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@littlest-lily how dare you share this gift distraction

@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

Not sure if there’s a thread for this already, but anybody have any webcomics or webtoons with size content (centring around the theme, or simply containing in some way)?

For clarity, this includes comics published online (legally and usually for free or for a small access/subscription fee). As an example, my personal go-tos are Webtoons, Tapas and Manta.

I was reminded recently after reading the latest episode of Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe on Webtoons. This comic is a contemporary interpretation of the Greek gods and mythology, with a focus on the relationship between Hades and Persephone (with a non-r*pe take). A fantastic comic in general and I highly recommend it for the story, humour and art, but an added bonus is the occasional size content. This usually comes in portrayals of the titans as being many times larger than the gods, who are assumed to be human-sized (with some being able to “grow to titan size” if they are powerful enough).

Another comic of note is The Falcon Princess on Tapas. A story about a princess whose consciousness is mysteriously transferred into the body of a small messenger bird. No one else knows, including the handsome captain of the guard who looks after her. For the first half of the comic she is portrayed as a bird, or as a human in flashbacks. But there have been times her “human form” figuratively substitutes her “bird form” to represent her feelings about (and being in) a certain situation for the reader. Think, woman in birdcage type scenes.

I’m afraid I can’t share screenshots of said scenes, but LR is free to read and TFP has free episodes + “wait until free” type service (inconvenient at times, but Tapas has got lots of content to pass the time).

Anybody else have any suggestions?

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).

@Nyx said:

it’s one of the things that disappointed me about the movies…the robots weren’t as big as they were in the 90s cartoon

Cowards

@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.

@foreverlurk said:

Okay he’s not a “giant” in the sense we think of, but he’s still freaking SEVEN FOOT TWO (218 cm!)

But what if - and hear me out -
B I G G E R.

@Nyx said:

I’ve bought so many books and other media based on the fact that they appeared to be giant-related.

@Olo said:

Comic books are the worst in this regard. Size differential has such an immediate and universal symbolic meaning.

Aren’t they just? Like there was absolutely no chance that Reacher would have any sizey stuff happening (just posted as a bit of fun), but it’s much harder to tell with fantasy, sci-fi and horror media in general. I appreciate the imagery, but my little heart and my bank account can only take so much disappointment

Speaking of comics: here’s a few choice pages from a JLA comic someone from CF kindly posted a while ago. When I first saw the cover, I thought “oh, this must be symbolic.”

It wasn’t.

I like to revisit this one when I’m looking for “giant superheroes causing accidental chaos in a city” inspiration :3

@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.

Potential minor l spoilers, but I’m avoiding mentioning specific plot points and details.

I’m both a fan of myth retellings and the animation studio behind Netflix animated show, Blood of Zeus. For those unfamiliar, it centres around a young man’s discovering that he’s a demigod, and whose father is none other than Zeus. It’s a whole fantastical romp through Ancient Greece, dealing with the gods’ bullshit and general pettiness.

The show already has some decent size-difference content in S1 and S2. My stomach dropped with excitement the first time I saw the size comparison of the gods against humans - maybe about 9-10ft tall? Some decent interactions between them too. May be of interest to mini-giant fans.

Scenes from S1 and S2 teased the presence of titans, who are mostly imprisoned at this point and referred to in passing. Giant humanoids, otherwise, were primarily monsters. And mentions of “giants” referred to dead creatures or non-literal giants.

Imagine my pleasant surprise, then, when the titans are a significant presence in S3. Not only that, but they are BIG and much more human-like. They may be 90-100ft? Maybe bigger (or smaller) in certain scenes, they vary a bit depending. I’m halfway through right now, and there have been some decent sized scenes, including growth, destruction and one particularly brief but gory bit with a massive hand emerging from the ground and crushing some nearby bystanders. The vast majority of scenes emphasise the strength and destructive power of the titans. Not so much M/f specific interactions, but - hey, you take what you can get.

I can’t provide screenshots right now, but I would recommend giving it a watch. It’s also very beautiful, in classic Powerhouse Studios fashion.

@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:

1. That looks like a giant phone
2. 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