Cw / tw: self harm
@Olo I’ve thought about this a lot.
One of the reasons I keep on going back to Gulliver’s travels is because, (maybe since that story is actually some extended allegory about British politics in the 18th century), all these practical concerns are at the center of Gulliver’s life when he’s in Lilliput. Reading that an early age has has made me think about these concerns every time I write a story now.
If I’m writing a giant character who’s empathetic like I am in real life, I realized, the most realistic reaction they’d have to being turned into a giant would HAVE to be suicide. There’s no ethical way for them to remain alive, as their enjoyment of life would be destroyed, by being completely alienated from everybody else.
This is one of those stories that lives as a seed in my head. I’ll probably never actually write it, since it wouldn’t be a kink story at all. It would just be a tragedy with sci-fi elements.
There’s already a graphic novel with this tone about a giant man who’s not enjoying his experience. It’s called “3 story” by Matt Kindt.