#vs the sharp often caustic very angry person in canon who climbs through a window to confront a monster out of sheer stubbornness

[thedreadvampy]

ok I mean I'm back on my bullshit vis a vis the ways that fandoms tend to conflate desexualised fumbling uwu cuteness and fatness, specifically although not exclusively in men

like when a character is canonically cute and awkward and nerdy/dorky and a Cinnamon Roll, fan depictions tend to choose that character to be the Token Fat Person in their headcanon (and also usually white) or choose to exaggerate their curves if they have a canon appearance that isn't fat

and when a character is canonically fat, fandom tends to characterise them as shy, sweet, desexualised, cute and dorky, and ignore the parts of the character that are rude, angry, sexual, confident etc

and idk I just happen to think. there's something of a pattern which. falls along the same image a lot of media puts out about far people, particularly fat men, being nonsexual, degendered and nonthreatening/amusingly awkward. idk I'm most of the way asleep so I think half this thought process is missing

#also yeah you know this is about Uwu Cutie Bow Tie Martin #like your headcanon is your headcanon whatever but i do have Feelings about how Martin tends to be a Sweet Soft Bow Tie Boy in fanworks #vs the sharp often caustic very angry person in canon who climbs through a window to confront a monster out of sheer stubbornness #and i think. There is a correlation between this soft squishy cute Martin who expresses mostly just like. Love and Service for Jon #and the fact that he's often depicted as fat white and nerdy #like Martin is canonically fat and canonically a caring and shy person yes #but like he's also canonically taller than Jon and yet here we are. with lots of Short Cute Blushing Bowtie Boys #who hasn't got much like. individual desires. who is depicted as comically unthreatening and conciliatory. #ypu know #like it's not any one fanwork it's just. it's a pattern I'm frustrated by #like I've talked before about finding the cutesification of gay male characters obnoxious #but I'm more and more noticing how much it's correlated with fatness and with associated infantilisation/desexualising #yeah this is also about aziraphale #and some other characters #but tma is the main fandom i have contact with so it's the one most likely to ping me yk