Julie loved everything in her garden, everything but the bugs.
She'd discovered her love for gardening when she'd moved to her new home. Previously she'd lived in a city apartment and had no outside space. But years of cramped living and city noise had frayed her nerves. The people of the city hadn't helped - their rudeness and aggression had slowly eaten away at Julie until she could no longer face going outside. It was at this point she realised that she'd have to move.
The new suburbs she found herself in were quiet - but not quiet enough. Her frayed nerves failed to heal and she found herself being more of a shut-in than before. The only time she ever ventured outside now was to look after her new garden - but even that was becoming difficult.
She had a great fear of even the most non-threatening of insects. She knew they were mostly harmless but just knowing they were there made her skin crawl. Exterminating them wasn't an option - Julie wanted her garden to thrive and knew well that the creepy-crawlies were an intrinsic part of its biodiversity. So instead Julie had an idea - she was going to conquer her fear.
There were plenty of self-books online promising to help cure her entomophobia. The problem was all of them had poor reviews. In the end she took a shot in the dark and picked one at random. Julie wished she'd paid a bit more attention picking when it arrived as it turned out to be an audiobook. She'd never tried an audiobook before but decided to give it whirl.
Before going to bed she wanted to listen to at least one chapter. Unfortunately the narrator's voice was slightly too soothing and Julie fell asleep listing to it. When she woke up the next morning the audiobook had played to its end. Julie vowed to try again a bit earlier tonight before setting off on her day. She had a cup of tea and wandered out into her garden. Here she dead-headed a few roses, listened to the babbling of her pond and watched the bees fly by. It was only after a few minutes that she realised what she was doing - she was watching the bees! She wasn't running in fear of them or screaming, she was quite content watching them on their way - in fact she was rather enjoying it. She decided to explore her new found appreciation of the tiny life below her, now scanning the flower beds for any other insects. Soon she spotted a line of ants which she watched for sometime carrying fragments of leaves back and forth, then lurking behind them she spotted something - a huge wolf spider. That would normally be enough to send her fleeing inside but today she head out a finger and gave it a little stroke before it went fleeing from her instead.
It appeared the audiobook had worked. Julie was impressed. After coming in from her garden she went online and ordered several more. The first to arrive was a self-help guide on boosting confidence. Julie decided to recreate the success she'd had with the first one and put it on before bed, falling asleep as the narrator droned on.
The next morning she awoke and rushed out to the shop to see if the tape had helped her confidence any. She realised it had when she reached the shop and found she was still in her nightdress. Julie didn't try to cover back or run back home in embarrassment - she just decided to own it. She had a rocking body, so what if people saw all its curves through her skimpy clothing? She strutted back home at her own pace, enjoying how in control she felt of herself now - no longer held back by her fears of what other's thought.
When the next audiobook arrived Julie decided to go straight to bed and put it on despite it being early. After the success of her first two she couldn't wait to see if this one could do what it promised on the cover and increase her intelligence. When she awoke the next morning Julie could already feel her mind running at a million miles per hour with dozens of new ideas piling up - the audiobook had worked like a charm.
One idea that her newly tuned-up mind came up with caught her attention: a way to abuse her apparent gift for being totally influenced by these audiobooks. She set about instigating the plan right away, grabbing her laptop and microphone she went to her study and sat down to record.
"You are Strong.
You are Powerful.
You are Big.
You are Beautiful." she repeated several times into the microphone.
When she was happy with her recording she put it on loop, put on her headphones and settled in for a nap.
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The world shook.
From a tiny house in the suburbs emerged the now gigantic form of Julie. She was strong and powerful, big and beautiful. And she was confident. She strode into the city and her new size with nothing but the remains of her underwear. Her new size and strength bolstering the faith in herself she already had.
Julie looked down on the tiny people, some gaping back at her - others trying to ignore what was happening and live their lives. They reminded them of the insects in her garden, and like those insects she found she wasn't afraid of them any more.
Meta: Damn, I should have got an advertising deal with audible before making this. Oh well, just a reminder that other audiobook retailers are available.
KamiSmith made me start thinking of stories where the giantess would have to keep wearing headphones. I thought up the idea of a super-power where you took on the effects of whatever you listened to. So a song about being strong would make you stronger the longer you listened to it, and a song about growing would make you bigger and bigger if you listened to it on repeat. I was going to make a new collage to go with that, but then I realised I had this collage going spare and decided an altered version of the story could work here.
Julie bliss is a great giantess I've been meaning to make a collage of for a while. When I decided to do a collage with a good giantess ass in it, I knew it was time. For this collage I used my own shot of Hong Kong. I thought it'd be nice to do a simpler collage - but then got carried away with transparent foreground elements and subtle reflections.
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