Go-to sizey daydream?
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@i-am-insane Oh yes for sure! I definitely think there are ways to make this type of content more palatable to people who don’t fetishize it (I mean, all of human history we’ve had stories, religions, and art featuring giants or tiny people). It could even be a way for someone to find out they enjoy the more passionate side of it.
But I do want to clarify about my response that I’m not trying to convince people to like size content, if that makes sense? Like I DEFINITELY would never pressure someone about it. But sometimes you’ll hear like a celebrity say something or someone IRL will do something that makes you wonder what kind of giant or tiny they would make.
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@blehb
Ah, those ‘One of Us’ moments? Like, I look at the California Girls music video and either Katy Perry knows, and is doing exactly what I was talking about, or is really into SW but isn’t consciously aware of it.I’m pretty sure some of her other stuff hits similar notes, but damn, California Girls.
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@i-am-insane I love that music video too!!! I remember seeing a parody where at the end they all get eaten.
But this was over a decade ago. 
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@maladaptivetiny I have a lot of random size daydreams throughout the day, and whether they’re gentle or cruel, they often rely on vast size differences and the emotional impact. For example, one of my favorite gentle scenarios involves a giant protector caring for a single person or a group of people, and I like to imagine how both the tiny and giant individuals would react to the situation. The tiny people may feel nervousness, or distrust, or awe; the giant may feel a sense of isolation or loneliness.
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@maladaptivetiny
For falling asleep, I often fantasize about a giant man comforting me, or carrying me in his chest pocket. The feeling of protection and affection puts me right to sleep.For when I’m walking around the city, or working in my company’s skyscraper, my go-to fantasy is actually also gentle. This same giant is just hanging out and looking at the city with fascination. He phases through reality at will, luckily, as if he was solid he’d wreck everything, because he’s like 500-1700 feet tall.
It’s the same character for both of these situations. I basically have a giant imaginary friend. He is witty and kind.
I started picturing him as an adult, during my long commutes, and he’s stuck with me for a little more than a decade now, since I find him mentally so useful.
I refuse to give him a name, tell you his fixed physical traits, or put him in a story, because that would sort of take him away from this perfect platonic space in my mind, and convert him into a flawed fictional character for others’ enjoyment. I’ll never chain him down like that. But I invite others to conjure their own freely. Tulpas like him are very helpful!
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@tiny-ivy There is always an unreplicable sort of connection to the conjured person in ones daydreams. My conjured person has grown up alongside me too in a sense, and I feel I would never do him justice. Though you mentioned it being like having an imaginary friend, that is exactly what I’ve been thinking he is, but it has felt sort of childish for myself to admit it…
When you mentioned commuting as well, I came to think of when I was little and my family drove home and either the car engine would rumble in a rhythm or it was a passing plane or something of the sort, I would imagine it being a giant gently trailing us or just wandering the forests. I imagined that as the skies turned dark the giants awoke, sort of like in the tales and childrens books I had read of forest trolls my (then) whole life.
Before your post I had never heard of the term nor concept of “Tulpa” either, I got to research that over the weekend!
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@maladaptivetiny said in Go-to sizey daydream?:
I imagined that as the skies turned dark the giants awoke, sort of like in the tales and childrens books I had read of forest trolls my (then) whole life.
I love Scandinavian folk tales with their big and tiny creatures. I played a G/t-ish game on the theme last year, loved learning about your mythical creatures and folklore. My culture’s stuff is mostly about the Devil.
I’m also always fascinated by children’s imagination, even more so in all the different creative ways our young minds generated size content. You clearly had (have) a very vivid interior world, like I did.
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@foreverlurk said:
My culture’s stuff is mostly about the Devil.
Need to get more First Nations stories in there. Lots of Biggos up north.
All my M/f stories and discussions can be found here.
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@Olo said in Go-to sizey daydream?:
Need to get more First Nations stories in there. Lots of Biggos up north.
You’re right, First Nations have giants in some of their tales. There’s Inukpasuksuk in the Inuit mythology, and the sleeping giant of the Ojibwa people.
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Huh. Meanwhile, my SWs (and whatever I’m picturing myself as) tend to change depending on what i’m picturing.
Sometimes she’s just a random woman, sure, running from monster/thugs, but other times she has a lot development: sometimes she’s running from her warmonger mother, who wants her to follow in her path, but all she wants to do is art, so she wants a protector (among other layers of mess, because even in my fantasies it gets complicated), sometimes she sort of low-key owns me, because she’s super rich and she’s the only way I can even have a bed my scale, and lately she’s a fellow prisoner and we used to be enemies and we’ve teamed up for our mutual benefit…
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@foreverlurk said in Go-to sizey daydream?:
@maladaptivetiny said in Go-to sizey daydream?:
I imagined that as the skies turned dark the giants awoke, sort of like in the tales and childrens books I had read of forest trolls my (then) whole life.
I love Scandinavian folk tales with their big and tiny creatures.
Perhaps this is because I fixate on this particular dynamic, but I find a lot of myths and theism’s has tons of reputable giants or colossuses. I think it is fascinating that humans, no matter where, have long attributed certain phenomenon to be the work of giants, or that certain gods are giant, etc.
In Norse mythology or at least what little I know of our Swedish folklore is that giants had an important part in shaping or destroying land, there is one in particular (Jätten Vist) that chucked an island (Visingsö) into our second largest lake and other giants carried most large boulders into forests. Trolls and giants are also from my perspective used interchangeably a lot here, but this could very much be a thing that is sourced to famous artists who painted trolls a lot. But maybe giants are extra prevalent in Norse mythology
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@maladaptivetiny said in Go-to sizey daydream?:
But maybe giants are extra prevalent in Norse mythology
I’m really no expert but it was my impression they were. Not based on anything but empirical evidence.
Same way I’ve also noticed that Southeast Asia has a tradition of tiny people in their folklore, based on the various stories and television shows featuring them and what I’ve been told on the subject.
(Someone should do a PhD on Size Representation through history!)
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@foreverlurk
FIre giants, Ice giants, and depending on how you look at it the actual gods; Norse also have their creation myth with the land starting from a dead giant, Ymir. So… yeah, they have a good amount of it. -
It’s been really interesting reading some of your responses on daydreaming and even hearing someone earlier mention about tulpas. Even aside from having DID (where many of our alters are tiny people, which you can imagine led to much confusion upon discovery), I’ve found myself fascinated with G/T fiction. Sometimes I find myself just enjoying curling up to a good G/T fiction story about a tiny person with a gentle giant, and kind of imagining myself as the tiny person with the gentle giant. Sometimes it just feels soothing and relaxing in and of itself.
I know for a while G/T fiction just sparked us getting new alters a lot, but within the past year it hasn’t, so it’s nice to just read it for a change. I know some of our alters not just imagine the scenarios but feel like they’ve lived through it, so they probably have a lot to say on that as well.
Hopefully this makes sense. Sorry if it sounds kind of confusing.
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@macrodid
I… think I do? It’s the phrase ‘alters’ that’s throwing me a bit;, like, how furries have a custom character that’s ‘them’, but instead of fur it’s someone that’ really big or small?
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