Benjithedreamer talks to Aborigen again, this time about the possibility of a large collaboration between size writers all working from the same narrative prompt but each offering different perspectives.
Size Rashomon
MyHeavenOct20 – The stories are here!
The stories submitted for the MyHeavenOct20, the final iteration of the Size Riot flash fiction size fantasy contest, are now available for viewing. One of them is by me! You have until November 21 to read them all and give feedback. No voting or ranking this time, but please tell the authors what you thought of their work.
Read safely!
An Oral History of Size Riot
Benjithedreamer interviews Aborigen about Size Riot, writing, and the size community. Lots of good tangents followed up on here.
A Pinch Of This, A Pinch Of That
I love witches. Good witches, bad witches, hedge witches, castle witches. They know more than you could ever hope to, and they’ve already paid the price. The sooner you respect their wisdom and power, the better.
Size Riot October 2020 — Last Day For Signups
Today is the last day to sign up for the final iteration of the Size Riot quarterly size fantasy flash fiction contest. This quarter’s theme is “My Blue Heaven,” asking each author for their ideal, perfect size fantasy (in 2k words or less). There won’t be any voting or ranking or winners, but feedback is solicited nonetheless. That was always the more important part.
Projection, Asymmetry, and Reciprocity in Size Fantasy
To continue my (our?) discussion of a Size Aesthetic, I want to talk about how authors imagine their readership and how readers encounter narratives. Specifically, how much do authors predetermine “the” perspective of a story and how much do readers accept, reject, or negotiate those determinations. I also want to discuss the asymmetric nature of dom/sub fantasies and how much consideration we give to authors/readers “on the other end of” such fantasies. Finally, I want to interrogate how the tropes and expectations of size fantasy culture play into (and against) these considerations.
Continue reading “Projection, Asymmetry, and Reciprocity in Size Fantasy”Size Riot October 2020 — The Last Shall Be The Best
That’s right, the October 2020 iteration of the Size Riot quarterly size fantasy flash fiction contest will be the last.
It is impossible to overstate how much the size fantasy community (such that it is) owes Aborigen for challenging us these past four years to vary our interests and stretch our muscles, both as writers and as readers. I know that his efforts have not been thankless, but neither have they been griefless. You can’t pay anyone to do this kind of work, because it requires both a community-minded spirit as well as a pride in craftmanship.
Speaking for myself, this contest has been both an invaluable exercise in editing and plotting as well as a forced reminder of how much I enjoy creative writing. I have had to ask myself, over and over, why I want to write and who am I writing for. I have also had to examine my expectations for others’ writing and what kind of feedback they need. Size Riot has been my main source of inspiration for developing a size aesthetic.
The final contest theme is “My Blue Heaven,” asking each author for their ideal, perfect size fantasy (in 2k words or less). There won’t be any voting or ranking or winners, but feedback is solicited nonetheless. That was always the more important part.
Sign-ups run from now through 30 Sep.
The Voices on the Wind
HistoricalJuly20 entry. Author Notes at bottom.
Henri had never seen such a large ship. Three huge masts, plus the pointy thing at the front and the mast at the back for the flag, it dwarfed every other ship in the port of Saint-Pierre.
Of course, the number of times that Henri had been near the port could be counted on the fingers of a single hand. He had spent almost the entirety of his nineteen years on a manioc plantation on the lower slopes of Mont Pelée, the domain of his seigneur, Guillaume Fauchon.
Continue reading “The Voices on the Wind”HistoricalJuly20 – The Results Are Here!
The results of the evaluations for HistoricalJuly20 have been posted! Thank you to everyone who read and submitted evaluations (particularly the feedback)!
Congratulations to Elle Largesse and Aborigen for their well-deserved winning entries, “Anne and the King’s Miniaturist” and “Book IV, Part VII”, respectively!
Size Fantasy in the Toilet
This post started out as a response to an inquiry in the new Violent Shrunken Women forum* on the Shrunken Women Board, but I got sufficiently broad in my discussion of size fantasy and toilet stuff that I decided to write a more comprehensive post. Because I discuss scat, watersports, and fatal outcomes, it is going under the fold.
* There used to be a separate Violent Shrunken Women Board that has recently gone defunct, and the Shrunken Women Board has created a couple of subforums for size content that features cruelty, humiliation, and other unpleasant outcomes. I am not in a position to recount the history of why fans of more gruesome tiny woman scenarios felt they had to create their own site separate from (the predecessors of) the Shrunken Women Board, but it remains an active controversy. Jitensha, of course, has some opinions.
Continue reading “Size Fantasy in the Toilet”
El Amante Menguante 