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So… out of a sort of dreadful curiosity, and while this topic is here, I gotta ask.

I’ve made it a habit lately to try and flip GTS cliches and imagine them in a GT/sw context, but there’s one thing that bugs me: a lot of GTS stuff ends up with the woman having… frankly, ridiculous breasts. From ‘theoretically possible if at jackpot lottery odds’ to ‘this is bigger than her entire body’, and every stage in between.

So… applying that the other polarity… would you like, or mind, a giant, or normal guy, with an equally impossibly large dick? And, while I’m at it, being tiny with ridiculously huge breasts (which is the inversion of another common GTS thing, where the normal guy gets a giant penis so he can be used by the giantess).

@littlest-lily
I’ve been on a bit of a micro kick lately, so applying that logic ot a micro? It must be like getting dropped from a plane without a parachute.

I’m conflicted on if its more interesting to have an adrenaline junky be addicted to be tossed around like a toy, or a woman panic every time she gets accidently blown of the table, even if she comes out of it fine every time. Or considering micros… both!

@littlest-lily
Well. Now I need to work it into a story somewhere that a tiny keeps getting thrown around, but is always fine, so she loses all fear of heights and/or gets super traumatized.

@Olo
I mean, narrative convenience is one thing, but what about on the realism end. Or, ‘realism’, anyways?

@littlest-lily
That’s the thing though: an ant can. Could a woman of equal size do that?

No, seriously; creatures that small are built around being that small, and insects are famously much stronger proportionally than a human is. Could a woman and her hands match an ant’s mandibles?

@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?