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@skysayl said in What are your favorite clothing items for giants/tinies?

Not only symbolic… can confirm giants apparently love to drag us around on a leash.

Why do I feel slightly called out…

@HHunter1 said in Her Paperwork:

I worry I’m putting effort into creating something while someone puts a few prompts into a program

My two cents : I still believe there is value to making it yourself. It’s like saying, ‘why bother painting this landscape on canvas if I can wipe out my cell and take a picture’? That was the fear behind the invention of photography last century, and digital photography more recently (which I’m old enough to remember causing heated debates with ‘true’ photographers).

My take will always be that the act of creating the art, the actual process - brush strokes, words written, clay sculpted - are as important as the end result itself. Art and artist can’t be dissociated - the fact that a human mind and/or body was behind it has intrinsic value. What another person is using as a medium is irrelevant.

I do have a problem with selling synthographies, as it was trained on copyrighted materials for which the original artists weren’t compensated. But if we focus solely on size content such as what is posted above, honestly, it’s incredibly niche - a drop in the ocean of what generative AI is used for, and a harmless one at that. I mean, sure for us it matters, because we’re macro-/micro- philes. My real concerns are abuse of generative AI for media manipulation and fake news.

Disclaimer: Echodeck is a cool dude and isn’t selling his art, or hiding the fact that he’s using AI. Someone shared his work here without specifying (or knowing) that it was the case. So please don’t lash out on him.

@blehb Good idea, and maybe also a place to ask for help understanding the app for newbies

Abodigen : “I’m not getting off to physics and engineering!”

Me : “Noooo let’s discuss tiny toilets, and plumbing, the Square-Cube Law, and the effects of gravity on falling tiny bodies!!!”

Very much GTS focused again but I can relate to what he said about the beauty of vulnerability, in a context of immense mutual trust :

“The giant in this scenario finds their frailty beautiful, they’re proud to protect and hold this little person.”

@blehb said in What are your favorite clothing items for giants/tinies?:

Like peeling a hard boiled egg.

Or a little shrimp, hehe.

I don’t want to rant and rave about WH40K but I’ve been playing close to 20 years (+/- 25 if you include 2nd ed. Space Hulk). I bought, and sold, many different armies for many editions. Back in the days, I tried to paint my own minis. LOL. After that epic fail, I commissioned people to paint them, but now I have my own slave teenager at home who has infinitely more artistic talent than I do that does it for free.

My figurines collection started without me even trying, just slowly bought over the years, collector editions games and blurays. I have superheroes, video game & anime characters, all in the 4" to 12" range. I should get my collection properly displayed, still a bit so self-conscious. Speaking of, the next thinkg I’m after is a Phicen doll, they are 10" high which is still too big for my taste but apparently their “skin” is made of this soft silicon which feels human to the touch, and seamlessly covers their entire body (again, feel free to judge me people - I’m still really curious to hold one! )

@Olo Love it! Maybe you should add an indication in the title that AI was used to enhance the image? It’s a very good base 3D Render that was post-processed using AI “inpainting”. EpicIllusionist is the master of this technique, I’m actually delving into it for other projects of mine, using Blender or other 3D software as a base then pushing the realism with inpainting.

Regardless, thanks for sharing his groundbreaking work.

@SmolChlo are you talking about those the “why are short girls so mean” ones?

Unrelated, but this one popped up in my fyp (TT has the scariest, most accurate algorithm of all social media)

@SizePrize69 Yes, I’m male and I have bought many books from authors within the community over the years, although if I’m being honest some of the absolute best SW stories I’ve read were free. I’ve even bought mainstream books not written by the community that include shrinking, like the “Meek” trilogy.

A few that comes to mind :

• “Just a Few Inches” by Tara St Pierre
• “The Promise” by C.E. Wilson
• “Spare Change” by Bonnie Huffington
• “How the Chips May Fall” by scidram

Highly recommend those books, btw. About male/fem gaze… it’s a relatively new luxury that we have more female authors and I’m here for it. I’ve read so many SW stories from the POV of giants to last me a lifetime, and discovering something written from the other side is so refreshing.

That doesn’t mean that I don’t find malegaze interesting, hell that’s probably all that I could write if I tried anyway, hehe.

@Olo Wow this is an incredible artist you found there, Olo. My favourite art movements are without a doubt Romanticism and Impressionism, and he’s clearly influenced by those. Also reminded me of the classic fantasy/sci-f pulp covers. I couldn’t resist having a peek at his portfolio and there’s a surprising amount of size-related stuff in there. Please note that some of it can be slightly disturbing or NSFW, so I labeled them (no gore or anything, but still)

• Down the Rabbit Hole
• Magic Mushroom (NSFW)
• The Sleeping Giant
• The Cyclop & Miss Muffet (NSFW, swipe for 2nd pic)
• Special Ingredient (NSFW)
• Predator and Prey (NSFW)
• Centipede Scare
• Out Of The Soup (NSFW, swipe for making-of)
• New one (NSFW, WIP)
• Midnight Ride (swipe for making-of)

Beautiful art.

@Olo oh believe me I know, I worked on systems that would make Orwell blush. Thankfully I’m not at that company anymore but the amount of data we had access to, that people gave willingly, was downright scary.

TikTok probably knows more about (some parts of) me than most of my friends.

@Olo said in Do you have any size kinks or interests that you feel are unusual?:

What might be challenging for someone of the SW perspective is to realistically model how a male Biggo who never thought about being attracted to a SW before might “come around” to it

Hehe like I said, I’m fully conscious of my own bias, I was talking from my own perspective as a certified, unrepenting microphile. Honestly it probably wouldn’t take much to get me going when in company of a tiny lady, that’s for sure. Shrinking is already so hot in itself!

But the point you mention is close to home as I’ve always liked to imagine the SW as a normie, not as a macrophile. But deep down inside, I hope she comes around to liking the experience of being smol. Part Stockholm syndrome, part self-discovery, and part because… I’m such a nice giant.

“Haha, this shrinking thing was a blast! What a fun idea! Now, let’s eat some of those cakes so we can grow back to our regular size”

Love their reactions!

There is something that touches my soul when the shrinking was voluntary and turned out a fun little experience, mainly because in the back of their minds the possibility of growing back was never an issue. When it turns out going back to normal is no longer an option, that moment of realization is pure bliss to me.

@SmolChlo haha don’t give up, I’m sure he’ll get it eventually!

My problem has always been searching for signs when in reality there were none. Good ol’ “I reject your reality and substitute my own” at work!

@ChiisanaKurisu said :

“oooops I went a bit overboard shrinking you”. The whole feeling small IN A DOLLHOUSE.

Oooh I love this too! Too eager on the shrink ray trigger You probably know this one but there is a nice scene on this theme from a series called “The Collector” :

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

@BigJacinto said in No Longer Just A Hypothesis:

@Olo This one is so hot. Tinies compared to their normal-size clothes is always such a treat!

What I love about shrinking out of clothes - far beyond the obvious nudity - is the instant feedback on their tininess. “Look at the size of your panties compared to you now”.