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starlit-mansion · 5 months

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corollary to the post i reblogged about actual porn having a million more examples of body diversity than hollywood, this is why i don't read smutty fanfic anymore. outside of queerness, it just replicates the diversity problems of mainstream media 98.5% of the time. don't get me wrong... i understand the subculture and all the stuff that goes into the hobby, and i know that there are people out there who put effort into it, but it's not really worth it to me

#i'm not at all mad about the years i spent discovering stuff in fanfic but there's a few huge blindspots in that respect #that are also just generally why i refuse to tie my identity into fandoms anymore anyway #why should i reconstitute the extruded results of corporate censorship and subconscious buy-in to beauty standards #and try to shape it into something meaningful when there's fresh clay and beautifully fired handmade pots elsewhere #by this i include indie stuff. there's no reason why so many actual play characters are thin in official art except anti-fat bias #no one was making them do that. it just never occurred to them that they could create fat characters that aren't stereotypes #and like... why spend time headcanoning and 'fixing' it in fanart just to have randoms tell you that the character isn't actually fat #(and also most of the time if there is energy for a character being fanon fat. it's because they 'eat a lot' in canon.)#(and if they're fanon chubby then they're a little bit older or bookish. but of course they aren't FAT then. just Dad Bod tm)

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