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Originally Posted by Doll-Elf
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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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.