@Olo there’s no pleasing entitlement.
@foreverlurk Ignoring and blocking is a very fine approach to dealing with…hm, inappropriately forward people. I doubt you’ll miss them. They can perish in their abundance of Fm/SM content. However you decide to address them (or not!), don’t let them get you down. Plenty of others appreciate you sharing some pretty cool Mf/SW AI content.
@ThumbLoverVer2 said in Shrinking Story Ideas:
Giant: “Really… you’re not even fighting me about this?”
Tiny: “Will it change anything?”
Giant: “No. not really… Not even a little bit?”
Tiny: “Sounds like too much work.”
Relateable :')
So scaredy giants are adorable. I would absolutely read a story about this - it’s very much like Arrietty’s first encounter with The Boy! Also, so many people are afraid of tiny things, it’s pretty funny. Unless you live in Australia, then even the tiny things really do try to kill you.
Wholesome stories are always welcome in my book 
@littlest-lily cameras on phones are wonders for smol perspectives, but the illusion is also very easy to break if it’s not done carefully or thoughtfully. Though I imagine we’re an audience that’s a bit harder to please since we’re much more perceptive and sensitive to this kind of stuff (hence also why I also prefer audio at this stage).
Atlas ASMR put out a really nice video a couple of years ago which is one of the very few ASMR acting videos that I still REALLY like. Wonderful angle and the sound is just…MMPH. You may have already seen it, but sharing for anyone curious https://youtu.be/f3cR9ALOacE?si=hxyd5s-3Cq8eyQJO
This comic distracted me for DAYS. God, it’s done so well. I wasn’t a big fan of Astarion before, but this made me ease up on him and give him a chance (I know the comic isn’t canon, but that dialogue 🤌)
I wanted to add: the TV version of Hannibal Lecter. Aside from Mads being an absolute babe (also, what a show), the character is an ideal candidate for a lot of fear-based size scenarios - some situations being more obvious than others. I’ve definitely drawn on him for inspiration for characters and stories.
@SmolChlo I can ham up the Australian drawl. That tends to be a pleaser for some reason (jk, I know why - we sound ridiculous).
@Olo said:
This makes me wonder if Colliaz wasn’t, in fact, a victim of DA’s notorious practice of deleting size kink accounts without warning.
Same. Not going to try to psychologise, but they weren’t in a good headspace, poor thing.
@foreverlurk said:
Does “Deactivated” means the same thing as “Deleted”, on Deviantart? Fuck if she’s been taken down we ALL could.
I think, like social media accounts, DA doesn’t allow users to delete their accounts, but you can deactivate instead. Similar with submissions: I tried to do the same with my old account some time ago and they made it VERY hard for me to delete my own art - I had to opt for “archiving” or something that essentially made it unavailable for viewing by anybody (regardless of whether they saved it in their favs or had a link to it). It still remain on DA’s servers though, I guess. Likely something in the fineprint under and ownership clause, etc. It did the job, but I was/am still miffed about it.
@i-am-insane said:
there’s this obvious dynamic of, ‘I could do this to you. I won’t, because I’m not an asshole, but that has nothing to do with your ability to stop me.’
Yes, absolutely! A lot of gentle giant scenarios carry this sort of feeling already, but there’s that extra level of consciousness for characters built/trained to fight - as you say, a refined power. I absolutely love that with gentle giants, makes them that much more lovable. Be still, my beating heart.
Full disclosure, I haven’t listened to the podcast yet.
@foreverlurk got me curious to look up research and published work on macrophilia, because, yeah, that sounds really outdated and unsubstantiated. I mean, it might be true for some people, but I think it’s, at best, an extremely uninformed conclusion.
Professor Mark Griffiths posted a decent blog piece on macrophilia in 2012. It already seems a hell of a lot of insightful into the psychology of extreme size differences. Note his comment on Friedman’s comments:
"However, most online accounts by macrophiles that I have read online, don’t seem to match the psychological profile put forward by Dr. Friedman. "
I know that we, as fans, have enough insight to dismiss her comments (as you have), but perhaps it’s some consolation to see an informed observation coming from the outside.
I’d love to see the results of a survey/study on size fetishes/fascinations more broadly - the few papers I’ve skimmed so far focus on a single person and treats it like a mental illness, which is neither particularly representative or very encouraging. I’ve mentioned before that even a demographics survey would be cool (someone did one a while ago that did the rounds for a few months).
TL;DR Dr Friedman’s comments are, at best, questionable speculation on the roots of macrophilia/size fetishes.
@blehb said:
Of course, this can also apply to superficial things like hair and eye color and stuff. I love being able to visualize what the author is intending.
Yes! All of that shouldn’t discourage someone to give thought to what their characters look like. The emotional and physical features of a character aren’t mutually exclusive after all.
I generally give more grace to kink stuff especially (not just creations but forum posts and reflections too, no kinkshaming!) because of how personal they can and often are. For example, my giants are almost always handsome and attractive - to me, at least, because it’s my fantasy. I would like for a giant in another person’s story to be attractive, but I don’t always need specific details as to what, why or how. Tbh part of it’s to subvert the “ugly giant” trope. I just want big man and little lady.
@skysayl said:
That said, personally, the idea of having a sizey interaction with a celeb or internet famous person feels a tad ooky on the grounds that 1- I don’t know them personally and 2- It toes the lines of consent.
Sure, famous people have porn made in their likeness after all. Someone literally turned Rebecca Black into a giantess once (which she seemed receptive to when asked about it, funnily enough.) But I ask myself how I would feel if random people had my photos and were turning me into a giantess or manipulating my body or face to fit their particular fantasy without my knowledge. And you know what… it doesn’t feel great. lol
Same, and for the same reasons. So my fantasies don’t involve people in real life, which extends to celebrities or other public figures.
In saying that, some giants I’ve fantasised about (or created original characters with) have been inspired by characters played by certain celebrities, or their physical characteristics like hair, face or body shape, noses, hand size, etc. Features that I generally find attractive. Henry Cavill (lololololol) has made the list, along with Lee Pace, Richard Armytage, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and a handful of professional wrestlers for their great thighs.
@SmolChlo said:
Enemies to lovers all the way ~
Enemies-to-lovers is great! It’s got to be done well though, otherwise as @littlest-lily said, you end up wondering how they can stand each other (reminiscent of the whole “marriage/relationships are a battle” mentality, I think). That is, of course, depending on the kind of relationship the author is trying to convey - even problematic ones make for a good narrative, depending on where they’re going with it.
I’m not sure if it can be classed as “enemies-to-lovers” dynamics, but I enjoy exisiting tensions between a giant and tiny that causes at least one of them to be very wary of the other from the beginning. It doesn’t have to be antagonistic or hateful necessarily (i.e. enemies in the strictest sense of the word), but something that gets them ruffled when forced to interact, e.g. maybe they have to rely on each other to meet each other’s goals (quid pro quo), or they have a strictly professional relationship (colleagues, work partners, boss-employee, etc.). The size scenario ends up challenging their perceptions of the other; it disrupts their relationship dynamics by placing them in what are often intimate situations with each other that they wouldn’t have otherwise volunteered for - not necessarily sexually intimate, but others forms of physical and/or emotional intimacy as well.
@Nyx said:
- That looks like a giant phone
- Imagine a giant texting that to all of the normal-sized people in the area just before he shows up
Oh no, I’m glad I’m not walking through again right now, because this has got me all flustered 
@skysayl said:
Get a male friend to preread and draw attention to this specific aspect. I’m sure they would be happy to help you with the accuracy. I love when someone corrects me somewhere I don’t have the expertise in, just makes the writing better.
Ahaha yes, that would be the easiest route. I’ll have to sort out my many other confidence issues 
but for now will settle on reading other works, or asking my partner “so what your peen do when…?” And taking notes.