@Olo
This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing it.
I really love one detail, that for most people who get the shrinking virus they just lose a foot or so. It’s kind of like getting long covid if you actually shrink more than that.
I love how that throws this ambiguity into the beginning. The dread of getting a worse case of it is so potent. Great ideas here, and great renders.
@Dr-Cyclops not my personal thing. But based on the numbers of stories I’ve seen with this on the now-defunct CoiledFist, it’s an idea that definitely has its followers in this kink universe. A few stories along these lines were posted there every day. RIP. (It shut down 2 months ago. Was focused on male giants, largely a gay community but there were a couple of tiny women there too.)
Just look to animal husbandry for clues. Nobody suggests keeping small animals in jars long term. Every type of animal needs something like substrate or private shelter or a water source that a jar doesn’t include because it’s too small and too vertical.
Food goes in jars. Bugs trapped by amateurs go in jars. A jar just traps a tiny, but it gives them no privacy and no coziness. It’s not shelter. It’s a prison, fit for a mere object or for a curiosity.
@Olo Thanks for writing such a detailed report. I regret missing so many things you mentioned! The last one was just an hour drive from my place, this was a plane ride. Someday…!
“This is about more than hiking…”
I was really expecting an confession right there! Haha. Thanks for bringing this here.
@Olo ooh can someone please make this full length animated movie. Please. Wonderful design.
@TakoAlice8 hey yeah. Nonbinary here. Also bi. When I like a woman though I feel kinda sapphic , my gender is fluid. I love this setup for some reason. I posted a story about two sapphic fairies who get interrupted by a male hunter.
I like the idea of a tiny lesbian club very much! I might have to expand on my fairy story with that one.
There is something kinda cute to me about a fantasy of me ditching my they/them pronouns to reduce friction, and hanging out at a tiny women’s retreat.
“Shh be quiet we can finally hide from the men here. I think.” Giggle
Then we could do what men might imagine we do: braid each other’s hair and gossip. And what I would actually wanna do, if anyone there is vibing: a cunnilingus party followed by witch stuff.
@BigCuddlyGiant where do I apply for this job? I’d even work topless in front of everyone in the office if it helped me get promoted this way…
5’3’’ here, usually picturing myself as a tiny. Ideally like 2 inches tall.
There is a side of me that wants to grow, too, that’s why I like writing stories from both perspectives. I basically like shifting.
@TakoAlice8 Everyone is different, I don’t mean to invalidate your experience with my sweeping nonsense. 
Not quite.
Let’s assume cis-het on both fronts.
My pet theory is that cis het men who have a fantasy about being dominated are more likely to imagine the dominator character as a human. Hence the very common giantess fetish.
But that cis het women with essentially the same type of fantasy are more likely to imagine the dominator character as non-human. Hence the pretty popular monster fucker fetish.
I don’t really have a great reason for why. The existence of actual tall men being common in women’s lives is just one idea for why.
Also I’m speaking in general. Of course there are actual cis het women macrophiles! And us trans folks who relate to that experience (hello!) and lots of other types of queer folks with all sorts of other experiences.
but in the wider sense. I’m just wondering aloud why M/f seems like the rarest macro pairing out there.
@i-am-insane I’m glad you brought up Monster Fuckers. It’s an almost mainstream kink among women. I’m a monster fucker too.
My pet theory is that many women who feel a similar subby fantasy attraction that male giantess fans feel, bring that fantasy into monster fucking instead of human macrophilia, for whatever reason. (Maybe because they come across tall men a lot in real life so they find that not particularly exotic? And these tall men were shitty or just mediocre partners? Just spitballing).
I think that if someone made a site or a convention for both mf and macro, and it got popular, you might find a big overlap between macrophile men and monsterfucker women.
Unfortunately most of the people at this theoretical convention would be subs in search of doms, but that seems like a universal trait of kink communities.
Wondering if anyone else has had a moment where sizey thoughts were summoned in you and you thought, if you only knew…
I have this emotionally open friend who’s also unusually tall, tall enough for that to be the main thing people notice about him. (But there’s absolutely nothing domm-y about his personality, so it’s easy to kinda forget his height. He stoops when he walks. He wouldn’t hurt a fly.)
Anyway the other day as a greeting his bear hug included playfully picking me up and I kinda wanted to die for five minutes. If he only knew. 
So glad he doesn’t know because I value his friendship too much to ruin a platonic (AND DOUBLY MONOGAMOUS AND PAIRED) thing.
Anyway. Any similar stories. Share them here.
@i-am-insane
Why do I want to shrink? Because I have a fascination with it, and a fetish for it.
I’d rather not psychoanalyze my own pull towards this fetish, because it runs the risk of me overthinking myself away from my sexuality. There is some sexual trauma in my past, but I don’t think it’s tied specifically to my macro/microphilia, because I experienced size fascination in a platonic way before I had anything like sexual or romantic desires.
What I like about shrinking, in general, is the same as what I love about giants: the feeling of being in direct contact with a being so much more powerful than myself. Being overwhelmed. Being outmatched. Feeling awe towards the giant. Big is beautiful, big is majestic, big is almost divine. Big barely has to put any effort towards actions that would take me all day.
Is the giant careful or careless? Kind or cruel? I love both for the same reason: the power of both is overwhelming, and it is a privilege to be able to commune with it in any way.
I do prefer giants compared to being shrunk, but shrinking has a secrecy and a quiet to it that fits more easily into stories , especially about the modern era. An undiscovered giant might live in the middle of the mountains in a medieval fantasy story. But only shrinking lets a giant / tiny interaction happen easily in anonymity in the modern world. Incredible things can happen behind closed doors. Your neighbor or your boss can become a god to you.
@Olo wonders if I could learn enough about web hosting to take over…