I guess that was my fault, for not going into more detail. See, last summer I was hit was a pretty strong interest in rockabilly and 50's culture, particularly the youth culture aspects like, as I said, bowling and drive-in theaters.

Around the time I moved (think it was before, don't remember exactly) I began this story. The basic idea is that a young woman from the modern time finds herself able to travel to the past, except it's a past where the post-war consumer mindset took on a more obvious direction, with the younger generation getting really fat even as the styles and trends stay the same.

I stopped working on it right after the point where Mrs. Tippet confirms that she's enjoyed fattening up her husband. Patreon and other stuff took over, and I was waffling on how big I wanted to make the characters. After working on Hesper for so long it's become very easy for me to make characters go up to thousands of pounds, but that would conflict with plans I had for characters actually doing stuff beyond sitting in place and eating more.

I'm still leaning towards having people grow to extreme sizes - that's just where my fantasies take me - but as I continue this I'll probably focus less on the gaining and more on the story and characters.

Because one reason I haven't gone back and finished this story is that it's less about the gaining and more about creating this fantasy world, an alternate 50's with all the cool stuff and none of the Cold War, segregation bullshit. And where everyone is getting fat, because consumerism.

No idea if anyone else wants to read a story like this, but this is solely for me.