FatMaho - queer gainer

As an artist with a focus on fat and trans bodies, my understanding of the human form comes from seeing variety.

I admire bodies that don't fit into the ideal form, because they are all the more common and all the more ignored.

You can find a million drawings featuring fat bodies that are drawn with the sole purpose of being appealing due to following the ideal form. Whether it be because our eyes have gotten the idea, through repetitive influence, that that form is *ideal*. Or for audiences to lust after.

Finding art depicting variety in body types, in fat distribution and structure, is very.. very hard. Sometimes, if you want to see more of something, YOU ought to be the thing you want to see more of.

If you truly want to be a body positive artist, learning to draw a generally appealing fat body is less than half the battle. Thin bodies have variety in fat distribution and in structure. Fat bodies just accentuate these forms.

Practice the ways fat falls around the body, see how it feels when you let yourself play around with the human form. Have FUN with it.

Not a single one, eh? Are we gonna attempt to back that up with anything of substance whatsoever or are we just echoing eugenics into a fat person’s inbox and calling it a win? Sit down, bucko.

You know what else isn’t “healthy” or “normal” to be? Disabled. Yet disabled people have always existed. Imagine that!

Wild to think that part of being human means having a variety of differences in the formation and function of our bodies, and that our health status does not determine our right to exist in those bodies.

The eldest of these artifacts dates to over 30,000 years ago. A timespan longer than you or any mortal person can truly comprehend. We’ve been here since the beginning of humanity and we are still here. Fat people, specifically fat Black women, have roamed the earth long before colonization twisted perception of reality into hierarchy and poisoned the minds of generations to view certain human beings as disposable. Fat people have always existed and always will, no matter how much you fantasize about a past and future rid of us.

I think this idea speaks more volumes on our current day and age and not being able to fathom a world where food was super abundant because of what has been done to our ecosystem in modern times. It’s easier for people to believe that no one was ever fat before our current understanding of what “the dawn of civilization” was than a world where food was free and all over.

A fundamental core aspect of our humanity is that we like when things are easy, and will do what we can to surround ourselves with that which makes life easier. So why can’t we extrapolate that out further another step to think that groups of people found places of profound abundance and then stayed, leading some people to get fat, and then those people be revered as living symbols of their collective success.

“YES! YOU GUYS WE DID IT! CHERYL’S GETTING HUGE. WE’RE TRULY BLESSED”

I love compression tees 🐷

- get turned into a pig girl by a witch

- receive a cursed object that makes me rapidly gain weight

- get possessed by a hungry ghost

- eat a mysterious pastry that suddenly appeared in my kitchen with a label that says “do not eat,” and suffer the fattening consequences

- get locked in a haunted mansion filled with fattening traps and ironic punishments

- become a fat obsessed mad scientist’s test subject

It's taboo for any kinks to exist, or make zines about them, or have a kinky zine fair, but other kinks just do it anyway. That's the point of zines: to publish shit no one else would publish or bring into this world except you. Sure, maybe it would be nice to know nobody would give a shit, but if feedism was perfectly acceptable then what would you need zines for?

can you believe?!?!? 🐷✨ I blew up over the years🤭