When Chaotic Good Giants Attack

wildxpixie

@tiny-ivy Good ol’ mist nets! We use them for bats too

I’ll use little coffee stir sticks to help get the fine mesh over their shoulders and around their wings because they’re just so delicate and you don’t want to accidentally tear them. But man, they have some flexible necks and will turn and bite the crap out of you while you’re untangling their limbs.

We’ll also give them uniquely numbered bands (like their own jewelry) to put on their arms sometimes so we know if the same ones come back! Ah I could go on for days. For sure if an ecologist -esque character is something they want to write, I have sooo much info I could provide

Also just reminded me that sometimes we use objects like a mini pringle cans to hold the bird steady for a quick second to weigh them

blehb

@Olo Tinies always make the more relatable content to me. Stuff from giants tends to be more fascinating though, as their perspective is just so amazing to me.

Switches you get the best of both worlds.

Olo

@blehb Like foreverlurk, I still haven’t quite inhabited a true giant, walking down the street, trampling cop cars and cracking the pavement. I take that back. I did a quickie without much editing a few months ago. Content warning: Multiple grisly fatalities, one massive giant cock. Lead Me Not Into Temptation

Before that the closest I got to a true giant was a much more gentle scenario, no fatalities, only a minor discussion of the possibility of vore. It was an entry in the Size Riot contest, which took us out of our comfort zones: Accommodations

Olo

EDIT: In my pile of legal pads there’s the beginning of an outline for an homage to @Nyx: a 200-foot-tall viciously wrathful sorcerer.

blehb

@Olo Honestly as long as stories regarding actual giants have those more intimate moments, it can have the same effect of a shrinking story. Like in Accommodations, they still spend time alone with Gorj in his cabin. But you still get that giant/human world building and large group interactions.

In fact, I find a giant coming to terms with his size to be more interesting than a tiny. But maybe I’m just biased towards the tiny’s situation…

Olo

@blehb You’ve put your finger on why I chose isolation for Gorj. Attracting the attention of thousands and threatening property and lives is an entirely different vibe, one that takes me effort to get into.

miss-lillipants

@wildxpixie said:

For sure if an ecologist -esque character is something they want to write, I have sooo much info I could provide

I did a 2-week introductory ecological field methods trip not too long ago for work and study. Obviously it was just a snippet of what you guys do (am assuming you’re an ecologist or adjacent!), but so much of the work was such size fodder. We didn’t deal too much with flying critters, more handling skinks and shrews - istg I was screaming internally every second day with someone gently holding a tiny creature (and then letting them go, of course). It inspired me to write an idea/scenario with a ecologist-type meeting a borrower at a mining/work camp.

Nyx

@Olo said in When Chaotic Good Giants Attack:

EDIT: In my pile of legal pads there’s the beginning of an outline for an homage to @Nyx: a 200-foot-tall viciously wrathful sorcerer.

You had me at “200-foot-tall”

(Don’t get me wrong…I love shrinking scenarios and I’ll read them/write them often. But giant guys looming over civilization drive me crazy.)

littlest-lily

@miss-lillipants I would love to read the story you mentioned 🥺

It’s interesting to think about what those small animals might be thinking. Like if one gets caught in a net and then a person took them out of the net… Do they think the person was responsible for the net? Or do they mistakenly think they’re being saved from the net by the person??

Okay, obviously animals aren’t thinking it through to that extent, but a tiny person might!

miss-lillipants

@littlest-lily said:

I would love to read the story you mentioned 🥺

️ Sadly, it lives fragmented in the personal vault, but I’ll happily post if I get time to work on it! Amongst other things, it needs more interaction with wildlife, considering the characters and context.

wildxpixie

@miss-lillipants Yeah, I’d consider myself an ecologist at this point, haha.

Ooh were you guys using box/Sherman traps? One of my other favorite things that is such size fodder is when we trap small rodents in Sherman traps (they’re live traps for catch and release) in the winter, we’ll throw in cotton balls to keep them warm. But sometimes, in the morning, they’re still chilly, so we’ll hold them in our pockets until they’ve warmed up enough and then release them in a safe spot just makes me think of a brownie/borrower/tiny human getting in one on accident and then getting warmed up by a giant hand

I hope you do get to it one day! Honestly, I’m almost talking myself into writing a little short story

miss-lillipants

@wildxpixie said:

Ooh were you guys using box/Sherman traps? One of my other favorite things that is such size fodder is when we trap small rodents in Sherman traps (they’re live traps for catch and release) in the winter, we’ll throw in cotton balls to keep them warm. But sometimes, in the morning, they’re still chilly, so we’ll hold them in our pockets until they’ve warmed up enough and then release them in a safe spot

Yes we did, in fact! It was during the cooler months and were set up for nocturnal capture, so we used hobby fill to help keep them warm. We checked and released early in the morning though, because it would get hot and sunny during the day and we didn’t want them to cook. Animal welfare was a top priority.

We also used pitfall traps (i.e. buckets in a trench) in which we placed some sand, bait, a PVC tube with hobby fill, and (this got me) a square of cork for any creatures to hold on to in case the bucket filled with water overnight

just makes me think of a brownie/borrower/tiny human getting in one on accident and then getting warmed up by a giant hand

Bruh, my mind full GT/SW wandering during stand-by times!