@SmolChlo Whatever power your fella has to shrink people, I hope she never gets access to it.

I hope he posts the design plans for your enclosure on Etsy; it sounds delightful!

Maribeth Monroe in Downsizing

@littlest-lily I will refrain from asking follow-up questions and simply enjoy the extra glimpse into Blue’s life and her world.

I cannot help but be reminded of the time we tried to foster a second dog from the same rescue agency from whom we adopted our first dog. The second dog, Pax, must have been abused by a man because he never responded to my calls and always slunk away from me, even when I had treats. Pax constantly tried to escape, most notably digging under the backyard fence. We gave it three stressful months before I had to return him (on a Father’s Day, too). Fortunately he didn’t seem to teach our first dog any bad habits (like digging). On our recommendation the agency placed Pax with a woman who lived by herself.

I’m very proud of Blue for finding Lucky a new home, however long she stays. Something tells me FaeCo isn’t very diligent about vetting customers paying those prices.

@foreverlurk What I find so vexing about this is that you have no reason not to believe that either the original email or the response to your protest was, itself, generated by ChatGPT. You have no way of knowing whether this policy or its specific interpretation in your case was actually written or even approved by a human.

Despite the fact that your prompts and results are quite benign (or, as we say in the size smut biz, “Gentle”), I suspect that DALL-E (and other image generators) have been flooded with prompts that are not so benign, and someone (a human?) has determined that the power disparity in size differential is, ipso facto, always “problematic.” Coming from someone experienced in Size Fantasy, that might be a defensible position, but here it’s obviously just a convenient bright line for making corporate policy decisions.

@SmolChlo This is getting better and better (if more distracting). I think he’d want some kind of cover or lid in case Ms. Spray-Tan wanders in.

@tiny-ivy said in Missed Opportunity:

That movie was such a disappointment.
Not only am I sad that it was bad, but it means that any sizey-story that I dream of - or even put effort into - turning into a screenplay is pointless: studios would just compare it to this crappy movie, and have zero interest. It wrecked ‘adult-oriented size story’ as a movie category for a while. And there’s no way to make one without a budget.

This precisely captures my frustration and dismay with Downsizing. A huge step backward.

I first heard about it when an early draft of the screenplay was being shopped around. I came across a copy on a screenwriting forum. You will be vexed to learn that during the “second act” three of the downsized characters (those played by Matt Damon, Hong Chau, and Christoph Waltz) leave their community and travel to the home of Christoph Waltz’s twin brother, who has remained at full-size, along with Christoph Waltz’s wife. Their reunion dinner has a nicely bawdy conclusion.

Anthony Lane, film reviewer for The New Yorker, has recently been chided for letting his libido intrude upon his reviews, but I don’t believe anyone begrudged his criticism of Downsizing that essentially implied that it needed more giant-tiny sex. He even cited the Brobdingnagian maids of honour from Gulliver’s Travels.

We can do better.

@littlest-lily Alright, here’s the big one: How do the little ladies become little? Is it voluntary? Is it still a secret outside FaeCo’s customer base?

@SmolChlo I ain’t goin’ nowhere.

@SmolChlo It must be exciting, though, to be someone’s secret. Maybe one day he’ll let you talk him into taking you out of his office, hiding somewhere on his person, eavesdropping on his conversations.

@frollo I would have forgiven them if we had only gotten Hope holding a finger before her face for ant-mounted Scott to land on. Woulda looked great in the trailer and been excellent fanservice for us.

@kinkytink You deserve nothing less.

@Technomage I’m working on a long post about dark fantasies. One thing that’s very clear is that when sexual desires are involved we don’t trust people to have honest motives.

@littlest-lily This is totes adorbz. I’m getting a real Toy Story vibe here.

Needs source

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