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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

@Olo said:

You got my nips all perky.

Tiddy nubbins deserve love and plenty of attention too.

@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.

@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).

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/

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

If you’d still like to pursue some writing exercise, but having trouble with direction, you could consider doing a series of separate short stories set in a particular universe, rather than a single overarching story (which can come later if you figure something out).

@Olo said in Butt crush?:

@i-am-insane There are a number of activities or encounters in Size Fantasy that would “realistically” result in tiny fatalities that some people prefer to imagine as non-fatal, either because they don’t like killing anyone or because they just want to be able to do it over and over without replacing the tinies.

It’s just a personal preference. No one is doing butt crush “wrong.”

I’m primarily into non-fatal content, so I regularly keep my (main) tiny characters alive, even if it means a scenario defies reality (I mean, the whole shrunken/giant person thing completely defies reality, but let’s stick to the smaller details). Butt crush and Crush (general) scenarios are one of those categories I’ll liberally apply that principle to.

Sometimes, enjoying a fantasy is less about how it would intersect with reality and more about emphasising certain aspects of that fantasy that make it enjoyable, e.g. helplessness, domination, fear, aggression, something more sensory, etc. But it’s also typically easier suspend belief if you’re into something in the first place. Or to throw in a deus ex machina.

@tiny-ivy I think green is referencing a scene from Zoolander.

Great finds btw am definitely down on this potential trend.

@littlest-lily I’m very invested in this story. Really love the attention to details and how personal your writing is

@Technomage said in An appreciation for GIANTS:

Of course it’s all relative, I’d feel as turned on as a giant if I saw a normal sized girl roaming around, I’d have to grab her immediately and I’d have a good time.

And I think that’s true for some people and to some extent for others, hence the post in the first place. In saying that, absolutely agree that it’s really lovely to learn and share our own preferences, kinks and thoughts with others with the same/similar interests

@Olo that’s when a helping hand wouldn’t go astray

@Nyx he do a protec

@Nyx said in An appreciation for GIANTS:

I’ve seen it argued that there is more intimacy when it comes to shrinking and that the normal-sized person and the shrunken person can focus more on one another. In growth, the rest of the world is often involved (which I happen to like). This intimacy may be appealing to a lot of people.

Oh I remember reading something like this, that’s a good point. I was wondering if that, on top of this, a lot of guys might feel uncomfortable because of how exposed a giant would be (or the though of being so public). But I could simply be projecting.