#cn body image crap

[alexseanchai]

I really wish Miraculous Ladybug had gone where we thought they were going with the Goat and Rooster superheroes, namely Marc Anciel as the Goat and Nathaniel Kurtzberg as the Rooster

because that would have avoided the thing where the character with red hair, a given name derived from one in the Torah, and a Yiddish surname—

(remember Miraculous wielders' superhero outfits reflect their subconscious desires unless they consciously put in effort otherwise, a fact that also has fun implications when noticing how much thinner Rena Rouge is than Alya is and how much paler Rena Rouge and Pegasus are than Alya and Max are)

—has, as a superhero, goat horns.

[alexseanchai]

BRO that post about drawing butts also absolutely boils my piss as someone who has a wavy, flat butt shape due to hip dips and genetic fat distribution. Like one of those graphics supposedly shows eight "different butt shapes" and they are ALL a ridiculous hourglass shape with an itty bitty waist, with the tiniest little dip for a pelvis, and have the nerve to call that representing different body types. We do not have to look like that. We are enough. <3

truth!

[alexseanchai]

not cowed

It's only Camembert de Normandie if it comes from Camembert in Normandy. Otherwise, it's just sparkling soft cheesiness.

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Adrien flops face-first onto his bed and growls into his pillow; once the sound of Nathalie's heels has changed from staccato on the staircase to andante across the floor, he rolls over and tells Plagg, "I'm moving to Normandy to work on a dairy farm."

"I don't know, I don't think you have the muscle for that," Plagg says, laughing, "or the right sort of nose."

"Ha, ha," deadpans Adrien (amused more than annoyed, if only because Plagg understands why Adrien will not, in fact, be reducing his physical activity in order to make his clothes need less tailoring), "but just think: so much less bullshit."

[alexseanchai]

okay so who knows where this image came from and what (other than “New Heroez!”) it says

also (since this appears to be an Instagram post with multiple images) what the other image(s) are

(assuming the rightmost figure is Rat!Mylene, and observing that she looks distinctly thinner than ordinary Mylene, I need to explain to whoever made this they should have listened to our discussing the problems with Rena Rouge being so much thinner and bustier than Alya is. but is the referent of ‘whoever’ Astruc and Zag, or is the referent a fan?)

[alexseanchai]

Medical professionals too often see nothing wrong with making it impossible for people above a certain size to physically fit in the scanning equipment.

Medical professionals too often put upper BMI limits on surgery they deem nonessential.

Medical professionals too often compliment people on their weight loss, and then fail to recognize they screwed up when it turns out the weight loss is a symptom of untreated cancer. Even when specifically told that being complimented on the weight loss is triggering because last time a medical professional said that, it turned out to be untreated fucking cancer!

fatphobia and ableism is so insidious. You can look up like, food, and it'll say "eating a lot of food causes diabetes" and you're like oh dang what? I thought we didn't know the cause of diabetes. So you look up what causes diabetes and it says "we still don't know what causes diabetes" bruh they're just making shit up to give people eating disorders

[thecreaturecodex]

Cifal

“Gamma World Monsters 8″ by Mike Faille, © Wizards of the Coast. Accessed at the artist’s deviantArt gallery here

[The cifal is a monster from the Fiend Folio that gets an awful lot of crap. Which is too bad, because the idea of a swarm of bugs in human shape is a pretty cool concept. Frankly, I’m tempted to give one bard levels and put it in my game.

The mechanics of the original version are baffling even by the standards of 1e’s exception-based design, however. I can see it being awful in actual play, leading to its bad reputation. But not only did a true-blue CIFAL appear in the 4e D&D kitbash of Gamma World, two different fiendish versions of the idea cropped up in that edition as well, the swarm devil and host demon.

BTW, this image contains a pic of another monster that will be posted in this set of conversions. And no, not Chicken Rambo.]

Cifal CR 8 N Aberration This writhing, seething mass is a conglomeration of thousands of insects, centipedes, spiders and other vermin, pushed together into a disturbingly humanoid shape.

Cifals are strange aberrant forms of life, a swarm of writhing vermin compressed into a man-like shape. The name was coined as an acronym (“colonial insect-formed artificial life”) by some sage long ago—they call themselves “the buzzing ones”, in a dialect of Aklo difficult to speak with fleshy lips and throats. Cifals are intelligent, albeit not very sophisticated, and they gather in groups to better hunt prey and to mingle their essences together to create new variety.

A cifal’s body contains many unrelated species of insects, spiders, scorpions and other invertebrates. The core of any cifal is its “nuclear swarm”, a gathering of intelligent flying insects of beetle-like appearance. The nuclear swarm hosts the cifal’s intelligence, and without it the mass collapses into self-devouring violence. With it, the creatures can work among themselves to create a unified body, which devours animal and plant tissue alike with appendages of chewing, squirming hunger. They can temporarily release control of their hosts to create a cloud that tears at all caught in it. When the body is slain, the nuclear swarm can escape, and typically flees to slowly build up a new stable of vermin to create a new body.

Advanced Cifals A cifal with the advanced template is typically one that has incorporated a whole swarm of vermin into its body, as opposed to cobbling together many discrete types. Advanced cifals may have a special attack that they inflict with their slams and bug burst. Some possible attacks include the cling ability of an army ant swarm, the disease of a tick swarm, the poison of a centipede or spider swarm, or the gnaw of a termite swarm. If there is a save DC involved with this attack, use the DC for the cifal’s abilities, not the DC for the original swarm.

Cifal       CR 8 XP 4,200 CN Medium aberration Init +6; Senses darkvision 60 ft., Perception +12, tremorsense 30 ft. Defense AC 21, touch 17, flat-footed 14 (+6 Dex, +1 dodge, +4 natural) hp 95 (10d8+50); fast healing 5 Fort +8, Ref +9, Will +9 DR 10/bludgeoning; Immune mind-influencing effects Defensive Abilities amorphous, ferocity, rejuvenation, swarmlike Offense Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft. Melee 2 slams +13 (1d12+4 plus distraction) Special Attacks bug burst, distraction (DC 20) Statistics Str 18, Dex 22, Con 21, Int 6, Wis 15, Cha 12 Base Atk +7; CMB +11; CMD 28 Feats Dodge, Mobility, Power Attack, Spring Attack, Weapon Finesse Skills Acrobatics +14, Climb +12, Disguise +6, Perception +10, Stealth +14 Languages Aklo SQ compression Ecology Environment underground Organization solitary or hive (2-6) Treasure incidental Special Abilities Bug Burst (Ex) As a standard action once every 1d4 rounds, a cifal can erupt in a fountain of swarming vermin. All creatures within a 15 foot radius of the cifal must succeed a DC 20 Reflex save or take 8d6 points of slashing and piercing damage. Any creature that takes damage must also save against the cifal’s distraction. The save DC is Constitution based. Rejuvenation (Ex) When a cifal is slain, it releases its nuclear swarm. Treat the nuclear swarm as a locust swarm with the aberration type and an Int of 6. If this swarm is not slain, it grows into a new cifal over the course of one week. Swarmlike (Ex) A cifal is composed of thousands of vermin, and has swarm-like characteristics. It is immune to any single target spells, but has vulnerability to any area of effects that deal damage. A strong or stronger wind deals 1d6 points of damage to a cifal each round, plus an additional 1d6 damage for each strength category above strong (no save). A cifal’s slam attacks deal bludgeoning, slashing and piercing damage.

[alexseanchai]

tags by OP: #also if it's an issue solved by weight loss why would you want them to suffer until the weight loss helps wouldn't that DISCOURAGE them? #because if i were suffering the entire time i sure as fuck wouldn't want to keep going for the ~idea~ of it's gonna pay off!!!

#also even if they 'made themself disabled' by being fat or anything else that doesn't matter. they're still disabled. #there is no 'good' disabled and 'bad' disabled and you cannot sort people into those categories

#for every 'bad' fat disabled person there are multiple 'good' fat disabled people but you can't tell them apart often actually! #because you would have to know the intimate details of their medical history and familial lineage and tbh if you're... #...being a piece of shit to a disabled person because you assume they're guilty until proven innocent i don't blame others for being... #...weary of you and not wanting to be around you. because you've already proven you can't handle the IDEA of complex disabled experience

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

[alexseanchai]

if the objection is that the trans girl might see the cis girls partially undressed, well, I sympathize with that objection on account of the trans girl probably doesn't want the cis girls to see her partially undressed either! individual changing cubicles for everybody!

saves the fat girls and the too-thin girls and the scarred girls and etc from getting body-shamed by their teammates while partially undressed, too

You know what, even IF trans girls were universally better at sports than cis girls, they should still be allowed to play on their high school sports teams because the mental health and well-being of trans kids, the social support kids get from sports, and the societal benefit of basic inclusion and normalization of trans kids are more important than who wins a volleyball game or whatever

[alexseanchai]

I can't be bothered to look, and this here is part of why. another part is, nobody cares if my boobs are insufficiently supported when I'm in bed all day anyway. (I mean it's probably adding back pain? but everything is on fire all the time, such that I don't so much notice applying topical pain goop reduces pain wherever I just applied it as I start noticing pain in someplace I didn't.)

the other half is, approximately nobody makes F cup bras in the first fucking place!

I know how we joke about how all autism focused resources are focused almost entirely on children, but I was looking for a sensory friendly bra and literally the first 5 results on my first search were for like "for her first training bra for small chest preteen girls :)🧩"

I'm a 32 year old grown woman with C cups, give me something that will work for me, please for the love of G-d I am dying here.

[alexseanchai]

wasn't any of our kindergarten teachers. Project Gutenberg has a 1912 translation of Aesop containing the sentence "Slow and steady wins the race."

the Townsend translation, which doesn't admit its date but the translator's year of death is 1900, says instead "Slow but steady wins the race."

the 1894 version, translator not stated but the editor is Joseph Jacobs, has the tortoise say "Plodding wins the race."

1884, again no named translator but Weir et al illustrated: "Perseverance is surer than swiftness." A moral that applies to far more things than track and field.

Croxall's 1814 explanation of the moral of the fable is twice as long as the fable! the first two sentences of that explanation are "Industry and application to business makes amends for the want of a quick and ready wit. Hence it is, that the victory is not always to the strong, nor the race to the swift."

...

I'm thinking literal athletic competitions never had much to do with Aesop's point?

nothing is funnier to me than the collective misunderstanding of the tortoise and the hare. "slow and steady wins the race" was NEVER the moral of that story. your stupid kindergarten teacher projected that because she's slow and can't run fast. she's fucking STUPID. "Slow and steady wins the race" okay bitch but what if I'm fast and steady. The point was NEVER that being fucking slow yet consistent was the best way to win a LITERAL TEST OF SPEED.

the moral of the story was always supposed to be that the hare didn't respect its opponents. it took a fuckin' nap, made some food, and wasted a bunch of time flexing and going for style points instead of simply achieving the win condition. the point of the story isn't that the tortoise was always meant to win, it's that if if you're fucking stupid and make bad decisions, even a goddamn tortoise will beat you in a footrace.

don't you understand??? it's just supposed to mean that if you don't respect the competition and play to win, you can/will lose. that has ALWAYS been the point. "Slow and steady" has never won a fucking race. It CANNOT win a race. Moderately-quick and extremely drunk would win a race before slow and steady.

fuck slow and steady

[alexseanchai]

[image text: "I had this delicious omelette this morning. I seasoned the eggs with sugar, oil, and chocolate, and threw in a little flour for texture. 😆" image: a slice of chocolate cake.]

[alexseanchai]

terfs are like "so you're going to get this IRREVERSIBLE surgery that CHANGES your body FOREVER" like yeah i think that's the goal of most surgery

[alexseanchai]

I think the motivation behind those comments has to do with conflating "femme" with "complying with feminine beauty standards", without admitting to using one of the definitions of "feminine beauty standards" that's designed to exclude fat people

the key part being the not admitting it

wlw positivity post "we need more appreciation for hairy and fat lesbians"

stupid comments "omg just say butch" "that's what butch ment before people ruined it"

are femmes not allowed to be hairy or fat? 🤔

[alexseanchai]

I wish you the luck I had when I found my current primary care provider. I knew thyroid was on the list of both "possible causes of this symptom" and "family history of An Problem", so I should probably get that checked, but comparatively low-priority symptom. First appointment she sends me for blood testing, which, of course she did, I was there for hormonal transition, gotta get the before numbers Couple appointments later, talking about that symptom and a couple others, and she says it's not my thyroid, one of the blood tests was checking that.

I love it when I tell doctors that I'm a LARPer and an endurance hiker and one of the most frustrating things about chronic pain is how hard it is to go to the park and do my favorite physical activites, and they'll look at me like a dog that's just been shown a card trick and ask, "Have you tried exercising?"

[alexseanchai]

it's also not fatphobic to observe that, due to comparatively recent historical circumstances including but not limited to the US corn lobby, it's way easier to be simultaneously fat and poor now than it was a century or more ago

(relatedly, local beauty standards matching up with what rich people can typically achieve much more easily than poor people is not exactly a historically rare situation, and indeed one might argue that maintaining class distinctions is part of the point of having beauty standards)

Obviously there should be more than one fat Disney princess (and sadly there are currently zero), but:

I didn't have enough poll options, so I just listed the first Disney princesses I could think of