@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…
@SmolChlo
…Uh. The point was that, for a lot of women, the attention is so much it becomes unwanted? Like, the random wolf whistle on the street, that kind of thing? There really wasn’t anything about criticism in there.
I get that for the giant, the sheer power of it, and the ease, is a factor, but that’s the same for SW; how helpless she is, that she can’t even get acknowledgement from the guy thundering towards her.
@littlest-lily said in New Home:
But in any case, someone actually responding to that prompt with “why though?” kinda blows my mind lol
I’ve looked into this to a small extent, and one of the the things that seemingly both genders have trouble understanding about each other is about being acknowledged as ‘attractive’. Women have this to excess, to the point where it’s not only unwanted, but actively suffocating.
Men, meanwhile, just don’t have this. Unironically, men in general are not acknowledged as attractive… ever. You’ll find guys talking about that one time a girl said a shirt looked good on him or something, and they treasure that memory, years and years later, because that was such a big moment for them.
Problem being, it’s so systematically in place that at this point, a girl can’t just compliment a guy anymore, because it’s effectively flirting at this point, and guys complimenting girls are just endless noise… a post I remember said it best: It’s someone dying of thirst looking at someone drowning. The fundamental exprences of this are completely alien to each other.
…All of this is to say, I’m absolutely unsurprised about the, ‘why though’, because for a lot of guys, unless you’re really attractive, or actively unattractive, it’s not actually something that seems… relevent? To a guy? And thus for a guy? Double so in GTS content where the focus is overwhelmingly on the women and guys often aren’t even an active factor on the image.
@SmolChlo
Huh. That makes me wonder what it is for the big in unaware phantasies; doing bad things without feeling guilty about it, then?
Coming at this as an asexual who is only really sexual in their fantasies… yeah, I get it to some extent. Like, a lot of it on my end is I just like being big, and strong; I fantasize about a lot of things, but in all honesty a good portion of my RL SW content would be constant, low key cuddling, and I’m so unmotivated in normal ways that the drives of other people feel a bit off for me.
In a more ideal world, it’d be possible to spin off a VSW site and an SFW-SW site, but we’re such a small, isolated community (especially after the Mimizer age passed and took everything down with it), that I think such a community would wither and die, like all SW groups seem to do. It might be more practical to see if you could get a soft sub-forum spun off here, maybe?
Plus, there’s always the fun dynamics of an unstoppable force bending the knee to a queen (or princess, or hell, just a lady knight in authority), who can’t even touch the tip of his armored boot.
Bonus points if he’s so big that that kind of action should naturally send her flying, but it never happens, and it’s not until she sees him actually run, and leave holes in the countryside, that she realizes just how careful he’s been even for the little things. …Heh.
It’s probably the restraint, both overt and understated, posed against the sheer power, and what they could do if they weren’t restrainted by their morals.
I come at it from the giant end, obviously, but every time I think about a more gentle scenario, there’s this obvious dynamic of, ‘I could do this to you. I won’t, because I’m not an asshole, but that has nothing to do with your ability to stop me.’ that flavors the mental space so much. A giant has that same dynamic effect the whole area (instead of the SW being vulnerable to it from everyone else), and with a knight… there’s this energy of, ‘I trained to be able to fight’, that they’re more than just being big, and thus they destroy things, they’re a precision machine of destruction, similarly to giant robots in the like; there’s that extra element of refined power.
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.
Just shrink someone, full out, from full-size to doll, or smaller? Probably not without consent, which would require explaining, which probably is never happening or unless they’re like, trying to rob me or something.
…Just a little off the top though? That could be another story. Going to be honest, I can think of some women I’d like to see smaller. Moreover, depending how broad we’re talking, if I could take a few inches off everyone but me, not enough to cause problems but to make me taller well… I probably would.
Though at that point it’s ‘why am I not shrinking everything on the planet but me’ so…
So, as a sort of follow up question, much much later, lol…
I’ve got the idea for a dragon story, and I’m not talking one of the half-human things where it’s a giant person with, like scale gauntlets built in. No, the main character is just a normal, scary dragon, who views humans as probably too small to be worth the effort snacks, the woman is Classic Princess 
(with a twist), and a supporting character that is a dragon who polymorphs around a lot, but prefers various shades of ‘human with draconic features’ up to the classic half-human dragon.
If I ever end up writing this… would it be good to post this here? Because I’m not sure what I’d do with it otherwise, lol.
@littlest-lily
You know, looking at this thread again, I see this and am reminded of one of my older ideas that I tinker around with every now and again: a god simulator story.
For those who don’t know, a god simulator is a video game where you… simulate being a god. The exact details, how serious it is about you as a god and so on change depending on the game, but the broad formula always goes: you’re overlooking some broad stretch of land. People can or do live on that land. And you can interact with them, but only in a limited capacity; outsides of blessing, curses, or just killing them, all the little people just live their lives independent of you.
Now, apply that to real life.
One day, some guy wakes up, goes into his living room, and finds a little continent sitting on the big table in front of his couch. And, when he looks at it, he sees into it like he’s looking through a microscope… and there are people there! Little, tiny, fraction of a fraction of an inch people, living their pre-industral lives in a little village. And as he watches on, it turns out they see him, too, and a kind of priesthood forms and raises a crude statue, to him. Problem is… the head priest is some old guy, and the home owner is half asleep and still thinks he’s dream. So he response, knee jerk, by saying something to the effect of, ‘Eww, I don’t want to be worshipped by some old guy. From now on, the clergy is only going to hot women.’
Then he goes on with his morning, because it was just a weird dream, right? Comes back from work, and the continent is still on the table. And now the priesthood is entirely female, with some strategically placed rips in their robes.
And the guy just… goes with it. He’s half convince he’s hallucinating, but he stops thinking too hard about it, and accepts there’s a continent with filled with people ants could step on on his table. He looks at them, give some approving comments, carefully squashes a forest filled with tigers with his finger and gives them a crumb every once and awhile. It’s like a super low effort fish tank, but filled with women!
But what he doesn’t know is that, the more the population grows, the more they worship him, so does his power over them. The stronger he becomes, the bigger the content grows and the more influence he claims over the land. But since the growth is in less than an inch at a time, it’s super easy for him to miss… though it becomes more noticeable when the changes he makes becomes less, ‘I’m telling you what to do’ and more ‘I said something and it happened, common sense be damned’.
I have a vague end game for the idea, which includes such gems as him accidently sending his girlfriend onto the continent, where she becomes a looming giantess, able to crush villages under her feet, that’s smaller than his finger.
There’s also the inverse of growing, though. Both the more normal undeserved giant rampage growing kind of dynamic, but also, like, revenge growth. A boss lady put a guy down, calls him pathetic?
He grows. Maybe it’s just a bit, a few feet, and suddenly he’s super popular, the big man (sorry, I had to) on campus. Maybe she’s the only one to notice that he’s now inhumanly tall, maybe he’s suddenly her boss.
Or… Maybe it’s a lot. Maybe he’s a security guard who ‘confiscates’ her car, and pretends she’s too quiet for him to her. Or maybe he just plucks her from inside of the building, and walks away…
@Olo
Exactly. As a bonus, turn her actually gold, from head to toe; turn her into a decoration that walks, talks, and deludes herself she has control over her life.
Ironic twist on a gold digger, or something to that effect: Oh, you’re only dating/married/flirting with this person because they’re rich/successful/whatever? You want them to take care of you and just exist as a hot body for them to have sex with and admire?
Done! Enjoy your new life as a dependant, where you need them to take care of you~