👏 let👏 Bowman👏 say👏 fuck👏
Pffft. Absolutely, anon. A-heckin’-men.
Bowman might not be aware of most swears we know, but if he learned about them, you can bet he’d be using them all liberally (and sometimes not in the right context, but that’s what practice is for).
I love your stories! Do you have any advice for G/T beginning writers?
Thank you! I’m not the best at giving advice, but I’ll try my best! (I’m really sorry if these are all terrible or not what you asked for…)
- The first thing to figure out is what sizes your characters are. Since Gt just means interaction between two or more people of extreme size differences, and there are a lot of options. One could be a giant while the other is human. One could be a borrower or a fairy, or even a human who was shrunk. But it’s good to get what species your characters are first and foremost. (I usually go for the borrower option, I just find that the most fun)
- Now this next one is more of an opinion and does all depend on the character and you, of course, but there should be a factor of fear within the ‘tiny’ character towards the ‘giant’ character. Unless they have known each other for a long time, even then, there might still be an underline of fear.
- Descriptions are your best friend when writing Gt scenes. Usually this happens in the tiny’s pov, with things like describing what it’s like sleeping on a giant chest, or describing how it feels to have a giant looming over you and being in their shadow. How they feel more than hear a laugh. But descriptions are also important in the giant’s pov, with describing the feeling of having the tiny in their hands for the first time, or the first time they try to ‘hug’ them. Things like that.
- It’s good to have a clear size in your head for your giant and/or tiny character. Personally, I like the tiny being around 4 to 6 inches tall in comparison to the giant (meaning, an actual giant would be around 65 feet tall I believe, don’t quote me on that). It’s perfect handheld size, while not being too big or small. Though, again, that is just my preference and you are perfectly fine with going bigger or smaller than that. Just know that if you decide to make your character a borrower, they are 4 to 6 inches tall, according to the books and movies.
- There are a lot of Gt cliches and it is perfectly fine if you use them.
That’s all I have for the moment, I hope these helped!
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I tagged these people, just in case they have anything to add to this. Also check them all out for some top-notch Gt writing examples.
Also feel free for anyone else to add to this 🙂
Could sb stand for something borrowed or sorry borrowers? Maybe even selling borrowers since it seems like Jacob is getting kidnapped.
Ding ding ding!
You’ve got it! #sb stands for Something Borrowed, and the something that gets borrowed is……..
Jacob!
(Our working titles for this were Borrowed Without Permission and An Unexpected Journey, so you can imagine how fabulous this is going to go for wee Jake).
The rumbling in the floor died out with the giant no longer in motion, and Jacob stared with wide, stunned eyes at the hand that had become a wall to him. He was less than four inches tall; that hand dwarfed him so easily it didn’t even feel real. He could see minuscule scars and calluses in the thick skin, details he probably wouldn’t even notice if he wasn’t so damn small.
Twisting around with the thought of darting back under the dresser, he found another hand blocking his way. Jacob was trapped between hands big enough to crush him with just a few fingers.
That realization settled in the pit of his stomach, and finally prompted him to look up.
Looming overhead was a giant, grinning face, smug for having caught him so easily. Jacob still couldn’t see the real motive in that face, even though he could see more than half of it now. He just saw someone smirking down at him, someone easily twenty times his own size. He was scared.
Legs shaking and nowhere to run to, Jacob held his hands up weakly. “W-wait,” he said, unsure if his voice even carried up enough for the man to hear.
Dean barely noticed Jacob talking, too riveted on the tiny teenager he’d trapped. He moved one of his hands quickly towards Jacob, knocking the kid’s feet out from under him and tipping him onto the palm of his hand with the tiniest yelp of surprise Dean had ever heard. Despite the fact that all of Jacob’s weight tumbled into his hand, Dean could barely feel him lying there.
Fascinated, Dean lifted Jacob up into the air, his intent green eyes taking in every one of Jacob’s few inches. The kid was tiny, not even stretching all the way from one side of Dean’s palm to the other. He was wearing a hoodie, slightly too large for his frame, along with jeans. Dean curiously pinched one of the tiny hands between two fingers, feeling the soft skin and precise movements of little fingers.
“Dude!” Dean couldn’t keep in the exclamation, earning a startled flinch from Jacob. “The news wasn’t kidding about you, was it?”
Requested by @enby-phoenix! I’m sure they’d end up snarking eventually. But first, it’s time for panic and surprise all around. XD
(This was definitely inspired by that drawing moga did of Bowman and extra bitty Jacob. I’m on mobile right now so I can’t link but if somebody could that’d be great!)
Jacob belongs to @neonthebright, Sawyer and art belong to me, I don’t know why I keep drawing side profiles they never turn out, why is art hard.
And this is lovely.
May 12th excerpt:
Bobby looked away from Dean and Logan, turning a blind eye to whatever they did. “Want some help getting that blood out?” he offered Sam, sizing up the splotch and the dark spot around it from Rumsfeld’s saliva.
Sam glanced at it. “Sure. I’m kind of running low on jackets, anyway. We don’t exactly have a supply of them…”
“I’ve got a few tricks up my sleeve,” Bobby assured the kid as he held out his hand.
Another knack idea, someone who can shift their own “internal gravity”, so they could walk up walls or fall into the ceiling, where humans can’t catch him as easily (or float, if they practice constantly flipping the polarity to avoid building enough velocity in either direction)
Hopefully they never make the mistake of shifting their internal gravity when there’s no roof over their head to land on! Or if the roof is far distant from where they’re standing.
I think over the weekend, I’ll be able to write a post about the borrower knacks in BA, and touch on what causes them from the curse. This week has been a lot of fun brainstorming! More ahead!
What would your knack be? Let us know!
I’m not sure if this would be my knack (I’m still trying to figure that one out!) but a cool one would be a form of charmspeaking! Imagine a borrower getting caught and then just talking the human into putting them down and maybe forgetting this whole thing ever happened. It could be super cool :D
That’s a great one!
Mental manipulation comes up in a few ways in the future BAUverses, so you can actually expect to see some new borrower knacks floating around out there. It’s a very useful ability, just watch your limits so they don’t catch you at it!
What would your knack be? Let us know!
Sneak peek!
Since the title was guessed a bit ago, the sneak peek for M&Ms and Lucky Charms has arrived!
Before Sam could try thinking of another method, the door barged open. Jumping slightly in place, he curled his hands protectively around the tiny balled-up kid he’d found, and saw Dean sauntering back in.
“Got some grub,” Dean said, walking past Sam and tossing a package of bread on the table, followed by peanut butter and jelly from his jacket pockets. Last, he pulled out some peanut M&Ms from his back pocket and grinned proudly. “Even remembered the chocolate.”
Sam didn’t react to the food, just watching Dean over his shoulder, still sitting on the ground facing the dresser from catching the tiny kid and wondering how he was going to break this one for Dean.
Naturally, this immediately alerted Dean to the fact that something was off in Sam-land, and he narrowed his eyes at Sam.
“What? No grabbing for the M&Ms?” Dean asked suspiciously. “Whatcha doing down there, anyway?” He stepped closer to Sam, his eyes falling on the cupped hands. “What did you find?” he demanded, squatting down next to Sam. “You know what Dad says about keeping pets!” He went to grab for Sam’s wrist.
Oscar, in all the excitement of being swept off the floor, had forgotten about the other human. How he could forget about the second tenant in the room, he didn’t know. He hadn’t even considered him when thinking about running out in the open for that candy. There was a chance that he’d have been caught by the other kid instead.
The older human was loud. Oscar squeezed his eyes shut as he came nearer, and wished he could curl up into an even tinier ball so he might go unnoticed.
It was no use. He was trapped in the younger human’s hands anyway.
He peeked one eye open to chance a look past his arms, and sucked in a gasp. Another hand, bigger than the ones that held him, was fast approaching. It could snatch him up even faster, and this human might grab him too hard.
He yelped, kicking out to push as far as he could into the curve of his current captor’s fingers. More tears burst out of his eyes and his head hurt from all the pressure, but Oscar couldn’t help it. He waved his hands in front of himself weakly, as if they’d be some defense, and then the moment was over and he was curled up again in his ball of fear.
The cry of fear from in Sam’s hands galvanized him into action, and he squirmed away from Dean’s reaching hand. “No!” he cried out, protesting his older brother’s grab. He twisted out of reach, keeping his hands shut tight around the kid. “You’ll hurt him! I promised!”
There was a moment of silence, and Sam looked over his shoulder to see Dean frozen. “Sam,” Dean said slowly, his eyebrows pinching in concern. “What do you have in your hands?”
I’m so invisible most of the time, I bet my knack would become incorporeal for short periods of time and just phase through the hands of any human that grabs me. They I could pass off as a dream or hallucination and remain non-existent in their lives
Could be an interesting one to have! It might be a little strong for the borrower knacks though, the lil guys have fairly limited boundaries for what they can accomplish. Blending in until they’re invisible is right up their alley, though.
What would your knack be? Let us know!
Brothers Apart 