#worth-beyond-a-number-scale

[ponett]

It is so rare for media to make the main character fat in a positive or even neutral way. It means a lot that your game does this and has actual fat representation. Was there any specific reason why you designed the main character that way?

i made melody a fat bisexual trans woman because i am also one of those. since so much of melody (and all of the main characters, but melody especially) comes from myself, it was only natural. if you compare her to my fursona their body types are basically identical lol

as is probably very obvious to everyone, slarpg was largely me willing the exact game i wished i could play into existence, and having a cast of women with a wide variety of body types was a big part of that. it's woefully difficult to find fat woman characters (who don't exist purely to be the butt of a joke) in, like, any media ever, but games especially. even in games with character creators it's rare for them to let you make your own character fat. so right from the start i was like, no, melody needs to be fat. if nobody else is gonna make that game then my gay little rpg maker game had to be that

but also beyond any grand statements about representation i also wanted to have a cast of cute furry women and melody looks cute like that

#worth-beyond-a-number-scale #ask #slarpg asks

[telltalebatman]

this person is fucking insane, actually

#4.txt #worth-beyond-a-number-scale #NICE JOB FOLLOWING A BISEXUAL ACE NONBINARY WOMAN gotta be my favorite part here #my pinned post is just. please don't ask me about ace discourse #and this bitch immediately went UHM IM A NONBINARY WOMAN #nobody asked?

[featheredadora]

Thank you for making such awesome fat positive art! I still have more of your art in my queue. Your positivity art includes great messages that really help people!

Thank you so much for this message, it really means a lot! And thank you for your blog also, I really appreciate the work you put in and think it's super important!

I haven't spoken much about this on here (but this ask has given me an excuse to, so thank you!) but fat positivity/fatphobia is one of the topics that's really important to me! I do like to do a range of different stuff that I care about for my positivity art, but fat positivity is one that I'm particularly passionate about personally.

I struggled with anorexia for basically my whole life until a couple of years ago, thanks to the sheer amount of fatphobia around (fat anorexics have my utmost respect and sympathy - I can only imagine having to navigate an eating disorder while also being fat, especially when even ed recovery is often littered with fatphobia)

Now, don't get me wrong, I've never been fat, so I appreciate that the pain I've felt from fatphobia is very much collateral damage. Fighting fatphobia and spreading fat positivity is important because fat people deserve to be treated with dignity, respect, and kindness, fullstop, regardless of benefits for thin people like me. But still, the work that fat activists and those that champion intuitive eating etc are doing has helped me immensely (and fatphobia has, albeit indirectly, hurt me immensely), and for that I'll always be grateful.

I feel like I could write for hours on how horrifically fatphobic so much of our society is, and how harmful that is to so many people, how important it is to listen to fat people talking about their oppression, how important it is to show kids positive fat representation, how important it is to fight diet culture etc etc. But there are of course plenty of fat people who have covered/are covering this better than I could (and I am personally so thankful for these voices who are speaking out, despite the awful backlash they often get for doing so).

So yeah, for any of my followers who might not have got this from the bird content: my blog is very much a fat positive space!

Fat people can live full, exciting, dynamic lives! Fat bodies are normal and wonderful! Fat people deserve to be listened to (in general of course, but specifically when talking about their oppression as well)! And life opens up so much when we work to dismantle diet culture and fatphobia, and respect and celebrate the natural variation in people's bodies!

#asks #worth-beyond-a-number-scale #thank you for this ask you are fantastic! #positivity #fat positivity #fatphobia #tw anorexia #tw eating disorder #long post #sorry for this being so long! #I am not good with words but this is something that really means a lot #When I was really anorexic I was too scared to physically say words like weight or diet or fat or thin #and I hated myself for not speaking out against fatphobia because I would physically just freeze up #so now that I can speak those words I make sure to stand up for what I believe in #fat positivity is so important! #also I realise I've always been thin so of course please do correct me if I speak out of turn!

[teacupchimera]

I love your unicorn art!! Your unicorn designs with real horse breeds make me so happy!

ahh gosh, thank you! I really love incorporating real things from nature and biology and genetics and stuff into my fantasy art and I'm so glad you like it! :D

#worth-beyond-a-number-scale #answered #this made my day I'm smiling so big #thank you!!

[is-the-post-reliable]

I love this blog, thank you for doing so much work for us! If you ever do more fact checking on weight science, fatphobia, healthism, dieting, etc., two very good sources for information are the podcast Maintenance Phase and the Tumblr blog bigfatscience. The podcast is cohosted by a prominent fat activist, Aubrey Gordon, who spends a lot of her work researching and compiling this information. I think she also links all of her sources on the actual website for the podcast. And bigfatscience is a seriously helpful Tumblr blog that makes posts about a large amount of topics related to fatness and health. All of their posts give links to credible studies. Their posts are a compilation of research similar to Maintenance Phase. I also appreciate how they examine and dissect studies based in fatphobia (for example, studies that don't have a neutral purpose and instead are conducted with an inherent belief that fatness is bad, causing biased conclusions). So the blog takes the fatphobia out of the research and just gives the straight up facts. However, everything is linked so you do have the option to read the studies themselves. I hope this helps! And I remember hearing something about how the creator of the BMI didn't necessarily create eugenics but that his work, such as the BMI, was later used to support it. So if I am in fact remembering correctly, then your nuance about his exact purpose in creating the BMI is factual. Though again, this is just what I remember from when I researched this a long time ago. For what you wrote about calories, there is a ton more information involved in what calories exactly are and how they work. The podcast I mentioned has an episode about calories if you want more information. Thank you again!

Hi, thank you so much <3 and thank you for the recommendations, I'll check those out! I suspect I will be doing more fact checking regarding weight and dieting, because unfortunately there seems to be a lot of misinformation on those topics, so they tend to get requested quite regularly. Thank you again!

#ask #thanks! #worth-beyond-a-number-scale #tw diet #tw eugenics #tw weight

[pet-shop-of-horror-fan]

Can people stop putting this A-hole on my dashboard?

#undescribed #ableism #disabled #physically disabled #mentally disabled #able bodied #abled #receipts #worth-beyond-a-number-scale

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

You've been talking a lot about Homestuck, but that wasn't the only popular fandom of 2010. What are your thoughts on Hetalia, and why do you ship USUK?

I liked the Hetalia series, although I stopped reading because it didn't feel very good to be reading. There was a lot of the "I've seen this one before" feeling, even when the references came from completely different media.

The Hetalia fandom is a lot of guys who like the series, and who like imagining themselves as the main characters. This results in all sorts of weird takes on things I normally like and dislike, like an insistence on writing the series in a way that "preserves" their self-image as the main characters. I never really liked Homestuck because its structure made it easier to imagine oneself as the main characters, not harder. In the Hetalia universe, the main characters aren't even the main cast of Hetalia.

But I guess what really tipped me off (besides the whole "this doesn't feel good for me to be reading" thing) was the weirdness of the characters and the relationships in the fandom. "I like thinking about these fictional characters," I wrote in my notes during the series, "and the fiction that surrounds them." What this statement could possibly mean in Hetalia, I couldn't tell. The characters are often not even the main characters and seem to have little importance to the plot. The fans don't seem very aware of this and spend a lot of time thinking of the series as a set of stories that happen to involve the same characters. It's sort of like trying to imagine the characters in the Puella Mundi setting, or some sort of weird version of it, without the context.

I think part of the reason why Homestuck was enjoyable for me is that I was reading it as a narrative about self-reflection. The "you are the main character" aspect of Hetalia makes it hard to get this out of Homestuck (at least as I experienced it), and I think it is part of what makes the fandom so unpleasant to read about. (My notes about Homestuck, from late 2012 or early 2013:

It is like having to remember that I am not playing a game, like the one in which I used to play.

Homestuck is the thing that made me not want to play games. It took away the innocence of games. Before Homestuck, I was able to treat games as some sort of place where I could put effort into things. I could treat them as the place where the story I wanted to write might happen – I could think about what sort of plot I wanted to write. Now I feel like games are an obstacle, like a barrier to my plot, something to climb over.

I like Homestuck because it takes away the artificial innocence that I think games are based in. This was what drew me into gaming in the first place, the ability to put in a lot of work on something (like writing a story) and then just have it result in things like "winning."

It was a special feeling, to me, that I didn't even understand. It was about the artificiality of the barrier between the player and the results of the player's labor, about this very artificial barrier that separated the player from making decisions about the story that they would control. In my head, the barrier represented what had prevented me from writing stories in the past, so it represented the barrier in my life.

Homestuck is the first time that I've felt as if I could actually choose things in life, like the things that happen in games.

Homestuck made me realize that I just really like the way that games, and my life, feel when there are barriers that I can just step over, or things that I can control.

I guess this made it feel more like something I had to do and less like an adventure, and it didn't seem to make the journey more fun.)

#homestalgebra #worth-beyond-a-number-scale

[poniesart]

Someone complained that your comic was too specific? Your comic...about you as an individual person...and your individual identities and life experiences? *Insert that "Uh yeah, I sure hope it does" vine* What an annoying and ignorant person to complain about someone's personal experiences with gender and identities. And the part about being "too confusing" just...ugh, that makes me so mad. It's just yet another exclusionist trying to make you conform to their whims in the "We don't conform to society's expectations, let's celebrate that!" community. I don't care whether I understand a person's queer identity or not. I once saw a person who was born a cis man and not even intersex identify as a trans man. It doesn't matter that I didn't understand even after he explained his identity. He's a part of the queer community. I don't have to understand his identity to accept and include him where he feels he belongs. He's not harming anyone. You wouldn't even know he had been born a cis man without hearing his explanation! Queer people sure do love to talk about hating police while policing people in their very own communities in the same breath.

@worth-beyond-a-number-scale Right!!! This person's phrasing was specifically "unfathomably confusing"... like wow. They hid behind having a trans and queer friend circle while making such an unnecessary comment. And then claimed that it wasn't about my post in particular, but the state of identities and terms in the queer community in general. Like, you do see how that's worse, right? and how your opinion about others' identity literally doesn't matter?

People with complicated relationships to gender have always been part of the community, and specific words in order to describe that relationship is not a bad thing. "Contradictory" words, and an identity only understood by the person with that identity, aren't bad things.

Thank you for this, I really appreciate the supportive message! Sometimes exclusionists get to me...

#worth-beyond-a-number-scale #replies

[blank-but-fat-doodles]

@worth-beyond-a-number-scale, I did it! I drew fat Naruto! Belle is coming up soon, and after that, I’ll be taking requests as well as drawing from my own ideas! Anyone who wants to leave a request in my inbox is free to do so!

(Also, I’ve never watched Naruto, so I’m sorry if I got any details wrong. I used one reference...)

#also check my pinned post. I have a ko-fi #worth-beyond-a-number-scale #naruto #naruto (character) #fat character #plus size character #blank-but-fat-doodles #my art #requests open! #I added acne to him too btw! #we need more acne-speckled teens in media

[maskrosfe]

Do you plan on posting the full versions of your mermay drawings? I'd love to reblog them!

Yes! I will post a few more of them here on my blog, but I will post all of them in a pdf on https://peppar.itch.io/ 😊! You're super welcome to reblog then! it means alot, so thank you <3!

#asks #worth-beyond-a-number-scale

[honeytoasts]

Your art is really awesome! I hope you'll keep drawing fat people! So very few artists do, and it means even more to me that you include us despite being thin yourself. Thank you!

thank you so much, I absolutely will! I don't draw people as often as I'd like but I always want to draw varied bodies in my art whenever I can!

#worth-beyond-a-number-scale #asks

[saplingdraws]

I hope you'll continue drawing fat people! Your two drawings of fat characters are awesome.

OH 🥺🥺 thank you so much!! i absolutely will be! i've been drawing a lot of the same ocs lately, but i love character design and fat bodies are incredibly lovely and fun to draw <3

also idk when you sent this, tumblr never notifies me of inbox messages until i receive more than one thanks tumblr

#worth-beyond-a-number-scale #answered #ty this made me so happy!

[lizardgills]

An artist who draws fat people? You are one in a million! Thank you for representing fat people in your art! Congratulations on top surgery too!

aaa thank you so much this is so sweet!!!! ❤❤❤

#i love when people can see themselves in my art it makes me so happy :-) #worth-beyond-a-number-scale #asks

[comp-lady]

Your icon is so lovely. Can I ask who made it and if they have a Tumblr blog with more art?

Thank you so much! The artist is @teamrtist here on tumblr! It's been my icon for like.... 6 years now....

holy shit

#asks #worth-beyond-a-number-scale #my hair does not resemble this art anymore tbh

[theresbeautyhere]

Your art of fat bodies is so amazing! I have your art in my queue

Thank you very much! There's plenty more to come :)

#I've been more active on reddit but I'm making an effort to be here too. The community is very real here #asks #worth-beyond-a-number-scale

[zachberrie]

Hey! I wrote the post about the flipnote archive. You might have already tried but I think it's possible to find your flipnotes with just the name you usually used on Flipnote Hatena, not necessarily your Hatena ID

I tried multiple names with no luck but that can be attributed to my poor memory lol 🥴 But thanks for the tip! I will post this for others to see :]

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