Those were very interesting to answer, thanks!

@SmolChlo You’ve unlocked a memory - I did the same with my sister’s beautiful edition of Alice in Wonderland, a French version with gorgeous artwork. I borrowed it secretly, reading the shrinking scenes and looking at the pictures. Forgot to put it back one day, got that look from my sister which made me panic… like, she knows !

(My old pre-internet secret stash of SW stuff would be a gold mine. The struggle was real.)

@SmolChlo said in Luxurious Enclosures:

“I want to be the size of a toy so that a man can play with me!”

Talk about being built differently. I bow to your confidence, mighty Chlo. You may be only four inches tall but you have way more guts than this giant.

(… and yes I would have turned 100 shades of red, and probably fainted)

@SmolChlo said in Luxurious Enclosures:

I learned the hard way that not all miniaturists are macrophiles oh well, at least they learned day 1 that I’m actually 4”

Oh… is there a story you’d be willing to share here

That’s freaking amazing… crazy attention to details, the LED lights and all. Only wish there was something else in the frame (a hand or whatever) to better show the actual size of the miniature.

Also, I wish I could justify owning something like this…

@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.

@miss-lillipants said in I found a crumb of M/f in a manga:

someone wrote a thesis that is publicly available

Oh yeah, written by a Québécoise, no less!

Great find, I’ll have a closer look later, but this here is interesting data :

Joyal and Carpentier (2016) surveyed the prevalence of paraphilic interests and behaviours in the general population within the province of Quebec. In their sample of 1,040 adult men and women, 46% reported a desire to engage in, and 34% indicated having engaged in, at least one paraphilic behaviour and having been sexually aroused by it

Well, that’s a much higher percentage than I would have thought! There’s still hope I’m not the only size freak around here…

@FairyFanatic said in Kink shamed by Google AI:

Does it care about F/f or M/m at all?

The empirical evidence all points towards this : any scenes with a man interacting with a woman, especially when dealing with what the AI considers bad (violence, power imbalance, etc) has a higher chance of being blocked. I never experience much blocking with F/f, but I never even tried M/m, or F/m, so I can’t say.

@Technomage said in Kink shamed by Google AI:

It’s sad to have other people affecting your enjoyment about the intimate things we like

Very sad, indeed! It’s not just “other people”, it’s the culture I grew up in, the era I was born (80s), the pre-internet void around kinks… Ideas you learn during childhood are the hardest to deconstruct. I’d say most of my guilt is self-imposed, reinforced by those factors, and the occasional comments I’ve read.

Although I feel much better about it now, it’s still a work in progress.

My humble contribution…

@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!