me. me when a poem says something ive felt before

Oh boy! i sure hope the ppl commenting will remember that these are all fictional characters written by a team of writers and moviemakers and that OP is criticizing how those writers decided to use/portray fatness in their writing once they made those characters fat, rather than bothering with the in-universe examinations of those characters and why they gained weight

Oh, look at that, they decided to be stupid abt it. Oh well

How many times do we have to explain this: when someone is being critical of media and how writers treated a character who got fat or is fat, u don't need to give us some in-universe reason for why the character is fat. We're going after the WRITERS. The real-life flesh and blood humans who created the thing we're criticizing. U don't have to go into white knight mode to defend ur pet character from us. We're focusing on the message the writers are sending abt fat ppl and fatness, not trying to cAnCeL ur blorbo. Ffs.

I thing it's also important to acknowledge that the trope of the character 'letting themselves go' and gaining weight is in itself problematic. It casts fat people as lazy/depressed/umotivated. You can gain weight for many many reasons and being depressed is one of them (you can also lose weight then but no one seems to care about that one) but far from the major one.

The depictions showed above also cast those characters as pathetic and worth poking fun at because they are fat

EXACTLY!!! SEE ITS NOT DIFFICULT

It's not "what happened to this character in the story," it's "what were the writers saying when they made them fat, and what messages do audiences typically take away from portrayals like that?"

Ironically, I lost a lot of weight because of depression-related eating disorders and I am just starting to recover from it. In a world where media portrays fatness as negative and a consequence of depression, this gives the viewers a narrow (and false) idea of how depression and weight gain/loss are related, leading them to potentially ignore or misunderstand health issues.

exactly. it’s super interesting how when these characters “let themselves go” it’s never like. they lost muscle mass, or they’re not as flexible anymore, or they have bags under their eyes, or they stop brushing their hair. they always always always make them fat. making them fat is an intentional choice, because we’ve constructed a narrative around fat people that, even if the person looks exactly the same as they did before in every other way, if you put weight on them their entire values system changes. and tbh i’m tired of ppl defending this shit.

There is so so so much I want to add to this discussion in agreement but it would take an entire essay, so I'm just going to address one part and that's how the person who called fatness a literal "symptom" of depression gave me flashbacks to the countless fatphobes who have claimed even in their college level papers I had to review for a past job that a "symptom" of "ob*sity" is depression, suicide, and other mental illnesses instead of those being caused by the fatphobic bigotry and abuse fat people are forced to endure every single goddamn day. Literally victim blaming with the added spice of fatphobia and medicalization of fatness. I've even seen news headlines about a study that showed how weight is the #1 thing children get bullied for, and those news headlines didn't blame the people doing the harassment. They blamed the fat children, using phrasing like "Ob*se children more vulnerable to bullying" rather than writing "Adolescent bullies more likely to target fat peers" (Let alone how they're referring to fat children with a slur). And then you have to acknowledge how all of this demonization of fatness as a "symptom" of ill health leads to congratulating sick people for losing weight and ridiculing people who gain weight during recovery. Anyways, whenever fatphobes try to tell me that mental illness is a "symptom of ob*sity," my body fills with rage and fury and becomes engulfed in the flames of a thousand suns ready to conduct wrath upon their souls :)

Why don't we see a character who is hitting rock bottom losing a fifth of their body weight and becoming bony and sickly when they used to be strong and stout? 'Cuz that's what rock bottom looked like for me

If my experience with pneumonia and starvation was anything like yours, it's 'cause you can literally lose a fifth of your body weight--I was just a little over a hundred pounds, when the antibiotics finally did their job!--and all that happens is everyone tells you how GOOD you look. I wanted to shake them. "I'm *dying!*" But ooh, wasn't I skinny.

...Mine was due to stress and an abusive roommate situation, but damn, that does put it in perspective how bad it was.

I think the fact that horribly ill and dying people so often get more compliments about their appearance than before might say something about our society...

I've struggled with my weight my entire life in the opposite direction of the popular narative: chronically underweight despite eating twice as much food as my peers: my go to meal was (and still is) a chicken sandwish on top of a hamburger, if I ate breakfast I'd still be gnawingly hungry half-way to lunch on the school's schedule (leading to me running to lunch because I was constantly very hungry by the time we actually got to have lunch, but always somehow on the opposite side of the school and so at the end of the line if I didn't hurry), on pizza nights I put back two large pizzas and a two liter, and the list goes on.

But the consequence of all that extra eating? I struggled to maintain a barely skeletal frame andyou could use my visable ribs to play the xylaphone.

Thank fuck I've finally managed to put on some weight such my belly jiggles a bit when I walk: Being chornically underweight was the worst experience of my fucking life and I still don't know what caused me to struggle (though I have suspicions that I'll never be able to confirm because healthcare in this country is a fucking trashfire of a joke), but some ghouls'll probably say to a pair of now and thens that I really let myself go, and for that fuck em.

The fat on my bones is proof that I'm thriving. I hope I get fatter.

The fat on my bones

is proof that I’m thriving. I

hope I get fatter.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Now THIS is allyship.

The hardest thing to believe about The Hunger Games is that an authoritarian government in North America would invest in high speed rail.

FOLKS, PLEASE…DO YOUSELVES A BIG BIG FAVOR AND STOP USING TURBOTAX!  IT IS USELESS NOW!!!

THE IRS website will let you fill out and file your return THERE ON THE IRS SITE.  You pay like $12 for the actual electronic filing process, and THAT’s IT!

Unless you have tremendous amounts of Schedule D stock shit, TurboTax is NOTHING BUT A RIPOFF!!!

The IRS website is EXCELLENT.  They allow you to look up your past returns, and have every bit of information you MIGHT POSSIBLY NEED!

FUCK TURBOTAX!

LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM IT!!!!!!!

Actually, with Free File it’s FREE

No $12 fee

That’s the point of free

If you make less than an income threshold you get to file for FREE using various softwares that are REQUIRED to be and stay free or they lose the license to work with the IRS as part of the Free File program

If you make more than that threshold you can file for FREE using the Free File Fillable Forms where you type in numbers and click “do the math” and the website does all your math for you

Also fuck turbotax, I’m not even allowed to use it because it’s inaccurate enough that I’d get fired since Congress mandated all IRS employees’ taxes need to be PERFECT as a condition of employment

Here’s a list of free tax filing services, straight from the IRS website:

It tells you how much their income threshold is and if they’ll free file for you at the state level.

DO NOT PAY TO FILE YOUR TAXES IF YOU DO NOT HAVE TO.

So I did Free File yesterday, and I don’t think people realize how broad the eligibility is - it goes all the way up to  $41,000 or less a year in adjusted gross income. (There are also even more generous eligibility standards for seniors and veterans, so you should check those out if you qualify). Odds are pretty good that you are among the 42% of Americans who fit into that bucket.

So screw the predatory TurboTaxes of the world and save yourself a couple hundred bucks a year.

They’re narrative foils they might as well fuck nasty about it

I love going viral on tumblr.com. It’s like if you stood in a field and said some of the stupidest shit a human being is capable of and then like fifty thousand crows attacked you

Don’t do this to me

it strikes me as odd that all this research into the "mediterranean diet" was not accompanied by equally extensive research into the "mediterannean healthcare system"

TIL in 1915, San Diego hired a “rain maker” who used a secret mix of chemicals to “attract rain” for $10,000, payable if he filled their reservoir. It rained for most of January, destroying bridges, dams, and causing 20 deaths.

via reddit.com

that was the Devil

I mean they wanted rain

His name was Charles Hatfield and I’m not saying that you shouldn’t make a deal with him, but I am saying that you should be very clear about the terms and conditions

I think we need to fully appreciate the fact that the reason he “looks like the Devil” is that many depictions of the Devil in American popular media are specifically caricatures of this guy. Like, imagine being a con man and fucking up your hustle so badly that for more than a century afterwards people start drawing the Devil to look like you.

i’m screaming

I don’t think this woman is straight anymore.

Yall are missing the best fucking part

This is my new favourite post on tumblr, bye

Please reblog if you vote! & explain reasoning

PLEASE RENLOG IF YOU VOTE AND EXPLAIN! THIS IS VITAL RESEARCH!

Weatherman discovers his monitor has a touch screen

[discovered]

[immediately mocked by scientists]

me as a discovery

How can you not include the video?

@lordcephalopod

THEY’RE ROASTING HIM

Nawww, I’m sure the scientists adore this little guy <3

thank you @agentliz

The Ocean created possibly the cutest creature ever

If you listen to the entire video, they definitely make some cooing noises, so I guarantee that the art is accurate if they could actually touch it.

Fucking superb you funky little cuddle fish

Do all sea explorations sound like the scientists are just on discord?

PhD group chat

Level 1: Erotic fanfiction takes an unexpected turn because it spontaneously grew a plot.

Level 2: Erotic fanfiction takes an unexpected turn because you discovered something new about what gives you a boner in the course of writing it.

Level 3: Erotic fanfiction grows a plot because you discovered something new about what gives you a boner, and that something requires a lot of context.

#level 4: erotic fanfiction grows a plot because providing context gives you a boner

@unpretty

Stardaw Valley’s update history sure is….. something