General Size Stuff
How about I let everyone off the hook with a much shorter newsletter this time around? It’s the usual thing: that damned English tabloid is creaming its collective jeans over getting to talk yet again to that very tall woman. There are actually other things going on that I think you’ll be interested in.
Full disclosure: I may have a poor attitude today.
Haze Reverb
A new game came out that ostensibly has gigantic women in it: Haze Reverb. They’re anime women, so they come with the usual caveat where the producers insist they’re all of the age of consent, despite looking like they’re about to graduate from grade six. (I’m so tired of this shit.)
How does it run? Droid Gamers will tell you:
The peculiarity of the game is its giantess units, which are basically mecha musume (mecha girls). It’s an anime game with turn-based strategy battles, a gacha system and solid action and storytelling.
The real question macrophiles want to know is: How much do the giant girls interact with tiny people? Because if it’s just gigantic women in mech suits fighting equally sized monsters, with a shrunken world as the background, that’s not really scratching the itch so much as rubbing the area around it.
The trailer is a fever-dream of flashing images designed less to inform you of what the game’s about and more to trigger an epileptic seizure. But sure, there are hints of scenes with gigantic women, so maybe that’s enough.
Macrophilia at the Onion
It has long been my suspicion that someone (or someones) at The Onion has a half-dose of macrophilia, because of stories like these.
Enraged 500-Foot-Tall Bin Laden Rises From Sea, Destroys New York, Washington
Report Links Climbing Onto Enormous Index Finger With Being Whisked Away To Kingdom Of Giants (and yes, it alludes to macrophilic sex)
Study Finds Average Giant Swallows 8 Americans In Sleep Every Year
Not that I mind! Have at it, closeted Onion writer. I’ll be here in my little shoebox, decorated by Temu rather than IKEA, cheering you on.
Brazilian Giant
My wife was very excited to show me this video of a giant man somewhere in Brazil. This is the longest cut of the video that I’ve seen: several more sensational versions had less footage.
@silvinhogomesalfenas #surfista #pessoas #santo #brasil #gigante #letras #sol #amigos
♬ som original - silvinhogomesalfenas
I can only hope that the video presented clearly: I can’t see a preview as I’m building this email, so I apologize if it doesn’t work. Go to TikTok and search for “brazil giant,” it’s all the rage right now.
As for me, even in the breathlessly excited version I initially saw, it looked like the giant was wearing cargo shorts and placing a call. In the extended cut, you see that those aren’t even trees he’s hiding behind, just bushes in a fortuitous forced-perspective shot.
Regardless, the jokes write themselves. "Hold on a sec, someone’s calling my Fee-FiPhone-Fum.” “Hey, what’s the password for the free Wi-Fee-Fi?”
Feel free to write in with your own jokes, or just let me know what you think of these newsletters. Definitely let me know if there’s something you want me to explore and talk about! Otherwise I’m just going to make shit up, probably.
I Can’t Draw
Oh, I guess there’s one more thing! Each year I attempt Inktober (right up until the founder plagiarized another artist for his how-to book) and Drawlloween, though I never have the discipline to see it all the way through to the end. If you don’t know what this means: some organization puts out 31 drawing prompts, one for each day in October, and you draw them and share them online.
But here’s the deal: I’m actually moving away from social media. I deleted my daylight Instagram account yesterday, I quit Twitter two years ago and Facebook four years ago. I’m still on BlueSky and IG (shadow account) to promote the podcast and these newsletters, and that’s it. So where can I share my art for external validation?
I’ve longed urged everyone to please set up a backup website just in case social media proves unstable. Set up an account on Neocities, and teach yourself HTML through HTML for People. You can even get ChatGPT to code serviceable pages for you.
I did, and on my Neocities site you can see my drawings (so far) for this month. I asked ChatGPT to create 31 prompts, some spooky, some sizey, and I’ve been drawing within those guidelines ever since. My hope is that, with practice, my skill will improve, though the last several years have not borne this fatuous notion out.
In Her Shadow,
Aborigen
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