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I’m both asexual (I’m… somewhere on that spectrum; I glanced once or twice, but I never really looked into where, exactly, I fell into it) and in the fetish end of the fetish.

I’ll admit, it’s been strange, at times. So much of this can be a deliberately sexual thing, and, while I started off not really getting the sexual end, and while I still deeply like and crave the more wholesome end of it, to me SW is a very much something sexual for me… Which. Is odd, considering how I’ve never had sex, or dated, or anything, and never plan to. And yet I enjoy the stories focusing on sex and relationships the most, to the point where I’ve written one where sex is a heavy focus.

Trying to bridge these two extremes has been uncomfortable at times, but I’ve got to admit that the SW community (I’ve never been in the GTS end, and what I’ve seen and heard has scared me off) has been absurdly welcoming. Honestly, the community has felt like it’s just been happy to have me here, even if I didn’t do anything, or contribute any content, just because we all this share this one connection.

I mean, beyond the usual, ‘hold this SW in/on my hand’ thing?

…Personally, I have this urge to engulf people. Like, if I was hugging someone of a more normal size, or laying in bed with them, I’d want to wrap around them, and if they’re smaller? I just want to… hold them to my chest. The smaller they are, the more I basiclly want to tuck them in myself, or under my clothes or something. I just want maximum amounts of their surface area covered by my own body.

It’s like being the big spoon on steroids, basiclly.

So… kinda, but more as a side effect than as the stated goal.

@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.

What’s everyone’s opinions on these? I know generally we prefer human or basiclly-human giants and/or tinies, but what about things that don’t fall in that typical slot? Giant robots, dragons, and the like?

All this talk of giants recently has reminded me of one of my older ideas; a living ship a stranded woman gets trapped inside, with the two of them trying to negotiate with each other for their various goals. It has a lot of the typical power dynamics, and there’s plenty of ways for interaction to happen, but I’m not sure what people would think about something so… unstandard.

You know, I’ve seen talk that men, as a whole, aren’t sexualized, at all. That is to say, societally, men aren’t looked at as desirable for being a man who looks attractive, but because they’re doing something to be desirable. Men aren’t complimented for being hot, or looking good, or… anything like that.

And personally? I can believe it. It’s mixed up with me, I think, because I’m a bit too unimpressed by men for it to be normal, but outside of like, fan girls, I’m not really sure I’ve seen examples of people saying, ‘this man is hot!’ beyond poorly written porn/power fantasies, and even then it’s rare. Meanwhile, women being viewed as attractive is all over the damn place.

And again, it’s probably a bit mixed up with my own stuff, but as a man I’m not sure how I’d write a man as being attractive. Part of it is I don’t get it, true, but it just feels weird at some level to even think that way. Ironically, GT would make it easier, because it can be disconnected from just being being masculine and rely on the attraction of raw power, but the problem remains.

On giants as a whole, a big part of the reason I’ve never written a GT story is that because getting it right in a setting is hard. The easiest way is magic, but having them in any sort of modern setting just comes with whole lists of logistical problems its hard to resolve. I’ve been brainstorming a setting for awhile, and I think I’ve gotten it pretty close to having it viable, and it involves wars/uprising to get giants into a high place in society, improbable stuff like parts of their biology being environmentally advantageous, food/water needs not matching what you’d expect, and actual stipends for them to stay in their homes or giant designed areas. I’m putting all this work into a making a setting where giants and humans exist in the same places as semi-equals, and that just says a lot, I think.

@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.

@littlest-lily
Oh no, I agree, micro stories are fun, but since it’s basiclly impossible to have normal interaction they’re harder to write and indulge in. Generally they tend to short stories more, since there’s less to explain than something longer and more in-depth.

@littlest-lily
Nope. I mostly go searching GTS content looking for F/f content, and never once have I really seen logistics addressed even slightly in a GTS fic. At the end of the day, I honestly get the impression most GTS fics, or pictures or comics or whatever, are all just someone venting something, and it’s only about the power and crushing and worship, either doing it themselves or by being the one crushed. Once a woman goes giant, everything goes perfect and they are unstoppable forces of nature, instead of being doomed to probably starve if the military doesn’t blow them up first for the massive casualties they always seem to cause after they promptly lose their minds and personalities they had before growing and turn into murdering psychopaths.

Honestly, the reason I’m so anti-SM/GTS is just that side of the fetish is so… toxic with whatever that is. In theory, giant boobs and legs and whatever sounds great, women are hot so more woman to be hot is good, right? In practice, me as a man reading them feels like indulging in self hate for my entire gender.

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.

A nice way to play it is a normal person from our version of reality, being randomly transplanted or having reality changed to one where SWs are an established thing, and being the only one to notice.

So, they see moving out of the corner of their eye and think, ‘mouse’, where everyone else thinks, ‘SW’. Or just a blue screen of death over this is a tiny person, what the actual fuck while everyone stares at them, puzzled.

Maybe their girlfirend is suddenly small, and they’ve been living together for years, and he’s too busy having a breakdown to be into her, and she goes to her girlfriends wondering why he doesn’t like her any more, and so escalates with skimpier clothes and stuff, and it keeps escalating until something in his brain finally connects ‘this small mammal thing’ with ‘this is a naked hot woman covered in chocolate’.

So, this game came out in English awhile ago, and it was in… Japanese, I think, before that, but I’m finally thinking about getting it.

Has anyone played it?

It’s a silly shooter game about two tiny alien women (who are basiclly lesbians) going to a college dorm and shooting the women there to… if I remember right, harness their arousal Happiness Energy for their planet because they’re all falling prey to ennua, if I’m remembering right.

It’s… it’s basiclly a GTS porno game, with a side of small side of little squid monsters, except that, thankfully for us, the smalls are also women, and most surprisingly of all it’s out on the Switch, which I’m still kind of surprised about. Checking back in on it, there’s some DLC including giving the Pixies black lingerie to wear, just to make it clear what kind of game we’re talking about here. It reminds me a bit about Mr. Mosquito, from way back in the day, in that ‘small target hunting a normal sized human’ kind of way, but a lot more lewd.

Honestly, I’m just surprised that this game is so slept on in our community, considering this is one of the biggest SW things I’ve seen that lasts for more than five seconds in pop culture in years, and it’s basiclly made for us.

https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/gun-gun-pixies-switch/

I know that… @Kisupure did something like that with the Evangelion mechs, years ago. I’m not sure if it ever got posted here, but I remember reading it.

@tiny-ivy
As a would be writer and as a fan, I get that writing, especially with real life is hard. As a fan, I am almost pathetically grateful for any content we get in this niche-as-fuck fetish.

We’ll take what you can when you can, but don’t beat yourself up when you’re not up for it. We need to support each other, after all.

I like GT, but for modern settings it’s inherently limiting in a way that a SW story isn’t, because you can just have a small woman live in a house, somewhere, easily. Where does a giant live?

There’s just a lot of basic needs and creature comforts that can’t really be accommodated if a random person just goes big, between food (an SW can eat crumbs), water (a lake? Enjoy the fish poop), somewhere to stay (a warehouse? in the woods?) and so on that gets in the way of the fantasy part, at least for me. And, sure, part of it is my brain thinking too much about it, but the problem does remain unless you’re doing a one-shot.

And an SW can slip under the radar, but a giant is… noticeable. So the media and the government is going to be a thing…

Personally, I like settings that are just build around giants, either a fantasy where they’re natural, or a modern one where giants are just… a thing (this is something I’ve seen to great effect before, where people randomly turn into giants and over time they started being accommodated and live a ‘normal’ life, and I’m picturing my own version), or there’s just magic or something to wave off the problem…

But I drag on. Point being, SW stories are easy because my next door neighbor could have a harem of little women and no one would ever know, but just one giant just requires a lot of things.

@littlest-lily
I mean, there’s that too, but… when you play enough horror games, for example, after awhile the jump scares stop scaring you. Even if you don’t see it coming, you’ve been conditioned by all these startled moments where nothing actually happens to you that it stops triggering a physical reaction.

In the same vein, I’d imagine that, over time, an SW would be conditioned to accept being suddenly grabbed, either because it keeps happening and nothing ever happens to them, or just learned helplessness in general.