I feel like when people shut down ANY debate around ozempic with "don't talk about other people's bodies / choices" what they actually mean is just "stop questioning thinness as the ideal".
It's absolutely possible to talk about societal trends without making it about specific individuals. I do think it's shitty for the media to pick apart one person's body and to be like "LOOK at HER" with clickbaity before and after pictures and speculation about their diet. I don't think that helps anyone. But we can and should talk about the clear returning trend towards very skinny bodies and the normalisation of weight loss drugs. And the impact this will have on people growing up in the midst of this culture.
I don't know if it's just bc of my shipper googles, but I thought it was cute when Tyranny was Wic's paralysis demon. I thought it was terrifying when she was Teor's.
harassment of black cosplayers has always been bad, literally every black cosplayer has received a racist comment or two online and irl but how is it getting fucking worse. Racists need to be curbstomped
Black people are constantly being bullied and harassed out of hobbies and social spaces for no reason other than being black and it's so frequently dismissed because people don't take racism seriously for some reason. I guess it's just expected for black people to be treated like bottom of the barrel subhuman scum
as we see reprisals of Y2K skinny culture (as part of fascism) people are making a lot of posts like ‘if you’re too young to remember, it was so toxic. people shamed [skinny woman] for being fat!’ and perhaps it’s useful to bring up someone like kate winslet circa 1999 being fatshamed to express how truly dire the situation was/is but i find it increasingly frustrating that the response seems by and large to be ‘wow that’s awful! she wasn’t even fat!’ [so clearly that was wrong!] and not the real point: ‘so imagine how horrible it was for actual fat people, who also don’t deserve the far worse treatment they got/get.’
tl:dr if your response to fatphobic bullying/harrassment is “but they’re not even fat,” you have not gotten to the core issue. you haven’t even considered the core issue.
lots of people in the tags pointing out the same thing about transphobia and especially transmisogyny where instead of centering trans women in conversations about transmisogyny, it turns into defending cis women who are mistaken for trans women like “and she’s not even trans!” instead of saying “we shouldn’t treat trans women that way.” you’re not derailing you’re 100% correct
I went through my art folder and found this unfinished sketch with Harding I did last year. Polished it a bit. By analogy with Emmrich, Harding here is a redraw for a famous art piece as well. I used Vasnetsov's painting "Alyonushka" for my inspiration... but I truly don't remember why.
