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The 22nd Amendment doesn't on its own prohibit any of them from running. However unless one is willing to undertake Olympic Gold Medal Mental Gymnastics the 12th + 22nd does. If you look up the 12th Amendment it ends with, "But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." Can't be President? Then you don't get to be Vice President either. Now, in theory if you can find two people who are both able to get elected as President and Vice President, and sufficient members of congress willing to vote you into the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives, you just need to actually take office as Speaker then have the President and Vice President simultaneously resign. This will of course trigger a constitutional crisis as your faction will argue that the simultaneous resignations mean you skip over the office of Vice President and go directly to the office of President so the 12th Amendment wouldn't apply. Meanwhile those in opposition to you will almost certainly argue against that interpretation all the way to the Supreme Court, from which who knows how the ruling goes (Supreme Court justices who were viewed as loyal political appointees have ruled against the presidents who appointed them on major issues). You might be able to side step that by having it argued that you are only accepting the position of "acting" president and not president in fact. But probably not, unless your faction can give a convincing argument why the established succession rules shouldn't be followed, at which point you're back to arguing over whether the 12th Amendment's requirement that no one can be Vice President if they are disqualified from being elected President applies. If I'm reading correctly the established Line of Succession only goes out 17 offices from the Presidency. So, find 18 people willing to be elected or appointed to the Presidency, Vice Presidency, Speaker of the House, and fifteen other offices in order to simultaneously resign, and have sufficient members of Congress willing to vote to make you acting president before addressing any of the other offices (and before voting for a new Speaker of the House) then you can maybe take office. After the inevitable legal challenges. Oh, and since that plan requires having no Attorney General since they are in the line of succession between the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Interior, the office which would be arguing for you in court is probably in turmoil. Simple Loopholes are rarely as simple as they appear. Especially where there is more than a century of rule making involved and power is on the line. People playing Nomic only wish they could develop rules so complicated and interlocking. Or, tl;dr: The truism that for every problem there is a solution which is simple, obvious, and wrong, probably applies here. And no matter the party of the person who attempts it there are people who will be willing to argue very loudly in congress and in court to make it so. As for tariffs and jobs, if you are hoping for tariffs to create more jobs in the US, good luck. Factory jobs have mostly disappeared not from a reduction in manufacturing but because automation has reduced the number of people needed. Yes, there are factories that have moved outside the US. But not all factories and new factories have been built. And those factories generally have something in common, automation. Whether it's a car factory, a battery factory, or a non-factory job on a farm, why have a hundred people do a job if you can spend what you paid five of them to put an automation system in to replace twenty jobs with one technician? And the tariffs can actually kill jobs. John Deere has said that if the counter-tariffs stay in place they'll likely reduce the number of domestic factory jobs and build more factories in Mexico. Because they'll only need to build enough domestically to cover the domestic market, because no John Deere equipment built in the US will be able to compete in foreign markets with the retaliatory tariffs in place. Or a small company may simply find itself no longer viable. Keyboardio, a company that makes small batches of mechanical computer keyboards for a niche keyboard enthusiast market has warned that they'll have to pass on the cost of tariffs which at best will likely double prices. At best. Their answer to why not move to domestic manufacturing? Running their own factory would drastically increase prices (they pointed to the one similar company they know of which does in house manufacturing, with keyboards costing $3,600) and that they are small enough every factory that does keyboard manufacturing in the US they've contacted for a quote hasn't even deigned to reply. Oh, and the equipment a new factory needs is probably covered by tariffs. Much smaller tariffs combined with support for those establishing new manufacturing or expending factories might have increased jobs over a decade (you don't build a factory overnight, or likely even in a year unless it's essentially a garage workshop). These simply slammed the door and told people, "You want jobs? Good luck. Thoughts and prayers." Okay. This post is already too long. I'm going to bed.

Earlier in the week I started our dishwasher and soon noticed a drip at one corner. From past experience I expected that if I stopped it and opened the door to check on things I would have to start the whole washing cycle over from scratch and write off the detergent that had already been mixed in with the water. So I decided I would wait until it was done and wiped up what had come out and put down a folded up paper towel. Came back ten minutes later and not only was the paper towel soaked but there was a long narrow puddle slowly stretching across at the base of the counters. What to do? I could give in and stop the wash cycle, but didn't want to have to start it all over. So after wiping up the water I raided my supply stash, unfolding a "Male Guard" placing it under the drip. It proved absorbent enough to protect the floor from the dishwasher's incontinence, with only a little dampness from where drops had rolled along the base of the door and fell away from the pad. I said, bringing an old diaper ad to life, because I was inspired by remembering an old ad that had a baby finding a leaking pipe under a sink, and then you see the baby walk away without their diaper which has been wrapped around the pipe which is no longer dripping on the floor. I expect it was from the early days of SAP being used because if I remember correctly the selling point in the ad was bragging about how amazingly absorbent the diaper was. If your dishwasher is doing this, open the door and check along the bottom inner edge. There turned out to be much more food debris there than I would have believed. A couple minutes with a cleaning brush had the gunk removed and the next wash didn't result in even a single drop on the floor.

Eek. I'm way behind! But I'm catching up to the end. I really want one of these. Forget flying cars I want a food replicator. Even better if it can make a tasty hamburger or pizza that isn't loaded with cholesterol, salt, and way too much sugar. Just imagine a hot fudge sundae that is cold, smooth, and sweet, while also being low calorie, high fiber, and even gives you a your daily medications. This is the future that the mysterious group known as, They, is keeping from you. There's no tin foil hat emoji? Why isn't there a tin foil hat emoji? They are even more powerful than I thought! Interestingly, while Stockholm Syndrome is handy for writers, the science for it is iffy. Of course a proper scientific study would be an ethical nightmare and a nightmare to get human testing clearance on, but from what I've read the studies done based on studying events like the Stockholm bank robbery it gets the name from have been inconclusive on whether it is an actual thing. But it's a good plan? Any plan that makes you lose your hat is a bad plan. Any plan that puts an Amazon in diapers is a good plan. 😇 I knew it! I knew it! Imagine for a second you are a corporate executive. Subliminal hypnotic messaging is a proven technology. You can put messages into media designed to make Littles regress allowing your corporation to sell more baby products. Would you do it? I just said you were a corporate executive, yes you are going to do it unless there is an oversight system robust enough you believe both that you will be caught and that you yourself and not some nameless faceless employee will suffer for it. Now, you are the same corporate executive and you have the option of adding subliminal hypnotic messaging into media that will tell Mids that the suffering of Littles is a regrettable necessity for civilization to function and they should be happy that Littles exist and thus keep well behaved Mids from being adopted. And maybe a well behaved Mid should take out some insurance and buy some of the very definitely adult and not at all for babies absorbant pads and pull-up disposable underpants that your corporation sells. This will help those poor innocent Mids from being mistaken for immature Littles, and coincidentally increase your corporation's profits allowing you a larger bonus at the end of the fiscal year. Do you do that? Again, unless something has you believing that someone will look over your shoulder and make your life hell if you do this, you'll do it. And if you don't, someone else in the company will and use the resulting increase in profits to take over your job. Finally, you are still this same corporate executive and you have the option of putting subliminal hypnotic messages into media aimed at Bigs telling them that Littles need to be babied and that the Big who is watching the message wants to baby a Little. Thus helping to maintain the increased profits of your corporation. Same question as before, same answer as before. Not even done yet. You have the option of putting messages aimed at Little, Mid, and Big parents that diapering their younger children on long road trips is a good idea, that giving disobedient children your corporation's equivalent of LittleGo is a good and loving form of discipline, and that if children weren't meant to remain in diapers at night until well through their tween years the DiaperDimension's corporations wouldn't sell baby diapers all the way up to Size 10 now would they? Not even going to bother asking the question this time because I do not for a moment believe that there isn't at least one company in the country this story takes place in that isn't doing this. Until and unless anyone who would be involved in inserting such messages know that doing so would cost them their jobs, all their assets, and then result in court ordered punishment that would make the Rujuve Universe's Corrections Council sit up and say, "Don't you think that's a bit extreme?"¹ these events will continue. There may be adjustments to the exact behaviors that are considered acceptable but the overall events will continue. Only, this isn't the Rejuve Universe, it's the Diaper Dimension. So while I won't tell Littles to stop resisting, they shouldn't expect to win any time soon. Note #1: I'll skip the multiple paragraph summary and just say that if the Reformed Corrections Council of a Rejuve Universe says a punishment is extreme it's extreme. If the original Corrections Council says a punishment is extreme then flee to another universe as fast as you can because there's a reason most stories say that the Original Corrections Council was overthrown and given very long and severe sentences of their own. If you're curious what the heck the Rejuve Universe is, the short answer is it is essentially the Diaper Dimension but physical age regression + spanking + paddling + beltings + did we mention there is a whole lot of spanking, instead of diapers, diapers, more diapers, and babying. And take any content warnings seriously, it's one setting where the content warnings are almost never being overly cautious. I was certain I was going to finish this off today. Um. Yesterday. But it's late now. Hope I finish tomorrow, I need to get back to LCW.

Huh. The region is part of the Diaper Dimension's Canada? Of course not, that would be dangerous! You gently roll plush curveballs towards the characters. 😊 Buuuuuusted! I really wonder just what will result from this meeting... Wait. DId Erica think she was going to regress a portal little and still have Katie serving as a visiting doctor? Has Erica been tested for maturosis? Or they need to regularly test Bigs for maturosis. Just watch how fast things change if Bigs regularly start getting ruled to be too immature to be considered adults. Ooh, somebody might be in trouble. Will Erica get lots and lots and lots of paperwork? I've heard that for Bigs paperwork is almost like spankings! A test! Oh no. Katie's the one in trouble. Not tests, that's just cruel. I'm so far behind! But that's all I have time for now.

Imagine an IBM salesperson in their blue suits, but in Soggies powder blue with orange tie and accents instead. I didn't know that ordering off their online store and having the packages delivered to my home would let the sales reps know where I was. Are they allowed to look at the computer records?! But have I mentioned they have a rewards program where you can earn points by ordering direct. The last box even included a really cute pacifier, not that I need a paci, they're just cute and fun. I can stop sucking on it any time I want. Another bit of evidence that she's doing this intentionally. Unless a sneaky sneaker of an author is trying to fake us out. That cartoon hypnosis is strong stuff. I still think that the companies that make products for babying Littles sneak some hypnotic suggestions into programming aimed at Bigs to encourage them to keep wanting to baby Littles. They probably adapted to the nanite programming they got hit with a generation ago by using hypnotic suggestions focusing on convincing Bigs that they are protecting Littles from the dangerous world by babying them. Most of them probably don't care how or why Littles are babied as long as they keep their sales numbers up. Line go up, year end bonus is paid. Line go down, paycheck go down. I wouldn't be surprised too if Big parents occasionally encourage their Big kids to watch select programs with hypnotic suggestions that encourage obeying your parent. If the kid's grades start slipping and they're mouthing off, well, Bigs want to baby someone, are a few weeks or months of bedwetting that large a price to pay for an obedient child whose grades improve at school? "My mom made me watch a season of Patty's Pet Parade when I was in fifth grade and I'm doing just fine. Making Darren watch Doc McSweetie isn't going to hurt him either." Don't worry, those are just to make sure she gets the Big hypnotic suggestions. You don't need to worry about things like wanting to buy a Little products from the theater's advertising partners. Yes, blocker glasses. Definitely blocker glasses and not ones which pipe you the non-Little hypnotic suggestions. In fact have this complementary ticket for a free movie so you can have extra exposure, I mean, enjoy another movie with these perfectly innocent blocker glasses. I ended up super busy and barely had time to get on my computer. So I'm a whole ten chapters behind. But that means I get to enjoy reading the rest all in a row this weekend.

Another long post. But with this I have caught up once more! I think we can all agree that the research she found is absolutely trustworthy and beyond questioning. If we can't trust SafeFoods research then who can we trust? Likewise Plapple juice is the healthiest and safest drink for any Little (and Little at heart). Katie should drink more Plapple juice and encourage the students to do the same. Also if you are a student at Emerson remember that Soggies™ is still doing its subscription rewards program. Talk to your Little friends and if they sign up for a Soggies™ BigKid™ Training Pants subscription you and they both receive twenty CrinkleBuck Points! I've said this of my own free will and was definitely not threatened by the Big standing behind me. Oh Katie, such a dangerous thing to say in front of an Amazon. I doubt it would matter much if you are a Little, Mid, or even a Big, those words have to be like catnip for any Big wanting someone to exercise their mothering instincts on. Even Erica would probably be taking a risk if there were other Bigs around. I don't know, sounds like good exercise to me. You want to be in shape for when you need to run from an overly clingy Big. The Soggies™ rep is standing behind me again, isn't he? The things I do for bonus reward program points. Yeah, no, I think you may be both and AB and a sub. If not you'd better firm up on that and start behaving like it isn't so. Or, relax and accept it. Definitely no hypnosis involved her. No sir. Not a chance... That's a really good point that I missed. I could buy that there had only been one clean set of sheets if the room had been in use a day or two before Kate arrived. But especially considering the older kid supposedly prefers to join the younger kid in the crib (and oh boy will that be teasing material for a kid who is a Big if that's actually true and other kids find out) there really should have been spare sheets available. You're welcome kind authoress. I would not be shocked if there was a big overlap between the Big sized daycare furniture and adult Little furniture sections of most institutional supply catalogs. The section labelled for adult Littles probably just has 5% less furniture with cartoon characters. Really, really should have done more research and preparation. Oh well, not like she can back out now... As I said, good exercise. Especially if you might need to run. Why wouldn't you trust mommy? I mean Erica? 😈 ... Hypnosis is no longer in question, she's absolutely been getting exposed by something. The mobile is the obvious option but if that nightlight is similar to the ones in the nests that would also explain things. And it could always be both. Probably both. I wonder how many Amazons who are hoping to catch a Little end up getting side eyed by relatives after forgetting to turn the hypnotic devices off when agreeing to watch a sister or cousin's kids who they had finally just got out of diapers. 😈 Oh! A twist? Just what did she mean by, "Wasn't planning on going that way with you," that she didn't actually intend to get Katie to the point she could adopt her or just that she didn't intend to have her mentally regress? Considering this is the Dimension I could believe that Erica really does think it's only natural and right that a Little is padded just as a fact of nature. She might think that easing Katie into diapers is just helping her get beyond a silly and self destructive denial of reality. But... I'm going to guess that the answer is that she didn't plan on Katie being mentally regressed. In fact, I wonder if she was hoping to pull off what Ivy did with Holly and get herself a coworker and child in one. Never mind that Holly and Ivy are really lucky that worked out as well as it did. Oh, naughty words, I'm guessing there's some repressed trauma here. Did she have a patient she thought was getting better suddenly die or worse throw herself into trying to save a patient only for nothing to work? Or a string of bad cases. Erica, you really need to ask yourself if you want a Little or if you want toddler. Because if you are wanting a Holly of your own then giving in here was a bad idea. I thought the purple dragons were bigger! Hi nice dragon! Potentially different eras, countries, and dimensions. While its called The Diaper Dimension, I picture it as a cluster of parallel worlds. Some are harsh, some more nurturing, the big thing is that you have at a minimum bigs and littles and it's possible for someone from our world to one way or another end up in it. I have been off and on looking at making my own version of the DD and in it you have countries a bit better for Littles than this one, a country for Littles which does not allow anyone above a height cutoff to enter, and a totalitarian Amazon nation where nearly all Littles are treated as babies or pets, Mids aren't much better off, and even the majority of Bigs can only dream of having their own home with a couple of kids and a Little. I'm hopeful that Erica and Katie end up somewhere in the neighborhood of where Holly and Ivy are. But if they do get there it will be a rough journey. Erica really is going to have to decide soon whether she wants a Little to baby or a a smart Little doctor from the other side of the portal who she takes care of outside work. I think they're well past any chance Katie is ever going back through the portal to the other side. I'm guessing those are spots the doctors in the Dimension have determined are strongly involved in continence and that they can probably look at and get an idea whether or not there is a biological reason for someone to be incontinent. Or at least a reason having to do with the nerves. Erica seems far sloppier than Ivy, so I suspect that earlier on when Katie got the nanite treatment they also checked those spots and considered whether to program the nanites to do anything to them. Which at that point before she watched the cartoons Katie probably would have been able to figure out if Erica hadn't realized she'd slipped up by not hiding that layer of the scan results. Because even if the display was saying that the nanites had not been programmed to do anything there Katie would still not reacted well to realizing that was an out of the box available option. I'm sure the ratings are there but its probably like when I did the post year before last about Soggies™ Not So BigKid™ Untraining Pants™ where the packaging leaves off the "Not So" and "Un" which only show up in the advertising aimed at the people who would be buying them for their "little ones." Likewise those ads mention the optional Dampazine™ medicated untraining pants or the ones with Shame When Wet™ designs that are patterned like big kid underwear when dry but have baby or toddler style diaper art appear when wet; in the ad but not mentioned anywhere on the packaging. You need to talk to the friendly person behind the counter at the store both to buy those last two and to be told how to tell them apart from the standard Soggies™. There's probably an app you have to install to your tablet or phone that tells you which shows have hypnotic content and what the hypnotic programming is. And if the people who make the app utilize the app store demographic profiling to only display the app for installation to adult Bigs there's nothing nefarious about it and you can see the evidence if you look at this nice swirly phone screen. I wonder how many Littles adopt some kind of polyphasic sleep cycle, where instead of one long sleep session you do a mix of multiple shorter sleep and nap sessions. It would be difficult to do in primary school but it might be possible at a less restrictive university. Outside university you'd have to have a more flexible job for any but the simplest version. I expect that's the reason you mostly hear about senior academics or self employed people doing it, if you even hear about it being a possibility. Huh. I'll have to go and find that when I have some free time. She basically grew up with the idea this was an acceptable and natural thing to do. It isn't impossible to get past that, the real world shows it is possible to grow up being taught something is good, acceptable, and natural only to take a good hard look and say, "No, actually no it is not good and should not be acceptable." The scary thing for Littles who find themselves in this Dimension is that what we are seeing is a version that has started but not completed that journey. They're starting to put rules in place and slowly backing away, but you still have things like Littles being snatched from graduation ceremonies or places not installing bathroom facilities sized for a decent percentage of the population and then blaming the Littles when they have trouble. (My own version of the setting the majority of countries are a couple of generations into requiring new construction have Little sized bathroom facilities but on the other hand you have legal and/or insurance requirements that apartment buildings marketed towards Littles and Mids have at least one on-site "responsible Big" ostensibly to discourage improper behavior by other Bigs.)

Thank you for the update! Eee! Sam's getting a little braver! I caught a video on youtube the other day (I think it was Dami Lee) talking about the difference in how public toilets are handled and viewed in a few different parts of the world (mainly the US and Japan, but also India and I think at least one or two other places). One of the things it brought up was that many of the public toilets in Japan are built and maintained by either the train companies (because putting good toilets in and next to the train stations is both a convenience for the passengers but also makes things better for the stores that rent space in the stations which can make use of those toilets instead of needing to set aside space they're renting for toilets) or by neighborhood business associations because you have a lot of small restaurants and bars which just don't have enough square feet for each one to set aside space for bathrooms. And because that means essentially everyone is making use of them vandalizing or otherwise mistreating them would almost be like vandalizing your bathroom at home. And because the public toilets are the toilets for the local businesses they have an incentive to make sure they are well maintained and supplied. The really bonkers thing was that for all that the Japanese public bathrooms are often fancier than even a home bathroom in the US the maintenance costs were lower than US public bathrooms. On one hand, yay! He's getting braver. On the other hand, oh Sam, you're just setting yourself up for an accident in public. And not the slip and fall kind. Well Sam, if you don't go running off into the night... Actually, I bet Zoey is good at tracking. So even if he does she might go tracking down her pup. And if they don't like the person, well... As hypocritical as it would be I have no doubt that if someone started teasing Sam for his pullup she would probably tear into them. Verbally and if they didn't take the warning I bet she'd do what she needed to protect her pup. Hmm, I wonder if New Orleans has any good stores to pick up something in person. I've been sadly disappointed with the stores here in Arizona. There's the cheap drug store products, which are at least usually slightly better than the old green Depends. And the rare medical supply store with a little bit better than that. But Tranquility and Attends are pretty much the best you are finding without ordering online. Looking forward to seeing more!

I'm hoping this is how it goes. I agree that Erica is giving into the desire to get herself a Little, but I am hopeful like you that she isn't responsible for what we saw in LCW. I'm not familiar with any such rule of thumb for heights under the imperial feet & inches system. Which is why I've hunted down age/height and age/weight charts. Hmm... I wonder what history this is hinting at. A previous case of hanging out with one or more smart Littles, simply preferring the company of brighter people, or was there perhaps a special someone in the past... Well, obviously, youngest is bestest. I'm not at all biased on this. No nanite treatment to give a better childlike appearance? Silly Amazons, you have the superscience, put it to use. And she picks the kids table. Are we sure Erica isn't a latent AB in denial? Because even if she'd been the shortest one at the adult table she would have been at the adult table. I'm sure someone is importing beef and other meats from the other side of the portal to sell as an expensive ultra-tender delicacy. Sure the cuts will be small to the perspective of the Bigs, but when the cheapest Portal Steaks sell for $60 a pound very few would be able to afford a large cut anyway. Someone needs to learn to pay attention to these feelings. Considering how nearly every Big woman seems to become baby crazy I have to wonder how much of the pity Big men show at times is due to finding themselves told to play the baby as kids well into their tween years. How many of these guys dread bringing home a girlfriend and having their mother pull out a photo album that includes when their older sisters dressed them up as a baby for Halloween when they were nine? "Yeah, sorry about that Katie, but better you than me." If she didn't want to get downgraded even further, absolutely. Better the high chair at the adult table if you're trying to stay an adult than any chair at the kids table. "Okay Katie, let's make this fair. We'll do a coin flip and if it's heads I win and if it's tails you lose. Okay? Flipping the coin now..." My suspicion and headcanon is that in the not so distant past they had not just fertility issues but issues successfully bringing a baby to full term. This then pushed them to heavily invest in medical studies. You probably had Mid and Little doctors and researchers who hoped that successfully resolving these issues would lead the Amazons to lay off on babying them. Now with better medical care they have mostly resolved the issues of reaching a successful birth and are mostly dealing with the fertility issues. In the stories we've seen families with three or four kids, which if all the Amazon families were managing that would see the population growing. But if these families are the exceptions and most only have no kids, or one kid, with even two kids being the exception... And at this point it may even be an excuse. After all, if it's socially acceptable to grab a Little or two and make them a perpetual baby, possibly with much of the necessities subsidized, why interrupt your career with multiple pregnancies? And as long as the Amazon population is smaller than the Little population and the Little families are having enough kids then they won't wipe out of Littles by babying them. And by subsidized, I expect if one could check on the costs then Adult Little/Mid diapers probably cost less per unit of material than Baby Little and Baby Big diapers. With an assumption that there's an overlap in sizes there and depending on the population breakdown. I don't recall seeing a percentage split for Littles, Mids, and Bigs. There really should have been some adult supervision. Okay, there really should have been supervision by an adult big enough to do something. And I don't need to worry about the battery dying today but I'm running out of time (I want to get a comment in on Moonlight Shadow tonight). So I'll have to catch chapters 9 and 10 tomorrow.

Finally I have the chance to start catching up... "Oh, and they'll deal with your pesky conscious control over certain sphincters and bring back your baby fat to increase your score on the Yomadi-Schmidt Cuteness Index." Erica: Strange, I could have sworn I set the nanites to decrease balance. Why isn't she giving me an excuse to buckle her in? Oh, I don't know about being like a Little but you certain aren't acting like a big girl. "Paging Doctor Guilend, paging Doctor Guilend." True, unless she's planning to send her to witch school. In that case it's maybe too on the nose. Oops. Did I accidentally poke her with the nanite injector that will merge all the ̶m̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶l̶a̶d̶y̶woman's teeth together. Oh no. My bad. Anyway... Better late than never, but she should have thought about that sooner. Pff! Right. If there's no Santa then who makes all those presents, the parents? Moms and dads who can barely assemble Ikea furniture make all the bikes and XSwitchLive consoles and bind all those picture books? Right. Well, she's doomed. I think we all know what was meant by real milk. Uhoh. Is Erica a serial Smart Little Regresser? Yes, someone didn't do nearly enough research or planning before coming over. But now my battery is about to die. I'll have to finish up tomorrow.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I mean, they're both kinda right. Brat got what was coming to them, but it's also very strange by the standards of our Earth. But it can be hard to see things you grew up with as odd or wrong. See! See! I said she needed a bed with guard rails! Erika's gonna get investigated by LPS for Little Neglect! Oh, don't worry. The milk is the medicine. Hmm. Hmm! I think a big test will be whether those nanites merely repair the bone or if they do a little extra work to make Katie more Erika's perfect little Little.

With the title Moonlight Shadow I wonder of Zoey is a werewolf. Werewolves ought to be good snugglers and prone to adopting stray pups. That pink werewolf charm must be a werewolf attraction charm

There was a, "What's something about your job people should know," discussion elsewhere a month or two ago and one post was someone who worked in a fast food place who said that if you wanted good fries don't take the drive through because they had been specifically taught to give the oldest and worst condition fries to people in the drive through because they would most likely be miles away by the time they realized they had lukewarm and limp fries. I can absolutely believe that grocery stores would do a similar thing when packing up orders. I haven't tried it yet, but I recently discovered you can make a lot of luncheon meats at home. You can get a ham press mold for bit over $20, chop up the raw meat, mix in whatever you want as seasonings, and pack them tight into the mold (so you don't have air pockets that will become holes in the slices). The lid for the mold has a spring loaded plate that will push down even more on whatever you put in. Stick it in the fridge up to a few days, then put the mold in a pot with boiling water until a thermometer shows it's up to temperature (the lids usually have a hole you can poke a food thermometer through). Pull it out and dunk in an ice bath, then remove your lunch meat and slice. Of course unless you have a deli slicer you'll probably have trouble getting really thin slices, but at least the slicing is under your control. I am actually thinking about getting one of those mold & thermometer kits so I can make things for sandwiches and cut a little thicker. Cut by hand, those deli slicers scare me.

But I was being really serious? He leans closer and whispers, but I'm afraid Doctor Teddy Bear may have found out I said something about her. She wrote up a thirty day prescription for a really big pacifier. This seems pretty irresponsible, what if she rolls in her sleep or slips off the step stool? Maybe Erika needs to be checked for maturosis. Gosh! The disconcern for safety continues! What if Katie gets wriggly? She could slip out and get hurt! One hopes Erika wasn't involved in the food tampering. Patience is a sign of maturity, so acting this quickly would be yet another point towards a maturosis diagnosis. I'm torn between wanting a voice controlled shower and dreading the absurdities that would happen. A sleepy voice would be misheard as asking for ice cold or scalding water. The sound of the water splashing off the tiles would be heard every dew seconds as a request to change spray modes. You would come home to discover the neighbor's dog's barking caused the shower to turn on. A coworker was ten feet away from his desk the other day, talking to someone else, when his phone suddenly started trying to interpret the conversation as commands. "I'm sorry, I don't know how to Coworker's Name." It wasn't even responding to him, it was responding to the other person. Make a deal with the elites. They get imported advanced technology and have the media play down reports of people not returning or rumors of what life is like on the other side of the portal, and the Dimension gets a few dozen free range littles from each contacted country in each of the contacted dimensions every few months. Limited since you don't want to flood the adoption market and you don't want to depopulate a dimension. That said I could see cases where if they found a world with Littles that was going through a severe crises like a major world war, recently post an apocalyptic event, or large scale genocides, then they might decide to rush in an take over. Some people don't bother learning basic life skills. Sorry Katie, you brought this on yourself. I wonder if it will occur to Katie to wonder just why Erika was looking that up? Erika just needs to carefully not go through the Little or Mid sections of the store. "Oh dear. There's nothing that will fit that isn't in the baby and toddler section. We'll just have to get you some cute Other Dimension Geranimals, cloth training pants for after whatever you ate works its way through your system, plastic panties just in case, and a couple of plastic toddler tableware sets. Look! They even have a play suit design licensed on the Plush Toy ER cartoon, you can wear that to work." Is that how Doctor Teddy Bear found out, Rings snitched on me?

Doctor Teddy Bear said that the best option was reading new chapters as soon as they came out and in between snuggling a plushie and making sure I didn't fall below the daily recommended chocolate milk levels. Um. Don't question her about whether teddy bears can be doctors. I did that last year and I still haven't figured out how a plush paw spanks so hard. And even the calm ones will still pat your head and pinch your cheeks when they think you're behaving and lecture sternly enough to make you cry if they think you haven't. Hope it isn't hitting too hard. A lot of the staff where I work is already starting vacations. Makes some things easier both other things harder. Uh oh. I'm pretty sure Amazons can smell when you're grumpy and consider it a symptom of maturosis. Ooh! I know what she's getting! I've heard about this. There's a section of the campus bookstore only Amazon staff and graduate students are allowed in. They have higher quality items for sale their, the students working on advanced degrees might need, but also adoption kits! The kits have a guidebook that tells how to prepare a space in your home for a Little and more importantly how to trick and trap Littles into becoming adoptable. Everything from how to irritate a Little so they'll snap and do something you can point to as immature misbehavior without them being able to point back at you to advice on medications and hypnosis. I've heard the newest kits even have bandaids with low dose LittleGo in an ointment on the padding so if the Little you want gets a cut or scrape you can look like you're being the hero and making it better but you're actually making them more likely to have an accident. And there's the Brat In A Bottle which is supposed to be illegal since it can work on Amazons too. They say you only have to trick a Little into eating one pill and it becomes ten times easier to make them throw a screaming and kicking tantrum. The bookstore swears there isn't a secret section and the kits are just an urban legend, but if they don't have anything to hide then why won't they let people look in the secret section? Hmm? Because maybe they have something to hide! I bet the room is set up for the nieces and nephews she watches. Probably a crib and a bed she will fit in but is obviously a toddler bed. With rails so she won't fall on the floor if she rolls in her sleep. Sometimes an Amazon wants a baby to baby and sometimes they want a youngster they can have a tea party with or enjoy a board game with or if they have been really well behaved a video game that is child appropriate. And how often some Amazonian student is too drunk, caught up in the moment of a wild party, or simply too intimidated by the other players in a Truth or Dare game to realize the Holographic Diaper Changing rooms are almost certainly set up to take special notice of this. I have no doubt that these rooms are either stocked with diapers that will fit Amazons or that there's some sort of diaper printer that can churn out a ready to wear diaper in moments and can do so for anyone on campus. Just so long as you don't mind your student or staff ID being entered onto a row in a spreadsheet along with a dozen different details regarding your changing session. Oh, I bet it happens more often at Emerson than anyone, student or staff, would admit. Probably just more behind closed doors and only rarely with something ending up noticed do to a Big using one of the changing rooms or a dosage being misjudged in a fraternity or sorority prank designed intended to provide an excuse to diaper the pledges for a weekend. Thanks for the chapter @BabySofia!

Thank you! I have something now to handle my BabySofia Story withdrawal symptoms. I may have to go back and reread LCW as I only kinda remember our doctor.