#its not a one to one representation but yeah

[thenixkat]

Yeah, no best believe if Falin were actually fat in canon the Falin/Marcille ship would not actually have taken off.

(And I say this as a fat person who's been observing fatphobia in general fandom spaces for a while and has been watching the general fatphobia in the Dungeon Meshi fandom that the Dunmeshi fandom pretends doesn't exist, gaslight fat fans who talk about it, and straight up lie to people with reservations about the series in regards to its fatphobia in the text. Like, I've got a pretty good working knowledge of how fandom folks treat canonically fat characters vs the characters that fandom likes to fatten up but are not fat in canon.)

Canon Falin is just the right size to get the curvy lady/thicc treatment where folks who are kinda ok with somewhat plus-sized folks will work with her, folks who genuinely like fat chicks and are desperate for representation will work with her, and folks that want to look/come off as progressive will work with her.

if Falin were fat fat her friendship with Marcille would be seen as just a friendship and Marcille's most popular ship would probably be with one of the Canaries.

#nix meows #dungeon meshi #falin touden #fandom fatphobia

[dailypearldoodles]

Hello there can I have a Gem and Pearl red duo for my soul?

Day 554

Girls night!

#daily pearl doodles #pearlescentmoon #geminitay #shinyduo #secret life smp #traffic life smp #mod morph #again #have not watched a single episode of sl after pearls ep 3 #ive been too distracted by other stuff and kinda lost interest sorry #however i did hear of the murder spree gem went on #gems halo is entirely comprised of hearts because of how many hearts she has #SL halos have 1-3 big hearts #depending on which life theyre on #like usual life halos #but they also are comprised of smaller hearts #that are sort of representative of how many hearts they have #its not a one to one representation but yeah #when you give a heart #one of the smaller hearts fly out #from your halo #and joins the giftees halo #ALSO #gem what kind of hairstyle does your skin have #you got like space buns and then also a side braid??? #how much hair do you have??? #i couldnt really figure out how to make it look good #so i put two lilttle braids sprouting from her space buns instead

[sillyfairygarden]

90 minute leyendecker study b4 bed. heard cleo has a cat cafe this season :swoons:

#thellos art corner #zombiecleo fanart #hermitcraft #hermitblr #mcyt fanart #mcyt #ok time for a peek inside my skull: i really contemplated not posting this. not for any reasons of disliking it #im pretty conscious about how fat people are characterized/portrayed around food in media. both in fan works and canonized material #(flashbacks to hunk from voltron) i really think about ways to defy the way fat bodies are portrayed in my works. while also staying normal #i think at the end of the day i really see food as a love language. and serving people i love (even if its just coffee) brings me joy #even if theres a one-dimensional box that fat characters get put into regarding food. it makes me happy! so i'll try to do it with grace #i think representation isnt always this mentally twisting lol. but its definitely something i think about. #i hope i can positively project my feelings about food and love onto a plus size body (as a chubby girl :handheart:) and showcase that love #ok yeah yeah its 11pm. time to put meemaw in bed. if you read all this ur rad <3 also i stopped watching HC peeposad

[mynqzo]

Why do you like vampires specifically, what do you like of them?

the sucking and fucking

#ask #also many several deep complex reasons #and if i were to divulge into them i would actually never shut up #its the. vampyrisim being a metaphore for otherness. for queerness #them being originally created (in europe at least) to be cruel representations of jewish people - immigrants and eastern europeans - and #these people reclaiming them. the reclamation of vampires to be the 'others' the ones that are ostracized by society #and people finding solidarity in that. vampires are queer their entire mythology is inherently queer as well so its beautiful in its own wa #vampires were transformed from cruel caricatures with intent to portray the fears of xenophobic english men to #complex deeply thought-out characters that embrace their differences from 'humanity' and live in their true identity #remember when i said “i cant delve into this otherwise i wont stop talking” yeah sorry it happened anyway

[saltyyetbland]

ngl im fucking terrified of how the fandom will act when the asian ccs get added and they are confronted with asian customs such as honorifics, asian cultural norms, and the language itself (ie words that are common in one language that sounds like a slur in another) and i know most of the fandom will be open and welcoming but idk im probably being way too pessimistic as someone who is asian and has seen the bs that people can spew esp regarding things like stereotypes

#qsmp #im being really negative rn cause im just really scared #im excited to see asian representation and i really hope to be proven wrong in my pessimism #but i will dropkick anyone who purposefully tries to misinterpret or villainize or sexualize or whatever my culture #its on fucking sight for those kinds of people #even people that just associate one thing for one culture ie japan with anime or korea with kpop #like i swear these countries and cultures are more than just that so please be open to learning more and not just make assumptions #also i am so very scared when it comes to cultural norms esp because qsmp is so damn western ethics and morality focused #i have many thoughts about this in particular but theyre way too complex #but yeah i really hope this event goes well and the new members feel welcomed

[boyquiet]

i think that we need to get over the narrative that you can’t have gay villains because that’s a harmful stereotype because there’s a huge difference between “this character is gay and a bad person” and “this character was written specifically to equate being gay and being evil/depraved/degenerate”. it’s just such a narrow minded view of fiction that leads to people afraid to write queer characters as anything less than morally perfect and then to a bunch of palatable but bland and boring queer characters that are arguably worse representation than a gay villain because they are not allowed to do anything wrong. while it is important to write all types of gay characters a work isn’t instantly “problematic” because the villain is queer and the hero isn’t. I think this is also related to the idea of subtext vs text in gay media and how I see a lot of people get mad bc the homoerotic subtext isn’t made canon without considering the context of it at all—sometimes creators make artistic decisions for reasons other than that they didn’t want the gay people to kiss because they’re homophobic. well written queer subtext can be better than a canon gay couple with no personality or relevance and a queer villain can be a better queer character than a gay hero because the characters in-universe morality isn’t inherently tied to how much care they are written with and the quality of “queer representation” isn’t determined by the amount of times they kiss on screen.

#mainly this is brought on by mgs discourse surrounding vamp and volgin and ocelot #I was telling a friend who isn’t into mgs about how ocelot is gay and a sadist and they asked if there were any good gay characters in mgs #and I was like um well no one is really a good character in this series. but yeah I guess #and they said ‘then the game is redeemed’ #that was pretty disappointing to me im not making a callout for my friend or anything but like. you cant judge a work on its rep #by weighing the number of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ queer characters mathematically #it’s shallow and reductive both to queer rep and the concept of gray morality #never mind that ocelot is one of the most important well written and beloved characters in the franchise. hes gay and evil so that must #make him a derogatory stereotype and ‘bad representation’ #anyway I think ocelot should torture and kill more people for fun #queer #lgbtq

[blueskittlesart]

i’m so used to how you draw zelda that whenever i see someone else draw her it’s literally like. skinny person jumpscare.

literally being a fat zelda truther is so hard bc why do people insist on drawing the girl like she's never had a meal in her life. put some meat on her bones please god she is starving

#yeah botw zelda fanart is always like. woe. skinny girl be upon ye #and people on instagram get SOOOO pissed about the way i draw her its so funny. the comments are always so formulaic #like its always 'uhmmm im skinny and ur taking away MY representation my body type is beautiful too!!' #or 'um i just dont think you should be promoting an unhealthy body type' SHUT THE FUCK UP. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD #OR if its a man theyll be like 'um you made her look fat :/' like its an insult. like yeah babe that was on purpose. lmfao #and its not like i dont notice that people ONLY EVER get pissed about how i stylize ZELDA'S body. because i change link's body type too. #but i make HIM noticably SKINNIER. like gee i wonder why we have a problem with one of these but not the other one guys. lmao #anyway. im glad tumblr has so many fat zelda appreciators because things are fucking bleak on instagram lmao #and i do also occasionally get jumpscared by skinny zelda. like i KNOW she looks like that but also She Would Not Fucking Look Like That #asks

[skitskatdacat63]

This is a special genre of f1 picture(to ME.)

#ive talked a lot about helmets lately oops #i guess i just rly have an obsession with how they're an extension of the driver #and a representation of them and their only sense of personality and individuality when theyre all geared up #so theres something to me about the separation of helmet from driver like in these pics #of course theres pics of the helmet on its own for model kinda pics(like all the pics i used for my past project posts) #but this is its own genre. helmet doing its own thing. helmet away from the vicinity of its owner #helmet being protected from the elements. it has its own carrying bag. it gets an umbrella. etc etc #the first pic made me on the lookout for pics w a similar vibe. IDK WHY BUT IM RLY OBSESSED WITH IT #having a severe helmet fucker era </3 i look at these and i feel very weird about them 😭 #not included cause its a differnt genre but also thinking abt pics where someone other than the driver themselves is holding their helmet #theres something weirdly intimate to me about it. its too reminiscent of that one painting of the germanic warrior holding the roman helmet #<- DO YOU GET WHAT IM IMPLYING HERE. #anyways. i digress. helmet being taken care of and protected is cute to me #its such an extension of the driver so its kinda funny ig that they get their own photoshoots #also yeah these are all nando helmets bcs i couldn't find pics from other drivers that i thought had the same vibe #and i think its interesting how these correlate with whom the photographer is and the level of popularity of the driver #like are you popular enough that someone will see your helmet apart from you and think its important enough for a pic? #and its so interesting comparing pics from the same time from different teams #bcs you can see how different the motivations of the different photographers are based on what the pics are like #well blah blah blah helmet kink blah blah blah #f1 #formula 1 #fernando alonso #helmet

[martyrbat]

[ID: the uncoloured drawing for page 4 of the comic Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #192 next to the publicized page. In them, Alfred is in a room in the Wayne Manor and is drawing back the curtains to let in the sunlight. The narration reads, ‘In the morning, it's like nothing happened,’ despite Bruce almost bleeding out from a rough patrol last night. Bruce from off panel comments, “Ah, much better with the extra light. Thank you, Alfred.” Alfred looks over and dryly replies, “You know, anyone else would be doing pretty well just to be awake”

Bruce is shown to be in an electric hospital bed and has his head wrapped in bloodstained bandages, where little tufts of black hair stick out from it. He has a neck brace on and his arm is wrapped. There's a large bandage placed on his lower face, where his stubble is also overgrown due to neglecting his personal grooming in favour of focusing on Batman related duties. The revealed room is shown to be cluttered with several large, medical machines and carts full of medical supplies — which includes sponges, oxygen tanks and masks, pain relievers, syringes, bandages, and (inexplicably) a baster. Bruce sits up in bed and is chewing at the end of a pen as he looks down at a notepad and several papers that's on an overbed table.

Alfred brings him breakfast on a tray as he remarks, “I step out for twenty minutes and you're not only awake, you're already scribbling notes. Might I impose on you to set those aside long enough for some food, if not some actual rest?” Bruce instead asks where's the coffee, to which Alfred responds, “Actually, Sir, I think the last thing your overtaxed system needs right now is more stimulant.” Bruce challenges him, “‘Overtaxed’? Is that your professional opinion?” Alfred wryly replies, “As the one who found you riddled with holes last night, I can only speculate as to their cause. However... having discounted the possibility of suicidal intention, or gross incompetence, on your part...” Bruce immediately accuses, “You think I'm trying to do more than I can actually manage.” His butler calmly justifies, “Unless you've developed some new ability that you are hiding from me, I suspect you cannot be everywhere at once.”

In the original line art, there's two plushies (a round bunny and a bat) drawn amongst all the medical supplies. Sadly, it wasn't included in the publicized version. The third photo is a description of the drawing from the artist's (Seth Fisher) website. It reads: This is one of the delightful pages in which Seth put some amusements for himself which were censored and excised by the editors, in order to retain Batman's image as a serious superhero. In this page both the bunny and the bat in the lower right frame failed to make the final cut.]

#screaming crying.... they took away his plushies :( #yea yeah bruce is being a little shit and his self neglectance is usually reduced down to a quirk of him being challenging to deal with #and a great display of his dedication to his cause instead of the actual concerning self harm that it is or the display of its okay to need #a caregiver despite your age bc of mental illnesses/disorders/disabilities that make ‘basic’ care things more challenging #how thats such important and great representation for other disabled readers to have bc we usually get shamed over it and it can be a great #comfort to see one of the most iconic and famous heros ever struggle the same way we do/require the same care #but also just guys. they took away his round bunny. his bat.... im going to shoot myself. #c: batman: legends of the dark knight | i: 192 #crypt's panels #bruce wayne #alfred pennyworth #posts from the crypt #disabled bruce #alfred & bruce

[b4kuch1n]

I'm not gonna screenshot it bc 1/it really doesn't matter that much and 2/the person who made the comment is a kid but: a while ago I made a comic that's supposed to be a genuine study and reinterpretation of someone else's sprite comic (made in the spirit of authenticity too - to recreate the vibes of the sprite comics from that era, iirc very specifically because it's funny) and I got a comment on that comic's post that's like "glow up"

which is a compliment obvs. and the commenter probably didn't mean anything by it, it's a common expression. but I've been trying to find a way to gracefully put that comment away ever since it appeared lol

I just very much don't want my art to be taken as trying to one-up someone else's art when that's not the piece's intention. especially when the piece that inspired my art is perceived as "low effort" or "shitpost" or stuff like that. I did mention in the tags of that post that my considering it a study is entirely genuine, and I can legitimately write pages about the cool stuff I find in it other than and inherent in the haha funneys, but that's not for you guys that's for me. I just think that approaching art competition-first like that is a miserable way to do it, and (tipping into overthinking here if the whole tiny-comment-got-stuck-in-my-brain-for-almost-a-month part hasn't given that away yet lol) I really don't want that to be the takeaway from my own art. at least generally. if I actually think the source material is trash and what I'm doing is genuinely categorically better I'd just come out and say it lmao

#bakuspeech #yeah it's the darkhog sprite comic #honestly I don't love comments that put my art and other artists' art in a hierarchy in general. wherever my art lands on that scale #especially when it comes to character writing and trans 'representation' #which like. idk man I'm writing One character. he's NOT gonna be The Trans Experience. he's gonna be one character. #but yeah I'd guess I'm writing it all out in a post bc it's not really a race that anyone opts in #I don't actively participate but by virtue of how my art is perceived I just end up on the scale anyway #so uh. I'm suggesting that we do not bring the scale into my house at all lmao #there's also the like. Don't Yuck My Yum guideline of looking at art that's like #I like the things I'm aping! most of the times! if I don't say it's shit and I'm drawing stuff from it usually that means I like it lol #and then you kinda come in like wow what you're doing here is better than the thing you like. and it's not like yknow. #really anything. it's extremely trivial comparatively. but you are in fact yucking my yum there #tldr please try not to think abt art u like vs art u don't as ''better'' or ''worse'' and #have grace for the things that don't please u personally. anyways I'm omw to finishing the frog now. just need to fell all the seams down #and put that boy in da spinner for a ride. and then it can live in a gift bag until the day #I really enjoy holding it actually... maybe after this one I'll make something else. tbh slick stretchy fabrics are superior to fuzzy fabri #doesn't pill And cooler to touch. stuffed toys for the subtropical population #I'll get a combilation of pics once the thing's at its new home. but for now. we must finish the job

[i-spilled-my-soup]

i miss the olden days when the greeks didn’t have labels for sexuality they just had affairs and orgies

#waxing poetry in their thirst #yeah this is about riordan #personal opinion time #he just. doesn't do casual representation #its gotta be outright #a whole sentence #dedicated to exposition #for the audience #like the labels are needed to justify something #i think thats it #the labels feel less personally empowering and more like... placating? #and i feel like its so personal for a lot of people #personally i would not tell a stranger the labels i use to identify myself #that's so ... intimate... and to throw it around so lightly makes it seem comedic #and how he has his characters criticize other characters for being sexist or stuck in the gender binary #i. i wish that the setting was one where there was no such terms for inequality #that it existed but the characters and thus the audience were convinced that equality was the status quo and the goal #or that riordan went more intricate with it #putting echoes of social issues in moments of indirect characterization #cause it feels like the more those terms are used the less theyre taken seriously #i feel like moments of inequality could have had responses of 'that's a dick move dude. don't do that' and not providing fodder #for inequality by using it for comedic effect #i just. have distaste for that

[pftones3482]

I'm straight up gonna be honest with y'all, if they hint at perryshmirtz even once in the renewal but they don't give us any LGBTQIA+ representation, I'm fully done with Dan and Swampy. Especially after that chibi short and Dan's response to it.

I don't care if ppl in fandom like it - you do w/e you want. But in the end, if they (they being both the creators AND Disney, mind you) willingly promote what is literally beastiality to children over LGBTQIA+ people...that's like beyond fucked up.

#pnf #phineas and ferb #like im excited but i also have very high standards #theyve had 8 years to figure out what to do with this show #8 years of progress and of representation in media growing #and if they choose to ignore that. when they have one final opportunity to give it to us? #yeah im done #again. to perryshmirtz shippers: ship what you want. genuinely #but it is at its core beastiality. yes even with perrys intellect. #and thats not something we should be promoting

[sandersgrey]

If Rick Riordan werent a coward, Blitzstone would already be a canonical QPR

#alex wont shut up #blitzstone #magnus chase #sorry its been a while i dont remember the tags #but yeah i think if he meant them to be romantic theyd already be together #unless i missed some extra content? #i think he intended them to be a QPr but he doesnt know theyre a real thing/is unaware of the term #which. considering he confirmed the hunters are aroace.... #bro one shred of research? one single crumb of accurate representation?

[gibbearish]

maybe this was common knowledge and ive been severely out of the loop but the fact that russel t davies is gay is kind of rocking my world rn?

#like obviously his characters were always super fuckin queer but idk there is still something different knowing that like #its not accidental rep its not pandering its not rainbow capitalism #its one of us telling our stories #like. idk how much torchwood criticism ive read that boiled down to 'they all act bi but dont address it' #and then seeing a clip of an interview w him being like 'yeah thats deliberate i thought it was time to bring bi ppl into mainstream #and i think in a world with literal aliens it would get a lot harder to care about gender in the first place to even need to try #and define it' and its like. hello???? why did no one mention this before????????? #like that literally describes 99% of my friends is 'am i gay? am i bi? do i have gender preference at all? fuck if i know i have #bigger issues to think about' #ppl criticized it for being bad representation but like. is it? #is a group of misfits with nowhere else to go and only each other to rely on who have weirdly intense co-dependant #sometimes toxic messy relationships and lots of hooking up not descriptive of like. most queer friend groups #raise a hand if youre queer and arent exes with at least one of your closest friends. yeah thats what i thought #anyways thats all thank you verilybitchy for your doctor who videos im astral projecting #origibberish

[fitzrove]

I think I'm struggling creatively because as time goes on I find less and less motivation to write (and read, tbh!) stuff that's

good wholesome queer representation

escapist everything-gets-better fantasy ("because life is hard enough why would you write about miserable things")

palatable to people who disagree with me

And obviously I'm nowhere near finishing even a single original thing yet ahdfhajf but I've been looking at publishing videos that people who have experience in the industry have made and. Man no wonder that so much milquetoast stuff gets put out nowadays

#not to be a hater and controversial but #the fact that its often straight people judging whether queer representation has problematic elements (and similar situations) #and lots of queer media seems to be made with straight people in mind (at least as a considerable portion of the audience) #and ugh in general/unrelated like. i just want to write litfic about the human condition XDD and structural inequality #but if i do it with fanfic nobody will read it because my most popular fics will always be ones where white men kiss each other for 3k word #obviously i'm grateful that anyone reads anything i write aggdhfh it's very nice to be heard #but fr my most popular fics are NOT my best ones #and yeah like if i write original fiction it's unlikely to do well in publishing because there's no hot sexy straight romance or wholesome #soft high school good representation queer people:3 #maybe i can put in a red herring twink guy idk #also i'm just so bitter about linguistic inequality still XDD like. in a video abt fantasy tropes the person making the video hates they #said that they hate 'overly long fantasy names' that they can't pronounce #which just made me go 'silence anglo' mentally because omfg super often those names are just BASED ON CULTURES YOU'RE NOT PART OF #(disclaimer i know not all english speakers are ignorant hahfjsdhjfj) #but yeah its funny when old english inspired names are too hard for modern english speakers like welcome to being anyone else lol #its somehow considered a minimum requirement of knowledge to be able to pronounce names like george and matthew correctly #but then for other languages it's a special courtesy if people say names right #afujishgfis and this is just one example #rant #writing #literature

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

its so important to me that william is a jealous petty little bitch. its so important to me that hes an absolute shithead about it. you go girl be so toxic<3

#im allowed to say this because i was like this #literally “youre the most jealous man i know” “YOU KNOW OTHER MEN???” #no but fr. i like that hes shitty and jealous and petty and mean about it. i really really like that #william wisp is like if danny phantom was me in middle school and i will stand by this fact until i am proven wrong or i die #whichever comes first #i cant put it into words much but. representation for the jealousy bitches without completely villifying them immediately <3 #is it cool to do? no. is it mean? yeah absolutely. does it hurt other people? sometimes!!! #but also sometimes youre a teenager whos been hurt by the world in more ways than you can count #and the one person whos had your back through a lot of it is now #spending all their attention on other people and treating you like youre invisible (<< a particularly harsh jab for this specific case) #you thought what you had was special but it was never really *dating* was it? #so technically theyre not doing anything wrong but that doesnt make the knife in your heart hurt any less !!!!!!!! #sorry im having ghostknife emotions tonihht i just finished episode 5 its so important to me that william is petty and shitty and jealous #reaction time #i BETTER see some fics out there with this. #you people are not allowed to sand him down to be the sad quiet emo softboy. #which he is but like hes more complex than that. let him be shitty and mean.