Sat, 05 Jan 2008

This area being refurbished for your future enjoyment!

Okay, so I posted a "coming back soon" post eleven freaking months ago and nothing else. What the hell? Here's the situation.

As I wrote then (just scroll down!), most of my macrophile story output was for a limited-access publication called MegaMorphics. Stuff got written for MM, showed up there, then showed up here a couple months later. Then MM went on hiatus and so did my muse. I've pretty much given up on MM coming back at this point. And while I've been writing, my output hasn't been about macrophile subjects.

I'm not going to make any melodramatic comments about having nothing more to say with giants, that I've done all I can do with them--but you know what? I feel like I've done a lot with them. While I'm guilty of doing a few of the cliché "giant abuses littles for fun and profit" pieces, for the most part that was never really my thing. I think I've told some genuinely good stories, and managed to work in some elegance, some social and political commentary, some genuine horror and some comedy. I've even gotten to work in some magic realism – and in what I think of as my swan song, meta-commentary on macrophilia itself. (I'm still surprised I didn't get more flak for that!) All in all, I'm proud of most of my work here and only embarrassed by a little. All things considered, that's a pretty good track record.

This sounds like I'm leading up to saying that I'm officially closing up shop here, doesn't it? Well, not exactly. I'm intending to do something with the site; I'm just not sure what yet.

What I've been mulling over is this. While this page calls itself the home site for the Giants' Club, it really isn't, is it? Other than having the rules for the club on FurryMUCK there's not a lot of connection there. And I know a lot of those who've passed through here aren't on FurryMUCK anyway.

So maybe, maybe, this year I could put together a new site for the Giants' Club that really is for the Giants' Club. A community site, more about you than about me. After all, the Club on FurryMUCK really doesn't have "membership," it just has visitors. You should all be considered visitors – and if you choose, regulars – to the Club, too.

If you have any suggestions on what shape this idea might take, I'm all ears. And hopefully, I'll talk to you again in less than a year.

Comments (9)

This website was what got me into writing my own athro giantess literature. Ironically I probably wouldn't have written so much if the updates here weren't so slow, but still, I have you to thank for inpiring me because it was the lack of, and the desire to see, more of your writing that forced me to create my own.
Of course it is also ironic that I'm having the same feelings of having done the same thing over and over as well as the drive to find something new that's not the generic giant and little story.
If you ever fee like chatting with me, and it's a shame I never had the opportunity, you can pm me through macrophile.com. If you really are on your way out, I'd like to be able to thank you personlly. Other than that, have a good year and I'll see you about the same time in 2009?

Posted by DTF at Sun Jan 6 10:40:00 2008

*laugh* I'm hoping I'll be visible again sooner than 2009 this time around!

I'm glad it's been inspiring. I'm sure there are more giant stories out there to tell for both of us, too. (I actually have a couple long-unfinished works of near-novella length that one day I'll eventually do something with. Given that last year I finished a story I'd stalled on for over a decade, I have faith!)


Posted by Arilin at Sun Jan 6 14:39:00 2008

Well, the obvious thing to do would be to introduce memberships to this giants club thing. That way you could have stuff like profile pages of giants club members or a message board for giant club members. Which, of course, would be rather pointless, since giant club members can meet at the giants club, but hey, you asked.

Posted by Chaswari at Tue Jan 15 13:16:00 2008

The message board idea is one I'm kicking around; since a lot of people aren't on FurryMUCK for various reasons it'd be a way to extend the idea of the "club" outside FM's boundaries. I'd have to figure out what could differentiate such a space from existing macrophile web boards, though. "Same thing with different logo" isn't enough.

Posted by Arilin at Sun Jan 20 16:52:00 2008

Man, where have I been? I used to check this site like, weekly, and I miss it by almost a month of you posting again! Haha. Well, welcome back once again to your site and the lonesome population of four or so. x3 I've yet to attempt to come back to FurryMUCK for quite some time since you gave me all the information, Arilin. You probably have no clue to who I am, which is perfectly fine. xD I've been lurking about and trying to make my way into this big world. >.> But anyhoot-- get this piece up and running, and lets get this shindig started! Hoorah.

Posted by Kuros at Fri Feb 1 21:24:00 2008

well, if you ask me - and I suppose you kind of did - a heavier emphasis on IC-ness (or at least 'worldbuilding') might be a good idea. The closest thing I can think of is the BigFurs College thingy.

Posted by Mega at Sat Feb 9 19:24:00 2008

Hmm. Well, right now there's really _no_ emphasis on worldbuilding or IC-ness here, but of course there's no real interactivity save for the comment sections. This seems to indirectly echo Chaswari's thought about message boards, if only to the degree that I think I'd need that kind of infrastructure for there to really be an attempt at roleplaying here -- unless I'm misinterpreting your thought, which is entirely possible!


Posted by Arilin at Sun Feb 10 14:57:00 2008

well, what I meant is, 'if you decided to make a message board, I would do it thus-and-such so it's not just Yet Another Macro Message Board'.

Posted by Mega at Sun Feb 10 16:34:00 2008

Ummm... Hi, *cough* new here.
I wouldn't mind seeing a forum here, complete with threads,
and profile bios, like the ones at bigfurs.com, or maybe GaiaOnline.com, despite that having "already been done". I'd wait years to see it, I'm not in a hurry, but STILL.... what do I know, pffff, I've never made a website before, I'm not one to complain. Kudos on the job well done so far. I like your stories. They make me laugh, cry, and also vomit occasionally.

Posted by Seti the Wurst at Mon Feb 18 00:41:00 2008

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