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@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.

So, trailer just dropped for the new Godzilla Kong movie. While they’re apparently trying to emphasis the kaiju as actual characters more (which is good, and one of my big issues with the series), the more relevent thing for us is the new villain: Scar King.

A giant orangutan (apparently; also, they’re supposed to be another kaiju maybe), he’s also running an empire, to the extent he’s on a throne? He’s ruling over other Kongs, shown by him roaring to assert dominance over them… and more interesting, there’s a second of him doing that same ‘asserting dominance roar’ on a beach filled with people… which is notable, because outside of Ghidorah, the kaiju generally don’t care about random people, unless they do something to stand out.

Between that, and what looks like more of an emphasis on the more traditional ‘people living with kaiju’ the Japanese movies used to have, this could have some interesting stuff for people into Kong and the like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wyqrlkF1Cs

Xarnor has some great mouth content. I love that three way one where they break in the SW.

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.

(spoilers for Destiny)
Yeah, I can’t figure out how to get it to, like, have a youtube window up here, but here’s the link:

https://youtu.be/nMvyBPFEKoA?t=105

Cutscene of giant hands trying to grab some people; it’s really well animated, since Destiny is so big. Not that long, with both guys and girls running, but I thought people would like it; the first one in particular, where it breaks through the wall I think is a really nice, ‘the giant is coming to get you’ kind of image.

I store my micros with the simple knowledge that I am the best chance they’re going to get.

@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.

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.