#Research is fatphobic

[tobeabatman]

I’d just like to remind you that yes, it’s okay to question and reject obviously biased and badly conducted research on fat bodies.

You’re not a science denier for not liking research when its purpose is not to help you, but to make you seem inferior.

If we go 100 years back, all research on POC and women was conducted through a lense of bias. Research on fat people was similarly biased back then, but hasn’t changed for the better since.

And as you wouldn’t blame women claiming sexist research as biased and faulty, you shouldn’t blame fat people for pointing out fatphobia in research and claiming such research as biased and faulty.

Toodles!

[1960z]

the subtextual fatphobia in how this case treats norma deplume is pretty uncomfortable. like they never actually SAY anything about her weight, but they make jokes like how her picture in her books looks “different” and have phoenix be disgusted by like. getting an eyeful of her cleavage during her breakdown. (they literally use his head in hands pose for that like ffs)

and I’m not saying outright fatphobia would be better or anything but this not saying the quiet part out loud thing creates a very specific type of discomfort where they’re making all these jokes at her expense vaguely relating to her appearance and they want you to fill in why. it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

[heathenkweer]

Had a doctor's appointment this morning, will hopefully officially get diagnosed with POTS ✌🏻

[fatphobiabusters]

https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1209&context=tapestries

You waste your time. You want to hate fat people but don't even know the basics to talk to activists. Your counter arguments are nuh-uh. Also you don't understand correlation not causation. At all.

Also to your pinned post:

some ways fat people are discriminated against these are just the ones I have on hand:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/only-15-of-hiring-managers-would-consider-hiring-an-overweight-woman-2017-12-11

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.20171

"anything but self control" anything but basic research

-mod squirrel

Whenever fatphobes hear explanations that BMI is meaningless eugenics and health risks associated with fatness are largely fictitious and instead of actually internalizing any of it they just go "Okay, well, I personally feel healthie-- I mean happiest when I have a nice-- I mean skinny body" and it's like... yeah... yeah that's the problem... do you hear yourself

[siristaci]

Nothing quite beats that feeling when the comments section of a 'controversial' facebook post passes the vibe check. Especially when the page that posted it is clearly run by bigots.

[fatphobiabusters]

People say weight loss is for sure possible...but no one agrees on how to do it.

Dieting works...but there's now an "ob*sity epidemic" despite people lining the pockets of weight loss corporations more than ever.

Weight loss products work...but weight loss corporations are making the Exact. Same. Claims. about their products that they did in 1910 with the products that were sold and then discontinued over a century ago.

Humans are all meant to be thin...but there are families of fat people who stay fat no matter how much "willpower" they muster and have fat ancestors going back generations.

It's about health and not looks...but people who are losing weight due to smoking, cancer, illness, mental disorders, and other health conditions are praised for their weight loss and told to keep going.

Fat people aren't oppressed...but fat people have no positive representation, no proper access to clothing, face a wage gap, endure deadly medical neglect and abuse, have their deaths by police brutality excused with their fatness, and countless other aspects of oppression that they deal with every single day.

Fat people are all fat because they overeat...but you can point to any fat person on the sidewalk and there's an extreme likelihood that they're on their 30th diet attempt in the past 10 years while there's thin people who eat whatever they want, however much they want, and don't exercise yet never gain a single pound.

Fat people are privileged because they gorge on unnecessary food...but fat people are overwhelmingly living in poverty, are not paid the same amount of money for the same work as their thin peers, are not chosen for promotions, are turned away from jobs that an employer wants more than a "pretty face" for, are at major risk of workplace harassment, and endure oppression even beyond just that.

Fat people aren't treated badly...but people use the word "fat" as a metaphor and synonym for "ugly," "unlovable," and "unworthy," while at the same time believing "fat," the most basic term for a specific body type, is a dirty, taboo insult you should never allow to leave your lips.

Professionals agree that fatness is inherently bad...but almost any weight-related research study that people, especially weight loss corporations, use to justify demonizing fat people has the worst methodology imaginable with validity errors and logical fallacies galore as well as conflicts of interest due to how many of these studies just happen to be funded by the corporations that make millions and billions of dollars off of the demonization these studies promote.

All health conditions a fat person has are caused by their fatness...but there is not a single health condition that only fat people obtain, many fat people developed the health condition in question when they were thin or thinner, weight gain is often a symptom of said health conditions, fat people are not given the same amount or quality of healthcare as thin people, and repeated starvation attempts (also known as "yo-yo dieting") have been shown to worsen a person's health.

Fat people can't have eating disorders...but fat people are the group encouraged to partake in disordered eating by this fatphobic world the most and then are not given any support to recover.

Thin privilege doesn't exist...but thin people who see the way fat people are treated in society do their absolute damndest and take whatever drastic measures they have to in order to prevent themselves from ever becoming one of "Them."

Fit and fat are mutually exclusive...but there are fat athletes as far up as even the Olympics, and sports are intentionally made inaccessible to fat people to the point of fat children even being turned away when trying to join a sports team.

Fat people are ugly...but all we grow up ever seeing in media are thin, conventionally attractive people painted with layers of makeup next to fat characters who were intentionally designed with an ill-fitting outfit, matted hair, and all other traits that fit the "ugly" stereotype that the character designer could manage to slap onto a single person.

Fat people are big, bad bullies...but studies show that weight is the number one excuse that children use to bully their peers, outcompeting a multitude of other oppressed identities considered.

Fat women are just men and vice versa...but sometimes they're androgynous, and sometimes they're basically nonbinary, and sometimes they're just things, and sometimes they're nothing at all depending on what labels a fatphobe decides will hurt a fat person most that day.

Fat people are subhuman...but fat people deserve the same love, respect, compassion, and support that all people are born inherently deserving.

Fatphobia isn't real, but—

-Mod Worthy

[heavycreamy]

Hey Matt Gazy

This post is for Australian Journalist Matt Gazy.

Apparently you've been contacting members of our feedism/erotic weight gain community in order to discuss our very multifaceted, heavily misrepresented lifestyle.

As someone who has been in this community for 3 decades, has seen most if not all of its forms, understands the ethical connections between Feedism and Fat Liberation, and deeply cares about how folks in our community are represented to the general vanilla public, I hope that you are entering into this project/article/episode with the necessary due respect, empathy, intelligence, and kindness that you would bring to ANY oft-misunderstood and ridiculed subculture.

No one needs another sensationalist piece of journalism wilfully and lazily misrepresentating our community, sexuality, and lifestyle, which only EVER serves to further stigmatise and shame us.

We have been taken advantage of on many occasions, cast as freaks and pathetic fools with mental problems, so neither we nor the general public need more of that.

EVERY time a piece about feedism appears in the public eye, our community experiences a massive wave of trolls and judgemental, deeply fatphobic tourists coming into our online spaces and abusing us.

Please don't debase us nor yourself by making a surface level hit-piece on our community, whether intentionally or unintentionally, due to a lack of thorough research and basic respect for perspectives and life experiences outside the norm.

Feedism is INFINITELY more than simply heteronormative power play. That corner of the community represents less than 10% of what actual contemporary Feedism culture is, and ironically harbours 90% of the toxicity present in the entire culture.

Feedism is so much more than heteronormative, coercive power play. It is extremely queer, extremely feminist, extremely sensual and emotional, and is a major facet of many people's lives and psychologies.

While it may seem like simply a niche genre of porn to the casual tourist, Feedism exists outside of porn. It exists outside of kink. It exists outside of fetish. It can and should be considered an orientation, rather than simply a freaky outlier bedroom interest worthy only of reactive disgust.

Please don't be yet another unscrupulous journalist exploiting our incredibly vulnerable community for shock bait bullshit.

If you're going to try to represent us, do it comprehensively, and do it PROPERLY.

Truly speak to us. Do the work. Don't just find an extremely popular female model and falsely imagine that her experience is a stand in for ALL Feedist experiences.

If you truly want to represent Feedism, you NEED to represent it as the complex, multifaceted diaspora that it is, full of people of all kinds, all cultures, and ALL SIZES.

Should you be committed to pursuing this topic, I can offer links and connections to extremely well informed writers, thinkers, professors, and others within this community who are doing INCREDIBLE work on understanding, exploring, and expressing the deeper truths of this desire and lifestyle. There are people doing the work. You need to do it too.

We're humans. Treat us with respect, dignity, and kind curiosity.

Be better than every journalist who has come before you.

Thank you.

ps. Dear feedist pals, if you feel that what I've said here resonates with you, and mirrors your feelings at all, please feel free to reblog the shit out of this in the hopes that more visibility may help it reach its intended audience. Thanks gang ♥️🍰🍕

[technoturian]

I have been thinking about this a lot. I drafted this and considered not posting it, but I read this post and I kinda wanted to add onto it and at the same time I didn't want to derail it with my own issue. Discussion of Neil Gaiman, fandom, and fatphobia below...

I was not a fan of Neil Gaiman. Not in a way where I disliked him, I just simply didn't engage with his work whatsoever. He was a non-entity to me. But when his big "Sandman" show came out I became aware of a certain incident in his show, namely the fatphobic depiction of the concept of "Despair". In an article about his work I remember Gaiman's characters in the source material had been described as fitting the aesthetic, "heroin chic". This character, Despair, the personification of human misery, was the only fat woman in the main cast.

I saw other fat folks call this out. I saw a direct response from him that, in my opinion, was smug and patronizing. But much more importantly, I saw flocks of people defending not his choice, but him personally. About what a feminist he is. About how thoughtful he is. We just didn't understand his genius. It was a misunderstanding. A misinterpretation. Because that would be bad, and he's not bad, he's good.

Some even went so far as to defend the choice as "better in the source material". You see, in the source material the fat woman personifying human misery was naked! It was better when she wasn't so sad, she simply scurried about like some hateful gremlin, shocking her victims with the grotesquity of her uncovered fatness. Isn't that better?

I researched the character and read a claim that her body was inspired by the Venus of Willendorf. The Venus of Willendorf is a historical artifact of a voluptuous woman. It signifies desire and fertility. Dare I even say, joy. And then someone allegedly saw this artifact and went, "I will name it Despair."

I was offended by reading that, but after doing so I found that I was so much more offended by the response. I mean, it's obvious that this was fatphobia, wasn't it? It was so clearly cut and dry. There was no kinder interpretation. And yet I watched as people bent over backwards, because he was so good! And he made them feel seen and so he couldn't have any prejudices that make that less true. And so when I posted about this whole situation I mainly posted about that response. Because that's what irked me most.

And after that, I decided I wasn't going to be a Neil Gaiman fan on purpose, rather than on accident. When it came to the man himself, I just rolled my eyes and put him into the box of "Not For Me". He could have turned out to be a holy saint in all other ways, for all I knew or cared.

But he wasn't a saint. He turned out to be a rapist.

I'm sorry if this comes across as a gotcha because that's the opposite of my intention. I'm not saying it to derail focus. I'm not trying to make it all about me or my pet cause.

What I'm trying to say is, people will now see things like Despair and take it as a "sign". It's going to be okay now to pick apart his work because now he's a rapist. But I didn't need to know he wasn't a good person to know this person's work wasn't safe for me. And I also knew it wasn't safe to say so, because everyone who tried to talk about how hurt they felt was told how wrong they were to feel that way.

At the same time, it's safe for me to finally vent about how this made me feel now, now that it doesn't matter because he's not good, he's bad actually.

I guess I'm just hoping instead of the usual pattern, where everyone bemoans the fall from grace and debates whether we "should have known" or "couldn't have known", people reading this can try to make space for a middle ground of criticism of the things you love now. Find that gray area somewhere between the top of the pedestal where everything the saint did was with the best intentions, and down in the muck where we should've known he was a rapist all along. Not because saints are secret rapists, but because there are no saints, and most people are there in the middle.

[tobeabatman]

You know that thing where there’s just so much bs said about fat people and fat bodies and it makes you want to scream because you know there is so much research that combined would completely destroy current ideas of fatness?

And medical professionals and researchers agree that there’s a lot of research that contradicts current ideas of fatness! But instead of thinking: ”Wait, maybe our biases are wrong” they invented a nice little box called obesity paradox, threw in every contradicting fact they wanted to acknowledge there, and shut the box and still continue with the same old biased bs.

I say ”acknowledge” because there is also a lot of research about fat bodies that medical professionals and researchers don’t even bother to acknowledge or if they do, they start harrassing the authors of the contradicting study.

Katherine M. Flegal has an article up on ScienceDirect that discusses the harrassment her and her co-authors had to face after publishing a study that contradicted another study on fat people’s mortality rates (*). She faced an absolute sh*t-storm for the study, and she is not even fat positive! But because her findings were 2/3 lower than another study’s, she and her collegues were harrassed ridiculously.

Personally, I’ve gotten told that the research I’ve quoted isn’t ”true science”, just because the study I quoted came to the conclusion that weight-loss is something that will fail for most people. And I don’t get what about that is fake science when it’s not rocket science, weight-loss is like 90 % about diet, and we literally have so many studies out there on how almost all diets fail. It’s mad how we expect diets to work when coupled with exercise in aiding weight-loss, when it’s a recognized fact that most diets fail and that exercise alone isn’t even good at aiding weight-loss.

I’ve even gotten told that I’m fear-mongering about weight-loss being hard when I’m quite literally talking about studies made by fatphobes who don’t actually care about fat people, but their findings are still beneficial to my arguments (literally look up any study us fat activists quote and the conclusion of the study will be ”fat people should still lose weight” even though their study wasn’t about whether fat people should lose weight or not, they don’t quote other studies on it, and it’s just their out-of-pocket conclusion to protect their own biased views of what fatness means. They can’t accept findings that go against their pre-perceived notion of fatness so they have to include it in their studies).

*Also now that I’m mentioning the study, I’d like to point out that while she compares her and the other’s study’s possible flaws, she never mentions that a possible flaw in her original study is the fact that her and her co-authors didn’t take social stigma fat people face into consideration, and how fat people often don’t receive the same disease treatment as thin people, and are instead told to lose weight. Or the possibility of disease is not even considered, which gives certain conditions enough time to get worse until they might turn lethal. I’d like to put that out here.

[kanguin]

"Wall-E was a fatphobic movie" I'm sorry, where, in all of its run time, did it make the assertion that the humans aboard the Axiom were lazy and to blame for their situation? Where did it mock them or assert they had less value because of being fat? Where were the insults and negative comments directly aimed at the obesity of the passengers? Did I miss the narrative where the fat passengers were completely incapable of doing anything and failed to make a stand against the autopilot? Did we watch different movies? Or did some people just fail so completely at competent media analysis that they saw characters who were portrayed as "fat" and "helpless" unitilizing "mobility aids" and conclude "oh this movie hates fat people".

Before I get into this, a few things:

I am fat. Very, very fat, fatter than 99% of adults in the US. Probably fatter than you, maybe not, who knows! I feel very comfortable determining what does and does not feel insulting to me as a fat person.

I am disabled. I have chronic pain, joint instability, and various other conditions that make my life hell but aren't "literally can never walk". I feel VERY comfortable speaking on portrayals of disability and mobility devices in media because of my own experiences.

I like the movie Wall-E. It is cute, speaks to me in many ways, and can be something of s comfort at times. But it's not sacred, it's a product of Disney, and is not free from criticism. There ARE things to criticize in Wall-E, do not get me wrong, but this isn't one that holds water, imo.

Anyway. Onto the meat and potatoes.

In reduced gravity environments like a space vessel, even with some form of artificial gravity, people need to do extra exercise to combat muscle atrophy. And as muscle atrophy kicks in, fat stops being burned and starts to accumulate. That's a literal fact of how the human body works in low-G environments, and if you watch the commentaries for Wall-E included on the DVD, you'll know that the writers knew this because they poured research into it to get it right. The writers wanted to tell a story where a megacorporation obsessed with corner cutting and automation left an unfeeling computer in charge of the lives of generations of people, and explore how that mindset in time would lead to the complete reduction in autonomy of human lives. And to do so, they followed muscle atrophy and sedentary existence with constant advertising to its logical extreme.

The chairs the characters move about in are on paper mobility aids, but in the story were explicitly said to be marketed as luxury recliners, and explicitly shown to ONLY be able to follow the predefined paths on the ship, and any deviation on board was very explicitly shown to be met with force and manipulation. Effectively speaking, a mobility aid ceases to be a mobility aid when the autonomy of the person using it is removed. A wheelchair that the user has control over is a mobility aid. But a wheelchair that only allows the user to enter company approved stores and locations is a tool of control. To argue that a movie in which something that COULD be used as a mobility aid, but is instead is being used to control the movements of people, is making negative comments on mobility aids, is about as shortsighted as arguing that a movie where cybernetic augmentations and prosthetics are used to control people is making negative commentary on prosthetics. The issue is corporate control, not disabled people existing.

The most damning thing for the idea that Wall-E's central narrative is fatphobic is that the fat humans on the Axiom are not shown to be any less human than we are because of their fatness. The moment they are ripped away from their 24/7 distractions and the blinders are ripped off, they get up, start looking around, and try new things. They're never once shown to be lazy, inherently lacking in initiative, or unwilling to change their circumstances like fatphobic narratives love to make us out to be. And most damning of all for this idea, in the credits, when everyone has returned to Earth and started growing food, they continue to use the machines that helped them before, and they continue to be fat! It's not even model reuse, brand new 2D animation is made showing years of crop growth and human activity, and the people continue to be fat! Because that's realistic, that's just as realistic as the people being fat in the first place.

At the end of the movie, there's no narrative of the fatness being a problem to be solved, and no abandonment of technology and assistance, because the struggle in Wall-E was never against fatness or reliance on technology, but against corporate control of human lives. Wall-E as a movie is very enthusiastically pro humanity and pro technology. Wall-E's entire existence as a man-made robot character enamored with the things humans left behind, things that reflected who we were, speaks volumes to this theming. Even AUTO was shown in the end to never have been truly evil, because he was just following his orders to keep humankind from going home. The true villain of Wall-E was always Buy-n-Large, and in a broader sense megacorporations as a whole. From how Buy-n-Large created the problem with endless trash and countless satellites, to how Buy-n-Large sold humanity the solution in the form of luxury cruises you just KNOW not everyone could afford, to how Buy-n-Large continued to control generation after generation of humanity, the ire in Wall-E was always focused on corporations, not fatness or disability.

As a fat, disabled person, I'm kind of personally insulted that people will overgeneralize fatphobia and ableism to the point that they will ignore the facts that there are, in fact, negative things that can cause weight gain, and that things that help disabled people can sometimes be used as tools of control. It is such a painfully surface level reading to assert that all stories in which fat people exist but don't have agency or good physical health are fatphobic. In cases like Wall-E, it would actually raise a lot MORE questions if the people weren't all fat. Questions like "how are they not gaining weight?", "why is there a healthy diversity of body types if nobody is active?", or even "why have the writers deliberately chosen not to represent these characters as being fat when they objectively would be?", just to name a few. It's a fairly basic thing to say, but there has to be a clear, coherent message against fat and disabled people in a narrative in order for claims of fatphobia and ableism to hold water. If the story you claim is fatphobic or ableist just has fat people of lesser ability who are fat and less able because their lives are controlled, and no overarching themes blaming them for their circumstances or insulting them for their condition, then you do not have a compelling argument.

[reasonsforhope]

The Vox article on progress comes across as very thorough... right up to the point where it does a drive-by on fat people by citing ob*sity as an example of a problem (while there remains no proven causality between larger body size and negative health outcomes; much of the latter can be attributed to weight cycling (yo-yo dieting) and the daily stress of experiencing weight discrimination).

Then they circle the block and come back to cite weight-loss drugs (!!!) as a 'solution' (I'm not even going to start debunking that one, as I would become an unskippable cutscene). The startling lack of research into this subject can't help but undermine my trust in the rigor in the rest of the article. :(

I'm absolutely not suggesting that because of one blind spot, the rest of the research is bunk. But it does poison the intended emotional impact of the piece with a reminder that even in the world of progress, people of certain sizes are unwelcome and seen as a problem to be solved. :(

Wherever you stand on the issue, I would respectfully request that links to that Vox article come with a content warning for fatphobic language and discussion of weight loss. Thank you.

Fair enough, I did super wince at and hate that part of the article (that's where I stand on the issue). Warning added. (Okay for a warning for "fatphobia" to cover both parts?)

Re: the rest of the research, I have fact-checked a lot of those things mentioned and read a lot of the links myself, so I can vouch for much of the rest of it.

(Also added a warning/heads-up for Western-centrism in the article, because that was in fact bugging me so much.)

[universallydestinytaco]

The Little Smiling Mermaid (Chapter 13)

Merry Mermay, you filthy animals! Here’s to the first anniversary of this fanfic and thank you everyone for your support 💖💛

TW: Emotional/verbal abuse and Mipnessa being a fatphobic and transphobic snot.

Charlie’s dilemma was quite the ironic one as while he was courting his arranged wife-to-be, he was much better at bonding with that mysterious castaway, Pim. As Mipnessa would keep making subtle, passive-aggressive jokes about her fiancé’s quirks all while lovebombing him in front of approximately everyone else, Pim on the other hand was quite the lovable little goober who would keep finding various things to make him laugh. While Charlie expressed his frustrations to his motley crew about how his engagement with Mipnessa was kind of rocky, Pim would silently act-out how much of a (more-or-less) covert pain-in-the-ass the former’s beau was much like a mime or interpretive dancer would, humorously helping Charlie illustrate his point of view as everyone failed not to chuckle at the little pink maiden’s antics…not that Charlie could exactly blame any them for cutting up, with Pim even giving a curtsy at the applause. “Gee dude, you haven’t even been married and yet Mipnessa’s already become a real ball-and-chain.” said the deadpan Lyle, taking a swig from his flask as Chris suggested: “Why not have a talk with your Gram-Gram to call off the engagement? She’s the forgiving type, unlike Uncle Fischoder!” Tomar and Lyle both nodded in agreement. “I know it would be easier to call it quits, but the thing is: for once, things are all according to plan and I’m doing something right instead messing it up! Maybe Mipnessa is stressed because she’s homesick and she’ll ease up once we get the wedding over with, plus I can’t risk disappointing my entire kingdom again, let along any other kingdoms for that matter.” Tomar raised an eyebrow, asking: “Since when did you of all people become a people-pleaser? Like, with all sincerity, are you genuinely going with this out being honorable or repressing your own needs for the sake of the upper-crust busybodies?” Charlie stood there and opened his mouth, but no sound came out. “Why not dish out a taste of her own medicine? Make subtle jokes at her flaws and shit.” Lyle suggested with a mischievous grin, taking another swig at his flask. Charlie facepalmed, whining: “Oh great, we’re already gonna be at our “bickering couples” phase.” A familiar voice called out from afar as the wind carried her message: “You-whoooo! Charliekins, it’s your blushing bride-to-be!” Charlie’s face flushed a peachy pink-orange as his friends low-key groaned at the saccharine pap. “Speak of the devil.” Pim wanted to say, but could only lip-sync without vocals. Mipnessa in her green dress and brown shall, skipped over to give performative affection to Charlie, who felt uncomfortably smothered as his friends mutually felt the awkward tension. “So, when are you two tying the knot?” asked Chris, to which Mipnessa quickly kicked off a long-winded reply: “Good question! Since my fiancé has trouble preparing things head on, me and Queen Dolores have been discussing the due date for the ceremony! I’ve even already had a fitting for my wedding gown-“ Charlie, who didn’t even get a say on his side of the topic, felt as if he was merely a cobblestone path being continually trampled on, with that said, he did find some humor in Pim’s hand mimicking a mouth that never ceased gabbing, prompting some wide grins. While Mipnessa blissfully chattered, Pim immediately got to work writing and sketching in that little book on what he deemed his potential magnum opus….

~

Grim hastily researched his various tombs of spells and magic on how to properly use the trident, finally getting to the page of an encyclopedia of mystical treasures and flipping pages over all the way to the article covering tridents. “About damn time!” The grayish-purple critter snarled sardonically as he quickly observed the walls of text. While Grim was occupied in his conquest of knowledge, Gnarly couldn’t help himself to goofing around with the newly-obtained relic of undersea royalty, puffing his chest and pointing the trident upward. “Look at me, I’m King Steven! I’m all brawn and no brains!” Grim hissed: “Gnarly quit screwing around with that, you’ll turn the whole damn joint into a sand castle for all I know!” Gnarly rolled his eyes as he clutched the trident, “Geez, live a little, don’t be such an overly-serious anchovy.” Grim’s eyes widened as a blood-vessel snapped, his eyes turned away from the book and toward Gnarly, shooting a deathly glare at his lackey. “What was that I heard?”growled Grim, who dropped the book and swam toward Gnarly who dropped the trident in fear, reduced to a terrified statue as Grim picked the trident up and aimed it toward his lackey, roaring: “Nobody calls me anchovy…nobody. calls. me-“ as he picked up the trident and chucked it at Gnarly, who conveniently ducked as the trident hit the wall, exposing itself as a bootleg by breaking in half and dissolving into glittering quartz-sand…and it didn’t take long for it to register to Grim that Damien pulled a fast one on him. “THEY HAD THE NERVE TO FLEECE ME?!!”

~ When evening came, Pim and Smormu put on a floor-show for everyone else residing at the dining room. First, Smormu emerged from behind the window curtains with a trumpet, tooting a few notes and announcing: “Presenting Prince Rosenthorn and his ol’ girl, Vicky!” As she pulled back the curtains to reveal Pim in princely garb, complete with a crown and sash, his right-hand adorned with a stringy-haired puppet with googily eyes and a green dress. Pim kneeled down towards his “bride”, popping open a box with a “ring” (actually the pop-top to a can), Smormu, from behind the curtain, read from a script while voicing the puppet bride. “You made me the happiest girl in the whole world, I always wanted to be Queen! Well, slip it on you portly oaf!” Pim, acting shocked, hastily slipped Vicky’s hair into the ring hole, fashioning it like a ponytail. “Look at me, I’m so gorgeous with my two favorite accessories: my engagement ring AND my fiancé! Kissy-kissy-hubby-wubby!” mused Vicky, as she bombarded her groom in kisses. Smormu emerged from the curtain again, with two glasses of wine, announcing: “Cheers to the happy couple!”, before hiding behind the curtain again. Vicky, lacking arms, barked: “Well don’t just stand there, gimme my drink, dammit!”, prompting a nervous Pim to hastily serve his bride her drink, only to accidentally spill the whole thing all over her! “Oh look what you did, you clumsy dolt! You know what, nevermind, I do look dashing in wine red!” Pretty much everyone except Mipnessa had been cracking up at the play to the point where even Eustace, usually sporting a stiff-upper-lip, started chuckling at it. Mipnessa forced herself to smile and keep her composure as Pim and Smormu kept lampooning her. Pim pulled a sign from behind himself, in sloppy paint: “You know who else does?”, before tossing the sign and Vicky up in the air and ripping his suit off to reveal a wine-red gown he started doing a frantic can-can dance in, as Smormu picked up the puppet and placed it on her hand, voicing the character with ventriloquist lips: “Is that my evening gown?!” Finally, Pim turned around and revealed a pair of polka-dot boxer shorts with the lovingly-stitched message: “Gender? I don’t know her!” on the seat. As Mipnessa forced herself to a laugh and clap with everyone else, Pim and Smormu bowed for their audience before joining them at the dinner table. Charlie, still caught-up in his own laughter, nudged Mipnessa: “God, that was a riot, ey Mip?!” Mipnessa barely reigned in her rage, replying: “Yes, very charming indeed, now please pass me the salt.” Charlie obliged, but since he was a bit tipsy from the wine with the jocular play still fresh in his mind, his hand bumped into the gravy dish, accidentally tipping it and flipping over onto Mipnessa’s side of the table and all over her dress. Charlie snapped out of it and got out his handkerchief to help clean it up, only for Mipnessa to slap his hand and snap: “CAN’T YOU DO ANYTHING RIGHT, YOU FAT DUMBASS!?” An awkward silence fell upon the party, until Queen Dolores piped up: “I think this engagement was a bad idea, you two just aren’t a match.” Mipnessa, realizing her mistake, tried to cover her behind: “But- This kingdom needs a Queen! You aren’t going to live forever and he’s too wishy-washy to rule alone!” Charlie finally snapped and affirmed his feelings: “She’s right, you know why?! You only see me as a key to the throne! And how DARE you talk to my grandma like that!” Mipnessa put her hands on her hips and snarled: “Who else is gonna marry you, that confused he-she whom willingly ignorant about her own biology?” Finally, in a rare state of anger and disgust, Queen Dolores raised her voice while pointing toward Mipnessa: “We’ve ALL heard enough, you vile brat! You are to be escorted back home immediately!” As Mipnessa tried to plea otherwise, Charlie beamed a warm smile at Pim while offering a token of gratitude: “How about I show you around my kingdom tomorrow?” to which Pim happily nodded.

~

It seemed the morale of Meeplantica started to spiral when their beloved Princess Pimberly was reported to have gone missing, that worry and panic would further escalate after Prince Damien’s recent stunt where he stole the Trident, froze the Sea King in a block of ice and took off into the unknown. Naturally, those who attended meetings at the Rumor Reef have been having a field day with many a conspiracy cropping up, all theorizing what exactly was happening and why the remaining Royals where quiet behind the scenes as one particular figure in scarlet-to-coral ombré robes with a high collar paired with a broadly-brimmed hat would quietly tune in to the on-going discussion.

“I’m calling it: Princess Pimberly was exiled by the Sea King, he deemed her too rebellious and hid her away somewhere, the search party was a cover up! Damien somehow making off with the trident is a reverse-ransom!”

“OR, Pimberly herself was kidnapped and the old King was too stubborn to fork over the trident…and I know exactly who and precisely why!”

“OH MY NEPTUNE- It makes way too much sense! Of course he’s the perpetrator in all of this, he’s slowly orchestrating his inevitable revenge!”

The glamorously-obscured anonymous guest raised an eyebrow upon audibly catching this info as she sipped from her glass, her eyes stuck upon the sight of three familiar merfolk she recalled her awkward younger sibling often hung out with until King Steven banned all three of his offspring from outright befriending commoners (Glep and Alan don’t count, since they’ve already resided in the palace) as she observed their contributions to the conversation. The shorter, bespectacled merman piped up: “We knew the Princess since our school days, confided us in a lot of info we promised to keep safe until she herself is hopefully ready to come forward…BUT for the sake of gathering up clues to find her we will each out our two-cents in and entail info that isn’t exclusively personal to her.” A slender, green mercritter with wild raven hair and a leather vest piped up: “One time she snuck all of into a royal gathering in Noblemer’s clothing, and one of her cousins looked kinda like her with that toothy grin but his complexion was more winter-salmon than warm-lilac, I think he was also the youngest of his line of the royal family and I dunno if anyone here remembers his full title title, say what was it again?” The chubbier orange mercritter was in the middle of savoring some sea-nuts on the counter, he bashfully put them away and spoke up: “I recall he was formally announced as Prince Timothy Gromble II, of a neighboring kingdom close to Meeplantica, he was definitely the youngest and very indigent about that.” The bespectacled merman continued: “He kept goading all four of us into “borrowing” the trident from the throne room solely for the bragging rights, to feel less-small.” The slender green one piped up: “But then his older cousins came looking for him and when they entered the throne room, they all burst into laughter and started teasing him how he looked even small holding the massive trident….and well, things got ugly pretty fast.” the trio shuddered at the brutal end of that fateful soirée as the gossiping school of merfolk felt their discomfort. The bespectacled one cleared his throat and resumed: “If you’ll allow me to skim over the bloodshed, King Steven stripped Timothy of his royal titles, banished him to an undisclosed location and the whole incident was not to be disclosed to the public.” The slender green critter griped: “And then Pimberly’s STUPID sister just had to squeal on us! She got taken out of school, commoners where banned from the palace, our parents found out and our sorry asses got beached for a month, UGH! It’s a damn miracle that Pimberly was able to keep in touch however she could.” The orange heavyset critter piped up: “While the whole thing was kept under wraps, the rest of the royal family blamed Pimberly and treated her even worse ever since, last we talked, she wished that she was banished instead.” The anonymous guest felt a sting of guilt deep down, knowing well the action of ratting the four unwitting pawns did more heartache than helped whatsoever, but resumed to bottle it up with a sense of self-bravado, not to mention a part of her brain was busy connecting the dots with her mouth agape in shock.

CHAPTER 14 COMING SOON!

[fatphobiabusters]

Fatphobic thin people sure talk a lot about how fat people should "just lose weight" for a group that has a vast amount of privilege dependent on fat people existing.

They know they benefit from having a group to abuse and use as a pedestal, and yet at the same time they demand thinness of us. It's like a person dangling a million dollars in front of a poor person and laughing as they quickly pull that check away as soon as the poor person tries to grab it.

The only reason they're able to live by this hypocrisy is that weight loss doesn't work. Over a century of scientific research has not managed to prove a single sustainable method of weight loss. So fatphobic thin people can keep dangling that check with the safe satisfaction of knowing that even if the poor person managed to grab it, the check was never signed to begin with.

-Mod Worthy

[pinkacademiaprincess]

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[redezign-yr-logo]

Hi hello tumblr.com i come to you today as a fat person to say that literally no one cares if you call us, or characters who are fat huggable, marshmallow, rotund, whatever the fuck yall r mad about.

It's not fatphobic, it's not fetishizing us, it's not infantalising, and we really Really do not care [every fat person i know does not care]- if you wanna call us cute terms actually go ahead it's way nicer than ACTUAL fatphobic insults and speech. It's harmless and getting mad at people on our behalf is really really weird.

Honestly- is it weird to call skinny people huggable or something? Because I've never heard that argument.

I've noticed a really weird trend of people 'whiteknighting' fat people and like. please stop. go focus on actual issues rather than someone calling some fat character a huggable marshmallow. Please.

Oh also marshmallow is used as a positive term in Japan by the Marshmallow Girls, who are fat people fighting the really horrible beauty standards there!! They're trying to embrace their weight in a cute way, and to support each other. Go do research on them :]

So uh yeah, rant over, don't be weird.

[tobeabatman]

The world will end before a fatphobe finally responds to me with a prevalent argument and research to support it