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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).

I’ve always been into giants, tiny people and especially fairies, but I would pinpoint my “awakening” to M/f was Captain Planet S6E3, Frog Day Afternoon when Wheeler and Linka (who was my favourite character) are shrunk by Dr Blight. Wheeler reverts back to normal size first and has a brief but rather cheeky interaction with Linka. I’d have been around 5yo at that point.

I was exposed to sexual size content at around 15 or 16, but it made me uncomfortable and I had a complicated relationship with sex in general, let alone a fetish. I didn’t really get into it until I was maybe 20. I still very much have my preferences, but my tastes have changed over the years with regard to what I do and don’t tolerate.

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

Great finds btw am definitely down on this potential trend.

@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

I’ve always found it easier and more comfortable to be a sort of observer and to relate to characters in situations rather than be invovled myself. I’ve only broken this rule in my dA and Tumblr days during roleplays, comics or other visual aids that are meant to act as “behind the scenes” resources of my characters or world building (or just general silliness), where I have an avatar to represent me. Even then, I’ve rationalised “her” as not really me either, but a character or caricature.

I think it goes hand-in-hand with my preference to avoid involving real people in my fantasies - no friends, no family, no celebrities, not even some random hottie I happened to pass by. Insipried by them, maybe, but never themselves.

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

@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.

@foreverlurk said in:

I’d be down for a SFW group, Discord server, or sub-board, where we can somehow verify the age of participants, and have a space to chat between adults.

Seconding this. Whatever is easy to maintain.

Having been on SFW and NSFW boards as a minor into adulthood, I can appreciate having a space that is dedicated to sharing or discussing SFW content with the flexibility of discussing more mature topics.

I don’t want to infantalise young people who are coming to terms with being more sexually active and they should be free to safely explore that - I’d be a hypocrite to deny that as someone having been fortunate enough to be shown mostly patience and guidance along the way. But it’s the interaction between adults and minors that can be difficult to navigate. I’m sure I and fellow young’ns at the time on the Min’s forum made the adults pretty uncomfortable just by being present, so I simply did not engage with sexual content (which was fine because I wasn’t into it at the time). And now that I’m on the other side of that, I’m wary too.

In any case, happy to support this!