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Tw: Body Horror

Recently watched both The Substance and Wolf Man, and if y’all have seen those movies you will know where this is heading.

First thoughts - very tame summary of my thoughts, nothing graphic.

Body Horror in G/T! As a horror fan, I use body horror in my art outside of G/T, from silly creatures to uncanny depictions of anatomy - I find the topic quite interesting.

With G/T, this occurs quite often on a much (much) tamer scale with the act of growing and shrinking. In my opinion, the idea of growing to the size of a building or shrinking to the size of a mouse is an inherently terrifying concept. However, genres will do what genres do and shape our viewing of this transformation. Here in the G/T community, we often see very tame depictions of growing and shrinking. They grow or shrink, but there isn’t much else occurring. Sure, maybe they feel sick or get a headache, but that isn’t horrifying now, is it? I’m here to discuss some things one can do when implementing g/t into a horror space.

(If you are uncomfortable with the topic, please don’t proceed - from here on out, I will be discussing graphic depictions of body horror)

(I’m going to describe this as if it was happening over a few hours- however, the process can be expedited). First, it starts with a minor pain in your joints and jaws. Ignorable. It was likely a random pain that would disappear shortly after its discovery. However, it doesn’t. The pain continues to linger, growing ever more as time passes. The back of your head starts to burn, and a dizzying sensation falls over you - not enough to cause any impairment yet. You then begin to feel hot - unlike the other feelings that fell over you, this feeling grows rapidly. You take your temperature once, revealing a slight fever. Your head then starts to burn even more; the once manageable dizziness is increasing rapidly. You move to sit on your couch, but a weakness overtakes your body - you fall to the ground, instinctively turning into the fetal position. You attempt to swallow, but all you are met with is a pain in your esophagus as you spit up foamy saliva mixed with blood. You are unable to comprehend what is happening. Your head is burning, and you want to move, to get up, but every attempt you make to get up only ends in failure. You try to scream, but only a raspy whisper escapes your body.

The pain surrounding your joints and jaws now starts to spread all around you. However, the significant pain first centers around your mouth. You slowly move your hand to your mouth, an action driven by delirium. As your finger approaches your teeth, you push slightly against your bottom incisors, a small action with barely any strength behind it but an action that separates your teeth from your gums - you feel a tearing sensation as this occurs. They fall to the interior of your mouth, and the rest of your teeth soon after follow in their action, detaching from your gums and falling from their original placement. You feel them fall against your inner cheek, some even near the back of your throat - your mouth is now covered in blood. The metallic taste is sickening; you feel as if you are going to vomit. Your throat spasms in pain as a bile rises. But you are only met with more blood as your internal body begins to destroy itself. Your stomach acid eats away at your internals as your organs split apart. Your hair begins to fall out rapidly, and your nails detach from your nail bed, leaving a bloody and fleshy mess underneath. When you just started to think it couldn’t get any worse, just when you begin to think that maybe you’ll be able to die and escape this hell, your body starts to shake, and you are finally able to let out a gurgling scream, alongside it comes flesh and blood. Your back arches as your spine begins to break. Each of your bones detaches from one another, and each muscle fiber inside you tears. Your eyes widen as they, your ears, and your lungs become filled with blood. You can’t hear, you can’t see, and you can’t breathe. You are suffocating on your own blood and other fluids as your body tears itself apart.

From here on out, it can go one of two ways. Let’s start with growing.

Your entire body starts to expand. Your bones begin to reform, building as your body grows. The fingers you had curled in pain straighten out as if someone had put them in the proper position to accommodate this newfound internal accompaniment. You can feel it. You can feel bone forming in your body. You can feel your muscles snaking under your skin like a mass of maggots creating new connections. You can feel your organs reform as new mass is added to them. You also feel something new on the outside of your body pressing in. The room that had once surrounded your body comfortably now began uncomfortably closing in on your form. You are horrified.

Furniture is crushed under your body. Memories and memorabilia destroyed by you, covered in the blood that continued to flow from your orifices. Your home begins to crumble around you, as your form continues to expand, exposing you to the outside world. The clothes you once wore have long since been torn from your body. However, the elements that would once have brought discomfort are now nothing but an afterthought. Just like every part of your body, your skin has thickened and grown.

The growth begins to slow, and so does the blood. You now feel a weird tingling sensation all over your body as your hair starts to regrow. Your teeth and nails come next. Thickened structures proliferate out of your fingertips and toes. It almost feels like you were pulling out a splinter from under your finger bed. Your mouth pains as new but familiar structures grow rapidly under the surface and protrude. Taking the place of the teeth you had previously. The blood drains from your eyes, lungs, and ears. You are finally able to breathe. You take in massive breaths, too tired to comprehend what just happened. You slowly drift off into sleep, unaware of the horrors that shall come of you.

Now, let’s talk about shrinking.

You feel like you’re being crushed. Your bones begin to disintegrate within your body, as they are currently hindering your true transformation. They leak out of you in a liquid solution. Leaving your body empty and malleable. Your form can relate to a deep sea fish brought to the surface. If someone found you, they could easily pick you up and slit your belly, letting your organs and muscle fall out like coins in a coin purse. However, no one was there to give you this peace. Instead, your body acts as if it is being vacuum sealed. Your skin closes in on your organs and your muscles. A dizzying feeling surrounds you, and you cannot comprehend what is happening. But you can still feel, and alongside the pain, you feel cold. You no longer feel the clothes that covered your body. However, this doesn’t compute in your mind as anything of importance as you are much more focused on the overwhelming feeling of pain that surrounds your form. In what felt like days, but in reality, it was much shorter.

The crushing pain began to cease and was replaced by a new pain. Bones start to grow again throughout your body. Your muscles reattach to bone, and your brain takes sanctuary in a newfound skull. Your body feels as if it is being inflated. Everything you need is growing. Bones, teeth, hair, nails, and more. However, even after this gain, you still feel as if you are missing something significant. The blood that once blinded, deafened, and suffocated you has now left. You lay on the ground in a massive wet puddle of your own fluids, too tired to move. You slowly drift off into a sleep, exhausted. Unaware of the horrors you will have to face once you wake up.

K, my writing isn’t top tier - this is added to by how late it is lmao, but I think this gets my point across. I love body horror!!!

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Realized I never posted this few month Inosuke piece, and since art block had taken ahold, I shall share what is old

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Felt like doing some goji again - did a more simplified version and then a more detailed version (got a bit lazy with that version and didn’t feel like finishing it though >.>)

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“Fun” fact. Kyran’s species has developed an aversion to sweet tasting foods due to many highly toxic fauna on his original planet having that attribute - which as you can see, leads to some not so nice consequences when he encounters that taste. This is a fact that Harley did not know.

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Seems pretty fun, if anyone is interested in asking anything I’d be more than happy to answer

OC questions

60 questions that can be made into an OC ask game, or you can just fill everything out yourself to get to know your character a little better :)

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[1] What first impression do they typically make? Are they likeable from the get go, or take time to grow on people?

[2] How does their social personality differ from how they act when they’re alone?

[3] What emotion is the hardest for them to deal with?

[4] How physically and emotionally affectionate they are?

[5] Are they good at keeping secrets?

[6] How direct are they in conversations, do they speak in hints and riddles or bluntly say what they think?

[7] Are they a good liar, and what would they probably lie about?

[8] How open they are about their true feelings, both positive and negative?

[9] What is their love language?

[10] How quickly do they fall for someone?

[11] What are small things that make them happy?

[12] How high is their self-esteem?

[13] What kind of sense of humor do they have, if any?

[14] What does it take to make them laugh, and what does their laugh sound like?

[15] How do they act around people they don't like?

[16] Do they easily rely on others to help them out, or prefer doing everything themselves?

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[17] What is their biggest struggle that no one around them is able to understand or believe?

[18] Do they ever have to hide their identity and for what reason?

[19] If they could change one thing about their past, what would they change?

[20] When they’re sad or upset, do they need company or some time alone?

[21] When they’re sick, would they want others to visit and take care of them, or they would rather prefer not to be seen at not their best?

[22] Do they have nightmares, and if yes, when did they start and what are they usually about?

[23] What was the worst, the darkest period of their life that they have been through?

[24] How hard it is for them to not allow their emotions to cloud their judgement?

[25] Do they have fears and phobias, and if they do, do they usually keep it to themselves or talk about it openly?

[26] Do they have any physical or mental ilness, how do they handle it and how open they are about it?

[27] Do they have any scars, how did they get them and how do they feel about them?

[28] What is something that they will never be able to forgive?

[29] How do they deal with loss, stress and anger?

[30] What are their most healthy and most unhealthy coping mechanisms?

[31] How hard it is for them to own up to their mistakes and wrongdoings?

[32] Is there something they've done in the past that they deeply regret till this day?

[33] What are one of their fondest and most treasured memories?

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[34] Do they have vices they don't want others to know about?

[35] Do they like their own appearance, and what do they do, if anything, to alter it in any way?

[36] Do they own items that have sentimental value?

[37] How would they spend a lazy day when they have nothing specific to do?

[38] What do they usually do or where do they go when they need to feel comfortable and safe?

[39] What is their sleeping habits and favorite sleeping position, either alone and with someone?

[40] How picky they are with food, do they have specific dietary requirements based on their health or culture?

[41] What’s their usual morning routine?

[42] What is their idea of a perfect friendly hangout and/or romantic date?

[43] Do they enjoy flirting or being flirted with?

[44] On a party, where would you find them?

[45] For an event, would they dress like they typically do, or go all out?

[46] Would they rather dress to look attractive or to feel comfortable, and what would they never wear?

[47] Do they drink alcohol, and if they do, how much and how often?

[48] Are they, or were they at some point in their life, a part of any subculture?

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[49] Do they possess any unexpected skill or knowledge that surprises others, and otherwise, what is something anyone would assume they know or can do, but in fact they don’t?

[50] What are they really good and really bad at?

[51] How good are they with money?

[52] Do they speak any other languages aside from their own?

[53] Do they like to sing and how confident they are with their singing?

[54] Do they like giving gifts, and how good are they at picking good gifts?

[55] How long does it take for them to make a new place feel like home, and what do they need for it?

[56] How would they react to hearing a dirty joke?

[57] What was the most stupid or dangerous thing they have ever done?

[58] In the situation where they had to choose, would they rather stay loyal to their morals or to people they love?

[59] What would they want to be remembered for?

[60] If they were to commit a crime, what kind of crime would it most likely be?

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some of these question were written myself, some are the courtesy of my friend, and some were brought from my questionnaires in my old fandom. if you use them, please reblog or link back to this post

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If only this moment lasted forever

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Listen Nyx. Masks already provide low visibility. Get out of the way!

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Having two very different artistic interests that take up a boatload of time sucks! Why does learning new piano songs and drawing new pieces take so long!

Life isn't fair.

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Imagine you’re staring down at your tiny friend, looking at their adorable little face. You then go to boop their head with one of your fingers. You’re so close to the perfect boop but uh oh, your hand flinched and now they are knocked out cold. Whatcha gonna do now buster? How will you lie to them about what happened? Your life of crime starts today and it’s all because of your shaky ass hands.

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Been a little bit since I’ve done some fluff art of my original sillies, had to fix that

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Hate the weather here sometimes. For the entirety of December we only got like 5 days of snow in total, but as SOON as January hit it has been snowing for essentially 3 days straight.

Weather gods, I know January usually gets more snow but like…. Why the PRECISION

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As always, I have been thinking a little, and it came to me that I, surprisingly, have never made a post about one of my favorite scenarios in g/t. It being ✨The Hurt Giant ✨

I find it interesting (and prefer it overall) when the giant relies on the tiny, not vice versa. Perhaps a tiny, or maybe tinies, stumble upon a hurt giant. The giant's breaths are labored; possibly, they are wounded or sick, and the tinies not only have to try and aid the giant but also form a semblance of trust between the two parties (this is especially fun in fantasy/sci-fi scenarios).

This is also fun in a homey scenario with two partners. Perhaps the giant comes down with something, and the tiny puts it up to themself to help their lover. Despite the difficulties they face, their love and commitment to their partner knows no bounds because they know that their partner would do the same for them.

Moving away from the physical, I find emotional comfort so fun to work with (emotional + physical is fantastic, but I want to keep this as short as possible). Give me a giant about to fall apart emotionally; perhaps something went down in their life, or they've been holding down an emotion for a long time, and it spills out. Let the tiny walk up to the giant's face and beckon their head down, and slowly start patting/rubbing the giant's nose or cheek as a loving jester; no words are spoken as the giant brings their hand to cup their lover, pushing their head into the tinies' body, releasing their emotions - their small partner's presence surrounding them despite their size, their partner is their world, and the giant is grateful for everything their lover does for them.

I think the reason I find the scenario far more appealing than a giant taking care of a tiny is because of how large the role reversal is. Giants are commonly seen as these powerful behemoths. In contrast, tinies are seen as small and weak, so when you give more "power" to a tiny person and make them the caretaker or put a giant's life into their hands, I find the relationship more impactful. Give me a tiny who is more like a giant and a giant who is more like a tiny, and I will go ✨savage✨.

K. This wasn’t short, but I tried my best.

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All this just because I watched blade runner, got inspired (no it wasn’t the giant lady), and did a silly little post. These guys don’t even have names - who are y’all and why are y’all becoming developed original characters!

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Last piece of fan art for today. It is 5 am and I must sleep

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