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@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

@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.

@TakoAlice8 I say this coming from a drawing and writing background, can’t say much for animation. For me, the creative drive comes and goes. Creating takes work: some days it’s easier, a lot of the time though, it takes and effort. It can be exhausting. Countering the perfectionism is only a small part of the problem, I think. But I don’t mean to make is sound all “gloom and doom” though; I just mean that you’re not alone.

It’s hard to not already “love the process” - you wouldn’t be wanting to create otherwise (unless you’re being forced to, but that’s a different issue). So rather than seeking to “fall in love with the process”, it’s worth being patient and, I guess, let the magic happen when it happens. Don’t force yourself, lest you get frustrated. But don’t give up entirely: fill the time by doing something else - something small, or something unrelated to your current project, even if it’s just practising for yourself. Every little bit of work you do is progress, for the term short term and long term, and contributes to your process.

@TakoAlice8 the Amazon “classification” in the size community is likely just from the modern use of the term “Amazon” outside of the size community. “Amazon” has generally been attributed to not only warrior classes of women, but women who are muscular and also often tall (as in, taller than average and within the realms of realism). I would guess that the more exaggerated heights were a stylistic choice to… embellish or emphasise the perceived strength and power of the women, which we are all very familiar with.

So it was a natural choice for the size community to adopt to describe a particular preference for their fantasies, i.e. tall, strong, muscular women.

@littlest-lily said in Out of their Element:

Like a worm.

An appropriate question to ask is: would he love you if you were a worm?

Thanks for posting this, @littlest-lily ! I’m very excited to see where it heads lovely, engaging writing. Just chef kiss

Potential SPOILER ALERT for Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla

I’ve been playing AC: Valhalla, and recently came across a cut scene for the death of a key antagonist. What was unexpected was a brief inclusion of the main protagonist’s brother as a giant followed by a decent handheld. It arguably treads into VSW territory, except that the antagonist is already dead and there is minimal blood in the sequence (sorry for those who like that), but she does scream before a crunch. If you play as the female version of the protagonist, there is the added bonus of having another woman in the sequence but it’s much more limited. The video in this case shows the male version.

Size ratio is about 1:12 (I’d prefer him bigger, but still a nice watch).

Other notable themes/content are: woman at giant’s feet, giant imprisoned and bound, giant breaking out of his bonds and then standing to display stature, man turned god/monster, giant taking vengeance on captor. All of which are -chef’s kiss-

Start of cut scene at 4:32, size related content at 4:57:

https://youtu.be/3E26cM3eTuA

@littlest-lily said in Out of their Element:

Time freezes for a moment. In the split second before I manage to scream, my eyes widen as I’m thrown into terrified confusion.

I come for the giants, I stay for the trauma.

But also I hope Evie gets some love and care after this. Poor thing ️

@littlest-lily how dare you share this gift distraction

@blehb (no apology needed, I’m glad you’re enjoying it! There’s no pressure to interact, that was just a fun little addition to make it feel a bit more like a public reach-out. It’s already ~95% written with enough flexibility/vaguery to accommodate responses to build into the base)

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 wasn’t planning on doing a follow-up post, to keep things open-ended. @SmolChlo @foreverlurk @blehb I loved each of your responses individually, and as a collective of the main verdicts!

@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

@skysayl said:

If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of reading this lovely story, or just want to hear me somehow make it more , then allow me to read it for you…

I’ve gushed before, I’ll gush again: she absolutely nails it 🥰

@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