Reviewer: zura98 Signed [Report This]
Date: February 03 2022 3:45 PM Title: Chapter 26

This may be my first review in this story.

I have to congratulate you because this story is like a profesional book. It must be one of the best stories written in this website.

Regarding your questions, I have to say I really enjoyed Nell. She gives a different/new perspective. She also seems to be very human.

I suppose that Harper could be the next step. She is the only one that already had a crush on Anabelle. But Naomi would also include Nell, so it would also be a great choice. Leah fits better as the last choice, because her psychologic aproach.

Anyway, great job!!!

Author's Response:

Your review is much appreciated Zura--as are your compliments! 

I gotta say, I'm thrilled everyone likes Nell. She's an interesting character. And your predictions of the order is...interesting ;) 

Thanks again for the comment!

Reviewer: rubber Signed [Report This]
Date: February 03 2022 7:54 AM Title: Chapter 26

just awesome!

Author's Response:

Thanks rubber! I try :)

Reviewer: Mr in A suit Signed [Report This]
Date: February 03 2022 1:54 AM Title: Chapter 26

Warning: this comment contains high levels of Nell x Anna shipping. That doesn’t mean I don’t care anymore for Harper, Leah, Naomi and Molly (I shipp Anna with all F4). It’s just that I have high expectations for Nell's development with Anna... and the fact that I already filled almost two pages with this comment.

What you did with this chapter is what most series strugle or simply don’t bother to do: you expanded on the world using just enough already established elements as to not fell unattural and rushed. The reader can more or less find elements on past chapters that allowed the introduction of a shrinkee comunity and resistance movement now.

I say comunity, but, judging by byte’s testimony, we are talking about a whole society that is maginalised by the giants. It’s not just Byte. The suits dialogues and demeanor also hints that this is not just about 4 rich families who hate shrinkees, but a whole ideology that puts the 4 families at the top of the food chain.

Chapter 26 managed to higher the stakes of Annabelle story, it gave a political depth to it,  it introduced a war and it made all those things in a way that made sense to the reader. I guess what I am trying to say is... GOOD JOB... VERY GOOD JOB MAN.

Now... a curse, Poppy and Annabelle... yeah I think it’s pretty clear where I am going with this, right? Although shipping Poppy with Anna might come out as a joke, the end game for Poppy is to ensure Anna’s safety.

And how can a smaller being survive? By forming colonies or by using hosts... larger hosts in a symbiotic way. That’s why the F4 are obsessed with her. Poppy might call them goddesses and worship them as higher beings, but the giantesses are unable to live withot her the same she is unable to survive without them.

This is not some evil scheme, it’s a biological response from Anna’s body to protect her. I once saw a vídeo explaining how the effects of cocaine on our brain are similar to being in love... that is Annabelle’s blood blessing (and curse). She can’t control it, to survive her body affects both giants and shrinkees, sonner or later making everyone addicted to her. The ultimate survival mechanism.  

 Effects may vary from one specimen to another, Anna clearly being on the stronger side of that spectrum... and judging by the way Byte puts it, the reaction never really seizes and it’s rare, very rare, even within his society... so much so that I think his commander will not be pleased to learn he left a type 0 with the BSA...

To fully urderstand my theory, we have to talk about Nell (a.k.a my favourite giantess... a.k.a the one I shipp the most with Anna... a.k.a show me more Nell x Anna request TT_TT). She is not perceived as a gigantic being not because she is a friend, but because Anna deems her as too weak. Chapter 26 portrays Nell exactly like that – a  submissive person who may try but ultimately can’t
stand against others... at least not for Kyle.

About this point, I emphasize that once again the issue with survival came up and Anna actually regreted leaving the F4 side... the f4, not Nell or Dufort. Poppy recognizes the F4 and Zoey and not Nell. But I also don’t think this is everything.

About this point, I emphasize that once again the issue with survival came up and Anna actually regreted leaving the F4 side. I missed seeing the F4 reaction to their beloved Poppy “kidnaping”, I especially missed seing how they and Nell reacted.

Although she is portrayed as a meek person and (because of it) a possible ally, I don’t think Nell is just that. Her arc semms to be about repression... and the devil is always in the details... oh she saved Kyle? Yes, but she put him in her shoe... what a strange place to hide someone... You see? That’s why I want to see more of her, I want to know how her desires and personality will develop by interacting with... Anna/Poppy.

For example – the pale girl in whom Anna see so much of herself smacks a ladybug without noticing... and Anna realizes, for the first time, how big those clumsy feet are, semms like just the delicate big toe would enough to engulf her... And Nell... Nell is just pretending, she actually noticed the ladybug and crushing it right beside Annabelle made her heart pound... like it pounded when she had Kyle at her feet...

That is also why I missed seing the giantesses reaction after waking up... did Nell felt relief because her “friends” were able to escape? Undoubtedly. Tha tis the her pattern, she wants to do good. But did she also felt despair for not knowing if Anna was safe?... Maybe... just deep down, in one corner of her heart... she wished Anna was brought back to her... maybe she even searched for her... hoping to take and hide her away in one of her flats... after all, if having down there Kyle felt so good, having a type 0 must fell like heaven...

I am not saying I think Nell is or will become evil, but I think she will imprint and will have to fight the urges, fight the imprinting until she confess her growing desires to Anna... and how Anna will react? Will she blame herself? She will be directly responsible for Nell situation...

Well... that’s it. About the commander... I need to think. My guess is as good as everyone else. Yes, the chapter is pointing towards Anna’s mother or someone from her family... but we will have to wait and see. Either way, nothing and no one can change the fact that Anna is a type 0 now (probably the most valuable in the world).

She is Poppy and, yes, a threat to everyone else. She can count on herself, but that is not going to protect her from the rest of the world. The giantesses will.

Thanks for all the effort, all the care and work, for all the details, for posting here... Thank you for everything. See you on the next chapter.

Author's Response:

Hahaha! I love Annabelle x Nell. They're both so similar, but also so different. 

There will most certainly be more Annabelle x Nell moments coming up. Your comment about the ladybug got me thinking so I may change up somethings (so thank you!)

As always, your comments are always great to read

But Mr. In a Suit...you nearly gave me a heart attack because one of your theories is in my outline...word for word. I actually muttered "What the Fuck" out loud when I read this comment. I had to check the chapter to see if I had accidently tagged it on at the end. 

So like I said, you should get to writing! 

Reviewer: Ralgar Signed [Report This]
Date: January 31 2022 1:01 AM Title: Chapter 26

By the way I meant to add that I am very glad u made the protagonist a female, this genre is to inundated with shrunken men and I have no taste to read about shrunken men unless the story is very compelling( yours would have been) but I love Annabelle so much. I just thought u should know.

Author's Response:

Ha, thanks Ralgar, I don't regret making Annabelle my main character instead of--let's say--an Andrew. I think as a young woman, Annabelle perceives (and maybe even relates to?)  the giantesses in a very unique and specific way. I'll definitely be exploring it in upcoming chapters.  

Reviewer: Ralgar Signed [Report This]
Date: January 30 2022 10:59 PM Title: Chapter 26

Ok well first off congratz when u said this was a game changer, it really was, it takes it being a small number of bad things to a world wide disaster, and honestly every one of them deserves to burn, I mean the families and the daughters, the PRincess ( i do love them as villain's, but damn i dont thing there is any redemption for them any more, i was foolishly hoping there would be, but yea that isnt a thing i think anymore for me.)  

    U took this story in a very interesting direction that u did very litely hint at with the mother being so difficult to find info on.   

     OK so shrunken are having children ( that is in my opionion highly stupid and irrisponsble of the shrunken, u do not want to perpeatuate this damn disease ( which i now am beginngin to think was manufactured just like in a another story)).

     Ok so i am going to try not to ramble with this but i probably will.

This story has just grown well past any boundaries i thought u might have had.  So I was thinking there would be the bad end where she imprints on the girls. the not as  bad end where she at least maintains her humanity.  The end where she gets back to her Big family.  THe end where she actually ends up with some one who can properly  love her and take care of her.  That is now in doubt.  

    As i said earlier I was hoping that the 4 would in time be revealed to not be complete monsters and that there was hope for them, I see that now from this chapter and the previous 5 chapters that this is not a thing beyond the fact that for the first time in there lives they have someone they are actually caring about.  Like u said it is so toxic.  Now don't get me wrong i love the 4 as villain's ( and I love a good redemption story) but yea they need to die.  

     So now the resistance, they are interesting and i look forward to seeing more about them.  I will admit that it took me alot longer to figure out what was happening than it should have, I honestly thought it was either annabell hallucenating or losing her damn mind from the massacre.  Then things happened and i was blown away.   I disagree with the guy about not killing every one, they had them uncouncious they shoudl have killed them.  It really doesn't take much to kill us bigs and they could have doced their weapons with poison to kill every one their.  ( but this isn't a complaint against u)

     OK Annabell number one priority now is to get the imprinting stopped and kill poppy, because she is now a threat to the resistance and maybe a threat to normal shrunken beyond her precious Goddesses.  I dont know how to interpret agent x saying she killed all the shrunken at the former massacre (plz dont let that be true).  Poppy is to damn dangerous, but at that same time info can be kept from her, hmmmm she doesnt neccesarily know all that annebell knows ( zoey), so maybe annabell could learn to keep info from her.  BUt yea Anna needs to really get this therapy going.  Also I now retact my preivous statement that she needs to stay with the 4.  She needs to get away from them and stay gone, but i get why she stayed.  

     Now i have a statement here and i hope no one takes offense to this ( i understand if u do)  I view something like the HDD (the disease, not the people) as an existential threat to humaninty , and so while i would not take the extreme measures exterminating all who have it, i would ban all from having kids, and there would be massive penalties for those that did.  Including death.  I would take no pleasure in it like these monsters, but this disease would need to be wiped out.  I would also push for massive funding in elimanting the disease viah cure. I also dont believe for one second any of them actually believe that clap trap about saving the world except maybe Leah ( Naomi flat out told her she didnt.) 

     So about her mother  i thought she was going to be estranged from a family that was actively fighting the big bads and she just wanted peace, but now i dont know. I do think beth is the commander ( i really hope so or that she is alive at least).  

     Honestly i thought this chapter was going to deal with Oliver and the friends, not what this turned out to be.  I loved this chapter, for the first time i actually believe Annabelle actually has a chance to escape and find a refuge, and maybe have a good life ( if scarred).  

    I have no idea what to think of this whole blessed blood thing, personally aside from the imprinting thing it sounds like a good deal, really tired of the trope where just because u can heal your a freak.  U have hinted that those who come in contact with type 0s imprint on said type 0, and at first that's what I thought had happened with byte, (once I realized that there was something going on).    

     SO this turned into a big review, in addition to my other reviews, hope u don't that i have reviewed alot lately and will probably continue to do so i keep having thoughts.  Like I said this is the best story on this site and honestly i think u could get this published, ( u would need to do some editing and stuff but its that good).

SO this was a pretty small scope story that just got blown with open and I am very here for it.  I cant wait to find out where this goes.

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Author's Response:

I'm really glad you are liking the expansion of the story. That's what I was most worried about. I know a lot of people like the FF and want more of a focus on them (and they will remain an essential part of the story) but in order to go where the story needs to go, I had to open up the world. I did hint at how different this world is in the "Beginning" but I haven't really touched on it in a while.

Ralgar, I really like your comments! They help me write this story! It's always great to refresh and see that someone else has reviewed--it reminds me that people are still reading this insanely long thing.

I can't say too much about everything you've written (spoilers) but I can say that Oliver and Company (ha) will be returning.

Reviewer: Ralgar Signed [Report This]
Date: January 30 2022 8:13 PM Title: The Beginning

Ok first off I’m still reading but I have a few things to say first off 27k words good lord dude I was expecting maybe 15-20k words, that is an crazy amount, love it and what I read so far, I am not surprised they don’t want her reading but  seesh, Also Harper communications really of all majors she is communication, I just don’t see it.

Back to reading

Author's Response:

Ugh, I know! Never going to do that again. I just had to hit that plot point or else the story was going to drag on forever. 

Ha! Soon, you'll find out more about the giantesses and their majors and why they are enrolled in Queenston. If you're interested, I can reveal Annabelle's major too. 

Thanks as always Ralgar for your comments! 

Reviewer: Ralgar Signed [Report This]
Date: January 21 2022 5:42 AM Title: Chapter 25

Well as it turns out I have one more question and if it’s spoilers that’s ok I can wait but is Izzy a type-0, the reason I ask is because a little bit of her section very much reads like Anna’s just prior to her shrinking, what with all the bad vibes she was getting. From the 4.  Now the big thing against this is that she didn’t consider a shrunken being captive if she felt a vibration from inside the crystal and I would think a shrunken would consider the possibility of a cause being a shrunken, but yea I read her section carefully ,( I love POV changes) and I get some interesting ideas from her POV.

Author's Response: Ha! I really like Izzy. She'll come back, but in a very minimal way. If she is a Type 0, then you would only see it in a spin-off    ¯_(ツ)_/¯¯ 

Reviewer: Mr in A suit Signed [Report This]
Date: January 20 2022 1:34 AM Title: Chapter 25

My PC broke down during the weekend and I finally managed to get it to connect. What is the first thing I do? I go wash the dishes LOL

Poppy, Poppy, Poppy... I like when she kisses Annabelle. I like how she kisses Annabelle. Am I shipping Anna with Poppy? Am I? Of course I am! And my goddesses, she is strong! It seems she took out Bitsy and Managed to overpower Steven like it was nothing.

I could say Poppy is stronger because Anna is a especial kind of type 0 and other things... but I want to wait the next chapters. Maybe we will get more info on her mother or more interactions that flash out what exactly is the deal with Anna, Poppy and imprinting.

Now that I think about it, Anna’s train of thought during chapter 24 could be foreshadowing Bitsy’s master death. How a type 0 react to their master’s death?

Ralgar made a comment about the giantesses working out. It’s an interesting set. Maybe Anna on Molly’s bellybutton or Harper’s armpits, helping with exercises – but only managing to tickle and make then horny.

That’s it for now. I will wait the next chapter to comment more. But take care of yourself, please. Don’t overwork and don’t worry. I think I talk for every single fan of your story and characters when I say your health comes first.

And about writing, I am trying my hand on short story and drafiting concepts. Your replies are a great incentive. Thanks and I hope you are feeling better. See you on the next chapter!

Author's Response:

Ha, sorry about your PC, Mr. In a Suit.

Lol you're the first person to ship Poppy with Annabelle. I definitely can get on board, there's nothing wrong with a little Loki-esque situationship. 

All of your imprinting theories are so interesting. I know you probably perked up at the most recent chapter with all the Blood-Blessed stuff. Slowly--slowly more will be revealed. 

Also, I think short stories--especially flash fiction--is a great way to get into it. 

Reviewer: Ralgar Signed [Report This]
Date: January 19 2022 12:44 AM Title: Chapter 25

I do have one more question, in the past u said u thought this story would be wrapped up around thirty chapters, now is that still going to happen u think or will it be more now, just asking cause with all the balls u still have up in the air I can’t see it being done in under ten more chapters at least, which is totally fine, I love this story and really want it to go the distsnce. I have no desire for this story to end anytime soon is what I am saying

Author's Response:

Ha! I was naïve back then. Right now I'm shooting for under 40 chapters. There are just certain plot points I need to hit. I'm glad you're still enjoying the story, Ralgar.  

Reviewer: AdamX Signed [Report This]
Date: January 16 2022 2:08 AM Title: Chapter 25

Anna deserves some massive credit for still fighting for other people given all she was up against in this hellscape. You really feel for her trying to balance so much on her plate whilst keeping her friends safe and placating the whims of four titanic brats all at the same time.

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Steven seems like he would've been a great therapist if this whole shrinking thing did not happen to him. He got Anna to reveal some of her deepest traumas just by conversing with her during their overnights. I do kind of understand the fear shrinkies would have of not wanting to bring kids into this kind of world...we're witness why that makes sense with every chapter you write to be fair.
Poppy really is pushing hard for the Goddesses it would seem, she must be high into massive terroristic college girls...I sort of don't blame her.

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Anna went full Russian sleeper agent it seems, Poppy seems to have Jason Voorhees levels of focus and determination when eliminating her -obstacles- in lew of getting poor Anna to surrender her humanity. Still Anna made a lot of progress in this chapter, she got a little sidetracked by Poppy but she is at least trending towards a sliver of hope that even if she doesn't escape she can at least not lose her humanity.

Author's Response:

Hey Adam,

Right? Annabelle is definitely one of the more selfless characters I've written.

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Steven does seem to be adapt at getting Annabelle to open up. And Poppy is probably about as obsessed with the giantesses as they are with her,

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Ha! Annabelle definitely needs to watch out for Poppy. They both want her body, but there's only room enough for one of them. I also think Annabelle's humanity is the core of this story, It's kind of the flickering candlelight in the dark chaotic storm that is the giantesses.