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@blehb said in Lesser Known Inconveniences of Being Giant/Tiny:

I am the same way. I dwell too much on the details and fail to make a single cohesive story, and at some point give up on writing anything at all!

It’s just so easy to spiral on it! I think, ‘Oh, I like this idea, and I want it in the story’, but then it’s like… why is that there? What caused it? How would that work on a biological/societal level? What are the repercussions of this change and it’s like-

I just want to write about a giant hugging a woman shaped robot piloted by his normal sized girlfriend so they can still have physical contact even if it’s really hard for them normally, is that so hard?! I don’t want to wholesale make up a setting-wide backstory to explain it!

Meanwhile, I’ve also thought about how really small tinies, women so small that the surface tension is a factor, would drink.

Honestly, I’m leaning towards the idea of no really being able to ‘drink’ it, and it being more of getting needed moisture from their food…

Which brings up the fact that, at that size, they probably couldn’t eat a lot of food; too big, too tough. Honestly, outside of artificial things, smoothies, pastes and what not, I’d think they’d be forced to eat only fruit, and only certain fruits, at that: the berries and the like, the really soft ones, or something someone else opened for them. I doubt they could even get through an apple’s skin.

@littlest-lily said in Lesser Known Inconveniences of Being Giant/Tiny:

@foreverlurk Chronic overthinker, thaaaaat’s me!

I’ve never felt more known.

I think the problem is the plumbing, hooking it up and all that.

So, how is the bathroom handled? After a certain point you can probably do hamster cage thing, maybe put an area aside, but when they’re bigger? Or if you’re not doing the hamster cage?

Best I’ve ever figured is the defacto built-into-the-seat child’s tiny’s toilet seat I used once, where between the lid and the usual seat is one with a much smaller hole so the little lady doesn’t fall in. That, and ladders. So many ladders.

@blehb
Every time I seriously brianstorm GT, I always do something to explain how a giant person is existing successfully; inhuman biology is one (robot, dragon), another I’ve dabbled with on and off is, not only are they weird biologically, it’s so damn far in the future there’s forece fields that appear under their feet so they don’t damage things.

As a sort of cheating, uno-reverse, lately I’ve brainstormed… how do I put this. The world collectively, but not all at once, shrinking, and everything shifting to fill the space and such… except a few guys, and man made objects. It’s sorta both, because the end result is a giant in a world of tiny people and mountains and animals, but when comes to houses and the like it’s more like they’re the normal one.

Really, I get hung up on little details way too much, it gets in the way of me even trying to write, because then I’m like, “But how does this work???” and focusing on a ‘realistic’ setup for somethign blatently unrealistic.

@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…