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Giantarctica

May 4, 2009 · 5 Comments

She's neither cold, nor cold-hearted.

She's neither cold, nor cold-hearted

I think ultra giantesses get a bum rap. I’ve read arguments at the boards about interaction, and how it becomes increasingly difficult as the giantess rises in height. While such concern for realism is touching, I’m going to have to say that the very moment one begins to fantasize about beings of drastically different sizes, one should abandon all endeavors in trying to convey a penchant for realism. :D

Interaction is possible between all sizes. It doesn’t matter if the giantess wears Earth as a pendant that swings from her neck with every step she takes in space, or if the shrunken man is so small his ride is a microscopic mite that lives on his wife’s inner thigh; if the thought we are having makes us tingle, then whatever arguments against it, however logical and entertaining, stem from the naysayer’s inability to feel the same shiver of delight, and not from the imagined knowledge of physics, biology, chemistry, etc., regarding someone measuring an incredible height.

In other words, it is perfectly natural for me to enjoy the vision of growing thousands of miles until a single footprint is the size of a country, and at the same time being able to carry a conversation with the recipient of my attention and the target of my blatant display of size superiority. I understand many people don’t feel the same way; I comprehend the desire to discuss our various preferences and the reasons why we have them; and I will never get why anyone becomes agitated when a member of the community likes something they don’t.

But let’s forget those people! They aren’t here anyway. I love the thought of growing so tall this planet becomes my own pet rock. There’s no connection between that fantasy and destruction: I don’t inhale all of Earth’s atmosphere in a single breath, I don’t dent the planet’s layers or shift them with my weight when I move or lounge, I do nothing that causes the death of a single person. On the contrary, all I do is bring pleasure to one little man of normal size, and myself.

It’s the closest I get to weaving the “goddess” concept into my giantess fantasies. A being that size who is also omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent can very well be defined as a deity. If a man- if the man was to look out his window and see the sky overtaken by the shape of a face he knows well, blue gone and replaced by the deep pink of her lips as she blows kisses that melt every cloud in his direction, day transformed into a temporary night brightened by the playful glint in her eyes as large as moons… I bet he’d have worshipful thoughts, if he’s able to think at all.

I can imagine being in her place, all the way up here, looking down and seeing everything, but focusing my attention on that little window that frames his sweet little body and shows me he just dropped his pants. I’d have a hard time thinking coherently as well.

Long story short: Fire bad, ultra giantesses good.

This is a terrible song, but I can’t help liking it.

Men Without Hats – Antarctica

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5 responses so far ↓

  • TheShrinkee // May 4, 2009 at 10:26 pm | Reply

    Consider my unhealthily large expectations met. :)

    This reminds me of another ultra giantess one of yours, Wake Up. This is not so much because of the scale of the giantesses but because of the serene softglowing atmosphere. In both collages, the subdued hues and lighting together with the imagined silence of empty space compel the viewer to ignore, as you the collager wish, the physical impossibility and/or destruction. Instead, a quiet conversation transpires between friends, between lovers: wake up, here I am, and I will always be here with you.

    After so many viewings, ‘Wake Up’ still gives me a delightful shudder every time. I think this new collage will do the same.

    P.S. On a more nitpicking spirit: The lighting on this one is superb but I’m not convinced by the shadows on a couple places. 1) Is the patch on her left upper back and shoulder intentional? 2) I feel her hair should cast more of a shadow between her arms.

  • undersquid // May 9, 2009 at 3:42 pm | Reply

    Hi Shrinkee,

    Thank you for your comment and feedback! Wake Up is one of my (own) favorite collages, and the same as this one, it started with B&W source materials for the giantess/es, and color ones for Earth and space. I remember desaturating the planet tones and later thinking of giving some color to the three resting giantesses, but in the end I forgot about it, and once I realized I had, I liked it much better that way.

    I wanted to do almost the same for Giantarctica, and I gave her just the slightest tinge of color, although more vivid for the hair. I imagine it does something to that atmosphere you mention, and it makes me think not of cataclysm or earthquakes, but of gentle, soft interaction between planet and woman. I like it! The words you give to the image, “Here I am, and I will always be here with you,” fit it very well. It’s what she would say. :)

    As to the shadows you mention, I stared at that patch on her left upper back and shoulder for days, thinking about what I wanted to do with it in the end, and I decided I liked it, even though it doesn’t follow the direction of what one thinks the light would do on her skin. Or dark, rather. I tried moving the giantess, but her hands would end up in cloud swirls that I would then have had to modify, so I chalked it off to moonlight reflection, and moved on. :D

    The hair and its shadows bothered me a little less, and I’m never going to call this image “perfect”, but you know how it is with us collagers… we work and we mix and we tweak, and sometimes there are some things on an image that we know couldn’t possibly exist in real life (and they have nothing to do with size): some impossible shadows, or third-dimensional contradictions, imperfections that in this case I let be, as opposed to the ones that drive me crazy until I fix them.

    Although I don’t know, Shrinkee… one of these days I might wake up and not be able to think or sleep or do anything until I fix these Arctic patches and shadows. I will blame you then. ;)

  • trinket999 // May 16, 2009 at 1:24 am | Reply

    It’s taken me a while to come up with a worthwhile comment on your collage. The main thing is that I only rarely enjoy planetary-sized giantesses. At that size, things stop becoming real and move into an abstract realm. Goddesses in clouds wielding thunderbolts are fun to look at, but I don’t get that personal thrill, ya know what I mean?

    Which is not to say that I didn’t enjoy the technical details of your collage. I certainly do. I think the shadows on her back are not all too out of place, but TheShrinkee may be right in the other instance, that there needs to be more shadow on her arms. Small quibbles.

    When picking out little quibbles however, we tend to miss the big picture: the color matching is pitch perfect, the contrast and luminance are spot on, the shadows between her skin and the earth are like butter. Also, the way she’s looking down, you can imagine her looking at her intended target like you suggest. I guess this collage is all about the big picture. ;)

    So overall, I would put this one up in the very few planet-sized collages that I like, right up there with Venomm’s Goddess eating the moon and looking hungrily at Earth (my title not his).

    PS those shrill voices. They’ve started again for me.

    • undersquid // May 16, 2009 at 6:15 pm | Reply

      Thank you, trinket!

      Well, at least you didn’t say something like, “Those shadows are wrong! WRONG!” :lol:

      I love goddesses in clouds. More to the point, I love me in clouds. I hold no animosity for those that feel differently, and I know what you mean. What’s real for each of us is real, and whatever doesn’t fall into our neat tabs and slots, simply won’t.

      However, when I rule the universe everyone will be entitled to my opinion, mwahahah!

      I do appreciate your feedback, and I begin to feel the murmur of those voices. They haven’t gotten loud at all, thank goodness. The changes wouldn’t be very drastic, as both Shrinkee and you so helpfully point out, just that patch on her back and some changes to the arms, so that’s something else for which to be grateful.

      Unless anyone else comments on those shadows, and how wrong (WRONG!) they are… because then the voices will start uprooting neighborhood trees, and kicking off roofs.

      “PS those shrill voices. They’ve started again for me.”

      I saw. I had to laugh out loud.

  • TimStotz // October 14, 2009 at 1:55 pm | Reply

    I couldn’t agree more with this post. I like a range of sizes, and the real world physics and physiology fall to hell real quick even for a 12 foot tall woman. Look at all the problems 7 foot tall Sandy Allen had? So if it’s fantasy, it’s fantasy. I do a lot of pics and vids of gts and have to make “Devil’s Bargains” with physics to try to do something that evokes real, but is certainly not. I applaud your wanting to grow Giga or to shrink me and my city down to be the size of your little toe! here here! Of course, if you just want me small enough to be able to still give you something of a foot massage, that works too! heh

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