Torgen

Had another thought: The faculty we've met are Madrigal, Blackburn, Saito, and Glinse. Who are the other two? Have we just not met them? Clearly if a coven is six, the faculty must form a coven, right?

I think waffle-stomping would definitely be less gross; also, he would get caught, but only a few days later, giving him time to think he was getting away with it; also he wouldn't technically be punished for it, although anything he doesn't enjoy might seem like punishment in a place like this. Again, I haven't read anything from your Ream, and it's probably a few chapters away, but since his plan is to use the two weeks of Christmas (Yule? Saturnalia? Solstice? New Year's? Seems like devout Christianity would be incompatible with just about all of this) break to run out the clock on the curse; it feels like it's definitely prediction rather than suggestion to say that he will be forced to use magic late enough in the break that he doesn't have time to start again. The suggestion would be that it should be something unambiguously selfless, rather than saving his own skin. I know rescuing a child from a marauding Truck-kun is a little cliche, but it does have the element of time pressure where he can instinctively do something good, and only later realize how much it cost him. If that twist were going to turn into a whole arc, maybe the child's father works in the admission department for one of the less-prestigious warlock schools that rejected Daniel, he's shocked to hear Daniel is attending AB, and he suggests sending a transcript to his school and he'll put in a character reference. Daniel does, and a little while later he gets called to Madrigal's office who reads him a letter from admissions at that other school that basically says they could admit him as a first year student the following fall, but if he finishes out the year they'll figure out how to transfer credits and give him an advanced placement. Daniel's thrilled that if he sticks it out to the end of the year he can graduate on time; Madrigal says she doesn't care if he graduates a year late, he promised he was only at AB to get admitted to a warlock school, and since that happened he has to leave immediately. He's crushed (surprisingly to himself) but a promise is a promise, so asks if he can at least apologize to his coven for screwing them over. Madrigal is shocked that he even cares; she summons the rest of the coven to a separate room and tells them why he's leaving, and they're happy for him to get to go to a school where he won't be abused constantly, correctly predict that he wasn't given the chance to say goodbye, and only after being pressed they admit that they're screwed by losing their best Familiar and having to start over with a new coven member, but they weren't selfish enough to complain about their friend's good fortune. (Maybe someone blabs about the curse since it doesn't matter anymore since Daniel is gone.) Madrigal brings Daniel into the room ("oh crap, he's not gone and we blabbed about the curse!") and says the harm to the school by making him leave is now slightly more than that of letting him stay, so he can continue his studies until that math changes. Naively, that might seem like she's on his side now, when she's on the school's side but what that requires has changed; also his situation is actually more tenuous since previously he could be expelled for breaking the rules, and now she has an excuse to kick him out if the vibes are bad; also assuming the backroom deal with Rachel we all assume happened is real, she's going to think Madrigal screwed her, which will make her desperate and therefore dangerous. I also have a post-break idea that requires the Witch Doctor to be a character; I obviously don't know what powers of the school or its location the conspiracy are trying to get access to, but the idea would give the school an extremely powerful ability you might not want it to have.

That's an interesting idea, but I think a Columbo ghost story where we know why the ghost is a ghost but they don't works better if the Columbo is a professional exorcist. Since he's just going to be a regular school-aged kid, the climax of the story was going to be him figuring out that paper means diapers. Giving away the ending as a prologue kinda takes the story out of the story. There was an anime about a version of Hanako that's a boy; I haven't seen it but I doubt it has anything to do with diapers. I think Hanako also showed up in an old anime called School Ghost Stories. The red/blue paper ghost was definitely in that one too.

I had a story idea. There's an archetypal Japanese school ghost story about Hanako-chan, who haunts the third story girl's washroom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanako-san). My idea was that teachers at the school discovered that she can haunt any washroom, including diapers, but she can't move between them on her own, so every year she gets assigned to a class like a living student and every day someone in that class (on a rotating basis) is put on "Hanako Duty", where instead of the usual classroom chores, they go to her washroom and put a diaper on, and she attends class that day by haunting him or her, and they drop her off at the end of the day. Now that she's not frustrated and bored at being trapped in a washroom all the time, she's not a scary ghost anymore, and she gets the education that death denied her. The story would follow a male student on the day he has Hanako Duty. I think just that could work as a story. I had an extra idea involving a different toilet-haunting ghost who asks you if you want red paper or blue paper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aka_Manto). I was thinking of having Hanako ask that question; she obviously wouldn't murder the student because it's not that kind of story, but she'd be unsatisfied by whatever the answer is, and then she'd ask it again compulsively a little while later. Here's the tricky part. First, the Japanese term for disposable diapers is "paper diapers" because they used to be made with crepe paper, and they still use paper pulp. (You don't call cloth diapers "reusable" diapers, and neither do they.) Second, in the late 80's and early 90's diaper companies made blue diapers for boys and pink diapers for girls with the absorbency distributed differently, before they started putting even more absorbent material in them and went back to unisex diapers. The idea is that when Hanako was alive she had a weak bladder so she never wanted to go far from a bathroom in case she wet herself. Her mom decided to get Hanako diapers so she wouldn't have to be afraid to leave the house, but when they got to the store Mom saw that there were different color diapers and asked which color of disposables Hanako wanted; Hanako was so humiliated she ran off and got hit by a car. Since it's the last thing she heard before she died, she asks it compulsively, but modern kids weren't alive for sex-specific diapers so they think she's talking about toilet paper because she's in a bathroom. She doesn't remember anything else about her death, but she knows their answer doesn't make sense to her question. I don't have to teach people about the ghost stories since the part you need would be in the story, but to make the expanded version make sense I essentially have to teach the reader that paper diapers = disposable diapers so that at the important moment, they accept that the "paper" they thought was toilet paper is actually referring to disposable diapers. Does that seem like a stretch?

Sorry for having so many separate comments, but I caught up on a year's worth of posts in an afternoon last week and I'm gradually coming up with the stuff I might have said when each chapter was posted. A follow up from my last comment (that I originally added as an edit): A couple of slightly more self-aware (and more subtle about the diapers) options for the "baby pants" line: Re the diaper pooping scene at the start of chapter 20: we know he's not above peeing in the shower since he says so in public. Did he ever try pooping in the shower and waffle-stomping it through the grate? The way I think that would actually play out is after two days he'd get called to the infirmary where the Witch Doctor (har har) would worriedly say that since he hasn't produced a soiled diaper in two days he must be quite constipated, so she's going to administer laxatives, or an enema. He can't tell if she's actually worried about his health or whether the school noticed he found a way around his bullying and is making it clear that they won't allow that. That could be a thing he remembers happening, or you could "Show, don't tell" and have it play out in the background over a couple of the previous chapters, depending on whether you want the Witch Doctor to be a character. (i.e. if you think you'll use her later, you will want to have introduced her already.)

On the one hand, he's shat himself around Jen enough times by now that if it was going to turn her off, it would have. On the other hand, even if he wasn't in diapers, or was in them but still had control, he shouldn't be thinking about asking women out at random because he's a man who weaseled his way into an all-women space and him wanting sex is probably the thing they're most worried about. "Hello miss, I was just using my male gaze on you and I wondered if you'd like to *pfffrrrrt* never mind." Also he's probably two thousand miles from the nearest condom.

Observation: "You're not allowed to bully incontinent students for their diaper wearing or usage. If Mr. Aster were incontinent, that would apply to him too." --Madrigal "I know, I'll make Daniel incontinent! That'll really get him bullied for his diaper wearing and usage!" --Rachel (The obvious follow-up: "They're not bullying you for a medical condition, they're bullying you for being too incompetent to remove a simple curse." --Madrigal) Question: Does tampering with the curse just remove the two week cooldown, or does it do something physical and irreversible to Daniel that doesn't count as a curse? Because at first I thought that it was the first, but then it's still a curse that can be removed, so it must be the second. But can a curse do that? Would Rachel be allowed to get away with it? (I assume she can't murder him.) Or is it the first, but she wants him to think it's the second so he doesn't get help? Observation: Not having control over his body while possessed by Ismella is a lot like not having control over his body while serving as the Familiar. Maybe this experience will help him deal with that stress better? Observation: Rachel's curse doesn't take away his control, it compels him to use his control to soil himself at his first opportunity, as seen when Ismella isn't incontinent when possessing him. Is it possible to possess only part of him to get around the curse? The latest events would make that a little awkward--"The ghost haunting my bikini area also wants to have sex with my girlfriend." Meta-Question: Did you decide to call the school Alphabeta because that's AB as in Adult Baby, or is that a coincidence? If that's why, I'd probably change it. Maybe not in the serialized version since people will have read the old name and be confused that it's called something else, but in the non-serialized version you get to revise from scratch. Maybe something about being in an iceberg, or that says something about the founder(s)?

How do you feel about questions, analysis, predictions, or suggestions? The first three could implicitly turn into the fourth if I point out some "foreshadowing" that you didn't intend. I started a thread in the discussion and critiques subforum; I can keep things there (and delete this post) if you'd rather readers here not be spoiled.

Re the title, I'll admit to being a little influenced by the overly verbose Japanese light novel/anime naming style, but my first thought is, "Alphabeta University for Witches (and one warlock)". If on the cover of a book, the parenthetical would be off-kilter and handwritten.

Could have posted this inline in but wanted to keep that thread clean for author's updates, and what's the point of a Critiques subforum if not to use it for critiques? Also, tagging @PeculiarChangeling. Not to disparage daily diapers dot com slash boards, but I feel like this story is a little bit wasted by making it exclusive to a fetish audience. Like, it's not just a good diaper story, it's a good story that happens to have diapers in it. Yes a general audience might find the presence of diapers weird, but it is camouflaged a bit by having several chapters of setup before the diapers appear, and it doesn't feel unmotivated. Maybe you worked backwards from, "boy attending all-girls school has to wear diapers because there are no men's rooms," but the dots connected. In particular, the descriptions of coven magic in chapters 11 and 12 felt really fresh and creative, especially the different roles of the different elemental positions, and how the personality of the familiar changed the entire experience of doing magic for the rest of the coven. If that showed up in a book, nobody could point at it and say it's just Harry Potter or Kvothe with the names crossed out. (Plus your magical sport actually makes some sense.) Similarly, your ghost/haunting/possession stuff has something new; it's not just off-brand Moaning Myrtle. I don't have any experience with it, but have you considered trying to pitch it to an agent? I know you're not done, but a lot of times authors pitch their stories before they're done, or even before they're started, and I feel like you could put together a pitch of what's compelling about your story without mentioning diapers once, in the same way a back-cover blurb could lay out the main conflict. If they wanted sample chapters, the first 4 don't mention diapers at all. But the name! I agree with the note on your most recent chapter. It isn't really Diaper U, since it's not a university where everyone has to wear diapers, and it does the story a disservice to not hint at either the magic system or the gender dynamics in the title.

Editing note: In chapter 20 "Glinse" spoke a few times when it should have been Blackburn.

Sorting hats. They don't always look like hats, but there are a lot of stories, mostly on WattPad, where a character finds out they've been Sorted into House Pamperspank, and so much for all their hopes and dreams. The thing is, stories are about conflict, and the conflict between a kid who wants to be something other than some other teenager's Little and the faceless unaccountable bureaucracy that forced them into that role could make an interesting story, as long it seemed like said bureaucracy had a reason for doing it. (Basically Divergent with Diapers.) But that's never what those stories are about.

Castor Oil is a little hard to swallow, both because of the texture and flavor. I was wondering if making it into mayonnaise would make it more palatable. Basically this breaks down into 4 questions: Is it physically possible to make mayonnaise using Castor oil as the oil, or does it differ from food oils (olive, canola et al) in some critical way that would prevent it from forming an emulsion with egg and vinegar? Would it be safe to consume such a product, modulo the expected effects of Castor Oil? Normal mayonnaise is an emulsion, but could castor oil react with the vinegar (or the egg, for that matter) in a way that food oils don't that would result in harmful by-products? Would Castor Oil mayonnaise retain its laxative properties, or would making it into an emulsion prevent it from working on the bowel in its usual way? Would it actually be any less noxious than straight castor oil? I guess once it's in a mayonnaise, you can add other seasonings to it to make it taste however you want. Does anyone know enough about food chemistry to answer these with any confidence? Has anyone ever tried it before?

Muscle Man bets Mordecai that he won't be able to kiss Margaret before Friday at midnight. If Mordecai wins, Muscle Man will have to wear a diaper for a week, but if he loses, Mordecai will have to wear the diaper. If you get Cartoon Network, it will probably repeat during the week, or they stream it on their website.

I recently tried the cloth backed abu cushies, and the cloth aspect didn't do anything for me, but I loved how much more adjustable the Velcro was than the regular tapes on the plastic version. If there were plastic backed diapers with a single large Velcro tape per side my choice would be easy. As it is, I have to choose between the plastic feel and the cloth-backed adjustability.

How many generations can't understand what widdershins means? (NB: my spell checker is apparently in one of those generations.)

Saw it on Monday and again last night. I guess that's a review in and of itself.

These are definitely available outside Australia.

I was 5 when I first had a fantasy about going down a slide to a place with diaper-changing machines. Sadly I wasted all the chances I had to wear diapers between then and when I was about 12, by which time I couldn't fit into the ones I had access to.

They're not that thick, but for $2 a case you can get the old fashioned disposable diaper smell, which was a priority for the OP.

It's funny, looking at other peoples' lists, how little overlap mine would have with them if I compiled one.

I don't have any Bambinos on hand, but I just compared to a Secure X-Plus medium. The Secure's front and back panels were 2 inches wider each with the waistband stretched out than the ABU SDKs. The SDKs seemed to be a little longer front to back. I assume the Cushies will just be the SDKs with a different pattern.

In my experience the ABU mediums fit a little smaller than other brands, and if you put one of their thick boosters in they shrink down even more.

I'll admit up front that I'm no babyfur, but the diapered bunny picture from the Nov 22nd update is fantastic. Where did this "Elliot Ryan" come from? Did he contribute this picture directly to DD, or did it come from a DeviantArt page or something? I Googled the name and nothing relevant came up.

I'm not sure quite what this was--it showed up in the DirecTV listing as paid programming, but it was obviously some kind of infomercial-themed comedy show. It seemed very reminiscent of Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, but without Tim and Eric themselves. Anyways, it pretended to be an infomercial, but what it was an infomercial for seemed to change from minute to minute with Monty Python style links. One of the segments was a splinter removal clinic run by someone with an obscene name, and he was wearing a polo shirt and a diaper with no pants the whole time he was on camera.