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The Town of Merry-Upon-Avon [Chapter 1] By wolfSnack -- Report

Chapter 1 (read first): You are here!
Chapter 2a: https://aryion.com/g4/view/743300
Chapter 2b: https://aryion.com/g4/view/746822
Chapter 2c: https://aryion.com/g4/view/823010
(Read these three in any order.)

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Ah, the town of Merry-Upon-Avon. A blissful suburban retreat from the hustle and bustle of big city life...

Where humans can live happily, tended by anthro servants, without a care in the world.




...Of course, EVERY small town has its own little quirks!

Like how nobody in Merry-Upon-Avon remembers further back than twenty years.

Or how the humans don't have to work, and are simply encouraged to fill up with food, have children, and relax.

Or how *hungry* the anthros look, especially as they all approach the twentieth anniversary of the town's founding.

And surely it's just a coincidence, how anyone who asks questions about such things tends to "move away" very suddenly, without even telling their family and friends.

...Or at least, that's what the anthros assure the human citizens the next day, before they quietly excuse themselves to unclog the plumbing.








Or, as my friend  tarenge said: "The whole thing feels like an episode of the Twilight Zone shot in a porn studio. And that's a major compliment!"
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I’ve published multi-part stories before, but this is slightly different. After reading Chapter 1, the other four should each be understandable as a stand-alone story.

This story takes place in the Graduation setting, where most of my other stories are set -- but in a very different part of the world, where humans are treated as livestock rather than pets or family members. This lets me scratch some more degrading itches than my other stories. And an observant reader might notice some Easter Eggs and characters that connect to my other works!

This story will contain nonfatal cooking and preparation, as well as fatal vore and moderate disposal, but NO pain, gore, or blood.

This is an interesting story -- it began its life as a very long commission I bought from  bunnywrites! You can read the original here: https://aryion.com/g4/view/825008

But with their agreement, I edited and expanded significantly beyond the first (incredibly hot) draft they delivered to me, and ended up as a collaboration.

I’m hopeful that Bunny can enjoy my revised version… but assume all the hottest parts were written by them!

And give Bunny a commission and/or a favorite, they write great stuff!

Comment on The Town of Merry-Upon-Avon [Chapter 1]

wolfSnack: I appreciate comments if my stories got you hot under the collar, they're so much more personal than a favorite -- it's always helpful to know exactly what people enjoy, so I can make the stories hawter for you in the future ;3

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KaiserDunk

Posted by KaiserDunk 3 years ago Report

It will be interesting to read the rest of this story. I’ve always felt that the best place for a human was on a serving platter in an anthro dining room.

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wolfSnack

Posted by wolfSnack 3 years ago Report

Well, I have GOOD news for you, then~

The second chapter will be uploaded tomorrow, showing where Clara ends up. The other three (Beth, Melody, and Hugh) will take a bit longer to finish writing, though!

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Dragon808tr

Posted by Dragon808tr 3 years ago Report

Lovely concept! Cant wait for more!

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wolfSnack

Posted by wolfSnack 3 years ago Report

Second chapter will come tomorrow -- the one showing Clara's fate (and cameos for Alistair/Mira)!

The later chapters, uh, well, they'll come when they come XD

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FrivolousFoxGirl

Posted by FrivolousFoxGirl 3 years ago Report

Yesss

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wolfSnack

Posted by wolfSnack 3 years ago Report

I do my best to make good content for y'all ;)

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harpylove

Posted by harpylove 3 years ago Report

Well this is a first foe me. I liked how they all just casually accepted their fate as food.

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wolfSnack

Posted by wolfSnack 3 years ago Report

Glad you liked it! :3

There are some humans from Merry-Upon-Avon who fled, or tried to hide. Not many, that kind of rebelliousness is rare, but a few.

Luckily, the anthros are very good at their jobs and know all the tricks. You can rest assured that those humans will either be gathered and sent to the factory soon, or eaten directly as "off the books" snacks for some of the workers.

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harpylove

Posted by harpylove 3 years ago Report

My money is on "off the books."

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Dragon808tr

Posted by Dragon808tr 3 years ago Report

Okay, so i got around to finally reading this and i have some feedback. To be quite honest, this story kinda goes a bit over the line in terms of what im fomftorbale with in a story like this. The sudden removal of the family sent to basically a death camp kinda came off to me as the you-know-whos... not saying that was the intent but it sadly feels like it. Another problem i have with the stories lately is the lemgth, its kinda hard to read through in a sitting and might be more difestable (no pun intended) if it was split in half.

On the good side though, the factory was fun and I LOVED the Pinko horse easter egg! Hope he's doing well as i loved his writings!

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Dragon808tr

Posted by Dragon808tr 3 years ago Report

Comfortable and Pink horse i meant. Its hard to type black on black. Lol

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wolfSnack

Posted by wolfSnack 3 years ago Report

I appreciate this feedback, even if it's not a story that you enjoyed much.

All of the stuff set in America is meant to be significantly grimmer than my "main canon" stuff, to explore my feelings about how I wish I was in the circumstances of the humans in this story, trapped in circumstances I can't escape. It's understandable if my posted stories occasionally delve into kinks that you're not comfortable with, and I understand. Not every story fits interests.

But if I over-shot and ended up making it feel like the "you-know-who"s, I'll work to prevent that in the future.

For what it's worth, most of the grading and meat-packing sort of stuff was from Bunny's original draft, and I added all the stuff at the factory itself. I'm glad that part was fun, though! I definitely had fun with that part.

And yeah, my stories keep getting longer. For this one I considered splitting it in half -- around the time that the family is loaded into the truck -- but I decided not to split it, so that all the background for future chapters was in a single place. Also, so that all the most degrading stuff would be contained to a single chapter.

For the last story, the one with Alistair/Mira's anniversary dinner in the "present", I realized after I posted it that I *really* should have split it in half -- but I was concerned about people not understanding the second half without the first. Oh well, too late to fix that now.

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Dragon808tr

Posted by Dragon808tr 3 years ago Report

I appreciate the long and thoughtful response. I feel that negative feedback can be just as good as positive ones, sometimes better in some cases as an opportunity to learn and grow as a writer.

Im fine with darker stuff, like the earlier farm story with the two girls at happy anacks ranch, it had the same energy but felt more comfortable as they both were mostly willing for the entire run. This story sort of goes too far. Mostly i kinda hate the idea of families going together. Additionally the fact that they were all unwilling and frightened, lined up and orderes to get onto trucks, with the dissidents being eaten; plus the fact that this was all orchestrated by wolves (and hyenas to a lesser extent) could definitely be accidentally taken in a VERY wrong direction from your intent. Of course, i do not beleive this was your intent, nor am i one to look at works and take offence to them (far from it). My take on this was one of caution from one writer to another that this could be misinterpreted. After all, i dont want one of my favorite writers falling into hot water!

In a nutshell, it is well written, otherwise i wouldnt be typing this, and it really does set the mood quite well. Unfortunately the accidential correlation as described above creates a real issue when reading, despite an enjoyable premise. (Actually, a thought just occured to me. Unless the Pelis want unwilling meals, couldnt they use the TV, media, and porn to give hunans subliminal peli messages to make them love them and make them more up to being eaten? Or would they just be eaten by the workers?) Either way through, it is a well written work, but not my cuo of tea for the above reasons. I very much hope this comment and analysis of my perspective has been of some help to you.

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okutrooper24

Posted by okutrooper24 2 years ago Report

Funny enough, @dragon808tr’s constructive criticism actually gave me some ideas that I would love to share to help you and Bunny flesh out this premise

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okutrooper24

Posted by okutrooper24 2 years ago Report

little update from my prior comment. Wolf and I actually took this feedback into account about the unwillingness and some of the uncomfortable undertones it picked up and have used it for worldbuiling in this setting, especially as we have built out ideas of what MUA is when fleshing out the US setting of Graduation's universe. For some detail there, keep an eye on both my and her recent and upcoming posts :3

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alockwood1

Posted by alockwood1 2 years ago Report

I'll be honest, some parts I'm not a fan of, like the whole town not knowing what's really going on, and the whole - "You guys are just food to us" thing, not to mention how much folks in this world like disposal.

Personally, I'd of preferred it if everyone knew, and that getting eaten was basically random chance, but this did inspire a backstory for an interactive I add to, wherein the Village Humans found out the truth, rebelled, and managed to get their young sent to freedom, thanks to some helpful Ferals that blew the scheme that the farmer was doing.

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wolfSnack

Posted by wolfSnack 2 years ago Report

What parts DID you like, if any?

I'm a little confused, because the "you guys are just food" and "nobody knows that this is a farm" is sorta... the point? Of the story? It's the central theme I (co)wrote this around.

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alockwood1

Posted by alockwood1 2 years ago Report

Well, decent writing for starts. I've read more than a few things that focus solely on the fetish, and to me, that's like being served dry turkey at Thanksgiving. This gives me a story - gravy, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, vegetables, roll, and a slice of pumpkin pie with whipped cream.

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KyptronianarePigsMeat

Posted by KyptronianarePigsMeat 2 years ago Report

WolfSnack
I got question is this World where Animals become the most dominant species on the planet instead of Humans?

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wolfSnack

Posted by wolfSnack 2 years ago Report

More or less! Anthro animals are the dominant species. Humans are still around, and they're treated differently in different parts of the world, but everywhere they're a major percent of the anthro diets.

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okutrooper24

Posted by okutrooper24 2 years ago Report

Like I said on Bunny’s adaptation of the full story, I love the world the two of you have established with these and would love to delve deeper with the concept if you are ok with that. The spicy elements are great and it seems like this is a Universe to be expanded with more stories. Plus I am a sucker for ranch and serve facilities for prey, be it human or furry, in material like this

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wolfSnack

Posted by wolfSnack 2 years ago Report

I left you a comment over on Bunny's story :)

What were you thinking for an expansion?

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okutrooper24

Posted by okutrooper24 2 years ago Report

The big thing i was thinking were ideas along the lines of "how did this world come to be", "how can it facilitate anthro pred/human prey, HPred/APrey, as well as exploring H/H and A/A ideas", since this sounds like a slice of a wider world and "how to create a world where there is a willful and accepting mentality for this practice (as well as an opening for the more sadistic opposite side of that spectrum if you want to leave room for unwilling and less comfortable environments, as implied in the story)" and i have a framework coming together already. I also took into consideration the criticism above and I think there is a workaround to avoid the unfortunate accidental implications while leaning into the idea that being prey is almost an idealistic life for those who are sent to a ranch community so while they know their fate, but they still get 20-30 years of an pampered and happy life followed by their post grading fate (loved the A grade meat's almost paradise like housing in Clara's chapter by the way!). Honestly, thiswhole idea gave me a writing inspiration like i have not had in years (which is why i have not posted anything but i digress haha)

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wolfSnack

Posted by wolfSnack 2 years ago Report

I want to clarify that there is absolutely no human predators or anthro prey in this universe (so H/H and A/A is also off the table).

But if you have any specific ideas or drafts, you're welcome to reach out to me by PM and run them by me. Worst comes to worst, if they don't fit the universe I created, you're welcome to write them into your own separate universe.

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okutrooper24

Posted by okutrooper24 2 years ago Report

Ah ok, noted and elements can be changed accordingly to reflect that. right now any outlining is very flexible and can fit the design of anthro superiority. As for my broader concepts, I can save them for my own use later

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