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@subasubaski
You know, I’ve noticed some Gulliver travels styled fic, but ones where all of them live in the same world and not separated by magic or whatever, and it always irked me that all three shared a tech level, just… in different locations. And somehow this works. Noth even mentioning wildlife and foliage?

“Realistically”, there’s no way the various size classes could live in harmony needed for such development to happen. People are assholes; the biggest, whether the Brob or some higher one, would inevitably dominate the others, treat them as lessers, and the Lilis, or any smaller ones, would inevitably be the prey of frogs, bugs and the like, unable to establish any advanced civilization due to accidentally being trampled by their betters, or pass down information and technology beyond basic, word of mouth communication due to the fragility of their works (we got to where we are through passing on information throughout generations, via writing and technology; centuries or millennia of investment were needed to get to where we are now. Imagine, then if for all intents and purposes malevolent meteors could just… reset a city in an instant? Where giant monsters could devour everything? Cities that could be not just part of a society, but the society itself? There’s no way that they could reach a technology level anywhere near modern civilization. That’d be the world inch tall people would live in). I mean, fuck, even the ecology: either everything is sized to the giant’s size, and so why aren’t they the normal size, or the giants exist, for all intents and purposes, above the food chain, have little need to invent technology because there’s no real threat to them, and probably don’t even eat like normal living creatures since there’s no way to support themselves ‘naturally’ (what do they eat?! Whales?!) like normal mammals.

…I know I got somewhat off topic but this is something I’ve been thinking about for awhile now.

On a personal level, I just have this bone deep desire to hold an SW like a teddy bear and just… rest. It’s something I’ve been trying to figure out how to make a story about, almost; a giant or something rescuing a woman just so he can sleep better at night, or a man who buys an SW for something closer to an experience with an affectionate cat rather than a sex toy that they’re usually for, while her attitude goes from ‘WhatthefuckwhatthefuckI’mgoingtodie’ to ‘Welp, better than where I was before’ to actually bonding with them.

Just imagining a little arm full of a thing curled up against my chest, all soft and warm, maybe making a cute little noise when I move unexpectedly before snuggling back in is just… bliss.

What are you thoughts on it? Because I’ve realized that, if I was to have an SW in any form, I’d spend a lot of time, and I mean a lot, just… cuddling. Nothing sexual, just holding them just to hold something soft and warm and because I like holding them, and they like being held as well.

I’m thinking about this because that appeals to me a lot, but it’s not something that seems to come up? There are mentions of it in stories, but more as logical extensions of X action or whatnot, and no one ever really… talks about in discussions, and we talk about everything from size hierarchies to vore here.

@olo
I mean, I get that, but look at him. He looks like he’s three seconds from running away screaming. It’s honestly hilarious.

I think the weirdest part of this is the, ‘WTF’ energy the guy has going on. He either doesn’t believe her, wants no part of her craziness, no part of her probable drunkness, or all of the above.

I’m playing a dumb game with my friend yesterday, and a character drops this line on us: he’s not wearing sunglasses, no! He shouts proudly that he’s wearing a black fairy bra.

Along with my instant incredulous reaction, there was also the thought that he was One Of Us, and I should mention it here for everyone else to WTF over and enjoy.

So… if sunglasses are a tiny bra being abused by being stretched over someone’s face, are there any other common accessories that we can figure out are actually from an SW?

@tiny-ivy
A lot of that, and I say this literally, just goes back to society as a whole. A person, right now more than ever it seems, but probably throughout all of modern history, is seen by the eyes of society as only being worth what they’re worth. If you’re not making money, if you don’t have money, if there’s nothing influential like that about you, to the human race as a whole you’re almost worthless.

And for a lot of people, to face the brutal reality of human indifference is a struggle, but with friends and hobbies and interests it’s manageable, to a degree. But, when you’re not allowed self worth, or really a ‘self’, as a man or a woman, you turn to societal worth instead to have a reason to live. For men, that is ‘succeeding’, making the bank, along with the other ‘masculine’ concepts that you’re supposed to follow like being athletic, or tough, or getting chicks or whatever. I think it honestly explains the stereotypical jock: because they succeed at their role, they double down on it and keep going with it for the praise they’re receiving for it, and with all the time they spend being ‘men’ they don’t get as much chance to develop their self like someone who isn’t as lockstep with a stereotype. So they keep doubling down, keep acting out in the same way society tells them they should act (brutally honest here: the reason there’s so many ‘boys will be boys’ moments is we keep telling boys that that’s how boys act) until they reach a point where they built their lives around that role they’ve been acting, and it’s all that they have: the jock, the tough guy, the businessman.

To bring this (ha) temporarily back to the topic of fetishes for a moment, I think that the ‘shirt’ metaphor is why so much giantess stories are kind of dumpster fires. So many go off two main concepts: men losing their rights, or a normal woman who gains power and instantly, and for no apparent reason, just starts killing everything and everyone just because she can now, in whatever ways the author finds sexy. I think… for a lot of guys, that being ‘forcefully’ depowered like that is like getting that shirt taken off, and it’s the only relief from the roles they can find, and allow themselves to find.

(Personally, it makes my skin crawl; in theory I could like GTS content. In practice I find it largely abohorant, even if the pics themselves can be great in isolation (those legs! Those heels! And oh, do I envy the raw power they have in those pictures, that ability to just step on a city, I really do (and there’s so many good ones because they have so many more artists making them, sigh)) which is ironic since when I was a whelp still figuring out the fetish, I mixed them both, but the reality of it, how so much of it seems to focus on what is probably self-hatred of men, much less losing what remains of our agency in a rapidly evolving society that seems to loath people having any real control over their own lives in the first place, has driven me off it almost completely. Seriously, I have enough problems without getting into that. These days I mostly trawl through GTS stuff looking for more SW content that isn’t actually under an SW label.)

It’s interesting you say that, though, because looking at a female from the male perspective, while you’re allowed to be more a person than we are, even if we’re collared robots it seems like we can do more with what limited personhood we have. If we men are wearing collars, and slowly killing ourselves with them, it seems like women are have their ankles chained.

@kisupure said in Sex Objects:

it was actually really surprising and kind of scary how much subconscious social male programming I’d absorbed

Yeah. A lot of the reasons people act like they act, men and women alike, is because that’s how they’re told to act, and that comes from both directions. Moms will tell their sons they have to be tough, that their sisters are too weak to do something physically demanding, just as much as fathers do. A girl can attack a boy and that’s almost amusing, but a boy can’t realiate without being a brute, because they’re strong and girls are weak and they must be protected, even from the consequences of their own actions. It’s frustrating and amusing, almost, that there are so many women who tell boys to be sexist, or distant as a child, and then are startled and horrified that boys grow up to be distant sexists.

@tiny-ivy
Not really? To agree with what everyone is saying, basically, what I’m saying masculinity, as discussed in the world now, is almost always inherently toxic because there is no other example. The same factors that help inform the dehumanizing view of men in porn, the lack of expressions, or focus on anything that isn’t a dick, ties back to how men, culturally, are still viewed: tough. Or rather, ‘tough’.

You can’t show weakness, you can’t be vulnerable, you can’t feel, so you can enjoy sex, because a man is supposed to want to have sex, but not to extent that you show that you enjoy it! It’s messed up, obviously, but honestly the idea that it shouldn’t be a common phrase is bizarre to me because… well, it’s real. It’s common. It’s how I, and probably every other man to some extent, has been raised, even if there is a some focus on fighting the perception of that is how a man should be now compared to how it used to be.

Talking about this, I’m remembering a short story I read as a kid: a samurai where going up a mountain to get something from a snow spirit, and to impress her, they were standing there, enduring the elements to show how manly they were. They do this until they get coated in ice and die, turning into a statue of ice, and the spirit wanders by the newest statue of dozens, musing how stupid they all are that they just try to become like ice.

The ‘ideal’ man, in a nutshell, is a Terminator (It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever) programmed to act like a person with the core directives of memetic Darwin to drive them: ‘EAT FIGHT FUCK’.

@kisupure said in Sex Objects:

feeling shame for being a sexual being,

That is something that honestly bothers me a lot about my enjoyment of the SW fetish, because so much of it revolves around, well, hurting or depowering women. It’s… not a good look, these days, and even if I had a mind to talk about that kind of thing (laughs forever at the idea of doing that) the reception that this would have alone would be enough to scare me off it.

@kisupure
Huh. I think, on a fundamental level, I’m not really attached to my body as ‘my’ body, if that makes sense. I’ve got a bunch of medical shit happening to me since I was a kid, and it’s easy for me to think of my body as separate from me, and in general not much of it really.

@kisupure
Pretty much?

Like… how do I put this, there’s two kinds of attractiveness, I guess. There’s the sexual kind, where some part of your brain says ‘I want to fuck that’, and then there’s the aesthetic kind, which is when you you admire that something is just… built right.

And when it comes to men, those two concept are always divorced to me. I can think, ‘Yeah, this person is a icon of a man’ or something, and the hormones just won’t go for me; at some fundamental level, just the masculine shape doesn’t work for me. So, yeah, if I woke up tomorrow and my trainwreck of a walking corpse suddenly looked good I’d… like, it sure. I might even want to preen about it a bit, but it’d more like someone bragging about their car rather than how hot they are.

@kisupure
shrug
There’s a reason it’s called toxic masculinity, after all. Men aren’t supposed to have ‘feelings’, only pride. Even now, the most common portrayal of a man in any kind of media is a tough guy who doesn’t cry or show weakness.

I’ll note that, again on a personal level, I don’t actually enjoy the male body, so porn that actually shows more of a man actually turns me off, because while a woman feeling pleasure makes me feel pleased, a man… really doesn’t for me. At the same time, though, I’ve realized I’m pretty abnormal in my dislike of the masculine form, so it doesn’t disprove your point so much as prove my own weirdness.

And @tiny-ivy : your point about monsters is very valid. I can say from the opposite perspective, I enjoyed pretending I was a dragon capturing a princess as a kid long before I saw an ‘actual’ SW to help make that connection really click. Women weren’t small enough for my tastes, I must have realized on some level, so I made myself larger, instead.

I have a fondness for it, I have to admit. The sheer exotic nature of it aside, like a classic green skin alien from old scifi, there’s something about it. They’re small and weak, of course, and you can eat them, but the idea that they’re made to be eaten, that their entire existence was only ever to be nothing more than food…

shudders in excitement

I love it. One of my many fantasies is of just keeping a food girl and eating her, bit by bit, as a long term food source. Take a bite out, and she just gets that much smaller instead of losing an arm or whatever. Maybe she starts out full sized, or maybe she’s even a normal person you turned to food, and then you devour her until you can keep her in an aquarium, with enough water and/or food that she can grow back whatever you eat off her.

Ideally, she even likes it.

Best part? It’s sustainable, too, as well as environmentally friendly!

Hmm. Interesting thoughts.

At personal level, let me start with this: I could picture a lot of perspectives of a tiny woman looking at a giant man, but I have no idea what she would find attractive about it, beyond the sheer power of a giant itself, on the merits of that power alone. I can say that X man is handsome or whatever, but I don’t feel it in a way I can work with; it’s like me saying one car is more attractive than another: maybe one is, at some level, aesthetically superior, but just because I can say a sports car looks better than an old junker doesn’t mean I want to fuck the Ferrari. I’ve read enough that I can guess some points of attraction (abs, dick, ass) but it’s not something I could ever put real emotion in or write well. I don’t like to make a fuss about it, but I derive no pleasure from the male form at all, and at a fundamental level I just don’t understand why people find men attractive.

When I started writing however long ago, I did stuff from the SW’s perspective, but it hasn’t escaped my notice that my, by far, most popular story (let’s be honest here; I’m not sure anyone knows the older ones exist. Hell, with the death of sites I doubt most of them actually exist at all at this point) stars a main character featuring a personality trait I observe in myself, if exaggerated wildly and spiraling in drastically unhealthy ways. Part of it is that I’ve improved as a writer, of course, but I write him from a point and perspective I can understand, and then boldly go with it into directions I’d never allow myself, but still anchored by that fundamental urge we both share allowing him to seem more realistic a person; in that case some degree of obsessive focus, a desire to cherise, and a desire to dominate and control.

I can take some second hand pleasure in reading from a female’s perspective and applying her observations to myself, or deriving a picture of how small she is, but my sheer disinterest, I think, limits my ability to write from a ‘typical’ feminine perspective. I can’t look at a man and feel interested, I have no desire to feel overpowered, and while I can find control kinky, I don’t like the idea of one where I have no control. Giving some control up can be fun, but total surrender at the scale an SW would experience is deeply unpleasant to me.

At best I could probably do some interludes, or perhaps a back and forth between two people, but I feel I’d probably fail to make anything of decent quality if I focused fully from a woman’s point of view.

@tiny-ivy
Hmm. Originally, the ‘plan’ was ‘it was just a hand’ but now I have Ideas.

Weird ideas, true, but still.

I’m picturing one of those lonely tower-y kind of wizards, all hermit-y like, but he’s a giant, and he’s sending out semi-sentient body parts to learn for him, so he can multi-task learning a bunch of magic at once, but then the Damsel, like, kisses a finger because the hand is kind to her and she’s probably a tad Stockholmed, he goes ‘Wait, what?!’ because he’s still connected and pain is fine but that was unexpected, and drags his hand back, and the woman with it.

With a first impression of, ‘What did you do, hand, and why do I keep wanting to pat it?’

And he doesn’t know how to care for a tiny person, so he calls an old friend for advice, and it’s this big catalyst for opening up again on his end, while the damsel gets to love an actual human-like person, and also a better life than in a cage.

So, throughout my SW history, I’ve had a kind of habit of having the weird ideas. So, in that spirit, I think I’ll mention this idea I had recently:

You know how a lot of pics on this fetish revolve around handhelds? Take that to its logical conclusion: a giant hand. Just a giant hand. Picture Thing from Addams Family, but giant sized, and maybe mix in some magic for some quality of life/logistics stuff.

In a some fantasy setting, a poor damisal (newbie adventurer, recently de-kingdomed princess, what have you) is wandering around, lost and frightening, in a wasteland, and is attacked! By some savage beast of some sort.

She faints… and wakes up in a dark but well furnished cave, rescued by our hero.

The idea kind of revolves around the contrasting perspectives of the giant hand monster, who is delighted to have a guest in their cave, and is pulling out all the stops to make it comfortable; ‘Oh, there’s this old chair from years ago! Let me get that for you!’ Let me prepare this monster so you can eat it!’

…Contrasted against The Fair Damsel, who sees this giant hand crawling on the walls and other creepy shit, but is trapped with it because it lives in a hellhole and she couldn’t survive leaving. In fact, through in a escape attempt or two where she gets her life saved, even, in that classic SW fashion, to help realize her ‘captor’ isn’t so bad.

Anyways, they’d learn to understand each other and bond, as two lonely people do when stuck together. Maybe Fair Damsel contributes her skills in having human sized hands, along with actual skills, to do something for the hand. Clothes? Working with some normal sized tool or artifact? Beyond that… when you think about it, there’s actually of surprisingly intimate things that could happen with only a hand involved, if I wanted to go that direction, and I don’t even mean in a sex kind of way.

Anyways, was curious to see if anyone else was amused by this concept while I mull it over.