diaper dimension Lights! Camera! ...What?!? - Chapter 110 - 4/26/24

[BabySofia]

37 minutes ago, BobbyDrago said:

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's smaller than Stacy... I think newborn diapers are in store for this little girl.

Stacy was 39.5" Tall. He's got about 9" on his mom.

26 minutes ago, Guilend said:

Why I thought he’d come out taller I wouldn’t know. If he had it would be a very short story. 

Ba dum tisk! Nice pun! I debated, so I actually literally rolled the dice for him. He came out smaller than most of the options... Like mother like son!

26 minutes ago, Guilend said:

It’s sad seeing all the characters from the other books getting old.  I almost cried when Fred showed up with a cane. 

Yeah, not going to lie... Letting go of certain characters from their parents era is tough, but it's also a fact of life that 30 years means people are not the same as who they were. 

Thanks for the comments both of you!

[Baby Billy]

1 hour ago, BobbyDrago said:

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's smaller than Stacy... I think newborn diapers are in store for this little girl.

No Stacy was 36 inches when she arrived and 4o+ when went home.

[Baby Billy]

Again the missing Bella, I wonder if Cam will ask Amanda about her at some point.  While he was not really a friend of her to begin with I'm sure he got to know her when he stayed with Amanda and Fred after the stay in the hospital unless she was already gone.?

No that would be wrong because Bella was still living with Amanda and Fred when the trial started.

[DiaperedPrince]

17 minutes ago, Baby Billy said:

Again the missing Bella, I wonder if Cam will ask Amanda about her at some point.

Patience buddy.

18 minutes ago, Baby Billy said:

unless she was already gone.?

No that would be wrong because Bella was still living with Amanda and Fred when the trial started.

Someone needs to re-read the Exchanged epilogue before he says things that don't make sense!

[Baby Billy]

18 minutes ago, DiaperedPrince said:

Patience buddy.

Someone needs to re-read the Exchanged epilogue before he says things that don't make sense!

I have reread the epiloque a few times for the answer.  All BabySofia gives us is that Bella knows how Stacy feels about breast feeding,  no more information than that. I don't know if Bella was set free or taken to the little island that Hanna was taken to and got married and had a child.  I do know that Bella was still with Fred and Amanda 10 years after her adoption because in In-Between she was there when Cameron went to Amanda,s house before the trail after they tried to get him with the tablet.  I asked BabySofia and she said to wait.  

[Moon3ye]

Just like old times Sofia, I go to sleep and you post a chapter.... no joking aside, due to my new job I was already in the land of dreams when you published.

Your release was almost closer to my wake up time.

Great chapter, really great.

Beth beginning was interesting and with the families knowing each other Beth and Connor will definitely get to know each other.

Of course there is the new rule for students because of Stacy.

Typical famous parents, make their offspring's lives unnecessarily difficult.

Connor is really small, that is Little dormitory and the madness of the Amazons RA.

I bet the second shock is that he is now a girl, although he should have noticed that at the latest when he took off his underpants.

I bet it has something to do with Stacy's nanites.

[BabySofia]

25 minutes ago, Baby Billy said:

No Stacy was 36 inches when she arrived and 4o+ when went home.

I answered this above. She was 39.5." It is possible you are looking at an older copy that had some edits when I did some physics changes and went back to edit. The version published on Amazon reads 39.5" when she has her exam for her chip.

On a side note I don't know if you've purchased the Amazon copies, but I'm treating them as my 'canon' and there may be some variations from the earlier versions. (Thank you if you have - you don't have to though!) Please don't get too upset if there's a few smaller differences here. Some things got hashed out and tweaked here and there as I was editing them, knowing I was coming back to this dimension one more time for this tale. The original was 360k words and I've added added with my other works to the point I'm at about 780k words into my corner of the universe here. No way to have it all perfect on the first editions!

6 minutes ago, Moon3ye said:

Just like old times Sofia, I go to sleep and you post a chapter.... no joking aside, due to my new job I was already in the land of dreams when you published.

Your release was almost closer to my wake up time.

Hmm... Well, I guess if I post later it's not as bad now! Hope the new job is going well! ?

14 minutes ago, Moon3ye said:

Beth beginning was interesting and with the families knowing each other Beth and Connor will definitely get to know each other.

Yes I can say they will now. This is both of their stories in my mind.

15 minutes ago, Moon3ye said:

Of course there is the new rule for students because of Stacy.

Stacy never got busted down the demerit route, but lets face it - she was Trouble with a capital T!

I'm not going to go through the rest of things because 'no spoilers.'  ?

Thanks for reading and commenting! ?

[BabyLexie]

4 hours ago, BabySofia said:

 

I was hoping I’d shrunk rather than grown; honestly, I hated being as tall as I was back home! ‘And I hate everything else about being me!’ I thought darkly too.

 

4 hours ago, BabySofia said:

Every time I swam with the team, the team uniforms just made me hate my body more. I did keep up my swimming, but only at home with my family in our pool.

Aww this poor egg is about to get scrambled. ?

I really like the beginning of this story! It's charming and straightforward and character focused as with your other work. I'm especially curious about the academic life: outside Oliver and Naomi and the odd story here and there, I don't think there's been a lot of emphasis on art and culture in DD stories. Excited to see how things play out!

[TerranV]

Good chapter. Seems shrinking when traveling dimensions runs in the family. 

Good to see everyone again too. Megan has bilogical kids now so thats cool. Meggy is in her fifties though and still adopted. She genuinely likes it so I didn't expect that to change. 

Amazing that Amazons have basically figured out near eternal youth, but seem to save it exclusively for keeping their Littles as young as possible. 

[Baby Billy]

I have not order any of the books on amazon..  I tried to check them out and could not find them, What name are you using on Amazon?

[Princessamaryllis]

Well it looks like Connor would be a better candidate to be beths daughter instead of boyfriend. Though to be honest if I am reading it right. Being someone’s boyfriend isn’t something Connor would be thrilled about. 
though maybe I should say kid and partner since Connor might prefer a gender natural term.

sorry I kind of red Connor as a transgender person possibly a transgender woman but that’s probably me putting my own experience in the story.

[DiaperedPrince]

3 hours ago, Baby Billy said:

I have not order any of the books on amazon..  I tried to check them out and could not find them, What name are you using on Amazon?

https://www.amazon.com/author/babysofia

[herezulo]

Cool chapter, especially seeing the family all together. Connor's physical makes me wonder, how common is it that Littles are that short? None of the nurses seemed especially surprised, but he's definitely pretty short.

[Codman27]

Amazing work. I can't wait for chapter 3. Like i said love your story's. 

[YourFNF]

On 5/31/2022 at 6:29 PM, BabySofia said:

Other than the diapers, bottles, and other baby treatments that seemed to have petered off over the years, Meggy was more or less just a stay-at-home gamer these days. She was quite talented at it, and won major tournaments regularly over the years, while managing to keep her real-world identity as a Little secret! About five years ago, they’d even bought a holographic caregiver system so she didn’t even have to go to daycare anymore.

Okay not going to lie kinda jealous ???‍♀️

....

Also if I shrunk this much.... I would probably fuck off to my Grandma's and have her get me a portal ticket out and escort me back through ???. Of course if that happened it wold end things really quick... Still I'm looking Conner right now like...

[BabySofia]

On 6/1/2022 at 3:30 AM, herezulo said:

Cool chapter, especially seeing the family all together. Connor's physical makes me wonder, how common is it that Littles are that short? None of the nurses seemed especially surprised, but he's definitely pretty short.

Naturally? I don't think there's a ton of them. I'll get into it more later though. ?

On 6/1/2022 at 2:41 PM, Codman27 said:

Amazing work. I can't wait for chapter 3. Like i said love your story's. 

Thanks! ?

On 6/3/2022 at 9:48 AM, YourFNF said:

Okay not going to lie kinda jealous ???‍♀️

....

Also if I shrunk this much.... I would probably fuck off to my Grandma's and have her get me a portal ticket out and escort me back through ???. Of course if that happened it wold end things really quick... Still I'm looking Conner right now like...

Lol, I think part of the beauty of the Diaper Dimension is that there's always a flaw in people taking risks that the rest of us are screaming at the screen at. ?

 

Sorry everyone for the delays in my responses, I just got back from a five day trip that is kicking my butt fatigue level wise! I should have the next chapter up on Tuesday. Thanks for reading and commenting! ??

[Baby Billy]

I wasn't as surprised by how much Connor shrunk as I was that the short girl didn't lose any height at all.??

[Guilend]

Yay I can’t wait till Tuesday. Is it too early into the story to have withdraw symptoms?

[bje]

On 6/1/2022 at 12:29 AM, BabySofia said:

Connor Stacy Slane
Age: 19
Pre-Arrival Height: 6’6”
Pre-Arrival Weight: 170lbs
Arrival Height: 48 inches
Arrival Weight: 58 pounds
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Blonde
Blood Pressure: 110/78
Pulse: 80 Bpm

I'm a little confused about the units. Aren't lbs and pounds the same thing? If so, why is it stated differently? And why is the pre-arrival height in feet and the arrival height in inches? I would think an automatic measurement system would be consistent. I'm already challenged by US units and the variation doesn't make it any easier.

[BabySofia]

8 minutes ago, bje said:

I'm a little confused about the units. Aren't lbs and pounds the same thing? If so, why is it stated differently? And why is the pre-arrival height in feet and the arrival height in inches? I would think an automatic measurement system would be consistent. I'm already challenged by US units and the variation doesn't make it any easier.

I didn't catch that flip on that. Thanks for the catch there! (And sorry for not switching to metric units... too ingrained by American society here)

[bje]

16 minutes ago, BabySofia said:

I didn't catch that flip on that. Thanks for the catch there! (And sorry for not switching to metric units... too ingrained by American society here)

Another thing: The arrival height (48 inches) is 61.5% of the pre-arrival height (78 inches). If he still has the same proportions, I would expect the same proportional reduction in width and thickness. So shouldn't the new weight be 170 pounds times 61.5% to the third power which rounded off is 40 pounds?

[BabySofia]

45 minutes ago, bje said:

Another thing: The arrival height (48 inches) is 61.5% of the pre-arrival height (78 inches). If he still has the same proportions, I would expect the same proportional reduction in width and thickness. So shouldn't the new weight be 170 pounds times 61.5% to the third power which rounded off is 40 pounds?

So you have arrived at one of the things I dealt with a long time ago when I started trying to figure out height/weight scales for my characters in the dimension. I originally just started by proportionally scaling both dimension and weight equally. What that didn't account for was the fact that weight isn't necessarily the same scale due to the 3 dimensional nature. I messed around for a bit before coming to the conclusion that if I utilized BMI calculations I could actually come up with things much closer to correct values (especially as characters scale up into Amazon sizes). 

This is not to say I'm completely 100% right with this, but this is what I had come up with.

That particular chart was done with a standard BMI metric, but I have since scaled it into both too low of BMI and obese BMIs. (I don't have them in handy images right now though. Connor is a little low for his BMI with very little fat on his body. 

[bje]

12 hours ago, BabySofia said:

So you have arrived at one of the things I dealt with a long time ago when I started trying to figure out height/weight scales for my characters in the dimension. I originally just started by proportionally scaling both dimension and weight equally. What that didn't account for was the fact that weight isn't necessarily the same scale due to the 3 dimensional nature. I messed around for a bit before coming to the conclusion that if I utilized BMI calculations I could actually come up with things much closer to correct values (especially as characters scale up into Amazon sizes). 

This is not to say I'm completely 100% right with this, but this is what I had come up with.

BMI is based on the height squared, where it would give more useful values to use the height cubed, because the body has three dimensions. Therefore, taller people always have higher BMI values than shorter people for people with the same build. Body proportions also change with age, which also affects the ideal BMI some.

When Connor's three-dimensional body is reduced equally in all three dimensions, his new measurements should be 48 inches and 40 pounds. His new BMI will be smaller because of the reduced height, but will not equal the BMI for children of the same height, since children and adults are not built alike.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#Scaling and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2912631/

[BabySofia]

Chapter 3: Reality Check

 

“I’M ONLY FOUR feet tall now?!?” I exclaimed.

“Yes, you are a little one, Connor... Forty-eight inches is quite small, even in Little terms. Amazing how random the changes seem to be. You were well into Mid height before you left. I would have expected you to be at least a foot or two taller than you are now.” She shrugged, “Seems to be impossible to predict how things will go. Fortunately, the university will have small uniforms for you while you’re here.”

I grimaced at knowing what  a Littles uniform meant for me, but had long accepted that it was a likely possibility on this trip.

“Go ahead and put your clothes back on, and we’ll get you to the room where you’ll be getting room assignments and everything.”

“You act like you do this every day?” I asked her in surprise.

She shrugged, “Not every day, but we’ll do an exchange group through the portal two or three times a year. We have three other university groups arriving this week, about forty exchange students in total.”

My eyes lifted at that knowledge, ‘Mom mentioned universities were Little mills…?’

I shook my head as she left the room, and I quickly put my underwear, pants, and sweatshirt back on. Not a minute after throwing my backpack back over my shoulder, the door opened, and another nurse in scrubs opened it up. “Ready, Mister Slane?”

“I think so!”

I followed the new giant down the hallway. My vision was low enough that I was sure my head didn’t even reach the top of her thighs! I had to take about three steps for every stride she made, and I felt like I was putting in jogging levels of exertion when she finally pushed open the door to an area where most of the group was present.

“Connor, right?” a girl I vaguely remembered being named Mia said as she stared down at me.

I nodded

“What happened to you?” she giggled, “You were the tallest person, and now you look like a kid even compared to me!”

I grimaced, “Apparently, my family likes to shrink a whole bunch when they come here… My mom is seven feet tall back home, but here she was only barely above three feet tall.”

“How tall did you end up?” She asked as we stood in the room that seemed to be a small classroom.

I blushed, “Four feet even…?”

She laughed, “Well, you and Amy will be good friends then, I’m sure!” She pointed to where Amy was blushing and talking to Willow. She was probably a foot taller than us, I guessed.

“This will be so awkward,” I told her as a very tall Amazonian woman with a severe bun entered the room.

“Please take a seat,” she said, motioning to the long counters and chairs behind them. I found myself awkwardly clambering onto the giant seat and then being hardly able to see above the counter!

I glanced around and could see most of our group was there, but two of the guys and Dr. Owens were missing. Then, finally, the incredibly tall lady cleared her throat and got our attention.

“First of all, welcome to Emerson University, and what I hope will be an incredible learning experience for you these few months you’ll be joining us. I am Dean Northrup, the Dean of Little’s here at Emerson. The woman just walking in is Doctor Emma Greene. She’s the Director of the Dorm your rooms will be in. If you’re wondering, your other friends are meeting with a separate Residential Director to get them situated. We split your professors between you so they can assist before we get them to their faculty housing assignments. As soon as we get all of that taken care of, we’ll meet up for a luncheon with our other exchange students.”

I glanced over at Dr. Benson, and she also looked to have shrunk quite a bit during the trip.

“So, first of all, let me make sure you know that our dimension is sized very differently from yours. You probably noticed it was a struggle just to climb into those chairs, and several of you, including Mister Slane, can barely see over the counter…?”

I blushed as all eyes seemed to zero in on me.

“No one really understands how traveling through the dimensional portal affects height, but the end result is that all of you are considered ‘Littles’ legally here in our dimension. We have three separate categories for grown adults here; Bigs, Mids, and Littles. You may hear Bigs called ‘Amazons’ by some, it’s generally frowned upon as rude, so I would recommend using ‘Bigs’ when you converse. Mids are often called ‘Betweeners’, or ‘’Tweeners,’ here. All of those are considered okay in polite conversation. Essentially, everything here is designed and built for the height of us Bigs. It’s easier to fit a Little’s smaller body in a larger space than a Big into a space that’s too small for anyone but children.”

I saw a hand go up and wasn’t surprised to see it be Mila’s.

“Yes, Miss Olson, right?”

“Yes, ma’am, just out of curiosity… what age of children are we the size of…?”

“Well, you, in particular, are smaller than our average two-year-old, but no one in this room is bigger than our average three-year-old.”

I heard several group members breathe out in surprise, but I just nodded and thought back to some of my talks with Mom, ‘And that makes me about the size of a six-month-old?’

“As you can imagine, this will make getting around at times challenging in our world. Due to this factor, we’re giving you dorms in our New Little Housing at Sanders Hall. This is a brand-new dormitory that we opened just this last fall dedicated to serving the needs of our shorter students.”

I couldn’t tell, from their reactions, if anyone in the room knew how bad that could be going for everyone in this room. Of course, I had hoped to retain my height and be in a standard dorm, but I had also steeled myself for losing a few inches and barely missing the required height. ‘Missing by feet wasn’t what I expected, though!’

She continued on, “For our new Sanders Hall, our rooms are a bit different than you might be used to. You’ll be sharing a communal dorm room containing our revolutionary sleeping pods with nine others. Also, all of the furniture is scaled to your sizes in your ‘nest,’ as we call them. Each nest has a residence life staff member in charge of helping you live, study and stay on track to successfully finish the semester!”

‘This is where Mom would probably be laughing in her face…’ I thought, barely keeping a smirk off my own.

“We have to share a single room with that many people? Are showers communal too?” Luca asked.

“They have privacy walls around them, but they are in one room attached to your Nest room. There’s also a bathroom with five potties to give you close access when you need to go to the bathroom. One thing that Sanders residents also have are four jetted bathtubs that you can soak in too.”

“That sounds nice,” the blonde-haired Tatum said.

“Now, you also need to be aware that our Little students are also bound by a separate code of conduct. Since you are here for this semester as Emerson University Griffins, we require you to follow that same code of conduct.”

She gestured with her hand, and a projection filled the air behind her. ‘Wow! They’re using holographic tech to replace old-school slide presentations!’

Little Rights for Visitors popped up above a few projected Little students in the university’s Littles Uniform. It looked unchanged from Mom’s time, with the three girls shown in the variations of the skirt and blouse, summer dress, and the slacks outfit Mom said she never wore. They looked like characters out of an old British school film back home. Nowadays, even in Britain, this uniform style had faded away as a relic of the past.

“That’s so cool,” I heard Liam say.

“Huh?” One of the girls asked, perplexed.

“The projection, not the uniform,” he quickly backpedaled.

“Oh, that’s right, you haven’t seen this technology before, have you, dear?” Dean Northrup asked.

We all shook our heads, even though this was precisely the tech I had wanted to come and study for filmmaking. The hologram made the projections look like real people with as solid and realistic as they appeared! The text beside them was suspended next to it, as if in some sort of comic bubble.

I returned my eyes to the image of the Little boy in his slacks, vest, shirt, and tie. Without context, that outfit didn’t necessarily make the guy, who appeared college-aged, look like he wasn’t an average adult. However, I did notice that all four of the characters on the slide had puffed-out bottoms, and the one with the dress looked like it had just a little bit of white hanging below the skirt.

“First of all, you’ll notice a uniform present for our Littles. I’ll go into that here in a few more slides. But I want to cover your rights and protections while you’re here studying with us.”

Guardianship popped up on the slide. “First of all, due to your status as Littles, Emerson is considered to have guardianship of you during your time here. This allows us to intercede on your behalf for any medical or legal issues you may encounter. It also prevents you from being adopted as long as you are a university student without your permission.”

Luca’s hand flew up, “Adopted?!?”

“I’ll get into that more later. Please just be patient. You have many rights and protections that should keep you a student as long as you are here studying.” She looked around, and I felt like she made it particularly unpleasant to ask questions. “We have insisted on this clause in particular for any accidents that may happen given your next of kin back home probably won’t be able to respond in time. Any situations where there needs to be an opinion due to your incapacitation would come to my office.”

I squirmed a bit at that, hoping she was a better person than the Dean was back when my mom was in school.

The slide switched over to a new one with the model students now sitting at 3D desks, seemingly occasionally moving and making gestures that they were paying attention. Well, all but one of the girls were paying attention. The one wearing the slacks version of the uniform looked to be doing something on a tablet instead of paying attention to the professor.

Demerit System was now showing as she continued, “For our Little students, we operate on a Demerit System for any behavioral or academic issues. Our current policy is that our Littles get up to thirty demerits in a year before being expelled from Emerson. Since you are here for just a semester, that number is set at sixteen. You earn demerits for any behavior that is unsafe, breaks academic standards, or brings the university into a bad light.”

I watched as a bubble popped up that showed examples that seemed a bit normal, got draconian, and then caused my fellow travelers to gasp.

 

 

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Thanks for reading! This chapter ended up being shorter after the editing process, so I’m open to giving another chapter Friday this week (and may be switching the next two Fridays with that). Likes… say 20+…? And I’ll give you the next one then! ?

Thanks for reading! ?

[Guilend]

Yay I’ve waited forever for this chapter to come out. I wonder if getting demerits will be as easy and quick as it has been. 16 can add up fast if you can get 3 or four at a time.