#gt vibes

[nonbinary-octopus]

hi if you like G/t and point and click puzzle escape room games then you should check this one out

I haven't finished it yet but I've played two other games by the same devs and absolutely loved them, and I am super charmed by the gt vibes in this one. You are a little clay person trapped in a tiny building, and all the stuff around you is made of various full-size items. Your desk is corrugated cardboard. Your pillow is an eraser. The plant pot is a thimble. There's tape holding stuff together. It is absolutely adorable and I am loving it

The game is called Escape from Castle Claymount, and it's on CoolMathGames as well as probably other places. Very fabulous, very wonderful

[giant-tiny-fiber-friends]

Crochet in G/T

Fiber Arts in G/T | Knitting in G/T

Unlike knitting, I don't know of any examples of crochet in g/t media, but I am also not all-knowing, so feel free to add to the conversation if there's an example out there! In the meantime, I'll just give a brief overview of the craft, and go straight to how I think it could be used in g/t settings, and real life examples that give me g/t vibes.

Crochet is the art of turning yarn into fabric using a single hooked tool. In contrast to knitting, which involves several live stitches on the needles worked one after another in a row, crochet is worked one stitch at a time. It's a lot younger than knitting, so it's taken a bit to build up to a similar level of popularity, but it's quite versatile!

The Potential

I'm surprised that there aren't more examples of crochet in g/t since one needs only one tool and some yarn! I can see giants carving down some tough wood into a workable tool easily enough. Tinies could be similarly resourceful with building materials, maybe bending some wire into a hook they can use. Depending on the size of the tiny, they might even be able to use the broken-off ends of steel crochet hooks, which are used for exceptionally fine work (more on that later).

It is also possible to crochet even without a tool! This is probably more feasible for tinies than giants, depending on how well they can source yarn, since this skill is easier to achieve when using chunkier-weight yarn. The nature of crochet, working one stitch at a time, makes this much easier to achieve using just your fingers than knitting!

Crochet is also good for odd shapes since they can be achieved using only the same tool as you'd need to make any old rectangle! This is why it's popular to make dolls and toys using crochet, and the relatively more sturdy nature of the knotted stitches makes it good for practical use in baskets as well.

Real Life G/T Vibes

Similarly to knitting, I get tiny vibes from things made with big, chunky yarn. I also love that it's easy to make baskets and bags with crochet; being able to easily create something practical like that seems like an important skill for tinies!

Super Chunky Hexagon Cardigan by Michelle Greenberg via Ravelry.com

And from the giant side of things, there's actually a much bigger micro-crochet trend than there is in knitting! Those extra-fine steel hooks I mentioned earlier come in handy for it, along with thread thin enough to use with them. It's easy enough to use any old crochet pattern and make it super teeny tiny, and plenty of people do!

Please do let me know if there are examples of crochet in g/t media that I'm not aware of! And if you're interested in more conversations like this, please join our discord channel!

[gtzel]

Chillin with my bird while writing a g/t fic while vibin to some tunes. Realizing that im basically livin with 9 tinies that are just birds. Fr tho, Monte (my bird) is just chillin o my shoulder as i write and it legit feels like something that a tiny would do.

[kbthebearcat]

Oh my gosh I love this lol!!!

[nonbinary-octopus]

@entomolog-t for Sal

a mini cat tree for a tiny arachnid kitty

[bonkalore]

Just some domestic throuple stuff I was lacking in having drawn, which is a shame.

[pr-fae]

Classic GT trope where human astronaut crash lands on a planet that is conveniently like earth except giant but they don't crash somewhere cool, it's just the boonies and they get stuck with someone who almost exclusively drives atv carts really fast send tweet

Safety first in the purse

[gt-daboss]

Two Different Worlds

CW: slightly depressing/unequal world? (I'll add more if asked)

Any giant, for whatever reason, can enter human cities. Be it a business negotiation or visiting family and friends, the city will welcome them all, for a price. With giant societies being the proprietors of nearly all the wealth in the frontier, humans are treated as faux second-class citizens. Not generating enough influence to really matter when a problem is presented, especially one where the sole cause is the giants themselves. For but a small cost, any of them can enter a human city, with free reign over everything we've built. Stomping their way through with little regard for the 'equal' citizens below, humans are forced to make way for them as the giant ooh's and aah's degradingly at the city miniaturized for their liking.

Every Human grows up with the constant, oppressive weight of being considered lesser, No, physically BEING lesser. Smaller, tiny, insignificant, a pest, a human. But to be presented with a person so fabulously wealthy, so physically above you and your peers, and all they do when they see your city is laugh...

It's like living in a separate world.

[nonbinary-octopus]

I love the way Mikey can just yoink him

Part 5!

I'm afraid the eyebags are really just part of the problem

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[giant-tiny-fiber-friends]

Knitting in G/T

Let's get started with a classic!

(This is a continuation of a conversation that began here, for context)

I'm intending for this to be partly an informative post, as well as a conversation starter in case anyone had ideas or questions regarding the topic. As part of the g/t writing community, I know how handy it can be to have resources for niche topics, so hopefully this can help or inspire someone! I'm going to talk about knitting in existing g/t media, some of the possibilities I can think of as far as knitting for giants and tinies go, and some examples of what gives me real life g/t vibes in knitting.

Knitting, for clarity, is the art of turning yarn into fabric using a pair of needles. It seems like one of those crafts that people have plenty of ideas about with tinies, but doesn't so readily come up with giants. Maybe we'll fix that here, we'll see!

In Media

I've noticed this has mostly been explored from the tiny side of things, at least in established media. Now's the part where I admit that I do not have a comprehensive understanding and grasp of g/t media, so if there are further examples of this that exist, I'd love to hear about them! For now, the most immediate examples I can think of is The Borrowers, both in the book and one of the film adaptations.

The first is featured in one of the original covers of the original book, a colorized version of an illustration that shows Homily knitting on a pair of pins.

The text describes her as "knitt(ing) their jerseys and stockings on black headed pins, and, sometimes, on darning needles (...)" and goes on to describe her using spools of silk or cotton thread to do so. This is doable, especially since both thread and pins can vary in thicknesses, which can affect the way the fabric created behaves. One would simply need to find or make pins that were more dull, because those things can get Sharp!

Darning needles, which are slightly bigger than what you'd think of as sewing needles but still pretty thin, are a little thicker and I would think would be used with something a bit more substantial than thread. I'll get into this more in depth when I get around to talking about spinning, but yarn can be spun pretty finely, and tinies could easily be resourceful enough to manage to get it to a usable size, no matter the needles used.

As an aside, the BBC's 1992 iteration of The Borrowers quietly goes into more detail about this side of their existence. It ran for two seasons, covering most of the books up til "The Borrowers Aloft", I believe. The whole thing can bee found on YouTube, and someone recently posted an HD remaster!

Homily's knitting crops up throughout the first arc as not only a tool for keeping her family warm, but as a way for her to cope with her anxiety. She quickly picks up her knitting (from a small ball of wool she seems to have wound herself rather than from a spool, which is much more mobile) after an argument with Arrietty, and while she waits for Pod to come home from late-night borrowing.

Then, after they flee the cottage, they collect wild wool (seen above) from the brambles to use as insulation, and I believe the implication is that it's later spun into yarn for Homily to use to make Arrietty a sweater/jumper and herself a cardigan, shown in this short clip:

Seriously, if you haven't seen this adaptation, I highly recommend! Lookit Homily getting to be a bit of a badass for once!

The Potential

Knitting like this is plausible in g/t spheres, in my opinion. A lot of modern knitting has grown to lean away from separate straight needles like the pins would facsimile, choosing circular needles instead. Basically it's a few inches of solid needle attached to a flexible cord that more easily allows a knitter to work in a continuous tube (like hats), but they can be used to make flat things (like scarves) as well.

Even if an article is made of tubes- hats, sweaters, and even socks- they can still be made flat and seamed together. So if all a tiny has access to are a pair of pins, or if all a giant can do is carve and polish some wood into straight needles, it's a perfectly valid way to go about things. I'm not going to put a limit on the innovations of big or small folk to be able to come up with workarounds if they truly wanted to make a circular needle equivalent, though. Maybe a tiny could use a sturdy yet flexible bit of wire with the tips worn down to a taper, or a giant could MacGyver something with literal cabling, who knows? I'm all for hearing other ideas!

Real Life G/t Vibes

Most Vibes I get from knitting are from things made with really thick or thin yarn. Big, chunky yarn reminds me of how even the thinnest of yarn would probably still be quite lofty to a tiny. To me, it gives the feeling of having found doll's clothing and using it to keep warm!

The Harper Jacket by Ciadree via Ravelry.com

And I know it's not really useful to a hypothetical giant, but knitting tiny things does give one the feeling of being big. I'm often reminded of Althea Crome, the self-proclaimed micro-knitter who made the knits in the movie Coraline and has a whole gallery of miniature knitted art!

Mixing different weight (sizes) and colors of yarn also gives me very homemade, using what you have on hand even if it doesn't match kinda vibes, which I find fitting for both giants and tinies. They (most likely) don't have textile shops where they can get all matching bits. Or maybe they do, and that's valid, too! I'll get into more detail about that when I talk about scraps and stash eventually, but I think this post has gotten quite long enough.

If you have any more ideas or questions about this topic, and especially if you have more examples in existing g/t media that I don't know of or forgot about when writing this, please do keep the conversation going!

[olivexing]

For two moments I feel so great

‘cause there’s no more worries, no spinning plates

somehow i feel more than ten feet

taller instantaneously

it all seems small and so far away

-“On the Run” by Glass Animals, from their new album “I LOVE YOU SO F***ING MUCH”

The song reminded me of my depiction of gender euphoria with my merman oc, Olympe 🌊

[nineties-effect]

[nonbinary-octopus]

Awwwh, nice!

desire to build and furnish a doll house... increasing!

Housewarming gift from my sister arrived today!!

I'd mentioned to her that I was wanting new measuring cups & also stuff for my doll's house and she put these mini cups in the box w the measuring cups and it was honestly a bit surreal to open up asfgjjhkljk

They are so tiny!!

Other tiny things! Took me a moment to identify the little square as a trivet. The books are false advertising tho. The pages are printed but they all seem to actually be Hansel and Gretel

EXCEPT for the Celtic fairy tales which has little pictures!

Fhvjbmkb very cute (there was also part of my real address)

Card on display

All good :)

[seraphinxxa]

g/t crumbs in Sunday’s new leaks…

[arrow-gt-ace]

a giant goes to New York City giant: "I was told there was a Big Apple here, where is it :("

[evieismol]

This audio keeps popping up on my tiktok fyp and it is perfect for the gt vibe tbh