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I like it conceptually – it has the feel of a story that would be sexier+scarier if you carefully kept from going into the range of the fantastical and kept it carefully grounded in the range of a 'small change that causes big shifts', such that men might actually *think* they had a chance to resist.

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For those interested, he is evidently still working on Pendant Changes as well, but I didn't get an ETA, just that it wasn't forgotten.

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I liked it – short and to the point. One of my rare intersections with writing half decently was a serious of Federation Press Interstellar stories showing certain episodes of Star Trek as seen from the perspective of a genuinely fair-minded press attempting to inform the public on issues without all the classified information. – I did five or six articles for my creative writing class – <G>

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As a fan, I think it comes down to  two things
A) Whether or not I have to work to maintain suspension of disbelief, and
B) whether or not I can identify with the male character.

As far as A) goes – I have a much easier time believing in something that makes women bigger, healthier, and of course sexier without other side effects than I do in something that does all that to women *and* causes men to lose mass without side effects – which is usually the case if that second 'the men shrink' clause is active – and frankly, 'no other side effects' is kinda integral to the story, because the kind of affectionate woman one hopes to see in stories like this is *going* to stop if she realizes she's actually causing harm – if she's not, she's a monster no matter how sexily she's written.

Not that a good writer can't get me worked up despite that – I think I have every story MarkNew has written, but all in all I'd rather women getting more formidable than men waning, and I think you can get the same imbalance that is fun in these stories without either women becoming giantesses or men becoming decrepit shades – <G>.

B) although I personally am a pretty big man, in both healthy and unhealthy ways, the characters personality is more important than his physical size as far as my empathizing with him goes. Like most people, I have days when I am bloody brilliant, and days where I would shoot myself if only I had the energy, but most days are in between, both and neither at different times. Anyone can be spineless or brave in certain contexts – as long as they have an actual personality, with the inconsistencies we all carry, I think most readers will happily enjoy and empathize with a well drawn out character better than a stereotype, whether the stereotype is that of a hero or a wimp.

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I think I mentioned this to a mod at some point – but the virtually all of "Pendant Changes" happens (IIRC) in a high school environment.

And it's a good, well written story that goes through High School relationships, all the molehills and mountains of puberty – couldn't be written in any other life period and be anything like the story it is. There are good, legitimate reasons for being concerned about the ages of fictional characters, but it may be worth remembering that there are also good legitimate reasons for fictional characters to be of certain ages as well.

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That could only end in tears. 🙂

Wonderful tears, of joy and despair . . . – <G>

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You Live! – knew you were busy and didn't really want to bug you, but it's always good to see you out and about.

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Realized I had forgotten about Kowalski's "A New World Order" so I'm appending it here.
http://www.overflowingbra.com/download.php?StoryID=10

Not quite sure I trust that URL (It was the tenth returned on my search, so it may have been dynamically generated) – if it doesn't work you may need to look it up manually there.

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Along with the previously mentioned Alt.Univ and Pendant changes, ABX and The Spell are multipart stories along the same theme. I blame The Spell for sucking me into this fetish frankly – <G>.
Also
Tara's Lathe: http://www.thevalkyrie.com/stories/marknew/tara.txt
What I want: http://www.thevalkyrie.com/stories/marknew/whatwant.txt
Transfer Student: http://www.thevalkyrie.com/stories/marknew/regen.txt

Small Changes "Balance of Nature" isn't quite the same worldwide scope, but it's a world where things *could* change pretty rapidly.
http://home.att.net/~nomdreserv/Stories.html

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This is definitely something the fanfiction community has needed. Creative Commons and the EFF sort of get into this a bit, but it's not their primary purpose by any stretch of the imagination, and I would love to see someone for whom it *is* the primary purpose.

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