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Yeah she used me like a toy last night 😏

*smash cut to scene where I am being taken apart like LEGOS * nah post canceled this still reads as unironically sexual somehow. Bye

#smolghostbot after dark #???

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What is a niche aspect of G/t that you dearly love that you don't get a chance to really talk about?

How it reflects on self-image.

I think that's the niche one that I don't talk about enough, though I bring it up a little bit in my works. The idea that, particularly in most media where you aren't used to being at the perspective you're suddenly in (you're small around people who are bigger, or big around people who are smaller, and it's something you've either never experienced before or haven't experienced much) how that will change how you see yourself.

Melanie in The Rescue for example has existing concerns about her appearance and how people see her to begin with, and that becomes wildly amplified when someone small is nearby. She covers her mouth while she's eating, she tries to keep her head and face pointed up and away when she's feeling extremely self-conscious.

If you hate the idea of constantly being noticed, judged, critiqued, scrutinized, etcetera, then suddenly being a Giant to someone else/other people has to be fucking hell. Any issues you have with your self-image normally aren't exactly put aside when your face is the size of a movie-screen and you know people's eyes don't usually come with those lovely hollywood-glam filters they put over actors in film.

As a Giant are you now more worried about being in the way? About being a problem for people? About causing damage or harm accidentally? Or are you being pressured to do more, be more simply because of how other people see you?

On the flip-side of that, if you're suddenly small, do you feel much more vulnerable? Do you feel like you're under significantly more threat? Have you lost a feeling of control that you desperately needed to keep a sensation of being safe?

Do you feel disposable? Do you feel useless? Are you more of a burden now than you were before, so reliant on others in a world that isn't built to help you? That might not feel like it's even interested in helping you?

Do you feel invisible? Easily forgotten? If you were used to being the center of attention before, does this absolutely shatter that or suddenly make that lifestyle feel like a waking nightmare? \

Do you feel like you're not enough?

If you were having those issues and feelings before, how are they amplified or changed now? How are they messed with, skewed, possibly erased in some cases?

I try to bring a good bit of these perspectives into my writing where I can, but it can be exhaustingly introspective and feel extremely heavy both to read and to write, but I can't say that I'm not fascinated by it.

Thank you so much for the ask, love! <3

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#need i even say

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so a fun story about me is that i have scopophobia, which makes making art really difficult because aaa eyes staring at me

so i solve this by turning off any layers with eyes on them when i'm not actively editing the art, which works pretty well

except it's funny sometimes because i'll have a "completed" piece of art but in the gallery it just looks like

yep definitely a finished piece

#consider this a preview of art that won't be posted for two months ig #just artist things #my art #smolghostthoughts

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sorry i threatened to eat you i was trying to flirt

#... yeah this would work on me. in several contexts.

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I wanna be tiny. So bad. Like idk if I can even put into words how much I want to be tiny. Someone plz shrink me. I beg of you. I’ll give you $2 and some gum in my purse.

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“but isn’t having a giant lover dangerous?” did Icarus care about the sun when he flew? do people skydive because it’s perfectly safe? do u think im a fucking coward

#the danger is half the point tho

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People liking your personal OCs is still such a crazy feeling, I've been doing this for years and ppl asking about them still fills my entire heart with warmth and idk how to handle it

You enjoy this fictional guy I made up for fun?? Whose only content is random artwork or writing made by me and a handful of other artists at most? They have no show/book/game with a large fandom, it's just one person with an art blog?? I love u

#people liking the fellas from my brain literally gives me an impossible amount of joy #you like them? you like blorbo?

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god I fuckign love ocs. my characters. my friend's characters. the characters of mutuals ive never spoken to. the characters of artists ive followed and maybe spoken to a little more. the characters of complete strangers I see in passing and think "aw that's cool". if you have ten fans I am one if you have one fan it is me etc etc. I love you

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“what is g/t???” okay. so are you ready to never be normal about small objects again

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My non g/t friends be like:

Hurts •́ ‿ ,•̀

#TnT

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U are a predator and I realistically am your prey and yet we get along and touch and love each other and enjoy time together despite our stark difference in stature and power. You could kill me with the mere flick of your wrist and yet you use such strength to carry and cuddle and show affection to me in all of my smallness. Maybe thats what its all about baby

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Feelin some kinda way rn

#feeling this kinda way rn tbh

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I am always a sucker for handhelds...

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I live in an otherwise normal city and work an otherwise normal job with people I believe are normal until they suddenly forget how to act like a person whenever they see a literally normal person who happens to have a disability or be black/any other visible racial minority.

the gt fics with 'this is a completely integrated different-size society but oops we have no idea how to behave around a person of a different size' hits a bit too close to reality for me

No yeah I feel like that is kind of my problem with it, indirectly?

This kind of setting tries to invert it where it actually is The Norm is to be totally fine and accepting of the opposite size because there’s never anything to reflect that people get weirded out or discriminatory except for the protagonists and maybe one evil bully (to the point it’s vague and unclear which size would even be the socially disadvantaged party). So it kinda feels like the POV characters are going out of their way to be uncomfortable with the other class.

Racism and ableism and sexism tend to persist, or are implied to exist by a lack of diversion from real world modern western culture (and sometimes history, if it’s not a completely different planet), which makes this equality of sizes feel…bizarre. Like we cant consistently accommodate people who need mobility aids without people bitching about it, North America in particular struggles to build with pedestrian safety in mind, but building a whole secondary infrastructure for tinies to safely navigate town is no sweat, for some reason. It gets this uncanny feeling that distracts me from anything else going on I guess

#hey look they said my exact feelings about this trope #i've only seen a few stories where i'm able to suspend my disbelief about it #imo it only works when it Explicitly Doesn't #but that is usually. uh. a very different type of story than one tumblr vibes with.

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traumatizing your tiny OCs as a form of cuteness aggression

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imagine a giant carefully unbuttoning their sleeves and rolling them up, exposing their forearms

#renlogging again because this art is like #wow #i'm gay #anyways