[Report This]Date: April 03 2014 12:20 PM Title: Chapter 9: The More Things Change
It was a good pick-up of the lost chapter. A few things were lost in the re-typing: I enjoyed the conversation on Emily a bit more on the first release of it, for instance. With that said, I still feel this is a good chapter on its own.
Fuck Barbara. I hope Amanda herself fights that.
Author's Response:
Thanks for the comment. I knew I wouldn't be able to recapture the first upload and didn't want to try some half assed attempt to copy it so instead I tried to hit the same points while making it feel different and adding more detail to compesate. That being said I'll probably never be satisfied with this...As far as Barbara. YEAH! FUCK HER!....she'll probably get exactly what she wants.
Date: March 30 2014 6:13 PM Title: Chapter 8: Elevation
Oh man, you lost a chapter? What a bummer.
I certainly looked at that chapter. Any IT folk with tips on how to recover a previously viewed web page?
Dug the newest chapter. It was really interesting how Rain almost immediately realized that Sheila had a point about the helplessness of non-elevated people. It's like even the kind elevated people view the struggles of the normals as a little pathetic. Makes Ramona's casual domination of Greg a little more understandable if even through her love he seems just fundamentally inferior.
Author's Response:
Thanks for the comment. The relationships between elevated and normal is the entire point of this story and I hope I'm conveying the changing dynamics well. Not all elevated are as harsh as Sheila or conceded and dangerous as Walter but at a fundemental level it's hard to argue that there not superior. it's up to Rain to decide how she'll deal with that now that she's elevated herself.
[Report This]Date: March 30 2014 5:28 PM Title: Chapter 1: Arrangement
So Rain seems to have kept Sheila off her for now but she will be back; she does actually like Tyler but is it in a girlfriend sort of way?
Author's Response:
I think she's a little confused about that myself. I explained it in a previous comment you can search for it you feel like it.
[Report This]Date: March 30 2014 2:21 PM Title: Chapter 8: Elevation
Yay! tyler has a super hot super babe who has a crush on him now :P
SO now we all see why you kept saying sheila was misunderstood. Hopefully rain can show Sheila how she was wrong to go about it that way, but teach tyler the lesson in a more loving way. As hopeless as it is being a normal in that world maybe the two girls can make him feel better... a lot better ;)
who knows, maybe Rain is bi?
Author's Response:
I'm very doubtful that will happen as I don't see the two girls liking each other very much but you never know things seem to be happening exactly the way you want them.
[Report This]Date: March 30 2014 2:18 PM Title: Chapter 8: Elevation
I’m in a weird place where I kind of felt bad for Sheila. While her methods were deplorable, it was fairly obvious she liked Tyler and her goal was protecting him albeit in a perverse way. It's clear she isn't done yet though so maybe that emotion is more than like.
It'll be interesting to see was Rain can do. Aside from being tall and glowy she's a blank slate.
Author's Response:
Yeah people are hardly ever black and white. That being said Sheila is still a smug self absorbed class 2 with a mean streek in her whose not used to being denied what she wants sooo...(I wish there was a shoulder shrug emoticon)
[Report This]Date: March 30 2014 1:45 PM Title: Chapter 8: Elevation
Ugh that is a huge bummer on that last chapter. Maybe someone has it saved, I wish I did. I trawled through google's cache but the most recent version of this I could find was before you posted Sibling Rivalry.
Enjoyed this chapter, glad to see I was more or less right on Sheila :P. Enjoyed that most of understanding between her and Rain, and I'm looking forward to seeing what the latter can do and how that relationship goes.
Author's Response:
Yeah I tried that too! Unfortunate but oh well. Hopefully rewriting it will make it better. I have more planned with Sheila and Rain this is only there first skirmish. They understand each other but have very different viewpoints on how they'll interact with normals, and don't think Tyler is just going to sit on the sidelines for all this.
Date: March 30 2014 1:25 PM Title: Chapter 8: Elevation
I thought Sheila hated Tyler; is being a complete bitch her way of liking him?
Author's Response:
She sees it as less of being a bitch and more of her being honest. She thinks the only way Tyler is going to survive in this new society is by being complacent and learning that the reality that he will always be controlled by other people. SHe doesn't think she's being a bitch even if she is.
Date: March 30 2014 1:12 PM Title: Chapter 1: Arrangement
I hope you people enjoyed that chapter about the Sanders Siblings because It's no longer in my archive to re upload. Curse my obsessive need to have everthing follow a chronological order. I'll have to now completely rewrite the chapter and because I do not have a photographic memory it is bound to be different in pacing and feel. I'll try to have it done soon. Until then I guess the chapter you read resides in some pocket dimesion or something. I can only hope this chapter holds you over.........COUNTLESS UNPLEASANT EXSPLETIVES!!!
[Report This]Date: March 28 2014 4:42 PM Title: Chapter 1: Arrangement
Wonderful chapter. Greg and Ramona are by far my favorite coupling in the anthology so far.
Date: March 28 2014 1:19 AM Title: Chapter 1: Arrangement
Also meant to comment on this earlier:
It was really nice to see a bit more of Amy in this chapter, and that she really does love her dad and isn't any threat to abandon him like her mother did. It was very sweet.
Date: March 27 2014 11:36 PM Title: Chapter 1: Arrangement
Author's Response:
Eh. I was more or less trying to be funny which I guess a failed at. -_-
Lol it's hard to convey sarcasm and the like over the internet :P
Author's Response:
Argh comedy be a harsh mistress.
Date: March 27 2014 11:27 PM Title: Chapter 1: Arrangement
See, now after reading these responses (and also taking it account some other things you've mentioned in comments before this chapter), I can't help but wonder if Sheila herself isn't crushing on Tyler and simply flirting in the most boorish manner possible and using the homework thing as a means of marking her territory. I can't help but view it as a potential tool for getting him used to what life is likely like for a normal person with an elevated partner: Support for the sake of support.
Or maybe I'm now reading a bit too optimistically into the whole matter.
Author's Response:
Out of fear of giving myself away. No comment. Stop reading into things!
Date: March 27 2014 11:19 PM Title: Chapter 1: Arrangement
Your responce makes me think you either A want Rain to be a giantess, or B assume she isn't so powerful she can control herself :P
I don't think Rain would kill Sheila, but sheila deffinitley needs to understand that just because she has more power than tyler doesn't make her better. However with her extra intelect from being enlightened you'd think she'd figure that out.
And im aware that Walter is the nasty one, im glad 3s are rare, giving regular people power like that is dangerous.
I won't take back a 3, but ill add a 2 to my choice ;)
Author's Response:
Eh. I was more or less trying to be funny which I guess a failed at. -_-
Date: March 27 2014 10:36 PM Title: Chapter 1: Arrangement
"It looks like class 3 is winning for the moment so you might just get your wish although I don't think Rains gonna reach anywhere near 30 feet unless Class 2 does a come from behind. Thanks for the comment.....and Sheila's not that bad just misunderstood....Like Walter!
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She still needs to be taught a lesson :P. and i really hope things turn around for tyler. (and you can't blame a guy for wantin some gentle size stuff :P)
Author's Response:
The way I see it morally Sheila is nowhere near as bad a Walter. You know Walter he was incarcerated for ripping a man's arm off and possibly using his super speed to rip off twenty grand. At the same time Sheila's a symptom of the new world a girl who elevated fairly young and has a smug sense of superiority about that she'll probably pass on to her kids who will most likely be elevated themselves which in the end might be worse.
As far as her relationship with Tyler goes. It's like that friend you used to hang out with a lot as part of a group during recess in middle school. Then over the summer she got taller and grew boobs and you didn't so when high school starts she starts hanging out with the cool kids and your stuck with the one or two friends that stayed relatively the same. So now whenever you see each other she just sort of condecends to you because your not a popular as she is and even if they don't mean it they don't seem to understand what there doing is actually bullying you. Only you know she's a giant so it's like a hundred times worse.
Also if things keep trending like this poor Sheila's gonna be taught more than just a lesson. Anyone still considering thier vote maybe think about what Sheila wants. I'm sure she'd prefer to see the next sunrise.
[Report This]Date: March 27 2014 8:37 PM Title: Chapter 7: Friends Like These
Class 3, Tyler needs a break, im honestly surprized hes not totally depressed in his life. A lover who is semi-all-powerful would help that i think(and not to mention probably super hot after an elevation). That and Sheila needs to be made to feel as helpless as she picks on the normal people.
I love and at the same time hate the feelings i get reading parts of this story told by normals. You evoke this feeling of helplessness in a world that is suddenly too big for them. I really hope each of the normals winds up with a happy eneding, hopefully tyler's involves a 30~ish foot Rain who's a class 3 elevated and that people stop picking on him. (and so we can get a sexy gentle size related chapter later? I cant imagine he'd be opposed to being smothered effectionatley with giant boobs :P)
Author's Response:
It looks like class 3 is winning for the moment so you might just get your wish although I don't think Rains gonna reach anywhere near 30 feet unless Class 2 does a come from behind. Thanks for the comment.....and Sheila's not that bad just misunderstood....Like Walter!
[Report This]Date: March 27 2014 5:25 PM Title: Chapter 1: Arrangement
I have to vote Class 3 here, just because I can see a cool Supergirl vs. Giganta thing happening then. She can hold her own against a Class 2. She gets her dream of becoming Indiana Jones, and she and Tyler have to figure out what her new powers mean to their relationship.
Author's Response:
Cool, Class 3, but don't let her wanting to be Indiana Jones sway your choice because there's only one Harrison Ford.
Date: March 27 2014 4:54 PM Title: Chapter 1: Arrangement
Ah, just saw your clarification. I had thought Ramona was a super powered Class 1.
I'd vote Class 3 in that case. I'd be more interested in Rain maintaining her normal size, but adjusting to the physical perfection and super powered superiority seen in Ramona.
Author's Response:
Cool Class 3 the mystery catagory sort of. WhoooOOOoooOo.
Date: March 27 2014 4:50 PM Title: Chapter 1: Arrangement
Okay I'll add some clarity.
Class 1: Physical mutations: wings, extra arms, modest size increase under twenty feet. glow in the dark hair
Class 2: Giant or Giantess it's that simple for now anyway.
Class 3: Crazy mystery superpower nonsense like invisible rapist hollow man or super fast thief convict. Or incredibly clingy flying super girlfriend.
Hope this helps :)
[Report This]Date: March 27 2014 4:33 PM Title: Chapter 1: Arrangement
Class 3, but still grows to the now "average" 15 feet. We don't want to destroy all of Rain's dreams now do we?
Author's Response:
Hmmm. interesting.
Date: March 27 2014 4:28 PM Title: Chapter 7: Friends Like These
Fun surprise, I was looking forward to a new chapter. This was a fun dynamic, and as always I love the way your chapters have specific scenes/stories to tell.
I'm most interested in the super people you've introduced, such as Ramona from Chapter 2, so I'll vote for Rain becoming a high powered normal sized level 1.