#but there have been a massive influx of skinny sams in the tag and its making me really upset.

[dogboyklug]

give that man some gd body positivity for once he deserves it

sam is FAT and as a fat guy this is important to me. hes also very clearly self hating abt it and as a fat guy whos the same way that makes me wanna cry. i lov him your honor and i hope he can recover

ps: stop drawing him skinny Please oh god it hurts.

excessively long id under the cut for those who need it

[id: a six-panel borderless comic featuring sam from sam & max, and klugpuuo's fursona, fluorite.

panel 1: sam is looking off to his side, clearly agitated but trying to mask it. he's apparently making a dry joke about his weight, or deciding to go on a diet, but isn't happy about it. behind him, fluorite stares at him, a stylized red glint on its glasses.

panel 2: now off-screen, fluorite says "sam, listen.", which apparently shocks sam into silence.

panels 3 to 4: fluorite goes on a long-winded rant. transcript:

You've been making those jokes more or less constantly, and I just wanna mention, if you WANT, PERSONALLY, to be thin, then power to you, but it really doesn't seem like it. Being fat is a completely neutral thing, dude. The only reason it's seen as bad is because like five assholes in the beauty and medical industries realized that you can make a lot of money off of people's insecurities. That's literally it. Unless you're so fat you physically cannot move and are at active risk of dying because of it, you don't have to lose weight for anyone, at all, period.

And, with these jokes, too... Like, I get it, I know how it feels. Making light of this kind of self-hating stuff makes it feel more like a joke, or it just makes it feel... better. Something shared by others instead of terrifying and awkward and alone, even if others are laughing more AT you [than with you]

But at the end of the day, all that this kinda rhetoric is gonna do for you is just make everyone around you feel uncomfortable. It's gonna feed into other's self-hatred, or in another equally bad scenario, it broadcasts your self-hatred to people who'll use it t hurt you and people you care about. Assholes who want nothing more to just bring you harm and etc.

end transcript.

panel 5: sam, looking pensive, puts a hand to his face in thought, saying "

...So, to simplify your long-winded jargon-full rant for our audience (as in, Max, who's coming back over right now),

"Being... over the average weight for a bipedal lifeform of my specific height,

Isn't inherently indicative of some form of extreme moral, mental or physical failure?"

Fluorite responds with a simple "yea" in a comedically large font.

panel 6: sam looks up, brow not furrowed in concentration, discomfort or any negative emotion, and his shoulders are slack. he simply says "huh" in wonder.

end id.]