@foreverlurk On Reddit (r/sizetalk) last night there was a post titled “How to Giant Male” by a guy who also didn’t want to reinforce the harmful social norms cited by Google AI.
He didn’t seem interested in being absolved for feeling icky about preying on shrunken women.
@Mrgoblinging7 Marvelous! I can’t wait to close the lid and pick it up by the handle.
@foreverlurk Great idea! A French tiny wouldn’t be able to understand a thing in Quebec.
@miss-lillipants This reminds me of one of my favorite tropes. Sometimes a giant has a SW totally enclosed in one of his hands, and for whatever reason he doesn’t want to release or reveal her. This happens often enough that they develop a kind of semaphore, where he communicates through combinations of gentle squeezes on certain areas of her body and she responds with pre-arranged sequences of contortions.
This can occur in other areas of the giant’s body, but he can only really effectively reply through his hand and fingers.
@foreverlurk said in "Hands Off, Bub!":
At the end of Bad Channels, three of the four SW regain their normal size, except for one: Nurse Ginger.
If you watch the ending, you’ll note that the remaining shrunken woman is Bunny, played by Daryl Strauss. When the studio wanted to move forward with the sequel, they never came to an agreement with Strauss, so they retconned the ending of Bad Channels to have Nurse Ginger remain shrunken.
@littlest-lily Don’t be afraid to get raunchy. 
@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.
@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.
@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.
