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 December 31, 2008) added “Interactive Macrophilia” to the non-fiction section.

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.)

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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