Lurk (a.k.a. foreverlurk) is a fan of shrunken women (SW) and tiny women who has taken the extra step to curate and preserve such media for others to enjoy. Lurk’s love for tinies has resulted in preservation efforts such as the G/t Library and the Shrunken Woman Video Archive. The G/t Library lists over 280 different comics, graphic novels, manga, manhwa, novels, and short stories from a wide swath of international creators including, but not limited to, American, Canadian, French, Korean, Japanese, and Russian artists and authors. Folks can also hop over to YouTube and enjoy the 873 clips currently archived there. In my opinion, two highlights of that collection include a shrinking and non-lethal vore scene from the animated series “Monsters vs Aliens” plus a long clip from the Amazon Prime series Gen V featuring the size-changing character Emma Meyer (a.k.a. Little Cricket). Fans can follow Lurk on Bluesky for the latest updates and check out his link tree here.
#1) Can you tell the readers a little about yourself?
I’m currently in my 40s, born and raised in Québec, Canada. I’m one of the rare French-speaking Québécois size fantasists out there. I’ve been on the Internet since the late 90s, under the same username. Calling myself a “lurker” may sound like a complete lie now, but it was the case for many, many long years. Although I’ve only started engaging more actively with the community in recent years, I’ve been around for a long time. First on Usenet, then on various iterations of size forums, like Min’s, Maxcat’s, Process, and GiantessCity. My degree is in software engineering, and I’ve been working in the IT industry for over 20 years.
#2) How did you first become interested in shrunken and tiny women?
I guess I was born with it? I recall seeing my first shrinking scene in the French version of “Fushigi no kuni no Arisu“, an Alice in Wonderland adaptation that aired here when I was about 6 years old. It caught me completely off-guard, I remember time slowing down as Alice shrank, nothing else existed in the world but the TV in the living room as she dwindled down. The butterflies I felt in my stomach, the blood rushing to my head, and the sudden adrenaline spike made me understand two things – that I wanted more, and that I should keep very quiet about this. Growing up I enjoyed the copious amount of size media we got in the 80s/90s, it seemed every cartoon had an obligatory shrinking episode back then. I even had a physical, secret stash of size content made of books, comics, magazine cut-outs, a VHS tape or two… a precursor to my current size archives! Puberty then made things weirder for me, as it became something I also thought about sexually. Without the Internet, I thought I was alone with this weird fantasy, and it filled me with feelings of guilt and shame. I had a phase where I tried to “cure” myself of this, as ridiculous as it sounds. It took me discovering the size community online to start the journey towards self-acceptance, but even then it took me over a decade to be comfortable with it.
#3) Are any of your everyday acquaintances aware of your interest?
Sadly, I’ve always kept this part of me hidden. I’ve tried to share it so many times, and it’s hard to explain how the words just won’t come out. The one time I did manage to say something, I made the person extremely uncomfortable, and she acted like the conversation never happened afterward. For me, this fantasy can be comforting and wholesome, but also intensely sexual depending on my mood. I long to protect and care for tiny ladies, but I also desire to possess them more than anything. I struggle to reconcile these two sides sometimes, let alone explain them to “normies”, or even to some people in the size community who think it’s only a sexual fetish. I feel it’s harder to talk about this openly as a male giant/dom than as a tiny/sub. I’m not a switch, I have no interest in changing my own size, I’m simply into shrinking women. From my experience, there’s a lot of prejudice toward males in the “shrinker” role, as if it meant endorsing the patriarchy, male domination or much worse. There’s a huge difference between my real self (shy, reserved introvert) and my fantasy self (dominant, assertive). Claiming that my kink defines who I really am ignores the very notion of consent and respect that is so important in size dynamics. In the end, I’ve always been afraid that opening up about this would permanently change how people saw me.
#4) What are a few of your favorite size fantasies from other creators? I know this is a difficult question and your answer, like everyone else’s, can change over time. Nonetheless, I shamelessly include this because it serves as awesome feedback when creators read that folks like their work.
In my youth I consumed a lot more size fiction than I do nowadays, mostly because I had more free time. My tastes evolved over time, as did the way I interact with the fantasy. While I still enjoy the F/f dynamic, it’s not as visceral to me as M/f, where I project and insert myself into the story. Discovering more women authors and seeing things through the female gaze and their tiny POV was a turning point for me, and greatly expanded my horizons. One such author is Littlest-Lily, who entranced me with her “Rains” series a few years ago. She writes beautifully and we share an unconditional love for the really teeny, tiny sizes. Another female author I discovered is Arenaksw, and her “Guardian Angel” story, which felt deeply personal in so many ways, exploring the dichotomy of being both a giant savior while yearning for her tininess. Another great M/f story that felt very personal for me was Scidram’s “Desperate Measures“, especially with what I was going through at the time I read it. I’m also a fan of both traditional comics and webtoons, I’m impatiently waiting for the next installments of “Violet Goes to the Beach” by Pacthesis. It’s so good and while it’s not a SW story per se, size themes come up at many points in the story. Last but not least, I would be remiss not to mention the classic “Slumber Party” by Sally Reynolds. It will always have a special place in my heart because it was the very first SW story I found on Usenet all those years ago, which ultimately led me to discover the size community.
#5) Language can often be a barrier and prevent those who are unfamiliar from enjoying an outstanding work. In your opinion are there any French language comics, movies, or stories which are worth the effort for non-French speaking SW fans to seek out and translate? This is asking for media that you think has been overlooked.
I don’t know if other non-English speakers feel the same, but for me English creates a distance in my mind between what I’m thinking and what I’m actually saying. Speaking about size in French is hard, not only because so much of our niche vocabulary is in English, but because it feels like I’m actually baring my soul. French media has lots of G/t moments, like in Belgian and French comics (bandes dessinées). Most of it is aimed at children or teenagers, like the recent Borrowers adaptation “Les Chapardeurs”. The first season is out and it’s very well-made, the sound design especially, which is often overlooked when portraying extreme size differences. One fairly unknown, never-translated and very much adult-only French SW story is Marie-Thérèse de Brosses’ “Asunrath“ published in 1967. It’s very hard to find as a physical book because after the real author won a plagiarism case, the books were destroyed. There is now an ebook version with the gorgeous art from famed French cartoonist Claude Serre. The sci-fi horror story is not particularly well-written in my opinion, but features lots of women who are shrunk, abducted and abused by a mad scientist.
#6) Are there any upcoming projects that you would like to mention?
I plan to expand the Size Library with more sheets beyond only tiny women – like giant men, tiny men, and giant women – as my searches for size content led me to plenty more than just shrunken women. I’ve also received feedback to add more metadata, for example some people asked me to include if there was any actual interaction between a giant and a tiny. Some people also asked for chapter/page numbers, others want to know the nature of the size change (magical, technological, etc), if it’s “out of clothes”, etc. I’m not sure I’ll go that deep, but once it’s more fleshed out it could be a good database for an actual website about printed size content. I’m also working on fan subs for Les Chapardeurs which is taking more time than I anticipated. Of course, I’m constantly editing clips for my YouTube channel which is also complicated with the copyright rules seemingly changing every few months or so. I do have local and cloud backups of all my work, should anything happen. Finally, I’m always open to suggestions for new material, both on YouTube and for the Library.
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