I find comfort in the idea that the world at large is, well...large. I find even greater comfort in the affections of a person who is bigger than me, but won't hurt me. This is why I like micro/normal and normal/macro interaction.

I support that.

It's difficult at times to find that, considering the natural hostility of many. But it is quite precious.

My girlfriend (may she rest in peace) loved destroying micros in general, but she had a particular soft spot for me.

I've always been in love with the idea of shrinking.

I remember loving those episodes in shows where the characters are shrunken down accidentally and everything from their normal life becomes a major challenge in the way of getting back to normal.

For me, it's absolutely a power play. I'm a very reserved and controlled person by nature. Everything has to be in it's place and working just right. So, the idea of something that interrupts that mindset and forces the everyday to become fantastic is liberating. It defamiliarizes the familiar.

There's a little cognative disonance in that because hight is something that is very important to me IRL. I know I'd be deathly afraid of shrinking (less afraid of growing (except eccessively)). But the idea of being relatively small is kind of like a freedom from my own anxiety concerning hight. I guess its every bit as odd as my friend whose favorite animal is a spider, though she's to afraid to be near one. There's safety in fantasy, I suppose.

A bit of an escape, hrmh? I know most of us enjoy it for that sort of reason. It is a new world afterall, which can be a good and a bad thing. ^_~

(as George) Influences for me included the movie Antz, The Magic School Bus, and a few little known canadian series called Roboroach and George Shrinks.

Out of all of them, the shoe scene in Antz was what turned me on a fascination with being micro.

I always wonder about being a tiny inside or on a shoe, so that's why I always teleport into women's shoes without them knowing.

What does it do for you? A comfort? Just a silly interest? I'm curious. Personally nestling up against a warm foot sounds pleasant for the most part. >>

(as George) A crazy love/romantic feeling rushes through whenever I'm in said situations.

I've always felt this strange feeling -- almost like guilt -- when I'm around someone who is shorter than I am in real life, which makes me wish that I was shorter, though nothing terribly extreme, which is why my 'sona isn't normally below 3' tall. I agree with Ronintendo in the wording of feeling 'comfort in the affections of a person who is bigger than me, but won't hurt me.' For me, 'bigger' could mean fat, muscular, macro or any combination of the above.

Aside from that, I suppose something about the thought of being small is just...appealing, somehow. The thought of being in a big world with big inhabitants intrigues me.

That said, I'm terrified of bugs as I am, so I can only imagine how fearful I'd be if I was actually much smaller. :<

That's interesting! So not quite -micro- but still small. You just like looking up to people, hrmh? That's cute. <3

Oh, don't get me wrong, I certainly enjoy when my 'sona is much smaller than his normal height, I just use the more 'normal' size simply because its more practical and, well, reasonable. (Though I've been thinking that the fun that comes from being tiny is worth more than the convenience of being more normal in size, so I might exchange that 3' height for a smaller one :3)

It's the point of view that I like. Seeing everything from a minimized perspective and looking up at a world made for giants is very interesting to me. Being a bug however, makes things a little more different. Either I live the danger of being stamped out by some bug-hating mean-dude, or accepted by some big thing who's fine with my rather not-immediately-friendly look. It's a good feeling!

So you're actually to the point of being the little bug skittering across the floor, the challenges of surviving day to day! It's quite interesting, for sure.

In novels like Micro you have humans reduced to insect size and having to survive in a world of giant bugs, birds, and so on!

Size is relative. There's a video on youtube from the 90s version of the borrowers. One of them has to scale to the top of a desk, it seems about 35-40 feet up. You see what a huge distance and how tiny things seem huge.
Even in real life size is relative. Years ago I talked to a couple 3'6" proportional dwarfs on IM(one weighed only about 30 pounds, the other about 40) and one talked about having a younger brother who was 5 feet tall and maybe 90 pounds. He talked about what it was like to have someone "a foot and a half taller" than him, "lifting (him) up and throwing (him) onto the bed". Then I thought, but to him, at 42 inches tall,
"a foot and a half" would seem like "30 inches" to most of us. That 11 yr old brother would seem like over 8 feet tall and over 400 pounds, to US!

Shrinking has interested me ever since I was a kid and every cartoon seemed to do a shrinking episode. I always liked the idea of a small thing being comparitively "big" or a big thing being comparitively "small", and even better if it was in intermittent fits and starts - spending some time to acclimate to the new size before getting smaller. There was a cartoon in the early 80s called Godzilla that did an episode with Godzilla getting tinier and tinier and it really really got me. From then on any cartoon with a shrinking plot or scene was interesting to me.

Even today, the actual process of shrinking is the hot part to me and it's definitely a fetish, shrinking, being shrunk or tiny is about 70% of my turnons. ANd being tiny to something that is already small makes it that much hotter.

Hehe, tiny tiny weasel! Don't get too small, you'll fall between the carpet fibers. We'll never find you. :o

I would like you to know that it's because of you that I've had to locate and watch this episode of Godzilla three times so far. Absolutely loved it. Thanks for the suggestion.

Heh, that's awesome! What was the title of the episode, anyways?

"Microgodzilla"
An aptly named episode.

Same here. What's interesting is people might seem to shrink as they get older--only a couple inches. Discs become compressed, bones wither a bit or something. (Women especially can "shrink" through osteoparosis). My dad--in his late 80s at the time--stood next to me and said he thought I'd grown. Actually he had shrunk a bit. Come to think of it so have I (I'm now 50), going from 5'11" around college to maybe 5'9" now.

Just having fun with trusted others. Cuddling with a giant wife is a soft activity.

Oh? Interesting. Snuggling is always good! Especially with size difference. Just gotta be careful though, not everyone knows their strength.

Viewing the self from the perspective as someone small seems like fun with my imagination :3 I always enjoyed imagining that which cant happen and to see the big world even bigger makes for more adventure! ^^

Imagination encircles the world! Always make use of it. <3

It really brings out my more submissive side. Also, I have interest in being little as you say much for the... 'exploration'

Awh, subby little coykit! Just be careful of the big stompy footpaws~

I'll keep that in mind big guy

shrinking turns the world into a huge adventure, fill with dangerous areas but for the most of the time it's fun and especially around trusted ones, i have a pet mouse here on FA and i'm pretty much always cuddling his paws, it's strange i know but who cares? xD i manly love the thought of being small, always have since i was a child and i still jhave no clue why xD

Nothing wrong with an owner cuddling their pets feet. I think that tiny dominants is a less common, but very interesting relationship aspect. ^-^

Honestly, the thought of being tiny is an interesting fantasy I'd love to actually take part in.

I find adventure in being so small that grass becomes jungles, animals become colossal beasts, and the world is far vaster than before.

But I also enjoy a world where the only humans around are the tiny folks, and animalfolk have become the giants and titans of the world.

My drawings reflect this often

Certainly! But you're so big already Illogical. Still. They're nice fantasies.

I like the possibilities that open up to being a micro.
Not gonna go into much detail but there's many places you can go and experiences you can encounter when being a micro.

sneaking into places...going UNDER the door. Hiding in places. If we can find a way to shrink people they'd make awesome spies. Someone's down there on the floor,taking an SD card out of your comp. because it has valuable info on it. They can do it without you noticing!

Hi there...I am anthrocoon but also known as shrinkingman. My interest in "giant-tiny" began as a kid with any cartoon, TV show, ad, or story involving tiny people/animals and/or giants. It could be the Incredible Shrinking Man, Gulliver, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Tony Nelson shrinking to 6 inches tall on I Dream of Jeannie, or so on. It could be people in real life 7 or 8 feet tall, or only 2 or 3 feet tall.

In my pre-Net days (pre-97) I had a short lived fanzine called Giant and Tiny People (In Fact and
Fiction) and then started a site which became shrinkingman.com/shrinking.net. Our messageboard
has fiction, discussion, video links, etc. and we also have a Facebook group. We keep it clean but I
do go to sites like Coiled Fist and The Minimizer.

As I said before my non-furry nickname is Shrinkingman and that classic book/movie meant a lot to me.
The idea of him getting smaller and then dealing with a giant cat or spider. The "human vs. giant cat"
situation has been played out on TV shows (Wild Wild West, Jeannie), movies, commercials, etc.

I like the idea of being small and seeing the world from a different perspective--though it can be dangerous of course! I've done pictures (cartoons, montages) and written stories. One of my characters is 4 inch tall Mike Rowe Fox from Lilliput. I have also had 100 ft tall Anthrocoon from a distant planet...and lately my stories have dealt with Wodlen, a planet of giant 70 ft tall furries. Remember the 60s TV show Land of the Giants? Kind of like that, only furry. A human (an adult astronaut, or a teen) lands on the planet and yes there are kindly furries to meet (and hopefully you learn the language). Picture though being forcibly put into a freezer. Worrying about someone drawing a sink of water and then holding you under it! The danger of being stepped on, and so on.

Of course many of my stories don't often dwell on the situations. They may be more kind...here the "micro" may be a human who lands on the planet of giant furs.

A young female macro raccoon feels sorry for a human teen and cuts off some of her fur to keep him warm.

A raccoon or fox finds a tiny human and befriends him, learning the language as part of it. They become close friends, but the human has to teach the giant raccoon phrases like "can I pick you up?"
first.

Nice to meet you all!
Yip Yip Yoo! (Now you can say "Wow!" or "Hey, that's great!" in Wodlenian!)

for me its, well, I love the idea of being much smaller than an animal/person and yet still outwitting them, its a kind of exiting rush, though I get a different warm smile feeling at the idea of being cuddled by aformentioned creature, my other interests are more like offshoots from that, I like paws too so a macro paw is even better, so for me its the feeling that I have to use my head to avoid situations as brawn is out of the question.