Posts made by miss-lillipants

@i-am-insane said:

Hmm. Unless the equivalent is actually huge, bulging muscles or something? Big arms broad shoulders?

Not necessarily. This parallels discussions around superhero bodies and male power fantasies: portrayals of muscular men often don’t aim to appeal to women so much as to other men. But of course, it’s more nuanced than “men like muscles, women don’t”. I think because a lot of social conditioning around sex centres men and male pleasure so heavily, you may be hard pressed to find a direct equivalent to a lot of fantasy tropes (often leading to false equivalencies) without a lot of de-centering first. It’s complicated and I appreciate the effort you’re putting in to understand!

Personally, I love my giants to be broad-shouldered and sculpted like a statue, but it’s not necessary. I’d like for him to be attractive, but the specifics of his looks comes secondary to his personality, actions, intentions and the overall story. It’s a feature, not the main event. As @littlest-lily says,

the kink is around the fact that he’s much, much bigger. And then at that point I care more about what he does than what he looks like.

@Olo said:

I don’t think I’ve ever read a Size story that dealt with menstruating tinies.

I don’t think I’ve read one either. Not many stories in general tend to unless it’s young adult stuff, but tbf I am not an avid book reader. I do remember Tamora Pierce characters having to manage their periods when training for knighthood.

I’d be interested in people’s takes on how menstruation is experienced and managed for tiny/shrinking scenarios. Would make for some good lore/world building. Some broad thoughts to stay on topic:

1. Business as usual: bleeding as normal (or to the usual flow of the tiny) and is something to just deal with. Rags and other absorbent materials are probably pretty accessible and, depending, can be disposed of or washed. PMS symptoms are experienced the same way. They have to be careful of where they are at a particular point in time, at the risk of attracting unwanted beasties (piggybacking on the bear myth here a bit, but there are plenty of other things to worry about when you’re the size of a doll). This could be a problem for a tiny who’s periods are particularly painful or debilitating.
2. Shrinking is physiologically disruptive: Happens but the shrinking process changes the flow for whatever reason put forth, for better or worse, e.g. the tiny used to be able to keep track of their flow, now they can’t; they experience spotting for the first few months until their body equalises with their new size; they experience PMS symptoms to a different extent - less or more pain, lighter or heavier bleeding, different symptoms entirely, etc.
3. Nothing at all: menstruation is uncommon or ceases entirely. This might be brought on by different pressures, including the tiny exerting greater physical activity due to their small size, or a lack of accessible nutrition. For non-humans, maybe they just don’t have it at all, or very limited (like a couple times a year).

@littlest-lily and @Nyx have pretty well covered what I’d like to see in M/f stories. Thank you both for your thoughts

I’m someone who enjoys character-driven stories, so I like knowing character backgrounds, their thoughts, their feelings, their issues, and how they navigate their relationships (friends, family, romance, etc.) and the world around them. In particular, the tiny is who I sympathise with the most as the fictional representative of my fantasy, so I want to know what goes on inside her head.

Content wise, I am primarily a gentle fan. I am a huge romantic and love a good sweet, lovey-dovey story. I prefer giant or growth scenarios, but still enjoy SW content - usually they are already tiny, like fairies or Borrowers; it will always be my first love. To me, being small represents a powerlessness against the world, rather than a pathway to submission or relinquishing personhood to become an object. I like tinies with (and who retain) autonomy, and are able to look after themselves (or they learn to). There are some things they just cannot achieve in their diminutive state and it can break them, because I am still a sucker for suffering.

For giants, as I’ve shared in a previous post, they are are capable of immense destruction, but also great gentleness; they’ll frighten you to submission, but will hold you against their big, broad chests afterwards for a cuddle. For literal giants, I also enjoy rampage or kaiju style scenarios with emphasis on domination or demonstrating their power, rather than details on gore or death.

For both GT or SW scenarios, fearplay all the way. And are the guys hot? You bet your ass they are.

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 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!

@foreverlurk happily!

@foreverlurk it is a cool 18 degrees C here and I am FUCKING SWEATING. I love these! Thank you! God they’re so dashing…and so gentle (mostly)

It’s a tough choice between Gale and Halsin for me. I crushed on the both of them SO HARD, for different reasons. I wish Halsin had more depth (I’d happily swap out the whole bear…thing ), but he makes up very well with that mellow voice and that body. God help me when they updated some dialogue and the kissing animation, fuck

More importantly, both can have their own different GT/SW scenarios!

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 🤌)

@tiny-ivy awww Gale is my favourite charming soft boy he’d make a wonderful giant (to an SW or literal, I have also explored this).

I think Aylin’s character helped solidify my thoughts on the range and flexibility of paladin characters: she’s very proud, charismatic (glorious, even) and driven by a strong sense of justice, but she’s also intense, horrifyingly violent and has the absolute audacity 24/7. I wouldn’t quite want that for my main giant, but they would make for some great tension!

@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.

@The-Big-G Giving off some “how’s the serenity?” vibes. Love this!

@Nyx said:

I ended up shamelessly writing several stories about armored giants, including one about a daimyo and another about a man who’s turned into a living weapon. I’ll probably keep shamelessly writing them.

And I will happily indulge reading them!

You’re right about the power and elegance, and what better a look on a being who inherently exudes it? And then to demonstrate on a tiny army - stop, my heart.

@Olo said:

Being a giant is much more congenial in a world without artillery, aircraft, or nuclear weapons.

True. I like to spare my giants exposure to harder hitting pests, but they have a time and place.

@littlest-lily said:

As much as I enjoy D&D (thankfully I’m in a life stage where I’m not playing video games much because I’m already fascinated by BG3 despite not actually playing myself), it’s rare that I think about that kind of medieval fantasy type setting in my size fantasies. But some of what you just listed is making me reconsider

Medieval fantasy settings are one of my go-tos, but it helps to have something on hand to help with visualising, references, inspiration, etc. I normally make a bit of time for a liiiiittle bit of gaming here and there, but BG3 is such a time sink. Damn their beautiful character models!