Feeling Low - Shrink Fan Comics

[Valeyard Vince]

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



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...



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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[Doll-Elf]

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.

[qzar9999]

Originally Posted by Doll-Elf

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.

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

[Doll-Elf]

Originally Posted by qzar9999

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

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.

[変な変態]

Originally Posted by Doll-Elf

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.

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.

[Doll-Elf]

Originally Posted by 変な変態

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.

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

[qzar9999]

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

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

[chocolatejr9]

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.

[Prof_Sai]

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.

Originally Posted by chocolatejr9

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.

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.

[Doll-Elf]

Originally Posted by chocolatejr9

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.

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.

[mrsenoreddie]

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.

[qzar9999]

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