Best posts made by Olo

@Giganto82 They’re afraid of catching Teh Gay.

@TakoAlice8 The nose goes both ways. First thing I do with a little lady is sniff her all over, every nook and cranny.

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I think there’s room for people just ever so slightly unnaturally large. 7-footers are rare but they’re not unheard of. What most people expect to see when they look at a 7-footer is someone who is seven feet long. That’s markedly different than, say, a 5’9" dude proportionally enlarged to 7’0" in height. That person is going to get double-takes from everyone, but no one will be able to confidently say “that’s unnatural.”

Bigger than that and you have a guy who will have real difficulty navigating the built environment and will provoke people to call the authorities.

@littlest-lily

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yqOBuQRwOU

by Kiko

@i-am-insane This is what I think of when I hear She-Hulk being called “the Jade Giantess.” Weird how no one calls The Hulk “a giant,” huh?

@tiny-ivy There should have been an entire series devoted to the holodeck.

by Kiko

German, another language with gendered nouns, has Riese and Riesin for male and female giants, respectively. Oddly, German uses the same word, Zwerg, to refer both to IRL people with dwarfism and to imaginary people who are Tom Thumb-sized. And yes, a female “dwarf” is a Zwergin.

(Tom Thumb is Daumling (Thumbling) in the original German Kinder- und Hausmärchen by the Brothers Grimm)

@tiny-ivy

Counselor Troi Counselor Toy
Major Kira Mini Kira
7 of 9 7 or 9 inches
T’Pol S’mol
Ensign Tilly Ensign Tiny
Ensign Mariner Ensign Miniature

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Provocatively, when Rebecca Sugar wrote her Sizey song for Steven Universe, she didn’t write “All I wanna do is see you turn into a giantess.” I don’t think we need to limit ourselves to a single-word term for “male giant” or “giant man.”

@tiny-ivy I remember seeing some sizey Buffy fanfic, but of course it was F/m.

@sloppy_amy I’ve found that it’s difficult to crush a skull that’s still in use.