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@miss-lillipants Really liked it too but I’m not a fan of the way the story ends - you can probably guess why - but there are so few SW audio out there, I can’t complain.

A common thing I love about those is the way the SW first presents herself as being able to care for herself, she doesn’t want to be a burden, etc. But when faced with the reality of being so vulnerable they ask for the giant’s protection.

Honestly, a tiny lady saying she feels safe and protected with me… that makes me fucking melt.

@The-Big-G haha I know but I cannot resist sizey puns and jokes !

@blehb Nothing. There, I said it.

My only inner pockets are on my winter coat but they are very comfy, if too warm. You could literally wear nothing at all and still be comfortable. Did I just say my favourite clothing for SW is nothing? Damn.

Okay I’ll try again : I do love makeshift clothes, like hastily done only to recover some dignity. Anything a tiny woman fashions herself from bits and pieces of tissue, plastic, grass blades, whatever. It’s incredibly cute to my eyes. The classic tissue toga is the best.

@skysayl said in I found a crumb of M/f in a manga:

There was even a macrophile they interviewed who imagined herself as a tiny mouse to hide from everything that frightened her.

Such an interesting subject! I’ve recently had a discussion on the origins of our kink with a woman telling me almost the same thing verbatim - a way to deal with fears and trauma. There seems to be a good degree of correlation with anxiety overall.

Don’t know about other microphiles, I’ve mentioned before that one place it could stem from is extreme shyness. Social phobia wasn’t taken as seriously back then, especially in children (“oh it’s just a phase, it’ll pass”). I guess the thought of shrinking others, making myself bigger in some situations, might have been an internal coping mecanism?

The desire to protect (or control ) is harder to pinpoint - I always loved taking care of smaller animals, or looking after my younger siblings. Beyond that, I think I felt like I lacked control in my life - so having control over another smaller person could have been projection on my part.

Rendering someone helpless and harmless (ie. shrinking) meant I could approach her in spite of said shyness, annnd also act as caretaker. Don’t know if this makes any sense? How all this also became a kink, I’m at a complete loss to explain beyond “hurr durr, me wants tiny woman”

@SmolChlo said in Tall and Short Make a Match:

Made me wonder if their insinuating that some people bury and ignore their genuine preferences for whatever looks good or is deemed acceptable by society.

This behaviour sounds adjacent to the Halo effect, which associates traits like being fat means you’re lazy, being tall means you’re powerful, being beautiful means you’re a good person.

Consequences of that unconscious tendency? There’s the height wage gap, where tall people make more money on average. There’s the beauty card that let you get away with almost everything. That sort of things might explain why some people prefer to have a taller mate (and, consequently, offspring).

@Mrgoblinging7 Well first off when I was young I thought all imaginations were like that? I don’t know, it’s just one of the things you realize growing up that you have, like having a perfect pitch, or being able to hold a beat, or being colour-blind. You think it’s the same for everyone at first.

For sure this has caused me issues… it’s hard to let go when you can revisit moments in your memory, and re-experience them vividly, especially of times when you were happier. Might explain my tendency towards nostalgia, and why I still remember detailed stuff from childhood.

It also means I’m at the mercy of some fiction authors lol. If I really like what I’m reading, I go all in and view those scenes in my head. If it’s something really fucked up, I am NOT okay afterwards. But I still wouldn’t want to be rid of it. I’m just highlighting the cons.

Antidepressants somewhat tinker with hyperphantasia btw (along with a shit load of other things), makes memories and feelings more neutered and colourless. But hey, at least you don’t spend your day crying in a corner so that’s a plus, right?

@blehb said in Another Size Kink Article:

@foreverlurk Luckily, in defense of the article, the experts and personal experiences state it could be from more serious childhood experiences, OR something as innocent as a TV show. Which I think is reasonable.

Hehe seriously some experts really like to claim we’re all from the same basket. I guess my point is more that they are inferring the actual cause as being related to those TV shows or traumas, or some parental issues growing up. Their sources are non-existent or purely based on their own observations, aka “trust me bro”.

To be fair judging by the doctor’s TikTok he seems mostly versed in the shrunken men/giantess fetish.

@miss-lillipants Thanks for sharing that article. Sadly, I’ve yet to see some in-depth research done specifically for size kinks (we don’t talk about Dr. Helen Friedman).

I agree there’s no be-all / end-all explanation to their origin, I’m not trying to find a universal truth. I’d just like to understand myself better.

New gameplay demo just dropped:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnZpfJNjNLU

Sadly (for me) no way to play as the giant.
No multiplayer.
No VR.

@blehb said

It’s a line I want to cross but I can’t bring myself to do it.

Same. I suck at this so much. I don’t want to wallow up in self-pity again, but me being a dom cishet male in my 40s brings a whole lot of bonus difficulty to opening up (perceived or real), that some in the “it’s-no-big-deal” crowd might not have to account for.

Or maybe that’s just my excuse ¯_ (ツ)_/¯

I mean, folks don’t tend to post their L’s online, but I’ve had some private conversations with people who “came out” to their partners about their size kink and things went horribly wrong. You don’t really hear about those, but it’s always a possibility.

(Chlo I’m sure you’ll be fine, please don’t mind me)

@blehb I love amour, the heavier the better. To be fair, armoured tinies can be fun too! I might have bought an 1/18 scale WH40K Adepta Sororitas, and even at 4 inches tall she’s pretty badass (and yes, the company is really called “JoyToy”)

@Olo I can still tell pretty easily, but then again I’ve spent hundreds of hours generating content and my eyes can spot the telltales of generative AI.

I do love the way you describe them as being statistically generated - a much better term IMHO, closer to reality (Markov Chain).

@skysayl I can’t believe that bemoaning the lack of f4M size audio would actually pay off one day I’m so grateful and I’ve already told you how much I loved it. It’s so wholesome and sweet.

@GoddessAngela and that’s perfectly fine!

What’s not is telling M/f content creators that they should do giantess or shrunken men content instead, and not respect their preferred size dynamics.

@blehb said in Giants or shrinking?:

I love the intimacy of it - like I’m some sort of secret or possession of theirs.

That’s an important aspect to explain why I want to remain normal size while I shrink my victim or loved one. Being a giant is a different experience, one where intimacy is much harder to achieve.

In regards to how these relationships are tagged, I usually just refer to the bigger person as the giant

The classic, “Oh no, I’m not a giant; you’re the one who’s tiny, my dear.”