gatesofember
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Ember | they/he??? | agender??? | aroace | 20-something | ADHD and autism HECK YEAHAsk me about my cats or my latest fics and visit me on AO3! Current project: continuation of the Wild West auArranged Marriage/Royalty au on indefinite hiatus [AM au Masterpage]
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gatesofember · 47 minutes ago
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GIVE ME MY MEDS PLS
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gatesofember · 6 hours ago
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Will Solace is fat and trans and deaf and has ocd
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gatesofember · 8 hours ago
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This may seem like a very “well duh” post but i do think it’s important to be clear that when trump claims he intends to “deport” U.S. citizens that that is definitionally not deportation. Deportation specifically refers to the civil process of removal a foreign noncitizen to the country where they hold citizenship. Deportation is also, in most cases, a legal punishment in itself and will not result in the deportee being jailed upon arrival to their country of citizenship. Removing US citizens from the US and placing them in jails in countries that they have no citizenship claim to is commonly referred to as “disappearing,” “kidnapping,” or “trafficking” and discussions around trump’s desire to remove US citizens from the country should refer to it as such
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gatesofember · 9 hours ago
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Two ends of the sleeper build spectrum
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gatesofember · 24 hours ago
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RIGHT????
hey fat will solace enjoyers. one of us has to be good at drawing right? right??
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gatesofember · 24 hours ago
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hey. listen. when you use too much detergent in your laundry you aren't making your clothes cleaner, you are making them degrade faster. the machine isn't able to rinse out the entire cup of soap you put in, so some of it is left in the fibers of your clothes. when they dry this makes the fabric stiffer and more brittle, so the fibers are more likely to erode and break. over time this makes your clothes wear out much faster than if they were properly rinsed with minimal soap. you are wasting money by overusing detergent, not just on the detergent itself but the clothes you are shortening the lifespan of.
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gatesofember · 1 day ago
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haven’t had a meltdown over Jasico lately. I’m so normal and well adjusted.
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gatesofember · 1 day ago
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hey fat will solace enjoyers. one of us has to be good at drawing right? right??
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gatesofember · 1 day ago
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gatesofember · 1 day ago
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my dream as a fanfic writer is to write a story which people want to talk to me about and send asks about afterwards and discuss things the characters did and the symbolism and meanings behind certain lines and I'll be all "hehe thanks" but irl I'll be in literal tears because I wrote something that means something to someone
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gatesofember · 1 day ago
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also i think this has been figured out at this point but the whole "i miss queerbaiting" convo is like... the part of queerbaiting that ruled was because the show was usually putting forward two dudes, those two dudes got to have character arcs and motivations and writing behind both of them. they could both be interesting individually. because neither of them were shunted into 'disposable romantic interest' for each other.
but if a gay couple on tv is now supposed to be there, writers can fall for the m/f trap of 'only one of these characters needs to be fleshed out, the other is just here to explicitly be the love interest and maybe die later' except now they can both be dudes. it's not that queerbaiting was inherently better it's that unfortunately people have always been bad at understanding what makes fictional romance compelling, which is 'who the fuck are these people in the first place and why should i care'
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gatesofember · 1 day ago
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hear me out pjo artists, jason grace drawn in ancient roman statue style, because they built a statue of him after his death, and placed it in new rome, and it's like really old, maybe apollo comes from time to time, century to century, and just gazes at it while sadly playing his harp
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gatesofember · 2 days ago
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I'm going to join in on playing pretend too <3 I've occasionally thought about Nico (skin and bones, how can this guy even lift up his own sword when there's no meat on those arms) having consistent access to meals for the first time in a while and even though he's not gorging himself at meal times he's still putting on weight to the point where he has a stomach and his ribs can't be seen through his skin and while I don't think he would have the same socially influenced fatphobia that other characters in the heroin-chic early 2000s era would have, I do think he starts to get self conscious just because his body doesn't look the way it used to, even if he's healthier now than he has been. I DO also headcanon that he has disordered eating, not due to anything appearance-based but because Food has been a tricky topic for him since he came out of he lotus (and possibly while inside the lotus, if we're considering the movie where the main trio had to keep eating the lotus flowers to stay under the spell), not to mention the whole death trance deal. my friend annabel also firmly believes that Nico permanently lost his sense of taste after bringing the Athena parthenos because his taste buds dissolved when he started fading so now everything tastes like dirt. I know I would be a lot less interested in eating if everything tasted like dirt. also autism and textures makes things tricky as well <3 anyway those are my thoughts and there should be more body diversity in all published works of fiction and also fanfiction and advertisements shouldn't exist but if they have to then they should be required to show more diverse body types as well
yess like I honestly have a hard time imagining Nico ever gaining a lot of weight and if he does it should just be a thing rather than an indication of character development. HOWEVER I could also see food-insecure Nico not being all that skinny. I think he probably had really inconsistent access to food. sometimes he was in the underworld or at camp Jupiter where he had plenty of food, and idk about food in the underworld but I think camp Jupiter would serve really healthy food in order to build perfect little soldiers. and then sometimes he was on the streets or in alleyways digging through dumpsters and he wasn’t likely to get fresh fruits and vegetables. god I hate that I’m about to say this but he might’ve actually eaten a lot of mcdonalds. that constant switch going from super healthy to super unhealthy, going from having plenty of food to food insecure, continuously being on the move and training but overexerting yourself, going between not having enough sleep and sleeping too much—all that’s got to fuck with your body a lot and I’m not convinced that it would necessarily look like thinness. his proportions are probably inconsistent, like he has a belly and you can see his ribs and he’s got muscular arms all at the same time.
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gatesofember · 2 days ago
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yea, i see that too. honsetly i can see nico struggling with BED because of how deprived he was in the past and like ants due to hoarding food just incase like his pomegranates in the jar. :( i want him to be happy tho.
yeah for sure!!! but also. headcanoning characters as fat is good and fun.
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gatesofember · 2 days ago
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also nico whose older and finally safe and has the resources to eat. like he was skinny bc he was starving, let him be fat and the trauma of worrying about if he'll have a next meal leaves him because hes finally older and more secure and safe. 🙂‍��️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️
you know what. I’m considering this more and trying to figure out my feelings on the matter and I’m honestly not sure what I think yet. like yes there should be more fat characters. there should be characters who stay fat or become fat and aren’t like Frank who gets blessed with thinness for character development, and we can headcanon characters as fat and that’s fun and great and affirming. but I’m not saying we should replace the Frank-style storyline with sudden weight gain as character development instead. for one thing, I know from experience that fast changes in weight like that are extremely jarring and difficult to adapt to and probably not healthy (not that being unhealthy is morally BAD ofc). but mainly the reason I’m hesitating is because I don’t think sudden changes in appearance should be character development at all.
idk, part of me would love to see Nico gain weight as an effect of becoming happier, but I also can see Nico having disordered eating and I know that’s a popular headcanon so I don’t want to say that the end goal is curing that. there isn’t really an end goal, just management and learning to live with it.
I’m thinking now that weight gain and loss both ought to be completely untied from moral value—it’s just a thing that happens, and yeah, sometimes either one can be a reflection of a healthier lifestyle, but even that should also be untied from moral value, too. idk I’m just trying to figure this out and I haven’t fully developed my thoughts yet.
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gatesofember · 2 days ago
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sally just a BABY like, she is doing good now, she is a published author, she has the money to eat well now. plus BABY, stop making her skinny!!!! shes finally out of fight or flight and is happy at like 40 mom of 2. let her be anything other than stick thin!!!!
ALSO even before that when she was struggling to make ends meet, fatness is so much more common in poor people which means there’s a good chance she and percy are both fat
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gatesofember · 2 days ago
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have you considered fat NICO though
Anon. Your mind. Anon you are so powerful.
I have to admit that it is honestly difficult for my brain to conceive of a Nico who is not walking bones but listen. LISTEN. Nico who was just bones but gains weight. and I love enby or androgynous Nico so imagine them getting curvy. Nico growing hips and thighs. Nico slowly developing a belly. Nico getting fat and healthy. Nico loving their new body and the way it makes them look and feel. And people always saying “what a shame, they used to be so thin” but Nico sometimes just stares in the mirror because they’re in awe of how beautiful they’ve become.
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