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This especially goes for art of real life people. I have seen so many artists draw real life fat people way thinner than they are. That is Fucked Up. Just fucking draw fat people for once in your life. Drawing a fat person isn't the difficulty level of bomb detonation or brain surgery. You Can Do It When You Actually Fucking Try.

-Mod Worthy

Extremally unfriendly reminder:

You can make sexy merch for your fat characters without slimming them down. Fat people are hot as they are, and you shouldn't be drawing their merch if you don't know how to rationalize their body with your own biases.

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dream come true drawing my ocs as That one pic ... added more kisses mayyybe

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I'm obsessed with the lucille dress from la femme en noir.

It appeals to the loving sister in me.

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Steven’s Mother from Steven Universe. She’s a mystical character during the 1st season of the series. Of course, her personality is more explored during the following season. She partially became a more “grey character” in term of morality. Bug she still have some good aspect in her. I mean, she’s mother Steven after all, a lot of her personality went in her son. And someone with hair like that cannot be this bad. Right ? Steven Universe © Cartoon Networks and Rebecca Sugar Artwork made by me.

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face n fit 📚

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A little green witch ✨🌿

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Anybody can join fat activism! Though I understand that you probably meant in a being fat sort of sense.

If you haven't heard of it already, there's a term called "mid-size" that you might relate to. It's essentially a state of not being thin thin but not exactly being fat either. That gray area. There's also terms for different sizes of fatness, so maybe you would relate to small fats? There's a lot of nuance when it comes to terms for weight. I hope one of these terms will feel relatable to you.

-Mod Worthy

on a way more serious note is anyone else stuck in this weird liminal space between being too fat to be considered skinny but not fat enough to feel valid enough to join fat activism. do yall get what i mean...

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Happy Lesbian Visibility Week from my Beautiful Bride and I <3 

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Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It

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Meet Orion!

Here's my glam rock-inspired fashion-persona, Orion, in the style he'd draw himself in! He's the cool, calm, collected adult of the group... most of the time.

Hope you like him! (Also, I forgot to mention it in the image, but his pronouns are listed in order of preference: he definitely accepts she/her but likes they/them and he/him better.)

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who run the world? SQUIRRELS

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Fat people make up a large percentage of the population in many countries. There are billions of fat people in this world. There is no "not enough fat people to make resources for fat people worth it." Fat people have always existed, we exist now, and we will always exist.

In fact, our existence and oppression is what thin people profit off of. Industries that depend on thin privilege like the weight loss industry make hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Even if your sister wanted to eliminate the matter of human worth from the equation, she still has no argument.

The reason why companies only cater to thin people is because the cruel and literally deadly oppression that fat people experience makes tons of profit for thin people. They get clothes, medical care, furniture, seating in public, the list goes on, AND all of the money and societal benefit of privilege. And if she thinks that's fair, then she has a lot to learn about humanity and equality.

-Mod Worthy

"it's not fatphobia", my sister says, "it's just that the companies choose to cater to people of average weight because there is more profit in that market"

what the FUCK do you think fatphobia is, if not the exclusion and marginalization of fat people from any sort of public life in the name of capital profit???

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Not only that, but doctors who talk about fatness being a "risk factor" for cancer, especially cancers like breast cancer, are again not looking at the actual cause.

I probably already explained plenty in the original post, but you want to know who is less likely to be given quality healthcare and necessary examinations?

Fat people.

You want to know what group of people doctors feel too disgusted to touch despite breast cancer examinations requiring touching?

Fat people.

I had undiagnosed PCOS and an unending period for years that I didn't get checked until recently because I was afraid of the medical fatphobia I was going to have to endure just for the possibility of being given actual healthcare. The first thing the OBGYN told me was that years of a nonstop period elevates risk of cancer. I had a higher risk of cancer not because of fatness but because of fatphobic doctors and fatphobia being baked into the medical system that made me feel too unsafe to even make an appointment.

And you want to know what? I was right that I was going to endure medical fatphobia, because my OBGYN eventually told me that my starvation from anorexia was a good thing despite her knowing I was suicidal at the time and starving for 8-12 hours a day. I knew before I even stepped through the doorway that I would have to endure fatphobic bullshit just for a chance at being given healthcare at all, and I was sadly right.

Whenever somebody, especially your doctor, tries to tell you to lose weight because of fatness being a "risk factor," put the most massive grain of salt you have ever seen on that "advice." There is not a single disease or illness that only fat people receive, and there's a reason for that.

Fat people ending up with cancer and dying due to medical negligence and neglect by fatphobic doctors is sadly so extremely common. I will never forget the fat people like Ellen Maud Bennet whose lives could have been easily saved if their humanity was seen before their fatness. Imagine learning you have a week left to live due to cancer that went unnoticed for years because doctors during all of that time refused to "treat" anything except your weight.

Fight like fucking hell for the quality healthcare you deserve, and never take "Just lose weight" for an answer. Ever.

-Mod Worthy

I hear a lot about how fatness is a "risk factor" for certain illnesses and diseases. I don't hear much about how so are age, socioeconomic status, experiences of abuse, starvation, sex, race, queerness, and so many other aspects of a person's life. And that's because the world already for the most part accepts that a lot of these factors cannot be changed and that many of these factors are not what actually causes an illness or disease.

You don't develop a medical condition because your bank account suddenly shows a different, smaller number. You developed that medical condition because poverty means unbearable stress every day, less access to healthcare, worse housing, inability to clothe yourself for protection from the elements, having to overwork yourself to be able to afford your basic necessities, going without food, and so many other aspects of oppression. You don't weigh your wallet to measure your health because the amount of money you have is not what actually causes a medical condition.

But no one wants to look at the studies with legitimate methodology and admit that fatness is also in this category—that fatness is not something that we can just choose and will away, that fat people face immense systemic oppression just like any other oppressed group, that the correlation of fatness and illness is not some simple relationship of causation. And that's because doing so would mean no longer making hundreds of billions of dollars off of fat people's oppression and having to admit it's not actually okay to treat fat people as an acceptable punching bag.

When I look at medical information for whatever illnesses, see the risk factors laid out, and the only risk factor the website says to change is fatness? I think about all of the research I've read that shows actual permanent weight loss is as likely as finding Atlantis. The amount of hypocrisy at not telling someone to drink a youth potion as a form of treatment at the same time as they lose weight becomes so palpable that I can taste the dirty money being made off of this website telling people to "just lose weight, fatty." It's as cruel as selling an ill person a random crystal that you tell them will fix their health, which they then rely on instead of actual medical care, causing them to get worse and even die. And if you think that comparison is a stretch, you do not realize how many people die every day because they were told weight loss was the answer or were forced to lose weight before the doctor would actually respect them enough to run tests or so much as touch their fat body.

We live in a world where people with PCOS are told to "just lose weight" to solve their infertility, where that is the very first bullet point listed on a website about a medical condition that makes weight loss even more impossible than the already 95% failure rate for the general population. A world where fat people have to stick their own fat bodies with needles during a doctor's appointment because the doctor is too disgusted by fat rolls to even look at the person's body to give them a shot. A world where fat people with eating disorders are encouraged, applauded, and told to keep going while the thin person with an eating disorder has the "luxury" of receiving help, compassion, and a diagnosis that isn't separated in the DSM with the word "atypical." A world where a fat person accidentally given chemotherapy is told by the doctor "At least it helped you lose weight!" A world where weight loss corporations are making the exact same promises they did in advertisements from 1910, yet somehow over 100 years later we have an "ob*sity epidemic" because diets, weight loss products, and exercise regimens "Really work!!!"

If this single "solution" to ill health has not worked despite well over a century of desperate, constant attempts, maybe we should stop trying to jam a triangle into a square hole.

-Mod Worthy

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I hear a lot about how fatness is a "risk factor" for certain illnesses and diseases. I don't hear much about how so are age, socioeconomic status, experiences of abuse, starvation, sex, race, queerness, and so many other aspects of a person's life. And that's because the world already for the most part accepts that a lot of these factors cannot be changed and that many of these factors are not what actually causes an illness or disease.

You don't develop a medical condition because your bank account suddenly shows a different, smaller number. You developed that medical condition because poverty means unbearable stress every day, less access to healthcare, worse housing, inability to clothe yourself for protection from the elements, having to overwork yourself to be able to afford your basic necessities, going without food, and so many other aspects of oppression. You don't weigh your wallet to measure your health because the amount of money you have is not what actually causes a medical condition.

But no one wants to look at the studies with legitimate methodology and admit that fatness is also in this category—that fatness is not something that we can just choose and will away, that fat people face immense systemic oppression just like any other oppressed group, that the correlation of fatness and illness is not some simple relationship of causation. And that's because doing so would mean no longer making hundreds of billions of dollars off of fat people's oppression and having to admit it's not actually okay to treat fat people as an acceptable punching bag.

When I look at medical information for whatever illnesses, see the risk factors laid out, and the only risk factor the website says to change is fatness? I think about all of the research I've read that shows actual permanent weight loss is as likely as finding Atlantis. The amount of hypocrisy at not telling someone to drink a youth potion as a form of treatment at the same time as they lose weight becomes so palpable that I can taste the dirty money being made off of this website telling people to "just lose weight, fatty." It's as cruel as selling an ill person a random crystal that you tell them will fix their health, which they then rely on instead of actual medical care, causing them to get worse and even die. And if you think that comparison is a stretch, you do not realize how many people die every day because they were told weight loss was the answer or were forced to lose weight before the doctor would actually respect them enough to run tests or so much as touch their fat body.

We live in a world where people with PCOS are told to "just lose weight" to solve their infertility, where that is the very first bullet point listed on a website about a medical condition that makes weight loss even more impossible than the already 95% failure rate for the general population. A world where fat people have to stick their own fat bodies with needles during a doctor's appointment because the doctor is too disgusted by fat rolls to even look at the person's body to give them a shot. A world where fat people with eating disorders are encouraged, applauded, and told to keep going while the thin person with an eating disorder has the "luxury" of receiving help, compassion, and a diagnosis that isn't separated in the DSM with the word "atypical." A world where a fat person accidentally given chemotherapy is told by the doctor "At least it helped you lose weight!" A world where weight loss corporations are making the exact same promises they did in advertisements from 1910, yet somehow over 100 years later we have an "ob*sity epidemic" because diets, weight loss products, and exercise regimens "Really work!!!"

If this single "solution" to ill health has not worked despite well over a century of desperate, constant attempts, maybe we should stop trying to jam a triangle into a square hole.

-Mod Worthy