Date: May 19 2016 3:40 AM Title: Introduction
Not I'm unhappy but I didn't expect Penny's return. However, Jack suffered enough to avoid more damages cause a grandpa's poem loll.
Author's Response:
It was meant to be a bit of a surprise, I think a lot of people expected him to get destroyed by Amber - tried to do a bit of a curveball there!
Date: May 17 2016 3:33 PM Title: Introduction
Hmm, see i would have to say that when i use the words "cunt" and "bitch", that i use it for both males and females, not really using it for its "intended" gender. And I am in no way a 'macho male' nor am i 'secure' in myself as it seems you believe, they're just my go-to words for when i'm upset; though i'm not angry per se, I guess i'd describe it as a slight agitation at best. And as for why i use those specific words, it's influenced by where i live, not by my outlook on women (i'm writing this bit due to the "because she's "just" a women" bit). As someone who has been around a lot of women, having also been bullied by women, i must say that regardless of someone's gender, both have the capacity and means to hurt; an example i'll give, is a woman that was shorter than me, smaller frame, though much more ferocity, managed to easily beat me to the ground and proceed to kick me (though for no other reason discernibly, than the fact i do not fight back); so forgive me if i'm sounding a tad defensive, but you seem to have interpretted a lot more from my message than was actually there, and seemed to have assumed a lot about myself from it. I'm from an Australian culture, where everyone uses "cunt" for literally everything, and "bitch" as an adjective towards anything; I don't believe for a second that women are any "lesser" than men, nor do i have the mindset that "if some bitch attacked me i could deal with it" mindset. Though i can see how there may have been things that lead you to believe this about me, and my message being as short and brash as it is, would definitely not give any reason to think of me in a positive light, i must stress that you're looking too much into what isn't there and making too many assumptions about me as a person.
Though you are right that it is very interesting to see how we perceive the difference in impact in comparison to a giantess decimating an entire city, versus this one on one interaction. Though i honestly must say that i don't read often on this site, I cannot handle the very unreaslistic reactions and developments that are rampant in this community, mainly due to how detached i feel from it, nor do i watch much film, so i don't have a built up familiarity with these kinds of gratuitous actions and gruesome developments in terms of story or otherwise.
As for Jack being hard to project into, i'd have to disagree, i find it easy to relate with jack, maybe it's because i've been in a situation where those bigger than me have 'dominated' over me, and i reacted in a similar way. So it's incredibly easy for me at least, to project into this story and be drawn in, though of course, it's not easy to imagine this specific situation.
But yes, that was me saying 'well done', you've definitely made an interesting story, and i think that you've done really, really well in terms of how you've written it out.
Author's Response:
Cheers!
(I wasn't singling you out for criticism or anything, there have been a few reviews along the same lines - I just chose to talk about it in your reply as it had been a while since someone had called Caitlin a bitch directly in their review).
Date: May 16 2016 10:22 AM Title: Introduction
This is extremely fucked up, but it possesses such talent. I'm a mixture of emotions, on one hand, well fucking done with writing what you have, it's brilliant, but on the other hand; FUCKING HELL, what a bithc, amber is a cunt, i want them both severely injured.
All i can say is this is fucking amazing, and amazingly fucked.
Author's Response:
Hahaha! Thank you, I think!
It's fascinating for me to read the comments from people who get supremely angry and frustrated at Caitlin's (and Amber's) actions, and don't get me wrong, it's very flattering that the depiction is powerful enough to bring out such a response. It's meant to be hard to put yourself in Jack's shoes; Caitlin's psychotic - the kidnapping, the forced sexual stuff (rape), the casual disregard for his emotional and physical wellbeing - it's brutal. Horrible things like this do happen in real life, with the genders reversed notably. Most horror films, or cinema that has difficult-to-watch torture or rape scenes (I dunno, gangster movies, psychological thrillers etc) will go way beyond this level of discomfort for the viewer. I acutely dislike blood-letting, serious injury and dismemberment, some lines would need to be crossed here for anything like that to occur. I'm also not so sure it's 100% 'fucked up' to depict this; it's an exploration of a reality within a universe where there are a few vulnerable half-size men, and this is something that I predict would happen in that context.
A lot of 'evil' giantess fiction I've read deals with women who destroy cities with buildings full of innocent lives, or torture, crush and eat shrunken tinies who are curiously tolerant of these capital offences for the sake of their fetish. I don't mean this in a disparaging way at all, it's just really interesting that when the giant is big enough, or the tiny small enough, that the psychology and humanity of it isn't as noticeable. That's kinda the crux of this size ratio, and this scenario - Caitlin and Jack are almost at a liveable scale difference (imagine a very tall woman and a real life homunculus or dwarf) so it is quite visceral and 'real' to see prejudices and abuse depicted on someone more 'human' in scale to the person mistreating them.
In terms of the 'karma' you hint at, and the very gender-specific insults you've thrown at Caitlin and Amber - this is very, very easy to do from the position of a full-grown 'macho' male, secure in the knowledge that if some 'bitch' attacked you, you'd be able to teach her a lesson or whatever. This is not the case for Jack, these aren't bitches and cunts who are inferior to him (I hate those words used in this context, but I can appreciate why you're using them), it's almost genderless, he's a tiny animal unable to protect himself from much larger, stronger animal, whether they're female or not. That's the horror, he finds her incredibly attractive, but she's debasing him, does that make it ok, does it even make it LESS ok than if an Alpha man kidnapped him, because she's *just* a woman?
Anyway, just my thoughts on it. Thanks for the comment.
Date: May 16 2016 7:01 AM Title: Introduction
Great chapter again! Well, Jack become a totally toy, slave. The fact that he dissociated himself emotionally from what is happening is maybe a defense mechanicism. Penny will return but I don't bet on justice system. However, I bet on bad karma style justice like Cayce's Summer Job.
PS: you are a great writer as beginner!
Author's Response:
I think his weariness is reaching the point that he's not himself any more, he hasn't got the energy or the mental faculty to fend her off or plan as he did when she first got a hold of him. It's now an endless sequence of one-sided experiences that he has to withstand. She does appear be trying to keep him weak, hungry and on edge because she's aware of how crafty he can be, but perhaps that's just the author speculating...!
Cayce's 'Homunculus' is my all time favourite GTS read, and it wasn't even because I found it erotic (feet and being inches tall is not my preference at all) - it was because the story was incredible, and twisted and toyed with my emotions so much I could Not. Stop. Reading. I will deffo have to make time to read Summer Job, I may have tried to read it before but not got into it as much, or something. 'Homunculus' especially convinced me that I should try and write a 'proper' story, something that gave the characters motivations and made the experiences that much more meaningful than just 'giant sexpot touches your dick'. I like to think GH-X2 is my paltry attempt at repurposing that kind of approach to meet my own interests in macrophilia.
Date: May 12 2016 7:51 AM Title: Introduction
Awesome to see an update, each chapter detailing Caitlin's humiliation of Jack but also reducing the chances of him ever being rescued.
Author's Response:
You can definitely see the toll it's beginning to take on him; even when she's not being that rough, it's just too much for him to handle. She did say she would let him go on Sunday... but can she be trusted?
Date: May 12 2016 5:26 AM Title: Introduction
Good Chapter! I starting to doubt about any rescue for Jack.
Are you going to post another one quickly or not?
Author's Response:
I am going to try and work on one swiftly, but if I'm not happy with it, I will not put it out, unfortunately. I have to be stringent, as there were a couple of chapters I rushed out earlier, and I'm not 100% happy with them because of it.
[Report This]Date: May 11 2016 2:10 PM Title: Introduction
I really couldn't careless how long the wait is inbetween chapters for such a high quality story. There really isn't any wasted motions or words and every chapter feels like an important event or another building block to Jack's mental collapse.
Caitlin has been a really compelling enigmatic villian whose motives are so hard to pin down. The level to which she takes in tormenting and torturing him goes beyond the point of doing it for the sake of it. Which maybe I would've been inclined to think so earlier, before the moment in chapter 10 where Caitlin thinks Jack may have escaped, that there's some personal reason she chose him. Excellent story, and easily my favorite ongoing story right now.
Author's Response:
Thank you, it's very kind of you to say such nice things! This story takes such a long time to write in no small part due to the amount of revisions I do to it when I revisit over and over again. I don't have a lot of time to spend on it, and so it just takes forever to get round to finishing chapters to a level I'm happy with. This chapter was especially tricky as it had to be paced perfectly, and make sense within the context of the story - Caitlin is not 'rewarding' him with this sexual experience, she is using it against him. Even though, as the author, I find this whole scenario very erotic and, to a certain extent, wish fulfillment, for Jack it's part of a pattern of dominant, overwhelming behaviour that he can't cope with, and it has to feel like that too. He's not flat-out enjoying what should be the most exciting experience of his life, instead it's tinged with humiliation.
[Report This]Date: May 11 2016 12:57 PM Title: Introduction
I'm starting to suspect that while the toying with a beta boy isn't exactly uncommon, the extent Caitlin and her friends goes to with this is extreme in this society. Particularly the rape and kidnapping.
Im also getting a very strong vibe that Caitlin had some serious emotional trauma as a child... I don't recall if we've seen any comments on a father figure for her but I suspect something terrible happened with a man when she was younger and probably in her pre-apha state.
I long for happy endings so I'd hope something works out.. Kinda reminds me of some old story long ago when some guy's step sister inherited her Dad's fortune and that included a shrinking device. She tormented him and used him as a toy with her friends only to eventually realize her hatred for him stemmed from years of childhood abuse from the deceased father.
Author's Response:
Yeah, you're basically right. Whilst almost all Betas are most assuredly considered second-class citizens in the parallel society I depict (apart from a handful of celebrity Betas), Alphas on the whole don't really go out of their way to do anything outlandishly cruel to them as they barely affect their daily lives at all. There were high-profile incidents in the past between Alpha males and Beta females, which led to a policy of giving growth hormone to all girls where possible, but Beta men are just sort of expected to exist to do specific jobs their small size gives them an advantage at (like in the tech manufacturing industry, for eg). Caitlyn and her friends are doing things that are technically illegal (kidnap/rape/abuse/coercion), but realistically a minority of particularly unforgiving Alphas would claim that the Beta boy is 'lucky' or 'resilient' enough to cope with the law of the jungle stuff...
[Report This]Date: August 13 2015 8:06 PM Title: Introduction
Makes sense now. Thanks.
[Report This]Date: August 12 2015 9:00 PM Title: Introduction
I really liked the foreshadowing of Alex's relunctance in Chapter 12 coming full circle in 13. After taking so much abuse it really makes even the slight shows of sympathy from Alex all the more touching especially when you wouldn't expect it from her being that she's part of Caitlin's clique.
Date: August 12 2015 3:47 PM Title: Introduction
I wasn't expecting that Alex girl to have a change of heart, after what happened earlier. And as someone else said below, it seems Cait has a thing for this boy in question.
[Report This]Date: August 12 2015 11:32 AM Title: Introduction
I don't know if it's just me or not, but Cailtin seems to have a thing for Jack. Its just buried deep down. She's cruel but that just seems to me that it stems from her friend Amber and having to uphold a standing because she is so big. I also have a bad feeling that we are going to see some breaking and entering while Cailtin is away.
Date: August 11 2015 8:50 AM Title: Introduction
Great chapter poor Jack! Is alex the girl who crushed Jack's pen ? I hope you'll update soon again.
Author's Response:
Yes she is - she also carried him to the bathroom the first time he encountered Caitlin.
Date: August 10 2015 11:46 PM Title: Introduction
And our hero's cover is blown, much humiliation to follow!
Date: August 10 2015 10:58 PM Title: Introduction
I disagree with gadgetmawombo however.
Calling the police would simply worsen Jack. For one, Caitlin is rich, with a well connected father. The police would see the claim as being an attempt to blackmail her, or be a result of a kid with no friends trying to get attention. Plus Alex, Hannah, Caitlin, her rich family, and Amber would all refute Jack. Compared to Jack who has no one. Delon even thought it might be a sick joke, and he was one of Jack's only friends.
Things similar this happen in the real world, but with normal sized people, there is a reason you never hear about it.
Author's Response:
This is the sort of thing I'm going for.
In theory, calling the police could easily sort this problem out in a very deus ex machina sorta way - they'd come round to check, find a Beta boy being humiliated by at least one Alpha girl, get him safe and charges might be made if Jack wants to (he might not just so as not to take on the Reids and risk a legal battle). This means that a lot of people get involved, which leaves the story very little breathing room and makes it very complicated to continue without everyone being aware of what's going on - his parents will keep him at home and everyone will know what's happened to him, it'll become all about the aftermath of the event and not about pushing the story on.
In practice, as pointed out in the review, justice is rarely simple even when it should be, and I've chosen to take a more guarded view on the situation to reflect the kind of loaded deck stacked against Jack even if he is 100% honest about what's happened. I've tried to paint the picture that this sort of thing has happened before, and the Reids have managed to evade prosecution and even set up the precedent of people blackmailing them. The police therefore have reason to be cautious in steaming over to the Reid household and gaining entry, and who's to say that they've not been warned or incentivised not to follow through with this kind of claim by a higher authority who has had his wallet filled by Caitlin's father to keep this stuff at bay?
[Report This]Date: July 23 2015 10:06 AM Title: Introduction
Feels like Jack is in one of Saw horor movie traps, a wrong move ending in death or maiming. Sleep deprivation, two giantesses, gotta be getting hungry, nature calling. Next chapter/s going to be rough. Can't wait.
Date: July 23 2015 8:25 AM Title: Introduction
Penny replied! They will need some Alpha help if he wants to live, Penny will be key although not in a fight, Caitlin is way too strong for Penny.
[Report This]Date: June 03 2015 10:52 AM Title: Introduction
Wow super interesting chapter, Caitlin showing some actual humanity for once. It doesn't seem like it was a mere ploy to draw Jack out. I wonder if she has legitimate feelings for him or some kind of issues stemming from her background. Can't wait to find out about this new depth that's been created for her.
[Report This]Date: June 03 2015 3:49 AM Title: Introduction
After a few months off the site, I come back and find this piece of literature finally updated after almost a year!! Yeah!!!
Gonna be honest; this is the one story that got me introduced to the site.
It's good. Still good. Just... please don't make me wait so long for an update again; that was almost as brutal as Caitlyn's treatment of Jack was. Especially after this relative cliffhanger.
Date: June 01 2015 12:36 PM Title: Introduction
By the wait, how does Jack see being inside in the teddybear?
Author's Response:
The bear is made of quite a chunky knit material, which you can sort of see through. Imagine putting a woolly jumper over your head - you can see through the little holes between the wool surprisingly clearly, without being seen.