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@tiny-ivy (I love and am super flattered for your own take on this!)

u/PeevousGrievous
Replying to u/CheckPlease

First of all, I’m sorry that you contracted MINUS and I hope, for your sake, that it does not become a chronic condition for you. Thank goodness that your husband has been so supportive.

As a fellow MINUS sufferer, first and foremost: try to rest and relax. Whether a short-term or long-term infection, there isn’t much you can do while you’re still sick - it really is much like the flu in that respect.

If you’re feeling restless or can’t sleep, I recommend a free mobile game that’s just been released: Mi-Crow Cafe! It’s an adorable, “cosy” game about running a tiny cafe in a tree hollow for small animals. Each animal is a unique customer, with their own favourite foods, and as you build up a rapport with them, they tell you more about their lives. It’s also got amazing music, very Studio Ghibli-like. On top of that, it’s been recommended as a therapeutic game because the stories are actually based on the experiences of other MINUS sufferers. And I can confirm: it runs just fine on the tablet (I have the same one!)

It’s safe to say that the role of conflict in stories has been covered already.

I’m the same in that I was (still am, sometimes) really wary of incorporating darker themes into scenarios, because I emotionally invest a lot into my charcaters. I really wanted to explore violence and conflict, but I didn’t want to “taint” the characters I was using and also, it had to make sense (talking about romances in particular, but can also extend to friendships or other relationships). I like nice, healthy relationships so it was difficult to imagine, for example, the main giant as a sadistic abuser AND for the story to have a nice fluffy ending for the main giant and tiny. For example, some romances don’t make sense to me, or are not something I would call “romantic”. Like, the “I can fix him” trope is not something I usually subscribe to. Also, Ross and Rachael (iykyk).

In line with @Mrgoblinging7, I create “throwaways” - one-shot, stand-alone and non-canonical scenarios that focus on the dark stuff. I can incorporate regular characters, or make new ones entirely, it doesn’t matter. The scenario is only on whatever theme(s) I’d like to explore - I don’t worry about how it fits in with a fluffy scenario. Not yet. It’s about getting comfortable and understanding what I’d like to see; what would work, what wouldn’t if I did try to make it canon.

If that kind of dynamic between the main characters doesn’t work, but I still want someone to do something, then I use other characters to fill darker roles. Sometimes that’s a matter of preference though - you might not like having another character involved in the dynamic.

Sometimes it’s about reframing the story entirely - would I call something a romance? Or is it better described as a drama, tragedy, horror, etc.? You can have nice elements in all of these, but they’re secondary to the overall theme. It might start off nice then devolve into something darker. Maybe it’s always been fucked up, but it’s never been realised until a point.

Anyway. Those are my thoughts and approaches

@SmolChlo said:

Are they blending up human remains and feeding them to Dee?!

The struggle of having a Giant crave you in more than one way

Well, my thought about that was [REDACTED]

I like my giants and tinies to have a multisensory experience

@Olo said:

Freaky and enticingly open-ended. The shock-collar mechsuits were clever, fiendishly introduced after the physical side effects started taking their toll.

Thanks! If work has taught me anything, it’s that internal retaliation is both petty and more likely to happen than one would think. Easy inspiration for the suits and their intent.

I initially read “CIs” as “cis,” which is (pace Elon Musk) a perfectly cromulent way to refer to people whose bodies haven’t been transformed.

I kept reading it as “cis” too, but it’s just a coincidence.

I hope that in the end Dr. Too Little accepted the price she had to pay for witnessing such a miracle.

She does, but she also doesn’t have much choice.

@Olo said:

You got my nips all perky.

Tiddy nubbins deserve love and plenty of attention too.

There are so many wonderful lines, I should have kept better track of them great job, a lovely read!

@DFP said:

On the insertion thing, I have to assume most people have never had a catheter. Having something shoved into your urethra doesn’t seem Dominant to me.

I don’t have a penis, but I understand the pain and discomfort involved in shoving a rod in a hole that’s not meant to have something in it. But I would say the pleasure in insertion scenarios (of any kind, including vore I would say) isn’t necessarily from the physical sensation - at least not entirely. Pleasure and other feelings (e.g. powerful/lessness, humiliation, fear, anxiety) don’t always require something physical. It’s the experiencial narrative, the situation, and the awareness of it (as the person experiencing it or witnessing it).

For example: the insertee being so small that the the giant can’t even feel them. It’s not about how it physically feels then, because you can’t feel them at all, but some people love it for a range of reasons.

Another example: a dildo type of scenario. If I’m drawing parallels to the real world, statistically say, vaginal penetration is often not enough to cause an orgasm. Frankly, after a while of just penetration, it doesn’t really do much anyway in terms of pleasure. You have to compensate by stimulating something else. In the case of a GTS scenario using a person as a human dildo, the extra stimulation there is the use of a human being (or humanoid, whatever) as a sex toy and whatever feelings and pleasures that tends to elicit.

@Nyx said:

“They’re going to be pissed about that building.”

RUIN MORE ASSETS

I also really love the contrast of all of that and the sheepish courting (“is this a date?”)

@DFP you’re welcome!

I can also appreciate the implication (although not actually said as I have no wish to put words in your mouth) that penile insertion might be more about the insertee’s pleasure at being so helpless.

No implication really. It might be more popular amongst people who fantasise being the insertee, but it’s not exclusively for them then either (see: posts above on sounding, and also consider non-participants as either witness/voyeur characters or a reader/consumer of media).

@Nyx hngngggg thank you so much, I really appreciate that, truly I’m really glad that I was able to get the details across

@Nyx said:

I can see him in my mind’s eye, and he sounds like my kind of giant. Caring but also intimidating

Honestly, those types of giants are my go-to, whether they are intentionallty choosing to be intimidating or not! Ultimately softies at heart (or they learn to be) ️

While I think the Sabrina Carpenter cover thing is not the best example to talk about a woman’s expression of their sexuality etc. (because is she? Or does she want to promote her music? Maybe, maybe not, it’s certainly got us talking about it), it’s opened up a much-needed discussion around “choice feminism” more broadly, i.e. the re-focussing (distracting, even) on the individual level rather than the systemic.

Here’s a snippet of a lecture that I saw the other day that gives some historical context https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSkKVJVUx/

@littlest-lily heehee thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it ️

I have to ask the same thing I asked Nyx - do you have AO3 or a centralized place where you post all your work??

I’m afraid I don’t. Tbh I haven’t really thought about opening up an account somewhere, mostly because I’m not as active as I used to be with writing. I used to have stuff on dA or posted on other forums, but they’ve either been wiped or archived somewhere I don’t keep track of. I’ll have a think about AO3! I always thought it was for fanfic stuff, but I am clearly mistaken.

@Olo said:

Jude Doyle goes into much greater detail and has some important insights here.

This Is How You Lose the Sex Wars

Trying to pick a pathway through forty years of the ugliest conflict in feminism.

This is a nice reflection and really highlights the complexities of reconciling seemingly very polarised perspectives. It’s possible, and I think a lot of people overthink it. But also very difficult especially with so much distraction (sometimes intentional, sometimes not) from larger systemic issues, and social contexts constantly in flux.

@foreverlurk said:

The holy trinity of vulnerability, insignificance and yet being the only thing that matters, the center of his world.

I’m so glad to be able to get that across. It’s the best combination ️

@foreverlurk haha true, trope is probably not the right word. Whatever the equivalent is for an entire plotline.

@Olo said:

Very engaging and arousing SW smut! I also really enjoyed the Borrower mindset, instantly eyeing the muslin napkin for appropriation.

Thank you! I had to throw in a couple of Borrower idiosyncracies for a bit of fun.

Of course that’s a Borrower exclamation, I don’t know how it could be any different.

It was a notable exclamation in the 1900s! But I’d like to imagine Borrowers making it their own thing, like they heard it and used it, or it developed separately and was already in use, or that they also misheard “Jesus Christ” being said and it stuck. Perhaps all three across space and time, with different Borrower clans having their own reasons (and so the lore building continues).

Giants always give themselves away.

Even the quiet ones are not always subtle.🤭