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fideidefenswhore · 23 days ago

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#'piggy eyes' is not original or creative in the slightest#cliches always make writing worse not better

I don't know how to articulate this well, but I really fucking hate the way a lot of thin writers write fat characters. Like how men write women "breasting boobily" there is something so dehumanizing about how fat characters are often written. "He waddled", "he lumbered", the writer of the book I'm reading always mentions this characters "fleshy hand" when he does something with his hand. Like, we already know that he's fat. There is no need to describe everything he does as "doing it fatly".

#they always think they're sooooo slick when they do 'porcine'..........#that's just piggy with a hat on .#stop it *sprays with water*#it's always either live or dead animals in tudor fiction...#'sausage like fingers' stopppppppp #also historians are not exempt #leanda de lisle recently described hviii as a 'hippopotamus in scarlet hose' re: that one psalter drawing of him and i was like...really

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