@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.
“Rescue fetish” 
, woah thank you that’s basically it.
@Olo said in I found a crumb of M/f in a manga:
Tiny-Taker was also under no illusions about the power aspect of their fantasies
Very interesting take, and that’s why I conflated “care” and “control” under the same umbrella. Even IRL some people end up controlling other people’s lives under the pretense of caring for them, sometimes in spite of their good intentions.
“I’ll save you whether you want it or not - this world is too dangerous for someone so tiny!”
@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” 
@BTbutcher said in Re-Homed:
It’s funny how the photo manips that take the least amount of editing usually turn out the best
Also true for my own work, I’ve noticed! Some I’ve spent hours tweaking manually are barely noticed, while others I just threw out there haphazardly got all the praise. 
Such an amazing picture, I wasn’t sure at first if it was a 3D render or AI, but turns out it’s 100% photo manipulation/collage.
By the way, @BTbutcher has an account here!
Taylor Swift killed about 95% of my working prompts overnight. Well, not her personnaly, but the aftermath of her deepfakes. They really tightened up their filtering, again. But here’s a few I was able to generate recently (more on DA, as usual).
I Do Believe In Fairies
Miscalculations
Desktop Pet
@Technomage said in Kink shamed by Google AI:
it makes me laugh some people actually feel ashamed for liking M/f
Well it depends on a lot of factors. Everyone has different personalities, upbringings (social status, religion), live in different places where this can be more or less accepted, even different generations don’t have the same issues towards kinks in general.
What I mean is I’m really glad for you if you never experienced guilt, but not everyone had that chance. I’m mostly okay with it now but wasn’t always the case.
@Olo I know, such aberrant, deviant behavior - I’m waiting for the robotic AI police to come knocking any minute now. They’ll drag me to a “conversion camp” where I will learn to love normal-sized women only.
Adieu!
@skysayl nope, it doesn’t seem to mind about GTS and SM at all, and doesn’t lecture me. Ah, what a time to be alive.
Well, screw you Google Gemini, I got around your stupid little filter. Here’s me, reinforcing the patriarchy and contributing to harmful societal norms! 
Can’t you feel the utter objectification of this poor, tiny, powerless woman?!
@Olo Yeah I read that - didn’t fully understand what he meant, it seems he just doesn’t really like M/f and he was trying to force himself to like it?!
I’m pretty sure we’ll jailbreak Google’s AI like we did with OpenAI. Then it’s the usual cat and mouse game between better filtering vs better bypass. It’s a shame because the image quality of their gens is pretty good.
Slightly clickbait title 
I’ve been playing around with the new Google AI (formely Bard, now Gemini), and it seems even more aggressive against size content, having been trained to recognize size difference as harmful. Some points it makes almost seem like verbatim of what I’ve been told once on GiantessCity about my love of SW and “reinforcing harmful societal norms”.
I thought some of you mind be interested in seeing the AI’s response:
@Olo said in Language barrier:
@foreverlurk Great idea! A French tiny wouldn’t be able to understand a thing in Quebec.
Ha-ha-ha. Very funny. 
/s
Used to be true but less so, maybe because the Internet exposed more young francophones to other French accents out there.
