls, but only Jade acts on that attraction with the protagonist, and does so by violating her.  The protagonist understands that this was wrong, but she doesn't articulate how it could have been right.

The protagonist deserves to have her own desires, and we deserve to read about them.

That's the trap with cruelty.  If you try to stop, even for a moment, you remember everything you've done before, and rather than fully reconcile your actions it's easier just to double-down on the next atrocity.

Julian's favorite punchline: "I don't have to run faster than the bear, I just have to run faster than you."