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I write too much. When I separated the part a from this, it was about 2500 words long. Now it's a little short of twice that much.
Anyway, cue the flashback. I have continued the trend from the intro by having no plants, introducing a bunch of new characters and info, and not doing anything with the ostensible main characters of the series, James and Melissa.
If it wasn't clear by now, my bizarrely popular "Thanksgiving Dinner" vore story is indeed set in the same universe as Freaky Plants. Some of you may spot still more nods to my other work; there's a lot in there.
For those of you who HAVEN'T read Thanksgiving Dinner, Imbriak's existence must seem like a fucking curveball out of left field. My apologies. I was initially a little conflicted about her presence here at first; you see, she began as a reference no more lengthy than the one about Jazmine's Story. Then, later on in the writing process, I thought "Wait a second. This character couldn't possibly miss the presence of a dragon on campus, and there's no way they'd ignore it either." So I made Imbriak's part bigger, and then, because it felt like a plot tumor that went nowhere, I welded it into the main storyline for the finale.
Now I'm too pleased and proud of how well she fits in that I refuse to feel bad about how that's turned out. THere are other reasons for my smugness, but they would involve spoilers; I'll mention those at a later date.
I'm quite pleased with my progress; I've actually got the next chapter ready to roll. I'm withholding it for now, since it still needs some edits. Plus, that way I'll have something to post next week, even though starting today I will be making no progress writing until Wednesday at the earliest.
Please let me know what you think! I'm starting to roll out the answers for who and what is going on; there is another hefty dose of that in the next part. Stay tuned!
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Posted by Philosoraptor 6 years ago Report
Great story, which also led me to the Thanksgiving one which I equally enjoyed. The only weak point from a plausibility point, is how cold these huge, intelligent dragons be unknown to the scientific community when we see them being actively employed by farmers for centuries . And of course, being around for as long as humans have been around and no doubt before, they would have certainly had a major impact on human culture, probably even worshipped as gods, just as we see the legendary dragons in our real world cultures all over the world. But that said, this is still farm more realistic than the vast bulk of stories where the reader is supposed to believe humans swallowing other humans, when human anatomy dictates you can easily choke to death if you do not thoroughly chew a bit of hot dog. Thanks for sharing and hope we see more dragon stories. I think they are your best work.
Posted by Eater99 6 years ago Report
Thank you for the detailed commentary; I love hearing readers’ thoughts like this. As for the dragons going under the scientific radar, in the Freaky Plants ‘verse there are only a couple hundred of them worldwide, and, as Lily will mention in the next chapter, they are quite aware that humans have the numbers and weapons to wipe them out. Therefore, they keep their contact rare and personal. A good 90% of dragon-human contact consists of vanished hikers, and the remaining 10% is situations like the Waldens, where a handful of dragons are close to a small community that respects their privacy.
There will be more dragon vore from me in the future, but I warn you, it will be quite sparse in this particular series
Posted by Philosoraptor 6 years ago Report
That still seems illogical for the scientific community to be ignorant of them. In our own world, literally everyone over 10 years old has probably heard of Komodo 'dragons' because they are such a unique animal, yet there is just a small population isolated a few tiny islands. And now imagine real, man eating dragons five times as big and as smart as humans. They would be the most talked about and studied non-human creatures in the world. But if they did exist, they would likely have been worshipped as Gods by primitive man, and if so, the dragons would have kept them in their primitive state for centuries and mankind would have never developed weapons that could threaten them. After all, the Abrahamic God physically described in the Bible is described as an enormous creature that breathes fire from his mouth, smoke from his nostrils, had huge wings, demands daily offerings of domestic animals and occasional first born sons and Midianite virgins. And then you have all of the dragon gods of the orient, and the feather flying serpents of Mesoamerica, than those are just the tip of the iceberg. But for the sake of this story where humans are already 'modern', it would probably make more sense that such a rare and sapient creature would be internationally protected in nature reserves so even scientists aren't really allowed to disturb them unless they decide to willingly live in the human world or go there to seek medical attention with childbirth, as in this case. I would normally have passed over a story about 'Freaky Plants', but saw the 'dragon' and 'vore' tags so decided to check it out.
Posted by Eater99 6 years ago Report
Alas, I cannot say too much without spoiling things. I will only say this: firstly, with rare exceptions like Veruna and Imbriak, dragons actively avoid any human contact that could attract serious attention, and secondly, remember the statement that there are no confirmed reports on dragons isn’t direct author-supplied information. It came from Alice. And just because she doesn’t know something does not mean it doesn’t exist...
Posted by NightRoller 6 years ago Report
But what about the willing suspension of belief!
I consider myself a critical thinker (particularly for my age and position in society) but even I did not really give this subject more than a passing thought.
In certain respects, you are an excellent personification of your username.