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Poor nurse, all she did was try and humiliate a patient for her own kicks. It's like the rest of the staff think Littles and Mids have rights or something. If she's the one who was partway into the laundry chute then I hope they also charge her for the rescue and the police response. Uhoh, always read the fine print. Otherwise you find out you've agreed the chief administrator of the hospital is allowed to give you noogies at any time! Oh no, Beth and Carly both swearing off malls? How can they be teenagers without going to the mall? I'll agree, don't burn yourself out. Sure I'll get cranky if I have to wait for more, but I'd rather wait a little longer than have burn out make it a long wait or even never. Amazonian Judge, "Send her back to the dimension that taught her to be so violent? I think not."

Uh oh. I thought she wasn't supposed to have any active nanites right now... wait, other than the ones that were used for the movie? Did those, the original nanites, and the ones the former nest mothers dosed him with end up merging? That would be a paddling for sure! And not the fun kind! "You would think that was unbelievable, but that actually happens about once a week." "Not to worry, Diapees for Amazons are scheduled to come out Third Quarter next year. We're projecting a minimum forty-two percent increase in profits. Possibly double that if the hypnotic marketing campaign is successful." The diaper company marketer looks around the forum. "Wait, this isn't my meeting. I need you to sign these NDAs. You'll receive complimentary free samples if you do." "It was scary! They were hitting themselves over and over again, until I asked why they were hitting themselves and they got these scary smiles and started trying to hit me. I was able to jump away at first but then I got a bunch of owies but they got bored and started hitting themselves again." Carly gives the officer a wide eyed look, "They aren't going to come back and hit themselves again are they?" "They tried to claim you hit them. But that's obviously nonsense. We'll have to make sure the judge knows they were telling really big fibs." It could still happen! Well yeah, are you really in college if you don't do a few foolish things a week? Maybe we see her getting sized for the new Princess Potty Pants in Adult Amazon size! We did all sign the NDAs, right? I hope those free samples are something cute!

I should scribble that down on my story seed list. I should also scribble down my story seed list instead of mostly keeping it in my head. Unlike Diaper Dimension portals, Aperture Science portals send you to a place were a mean sarcastic voice teases you with maybe getting cake while making you do P.E. class all day. Sometimes shooting at you too. No diapees, which isn't smart of Miss GLaDOS because I'm sure the testers end up leaving lots off puddles and stinky uh-ohs with how scary she can be. But I guess she doesn't care because she doesn't have to clean it up herself. Oh! Oopsie, we'd better be quiet so you can finish taking a nap or two. Or three. Maybe four? Ask your closest kitty, they're napping experts!

It may be like another story I read that had Littles who had been convicted of crimes sent to jail. Only it wasn't, serve your time and go free. It was serve your time and then get taken to a room where you undergo the most intense hypnotic regression that version of the diaper dimension had until if anything of your mind survived it would be unable to do anything but watch as its body reacted as if an infant. Then you'd be adopted out to an Amazon. So Juvie in this world might mean being held until you hit the local age of majority, then if you aren't a Little getting a nanite treatment to make you a Little, and being adopted out. Unless your family and friends have enough clout to have you released. Possibly still being given a nanite treatment to regress you and require that you redo childhood without getting in trouble again. Because become a repeat offender and you get sent to a Little Etiquette School to be prepared for adoption instead of Juvie. The tech of this particular diaper dimension, even in Stacy's day, has frightening possibilities. Enjoy your trip! And be careful if you run across any portals, they might be Aperture Science Portals instead of Diaper Dimension Portals.

Yeah, grandma may have her Big Mother urges under control, but that doesn't mean they aren't there. I do have to wonder if in the various Diaper Dimensions if Bigs aren't being hit with hypnotic suggestions and are just less aware of it than the Mids and Littles. I can easily see the people who develop the hypnotic systems used against Littles figuring that hypnotic systems to reinforce "the proper way of things" among Bigs as being no big deal. After all, they're just encouraging Bigs to behave as Bigs should. And in a way that profits the company they work for. If the shareholders see more dividends then it can't be evil, right? A college kid who signed up for a first session in the morning class? I did that one semester and then I asked myself what the heck I'd been thinking and did my best to pick late morning to mid-afternoon classes after that. Hey, you may be a munchkin, but you are a munchkin who can probably put anyone in the restaurant to shame when it comes to spice tolerance. There's a thought! She should carry some peppers and then when anyone tries to intimidate her she can pull one out of the package and start nibbling it with a grin while staring into their eyes. One downside to living as a Big in the Diaper Dimension, water is not at all what you want to tame spice. You want something like milk that will coat all that spice in enzimes like casein which breaks down the heat producing compounds. But to take a bite of something a Little found tame and then have to chug a glass of milk? You'd need to be a pretty tough and intimidating Big not to get teased for years. "This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm a cop." Dun dah dun dun dunnnnnnn! Unless she has a whole heck of a lot of backing, bad move. You don't take on a gang without backup and The Boyz In Blue are the biggest gang around. Back in grade school I'd get stared at going to the drinking fountain and then drink, and drink, and drink... Because I learned somewhere I think around third grade how to draw water into my mouth while breathing through my nose, then swallow, then breath through the nose again while drawing water into my mouth. But to everyone else who could see me repeatedly swallowing it was as if I was managing to hold my breath for an amazing length of time (especially if you were behind me in line and wanted your turn at the fountain). If I'm remembering correctly I learned how to do it after someone made a rule that you had to give up your place once you took your mouth away from the stream to breath and if you wanted to drink more you'd have to move back to the end of the line. So I simply learned how to not do that. Enjoy your trip! Nikki's got a boyfriend! Nikki's got a boyfriend! Or maybe just a sparing partner. Have to wait and see. I wonder, did he get help from the restaurant staff or another bystander? Hopefully he didn't just steal a jacket or some other clothing while fleeing the building. Shopaholic identified! Okay, I love that phrase. I need to remember 'Tweens and Tweeners if I ever get around to the Diaper Dimension story I've contemplated. Better than the barely actually an earring studs I recall my sister getting. But with the level of technology in the dimension I'm guessing the price is because they are genuine dug out of the ground pink sapphires with certified documentation or maybe exquisitely designed in a lab associated with a high end fashion label pink sapphires, because I'd expect pretty much any gemstone to be easy for them to ship out of a factory in well stuffed ISO twenty foot intermodal shipping containers. Probably for less than what we would pay for 'glass' gemstone jewelry. Uh oh. They at least have some others on the outside who know where they are? Oh! And Nikki has that officers contact information and if I read right she's in one of the stalls so she could get on her phone without it being obvious, send him a text message. These guys may be a gang, but as I said the biggest gang is The Boyz In Blue. Tuck, Carly isn't locked in there with you and your friends. You and your friends are in there with Carly. And I'll be shocked if those cables keep Nikki trapped long. I haven't seen a mall bathroom stall that could keep a regular sized person inside merely by locking the door. There's usually plenty of room to slide under or if fit go over. Nikki's fit and the gang is concentrating on Carly and Beth. She might not be able to sneak out of the stall but I doubt they'll be able to get the drop on her while she's doing it. Hopefully Leelah stays put until it's over. I'd cheer at getting the first comment in, but as I clicked on the like button it blinked straight from none to two, so whoever it is may have posted already.

Oh yes, the particle board covered with a wood grain veneer that's probably actually vinyl or something else not wood. I still have the computer hutch version as opposed to the corner desk version. Two shelves for printers or other devices, a barely big enough for 90s desktop computers slot to put your computer in next to those shelves (and with 2/3s the back covered so you wouldn't get good air flow), a sliding keyboard/mouse shelf above that, then a shelf big enough for a single 80s or 90s smallish CRT and say a scanner or a medium sized monitor and a paper stand to hold a document you're referring to. Then over those a pair of shelves edged with those ever present in the late 80s and 90s plastic CD holders. I just looked and I'm surprised because last I knew I still had my Windows 98SE upgrade disk in the CD holder. I must have moved it at some time. I do still have a copy of Quicken Deluxe 5 in the rack along with Mechwarrior 2, Heavy Gear, and the Babylon 5 screensaver/windows entertainment pack that gave you a bunch of sound clips and icons to use in Windows. Oh! And I still have the Monty Python and the Quest For the Holy Grail windows icon and sound pack disk too (which if I remember correctly also has a copy of the movie, which they fit on the CD by having it play in some very tiny resolution and high compression). I'm shocked the thing survived two moves and it will probably fall apart if I ever try and move it again. I'd have replaced it years ago if I could afford to.

Whoa! Must have been a tired Sophia! But walking if good for you, so I hope a healthy Sophia too. I think Mia got caught by some hypnosis stuff. That or she's secretly a little who wants to be babied and came over in the hopes the rumors are true. Actually, I don't remember, is Mia one of the exchange students or native? And I think Beth definitely inherited some Big mindset from her rebirth mom. Thankfully she's not gone full on Raised By Bigs Uncontrollable Mama Urges. I'm really starting to think it was two separate groups, with their former classmate having at best been given some offhand help on the theory that she'd make a good scapegoat to pin things on. I wonder, is Charlotte's family or people at the studio involved in things? It makes sense, if you are a conspiracy involved in trying to have all Littles made into helpless babies you can profit off of then why only make money by kidnapping Littles, railroading Littles into losing their rights, or running Little breeding farms (like Carly's mother ran across). Get your tentacles into the entertainment industry and use it to help spread hypnotic suggestions or simply run storylines that normalize what you are doing. Much like how a generation earlier they had connections to the food products company Beth's rebirth Mom's Mom ran, the group probably invests in the companies that make all the various babying products to use on Littles. Then with shows running those potty training buddy storylines you encourage even more sales and thus more profits. Or work to get not even necessarily laws but just social norms in place where Littles might be required to wear some form of protection until or maybe even into Middle School, presto, more sales and more profit. Get rules that allow Littles to avoid (or more realistically in most Diaper Dimensions simply delay) being ruled unable to care for themselves if they wear protection and thus avoid leaving puddles on the floor. More sales, more profit. (If you've ever watched Adam Ruins Everything, the hot tub scene is likely a real life event in most diaper dimensions and not just a bit of humor) I mean when has @BabySofia ever been mean or cruel to any character? One of the nicest little girls in the multiverse. Fenny casually sets his hat out for any purely coincidental cookie donations. Not asking for much, just a big, strong, warm caregiver who will let me snuggle into their lap for headpats and petting and all the bottles of chocolate milk I could ever want. Oh, and who can help keep me supplied with high end laptops and all the raspberry pis and arduinos I could ever want too. Oh, and maybe help with writing and editing? That's not so much to ask for is it?

That would probably be a really good idea for the other groups. Even if they're Mids and Bigs given what's done to Littles if they disappoint the school I doubt the results for the other groups would be pleasant. Carly sure loves living dangerously. But this dimension could use some more Littles that don't take things quietly. Or at least do so from a longer distance. Like another state or another continent. Listen to your friends, strike back with subtlety. What? Really? Oh, apparently that wasn't what Livy and Amy were trying to say, but whatever. Welcome back! Always annoying when you want to work on something a little risque but no privacy. I sometimes feel like my best ideas come to me at times when I can't work on them. Especially at times when I can't even easily make notes for them.

Careful, if they noticed you laughing they'll probably keep an eye on you and look for an infraction to write you up for. Okay, so if I haven't totally forgotten Jr High Algebra that's the equivalent of 10:30 on a 24 hour day. Which, is still probably a bit generous of the store owners to whatever human employees there are. I'd expect them to simply be open longer. Maybe have a first and second day shift each eight hours long. That still leaves eight for the adults to sleep and eight more for transit and free time. You're welcome! Ack, I'm blushing. Thanks for the chapters!

Fenny steps forward wearing a cute toddler referee costume and blows a whistle. "Use of a prohibited exper-- exla-- naughty word! Five year regression penalty. Naughty word while in commission of a theft, that's an aggy-vating action, ten spanks and five minutes of public corner time! Also we're gonna tell on you to your parents or other authorized caregiver." Huh, no name recognition it seems. Somebody is going to be shocked that Beth Sylvester is daughter of that Sylvester. And if this attack wasn't specifically aimed at Beth then I think someone higher up in the gang is going to be going a bit pale when they discover they attacked a Supreme Court judge's kid. Good thing they recognize the local VIP's name. I'd hate to be them if later on at the station they got told they failed to recognize both a Supreme Court judge's kid and a local important enough a whole building, at the local college that is probably the major employer in town, named after them. "You're not sending us back to traffic enforcement are you?" "Oh no, I'm not doing that." Their relief short lived as the captain continues, "you'll be begging for that before the end of day. I'm busting you down to park Potty Patrol. I suggest you brush up on the diaper and potty training regs, and remember Potty Patrol officers are only allowed to help clean up after accidents, not adopt. Grab your assigned diaper bags and get out there." I'm glad angry bear (or maybe wolf) mode Nikki isn't pointed at me! If only there was a gang that instead of snatching purses or mugging people instead snuck around tossing drinks onto the pants or people like this. Or squirted them with water guns. Actually that could be an amusing scene. A Little in the gang acts as bait to try and get an isolated Big to act, then bam, the Big has soaked pants and the gang has video footage of them with someone off camera shouting, "He look! That lady wet her pants! She's a bigger baby than that Little!" "Oh dear oh dear, you wouldn't want that to be sent to your dear old mom? Or perhaps your boss would like to see proof you don't always make it to the bathroom on time? Or we could send this to LPS to have you put on the list of people not allowed to adopt. If only you were our friend this could just be a joke we all laugh at and then delete the file. Would you like to be our friend? Prove it." It's a 28 hour day? I think. Even accounting for that, wow, the mall stores let their staff actually have mornings on the weekend! Unless I'm completely misremembering how long the days are. This is why you don't mess with nanites without having them thoroughly checked first! But now it suddenly occurs to me, if the company made use of blood samples that had nanites Stacy programmed for make the Little Go Plus, can Stacy sue them for copyright violation? Dun dun dunnnnnn! Question is, is it another Big looking to adopt or is it perhaps that gang showing up again and deciding Livy and Reila are easy targets? Maybe somehow something worse? Every once and a while I'll pass someone really short at work and almost do a double-take. I'm actually kind of tall which can have it's own issues like fitting in compact cars or clothing makers for some reason assuming that the moment people hit six feet they are all rail thin but at the same time if I switch to the Big & Tall department they assume in big and tall that's as short as me must obviously have a wide waist instead. I'm sometimes a little jealous of shorter adults, even if I know there are issues there too. One of the things I wonder sometimes is if the short version of me would fit into the size 6 or 7 diapers (or 8, I keep forgetting size 8 is a thing now). Even the local grocery stores are starting to usually have size 7 on their shelves, which makes me feel a little silly for wondering if size 6 was going to stick around back in the early 2000s. It looked like they were losing shelf space, and then suddenly more brands added a size 6 and 7s showed up and now I occasionally notice size 8 at the regular grocery store diaper aisles and not just the pharmacy and big box stores. I honestly won't be hugely surprised if someone either announces a size 9 in a year or two or else the industry either takes the "youth" size out of just the medical supply catalogs and introduces them to the store shelves or comes up with a new category name. Ten years ago I would have considered that pure diaper story fantasy stuff but today I could actually picture it happening.

Or maybe send a care package of chocolate pacifiers? Chocolate makes everything better. "No fair! Littles aren't supposed to know how to fight!"

If they stopped printing paper tickets what would you tack onto your bulletin board or put in your scrapbooks? If I am understanding this correctly, the holographic stage is in the center of the room with the seats circling around it? Does the holographic system make it so each section of seating thinks they're in front? I could see it somehow working like those lenticular pictures, do they still put those in boxes of Cracker Jacks? The ones with the grooved covering where the picture changes when you look from different angles? They could do that somehow with the holographic projection and try to make the spot where it transitions be the aisles leading down to the seats. The theaters would probably love that since it would discourage standing in the aisle during a movie. I imagine there's probably a whole system of trusted reviews for Littles to find skilled older Littles and trustworthy Mids to babysit their kids. I imagine it is also a matter or argument among Little parents when a Big is willingly picked to babysit. "Mable, I don't want you going over to the Johnson's anymore." "But Mom! Hazel's birthday is next week!" "Oh I'm just sure it is! The Johnson's are letting some Big no one knows babysit their youngest. Mark my words, they'll all be getting babysat before the school year is out. Shoot 'em Nikki, shoot 'em! Oh. Uh, shout, "Get your hands off my girls, you bleeping bleeper whom bleeps!"? Given the comment in this chapter, "I think the surveillance tech here probably helps?" and the ability to have various advanced scanning devices and nanites scan diaper waste bins, I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a standard monitoring system set up. Purely for public health purposes of course. The records would never, ever be shared with third parties, we very maturely pinky-promise. Players are weird like that. Panicking at perfectly innocent die rolls. Attacking innocent monsters who are just trying to feed their kids. Trying to seduce gazebos. Like I said, they're weird. You'd think they'd sell theater branded diapers so people would feel confident buying the larger drinks. I have little doubt they probably make double the profit on a larger drink. Not much more material for the cup and the soda itself is already super cheap compared to the sales price. Then again if you think diapers are expensive now, just wait until the local theater wants ten dollars each for something barely better than depends. Suddenly it turns out that a Little terroristfreedom-fighter group happened to be in the theater for completely unrelated reasons. Beth and Nikki aren't harmed, but wake up after paramedics and the local SWAT team have arrived. Carly meanwhile finds herself a guest of the group which is very interested in finding out why a group they were keeping an eye on was trying to grab a random Little from the theater. "They usually go for much higher profile targets." "Mom, what did you get me into this time!" Carly notices every eye on her. "I didn't say that out loud did I?" I just saw the thread stats. We're only a week away from the one year anniversary of this story being posted.

Pretty impressive finding a place a native hasn't been, even if Beth is from out of town. At least since her rebirth. They predicted wrong, it isn't someone coming to try and forcefully adopt Carly or Beth but someone calling Little Protective Services because of the blatant abuse. "Just look! They ordered one of the spiciest burgers on the menu and they're forcing that poor Little to eat it! Poor brave boy, enduring that without a tear. I hope they lock you fiends up for a hundred years!" Uh oh. The shakes got tested, but not the burger. Danger! Danger Will Robinson! I mean Carly! Danger Carly! Danger! "Here's my college ID." "Scanning ID, beep, boop. ID appears valid, but you are clearly under 12. Please remain here while I call the police to report ID fraud." Remember, automating social interactions merely automates the biases (whether intentional conscious biases or unconscious biases) that the programmers and input material have. If I was ever offered the chance to travel there I think I'd want to first take some chemistry classes and memorize the chemical formulas for capsaicin, allicin (the raw garlic & onion chemical), and a few of the recreational nitrogen baring energetic chemical compounds . In particular memorizing everything on Derek Lowe's Things I Will Not Work With list (blog posts with such entertaining titles as Sand Wont Save You This Time for Chlorine Trifluoride which will cheerfully set the sand in your laboratory safety sand buckets on fire, or put another way a chemical that the bloody Nazi's considered using for self igniting flamethrowers only to say, "Nope. Nope! NOPE! Let's all just slowly back away, leave the building, and never return." And those were folks who used nearly pure hydrogen peroxide as an oxidizer in manned rocket powered aircraft and what pure hydrogen peroxide will do to flesh is nightmare fuel, seriously if you are foolish enough to look it up don't look at any pictures). Because at a certain point you say, "We can either come to an agreement on your behaving better or we can see how much C2N14 your laboratory equipment can manufacture before it becomes energetically offended by any other matter existing within its vicinity. Well, that's if the dioxygen difluoride doesn't get us first." Any chemistry nerds who didn't flee the building upon mention of the first will surely flee the city upon hearing the second. (C2N14 is so sensitive that the folks who published a paper about it a few years back found the amount of force needed to make it explode was less than their lab grade measuring gear was capable of measuring, while FOOF has become to go to cute named but horrible, terrible, no good chemical for people who want to put such a thing in their stories.)

Spying on the laundry. I am shocked. Absolutely shocked. Or rather I will be shocked if this was when it actually started and wasn't merely used as a chance to upgrade already existing laundry surveillance. Anyone want to make a bet on whether or not there is bathroom surveillance? I recall back in the early 2000s seeing a scanned copy of article, that really I suspect was either made just made up for a tabloid or else the result of someone reporting a fetish manga as real, that claimed Japanese high school girls were handling the stress of high stakes exams by wearing recently introduced larger size baby diapers (If I recall correctly one brand in a much more playful manner than Western brands seem to do, called their extra, extra large size which came out long before size 7 diapers in the west, "Bigger Than Big diapers"). That way they knew that they could go in and take the tests without the risk of losing time and points by leaving for the bathroom. Don't. Blame the people who made the Little Go Plus. Let's march on their headquarters! They can't have enough security and nanites to get all of us. Studio Executive: "We promise that we have completely revised the hypnotic programming, viewers will no longer be embarrassed to feel themselves wetting their pants." Entertainment Journalist: "So our readers should feel safe to take that Little they want to adopt to... You said viewers. It will only effect the Littles in the audience, right?" Studio Executive: "..." Entertainment Journalist: "It will only effect the Littles in the audience, right?" It turns out the animation studio has heavy investments in all categories of incontinence products, from infant Littles to adult Bigs. When she said viewers she did indeed mean all viewers. Another bet: Is Rachel already hacked or about to get hacked? If Beth's current enemies are smart they'd hack Rachel and then use her purely for information gathering. After all, if Rachel tries something funny Carly's grandma will come in and do a system reset on her, no just have her watch and listen and feed everything she discovers to whoever is pulling the strings... Carly could follow in her mom's footsteps and have to intervene to protect a Little who wasn't even there as part of the date or shopping trip. Fortunately with Nikki nearby. To bad Carly doesn't have her mom's mad computer skills and a ready supply of programmable nanites or there could be so much fun had with any attackers. Uh oh. Now I'm all caught up. Hopefully I'll be back in less than two weeks this time. Hope life is being kind to everyone!

Work and life finally allowed me the chance to come and catch up. Another really nice chapter, I can't imagine why it feels like something is about to go wrong. Oh wait, like Moon3ye said, it's because I've read all those earlier stories. Whining because there's no more unread chapters left to read? Who told on m-- I mean who told such silly lies? Pouting maybe, but no whining.

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!