As a fat person I'm SICK of seeing Penelope Featherington drawn as a skinny person!!!

It's not even the book version where she indeed lost some weight before her book. BUT THE GODDAMN SERIES VERSION AKA NICOLA COUGHLAN!!!!

I just need to come here to scream to the void.

drawing witches, as a treat

ID: Ink sketch of a reclining figure, with mixed hunan and owl characteristics and an owl perched on her thigh. She is fat and naked with feathers and scales dotting her limbs, and her lower legs are large bird feet. The owls feet draw a little blood where it perches.

Being plus sized and having to unlearn lessons about love can be hard. But it's sweet every time.

Currently learning:

You can give love/receive love from someone smaller than you

You can be large and stocky and muscular and still be cute and vulnerable

being beautiful doesn't stem from being built like other people

It's a struggle sometimes to remember but it's been nice to look back and see the things ive already learned

Edit: fixed a grammatical error lol

Meet the Crew: Quova Torrence

Another OC of mine, Quova Torrence. They’re one of the main robotics engineers alongside their friends Denyr and Hava, and they work on the android upkeep, as well as designing new weapons and contraptions to test out experiments. Their elemental state is Lithium!

Pronouns: they/them

Crew Member 2 of 6

I'm not fat i'm

Existing as a fat woman in a brown household is so tiring. I just got the indecency talk by my mom because I was in the kitchen at 6am wearing no pants with my t-shirt dress (that went past my knees) making oatmeal in less than 10 minutes and my brother saw me and tattled.

Successfully exercised and when my leggings rolled under my belly I didn't immediately hate myself! Body neutrality for the win!!

I went for a walk and then did some yoga. Then cleaned off the sweat. Now to recover and eat a nice meal :3

Fat people deserve mobility aids, too. No matter if it's connected to their fatness or not, because having a mobility issue that is connected to one's fatness won't change that they're still fat and still have the issue at hand. Fat people don't deserve to "tough it out" because fatness should be this divine punishment doled out to those who "deserve" it. Fat disabled people deserve to have the peace of mind that they can exist in whatever way is most comfortable and accessible to them

“Actually Falin’s not fat-“ wrong. I spoke to Marcille last night and she told me herself how much she loves sucking on her gf’s fat tummy. Also 12d6 fireball damage

Always use "excuse me" if you have to get into someone else's personal space.

Someone at the store is standing in front of the shelf where there's a can you want to grab? Don't just reach into their personal space without warning, say "excuse me" or "pardon my reach" first so that they at least have a warning that someone is about to reach into their personal space, and most importantly, so that they have a chance to move before you get into their space.

Or if someone is standing on a walkway or in a doorway you need to get through, don't just silently shove past them or squeeze past them, say "excuse me" so that they have a warning that a someone is about to squeeze or shove into their personal space, and they have a chance to move out of the way before you do you.

People deserve a fair warning if someone is about to squeeze or shove or reach into their personal space. A lot of people are not okay with having someone, but especially a stranger, randomly shove or squeeze or reach into their personal space without warning. They also deserve a chance to move out of the way first for the sake of their comfort.

Try to avoid just staring at people who are in your way and expecting them to read your mind that you want them to move. Most people cannot, in fact, read minds, so having someone stand in front of them and stare at them often only leads to making them feel uncomfortable and frustrated.

But also more importantly, if you are standing somewhere someone needs to get to, and they say excuse me, you should move aside for them even if just temporarily, so they can avoid the discomfort of having to reach into your personal space or squeeze past you.

If someone is saying "excuse me" it's because they would like you to move because they don't want to have to get into your personal space, whether it's out of respect for you, or just because they themselves are not comfortable getting in your personal space.

All of this goes double for people with trauma and/or people who are neurodivergent. If someone has trauma related to abuse or assault they may find it more upsetting or possibly triggering to suddenly have someone shoving or reaching in their personal space without warning.

Or, many types of neurodivergence can make it especially disturbing and unpleasant to have someone else in your personal space, especially without warning.

You can never be 100% sure who is and isn't traumatized and/or neurodivergent, so always practice respecting other's personal space by giving them a fair warning with "excuse me" or "pardon my reach" before getting in their personal space, and moving aside when you hear those magic words. Or, even if someone isn't traumatized nor neurodivergent, it's still fair to not like someone in your personal space without warning and not being given the opportunity to move first.

It's “Body Positivity” they say - NO! It's a death trap This guy is one banana away from a heart attack or a stroke.

The rolls on my body are art and I love them 🥰

From A Fat Artist

TW: Weight talk, ED talk, Fatphobia, Depressive Mental Illness, Diet Culture

For a TL;DR: a vague but comprehensive insert of my feelings on some art policing in a certain podcast fandom right now

Please read at your own discretion

I suffered from ED for the better half of my life. At 21, I can finally say I have broken a lot of old habits and I’ve been keeping myself pretty stable on my weight. It wasn’t always like this. I used to do pretty much... any diet that my mother was on? Weight watchers, Atkins, South Beach, all of these frequented the household I lived in. I did Keto, Low Carb, Carb Addict especially. My mother deemed I had a problem with how I looked and she pushed that onto me from her own projections since probably junior high. 

I had stages of my life where my weight fluctuated by the tens and twenties. I’d rapidly lose 20 pounds of “water weight” during my keto and no carb days within a week or two, only to break my diet from stress and immediately gain 40 in a couple of days. This was the point that I had the lowest self-image. I was broken, I was suffering from constant diet culture. You weren’t allowed to eat past 6 PM, you couldn’t eat a big dinner, no carbs, bread makes you fat, sugars are bad, don’t eat sweets. These mantras sat on my shoulders every day. I feared going to the vending machine in high school to grab a sweet treat that I’d been depriving myself for WEEKS because one wrong look sent my ED mindset into overdrive. 

I bring all of this up for a reason, I promise. I’m not torturing you with my ED senselessly. 

I lost a LOT of weight during that time. I also gained weight, but mostly I lost a lot of weight. I had people who constantly commented about how good I looked. But I didn’t feel that way. I was malnourished, underfed, I felt like I was wasting away. I was UNHAPPY. But the alternative was to feel uncomfortable in dressing rooms. I had people spreading rumors about my stretch marks, which didn’t help. They were talking about how morbidly obese I was, how ugly and disgusting I looked, how they didn’t want to get close to me because “what if they smell” because they assumed that because I was fat I was unhygienic. 

If someone is losing weight, they don’t always have to be happy about it. Take me for example if nobody else. I was ill. I was lonely. I was depressed. I was thinner. While weight loss may be a milestone for some, it’s a sign of issue for others. 

Weight loss as a means of showing bad states of mind is very uncommon in media. It’s treated as the best thing to happen to the Ugly Fat Girl in High School, it’s seen as the Only Way To Get Girls if you’re a straight guy. Weight GAIN is seen as even worse, when Regina gains weight in Mean Girls, it’s seen as terrible. Now obviously that’s more nuanced, but it’s still an issue. Let people indulge in what they want. Gaining weight is not bad. 

I’m not criticizing old media, though, for outdated views. I’m criticizing people NOW. Someone drawing weight loss on a fat character is Not The End Of The World. ESPECIALLY if this is during a turbulent and low point in a character’s life. Obviously, there can be disagreement, some people can see it differently, but overall, that’s up to the creative choice in the artist. Not only that, but it can be a source of projection for someone. I constantly project onto characters because of how I feel or how something affects me. It’s a form of therapeutic escapism and relief. Do I think that’s canon? Probably not. But does it make me feel better? Absolutely. Seeing someone in media share what I feel can provide a sense of comfort to me. A sense of belonging.

When someone projects onto a character in a way you don’t like, it is not an excuse for you to call them a bigot in some way. That is their personal feelings. Especially if the people who actually are “to be affected” by it don’t agree with you, just. Move on.

As a fat artist, if I see someone drawing a fat character losing weight as a result of sickness, or is stated that it’s bad, I’m not going to be bothered by that. Because that’s my own personal viewpoint. But hearing a bunch of non-fat people talk about how “you’re being fatphobic, I’m speaking for fat people” when you don’t know how the fat people actually feel, as well as try to make others feel like shit, ESPECIALLY if you’re trying to gatekeep or police art or fan content in media? That’s more triggering than the art piece itself, and that’s a problem. 

this may seem extreme but i believe people who say things like this should die