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If I'm remembering correctly she got it into the local water. But if she wanted it to go undetected what was added into the water was probably designed to only remain there for a brief time. After that we're probably looking at something designed to get into someone, check for signs they're a big, then make their gentle nudges. Designing them to spread further after whoever was initially infected is risky. Especially by now doctors in the dimension should be looking for any nanites that are being passed mother to child in the womb or through milk and proper nanite makers ought to be designing their nanites to avoid both of these since something you do to an older child or adult could very easily be lethal to an infant. Consider all the medication bottles with dosing instructions that give an adult dose, a child dose, and usually say to only use under direct doctor's supervision or directions if under a certain age. Now if you can find a direct genetic change that can effect something you could design nanites to make that change and let it then spread naturally through the next generations, but that's going to be slow unless you can somehow dose a large percentage of the population either without being detected or with the approval of the medical establishment. Any Mid or Little at a medical company probably has their work examined by a Big before it's allowed to be used on a Big specifically to prevent the type of thing Stacy did. I have no doubt that there are Big politicians and social leaders who are paranoid about Mids and Littles getting up to no good and trying to overthrow the proper social order. Certainly something to think about. In the particular Diaper Dimension I'm slowly designing I expect it's somewhere around 25-30% Bigs, 50-60% Mids, and 10-25% Littles, maybe a little bit smaller fraction being Mids but still Mids as the largest single group. Which means where Bigs can grab Littles easily there aren't enough to go around which puts Mids at risk if they don't watch out. It also means with time going on there's some political tension since Mids realize they're the largest block and while Bigs still have quite a bit of legal and economic power from earlier in history that's getting chipped away. And people get nervous about changes to the status quo so even Bigs who aren't Big Supremacists might not approve of granting more rights and power to Mids and Littles and Mids who want to reduce Big power might hesitate to tap into the Little communities to increase their voting block. Which doesn't even get into the country by country differences. Which can range from a totalitarian state where only some of the Bigs are full citizens and only some of the Mids second class citizens, and the rest of the population seen as children at best; a country that has set itself up as a Little homeland and has not allowed a Big to pass beyond the border even as a visitor in over a century; to more progressive countries that the Littles in most diaper dimensions would see as utopias even if you might have laws in many cities and towns requiring a Big to be a resident 'responsible agent' at majority Little or Mid & Little apartments dating back to when Littles were first recognized as full citizens. World building can be a lot of fun. Then you decide you need a map and you panic 😅 I was going to make my own world map but I'm seriously thinking I'm going to do like many others and just put different borders and names down on our real world map.

Yikes, hope they recover soon! And that it doesn't get too expensive for them! Probably helps that Carly's from a much lower tech world. Anything he's been learning about special effects probably still sees this as something low budget film makers will need. I'd hope that the classes in this world would still talk about these kinds of methods. After all, not everyone will have a big budget or a university that provides full holographic sets and on site tech assistance. Oh no. I hate to think what their low budget films look like. I can imagine the really cheesy effects that are worthy of 1970s Doctor Who or really early computer effects that showed up on TV in the 90s. At least being ahead of what's posted means you don't have to choose between not making the change or having to go and revise chapters that were already up and read. Sounds like the real world needs to go spend some time in the naughty corner. But here's another like. I certainly wouldn't go to meet up with them alone. But depending on who is in the group and how they've behaved if it was me I might provide some assistance. They better they pull off their film the better his script is presented. Which if he doesn't remain in the dimension isn't as big a deal as it could be, but probably wouldn't hurt. Were there points to be earned in the screenwriting class based on how the groups do with the scripts? I might have to go back and reread that section. That would have been a good idea. Something that monitors temperature and other things so every few fractions of a second the nanite asks itself if it is still inside a body and if not wipe its programing and if it is still in a body whether it is in the correct body and if not wipe its programing. The second is probably a lot harder since I don't expect a nanite is going to be able to run continuous DNA tests but there are probably ways to do quick checks for, "Probably still in a male human and not a bottle of saline solution." By then end of her visit I expect she would have had level of paranoia about things. But I don't think this was quite that far along... 🤣

Thanks for all the stories! Some days I really need something to read and escape into. Even with a job I like, a decent supervisor, and good coworkers, some days (like yesterday) and just... Ugh! Excuse me while I growl and stomp around for a few minutes. I suspected that was the case. Not a terribly difficult guess once her identity was known, but a fun detail all the same. Like mother, like daughter... I'm starting to have doubts about the degree to which Carly has complained about the cuteness levels. Or does she want all the cuteness for herself? "What is, 'holding back'? Is it food? Can I bite it?" Inside Lilly's head a la Inside Out someone pounds a hand down on a button, "We got trust points! Commence with the squealing for joy!" I'm wondering if there wasn't a little bit of closeted desire for that hiding away in the back of Carly's mind in addition to the more self-aware hidden desire to be a girl. Also, is your profile picture Len Kagamine? Huh, no, looking closer that's not Len, just made me think of him, whoever the character is they're cute! I'll put five cookies down on their being involved with what Kelly did and five more cookies on their considering her a completely disposable asset. One cookie on her having been dosed with nanites and regressed shortly after her flight made it to the west coast. Good news everyone! We found the flaw in the selection process that let two protective Bigs become nest mothers this term. We have updated the selection criteria to prevent it happening again and we'll but the new criteria into use just as soon as that terrifying professor emeritus is no longer watching so closely. Dun, dun, DUN!!! Ooh! What if the conspiracy figured out what Carly's Mom did and these were originally developed when she was their most terrifying boogie-Little. Something they came up with to get past her nanites back when they were probably afraid she would come back through the portal at any time. Then when that fear faded away someone looked at it and said, "I've got a terrible, horrible, no good, naughty idea. I'm going to get the biggest employee bonus ever!" 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 💖 🎉 💖 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🥳 🥳 🥳 YAAAAAY! I'm going to pretend I didn't see the bit after that. If I don't admit it was there it can't scare me with slow downs.

I fondly remember trapper keepers as much as any other kid who grew up in the 80s and were there any more popular than the Lisa Frank tie ins? I also said, "Oh, that explains so much," when I later read of lawsuits alleging the LF company was a drug fueled sweatshop. And this room sounds like something that would have their designers staring in awe before doing the Wayne's World We're Not Worthy bow. You joke, but Dayglo Gliteritus is a serious condition. It's less painful than Sparklepox, but twice as contagious. Anyone who thinks they may have been exposed really needs to find their nearest teddy bear nurse for a round of circle-dot circle-dot shots and snuggles. I was wondering, how did you talk your caretaker into moving your bedtime later? I'm, ah, asking for a friend. Ever notice how they only ever catch us and don't seem to punish others nearly as much? Looks around the room nervously, uh, I didn't say that if anyone asks. And if anyone tells on my I'll tattle on you, I'm not gonna get paddled and sent to corner time alone. Ring! Ring Ring! Ring! Sorry, I need to go answer that, because someone phoned this in! So what's going to be more likely, Kelly ignores the deal and returns for Kelly's Revenge 2: The Even Stinkier Load, or Kelly's backer's disappear her as an inconvenient loose end? Considering that a generation ago Beth's mom could have an employee who was going to whistleblow on the company physically and mentally reduced to infancy (not to mention what was done to cure Beth of what was done to her) I would not be shocked at all if Kelly disappeared right around the same time somebody in the conspiracy gained a new infant little. Kendra or Carrie or maybe even Kent or Charlie just to disguise things even more. Well, Beth isn't having her mouth washed out with soap, so it looks like Rachel hasn't been hacked again. Yet. The mere fact that this is something for her to even need to take as a point of pride is a sign that there are serious issues in Amazonville. There should be staff and administrators getting removed from their positions and maybe spanked and shrunk to live life on the little side of things. And that's my merciful reaction. I place five chocolate chip cookies on Kelly returning again before the semester is over. One cookie on returning before the movie project is finalized. Five more chocolate chip cookies on her ending the story (or at least her part in the story) joining her parents in being put through either a judicial or extra-judicial age-reduction. If she's lucky it will be the courts, because if the conspirators are behind it her life will likely be unending misery considering the way they seem to view Littles less as children or not-quite-adults or even pets and more as stress relief toys. Googly eyes for the win! Blame her? Don't you mean thank her? Googly eyes make everything better. All the best makers put googly eyes on things. Just look at any Evan & Katelyn video. Shrink 'em all down to babies! Then stick googly eyes on their onesies! I certainly hope your coworkers were properly appreciative. That calls for cookies, or maybe even cake. I commented a few times back in school that there was no need for me to take drugs because I was already weird enough. Drugs might make me, dare I say it, normal. Pad up and binge read it. With a plate of cookies and some chocolate milk. Don't despair, it's a skill you can learn. The trick is getting over the adult urge to give up if it isn't perfect. That's one of the two big reasons kids seem to learn faster than adults, the other being that when it's even halfway decent school is making learning a full time job. Write something and see what you did well and what needs improvement and then write some more (advice I really should be following myself). As a comment from an artist that I read this week put it, "You improve more from five trash drawings that you learned something from than one perfect drawing you learned nothing from." Yeah, but littles should be offered laps and be given encouraging pats on the head. Not locked in pods or otherwise made miserable. Bad Bigs, bad! And now I am once again caught up.

With the disclaimers, I Am Not A Lawyer & I Am Referring To United States Law, but having had reason to look into copyright law for a few different reasons on a few different occasions: Copyright protects specifics and creative work. So you can't copyright boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy and girl get back together. But you can copyright your latest take on the age old pattern. This is also part of why the courts and copyright & trademark office have said AI created works don't get copyright -- a machine did it, it didn't do so under the direct creative control of a person but the randomized application of an algorithm, therefore it's not creative work and doesn't get copyright protection. You can't copyright titles, although if a title is really popular and well recognized you might have issues under trademark law. (Thus why you will find dozens upon dozens of stories with generic and straightforward titles like: Home For The Holidays, or Summer Vacation, etc.) Trademark too has limitations: A romance author tried to stop other romance authors from making any use of the word cocky in their titles, subtitles, or series names arguing that because she'd trademarked a series name that included the word no one else was allowed to use it. She had a momentary victory with Amazon temporarily stopping sales of a few books she submitted complaints about, and then got roundly laughed at and lost in both the courts of law and public opinion. Copyright and trademark are generally shades of grey and not absolute black and white rules. There have been three lawsuits in which Apple Records (the label started by the Beatles) sued Apple the computer company. The first time around in the late 70s based purely on not wanting to share the name, again in the 80s when Apple the music company argued the sound capablities of the Apple IIgs were a violation of the out of court settlement for the earlier lawsuit where they agreed the one wouldn't get into computing and the other would stay out of music (leading one of the Mac OS programmers to name part of the sound software for the Mac sosumi which can easily be read as so-sue-me), and then again when Apple the computer company came out with iTunes. The first two cases were settled in private agreements and the third time around it went to trial and Apple Computer won. As people get this one confused all the time: There is no obligation to defend a copyright. You can ignore violations for years without losing your copyright and then change your mind ten or twenty years later and send out cease and desist letters. Trademark has to be maintained by both actively using it and by actively opposing misuse of it (this does not however have to be antagonistic opposition, when a certain famous cartoon company sent legal threats to day cares that had painted their trademarked characters onto the walls they could have instead sent letters granting a limited license to the use of the characters. There isn't a legal requirement to threaten only to take some form of action to make the situation no longer a violation). As an example, if someone at the Apple computer corporation got it into their heads that people know them mainly for Mac computers and iPhones they could stop using the word Apple in their name or product announcements and use the name Macintosh. Macintosh Macs on the desktop, Macintosh iPads and iPhones in pockets and bags, and if the didn't use the word Apple to refer to the company or products for enough years (ask an IP lawyer, again, I Am Not A Lawyer) the board of directors could one day discover that they no longer hold a trademark on the word Apple in any field of commerce. Even if that unlikely day came to pass, you still couldn't pay me to start a company named Apple since both companies seem to have rabid legal offices. In @Annie_Austria's case: wow, the grey zone is probably murkier than usual. Mostly (in my opinion, again not a lawyer) from openly having it start as a chapter by chapter rewrite of another story. If on the other hand you had made page or a few pages long outline of the plot of the story and then worked from that, probably much further into the, "no problems," side of the shades of grey. If you made an outline of the original story, tinkered with that outline merging and splitting side characters, adding events, or perhaps changing how major plot points go ("Hey, what if instead of the major midpoint event being the protagonist's family discovering what's been going on we move that to the last act and instead at the midpoint the protagonist is thrown for a loop by _____, oh and then this happens, and because of that this character will want to do that..."). Keep in mind there are actual published for profit by major publishers books that started as fanfic and even if the rights holders to the stories they started as fanfic of wanted to do something about that there is little they can do. (I can name at least two book series, I'm sure others here can name more)

See! She agrees too! I'm sure that just means they haven't been having enough Littles involved in the sports programs. If they were wrestling out in the gym they wouldn't need to wrestle in their pods. Once again seeming misbehavior by Littles is shown to be the result of Big negligence. How much longer will we pretend Bigs are adults and force them to suffer such embarrassing public missteps?

Yay! I finally have time to catch up! I knew it! Pretty sure we all knew it would happen but I'm still going to brag. I knew it! Yes, they should be very sorry and apologize and go to very tiny corners to think about what they've done. I would absolutely love a chance to safely shapeshift whenever I wanted. And there's no chance that any Littles would decide to turn mean Bigs into Big Babies. Not a single chance. I don't even know why I bothered to deny it when no one would ever even think of doing that. Exactly. Purely for safety reasons Littles and Mids should be put in charge of all nanites. Just safety, no vengeance or anything, safety. Telling lies about grown-ups? I don't see any grown-ups being talked about, just some rapidly shrinking babies who are saying silly things about nanites being abused. It sure is a good thing those nanites will stop them from saying such naughty lies soon. What am I talking about, they weren't saying anything, they were just crying after ruining their clothes and making puddles because they were so naughty as to not be wearing their diapers. I think someone realized this is probably a calm before the storm chapter. I haven't read the next chapter yet but I expect there are going to be problems. Gasp! A unicorn themed nest! See, I said it would be the calm before the storm! Don't worry Carly, I'll sneak in later and redo all the decorations as sparkly foxes, there's a long tradition of sparkle doggos among furries so there should be plenty to choose from. Or I could not go on campus without permission and maybe these nice folks from Emerson Campus Security will let me walk away. Sorry, Carly, I guess you're a Sparkle Unicorn. I still expect it was the secretive conspiracy group Carly's mother tussled with. They probably think this is a chance for revenge. Grrr! Grr! Just another example of how Bigs don't actually treat Littles like babies and toddlers. People usually don't worry about mixed gender environments when a kid is that young.

Eep! Even if I was expecting this. Hope Grandma can figure out what's going on and if it's permanent maybe she can still adjust things a bit.

I have actually been trying to pay attention to stories I like for things to learn and reading lots and lots of web pages on writing. This year I'm going to write more Finding New Things and try to start something else too. He tries to strike a speaking serious things pose, "It is important for humans, foxes, and others prone to misbehavior to have a collar so the responsible adults around them know who is supposed to be ensuring they behave and are kept healthy and well cared for." Of course you should also try to make sure they pick one you can slip out of when you want to have some fun. That's not naughty, that's keeping your minder out of trouble which can only be responsible behavior, right? I think they call those gators, I got a couple of those in 2020 when good proper masks were in short supply and found myself feeling much the same. In the end I decided that I'd much rather use a handkerchief or shemagh until I could get some masks that fit me well. And handkerchiefs and shemaghs both are useful for more than helping to keep you from spraying on people. It's sad how often we find things aren't as fun as we hoped. But then you find the things that are more fun than you expected and you wouldn't find those if you didn't at least try a few things. I'm a super introvert but I tried Toastmasters a decade ago and did it for a few years and it was an amazing experience. I'm not sure I'd start going to it again but I'm glad for those few years I did.

Giggles and giggles and giggles... Oh noes! Charlotte is getting old! Long days for all of them. The actors and crew have to get everything done on a tight schedule and Nikki has to both blend in and keep vigilant the whole time. Poor Beth and Carly, if only they got the script they originally wanted. We crylaugh because it's true. So, so very true. I swear the days, weeks, months, and years are getting shorter. Sorry Carly, I think that's going to be metaphorical for quite some time. I don't think there's a big eyes emoji big enough... 🤯 Nope, not big enough. When I was younger there were a few years where I could easily go through five two liters in a weekend. But that was over an entire weekend. (Don't do this littler littles, all that sugar does bad things to you.) Carly, two things. Nanites, and you drank way, way, way, way, way, several more ways, way too much liquid. Face it, after each of those earlier accidents your bladder was instantly starting to refill. And the nanite tampering I'm sure happened is only making it worse. You're going to be needing that padding for a while. You! You're going to end there! You, you... He starts scribbling notes for when he gets back to writing. GASP! No wonder there are so many of those scary purple emojis, not enough spankings and corner time! Everyone knows little humans and kits need to be supervised. Next you'll say you don't even have a collar with someone responsible's phone number on it. It's shameful how Bigs are slacking off these days. Of course I'm a perfectly well behaved kit so I don't need to — what's that? But you didn't say I couldn't get on the computer in the corner! Okay, okay, I'll put my nose back to the wall! But I'm still a good kit!

I'm a little worried about the change making Conner/Carly yell when it wasn't supposed to. It will be really interesting to see if the shot that is supposed to undo the change will actually work when they're done shooting. No. It will be interesting to see how surprised anyone is when it doesn't work when they're done filming and try to change Carly back to Conner. Well, as I commented to TerranV, I suspect that jolt does mean someone is trying to do something. I'll be amused if there is a, "Mwahahaha! Because of the special nanites that were used you will never be a boy again!" "Oh. Cool. I wasn't sure how to ask not to have the nano sculpting undone. Thanks. What about adding a few more inches of height, is that locked out? I promise not to dislocate your kneecaps if you don't have that locked." "Didn't you hear me?" "Blah blah, I'll never have those annoying dangling bits again, blah blah. I heard the important part. Again, thank you. Now do you want to be able to run away from my friends and relatives or not?" "Stop thanking me for my revenge!" 😈 That's probably just some psychic sense kicking in and commenting on the next project where they do a screen adaptation of The Biggest Little and Charlotte plays poor Amy.

I was about to ask if there was any difference and then I realized it's probably like men's and women's razors. One is functional, maybe industrial looking. The other comes in pastel plastic with flowers or other cute designs. And in the pair of possibilities Beth gave both would lock on without the wearer having the ability to easily remove them. Might as well be driving a windowless van with FREE CANDY painted on the side. It would be less suspicious. And Conner thought there might not be enough for Beth if they split a plate. Okay, so it's not as blatant as one might expect. That said, if she can't take it off that could be problematic for the remaining scenes to be filmed. Even with it being priced that way on the class budget, the mere fact that this is something that can be made available to the classes with simply a classroom economy of fake money to control the use is just another sign of how far ahead of us the technology of this world is. Then again back when Conner's mother was there they had phones and laptops with multi-year battery life if I am remembering correctly. Just, wow. Ha! Knew something was going to happen! But is it intentional? Maybe a bare nanite or two survived in Conner and have been spending the intervening time trying to reproduce enough to do their job again? An old enemy got him with a dose of something earlier that they intended to trigger later that's interacted with these nanites? Maybe professor Ponce didn't do anything nefarious but someone else tampered with the nanites? What will they do? I predict Conner will have both the physical gender changes and lose some size. But will there be any other surprises? I expect that at least at the time of installation everything was legal by the letter of the law. Highly unusual, expensive, and possibly not all in the spirit of the law, but I expect it was all legal when installed. Now whether it would be legal to install everything in the current day? Maybe, maybe not. But unless any changes to the law required modifying existing installed security systems they're probably good so long as they haven't done any construction since then major enough to require bringing everything up to current legal standards. That sort of rule is why you will find places where landlords are reluctant to do any significant maintenance work. So long as they don't do anything much more substantial than slapping on a new coat of paint then things that met code when the place was built can continue to be grandfathered in under the old rules. But hiring someone to upgrade the old climate control equipment or fix the actual issues that result in water leaks from the roof instead of patching over them might require the entire building to be brought into compliance with current building codes. I suspect Amanda's house may be like that. They might occasionally have some sort of code enforcement officer start to write them up for illegal security measures only to get handed paperwork that shows that the system was legal when installed and that until and unless they do any work that requires bringing everything in compliance with current laws they're grandfathered in under the old rules. If they involved a good lawyer at all then I would suspect as mentioned about, "Legal by the letter of the law even if possibly violating the spirit." And of course the combination of money, lawyers, and being able to point to prior events to show that this isn't mere paranoia (I can't remember who it was who said that just because they are actually out to get you doesn't stop it from being paranoia. It just makes it justifiable paranoia). So the local prosecutor knows that they can go after this household and have a very loud fight on their hands where the other side will be able to show that they had previously been targeted for assaults and presumably also show that the security system hasn't caused any issues. Or they can spend the same time getting a dozen open and shut convictions against people who have no justification for what they're doing. One choice opens them and the administration over them up to PR problems if anyone in the press sides with the family and they may very well lose in court after spending months or years and a great deal of money on the case. The other builds up a nice resume to step up to a higher office. Choose wisely prosecutor, choose wisely. "Well Conner, I'm afraid that with how those nanites were programmed the sex change is irreversible." [Insert the Top Gear, "Oh no! Anyway," meme here] "Oh darn. Anyway, I suppose I should get back to my homework now."

Boo! Boo! It doesn't sound like they rewrote it enough to shift her credit to, "Based on a story by," but at least she should only get a cowriting credit and not the sole writing credit. And they can always have some bonus tracks and have someone mention, "I'm so glad they did those rewrites, everything our first audiences said they loved was added in the rewrite." But all of my teachers say sharing is good. I don't know, that sounds more like a you problem and less of a me problem... Well what do you know, Beth's mom certainly seems to agree. Once again, sounds like a you problem to me. Much sympathy for Conner, especially since that's probably 115℉ plus humidity. 115℉ without humidity is already pretty bad. As in you can be well into the shade and getting a breeze and you will still be sweating. 120+℉ is just miserable. But at 115℉ I've long since stopped with the, "Arizona, it's a dry heat," joke. Don't worry Conner, you simply did an embarrassing scene in front of someone you will be seeing a lot of, who also knew your mother. No biggie.

I'd say that for me a large part of what determines how slow burn a story can be is whether I can tell that there's something burning. With the diaper dimension stories you know it is near inevitable that a protagonist is going to end up in diapers and you will probably see it happening to other characters. So it is like the old TV program 24 or any number of suspense shows or scenes: even if you can't see it you know there is a clock counting down to when the bomb blows upcharacter is in diapers. So there should be something that at least hints that something is going to happen. Maybe the character is wetting the bed. Or someone more dominant than them is showing signs that they aren't happy with how the character is acting. Or a change in social norms is happening and the character is having to deal with changing that come before the diapers show up. Maybe we can just see that the protagonist is more and more desiring a change in their life (and since this is Daily Diapers we know what that will end up involving). So I would sum it up as you need: Either a setting that tells the reader the diapers are coming, or possibly a history as an author that makes the reader comfortable that the diapers are coming, or events that hint that the diapers are coming. On the last one I would also say that they should ideally be different hints each time. If the character wakes up in a wet bed in chapter one, there should be more than simply waking up in another wet bed in chapter two. Perhaps they wake up in a wet bed and discover they fell asleep while reading a borrowed book and now it's soaked and will have to be replaced. And as Spark and others have mentioned in the thread, make sure there's actually something for us to enjoy during the slow burn. If it's nothing but the clock counting down then there's no story taking place and you should cut the words and start closer to the actual story. If there 10,000 or more words before reaching the diapers then we should have events taking place that make us care about the characters and set things in place so we believe it when the diapers come into play. I have a story idea that I've occasionally been taking out and examining which is not the same sort of slow burn, but has some slow burn to it. It is set in a world that starts as a cyberpunk like scifi dystopia where the punks are fewer and fewer in number to a more hard science fiction version of a diaper dimension setting. The protagonist is actually wearing pull-on training pants style diapers from the beginning due to bed wetting and wants out of them because of teasing and the fear that they will cost him any chance of a future. Part of what I need to do with this is work out the details of what happens so that when thousands, probably a few tens of thousands of words later they say, "What if we put everyone in diapers? Would that fix everything that's wrong with the world?" you don't wonder why the character who wanted out of diapers is now embracing them and you don't read it and say, "Yeah, the only reason they are suggesting that is because the author put that down as a plot point in the outline."

My guess would be either someone who either was a former SafeFoods manager or researcher or the kid of one of those or maybe someone from a still existing Venture. Someone who sees Kelly as a useful tool to strike at those they blame for their problems. Pretty much tradition for one like her to ignore a restraining order or expulsion and show up to cause trouble again. I suppose she might have a redemption arc, but I'm expecting she'll show up to cause trouble. "Her mother, a mere Little, dared to oppose us and make threats. Are we supposed to ignore that? We will her her son, her relatives in this dimension, his friends, and even her little dog Toto too!" The ominous silhouette in the shadows starts paging through notes. "Wait, when did a little dog come into this? Did she somehow find out about the Furry Littles dimensions we discovered? Call a meeting of the board!" More shouting to people off the video call happens before the caller remembers and hangs up. ☹️ We never get to see into the crystal pacifier. ☹️ Stay safe and dry! Remember to wait for the big to unbuckle the car seat! And have fun!