I have been wanting to do a Mermay pic for so long, y'all have no idea!! I wanna do more later, but for now…!
Bea’s mermaid design is of course a reference to her mermaid fantasy in E49! @/lunaspyker really outdid herself with coloring the tail, so I did my best to emulate the patterning!
What are you doing for the holiday weekend? I still don’t have plans ♀️ but would love to know what you are doing! LMK below: ⌨️ (at Phoenix, Arizona)
Someone online creating a quiz about literature analysis: What’s the one thing about a character that will never be related to the text/show’s theme? …Their appearance! Right!
Me who has been fat my entire life and seen how fatness is used and portrayed in media: I think you might want to check again.
You ever notice how the fat kid is always the bully in media when in real life it’s the complete opposite?
Being fat is literally the number one reason why children are bullied. More than any other category, which includes race, sexual orientation, disability, religion, and academic ability. Yet it’s always fat people who are demonized and portrayed as the bullies in media.
Me:*makes a post about the deadly oppression fat people face*
Every person who has ever been said something mean to by a fat person in the past twenty years:
I wanted to answer this ask, and thank you to @desasterdan for bringing up some examples as well! Here’s a picture I found when I searched for pictures of cartoon bullies online:
Literally four out of five of these are fat. All of them are “big” in some way. Then you have characters like Harold and “Big Patty” from Hey Arnold. “Big Patty” literally has the word “big” in her name.
You have one of the three bullies from The Proud Family
Pete from Mickey Mouse
There’s also characters from movies
JK Rowling literally ties evilness to fatness with Dudley, Vernon, the fat aunt who gets blown up, Crab, Goyle, Mrs. Umbridge, you name it.
Now you might be sitting to yourself and thinking “Okay, but that’s only like…sixteen people! I can think of skinny bullies from media too!” But you have to think to yourself:
Where is the other fat representation?
Because not only are fat people so often portrayed as bullies, villains, unlikeable, undesirable, ugly, etc., that is often the ONLY representation for fat people in any given piece of media. (And keep in mind that the list of characters I’ve given is really just bullies, not fat villains as a whole, which makes an even more enormous list).
Tell me where a nice, positive fat character exists in Hey Arnold. In The Fairly OddParents. In The Simpsons. In South Park. In Phineas and Ferb. In The Proud Family. In Megamind. In Mickey Mouse. In Harry Potter. Name five in each because there are certainly dozens upon dozens of skinny characters in all of these pieces of media, so coming up with five non-fatphobic/non-villains who are fat should be easy, right? Tell me where the fat representation is AT ALL in these shows besides the bullies.
I will tell you right now: It’s none for the vast majority of these shows. I guess Harry Potter have Hagrid and Ron’s mom? But like…that’s two characters out of a series that has at least fifty characters. And they don’t outnumber the fat villains/bullies at all. They certainly didn’t put any fat extras in any of the movie’s scenes. It’s skinny people all the way down unless you want a villain, bully, someone to mock, or someone known for being big so you have no choice but to make them fat.
So if every piece of media either has fat bullies or no fat people at all, what message are we sending here?
As an added bonus, here are some images I found when I searched for bullies on Google Images. Keep in mind that I did not write “fat” anywhere in the search bar. This is just what it gave me, one of these pictures even being titled “bully with a fat belly.”
made a lil DBZ sona, just girl who believes in aliens and as soon as saiyans and everything ended up being more common knowledge she just “I FUCKIN KNEW IT”
“‘And so were you waiting for your people when you sat on that stile?’ ’For whom, sir?’ ’For the men in green: it was a proper moonlight evening for them. Did I break through one of yourrings?”
Tumblr isn’t letting me share this YouTube video as anything other than a link, but watch this short video in horror with me at how normalized diet culture/fatphobia is that Tom Holland was forced onto a FIVE HUNDRED CALORIE DIET that caused him to starve so much that he felt the need to steal food and somehow the big takeaway here is not how horrifying diet culture is. The takeaway is apparently that he’s a meme. This is something you would hear in a fucking dystopian society, but it’s real.
My one and probably only contribution to Mermay. Wasn’t planning on doing mermay at all but i was motivated to do one after seeing the body positive mermaid art by @hanas-hues.
just in time for season 2 of Bridgerton my Queen Charlotte dress is done. The dress was on the screen for 5 minutes but I was in love with it. I looked for similar fabric for a year and found the prefect silk right up under my nose.
The dress was easy to come together but there were so many hours spent smocking. would I ever want to smock again? yes absolutely. Im so in love with dress and happy with how it turned out
