Feeling Low - Shrink Fan Comics
 

She Has Her Ups and Downs - Feeling Low is out now!

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You think you've got problems? Whenever a depressive episode leaves Natalie Feeling Low, it's literal - her size goes down along with her mood! So, when she has an especially rough time following a breakup, she gets really, really down...

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Synopsis: Many people struggle with depression, but Natalie Harris’s condition is unlike any other: when she feels small, she gets small. Though her best friend Miranda tries to help, some days are just hard, which make Natalie’s problems bigger. And after one particularly bad day, Natalie may decide that her once tiny apartment will be her entire world...

Release Date: October 1st, 2023
Written By: Rogue Scholar
Artwork By: Rosita Amici
Tags: shrinking, shrunken woman, slow shrink, loose clothes, shrinking out of clothes, half-size, doll-size, bug-size

Issue Link: Feeling Low

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The art is great and the plot is decent.

The size shifts are perfect and I loved it.


I hate that it's depression that shrinks her.

I think it's a forced allegory that is low hanging fruit for a "deep meaning"

Though by now, I think everyone knows my opinion on shrinking.

I want the people that shrink to be willing, and find it enjoyable and that it's fun, not peril.


It was nice that there was not a weird penis worship sex scene or forced non-con lesbian scene.

Honestly, Laundry Day pisses me off for having that and I am so glad this did not repeat that route.

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FWIW, you are SUPPOSED to hate that part of the story in Laundry Day. She's a villain.

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I know she's a villain. But I still hate the https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.p.../PsychoLesbian trope and how it permeates girl on girl erotica. I know that "some" enjoy it. I know that she's the bad guy and we are supposed to hate them.

I just don't see why the story needed to have it in the first place and it really distracts.

over 50 of the Shrinkfan comics are of women unwillingly being shrunk.

Some of these are just a continuation of other comics, but that makes it just as bad that the person making the story wanted to see the shrunk woman/women in peril longer, and often in MORE peril.

I'm just sick of my kink being used as a punishment or a forced unwilling participant where the shrunken character's life is in danger.

It's so fucking pervasive too. All the way back to Minimizer's work of having a giant male hand force strip and rape a tiny woman who was smaller than a barbie doll.

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You do have a point about it being very common in the kink. :/

At least SOME of our comics have willing participants, yeah? lol

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Not liking certain stories is one thing. Perfectly fine, as we all have different tastes. In matter a fact I also found that the antagonist in Laundry Day just didn’t do it for me.
But you can’t deny that this, by many, is a beloved story and the antagonist plays a important part in it. Don’t you think people would feel cheated if they adapted this story without the antagonist? I would make the argument that this wouldn’t be the same story they came to love.

I get your frustration, but I think it’s unfair to claim that “your kink” is being used somehow. Your argument sounds a lot like you being sick of people who enjoy parts of this kink you don’t.
Most of Jitensha’s work is probably not to your tastes, but I hope you would agree that there’s nothing wrong with the work she enjoys making.

There is nothing wrong with wishing that there was more consensual, girl on girl, sw, content. In matter a fact I’m wishing the same. I would just ask you to not take down those who enjoy something you don’t.

Have you read PlushWombat’s works on DA?
https://www.deviantart.com/plushwombat
He has quite a few romantic SW stories. As far as I know all of them are girl on girl.

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I have read and prefered PlushWomabt's work.

What I am saying is that there is an uncomfortable majority of stories, typically male focused, on keeping the female lead in peril or being punished for perceived slights. It's an obvious power fantasy and if you have been in the scene as long as I have, you would have noticed how violent SW can be and how so many male SW writers seem to be bleeding female people they know irl or simulations of women they know into these works. Often over the idea of control (read: non-consensual)

I' not here to 'knock' against people's kinks. I just don't want people getting a boner over keeping women terrified and under power with the threat of potential violence with them being shrunk.

Take Boom, Boom, Shrink. "The bully gets what's coming to her"

Or "Upcoming Descent" where the person being shrunk is "a bitch that needs to be taken down a notch"

As if justifying an experience the shrunken perceives as terrifying and not equal to the 'crime'.

Then there is Small Justice which is just torture porn, same as Size Smahers to name a few that Shrinkfan has made themselves.

I just want more lesbian romance in shrinking fantasies that doesn't also go to micro in the first or second act.

There's also a very weird amount of penis worship surrounding SWs

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Just read this comic. I found it to be okay. Hits a bit close to home as I have dealt with similar emotions. An interesting concept to be sure. Just not really my cup of tea.




I understand how you feel. I agree with your first paragraph for the most part. They do seem to be saturated. Never liked the violence myself or how power and control plays into it.

As for the rest, that is a problem to be solved. Especially the torture porn stuff. That is off putting at best and revolting at worst.

The lesbian stuff does get boring for me. Mostly just bland get to the action. Micro seems to happen way to fast most of the time.

Not sure about the penis worship. Though I would be happy seeing less of them.

You may not like the story I've been writing. It's man with a forced shrunk woman. I'm trying not to include any sex. Though it does have cosplay. Really writing it has been difficult and has gone through a dozen variations. And I still cant get the ending right.

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It's one thing if the person is shrunk and has to deal with it. But having an outside force malevolently be the orchestrator has always felt very wrong to me and often in SW stories, they get away with it or them doing it is in-universe "justified"

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Author RogueScholar here.

Can I ask what you mean by "deep meaning?" Other than the bit about "Laughing but only on the outside" that visually demonstrates how depression can affect people even when they seem relatively happy, I wasn't really digging too much into the concept. My initial thought for the story and the goal that I was working around was "what kind of person would want to shut themselves away and make their tiny living space their entire world?" I did try to be respectful about the topic and hope I didn't go too off course with its depiction, but it was really just one part of the picture I had in mind.


I get what you mean in that, regardless of it being "just a fantasy," there does seem to be a bit of aggression in these scenarios and usually plays out as "the bad guy always wins." And I'm sure you understand that a woman being small is going to warrant some sort of danger or peril as opposed to if she were big, especially in, at least from the way I try to structure things, a proper story that warrants investment rather than the majority of the product being just "getting down to business," but I agree that the genre could use some more upbeat stories.

I do actually have some ideas for stories that are more about intentional and consensual shrinking or at least accidental shrinking that then manifests into more fun and lighthearted faire. It'll be a bit before I can get to them, but I'll keep them in mind for my to-do list.

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I agree with above, mostly. I like to imagine myself as the shrinkee, so all the revenge and injustice fantasies feel like people making up lies about me - which is the worst thing imaginable. Reduction of the Innocent drove me nuts because everyone was so stupidly accepting of the lie that shrinking = guilt, when there was no reason for them to think that.

Shrinking-as-peril fantasy does work for me, as long as it is the shrinking itself, and not "what all these horrible people keep doing.", that is the primary antagonist. Consent is complicated. Too much, and you are just watching people masterbate. Too little is torture porn, as Doll Elf says.

I think that is the key for what is lacking in all these ShrinkFan works: Likable, relatable characters. Everyone in these stories is either an abysmal horror of a person, or a bland clichéd cypher.

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Say, um... sorry for butting in on this conversation, but I'm actually hoping to write a Shrink Fan comic myself someday (not that it'll come out anytime soon: only got the first two pages written so far), and since you guys have been talking about everything you DON'T like about these types of stories, would anybody be willing to give me some pointers on how to write a GOOD story? I already have a rough idea where I want my story to go, but I feel I could maybe use a few pointers, just in case.

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Feeling low: Giving her the mouse seemed really badly thought out. That thing could have bit her arm off. I'd have been horrified. Depression is a REALLY hard topic to write for.

Okay. :)

Full sized villains may be hard to avoid, but don't let them dominate everything that happens. Keep them in the background. And give them some realistic motivation, not just I'm horrible, or my victim is horrible.

Your heroines aren't perfect. But shrinking is going to be a wildly disproportionate punishment for anything relatable. Accidental shrinking, or least bad choice, is the most fun IMHO.

It is probably easier to have multiple shrinkees, so that they can talk to each other and do more things. Find as many ideas you can about the shrinking itself and its consequences. Have your characters do things. A few panels of shock and despair are okay, but if they spend a half hour crying, (which is realistic) give them the dignity of cutting away or past it.

Write your ending first. I'm so sick of all these stories that are ten minute reads, and then to be continued in 5 years or never. And think about what state your character is in at the end. Is she left hating everyone else in the story? Feeling traumatized and powerless? The world doesn't need more of that right now.

I'd recommend fun and comedy, but the ShrinkFan house style doesn't handle it well.

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I enjoyed the comic but I was actually thinking she was gonna shrink smaller until her friend would remind her about what else she would lose. The hamster kinda feels a an off thing to live for although if the comic ended with her still tiny with the hamster watching a movie, it would have brightened things up.

But I dug it.

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I've never been fond of the violence, abuse, or villains getting away with it in SW stories either. And certainly never a fan of the "totally innocent woman who's done nothing to deserve it suffers horribly" thing, either.

I will cop to writing The Binding of Brittany, and to a lesser extent Two Birds in a Gilded Cage, but those were on commission. xD

Y'know, I should adapt Penny's Game for SFan. That's lesbian, largely consensual, and not much in the way of peril or bad vibes. Definitely kinda fluff on the characters, but ya can't have everything. lol

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Well I for one ship the ladies in this particular comic.

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That could be fun, though didn't you write that as an ebook? How would that work with publishers and whatnot?

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sorry double post

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@Doll-Elf
I very much dislike the stories mentioned as well. Guess there is still a sizable market for those. The problem for Shrinkfan is that the gentler cute stuff doesn't seem to attract as much attention as the crueler stories. Either in subscribers or people who submit comics. That's one of the downsides of having stories like this in a paid subscription. The people who enjoy the more cute/romantic stories are more likely to turn away when their subscriptions delivers stories that are cruel. This is probably less so for people who actually enjoy these stories as the gentler stuff doesn't repel them, these stories would probably be accessed as 'boring' rather then nasty. Thus as time goes on, the gentler stories could become even less of a draw.

Just speaking for myself, I would probably not subscribe to shrinkfan because of those IMO repulsive stories.

@Qzar9999
Interesting idea, might even bring more people to reading your stories. On a side note how is your new story coming along? And did you ever receive my Email?

@chocolatejr9
My two cents are, try to keep it simple and really focus on what you want to show. Too often I see people complain about comics with all setup and no payoff. You only get 15 pages, make sure as much of them as possible show what people want to see. And of course show, don't tell. Every bit of dialog should add to the story.

As for the content, I personally like a bit of embarrassment and loss of control. But it should fun to experience. Like maybe shrinking while getting aroused. I could think of a lot of ways how a girlfriend could shrink her partner by teasing her.

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IWC has no problem with adapting existing works as long as we have the author's permission and as long as it never has and never will be adapted into a competing product (ie another comic). And since I'm the rights holder for my IP, I can't imagine it would result in any other kind of problem.

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I found that Invisible Girl was pretty good and consensual despite it not being fully lesbian like I would prefer. I just skip over the penis scenes.

And personally, I prefer a slower shrink where we really get interactions at the 2-4 feet marks. Any smaller and I lose interest normally.

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It's just that depression is a hard topic to write for and my depression comes off in extreme anxiety where I feel overly seen and mentally massive. Like everyone knows what I am thinking and what I did wrong. I feel 100 feet tall and not in a good way.

To me, shrinking is comfort. Being able to slip into someone's arms as they cradle me and smother me with love and kisses as I snuggle into their breasts. I don't have to think or do anything. I'm their pet and they decide everything for me. No bills. Just being taken care of like a good girl. (After writing this I know very well that I have mommy issues. Shush all of you.)



And the concept of depressed people wanting to 'vanish' with something outside of their control like depression is a stereotype to the point where some characters that can change size often get smaller to show they are sad. It's a cliche and personally I don't like the concept. That is not a critique on your writing, just the trope in general.

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I really appreciate your clarification and I take no offense to your criticism about the trope. Couching your metaphor for your anxiety in size-talk was really interesting and has given me a bit to think about. Regardless, I hope I didn't cause any distress with my portrayal.


Honestly, me being a straight male, the way you described the appeal of shrinking is legitimately what I would want to give to my lover. I think the peril or confusion of the moment for her is what I rely on to let myself be her shoulder to lean on so I'm a bit more roundabout in that sense, but I absolutely get what you mean and I really do enjoy that kind of tenderness and romance of making her feel safe and loved, at least when it comes to the major emotions I want to express.

Other times, though...I think something about the situation being a bit mean or unfair can appeal to me too (if you've read "Clearence Sale" you can kind've see what I mean).

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I think this one, Measure of a Warrior, Littlest Sister, Small Fortune are the ones that aren't the mean spirited ones.

Or Grading on a Scale or Belittling Belinda where the mean spirited are punished for good reasons.

I think that's why mentioned titles, Bedroom Games or Mistress feel better to read.

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Don't know if someone from Shrinkfan already noticed, but the latest preview of the upcoming comics isn't implemented correctly. It says the date of release 01 jan 2024 and it's name is 'test comic' if you click on it you'll get an error.

At least this was the case for me.

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I get the same thing. Must be some kind of error on the site.

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I think it was just being slow to update. It's displaying correctly for me now. I happen to check at, like, 6 in the morning on my way to work. But it looks good now. Looks like it'll be a good one too! Shrinking sexy time and a great artist as well! Art style almost made me wonder if they were putting it into the same universe as The Invisible Girl..

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Slow shrinking sexy time = yes.
Same universe as Invisible Girl = no.

...but I am writing one that IS in the same universe...

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Oh? Can you give us some hints? Lesbian? Straight? ect? New cast?

Potential release? I know you don't want to spill the beans or anything.

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Oooh, interesting. I'd very much love to get a peek at that.... I know I did write the comic (not for lack of trying for time) but as the writer of the original story I'd love to offer input on world building.

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It'll definitely be lesbian, and new cast. Given your express desire for consensual, non-dangerous lesbian shrinking content, I think you'll dig it.

Not sure about release yet. Ain't quite done with the script. lol

Once I've finished the first draft, I'll give ya a peek. It might not exist if it weren't for your original story, so I think that's fair.

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I definitely would appreciate it. I have a hand full of unfinished stories I've been keeping to myself. I definitely have been wanting to revisit the world some more.... flesh out some of the less extreme examples of shrinking and some of the unique disorders that might exist (like women who grow back really slowly or who permanently lose a portion of their hight lost) or how pregnancy works... I'm eager to see what parts of world you'll touch base on.

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I'm always up for more sapphic shrinking.