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reticent-fate · 5 months ago

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part 11/26ish

anyone remember those scales with the springs in 'em? all i ever see these days are digital scales but those things made the best noises. i think i've seen some kitchen scales that still use spring mechanisms, but it's been a while.

technology is weird.

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#otherkin hrt #fictionkin hrt #fictionkin #otherkin #digihrt #dg arts #-apomon #updates might slow down from daily since our brain ceased letting us do art about halfway through bfsdhjfbjshdbfs #oh well #i'm thinking of doing another fake in-universe pamphlet for a bonus though #specifically like talking about the “weight” stat #fun fact: we'd never stepped on a scale in almost a decade before finally seeing a doctor for the first time in that 10 years last year #we used to obsess over our weight in a way inherited from our mom's diet culture BS and then like #i'm pretty sure we split someone in the system who just managed to not give a shit #and everyone else that did basically got put in time out or fragmented to hell (we still don't know)#i think about this post i saw a while ago that talked about how like #weight (specifically as it is medicalized) shouldn't be a concern so much as if you're moving your joints and stretching them enough #and it should really only be a concern when it drastically changes in a short period of time because it can sometimes be indicative of #your body flipping its lid #the post talked about rapid weight loss specifically and how a lot of doctors will go “oh wow weight loss!! yay :)” when like.#no??? not yay???#anyways some medications can cause weight fluctuations too #our fibro medication can cause weight gain and tbh i don't give so much of a shit about that as i am curious about the mechanics behind it #our relationship to weight is mostly informed by being the one person in our family who never had to deal with fatphobia targeting them #but just because we weren't the target didn't mean it didn't affect us when our mom's whole life shifted around WW #i didn't want to delve into that in this comic tbh so aside from the little bonus pamphlet this is the last time it's brought up #but like a comic where we take a version of ourself through this kind of transition would inevitably have to touch on relationships to food #we're just lucky we finally found out that we can actually like... enjoy food without it hurting us?#part of the wish fulfillment of this scenario would (and is) the idea of getting to enjoy food without bodily discomfort #because on top of us almost developing an ED we also just have a garbage stomach

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