#fanboy-enby-undead

[fatphobiabusters]

Any tips on tags to use for fat acceptance / pride that aren't full of fatphobic jerks?

It's difficult to look at any fat-related tag without finding fatphobes, thinspo blogs, and fat fetish content. Sadly, there's not a perfect solution. I wish there was. I will say that you'll probably find more fatphobes in tags like "fat acceptance" than "fat liberation" because fatphobes really don't like the name change. They seem to like the term "fat acceptance" more because that allows them more ways to manipulate the meaning of fat liberation.

You'll probably have your best luck by looking at fat positive blogs that sift through the trash for you and/or looking at fat-related tags while filtering for a lot of terms. If you block/filter for words like "thinspo," "feedee," "fat consequences," etc., then you'll probably (hopefully) avoid a lot of fatphobic stuff. Something to take note of is that I haven't been sifting through fat positive tags for a while and instead have been queuing based on what I happen to find without searching (I don't have the emotional energy for sifting through fat positive tags much anymore). So this blog won't always be the most recent fat positive posts compared to if you do sift through fat positive tags.

If I could ask the Tumblr community to do one thing other than make more fat representation, it would be to actually tag their posts of fat people. Most of the art and such that includes fat people isn't tagged at all with words that make it easy for fat people to find that representation. People will use generic tags like "artists on tumblr" and nothing else. I WISH people would start tagging fat positive stuff so it would be less of a depressing treasure hunt. So, for anybody reading this, please ask the artists you know to both draw fat body types and actually tag those drawings so we can find them.

-Mod Worthy

[marirah]

🌙  What time of day do you prefer to write? Why?

in the morning! i'm more focused

[its-a-splendorful-world]

Real ad I got and the brand is Splendies! Would you wear these??? Did u make these with ur brother???

I did not, but they are very cute! I might ask Trender if he can make something like them for my proxies.... Thank you for the inspiration! ;3

[slendermanofficial]

Is this you or is it one of your brothers

It seems to be merely a human impersonator, there are many. I am, of course, a bit of an urban legend as they say. The costumes help to keep the secret.

[trenderman-trending]

Hm, yes, I'm not sure what you're expecting me to say.

[whmp]

I just wanted to say that your video game looks really cool! I'm a (fairly beginner) game developer and overall it just looks really great. I love the graphics and style. I do not consider myself a sadistic person and I can confidently say I have never had any urge to hurt somebody, but I'm still super hyped to play your game.

Anyways, I guess I'm just curious on how you're making it/ any details of the process so far you'd like to share.

hehe thank you so much anon!!! don't worry, the "have you ever wanted to keep someone in your basement" was (mostly) a joke, being a sadist is by no means a prerequisite. : ) the process itself is a bit chaotic - such is life of a solo developer. i'm spread a bit thin between animation, modelling and programming so when making the game i'm trying my best to stick to my strengths: for example, when you look at characters and items, most of them have only very basic textures, but they do have a neat little shader on top which makes them look cel shaded. there's also a hefty dose of VHSesque post processing on top of everything! i left for a bit of a vacation recently, hence the lack of updates, but i YEARN to go back to work. on top of the to-do list is to finish up the time-simulation system. originally i wanted the game to be in real-time like animal crossing or something, but i've since shifted focus to a different approach with a simulated time, kind of like in stardew valley or minecraft or pretty much any game with a day/night cycle. the two tasks i dread the most are going to be fixing whumpees hair and his skeleton. god. take a look at how this smug fucker's hair look like:

if you know anything 3d you're probably getting a headache just from looking at this terrifying thing. stop. stop looking at it now, please, avert your gaze and don't make fun of my topology skills. if you don't - on the left there's a wire frame of polygons that when painted gives us the poor little meow meow on the right. as you can see, his hair is SUPER DENSE when it comes to polygon distribution. basically, a good 95% of whumpee's geometry is concentrated in his hair. i have since changed it (it's an old screenshot) but his hair still is a bit too dense for my liking - this is the sort of thing that WILL cause performance issues further down the line. i should just shave him bald i swear.

the second thing is his skeleton (or rig, or armature or """avatar""" if you go by unity's terminology). there's no nice way of putting it, his bones are fucked up. i rigged him in blender and upon being transported to the game engine environment, his spine just sort of left his torso. i managed to shove it back in, but it's far from ideal. here's how he looked like prior to the Bone Surgery:

scary. think of the back pain.

to summarize, gamedev is hard, bones are bad, but i really want to get back to work. hopefully i'll post a major update post within a week or so! no taglist on this post since it's not really an update, but @fanboy-enby-undead mentioned wanting to see bloopers/glitches so here's an @. : )

[its-a-splendorful-world]

Thank you... I think I needed the reminder.