How about this: You agree to disagree and I'll agree with virtually everyone else who read the ending of the story and say you're wrong?

Look, if you had just said, "I thought the ending was shit, and I didn't like it" or "That ending really put a sour note on the story for me," I wouldn't have an issue with it. But instead, you said something that wasn't only wrong but is objectively stupid.

There is no "180 in the directional narrative." You don't even know what the narrative of the second story looks like. All I said was that the tone was going to be different and that it wouldn't be as gentle. I didn't say it would be completely opposite of the first story. The sad thing is that part of the reason that I split this story up like that in the first place was to avoid nonsense like this from the more militant gentle crowd, but now here it is seeping into the reviews of an entirely different story. Now that's annoying!

Those "long, arduous recoveries" (I think I kind of get what you mean by this?) for each person who went through it is no less relevant now than they were before the ending. In fact, the aftermath of those emotional journeys and the relationships built along the way are not only not undone by the ending, but they're going to be used as the foundation of the second story, which obviously I couldn't do if these things (you know, the heart and soul of the story) were "undone."

Now, if the twist at the end had been Duncan suddenly growing himself back to normal size, pulling out a shrink ray, and shrinking Callie, only for him to yell, "ACTING!" in a smug Shakespearean style of speaking with a single finger triumphantly raised in the air, you'd have me. That would have completely undone everything the story had built between Callie and Duncan. Instead, the final lines of the last chapter are all about Callie finding some small degree of comfort in a hopeless situation by leaning on her strong relationship with Duncan. That's the complete opposite of "undoing" what the story built.

Literally nothing from throughout the story has been undone. Everything that has happened to each and every character still matters and will play a role in how they handle what's to come. This is just a case of you not liking the cliffhanger ending and the fact that I gave a heads up that the continuation won't be as gentle. Again, if you had just said that, I would have just said, "Cool. Thanks!" and we could have just moved on. But I'm always going to respond when someone mischaracterizes my work.

It's really ironic to me that you feel like the violent, crush, and vore tags don't make this story a "hard story." Not because I disagree, necessarily, but if you honestly feel that way, then you're even more wrong about that whole "180" thing than you even realize! But given how upset you get at the smallest bit of tension to a lot of these stories (yet not a word out of you about the rape and a half that took place in Roomies, weirdly enough), I don't think you can fault me for thinking that those tags would scare you off.

And yeah, I completely agree that getting called out is annoying. It certainly was when you did it to me in your first review of this story for no reason. Not only that, but what you called me out for was wrong and ridiculous, which makes it even worse. At least you actually deserve to be called out.

Funny, I don't remember teeheeing at the end of Roomies.

But seriously, I'm sure it'll come as no surprise to you that I strongly disagree with your assessment that the ending to that one "undoes everything I wrote." That ending (and what's going to come after it) was going to happen before I started writing the first chapter and is actually a part of what I've been building toward from the start. I mean, is the relationship between Duncan and Callie now somehow less valid because they're the same size and in a situation that looks bad at the moment? Clearly not. In fact, I'd argue that something like that can strengthen the bond two people share, and it certainly helps to have a significant other with you when things get tough.

So yeah, all that character work is still there and still relevant.

You know, given how you tend to react whenever things aren't bright and sunny in these stories (I've seen some of your reviews from others stories I've read too), I was more than a little surprised to see you reading Privileged at all. I mean, those initial tags for the story weren't exactly inviting to someone who seems to be looking more toward the gentler side of the fetish.

Hey look, I'm finally responding to these reviews!

Thanks for the generous words, especially since you've written some rampage scenes that I've really, really enjoyed (although the scale was a bit more ... extreme in those cases)! Casual cruelty is so much fun and so hot! And yeah, the stomp was a really fun thing to write, too. She didn't even have to touch them, man!