WBDaddy

2nd person is such a fun way to do these one-shots, isn't it?

I... am way too familiar with that sensation. If I push my back too hard trying to do stuff around the house, when I wake up the next morning, just trying to stand up takes my breath. There's no scream, because it feels like a gut punch, but from the back.

I don't know about "talented" - it's more like people who got in on Bitcoin back when you didn't need an industrial server farm to mine coin. We were early adopters of the DD, and some of our stories are "revered" for their pioneering nature when, in all reality, we just got into the sandbox sooner. I guarantee if I hadn't written about a Little murdering her Amazon captress, someone else would have eventually.

That Christmas short was the first time I'd ever seen inflatable locking pacifiers in the DD before. So yeah, I'm willing to give you credit for it.

I don't know about others that came after me, but for me, the inspiration was just a simple "what if?" There were already people exploring exactly what the "local" Little population might look like, how they might interact with Amazon society, etc. And based on this growing canon, I asked the question, "What if a Little murdered his/her Amazon 'Mommy'? What would the aftermath look like?" I never finished the story, but I kinda feel like I helped inspire people to explore the darker side of the construct. That may not have been what PP intended when she hatched the concept, that it was supposed to be light and silly. But honestly, Ausdpr's shorts were unintentionally inspiring to me. Especially that Christmas short he wrote once upon a time, where a Little had done nothing but try to tutor some kid in what he was hinting at being a reform school, and her reward was being forcibly adopted by same. The fact that I decided to write it in second person? Yeah, that was just me challenging myself to try something I'd never done. Am I a big horror guy? Nah, not really. But I am into writing stuff that makes people feel things, and not just below the waist.

Or, hear me out, there are some folks out there for whom the horror genre is, in fact, a fantastical escape. I didn't know you were the primary driver behind a lot of Ausdpr's darker stuff. That alone is enough for me to withdraw my previous statement.

*mentally reviews ausdpr's pre-DD catalogue* Um... I know you know dark ageplay exists. You used to write about it. A lot. Not as much as Long Rifle, but for sure you did write about it. I'm confused.

I think that the post itself comes of as a bit of a rambling narrative than an actual story. I don't mind the energy. It was the same energy that fueled my attempt to really darken the milieu with my story about a Little murdering an Amazon, though my primary motivation was to explore the aftermath of same. It was still a really dystopian take on the whole DD concept. In fact, I would challenge OP to go back and build off this, do a Tom Clancy take on it, where the whole of Earth finally unites against this common enemy (because literally this has NEVER happened in the history of the planet) and you have Earth military brigades shutting down commercial portals (as are described in other stories) and people weeping about the loss of a last opportunity to "save" their loved ones and nuclear subs racing to the middle of nowhere in the ocean because that's where the target portal opened up for them to lob a nuke, and... On the Amazonian side, them being so fat and lazy about humans and their presumed unwillingness to do anything about the Amazons because of their money, being utterly shocked when the commercial portals suddenly close down, or worse the Earth military units shovel nuclear waste into them before closing them, as a "parting gift" of sorts, and all hell breaks loose as they find themselves incapable of reopening portals, and when the talks break down, all of a sudden the bombs start dropping, and Amazonian diplomats are begging for mercy but then the cord gets cut, and somewhere, some not-quite-completely mindfucked Little looks up at the sky as a portal opens above and smiles with relief... I guess I'm just saying there was **way** more your could have done with this.

If someone asked me where this was going next, I'd say they get caught and they both wind up in that nursery Anna built.

Any lawyer who rises to a high enough level to be a very expensive ($250k/yr?!) private school's legal counsel is skilled enough to tear apart an emotionally vulnerable witness on cross. It's abusive, it's at least questionably ethical, but it's something every lawyer worth their salt is capable of. It's still worth noting that she leaned the hell in on making as generous a settlement as possible to make the school not have to try and put this fire out. Frankly, I'm more interested in Amber seeing Paul in the hospital finally, and having that counter-narrative circulate in school. Because all most people knew about were the diapers, not how badly he got hurt in spite of the fact that he gave it better than he got. Paul got fucked up, Danny got fucked up way worse. What's stupid is, even back in the 80's, when I was in public school, two kids get into a fight, however many teachers needed to get involved, they grabbed arms and legs and pulled them apart by whatever means necessary, and no matter where you were fighting, if it was on school grounds, you could be assured that this would be the outcome unless you fucked that kid up quickly and were able to walk away before the crowd gathered. (I had that happen once in 9th grade, where kid challenged me in an empty hall, I punched him square in the nose (and broke it), and he spent the rest of the time on the floor throwing a tantrum with blood splattering everywhere while I walked away)

Yeah, that's where you lost me. No college professor teaching about early childhood is going to talk about spanking as anything but child abuse if it's anything more than a pop on the bottom (which isn't even painful for someone in a diaper) to break them out of a tantrum spiral. I might buy it if he was attending Oral Roberts University or some other super-religious college, but I'm all out of indulgences to give you after I bailed you out of the lack of background to justify him saying "fuck this I'm dropping this class" a long time ago.

Suspension of disbelief comes in varying degrees around here. I feel like there could have been a better "he has to pass this particular class" setup that really held his feet to the fire, rather than just "trying to maintain his GPA". For sure, if you can't afford college and your parents won't co-sign your student loans, if your scholarship is predicated on you maintaining a GPA is a big motivator, but it'd be a bigger motivator if one of your scholarships are predicated on having to complete this particular course successfully. I don't fault the author for not going that deep with their setup though.

That's what us CG's are for.

Lawsuit against the school right here.

I would withdraw from the course. Fuck that.