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explanations welcome in the comments/reblogs/etc 😊
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okay hey real question: what are good ways to describe fat characters?
I see a lot of 'have more fat characters' and I'm Here For It but as someone who is skinny and in a world where most existing literature makes characters fat only as a joke or an indication of some variety of moral badness, I'm not really sure how to describe them in a way that's not objectifying or insulting. like, I've grown up on poetic descriptions of thin characters ('long slim fingers' and 'willow figure' etc etc) but I haven't read flattering descriptions of fat characters and I don't know where to start. I've seen a lot of 'how to describe poc' or 'how to describe disabled characters' or whatever and I've seen art ref posts for drawing fat characters, but no posts about how to write them well. so. open call for advice or for examples you've found and like??
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i drew Eve again
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mega-list of book recommendations
saw a mega-list of literary recommendations going around recently and was struck by the dearth of titles by poc, so i made a list of just poc titles to course-correct. keep in mind that i can only in good faith recommend what i’ve read, so i’m sure i’ve absolutely missed some integral titles. drop me an inbox message if you have more recs, i’m always open
canonical
the narrative of frederick douglass - frederick douglass
incidents in the life of a slave girl - harriet jacobs
the souls of black folk - w.e.b. dubois
montage of a dream deferred - langston hughes
cane - jean toomer
their eyes were watching god - zora neale hurston
the bean eaters - gwendolyn brooks
a raisin in the sun - lorraine hansberry
invisible man - ralph ellison
native son - richard wright
the autobiography of malcolm x - malcolm x
the fire next time - james baldwin
sister outsider: essays and speeches - audre lorde
things fall apart - chinua achebe
the garden of forking paths - jorge luis borges
one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez
the color purple - alice walker
the woman warrior - maxine hong kingston
satanic verses - salman rushdie
beloved - toni morrison
sula - toni morrison
the house on mango street - sandra cisneros
the joy luck club - amy tan
DAMN. - kendrick lamar
plays
a tempest - aime cesaire
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf - ntozake shange
fences - august wilson
dutchman - amiri baraka
the american play - suzan-lori parks
memoir
the light of the world - elizabeth alexander
how we fight for our lives - saeed jones
between the world and me - ta-nehisi coates
persepolis - marjane satrapi
men we reaped - jesmyn ward
heavy - kiese laymon
black boy - richard wright
the yellow house - sarah m broom
brothers and keepers - john edgar wideman
zami: a new spelling of my name - audre lorde
poetry
american sonnet for my past and future assassin - terrance hayes
the tradition - jericho brown
night sky with exit wounds - ocean vuong
citizen: an american lyric - claudia rankine
twenty love poems and a song of despair - pablo neruda
don’t call us dead - danez smith
eye level - jenny xie
life on mars - tracy k smith
a fortune for your disaster - hanif abdurraqib
postcolonial love poem - natalie diaz
i can’t talk about the trees without the blood - tiana clark
i wore my blackest hair - carlina duan
an american sunrise - joy harjo
oculus - sally wen mao
short stories
her body & other stories - carmen maria machado
interpreter of maladies - jhumpa lahiri
exhalation - ted chiang
ficciones - jorge louis borges
what is not yours is not yours - helen oyeyemi
sour heart - jenny zhang
essays
how to write an autobiographical novel: essays - alexander chee
trick mirror - jia tolentino
bad feminist - roxane gay
they can’t kill us until they kill us - hanif abdurraqib
we were eight years in power: an american tragedy - ta-nehisi coates
borderlands/la frontera: the new mestiza - gloria anzaldua
this bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color - ed. cherrie moraga and gloria anzaldua
white girls - hilton als
non-fiction
the new jim crow: mass incarceration in the era of colorblindness - michelle alexander
stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in america - ibram x kendi
bunk: the rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, post-facts, and fake news - kevin young
an alchemy of race and rights - patricia j williams
looking for lorraine: the radiant and radical life of lorraine hansberry - imani perry
the next billion users: digital life beyond the west - payal arora
fiction
passing - nella larson
caucasia - danzy senna
trust exercise - susan choi
on earth we’re briefly gorgeous - ocean vuong
corregidora - gayl jones
the fifth season - nk jemisin
the brief wondrous life of oscar wao - junot diaz
the round house - louise erdrich
there, there - tommy orange
little fires everywhere - celeste ng
the supervisor - viet than nguyen
kindred - octavia butler
the known world - edward p jones
the underground railroad - colson whitehead
the god of small things - arundhati roy
the vegetarian - han king
theory
playing in the dark: whiteness and the literary imagination - toni morrison
black skin, white masks - frantz fanon
mama’s baby, papa’s maybe: an american grammar book - hortense spillers
discourse on colonialism - aime cesaire
scenes of subjection - saidiya hartman
the signifyin(g) monkey - henry louis gates jr
pedagogy of the oppressed - paulo freire
feminist theory: from margin to center - bell hooks
black noise: rap music and black culture in contemporary america - tricia rose
decolonizing the mind: the politics of language in african literature - ngũgĩ wa thiong’o
black marxism: the making of the black radical tradition - cedric robinson
black feminist thought: knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment - patricia hill collins
black and blur (consent not to be a single thing) - fred moten
young adult
diary of a part-time indian - sherman alexei
the hate u give - angie thomas
emergency contact - mary hk choi
i am not your perfect mexican daughter - erika sanchez
poet x - elizabeth avecedo
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been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which I call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter
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vote yes if you have finished the entire book.
vote no if you have not finished the entire book.
(faq · submit a book)
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i drew Eve again
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really hilarious and unsexy when hetero romantasy authors refer to love interests as males and females. you sound like david attenborough narrating a special documentary on two turtles humping in the mud
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y'all i don't think i ever posted her here before ..... anyways one of the mcs/love interests for a comic im never gonna make but from which i will draw character designs (lol)
Her name is Nanshé, her friends call her Nahna <3
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WIP Acrostic Tag
Thank you for the tag @winterandwords! I did some cafe writing today, which was lovely, and left me in a place where I'm excited to pick up where I left off as soon as I have more time -- the best feeling :D My word today is ALONE, and I'll look through what I wrote today, which is from a Peter Pan inspired idea...
Rules: given a word, find a sentence in your WIP that starts with each letter
A. “Aw, shut up,” another pirate said.
L. Lily, Magnolia, and Poppy converged on Belle the moment he was gone. “Good heavens,” Lily said in concern. “How dreadful.”
O. One of the other boys called out, “Don’t get anyone started on Edward’s stench!”
N. New stares were sent Gwendolyn's way, slightly appraising, slightly surprised. “And is the baby on friendly terms with [the prisoners]?” Hook asked.
E. “Embarrassing, dangerous, or just plain irritating, it’s happened,” he snapped. “What are we going to do about it, sit here and quarrel? What kind of pirates are you?”
I'll pass on the tags to @tragicheirs @enchanted-lightning-aes @livums @vacantgodling @kaylinalexanderbooks and anyone else that sees this!
Your word is START 🧭
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#im so funny#anyways i drew sylah again#putting her next to neve makes her look like a fucking corpse . ignore that#{sanguis in monte}#writeblr#character art
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reblog with a spoiler for your wip with zero context. no context allowed.
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Just a quick note from your friendly neighborhood bookworm/indie author
if you use kindle for the majority of your library, they will be shutting down the function that allows you to download your files and transfer them via USB on the 26th of February. Which doesn't sound like a huge deal, but this also means that if a book is taken off Amazon for any reason—like it being banned—they can scrape it off your kindle as well. So maybe backup your library?
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Happy Black History Month!
What began as a simple reading list of forthcoming Black transfemme novels blossomed into a full critique of White supremacist publishing, Black literary erasure, and the supplementarity of the Black transfemme body as text 🖤
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