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@SmolChlo Are you “out” to your friends as a macrophile?

@littlest-lily I’m old enough to know better, but I can’t remember how people made up after a fight before there was texting.

Thank God for Diego. I was about to text Aiden myself.

@ivythefairie There is clearly an appeal to being able to get what you want just by grunting.

@shardro Marvelous!

@shrunkenlaura Bon voyage!

@littlest-lily Excellent tension-building, btw. I had no idea (or, rather, too many ideas) how this chapter would end.

I suspect Evie will now permit Aiden to commit a little trespassing.

So, an exchange in the Unfortunate Alice thread prompted me to think more about a question about perspectives in size fantasy that I’ve been wrestling with for a while now. How much do you really want to know about your fantasy object?

If you identify as a tiny woman in a M/f scenario, do want to know what’s going on in the big guy’s head, do you want to project your own preferences onto him, or do you want him to remain mysterious and overwhelming? I know what I like as a size fantasist, but as a size writer I often wonder which perspectives and how much depth I should include.

I don’t think there’s much question that the majority of size fantasists primarily identify as tiny, with the consequence that the “classic” size fantasy story is written from the tiny’s perspective. In such stories, the giant characters are generally free to pursue their own agendas without having to explain or justify them, and the drama comes from the tiny characters having to anticipate and adapt to those agendas. Mysterious or arbitrary giants therefore often make good plot devices.

Size fantasy has become more sophisticated since we all found each other and started creating for people other than ourselves. We have begun to think about not only what we want to see but also how we want to be seen, about who else has found their way to size fantasy and what they want to see. “Classic” relationships can be inverted, trying on different perspectives or just mixing things up and seeing what happens.

I’m just curious as to what everyone’s tastes are as far as this goes. Sometimes I prefer a refreshing change of perspective, but often I just need my itches scratched, and long stories with complex characters and plots can divert from that. I still maintain that real characters make for hot smut, but I don’t always have a good feel for when to just lean into the tropes we all know and love.

For example, my story series Taken is written from the perspective of Gordon, a man compelled to shrink women and take them for his pleasure. The narrative is deeply embedded in his own desires and anxieties, and he is often a comic or a tragic figure. I wrote it this way partly because I wanted to subvert the stereotype of the mysterious and confident giant, partly because I was trying to stretch my literary legs, but mostly because I wanted to explore what kind of man would kidnap, rape, and devour women and how he would think of himself. If you’re a tiny woman who gets off on reading about such a man, do you want to know what’s going on in his head or do you just want to see him get down to business?

There is no “bad” answer here; all opinions and preferences are valid.

The Captive by Mikester65

This series dropped on Amazon Prime this last Friday. I did a short review (spoiler-free!) for people with our agenda:

I’m A Virgo

@littlest-lily

“Glorious Dollar Points?”

It’s perfectly normal to keep a woman in mind for months or years before you’re ready to shrink her. Not that I have any personal experience with that.

@hentaihunter1 said in Perspectives:

I don’t really have any giant stories, I just don’t know what else to call them. Cagers? Reducers? Did I miss the slang memo for this?

I’ve never seen slang or a tag for this, but I’d nominate “Collectors.”

I don’t think I have any personally written stories that switch between shrunken and Giant though, maybe I should.

I didn’t want to imply that all stories could be divided into “giant’s perspective” and “tiny’s perspective;” there are endless variations and configurations. When it comes to smut, it generally helps to have someone’s perspective in order to show their sensations and emotions and thoughts. However, I’ve read successful (that is, arousing) stories that were just straight-up third-person reporting of events that didn’t get into anyone’s heads.

Of course, it’s always more difficult to write from the perspective of a different gender, orientation, or kink than your own, but that’s not a reason not to try. As always, the solution is to encourage greater diversity in both writers and readers.

Belastungsprobe by Pipifax (aka Max Liebermann)

@foreverlurk Reminds me of Star Trek: Voyager when Kim and Torres tried to transfer The Doctor from Sick Bay to Engineering and they got the size wrong.

@littlest-lily Ryder continues to take presumptuous liberties with Isabelle, but perhaps my favorite presumption is giving her a pet name. With peers one tries out a nickname to see if the subject will permit its use before adopting it. Ryder extends no such courtesy to “Sweetie.”

“You and I have a unique bond”

At least she’s honest with herself about how attractive she finds this situation and not pretending to be gaslit. I wonder if she’ll think to ask him how many others he’s “sent down there” and what happened to them.

Looking forward to the smut…