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G/t Shouldn’t Be This Niche

It’s disheartening how society seems to have quietly decided to overlook us.

Because it’s not like people don’t feel something when they see size-difference media. Play any clip where Big is tender with Small, and the Warm Fuzzies™ hit instantly. I saw it just the other day while watching The Iron Giant with my class. All I had to do was look around the room—that “you have no idea the violence it took to become this gentle” energy resonates with people. Deeply.

The problem is how rare that kind of content is. And when it does show up, it’s usually not made for us. It’s tailored to a broader audience, missing the heart of what makes the dynamic so delicious.

It’s kind of like this:

Even the classics—Gulliver’s Travels, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Borrowers—are steeped in metaphor and moralism. They’re more about representing abstract concepts than exploring the wonder of size itself.

There’s such an untapped market here. Imagine if mainstream media embraced size difference purely for size difference. No allegory. No subtext. Just the scale, the intimacy, the gentleness, the awe.

What a world that would be.

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People: Girls want chocolate and flowers and diamonds!

What the girls want:

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We were playing Would You Rather in the car today when my dear brother hit us with this gem:

"Would you rather be a human-sized cockroach or a cockroach-sized human?"

Like... how is that even a debate? How could anyone hesitate? How could anyone not just pick the only correct answer, but also celebrate that it wasn't framed as, "this, or a million dollars?"

And yet, some people in the car actually chose the giant cockroach. Must be nice to be normal.

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Despite all the precautions I’ve taken, I’m STILL getting high-performance luxury vehicles in my homepage 😩

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Some Ultimate G/T Favourites

I've wanted to do this ever since I saw @gullivertravelstowonderland post the idea. I added a category or two because there's some media I just had to include, but here we go:

Favourite Tiny: Spiller

This shy, wild, golden-hearted dreamboat catalyzed everything for me. I became utterly smitten at the age of nine and went on to watch him in every Borrowers adaptation ever—an obsession that’s still going strong.

Favourite Giant: Optimus Prime

I was so jealous of Shia LaBeouf back in 2007. I don’t even have the toys, but I’ve consumed nearly every comic, show, and movie Optimus Fine appears in. When June Darby in Transformers: Prime says, “And I wore heels and everything”? Same, girl.

Favourite G/T Movie: Ultraman: Rising

If you haven’t seen this movie yet, why are you still here? Go watch it. It’s about a snarky, size-changing superhero who has to look after a baby kaiju. If you need more convincing, just look up a picture of Kenji Sato.

Favourite G/T Show: George Shrinks

Fellow Canadians know this was the show back in the day. Banging intro, unique plot, confident little genius of a protagonist—seriously, this kid made me covet being four inches tall like nobody else. And no, his Zoopercar was not cheating.

Favourite G/T Book: Valiant

Sarah McGuire delivers here: a host of giants, a kick-butt heroine, a villain with a superiority complex, and an attractive lord who gets injured so badly that one of the giants has to “cradle him like an infant” to carry him to safety. Good stuff.

Favourite G/T Manga: Godaigo Daigo

For yet another story about giant heroes protecting cities from monsters, this was a pleasant surprise. Kounosuke showcases all kinds of G/T relationships—coworkers, friends, parents, and romance—and every arc absolutely slaps.

Favourite G/T Webcomic: Piper

The fact that Dr5spectre has been on hiatus for almost two years now is one of the greatest tragedies of our time. But I beg you—check out this comic, especially the AUs. The Goblin of Dornenholtz is so soul-filling it hurts.

Favourite G/T Song: Touchy Feely Fool

It definitely has to be AJR. Not only did I grin like a maniac when I watched the music video, but I like to think the lyrics are about a tiny person who wishes they didn’t have feelings for a giant anymore but simply can’t help themselves.

Favourite G/T Magical World: Roshar *Art by Rocío Sogas

This is probably one that isn’t very well known in the community, but Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive is full of great G/T moments, particularly between the main character Kaladin and his companion Syl, a shapeshifting spren.

Character I Would Like to Shrink/Grow: Loki (MCU) *Art by keiidakamya

Guys, we were robbed. He’s literally part Frost Giant! Yes, we got a taste of it in What If…?, but imagine how the movies could have gone if this had been a form he took when he gained or lost control of himself. Robbed, I tell you.

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Ahh this was so much fun! I hope some of you feel inspired to try this; I think it would be a great way to find more quality (or not-so-quality) G/T content. There’s so little of it out there, after all.

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Oh, to have the guts to purchase and display this as a Giant/tiny totem for the slowly-growing G/t shrine in my space, but I’m too much of a wuss.

I have so many lil guys who would look so good sitting in it, too.

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Giant/tiny Music PSA!!

Hello hello my lovelies! If I could grab your attention for a second to introduce you to a song I found the other day that has wonderful G/t spirit, that would be fantastic:

The song is technically about childhood pressure and overcoming addiction, but the beautiful thing about art is that its meaning isn’t confined to what the creator intended, and because G/t lends itself so naturally to representing broader concepts like social pressure, responsibility, fear, and emotional vulnerability, songs like this work especially well with it.

Anyway, the story I like to picture is this:

A mean, bitter, guarded Tiny who’s grown up stealing from humans finally gets caught. But instead of being killed, he’s met with a kindness he never could have expected. Some time later, after he’s had a change of heart and he and the human have grown close, he still thinks about who he used to be—the hate, the stealing, the harm he caused. He knows he’s better now, but he still fears that the old version of himself is waiting inside, and he can’t understand how the human could possibly love him in spite of that.

“Wall after wall with cracks in ’em all I know in your head, I’m a hundred feet tall I’m sorry, I’m fragile”

This song? That’s exactly what’s going through his head.

So yeah! Another title for your G/t playlist if you want it. Also it’s just a straight-up banger, so like. Win-win.