@blehb
Honestly, I’d think it’d depend on how well you package it as a more normal concept. Like, for us, it would be a love story about a giant, for example, but you could bill it to other people as a love story with a giant, if that makes sense.
If you put a layer of… plausible deniability, for a lack of a better word, between the story and the fetish of it, it’d honestly be a lot easier for people to swallow.
@miss-lillipants
That’s it exactly.
Singularly packaged, but yeah!
Once, when I was on vacation, in one of the random stores I was going through with my family there was this… drink topper thing? Balanced on the edge of the glass I think? And one of them, I swear to god, was a woman, just a few inches tall. I don’t remember how she was dressed (I want to say it was a bikini), but I couldn’t buy it because how do you explain that?
I still regret not getting it.
All that scale talk makes me remember that sometimes I like to image that, instead of it being a woman, it’s a building I’m curled around. Maybe it’s a castle she’s in, maybe it’s some kind of outpost made for interaction…
Sometimes I have to be careful not to damage it… too much, or maybe it’s designed for me to remove it from the foundations and squeeze it, within certain limits.
And maybe she’s signed up to be surrounded by a wall of flesh, or maybe she’s alarmed to be trapped by a giant arm.
@Olo
If only if only.
On my part, I’ve also found that a really small blanket, bunched up, will make a ‘shape’ smaller than a pillow, and somewhat more human shaped and human feeling. It’s pretty easy to to set it up in the crook of your arm as well.
I’ve mentioned it before, but I’m honestly a cuddler; when I go to bed, I like to hold a pillow and imagine it’s an SW of some flavor, and depending on my mood build a fantasy around that.
It’s always low key, at least in that point of time, always around sleeping, and generally pretty gentle: even if I’m holding her against her will, she’s always safe (even if she’s surprised at that fact), and finding this a lot more pleasant than she expected.
I get a lot of ideas from that basic foundation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oQOp80cP00
So, this is about a game (Armored Core, aka AC) about giant robots, which if you want to, you can ignore that (though it’s fucking awesome), but… a significant portion of it is about size.
This game you play as a giant robot, and almost everything is scaled to the size of a giant robot, unless it isn’t, in which case half the time you don’t even notice it’s there (seriously. You walk over cars and it’s something that has absolutely zero effect on you at all, in your ability to move about or interact with the world; you don’t trip, fall, or slow, they just get destroyed under your feet. Same with normal sized buildings). In our various talks about giants and the logistics, we’ve touched on how… off they are, for our world as it is.
When you play AC you play in a world built for giants. You are unstoppable for everything but other giants (or larger giants… all of which you kill, because AC is a game where you kill and destroy everything that goes against you, no matter how much larger it is, and they get pretty damn big). The resources needed for these things to be are absolutely insane. The logistical nightmare of normal sized people trying to live in this land of giants, where everything is huge and far away, is the SW problem, just scaled a size larger.
Honestly, I’m mostly posting this here because a lot of what it talks about is very fitting from the maco end… and also, there’s apparenlty a word for ‘fear of giant things’, AKA our opposite. Who knew?
@wildxpixie
Honestly, that sheer difference in power informs a lot of how a GT/sw dynamic works, and how, in anything close to a ‘fair’ relationship, the giant has to accommodate the sw, make allowances for her, respect her fragility and how delicate she is, that many things that aren’t a threat or obstacle to him may be serious problems for her, while the sw has to acclimate to the fact that they aren’t in control, in many ways.
Sure, she may be in charge, or telling them what to do, or even manipulating him with pleasure until he’s weak in the knees, but the second he just… reaches over and picks her up all of that goes away; they don’t get to choose what happens to them, where they go, anything. It’s all the giant’s choice, and even the fact he’s not making that choice is, in fact, him choosing not to choose; he allows her that control, it’s not something she has herself.
In reminds me about what people say about Superman vs Batman fights, that Superman has to not use all his natural advantages (like just blasting Batman from space or something) to even allow Batman to get to a situation where they fight at all, allowing him to even be able to have a chance to fight. That those big, dramatic fights are still Clack accommodating his strength against Bruce’s frail humanity.
Seconding Kisupure, I’m kind of weirdly detail orinted at the weirdest times, and a lot of times giants have me asking, ‘How??? How this? How that?’ Something that answers that question, however it shows up, even if it’s just a handwaved, ‘It’s magic, I don’t need to explain shit’, is great for me.
Beyond that… overwhelming. When I look as the giant, I want to casually, accidently dominate the tiny, just by existing. I touch them, they get sent flying. I move my hand when they stand on it, they fall over. Not purposeful threat, but the sheer difference in… existence, that she has to give way for the fact that is Me, and all the consequences that comes from that fact. To be blunt, I want the size to reflect something beyond… human. That they’re fundamentally something that can’t be stopped, but only survived; a force of nature.
When I look at the tiny’s perspective, I want that same dominance to be reflected, but as something that’s happening to them; if the giant is force of nature to them, I want that fact to be shown. There’s a story somewhere where it’s mentioned that the giant (post exercise) is so hot that sitting next to them the tiny feels like she’s in a sauna. Or, when the normal sits on their bed, it deforms under them, and the SW goes tumbling towards them, like gravity. In a bath together (or the ocean), the casual movements of the big make currents that threaten the tiny’s ability to stay afloat, to the point where said big may need to rescue them from… themselves.
That kind of thing brings a certain… weight to the story, a reality that makes it seem more real.
@Olo
shrug
Doesn’t look like it, yet, but there’s a what looks like a normal woman underground doing a similar job for… the Kongs?
Also, they’re slowly breaking away from trying to make this ‘realistic’, so they might get there once they focus on Mothra again.
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.
@protect-tinies said in Satisfactory:
Since I’m all about gentle scenarios and protecting the tinies, I hope the shrunken women manufacture LOVE for the giant!
The easiest way to work it would be they’re trying to free him, maybe. Though usually with that kind of set up they get something in return for resources/progress. Hmm. A gouche response is he comes or something, but maybe something magic related? Or they need him to protect them from something?
@protect-tinies
…You know, there’s a game called, ‘Satisfactory’, about being stranded on an alien world, making factories wherever you want and sending the resources to the mega corp that sent you there.
…And all the Pioneers (player character) are women.
…And one of the enemies is a spider, to the point where there’s an arachnophobia mode, like in Grounded.
gears turning
I’m now picturing this kind of Grounded/Satisfactory fusion setting, where shrunken women make increasingly impossible factories from the stuff around them and mine them… for a giant? Hmm. I’ve been playing around with the idea of a crippled or immobilized giant.
*pondering intesfies *
