The Big Girl Boom Theory
Man, my Google Alerts get less and less useful all the time. I had to remove “shrunken man” from the search because it was too vague. It produce hits of someone whose corpse withered in a bog, or how people’s brains are getting smaller, or even the diminishing of someone’s sports career. And when there’s no news for “giantess” or “macrophilia,” Alerts pads the hits out with tagged content in DeviantArt or a selection of bottom-feeding, virus-laden porn sites I hope to never hear of again.
Still, there’s content out there to be found. Scraped, if necessary. Welcome to another edition of whatever I think I’m doing.
Small Soldiers Redux
I haven’t seen the original 1998 Small Soldiers movie, though if I wanted to be as informed as possible on all things microphilic I probably should make the effort to find and watch it. My vague apprehension of the story is that it’s about action figures that come to life and stage their preprogrammed battles in the real world. That sounds like a Size-adjacent adventure, I think, a lot of little men running around a gigantic world. I suppose it’s too much to hope for, to see a normal-sized woman’s bare foot come swinging into frame and covering a tiny man in an errant step, one of those “pick up your damn toys” moments with a suggestive twist for those of us in the know.
It looks like an independent animator has created a proof of concept for a hypothetical sequel, which you can see here. It looks pretty good, considering that 26 years later one person with a vision can pull off something on par with a professional movie studio. Once again, the good guys aren’t entirely good, and the bad guys aren’t all that bad.
The Big Girl Boom in Japan
I’m not on X (Twitter), and I hardly like to mention it at all, but apparently a more-or-less earnest man in Japan voiced his longing for intimacy with a woman much taller than himself.
This mention set off a week-long trend, the “big girl boom,” where users shared their admiration of women of pronounced height in various media. Tall women models and cosplayers likewise took the opportunity to show off their height and their costume changes, paying homage to beloved giantesses in entertainment.
Fans shared beloved images of Gwynevere from Dark Souls and Rosaria from Dark Souls 3. The original tweet received acknowledgement from the official Resident Evil account, creator of the famous Lady Dimitrescu: “I guess my time has finally come.” FromSoftware creative director and designer Hidetaka Miyazaki, who developed many of these giant women, let it be known that his design for Gwynevere was motivated by his fantasy of being cared for by a giant, compassionate woman. It seems as though he’s not alone in this, neh?
Meeting the Size Kink Community
An article came out recently, shared with me by diligent reader Olo, published by Artefact. I hadn’t heard of this publication (which isn’t astounding, I’m not aware of quite a lot), but it self-describes as “produced, managed and edited by BA and MA Journalism students at the London College of Communication, part of the University of the Arts London.” It’s interesting, then, to imagine a Journalism major in England and what went through her mind when she first saw a POV video of a woman stomping on her like a bug.
People who are outsiders to macro/microphilia probably have this visually arresting moment, when your normal world is skewed to extremes and you see familiar actions take on stunning, threatening new dimensions. The author of “Home of the big and small: Meeting the size kink community” had this experience and she instinctively knew there had to be a story behind it. Unfortunately, she also chose to read the comments under the video. Some people are gluttons for punishment.
The writer found the experience educational, actually, and her research led her to speak with “Dr Joe Kort, a board-certified clinical sexologist and clinical director and founder of The Center for Relationship and Sexual Health in Michigan.” His take on macrophilia sounded informed and accepting, like how it starts and why people are into it, and he’s actually had conversations with people who are into seeing or being giants and tiny people. That puts him, no pun intended, head-and-shoulders above other therapists who have spouted their comparatively uninformed opinions with much less sympathy.
I won’t lie, every time one of these articles comes out and I learn yet another researcher hasn’t reached out to me, I feel a little bad. I don’t know what I have to do to put my blog over the top, gain more attention to my images, make my name come up when someone’s looking for an influential force within the community. But I look at the people the writer spoke with, and they’re all a generation or two younger, so it’s reasonable that they should be found in a search when a researcher breaks into a community. They’re fresh and new. I’m no longer active on social media, how would someone find me? Especially when Google is changing its algorithm, using LLM to generate answers rather than lead people to relevant search results, which throws SEO right out the window.
Anyway, it’s a good article. Read it, she talks to all sorts of people in various Size communities. It’s good work with lots of links and sources, and it wraps up on a positive note.
In Her Shadow,
Aborigen
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