@blehb You’re not alone, I’m fascinated with human nature and thus I’ve also been trying to see normies reaction to size media. I can’t find it right now but I saw a good reactions videos to HISTK on yt, and of course a few good ones to the recent Gen V scene.
Oh and I’m in the same boat about wanting to tell a partner eventually (gulp!), so I totally understand the concern. 
@Olo That would be appreciated, ain’t got no Hulu in our frozen wasteland 
@skysayl said in Extraordinary season 2 trailer:
“Good day sir say would you mind shrinking me to the size of a mouse?”
Alas, I wish that was a normal question to ask in this reality (“Of course, right away, my lady!”).
@miss-lillipants said in Disaster and confrontation:
an opinion or thoughts in a hopeless situation, rather than some voiceless, mindless doll.
Loved your thoughts on the fem/male/gaze. I think you nailed something important to me - agency in the face of a grim situation. I love it when a SW in a story uses everything to escape her fate, and doesn’t give up even if she ultimately fails. No fun in her being this passive victim, which can be found even in a lot of classic SW stories.
@blehb said in Disaster and confrontation:
Or maybe he’s just an average dude that’s just trying to help the best he can.
Yes, this… all the while keeping his urges in check, pushing his willpower near the breaking point. That’s my trope lol. Personally I like character descriptions to remain vague, as they allow me to project more easily into the story - if the giant is a handsome, strong and tall 20-something, it makes it harder for my early midlife self to insert. 
Seriously I’m sure I’m not the only one here who would be eternaly grateful, like you so elegantly said there’s enough GTS content to last a few lifetimes already… can we please have some SW audio/ASMR too?!
It doesn’t even need to be super elaborate. Like in what I posted, I know the delivery isn’t perfect and the scenario sounds cliche but I think she nailed the part where she switches from bratty entitled princess to vulnerable SW after realising she might have to remain that size. Her desire to be kept safe, it’s simple and efficient - works for me! 
@Olo I know - one thing that helps me keeping a connection with the young folks is having someone at home who’s clos(er) to that generation and doesn’t mind explaining his old man what’s what these days.
I also like to generate AI renders with 35-40 year olds sometimes, without them looking like supermodels or pretty boys. Strangely it’s harder to get the AI to generate just plain normal looking moms or dads lol.
@SmolChlo well sue me and my Giant/tiny brain but I find these pictures really hot 
@miss-lillipants When you’re part of a linguistic minority, you learn quickly not to take your language - and culture - for granted!
I love the idea of communication across the boundaries of language (and, unsuprinsingly, size). What I can imagine is a three inch tall mute woman trying to sign to me, but she’s too small for my poor eyesight to catch her signs - or I don’t know BSL/ASL.
So, plan B : she starts to trace the letters on the palm of my hand (with a twig or something). That’s assuming we share a common written language, of course. I have no idea how I’d communicate back if she’s also deaf, but that’s a start! 
@blehb It’s very interesting to me, but mind this isn’t representative statistically when done in a single “contemporary society class” at college. Maybe a more rigorous survey wouldn’t have the same results.
Kink aside, I’ve always found shorter women cute, but that’s just my preference. 
Although I cannot be entirely sure it’s not my size fetish taking over, hehe.
I’m an inch below average for guys in my country and while it does limit the dating pool, it never bothered me that much. Once shrunk, they’re all mouse-sized to me
@Olo Same goes for experimenting things outside one’s comfort zone, that’s often how you can grow (no pun intended). Which is also close to my own definition of art in general : does it make me feel something? Am I enthralled or disgusted?
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference.
@SmolChlo I saw this one very young, it was shown on TV and since it was animation I was drawn to it. While it was rather traumatising it probably contributed to my awakening.
It’s a classic and I’m surprised it’s not more well-known in the community. They released a blu-ray version in 2017 and it’s gorgeous, love the artwork and colours.
@protect-tinies said in Side effects:
That’s the thing about having a fantasy that’s physically impossible.
@Olo said in Foreverlurk's AI artwork:
@foreverlurk said:
This is the one thing that both tempts me and frustrates me about getting deep into making generative images: the possibility that I could write my way to seeing what I want. I don’t have the patience or the time.
I don’t start from scratch either, I use ChatGPT 4 to help me write them, since it’s the LLM used by DALL-E 3, it knows the way around some restrictions (you have to jailbreak it first, which is still doable right now). I’m a software engineer so I have some level of understanding of how tokens ares weighted in prompts, altough it’s far less obvious than with CLIP in SD. I made myself a small library of prompts I can mix and match. The problem is that Microsoft are constantly tweaking filters, meaning what worked last week might not the week after.
This one is simply miraculous.
Thanks! I hope to have more soon.
OMFG, I simply can’t with these dudes. I can’t decide which is more infuriating: the arrogance to tell someone else how to make art, or the willful blindness to how little M/f content is out there compared to F/m. Just thinking about this is draining.
What should I do? Block them? I’ve explained countless times I’m into SW and M/f or F/f…
So revealing about our society. Makes me more sad than mad.
Yup, very sad… I can still get some M/f but never to the level of affection allowed for F/f.
That’s a nice solution, much simpler to implement than actually knowing a complete language. Even the terms used for descriptions in English might change as the understanding grows (ie. “giant captor” --> “giant savior”)
@blehb said in Language barrier:
For example: The tiny woman stared up at the giant captor, fighting back tears as she clasped her hands together and softly said “Ni nathathol?”
My Sindarin is a bit rusty but during the solar eclipse last week, at totality my daughter turned to me and said “mornië alantië!” which made me tear up a bit (and a very proud father lol)
@Nyx said in Foreverlurk's AI artwork:
Ah, the old “anything-that-isn’t-my-specific-fetish-shouldn’t-exist” mentality is still going strong, I see.
Please keep creating what you enjoy. The scenarios that you’ve been posting have been fantastic
Thank you so much!
I’m a bit dumbfounded about them pestering me for GTS/SM content when they already have 1000x more content creators than us out there, some with a level of art and quality I could never even dream of attaining.
@blehb said in I feel like 'unaware' tends to be pretty uncommon in M/f. What is everyone's opinions on it?:
We know we can push a big’s buttons and they’ll still be gentle and respectful in the end. It’s a symbol of how much we trust you.
Awww pshhhshfhffftf (sound of this giant melting from the wholesomeness) 
Always loved the idea that I could somehow be that worthy of her trust in spite of being able to end her anytime by accident. Definitely not a level that can be achieved overnight. Part of the reasons I always thought that first interactions with a SW (once discovered and aware of her presence) would be awkward as hell for me, in spite of my inner desires.
And discipline, well… depending on what you have in mind, that can also require a great deal of trust on both sides. But that’s another story. 
@littlest-lily said in I feel like 'unaware' tends to be pretty uncommon in M/f. What is everyone's opinions on it?:
he’s legitimately worried and fretfully searching, I love those moments
Micro can definitely be scary for both the SW and the giant! “Where is she!?!” and panicking at the thought that even moving to search for her could potentially be fatal. The utter relief of identifying the moving speck on the ground 
As for bug-sized woman being mistaken for insects, I could see it happening under some circumstances, as our brains would probably go for Occam’s Razor : it’s just a strange bug. It depends on a lot of factors, for instance if she’s wearing clothes (and what colour they are), the speed at which she’s moving, the context (ie. is she on the ground outside, or on an office desk, etc). I used to think “no way I could mistake her for a bug” but VR showed me otherwise and now I’m not so sure 
