by rscholar » Tue Dec 13, 2022 6:25 am
eddiegiantman wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 1:07 am
If possible, a blog. You can also launch a Ko-Fi where people give you tips.
I really like that idea - I understand it's ideal for writers and I'm not looking to do anything extravagant.
My only other question at this point is how to discuss certain subjects when they involve child characters or youth-skewing media, especially live-action. It'll be a study in shrinking in the media but it will in fact be couched in fetishism - like what about these shows, movies, etc. came off as exciting and/or arousing (I remember reading a piece somewhere saying we as a fetish community were "ungrateful" over ISW being disappointing, but....well, most us probably wouldn't have cast Lily Tomlin - even Minimizer said as much). Especially in discussing filming techniques and visuals, it will likely come as sexual - shrinking out of clothes, power dynamics, a lot of the stuff we talk about here that make the fetish what it is. How can I do this when it involves young characters, especially when shrinking as a genre is increasingly considered "kid stuff?" I mean, AiW is going to be given no matter what since it's like *the* story that's impacted so many of us, but obviously a lot them center on a young girl. And what about, say, the animated Sabrina episode "Shrink to Fit?" Both characters slowly shrink out of their clothes, panic at the realization that they're shrinking, then eventually zip down so small they have to use socks for makeshift clothing. Trope-wise, it's kind've awesome, but they're in middle-school. There are a good number of those kind of moments that would be best to avoid and as a rule I want to steer clear of them, but for those that are good enough or have something special that they warrant talking about, it seems tricky to try.
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If possible, a blog. You can also launch a Ko-Fi where people give you tips.
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I really like that idea - I understand it's ideal for writers and I'm not looking to do anything extravagant.
My only other question at this point is how to discuss certain subjects when they involve child characters or youth-skewing media, especially live-action. It'll be a study in shrinking in the media but it will in fact be couched in fetishism - like what about these shows, movies, etc. came off as exciting and/or arousing (I remember reading a piece somewhere saying we as a fetish community were "ungrateful" over ISW being disappointing, but....well, most us probably wouldn't have cast Lily Tomlin - even Minimizer said as much). Especially in discussing filming techniques and visuals, it will likely come as sexual - shrinking out of clothes, power dynamics, a lot of the stuff we talk about here that make the fetish what it is. How can I do this when it involves young characters, especially when shrinking as a genre is increasingly considered "kid stuff?" I mean, AiW is going to be given no matter what since it's like *the* story that's impacted so many of us, but obviously a lot them center on a young girl. And what about, say, the animated Sabrina episode "Shrink to Fit?" Both characters slowly shrink out of their clothes, panic at the realization that they're shrinking, then eventually zip down so small they have to use socks for makeshift clothing. Trope-wise, it's kind've awesome, but they're in middle-school. There are a good number of those kind of moments that would be best to avoid and as a rule I want to steer clear of them, but for those that are good enough or have something special that they warrant talking about, it seems tricky to try.