More like the New York Posterior
Digging through the old weekly roundups for anything interesting…
There’s some website called VideoGamer, which is all sorts of news about anything related to video games, and I was given a link to their article titled “Mortal Kombat 1 Kitana cosplay by tall giantess is jaw-dropping.” I had to see, of course.
But they must’ve taken the article down very recently. Why? Who knows. I searched for just a few keywords and wasn’t able to turn up anything. More, the site pestered me to disable my ad blocker at every turn. On the one hand, yeah, you’re trying to make some money to support the site. OTOH… disrupting my browsing so you can bully me into watching commercials doesn’t win my heart.
Using these keywords, I found another site that alluded to the VideoGamer article, though it was awfully light on details, like who the fuck this giantess model was.
It did mention that she claims to come from the tallest family on record, which reminded me of someone I recently followed on Instagram. The model is Marie Temara, and the costume in question was posted last October 16. Not exactly breaking news, VideoGamer.
The third episode of zHeightgeist has dropped, and I’m pleased to see it’s being positively received. No reviews on any of the podcast platforms, just word-of-mouth, but still. These things take time. Maybe by episode 030 it’ll start gaining some traction. This time around, I wanted to address the shame around the Size fetish and try to dispel it, pointing out its deep anthropological roots and what it has in common with the most popular sexual fantasies in the United States.
More, I’m pleased at how easy it is to replace an audio file on WordPress and Spotify. The first take was a crappy recording that haunted me for a full day, driving me to rerecord it all. Turns out my phone does a good job already, and it can do a great job when I set up a pillow fort lined with sound panels. If the show makes any money at all, then I’ll think about investing in a directional mic.
A lot of the news alerts I get are for scabby little porn sites, places that leech videos from legitimate producers and repackage them with semiliterate descriptions. I’m not going to share those—I’m sure most of them are virus traps.
Old news to many, but there was a cute trailer for a Bollywood movie, Phone Bhoot, which featured the lovely Katrina Kaif as a coy giantess, tormenting the male leads (Ishaan Khattar, Siddhant Chaturvedi) in their car. The Instagram video has been taken down, but it exists as a YouTube short. There are no giantesses in the movie itself, as far as I can tell.
New York Post brought the story about Lexi Luna, former elementary school teacher who claims to have the “best fake boobs in the biz.” Lexi builds miniature houses, then films herself posing with and sometimes destroying them. Ostensibly you can see this on her OnlyFans page.
New York Post also broke the story of “Penny,” a 6’1” model and single mother of two, how describes having been sexualized since aged 13. She now capitalizes upon the appeal of her height with an OnlyFans page, but notes she’s having difficulty finding dates. Which you and I know is like claiming to starve to death because you don’t know there’s a grocery store behind your building.
You know, the NYP really likes to bring up giantess articles, not all by the same author. Is there a department in their office dedicated to Size porn? What would it take for them to come clean about this and start building bridges with the Size community?
It was a year ago this month that Movies and Mania posted their review of the 2017 Giantess Attack. A cinematic classic for the ages? Perhaps not, but a fun movie with great miniatures and a practiced hand at POV shots. And it’s a “written-and-directed-by,” as my wife calls it, which usually means the creator’s vision has been preserved from too many cooks in the kitchen. Movies and Mania is a data aggregator, looks like, so while the review only borrows heavily from the Girls with Guns review, it shares a trove of behind-the-scenes and publicity shots.
Revisit the i-D (Vice) article about the making of Kookaï’s giantess/tiny man photo collection. The story behind it is a pretty interesting read, even if you’re not into high fashion, and the photos are gorgeous. Makes you wonder what would be possible if any professional studio bent their talents toward a realistic Size movie. That’s what frustrated me about the remake of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman: Christopher Guest, the director, said that the effects looked too good, so he wanted to scale them back and achieve a campier effect. I don’t think I can ever forgive him.
And if you’re feeling very thoughtful, see if your school or library will grant you access to this JSTOR article: “ÞYRS, ENT, EOTEN, GIGANS” – Anglo-Saxon Ontologies of ‘Giant.’ The one sample page I see is rich with historical information on the roles giants have played throughout centuries of storytelling.
Rumor has it, you can write directly to the author of articles submitted to academic journals, and much of the time they’re so thrilled that anyone would be interested in their work, they’re happy to provide a copy for free on request. As it happens, my university has provided me access… I know what I’ll be doing tonight.
What I won’t be doing is poring through The Golden Bough for any reference to giantesses, though I know they’re in there. You can read it all on Google Books, though, if you’d like to try. It's a lot.
In Her Shadow,
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