#there's no option to be fat too

[esmeislewd]

Excuse I need a second to talk about HOW GOOD WAISTCOATS LOOK ON FAT BODIES LIKE OMG IM SORRY BUT THEY WERE MADE FOR THEM IM GENUINELY CONVINCED THEY JUST LOOK SO RIGHT LIKE ACTUALLY

[coochiekrab]

do u get hand fatigue when making comics with a lot of handwriting? if u do, how do u prevent it + stop it from getting bad (ie. carpal tunnel)??

Yes i get carpal tunnel every now and then, more commonly just sore tight hands from drawing Too Hard. I do not prevent it and i do not stop drawing when it starts to hurt👍

[nikkalick]

I have chronic back pain, have for a while. It’s not so bad now that I had surgery, but I lived with it for years. I tried to go to a doctor for it, but they just said to lose weight, so I learned to live with the pain until one morning I couldn’t get up from bed. Couldn’t move without feeling like electricity was running up and down my back, burning my spine and leg from the inside.

This had me back in front of a doctor who (thankfully) listened and then for an entire year my insurance jerked me around requiring that I try different methods to manage the pain before finally agreeing to cover surgery.

In that year leading up to surgery something inside me broke. I couldn’t do the most basic tasks. Having to learn how to move my body in just the right way so that I wouldn’t lock up trying to wipe my own ass is one of my least favorite memories. Next to it is a tie between falling at my sister’s wedding because my leg gave out and being in so much pain I couldn’t sleep for days on end. I couldn’t sit, couldn’t drive, couldn’t bend or twist or even lay down without feeling like my nerves were on fire.

Work accommodated but I felt useless. I couldn’t lift inventory anymore. Couldn’t do a key part of my job that I (oddly) enjoyed doing. Commuting the hour to school twice a week was excruciating, but it was my first year of grad school. I had to push through. My professors were kind, they accommodated so that I could be as comfortable as possible in class. But I felt like a distraction, a nuisance, a bother. It was so hard to focus on lectures and homework when 90% of the input my brain was receiving was that of pain.

I grit my teeth and bore it, my mental health hit a new all time low, and I broke down in front my my mother more times than I can count. And I did this for a year because insurance refused to cover surgery unless I proved to them I needed it. I had to jump through their hoops and play by their rules to get the procedure I needed and that my care team knew I needed. I lost feeling in my leg and foot because they made me wait.

I will forever be grateful for the doctors who listened, for the physical therapist who advocated for me, for my mom who surprisingly became my rock during the whole ordeal. But my insurance company? They can go fuck themselves.

My pain before that year was bad, but not excruciating. My pain now? It’s minimal. Sometimes I still lock up and I’ll likely never have all of the sensation return to my left foot, but I’ll take the constant pins and needles over that year of pain any day. That said, had it gone on much longer I genuinely don’t know if I’d be here typing this.

Anyways…I guess what I’m saying is IF he did it, I get it. I really really get it.

[arolesbianism]

GUYS.

New dupe real! Also new pod????? Olivia is that you girlie speak to me

[hugh-lauries-bald-spot]

bertie was just so small and blue eyed and smiley and hopeless that he bagged himself a man with a fat ass who can cook & clean

[grapecaseschoices]

things i'd like from bg4 or any similar future games

I think BG3 is very detailed; but I would really like it if the backgrounds had mattered more. Or at least for every one. I heard if you're a drow/half-drow noble you get special dialogue with Minthara. But why didn't my Folk Hero!Tav with Wyll [or just in general?] Or my Outlander!Tav with Karlach? I love that your character gets special interaction with all and sundry, at times, re: class and race. But backgrounds make a charcacter. I don't need details. Just a bit of a nod. At least within the camp.

This brings me to point two. I wish there was a way to get friendship points. It is so strange the characters can be 'meh' about you, dislike you [and strongly], but high to exceptional bonds trigger romance. What about close friendships or growing into a family?

Speaking of, I definitely would have love some down time chatter. It is so strange to me that you get a 'this could be our last time in camp' but don't do anything with it. I appreciate the tiefling [or goblin] party. I love the idle banter on the road. But why not a couple of casual fireside chats. As a group?

I love Halsin but the fact that he is the only one we can have a polyamorous dynamic with, is bull. I'm fine with not every character being into polyam -- but maybe research more before diving into it. I am 90% sure Wyll would've been okay with Polyam - a triad too! - if it was Halsin or Astarion [maybe with Lae'zel but I have to play further to be sure]. I could see Astarion and Shadowheart swinging a 'v' dynamic, and being the best [or worst for Tav's sanity] of metamours! Maybe it would have been a hassle for coding to fit every configuration, but we deserved at least a COUPLE of Tav x Origin x Origin loving.

Also, I think we should have been able to encourage - or maybe it could have happened sans MC involvement - the npcs getting together.

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Off topic, but do any persons who buy plus sized clothing and are familiar with The Avenue know of any similar places that still have in-person stores on the West Coast? The Avenue is the only place I've ever been able to buy shirts that I like, and they closed all their physical stores in 2019.

Torrid's shirts are much too short for me and often too narrow in the shoulders.

[shrineofprophecy]

I'm going to add Burnice as a test muse but I'll be busy all weekend so I'll whip something up next week~

[the-chattering-tower]

Looking at snappers and bogsneaks to determine with full certainty how much popularity Any Fat Dragon Ever may have (which, full disclosure, is not what I think staff is doing) is flawed by default imo, because:

Lbr snappers are. not great?? Like i know some ppl go rabid about them (tho half the time that seems like it's more about rooting for the underdog than the actual breed?) but like. their primary/secondary distribution Sucks, if you wanna see the secondary pretty much at all/want any sort of balance, you're better off getting either a bog or giving up on your fat dragon dreams

And bog breed changes Suck Absolute Ass To Craft. A Lot of ppl are gonna look at that and decide that, you know what? Literally any breed aside from coatls and wildclaws is better for your sanity/wallet to scry things as. And while bog eggs exist, noc (and depending on your playstyle, even elemental) eggs are much easier to get and will continue to dominate the g1 statistics for the rest of time

I'm not saying you can't talk about design same-y-ness or fatphobia when talking about fat dragon popularity, but I feel like just saying "there's only 350k snappers on the site (which is still! A Very Large Number!) bc everyone except me and my three mutuals hates fat dragons :(" is maybe ignoring part of the picture?

(This is not @ anyone in specific, I just saw a couple posts that reminded me that I wanted to make this one)

[abimee]

ruyan wont admit she has a type but she does which is either short fat guys with facial hair (short is relative to her, any guy whos head sits below her nose is short) and high sex drive women with soft hair. this is why haurchefant is the best of both worlds

[daz4i]

psychiatrist: do you really think you have treatment resistant depression?

me looking at her with my 13 years of suicide ideation, over 10 types of medications tried, and 6 years of trying multiple types of therapy:

[soupacool]

watching my girlfriend play starfield rn and its unfortunate how happy it made me to see a more realistic fat body option in a video game. it would be nice to have even larger options but when you're used to no rep at all, having the option to have a double chin feels really fucking special

[seokmattchuus]

Fuck school

[garciapimienta]

it'll be so weird to see ansu with another team....

[gamebunny-advance]

Since we're talking about polls...

I didn't really talk about the results of the Kliff poll after it was over, but I don't think there's anything about the results that needs to be said. I was surprised at the voter turnout, but the results speak for themselves.

However, I will say that this more or less confirms that my Kliff propaganda is not working, and that's just a crying shame.

[ikkan]

random dude gave me unsolicited advice on the gaming chair i bought at walmart. told me to invest in a $200 office chair, that’ll it better than the chair i just bought. sir, i honestly don’t care. i was literally trying to leave the store. i just stood there like 🧍‍♂️