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Wouldn’t it be important to, like, up the bass or something, if you’re doing a giant voice? Because unless it’s just a tall person or a mini-giant, I’d think that much of a size difference would effect how people hear each other. Hell, after a certain point the audio should shake, as if it’s in a high wind, because they’re so small compared to the speaker than their breath is high wind.

When you’re giant enough, in other words, you are as much a natural phenomena for the tiny as you as a living creature; you are the land they stand on, of course, but your very voice is thunder.

@littlest-lily
It’s something I’ve talked about on this site before… somewhere, but I get the impression that a lot of GTS writers are men, and it’s as much about desperately needing to feel not in control as it is ‘women are sexy! Big women are more sexy!’, only it’s escalated with them to the current GTS fetish status. SM stuff still falls under similar ways, from what I’ve seen, it just seems less extreme because it’s focused on a small group of small people, rather than just the entire area, so the woman seems more rational when not interacting with the SM, and it’s often more about control than just destruction.

SW/GT stuff, meanwhile, does have men treat SWs like women treat SMs, but it’s only some of the content, not all of it, which is interesting. There’s as much gentle SW stories about men or women taking care of SWs as there are of SWs being oppressed. If we’re accepting my previous logic of ‘a lot of GTS/SM stuff is about men needing to not feel in control’, then the men writing it don’t feel that need, while the women involved, who have similar needs, are… handling them better? Societally, I think men wanting to feel in control is ‘acceptable’, so it’s easier to manage it, while women not wanting to feel in control is ‘acceptable’, so it’s easier to manage for them?

Most GT pics I’ve seen are similar to GTS in that they just destroy everything around them, but GT stories, in my experience, are almost as much a mix as SW stories, while GTS stories are generally the same as GTS pictures. I agree about the focus thing; GT/GTS fics focus on how powerful the big person is, while SW/SM fics focus on how weak the small person is, though by nature of the content that seems largely inevitable. GTS pictures and comics overwhelmingly show the women from an outside context, while stories, without the pictures of big women and boobs and legs, are often more balanced in their perspective, while SW pics focus almost entirely on the SW most of the time… and all of that feels like it’s focused on the male interest on the topic, rather than the female interest.

Though maybe my own perspective as a man are skewing my perception on it, I don’t know.

@SmolChlo
Huh. That makes me wonder what it is for the big in unaware phantasies; doing bad things without feeling guilty about it, then?

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.

I mean, that’s absolutely a fetish in a general sense. I might even say it’s common, even, considering what I know about female erotic stories and the like. I’ve found an almost certainly female author making stories about women cheerfully getting mind fucked into someone just as powerless to resist their owners as a shrunken women is, and a sort of shared universe literally called ‘Human Domestication Guide’, where the main characters are made into obedient pets by invading, well meaning aliens, so… yeah.

If you’re into it, willing, and consenting, then it’s not ‘unwilling’ in the meaningful, rape-y sense, which is rather the point where that gets awkward, morally. Hell if it’s just a story or a fantasy, then there’s no one real at all to be concerned about, and RPs aren’t real (unless you’re actually shrinking? ) so even if a ‘giant’ ‘steps on you’ you’re not actually getting stepped on by a giant foot, so… what’s the harm?

Honestly, I’ve always found it more concerning the other way around, since then you’re actually doing the wrong thing. The same logic applies there, of course, but I’ve always had problems emotionally accepting the logic about my own desires, so it’s not like I don’t get what you’re talking about.

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.

@tiny-ivy
I’ll admit, the main reason I thought of it is I’m rolling around an idea in that kind of vein as well (seventh son unwanted noble goes off to explore the world and has to come back when he’s the only child left for a political marriage, but he grows while he’s gone).

But, oof. You had to hit on the big point like that, didn’t you? The sheer lack of M/f content compared to others hurts.

@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.

@Olo

Yeah, but just over the normal possible size is just the start of the mini tier. I’ll see people twice the size of a normal person being called a mini-giantess, not just a weirdly tall person compared to a weirdly short one, trouble using normal things often deliberately included.

It’s interesting to me because you can hit a sweet spot of having a lot of giant stuff, being able to break things, unstoppable, but still able to enjoy a lot of modern conveniences without breaking suspension of belief when it comes to clothes and such existing.

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.