@skysayl Nope, I thought your voice was lovely, and it was nice and clear, like enunciating well without overdoing it. I used to listen to a lot of audiobooks and you’d fit right in as a narrator imo~ It’s actually kinda inspiring! (Dammit, feeling tempted to try voicework again now even though I know I’ll hate it when I listen back lolol)
For the longest time, I would have answered that it’s pretty much all self insert for me. I have a rather active imagination when I’m daydreaming, and when I’m reading a story or something it’s not that I imagine myself being the small one, but I do kinda put myself in their shoes. And then about a year ago I started writing my own stories and found so much joy in that. So whenever I’m thinking about scenarios for characters that I’m writing, those I do usually imagine from the outside.
@Giant-Man-1984 I love any time an animation can properly convey weight/momentum. That subtle little moment at the end where he turns and her body sorta lurches was nice~
@giantmaneddie Thank you! Yes, I think I might go back to weekly and just change up my schedule from time to time, but at the moment my backlog is running low, and I’d also like to focus a bit more on other projects (plus make some of the comics a little longer/better too~)
@SmolChlo It’ll be way more subtle than the actual Arietty room but mark my words I will (attempt to) make giant flowers one day!!
@TakoAlice8 I love that you posted this, because I actually know exactly what you’re talking about. Maybe it’s because for me personally, while this is absolutely a kink, it’s so much MORE than that - I’d about 90% of the time it’s just a deep interest that might give me the warm and fuzzies but doesn’t make me feel hot and bothered. With that said, I interact a lot with the sfw G/t community, and it feels like almost an entirely separate thing from the kink side. And I’ve thought before that there are similarities between that and the furry community. Lots of young people, lots of acceptance and support for the full LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent spectrums. I’ve seen some cute romance stuff, but oftentimes the relationships between the big and small are platonic friendships, and it’s more about the appreciation of the size difference, the adventures that can come from it, the comfort it can bring someone, etc.
The few people that I’ve told about this side of myself have reacted with various versions of “aww, that’s really cute!” and maybe that’s because I usually lead with the sfw aspect - that I’ve always been really into fairies and wish I could be one - and then add on that it’s also a bit of a kink for me, like a domination thing. One of my friends had at least heard of GTS and was like “yeah, I can understand that,” another was like “omg I love fairies too, that’s adorable!” and was interested in talking about the science side of it, etc. None of these people ended up having the kink themselves, but that didn’t mean they couldn’t find the concept interesting and enticing in some way.
As for something like a convention, I think there’s a bunch of ways people could cosplay for it if they wanted! For Halloween a few years ago I was part of a Peter Pan group - naturally I was Tinkerbell and my husband was Hook lol. It was super fun for me! And if I ever make it to sizecon I’d love to dress up as a borrower. It’s not quite as universal as a fursuit but it’s still possible to enjoy that side of it.
And I think there’s plenty that could appeal to the masses if there was an in person G/t convention. People enjoy miniatures, you can find those kind of exhibits already (just think of all the model train bros). Same with giant things. Areas with small objects, areas with big objects, a ren faire style fairy garden thing, all of that could be fun for anyone. Same with the D&D one shots and room escape that were already at size con. You might see the occasional Arietty or Antman cosplay, fairy costumes, people walking around with figures riding on their shoulder or in their pocket. There are plenty of sfw artists who could display/sell their work, and just like at normal family-friendly anime conventions, you could still have some lewd options in designated areas. I could go on and on with potential ideas. If someone wanted to do some sort of event or exhibit along those themes and not advertise it as a sexual thing, I think all sorts of people would show up.
Do I actually think it could go mainstream? I don’t thiiink so, at least not from the kink side for all of the reasons mentioned. And even from the sfw side I’m just not sure the number of size fans even comes close to the number of furries - I’m not sure how much of that can be altered by simple awareness that the fandom exists. But I don’t think it’s completely out of the question. And even if it’s ultimately unrealistic, it’s just so fun to dream about!!
And I personally don’t think that it would ruin what we’ve already got in the kink community, I think it could all coexist. Maybe if it became more popular, some of it might go down the 50 Shades of Grey route and not be at all what we want, but maybe we would also get some better stories too. That might just be me being naïve though. Like Olo mentioned, I’m not waiting on mainstream media to catch up - there’s already plenty of great content to see and to make, and I’m content with that.
@foreverlurk Heh, you’ve unlocked a memory from my childhood… I remember playing on the playground with a couple of friends and somehow we fell into the whole hand-perspective thing. They’d pretend to “hold” me in their hand and then hold up a gap between their fingers like “you look THIS small to me.” Then I’d back up from them and they’d do it again “now you look THIS small!” I kept backing up until I was on the other side of the soccer field and presumably looked like a speck on their hand, and then after I ran back there were many exclamations of “wow, you were so tiny!!”
I think this memory makes me happy because 1) I love the whole shrinking smaller and smaller to micro sizes thing and 2) sometimes as a kid I’d get paranoid that I was bothering friends with too many shrinking games, but in this case they were really engaged, and I love it when the giant is just as excited about the size difference as I am.
Like you, it was all innocent at the time, but it was definitely formative!
@foreverlurk That’s exactly what I wanted to make once upon a time. And then I recorded two sentences and as soon as I heard it back I noped out of there lol
@SmolChlo No I’m with you! I just want more and more of those giant ASMR stories hehe
@foreverlurk Uh oh! Guess it’s time for me to go have an existential crisis lol
My partner has definitely done the whole taking a picture of me from his much taller POV thing and it is very silly 
@Olo Fair enough. At least she still makes requests for a giant
@Olo That hasn’t been my experience, but then again… You all look tall from down here 
@Olo Hell yeah~
Also I feel the need to specify that I haven’t found shorter guys to be more dickish than taller ones either. Just that I haven’t noticed a correlation between height and dickishness in my own experience, but that this might also be because I’m 5’2" and it truly is hard to tell sometimes haha