Just a den for my likes

What I've seen less - and what I want to remind people of - is this: if you've become fat, that's also natural and beautiful and fine.

When you're a fat person who has been thin in the past, that comes with its own brand of shaming. People take your history of thinness as proof that you don't have to be fat. You often fear the look of disappointed surprise in the eyes of someone you haven't met since you were thin. People try to determine "what happened". They don't see your fat body as just you, but as a sort of symptom that isn't part of you.

See what I’m wearing? Chest plate of The Burning Scourge. Shin guards of All To Frost. Shoulders are Decorated Phoenix and NOTHING else, you know why? Cuz the damn cowardly knave in the Decorated Phoenix armor set CLAIMED the whole fit was a women’s 6. You know what’s NOT a women’s 6? A damn chest plate I could swim in. A foe could Iron Maiden me through the arm holes with an arrow 100 feet off. Had to pawn the fucking thing for change. A Phoenix Set.

And some of us are stupider. Petrichor looted The Harness of Hermes off some dead sod and the damn things were 2 sizes too small for his feet. I said “Petrichor your mother named you for wet mud, don’t prove you have the mental faculties to match” not that he listened. Bled his heels off every second mission wearing those. “Why should I care of the ills of man’s feet when I can walk as Hermes on the clouds?” Because it burns 0.1 mana per full wing’ed stride and Pet never had more than half a decent man’s mana. He walked more than he ever “strode the air.” Died of gangrene 6 months later. You guessed it! Foot infection. I wouldn’t be so mad but Pet was our only archer and we lost 2 good soldiers to ranged attacks a month later.