#specifically fat bodies

[ispyspookymansion]

its really wild how many movies and tv shows are just like, obscenely skinny. how many casts are representative of the average population, if you sampled a crowd in a normal store or on a train? how many actually “average” bodies do you see on screen? how often are the stomachs shown flat or concave, how often are the thighs all muscle no fat, how often are the jawlines and cheekbones totally sharp and not covered by even a hint of softness? its bizarre and offputting whenever you start looking at media with that in mind

[vagun1ka]

hurt/comfort lukamiku hours

[cthulhu-with-a-fez]

other people have probably already said this but like. it's been a shockingly nice experience to watch the dungeon meshi fandom go absolutely NUTS over falin. just this unbelievable wellspring of thirsty romantic eye for her, and not only is she chubby in canon, most of the fanart i've seen has skewed towards drawing her even chubbier? i... genuinely do not think i've ever seen that before. i don't think i've ever been in an anime fandom where someone both looks like me and is the subject of such enthusiastic adoration BECAUSE she's fat before.

it's... it's really nice.

[3liza]

vintage nudes are so interesting because they preserve body types that used to be really common but dont seem to be around much anymore. i think of this bodytype as the one most common in 1960s-70s fantasy book covers and pulp novels. barbarella has this kind of torso, for example. but you rarely see it show up past the 1990s. i dont see it IRL much either. part of it i think is that the image of "sexy girl" like you see on pulp novel covers and in ads etc has gotten progressively younger since the american midcentury. this is more of a grownup bodytype, this is a more usual shape for skinny women in their 30s and 40s with muscle maturity and a few more years of hormone-mediated development and possibly a pregnancy or two. i think differences in posture (particularly the practice of sucking in the abdominal muscles in a really conspicuous way, which was the norm from about 1940 to 1970 for both men and women), the culture around correcting posture virtually disappearing in the 80s, and differences in daily activities activating different muscle groups, as well as difference in where we are putting shaping pressure on our soft tissues with different clothing and materials, has contributed to these changes. i would love to write a paper about this. i've gotten so intense about this topic i can date nudes to roughly their correct decades just based on the model's body shape.

[felixvanhuss]

Positivity post for people who actually got less hot after transitioning. I can't be the only one out there who went from being attractive to being unattractive. It was, in fact, something I was terrified of happening, and it happened. And guess what? I'm still fucking happier now, unattractive and true to myself, than I was when I was hot and suppressing my true self. Like, so much happier. It's not even close

Do I miss being hot? Sure. But not enough to have even an ounce of regret for transitioning. If you're worried about becoming unattractive if you transition, know that I, for one, think that even if that happens, it's still fucking worth it

(Also I'm like way more charismatic now that I don't wanna die, so that's pretty cool)

[pansyboybloom]

honestly? shout out to bears and the bear community for helping me want to recover from my eating disorder. i want to find my natural weight. i want to be fat and healthy. i want to love and support others through loving and supporting myself. i want to accept my body as it is. bears i love you so much <3

[cranbebbies]

I am by no means a George Santos fan, but this is so infuriating to me. How is this “the worst ill fitting sweater of all time”? Is it because you can see his fat stomach? How is he retaining “a level of confidence rarely achieved by mortals”? Because he’s not concerned with hiding his fat body? Because quite frankly I don’t think there’s actually anything ill fitting about the sweater. It looks comfortable around the arms and the neck, and it’s not too big or too tight. I can’t believe I have to even make a post where it sounds like I’m defending George Santos because I’m not. I am just sick of seeing people make ridiculous hyperbolic comments about someone’s fat body because you can *checks notes* See That They Are Fat™ . And I’m sure lots of other fat people are sick of it too. Skinny people fuck all the way off.

[maladaptivewriting]

including asexual and demisexual characters in your writing?? hell fucking yes, i’ll eat that up every time

making the only canonically fat character asexual so they end up without a partner? right, right, okay, but what if i came to your house and beat you up?

[doppy-enjo]

Mentally I'm still in the season for summer

[hi-note]

Would you care if paper doodles I did last night idk I wanted to draw more characters shaped like this

[prolibytherium]

Doing my best not to slide down my typical pipeline of my OCs becoming sexier via getting fatter and hairier as I draw them over time. Mixed success.

[madowperle]

[biblically-accurate-dca]

more human(?) sb guys

[chalkeater]

i know the sharp teeth is something to consider but has anyone ever considered hippos before?? think about it. sharp dino teeth on a hippo

i mean i kind of think you can be creative with this instead of pointing at horse all the time

and ALSO you get to copy the moomin shape more. do i have a point??

also hippos in character design tend to be associated with the cool colors (purple) and shades of pink or red sooooo??

thanks for coming to my talk

[crownconstellation]

so over the past like few weeks i’ve been slowly clearing out my twitter bookmarks and dumping everything into my references discord server. i Finally finished today and so: onward to the tumblr likes……..🫡👍

(the reason i’m doing tbis is bc most of my bookmarks are art references or art i like bc of the style or composition, so i’m dumping all the art in this server & once i’m done im going to sort. All of it. and once i’m done w that i can finally move forward w art style studies so i can draw again!)

[petz5]

not to be a bitch bc i know people struggle w body image but holy shit i'm gonna start unfollowing people who complain abt how "fat" they are bc they have normal bodies (stretch marks, don't have a totally flat stomach, etc) like i get that its hard but sometimes i just wanna be like shut the fuck UPPPP YOU WOULD COMPLIMENT ME FOR BEING BUFF AND GAG WHEN YOU SAW PHOTOS FROM 3 YRS AGO WHEN I WAS GENUINELY FAT AND PRAISE ME FOR HOW FAR IVE COME OR WHATEVER WHEN MY "JOURNEY" WAS JUST ACCIDENTALLY GIVING MYSELF AN EATING DISORDER AND DOING HEAVY LABOR EVERY DAY FOR YEARS AND HAVING THE RIGHT GENE COMBO TO EVEN LOSE IT TO BEGIN WITH