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Reviewer: tank Signed [Report This]
Date: June 11 2022 1:16 PM Title: Kidnapped by Delinquents

Just a idea how about a giantess genie story 



Author's Response:

That's not a bad idea, I'll have to think of a storyline to go with it

Reviewer: edgyedge Signed starstarstarstarstar [Report This]
Date: April 21 2022 3:29 AM Title: Kidnapped by Delinquents

Wow.

For the first time in more than a decade visiting that site, I see a writer considering the reviewers' messages. Well, I must admit, this was strong of you. And something new for me. I'm very positively impressed.

I'd give you four stars because your story description for Growing Day before the link still has something that can be better detailed and may still be a bit misleading (now I'm not doing a negative criticism and I'll talk more about that later in this review), but I am sure that your bold move of integrity deserves more, so please, have your five stars, you totally deserves it!

I think I need to explain myself too: gentle readers like me and the folks back in the gentle gts discord community are usually geared towards development of characters and we usually feel a lot the emotional situations, good or bad, the characters are being put under as we frequently connect to them. It's like if the distresses were happening to us, or to someone we truly care about that does exist in real life. We're not like the average reader who just wants a quick smutty story, we like to enjoy the story and feel the emotions. Thus, emotional involvement with the characters is something pretty normal for us to have. This is why the sudden cruelty Beth's friends were put under felt so bad in us, driving us kinda crazy - it was like it was being done to us. At least I felt it this way.

About the description you're giving to your story, well, now it sort of fits it well, but I say that it sort of fits because there's still something here and there that's a bit misleading. See it yourself: first, you say that it is a fairly mean-spirited story. Well, if by fairly you mean more or less, it doesn't fit your story. Despite being true that it doesn't have any kind of physical violence and all the likes, the emotional/psychological violence the giantesses put the normals under are pretty strong, despite implicit. We all know that psychological violence is worse than physical violence, as the former doesn't totally heal, never. The baddest tortures terrorist groups do, for example, are psychological. It hurts more when it hits your heart. Now, if by fairly you meant clearly, or plainly, then it fits. As I wrote: despite being implicit, the strong psychological violence the giantesses put the normals under is very distinct, easily perceivable by the reader.

Other thing that doesn't fit your story in that description is when you write that the giantess more or less kidnaps her friends. There's no such thing as more or less kidnapping: a kidnapping is a kidnapping, with all the bad psychological implications and consequences it brings to its victims, and Beth's friends were clearly kidnapped by her. To say that she more or less kidnaps her friends makes the reader expect anything but the kidnapping that actually happens in the story. Well, let’s resume the plot actions of your story: this story...

* Shows a giantess that betrays her best friends for reasons that are just absurdly selfish, not caring about them at all;
* Shows that giantesses in general are disdaining and disrespectful towards humanity in general, absolutely not caring about human rights, human feelings/, humanity freedom and all;
* Shows that giantesses in general don’t care about their statutory offenses and crimes;
* Shows a giantess selfishly and uncaringly kidnapping and jailing her best friends, the ones who trusted her, totally dehumanizing them as they end caged like pets in a birdcage or something similar;
* Shows the normal sized friends deeply desperate inside the plastic cage, slamming at the walls and screaming, trying to escape like birds caught in a cage, forever and unwillingly taken away from their lives, from the freedom they always had, with no chance of even saying their loved ones (parents, relatives, friends etc) goodbye, probably crying a lot for days and destined to long, very sad and depressive decades to come, without nothing to do but use an exercising wheel and eat food that maybe tastes like dog food;
* Shows a giantess breaking the home of one of her friends, destroying the house that could have been the place of many important memories, also destroying everything that such friend recognized as her home, all the while pursuing that hidden friend and causing terrible emotional stress, panic, and irrecoverable emotional damages to her,
* Shows a kinda sociopathic giantess which thinks that she’s being gentle just because she says to the other giantess that she ‘loves’ her friends and that they ‘are her world’. And then the story ends.

As you can see, your story, and I say that using my own experience, is one of the cruelest, saddest stories I've ever seen, hands down. And now I'm not just comparing it with other giantess stories: I'm comparing it with all and every sad story, real or not, I had contact with in life. Your story has a implicit but heavy load of psychological torture, humiliation and dehumanization. Well, for the folks who like cruel stories, your story is a gold nugget, a gem. But for the gentler side of the force, for stories like 'Misc Gentle stories', it was too much.

About the description, I guess you could just tell that Beth kidnaps her friends (because it is what she clearly does) and that the story, despite not having physical violence and all, has implicit but strong humiliation and dehumanization. I suggest you these alterations because there are folks who aren't prepared for such impact and will think that you're tricking them too: the way you wrote, it seems that the story is just lightly mean.

Fuck, I wrote too much, sorry! I'm trying to reduce the size of the review but this is the best I can do. I hate writing long texts...




Author's Response:

I hadn't really thought about it in a long time since the series of reviews the other day, but after some consideration it's definitely a mean story which the various complaints are correct about, it doesn't fit here. Anyways I left a link to it for anyone who feels like they want to read it anyway. I like the reader to feel a bit happy and uplifted after they finish my stories, and Growing Day is probably the only one I've written that I feel doesn't accomplish that. Don't feel bad about lengthy reviews, the more of your thoughts you pour into them the more the author or other readers can take from it, even if they're negative I feel like they're important.

If you're interested in the themes of Tiny vs. Giant agency you might take a look at my Conquest of Earth story, it involves an alien race of giantesses that save Earth from a rival invasion and try to claim humans as a sort of pet species, but as they work with humanity more they develop a respect for them and are left in the awkward situation of dealing with a universe where their "pets" are closer to allies and all the personal and political drama that entails. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it, or any of my other stories in this collection or in their own posts.

Reviewer: rachel4432 Signed half-star [Report This]
Date: April 20 2022 4:10 AM Title: Kidnapped by Delinquents

I never thought that I'd end registering to give a story such low-star review, but really that this crap of a chapter (Growing day) is STILL among the other superbly wonderful gentle chapters? Even with users complaining about it? And of course, dozens of others who didn't review but honestly HATED that one, like most of us readers who are geared toward gentler stories? I can't believe it, but OK, reality is already showing me that clearly, there's no argument against reality and I must figure out why that cruelty CRAP is published inside a collection of GENTLE stories.

Fine, I'm sorry for beginning my review like that (big part of me says that I shouldn't feel sorry for that), but seriously, I hate that story just because of that chapter. What are the tag system meant for? And that title? ""Gentle Misc Stories""! What a cruelty story is doing among these other perfectly good gentle stories? This makes the whole collection seems like a total misnomer. And also makes you, Greenanon, seem like you're trying to fool us or take us for kids. Seriously.

I'm not being a random meaningless hater, no. Let me say that: you write well. Very well actually, trust me. You develop your characters in a nice, encompassing manner, and most situations (I said MOST) are believable in a fantasy/fetish ideal. The chapters before it, the gentler ones: they were JUST GREAT. And, again, I mean it. But that chapter, Growing Day, my gosh, this has SO MANY PROBLEMS that I'm forced to write down a list to better show you them, grouped in major points:

1. You said in the foot notes of the story that it's the meaner of your stories. You also said in a review answer that this is the meaner of your stories. So, to begin with, why the hell is this story among gentle stories!? This has absolutely nothing to do with the gentle universe. I mean it: NOTHING. You even said in another review answer that this chapter is on the far edge of gentle. Sorry, but you're plainly wrong: it has, I say again, NOTHING to do with gentleness at all, so it can't be even in the edge of gentle, because it's not even gentle to begin with. Picturing Beth going well with her friends and bf while normal sized doesn't count, because she goes all selfish from then on, totally lying to her friends and bf, to the people that TRUSTED her, just to BETRAY AND KIDNAP them in the end. Without a care in the world. In what kind of shitty universe is this gentle? In what kind of psychopathic reality Beth can be considered gentle by any means? If it was me, I'd just never look at her and talk with her again in life, and if I was a man (her bf specifically), I'd even date one of her normal friends, so Beth can stay all alone in her new world if she wants.

2. The giantesses in this story consider themselves goddesses in a cruel/cold/mean/disdainful way. There isn't a SINGLE TRACE of true gentleness in this story regarding their behavior, beliefs and words, period. The giantess policewoman, for example: she speaks disdainfully about equal rights and all, then showing that in reality no one dares to fight a giantess, and explaining why this means that they could do whatever they want. And also explains how many other 'normals' were kidnapped that way. And by her words and actions, she only shows that giantesses are, by all means, cruel, evil and no gentle at all. Exceptions do exist? Probably. But your story doesn't show a single example. The policewoman, whose name I don't remember and I won't go behind it in the story just because I absolutely don't wanna read that crap of a chapter again in my life, just instructs Beth on how to do whatever she wants, without a care for the 'normals', that includes the people she ""loved"" (no, hell no, she doesn't loved them! What psychopath would do this to the ones he/she loves? What kind of mental disorder is that?). What makes me feel more relieved is that years ago i watched on Discovery Channel an interesting show about giants in folklore and it was showed scientifically that killing a Brobdingnagian/Giant/Giantess is fairly easier than killing a normal person is for them. They have size, but exactly their sizes would make them tens of times more susceptible to many diseases our normal bodies have more strength to deal with. So, in this story, the giantess policewoman can even resist bullets but it's just a matter of a jet plane carrying some biological weapons to put the rare giantesses in extinction. Relax, Beth, no one will miss you. 'Oh, but the biological weapons would put an end to normal humanity!' No, not that easy. Remember what was said about normal people resisting more diseases with more easiness? Maybe Mother Nature would herself kill all the giantesses and put normal people with they life they deserve, with no gigantic bitches like that Beth to roam around.

3. You said in the foot notes that you like to believe that Beth treated her friends well. This doesn't count, too. Because treating the kidnapped victims doesn't mean the kidnapper is good. In real life, there are lots, thousands, of kidnapping cases where the kidnapper tried to treat the victim well. This didn't amend things, OBVIOUSLY: most victims end committing suicide, developing depression, social anxiety and tons of other heavy mental disorders, for the rest of their lives. So the majority of the kidnapped 'normals' in your story simply ended like that. Yes, very ""gentle""...

4. Still regarding what you said in the foot notes, that you like to believe that Beth treated her friends well, this also sounds pretty unbelievable in the way you wrote the story. The giantess policewoman showed that the giantesses were used to lie as they wanted, when they wanted, just because they wanted, so they could do whatever they wanted, and in general they even didn't need that much to lie, as the giantess policewoman showed us. So are the websites showing 'normals' living happily among giantesses really to be believed? This could also be another lie. And probably is. The giantess policewoman probably lied even to Beth too about normals living happily among giantesses. Yes, there could be some, but your story makes believable that the truly happy normals were a HUGE MINORITY. Most of them probably are missing home, their hearts shattered to pieces while they spend the rest of their now boring, meaningless life inside a golden hamster house. Also, writing a continuation for this chapter doesn't help, as the world building of this chapter shows that the giantesses are like that, just plainly mean. No hearts, non feelings, just selfishness. Just cruelty. Some good giantesses here and there in a continuation won't save that chapter. There are some cruel stories I had the displeasure to read out there that have almost as much gentleness as this whole story of yours do have, so two or three good, nice giantesses won't do it for this chapter. This will be still mean. Totally out of place in this story, with no actual, believable or coherent reason to exist.

5. Life is way more than jobs and bills. 'Oh, they won't need to look for jobs, no, never again in their lives they'll be worried about bills and all! Things will be a lot easier for them!' Oh really? ¬¬ What about parents? Relatives, friends, loved ones, places, freedom to come and go, to visit places when they want, without having to be carried in a birdcage by a mean giantess like Beth, the Bitch (this nickname really fits her like a glove)? really, life is many things more than working and paying bills. Little pleasures, bigger pleasures, freedom, true friends (something Beth ABSOLUTELY ISN'T). Ultimately, life. What Beth did, what many other giantesses in this story did to people who trusted them, was plainly taking away all the normals' lives away. Without a hell of a care in the world. Depression is what awaits the normals. Yes, again: very ""gentle""...

6. You said that you believe that this story isn't so developed or long enough to fit a singe story on its own. No, again you're wrong, despite now I admit that it depends on your personal preferences, so it must be just my personal view, but considering all the best stories on the site, many of them are around 3k, 4k words. Most of your chapters are around that number of total words, so yes, they are long enough to be single stories, if you wanted them to be. Also, most of them have enough world building, despite simple in most cases, to make us readers understand what's happening. This includes that cruel, crappy chapter. There is NOT A SINGLE REASON for it to be inside that collection. I already said: this chapter is no gentle at all and this alone is more than enough reason for it to be kept far far away of this story, but if you don't think this could fit a full story anywhere away of this story, then build a collection of mean/cruel stories and put it there! For correctness'/coherency's/logic's sake!

7. To finish my review, your story having such shitty (sorry) chapter is a disrespect towards us, the readers, who are giving you our time to read, enjoy and even review your work. 'Oh, no one is forcing you to do that'. Yes, you're plainly and fully right: no one is forcing us to do it for you, we can just move away and read another story. But please, see it under our POV: we, readers who like gentler stories, come home after a long day at work, at college, whatever, wanting a relief of all the cruelty in the real life, in the world. We go to giantessworld to read some gentle story and see a story called "Misc GENTLE Stories". Ok, we start reading it. Wow, the stories are good, are gentle, look at the 'delinquents', they were good to the tiny, even helped him in having his revenge against the girl that infected him with the shrinking virus, and all the gentleness they're giving to him pays off all the hardness he could have in life, they even managed to make him enter College with them! And the following stories, great! I loved the gentle giantess playing lego with her Lego boy hahah! And then... Growing Day. F*cking Growing Day! A mean punch in our hearts, a bucket full of icy-cold water into our gently warmed hearts. We were expecting to read more gentleness and were expecting for the story to show a turn of events that made it kinda worth being kidnapped, but no. We were presented with just cruelty, just badness. We weren't expecting for that: the tags didn't show it, the story is under the Gentle Stories 'umbrella', no warning, nothing. Just a random mean chapter, with no meaning of existing in there, but there it is, MISLEADING OTHER READERS and causing them to have THE HELLISH DISPLEASURE of reading it. A total waste of time, that could have been avoided if that story wasn't there, doing all the damage it's still doing for other unaware readers, who will be presented with that crap of a chapter.

Well, I guess I can't stress out more why this chapter has no reason to stay there. I'm not saying that you must erase it from existence. I'm just telling you that it must get out of this story, for coherency's sake! Gosh! Move it to a collection of mean/cruel stories, or do a full story out of it, but Growing Day has no reason to exist and stay in this story, pretty please! You may not regret having written this chapter, but there are no kids here: we all know, including you, that many readers, me inclusive, regret having read it.

Please, get this chapter and place it out of this story, far from here. Please. Stop telling us that it is 'on the far edge of gentle' and face reality: this chapter isn't gentle, that's all. This chapter has no logic/coherent reason to exist here. Be coherent.

While this fix isn't applied, I'll try my best in helping other readers in avoiding reading it, so they don't end being unpleased by the reading of such crappy chapter. I'll warn them about Growing Day, warn about the chapter being a total waste of time if the reader wants something gentle. Maybe ask them to review it too so those readers who trust on the reviews could see what ""gentleness"" awaits for them in Growing Day. Most of them don't need that, as reviews are often full of spoilers and are usually avoided until the story is finally read but everything is valid to save other readers for falling in this meaningless trap.



Author's Response:

I'm just going to go ahead and make one response to all of these. I went ahead and pulled the story with a short explanation and a quick link for anyone who still wants to read it elsewhere. I didn't realize you guys felt so strongly about it, if you want an explanation I guess it's that when I wrote it it was a sort of one-off for a different audience and it stood on it's own, and when I was collecting all of my old stuff I kind of just tossed it in here. Since people are treating this more as an anthology and just reading the stories back to back yeah I can see why the tonal shift for Growing Day would be annoying. Anyways hope you enjoy the rest of my work.

Reviewer: Divediveburners Signed starstarstarstarstar [Report This]
Date: April 07 2022 5:59 AM Title: Kidnapped by Delinquents

This is a general review for this entire series of oneshots. There were some that I liked, and there were many that I loved. I do enjoy your tendency to introduce a potentially malevolent, if cruel giantess, then turn it on its head. Chapters 1&2 were probably the best story/character-wise.

My personal favorites, were both Chapter 4 & 11. Cruel roleplay from a gentle giantess gets a chef's kiss. Quite possibly, it's a sign of absolute trust that tends to make these kinds of relationships so compelling. I'd even say it's probably an early prototype of Andy and Andrea's relationship from my favorite tale of yours, "We Help Each Other Get By".

11 is a guilty pleasure, simply because its a unique interaction during a usual scenario. Tinies grooming a giant body in general tends to be a fun situation. You described it most competently.



Author's Response:

There are definitely "prototypes" of my longer stories buried in these, the superhero story in particular sees a lot of stuff that went on to Rise of a Supervillain, although obviously I pursued the other side of the law on that one. I definitely like inverting the usual cruel giantess tropes, which is another thing that's pretty obvious in most of my stories. Delinquents, Conquest of Earth or From Over the Sea in particular.

11, Trimming the Bikini Line, is a weird one because it wasn't one I really found all that interesting at first, but so many people were requesting something like that that I felt like I should give it a shot. I'm glad you liked it!

I'll probably return to "We Help Each Other Get By" when I'm done with the current "Conquest of Earth" story.

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