Greetings to All Y'all
My name’s Aborigen and I’ve been writing Size Fantasy and Size Erotica for nearly three decades. As I love to rehash in my origin story, I was working in the library for a community college in 1993, when they installed the first internet-ready computers. Without having touched such a machine, I stole the user instructions and studied them on my own for a week, so that I could sit down, quickly type in my first keyword search, and be done before anyone knew what I was doing.
I typed in “giantess,” and I thought I was going to have a heart attack, not because of what I found but simply the fact of bringing my lust and passion of two prior decades out into the world where someone else could see it.
What I found was pretty cool, though. All these online networks and message boards were already operating, trading stories and grainy, bulky bitmap files with each other until now, when they could share it with the world. About a year later, at a university, I printed out these stories off the Usenet, maintaining reams of tractor-ribbon printouts guarded more jealously than any dragon’s hoard. Later still, I stayed late at a temp job so I could print nicer versions of these stories and collect them in a three-ring binder. I still have this, and I just glanced over at it with as much pride as if I’d come into possession of a Gutenberg Bible. Maybe more. I also taught myself HTML and erected (and deconstructed) a series of websites with which to collect my own stories I’d begun writing.
Oh, yes. I was thrilled by the works of people like DX Machina, Grildrig, and Scott Chelgren, and they inspired me to try my hand at it. I wrote a seamy fever-dream about being shrunken by an attractive woman who used to hang out at my favorite coffee shop, for my first story, and then branched out to various wild ideas and stored them as text files for perusal by the world. You have never heard of me, likely, but the denizens of the Size community have. I’ve had the chance to meet, at a specialized fetish convention, some of my favorite video producers, models, and artists, and it seems they’re all familiar with my work. There is no thrill like meeting someone who recognizes your name and who tells you that you inspired them to embark on their own creative journey.
The point is, I’ve met hundreds of people who share this interest or fetish, being fixated on tiny people (microphilia) and giantesses and giants (macrophilia). These, of course, are subjective terms: if you believe yourself to be a few hundred feet tall, then normal-sized people are the object of your microphilia. The definitions are loosey-goosey but I like to think we’re done waging battles over them anymore. The Size community is heavily siloed: we all agree on gross size disparities, but some of us are into Furries, some promote breast expansion or ballooning, some are strictly SFW and “wholesome,” others do vore and endo and all sorts of obscure, changing terms you’re not sure you want to research. We know not to yuck each other’s yums, but it doesn’t mean we’re into them, either.
So what am I going to do with this newsletter? I don’t really know. I’ll mention my website updates, and if I ever get my podcast off the ground you’ll hear about that here too. I’ll probably talk about books and articles I’m reading, share some videos that caught my imagination, or aggrieve over trying to be a DEI advocate while also writing objectifying, male-gaze porn. It helps to talk about that here, because Size interests aren’t something I can bring up with other people in my real life, not even my very understanding and endlessly supportive spouse. I have lots of thoughts about why we’re into this, issues around freedom of creative expression and censorship, and even writerly and editorial advice. I’ll shoot my mouth off about anything, including the recipe of the cocktail I just threw together that’s encouraging me to shoot my mouth off.
It’s my hope that the people who are into this distraction will follow and even comment. I also hope that people who aren’t into this will speak up, politely, and ask a bunch of questions I’m only too happy to answer. It’s nice to meet you, either way, and I hope I produce something you’ll be interested in.
In Her Shadow,
Aborigen
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