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I mean, this is the giant problem in a nutshell. The world isn’t made for giants, and you can either accept being a second class citizen, or change things to fit you better, if you can.

@nephilim
They’re fundamentally linked, in my mind: you can’t really have a size story that doesn’t at least consider the dynamics, and that dynamic is something I focus on a lot; what a character can do to another, what a character can allow the other(s) to do…

@Mrgoblinging7
Yeah, I’ve read that, though it’s been awhile; it’s a sequel series, and called the Liveship Traders, if you believe the internet. Part of the reason I brought this up is living ships are common enough, but the idea of ‘ships as equals’ aren’t often explored to the full extent, with how much control a ship could have over it’s occupants, which is very size-y to me.

Hmm. Well, this all seemed more accepted than I thought. Does anyone know how some GTS fetish artists draw dragons? As giant women, but with claws, fangs, and scale bikinis? I’ve always thought about flipping that them with a dragon guy instead, and then applying some classic stuff with princesses or female knights or whatever with them.

@TakoAlice8 said in I wish there was a term for exclusively male giants:

About using the word “giant” to exclusively refer to males of size. What would people use to describe people of size outside of the traditional gender binary? Xgiant or something like that?

I mean, giant, in itself, is a gender neutral term, it just means ‘big’. It’d make more sense to pick a male exculsive term… problem is how the english language works. There’s not really a good thing for the niche of ‘neutral’ because ‘giant’ is neutral, and for a male version, what? Hisiant?

I suppose you can just to ‘giant man’, but it feels awkward.

There was an old, old VSW story called Viagra Effect. It wasn’t the best written, but the idea was they tested Viagra, it made men grow, and women shrink because of the men’s sperm. They all got tossed into a company town to hide this from the world where the men used the women at will and the women just were used to it, and literally gossiped about who was using them and whatnot, and then at the last minute the author had a couple from outside both try it and join the town as a GT/GTS couple.

No idea where’d I’d find it, but this makes me want to reread that.

Beyond that, though… I’ve noticed that GTS stuff has, for lack word… depth to them?

I think it’s the sheer amount of content kinda of forcing evolution in the artists, but once you get past the most basic, low level ‘i kill stuff cause funny’ stuff, there’s a lot of GTS stuff where they have a lot better, like, interactions, gradual dehumanization of tinies and the like (which is almost always men sadly) than GT stuff (which, to be fair, is probably in part because there’s not a lot of GT stuff, and art especially, beyond a simple picture or concept), and it feels like they’re often more… integrated in a setting than a GT is. This, the yandere vibe? That’s one of those; a little work would probably find dozens of ‘giant women obsesses over man’, or ‘woman shrinks man she obsesses over’ things, but it’s never really the reverse?

There’s so many interactions and scenarios I’ve seen that I’ve found interesting, and I would just like if it wasn’t happening to a man every time.

I just crave to use those vibes, but turned towards SW/GT ends.

@TakoAlice8
Oh, it’s somewhere on the site if you want to read what I have so far I guess, but I haven’t updated it in… a year? More? I’ve just had a lot of stuff going on and I’m always down on my own stuff, so the longer I do nothing with it the more I feel discouraged to work on it.

I know Minimizer had an X-Files story; Scully got shorter and Fox got younger. It was one of those wish situations where the change never stopped.

@littlest-lily
Yeah, if you look at it as a tool for romance stories, the main pairing is usually pre-established, even if it doesn’t happen until the end, so there’s no real drama when X character is torn between character Y and Z, because the summery spells out it was always going to be Z. It especially doesn’t help if Z isn’t that good of a character for whatever reason, and Y, who is much more sympathetic, seems to be written in only to be used a tool to fuel Z’s relationship.

@Olo
It’s what frustrates me about that movie when I think about it; hell, it bugged me when I first watched it, though I didn’t understand why: they set up the narrative of ‘an ogre is a scary monster’ for the entire movie run off of, and then do nothing to make that make sense, even though they acted like it was a thing. If they had gone for a different take, and made it so ogres were misunderstood or something, it would have worked with the Shriek we got, but it seems to be saying ogres are scary monsters, but Shriek is a lazy bum so it doesn’t matter?

It’s sort of doing both at once and neither, so the point kind of gets lost beyond ‘Shriek isn’t bad’.

@SmolChlo
Oh, I’ll be getting my sprinkles one way or another, I think.

@SmolChlo
Me? Scary? Never! Why, I’ve never scared anyone in my life, I’ll have you know!

Oh, I’ve startled my far share, of course, but it’s not my fault; I"m just a lot lighter on my feet that people would expect of man my size, that’s all. There’s nothing wrong with that.

Is that what you’ve been telling your friends? That I’m scary? Slander! I insist you invite a few of them over, just so I can undo the damage you’ve done to my reputation! We’ll have a nice chat, some drinks, and then they’ll see there’s nothing scary about me at all.

…By the way, how do your friends feel about Chinese? It’s just- I’ve recently discovered Mongolian Chicken, and I love it, I really do. I’ve found that there’s a bit too many peppers in the restaurants nearby for my taste, though, so I found a recipe I’ve been wanting to try. I’m not a great cook, don’t get me wrong, but I have cooked a mean dish or two in my time, and it’s a pretty simple recipe, really; I’m not sure how I could mess it up! And from what I’ve seen, it’s not just good with chicken. In fact, it seems to go well with just about anything!

Don’t worry. I’m sure your friends will love it.

@SmolChlo
Bold words for someone who so very shaped like food.

@littlest-lily
A lot of gentle SW scenarios, where the SW is a stranger, is often built around something like Nightingale Syndrome, where they devote time to caring for them and get attached, and the SW in turn gets used to being cared for and grows attached in turn.

Rather than her being nuts right away… you could play it as a sort of… slide, since he is her world, honestly. Food? Water? Safety? Comfort? All of them come from the Friendly Giant. It becomes common sense for her to rely on him for everything, to call him for every worry. At the same time, the fact she has nothing else, no real way to spend her time, no others to talk to (or, if there’s other SWs, they’re only competition for the FG’s time), the fact that the FG has other options than her grates at her, even as the sheer helplessness of her situation eats away at her sanity; people aren’t made to be so helpless, after all.

And so, more and more, she demands more and more from the Friendly Giant, growing slowly crueler and more abusive, until on some level she starts thinking that she owns him, and isn’t afraid to throw a fit if he breaks that world view.

@SmolChlo
Of course, that’s a dangerous game, because most things with yanderes end with the person noticing they’re being obsessed over… and the giant is the one holding the cards. You need to balance your stick usage with your carrots, otherwise your giant horse is going to walk off to do whatever he wants, with you stuck for the ride whether you like it or not.

…

‘You’re saddled up; there’s no recourse
It’s, “Hi-yo, silver!”
Signed: Bad Horse.’

I never thought Dr. Horrible’s Singalong Blog would feel topical to SWs, lol.