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@sloppy_amy Just keep her talking.

@blehb said:

Plus, beauty is subjective! Which is why I think some writers will leave out descriptions. They’ll imply the giant is attractive and what that means is up to you and your preferences.

This was my initial instinct when I first started writing Size stories, but I quickly changed my mind for two reasons.

Interior monologues are too important to erotica not to include the POV character’s opinions on the physical attributes of the character they’re having feelings about. Those little details are going to take on greater significance as the protagonist reflects on what it’s like to be near them (or separated from them). If the reader is just too repelled by the giant’s mustache or beer gut, well, you can’t please everybody.

Similarly, another well-known trope of erotica/romance is that emotional attraction often precedes physical attraction, and attributes that might be insignificant or even unattractive on a dating app or in a singles bar become endearing or even arousing later in the relationship.

Reasons specific to Size: being overwhelmed by a giant’s physical attributes is a central experience in size fantasy. How they smell, the texture of their skin, the color and style of their hair, the clothes they wear (and enclose tiny POV characters), how their voice sounds to tiny eardrums—it’s not a Size story without these details.

Another aspect of Size that is important to me is that tinies can’t be choosers. Meaningful consent is an elusive beast in all but the most gentle Size stories, and becoming acclimated to the tiny role in a mixed-size relationship includes accepting all the physical realities. That process of acceptance is a crucial element of this genre.

@blehb said:

Also a SW Tomagotchi game??? It NEEDS to be made. Maybe a bit more forgiving though.

Different kinds of care and feeding, certainly.

@smolchlo Shouldn’t Chloe, who is the most familiar with her orifices, determine the answer to that question?

@foreverlurk said:

if the giant is a handsome, strong and tall 20-something, it makes it harder for my early midlife self to insert.

It’s getting harder and harder for me to write college-age characters the farther I get from those years. It’s not just that I don’t know the current slang, I don’t even know how they hook up any more.

“He’s Large”

@smolchlo You wanna play with giants, you need to know your limits.

@foreverlurk I’m not a 3D render artist, so I don’t know what models are available, but I’d like to see more normal-looking people in Size renders. Plain faces, higher BMI, and older folks. Enough with the boobs that look like helium dirigibles. Bring back gravity.

I don’t experience body dysmorphia, with regard to Size Fantasy or otherwise. Like @blehb, Size Fantasy is for me completely separate from my IRL physical self. I’ve never felt particularly tall or short, and I’ve never been involved with particularly short or tall women. To me, the whole point is fantastic size difference, so one’s mundane size is irrelevant.

A primary reason why I’m always insisting on more depictions of male giants in Size Fantasy is that I want to imagine what male giants look like to those who find them attractive. It’s not that I find my IRL body “unsuitable” for imagining as a giant, I just don’t kid myself that there aren’t archetypes out there that people prefer.

@smolchlo We’ll start with something more pliable than a fingertip.

@littlest-lily I mean, the term “the male gaze” originated in film studies and I’ve seen it much more in reference to visual arts. That’s part of why I asked: its application to text seemed less obvious to me.

I’ve complained about this before; search on Subject for “Sex Objects.” Unlike textual depictions, visual representations have to be specific about the objects of their gaze(s). For better or worse, the bottom line remains: if we want more gratifying representations of giant men in M/f art, more tiny straight women need to make it.

@littlest-lily That’s another, earlier survey, one that I remember taking.

Tiny-taker is still Tumblin’ away? That cheers me up.

@mrgoblinging7 I don’t think this was the artist’s intent in this particular case, but I always appreciate size art where the gender of one or more characters is sufficiently ambiguous such that the viewer can project their preferred gender upon them.

@foreverlurk Great idea! A French tiny wouldn’t be able to understand a thing in Quebec.