Reviewer: Barkinis Signed [Report This]
Date: November 17 2023 5:14 PM Title: Chapter 5: Welcome to Antopia

By the way, I apologize for the bad translation. My English is not enough to write a piece:)

Author's Response:

All good. Impressive that you are reading such a long story in English 👍

Reviewer: iambeowulf Signed [Report This]
Date: July 11 2023 10:53 PM Title: Chapter 5: Welcome to Antopia

Nice stuff. Will there be giantess stuff later on?

Author's Response:

Thanks for your review! There is already some feet, crushing and mouth play in chapters 1 to 4 but yeah this one was kind of boring for me to write because it was just world-building and plot focus stuff.

But yep next chapter is around 25% done and will focus more on different kinds of macro/micro-interactions as well being a lot more action-based stuff. This is a long story and will have several different giantess interactions.      

Reviewer: Mr in A suit Signed [Report This]
Date: July 11 2023 12:54 AM Title: Chapter 5: Welcome to Antopia

Ok. fourth time i'm changing the text, this time to simplify and add/work more on some ideas. This always happens when I get invested on a story.

After months waiting, checking the site and the review section for news… totally worth it! The fable of Max, Lucy, Penelope and Antopia lives!

The only thing truly universal is a love story. Yeah, so can I start to ship Penelope and Max? Pemax! Or will it be Mia and Max? Should I call them Mix? I am joking with the names here, but Penelope infatuation might really hold more meaning, since her father, the late king - obviously her model for strength and kindness - was killed by a giant (a.k.a: a human).

And remember my last comment where I talked about feelings and desires at play and what their relationship would be if Max was his normal size and how I
wanted him to be ant-sized forever?Well, if I had to bet, Penelope would want the exact opposite – to see Max at his full height and power, the same power that took her father and she now at the mercy of her “former” friend… - I can see her having these kinds of desires and fantasies later on.

Yes, I am saying the princess has macro fantasies!

So… is Penelope a pervert like Karen said? No, Karen is the pervert. Penelope desires would or should have deeper roots, not simply being a wish to use Max as a tool for pleasure or to experience what her father felt. More like a confusion between grieve, a desire for pain, honest love and care.

Again, we are dealing with perspectives and I might be dead wrong too. For Karen, Penelope is what she herself is, and I am sure most would look at her
desiring Max that way – is Max just her “bitch” like the Mayor said? Or deep down Penelope’s fantasies are about it being the other way around? Maybe even the princess herself isn’t aware of this (ah the irony of ant royalty wanting to be dominated by a giant).

But… there is also the most important relationship: Max and Lucy. Max astonishment with the ant society and shame of what he and his family represent to them is understandable and relatable. But it’s all the more reason he can’t and won’t let Antopia shrink down Lucy. The “little monster” the ants want dead is just his little sister “playing” in their garden.

But why is everyone making Lucy the devil here? I, for one, am not 100% sure about Antopia time-line. For what we can tell, Antopia is fairly new and those ants might not be originally from Earth, explaining why no human found out about them yet. So, what are Lucy and Dyvia to them?

Religion never falls far from politics and, if I had to bet, Max will end up having to play the hole of the late king, and talk some humanity into his “little monster sister. She is still Lucy. But not to Penelope ans Sting. Would this sheltered princess agree to let Max go on a suicide mission and talk to Lucy after witnessing her people being slaughtered first hand? As she said, her objective is to make Max a ant… and that is what he looks to Lucy right now.

Or maybe he doesn’t even have to make her aware – someone else can make contact to tell about Max been a prisoner, aiming to enrage Lucy and use her against Dakota and Penelope. The end result will be the same, since that’s when Max will have to act fast - to stop the scientists from shrinking his sister too (if others don't first) and protect his captors (I love tragedy and irony).

Obviously his position is the most precarious. Right now is Max human or ant? And what are the ants – to him and the world at large? Actually, what are Lucy and Divya for the ants? Gods? Gaia incarnated? Lucy might like playing the role of an all powerful entity, especially if her brother is in the game (the girl is eleven after all), and some might be willing to let her if that means the fall of the queendom.

But it's not really just a game. Not for Max and Penelope and not for Antopia. My God, there is a lot to take in. 

Alright, enough theory (for now). How are you? Did you finish your exams? It’s incredible how you managed to make such big and detailed chapter. To express my gratitude for continuing writing, I would like to share that no family or friends know about my macro fantasies too and that’s alright. It’s something very personal I will talk if I want to, when and with who I want to.

See you next chapter. I hope my comment is usefull. As you can guess, I cant’t wait for Lucy and Max reunion! What will she think of his new girlfriend? Kkkkkkkkkkkk.

Author's Response:

Thanks for your really long review! Here is what I have to say about that. 

Max and Princess Penelope have an interesting complex relationship developing which will be expanded on further in the story. Interestingly Mac being an older teenage boy and going through puberty, he would have had sexual attraction and crushes on several girls already which will make for an interesting love triangle or hexagon which will further complicate things more. 

Ironically the Princess is already aware of macrophilla and microphilla and this will be explored as well, especially with the tiny aphids which are going to be introduced later on in the story.

This story relies heavily on perspective and power play so yes while his sister might seem to be doing something innocuous and childish 'playing with the ants', to the ants it is absolute war carnage, extreme violence and mass genocide. And with his newly reduced status in the world, that is something Max is going to have to discover the hard way. 

I left some historical teasers such as Penelope's dad (The King of Antopia) and the ant history stuff which will be explored in the coming chapters. 

But yeah the next chapter will be actually a historical flashback introducing the ant goddess Gaia and that will have an expansion of several different macro/micro-interactions and will have lots of action so that will be very interesting. 

Thanks for asking about my exams! Mid-semester exams are over and the next semester doesn't start until late July so I have had extra time to write 😊.