Self insertion or Roleplaying?
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In recent years, I’ve started to less fantasize about myself interacting with tiny ladies. Instead I fantasize about other people, usually made up ones, doing the various things that get me going. Sometimes the giant (or rather normal sized person, since that’s my preference) can be either male or female, different age than me, different social status, etc…
I know that people in this community love to create and share scenarios that involve all sorts of different settings than their own life. But when it’s your time alone, do you fantasize about yourself turning giant/small? Or do you also use other people who aren’t related to you whatsoever?
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@Kondo This is an interesting question actually.
As for me, I’ve found it much easier to write porn stories when thinking about it as an observer. I have a very visual imagination, so it’s like watching it take place in my head than writing it down, one-handed.
In the shower, it’s all me, usually imagining some poor wiggling goblin in my grasp.
When walking about the street or at work I also fantasize about myself being the giant, or more to the point, the people I see being small. In my grasp with no way out, either stuffed in my pants or mouth.
So, I suppose it’s situational for me.
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@Kondo Over the years I really started enjoying writing for other perspectives, and less my personal one.
Which really opens up the depth of the narrative and perceived sensation . Arguably it’s always from “ my vantage point” , tiny - normal sized - female or male.
But putting myself in different characters is wonderful.
Milf , CEO , Hotel spa staff, young athletic guy, bratty teen girl, Caribbean native, Tourist, teacher … etc
To many perspectives to explore really .🥵🥰 -
I often think about other people. But often like to think of myself as well. It’s both. But not attached to being involved myself in the scenarios.
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For the longest time, I would have answered that it’s pretty much all self insert for me. I have a rather active imagination when I’m daydreaming, and when I’m reading a story or something it’s not that I imagine myself being the small one, but I do kinda put myself in their shoes. And then about a year ago I started writing my own stories and found so much joy in that. So whenever I’m thinking about scenarios for characters that I’m writing, those I do usually imagine from the outside.
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That’s a rather interesting observation. Over the years I’ve written a number of storylines that have included myself as a very obvious self-insert, typically either a principal antagonist or simply a side character for the purpose of world-building. From the beginning I realized that it was a matter of fan service as I’ve had a very small but faithful fan base for some time.
On reflection, I think this may be, in effect a form of one-sided, solo role-playing. If that’s even a thing.
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@SallyFourth Roleplaying with one’s readers, or with how one imagines one’s readers, is definitely a thing.
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I’ve always found it easier and more comfortable to be a sort of observer and to relate to characters in situations rather than be invovled myself. I’ve only broken this rule in my dA and Tumblr days during roleplays, comics or other visual aids that are meant to act as “behind the scenes” resources of my characters or world building (or just general silliness), where I have an avatar to represent me. Even then, I’ve rationalised “her” as not really me either, but a character or caricature.
I think it goes hand-in-hand with my preference to avoid involving real people in my fantasies - no friends, no family, no celebrities, not even some random hottie I happened to pass by. Insipried by them, maybe, but never themselves.
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In my stories, almost all of my main characters have elements of me. I can’t help but make them somewhat similar.
Some of them have a lot in common. But others just have tiny little opinions or annoyances that I share.
I have one story about a fast food worker who shrinks an obnoxious customer. The worker’s a cis man, a second generation immigrant, and he’s vindictive in ways that I’m not.
But, he shares a complete impatience with rude customers that I have.
I have another story about a woman who works in a media company that’s attacked by a giant business owner. She’s very similar to me, if I had just gone into media, the field I wanted to go into. (But I ended up stumbling into another field.)
The building she’s in is based on the building I worked in for a long time. And her CEO is based on my company’s CEO. That story largely came from years of fantasizing while looking out over the cityscape from a high story.My story characters always have a mental separation from me, though. I never actually put myself in a story or a roleplay. It’s too intimate to do that with The Internet. That’s what my pen and paper journal is for.
