The Giants' Club

The Giants’ Club

Welcome! The Giants’ Club web site is a nominal counterpart to a virtual club on FurryMUCK, but mostly serves as a repository for the fiction and non-fiction writing of the GC’s proprietress, Arilin.

The last update (on July 1, 2009) added “If Lethe Should Be Passed” to the fiction section. (The observant and/or snarky will note that this is the first new story in three and a half years.)

Contents

Illustrations

Non-Fiction

Interactive Macrophilia (December 2008)

A somewhat geeky look at chatbots and “interactive fiction” for the macrophile crowd.

A Letter from Arilin (October 2008)

A brief talk about changes in the Giants’ Club web site and future direction.

Giants Are Awesome (September 2008)

Some thoughts on macrophile role-playing, power levels and how, generally speaking, not to be a dick.

About the Giants’ Club (May 2008)

Rules for the Giants’ Club on FurryMUCK.

Dark Romance (December 2003)

An essay theorizing what attracts (some) people to macrophilia.

Fiction

N.B.: Stories I consider my best work are marked with a star (★). (I like all the stories; stuff I really don’t think is up to par doesn’t stick around.)

If Lethe Should Be Passed (July 2009)

In the world the Giants’ Club itself exists on, godlike power flows like water, and for many death is a temporary inconvience rather than a finality. What do mortality and divinity really mean there?

Higher Learning (December 2005)

A story set in BigFur’s “BFCC” setting, an informally organized shared world about a community college where students and professors of all sizes—and talents—come togther and meet. Arilin is a part-time instructor there; this is a slice-of-life piece about her first day.

Trompe L’oeil (February 2005) ★

When confronted with “artwork” that can be whatever the audience imagines her to be, the gulf between desire and expectation can be most dangerous.

Easter Eggs (May 2004)

A brilliant (if foul-mouthed) programmer and her friend visit a virtual reality arcade and exploit a bug or two to wreak virtual havoc. Far from a deep story but pretty funny, and the “violence” is imaginary and cartoonish.

Rabbit in the Moon (June 2003)

A story based on a picture: Ken Cougar drew a giant rabbit girl dancing at a rave, and I imagined her story. It’s neither violent nor (very) explicit, but does its best to be button-pushing as hell nonetheless.

Détente (March 2003)

Not all giants are rampaging warriors—some are diplomats. A gentle, somewhat reserved story of colonial Africa.

In for a Penny (April 2002)

A young cat whose impatience has landed him as a clerk in a magic store rather than as the wizard-in-training he wants to be finds himself taking out his frustrations on two imperious mice much smaller than he—with unexpected results. Explicit.

The Last Aspect (November 2001) ★

A science fiction story about artificial intelligence, religious intolerance, and a giant robot vixen. Trust me, it’s one of the best stories in here (and the one I most wish I hadn’t published under this pseudonym). Violent.

Toy Soldiers (May 2001)

Two human soldiers pursuing a terrorist group through a “jump gate” find themselves waylaid by giant teen cat girls. Written in 1995 and cleaned up in 2001. Fan service? You betcha. Explicit.

Metamorphosis Day (November 2000) ★

What if the world suddenly contained animals, doing normal animal things, who just happened to be a couple orders of magnitude larger? Written in something of a modern magic realist style, and flirts with a little social philosophy. Violent.

Seeing the Angel (June 2000)

In many giant stories a normal person finds themselves suddenly made giant and goes on a rampage. This is, let’s be honest, a stunningly psychopathic reaction. This story is written about the aftermath of such an event, and has no real violence but is, if I may say so myself, really creepy.

The Model (December 1999)

A rabbit photographer comes across a giant coyote woman sleeping in the desert, and ends up having a far more adventurous photo shoot than he’d expected. Explicit.

Customer Service (March 1999)

A vignette about Sarah the size-shifting wolf girl and her problems with the phone company, featuring her friend Chipotle, the coyote who’s the Giants’ Club assistant manager. Explicit.

Bargaining with Kali (January 1999) ★

Would you believe a joke about needing more lesbian ringtail giants would turn into a dark hard sci-fi novelette with strong political overtones? Me neither, but it happened. One of my earliest pieces, but still one of the ones I like the most.

Trinkets (May 1998)

A try at a “Pied Piper” type tale, with a traveling trinket seller visiting a town plagued by a giant who offers to solve their problem for them.

Cheating at Solitaire (May 1998) ★

A story about Arilin herself, in her sociopathic early days. Could be imperfectly described as a “Tom and Jerry” directed by Quentin Tarantino.

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