Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.
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Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.
Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

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Mermay 2025 (11-20) by Christophe Young
the problem with fantasyposting on here is the amount of people who try to "um actually" you on the basis that your post doesn't comply with the rules/mechanics/worldbuilding of dungeons and dragons
"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"
"you sure? new parameters for Those People just dropped. check again."
And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.
Would you want scammers to know the state of your loved one's dementia?
I posted this like a week ago thinking âwhat a terrible world that would be! We should fight to prevent it!â
Yesterday I discovered someone from work was scammed right after they found out their symptoms were from a brain tumor and they needed emergency brain surgery. Itâs already here! We already live in this dystopia!
Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.
They were us.
Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.
Like
Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not
A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it
This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.
As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.
There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.
Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.
We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.
One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, "This was my world." It was a profoundly moving experience.
Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They'd worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.
One time, in a French history class, my teacher randomly at the end of the class had all of us draw a sketch of a horse. And we were all like ??? Okay???
At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.
He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.
And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"
Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.
In Spain, there's a cave full of ancient, ice age era drawings of bison and reindeer and other animals of that period... And one small section of chaotic scribbles just a little away from everything else. These scribblesv were so incomprehensible, they were originally just called the 'Panel of Enigmatic Signs'... Until it occurred to someone that drawings only three feet off the ground probably weren't made by adults.
Scientists are now pretty sure the scribbles were made by kids ages 3-6, more or less on their own. The adult cave artists were probably doing what any modern parent might do when they want to keep small children out of their hair for awhile: they gave the kids some drawing tools of their own and a small section of wall to work on, out of the way but still close enough to keep an eye on them, and let them have at it.
What's most charming about the whole thing is the way the cave scribbles look exactly like what you'd find on the wall of a preschool today. Artistic styles vary widely across different times and cultures, but child development is as near to a universal human experience as it gets.
Wisher made detailed 3D scans of the drawings, which helped her understand the uneven pressure applied to the charcoal and the direction the lines were drawn. The team then compared the panelâs composition with age-appropriate artistic efforts by modern children. Kids across cultures go through the same developmental stages, which influence their physical ability to draw, until about the age of 6, Amir notes.
The team compared the ancient art with the developmental stages exhibited by modern children: the furiously scribbled circles and push-pull lines typical of 3-year-olds just learning to control their bodies, for example, or the wobbly, right-angled figures of slightly older kids beginning to master fine motor skills.
Both are apparent in the cave, superimposed on each other as though two or more kids were drawing at once. Thatâs a clue the Las Monedas marks were likely made by âsiblings or a mixed-age play group within the sphere of safety around adults, but also within their own space,â says co-author Felix Riede, an Aarhus archaeologist.
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Adults at Las Monedas would have been aware of what the kids were doing and presumably had lit fires or torches; without ample firelight the cave is pitch black.

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KICK THE CAN!
Letâs play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.
To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.
the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now
And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!
What is your opinion on Misandry? I have been told frequently that it doesn't exist, but I think it is the foundation on which a lot of TERFs hate us. The concept of a rape organ, or that trans women are men invading women's spaces seem rooted in this idea that men are evil. I value your take
the logic of the patriarchy is that men are strong and capable, while women are weak and helpless damsels, justifying men's control over them. but because women are cast as ineffectual, a class of women the patriarchy wants to violently suppress must be rhetorically masculinized, or else they could pose no convincing violent threat worthy of said violent suppression
if terfs thought men were evil, they wouldn't collaborate so happily with the very structures of patriarchy that oppress them just so they could stick it to a marginalized group. the masculinizing rhetoric doesn't serve on its own to paint us as evil--only strong enough to be capable of enacting evil. it's the transfemininity that actually provides the "evil" part of the equation
to build on this further, terfs never seem to take any issue with men having close proximity with and/or power over cis women
I don't see terfs protesting male doctors treating cis women, I don't see terfs protesting the catholic church, which frequently gives men close access to and power over cisgender women, and I don't see terfs protesting the unit of the family itself, in which fathers have extremely high levels of access to and power over their children, including cisgender girls
no, terfs have no issue with men having close proximity to and power over women. they have an issue with trans women
surely any day now terfs will start protesting male gynecologists
if terf rhetoric were ever actually meaningfully "misandrist" there would be a massive male counter-movement working against it. but there isn't, because terf rhetoric doesn't bind men, it empowers them
it serves the interests of the patriarchy very comfortably, reifying the myths of male superiority and the fragility of women while pinning all of women's oppression not on men, but on an extraordinarily marginalized class of women. it's a great way to obscure the reality of the patriarchy while upholding the logic that it's built on
reifying the fragility of women makes the patriarchy appear natural. it tees the patriarchy up to go:
"of course women aren't holding positions of actual power. it's not because men oppress women, it's because women are too weak to do the important work. therefore, women need men to do all the heavy lifting for them, so the best thing they can do for themselves is become appealing and valuable to men. systemic oppression? what are you talking about? it's just biology"
I literally plainly asked a terf once that if she doesn't want trans women in women's prisons, why is she okay with male guards in said prisons. She said she doesn't care because they 'belong' there.
Honestly it boils down to reparenting yourself & rewiring your own neuronal pathways & telling yourself a firm âstopâ when you notice your mind slipping down negative loopholes & being present in the moment & enjoying being mid task rather than waiting for it to end & not thinking of inertia as your baseline and natural way of living
So tempting to keep embarking on the same self destructive cycle over & over & over again . But at some point you have to put ur foot down w ur own behaviors & be the thing that truly saves u
making a mad dash for the peaches of immortality i dont need em im already fated to destroy the world in like ten thousand years and im doubly immortal already but the goddesses would be so pissed
Sun Wukong, if you donât stop being a little shit for five minutes, weâre gonna have a mountain sit on you!

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Bitch we're ALL the problematic transsexual you were warned about via call out posts and news articles. Do not betray your siblings in the struggle, we are all next.
"But what if they did x, y, and/or z! They need to be held accountable!"
I means it's honestly unlikely they did x, y, and/or z. Most call out posts are just bullshit lies or so taken out of context that they're just as fraudulent as a bullshit lie.
However, if they did? A callout post is useless. It's utterly pointless.
A callout post does nothing but:
Isolate the supposed perpetrator, making it impossible for them to stay in a community that would otherwise be able to go "Hey bro/sis/sib, that was fucked, let's talk about it and fix it".
Puts a spotlight on the possible victim that prevents them from recovery or healing.
Creates drama that creates damage for all parties.
And that's if their was any truth in the post.
A callout post that's just a bunch of garbage though? That:
Isolates the victim of the slander, leaving them volunrable to attacks and harassment
Feeds into transphobia both generalized and specific to the victim of slander
Creates infighting, gatekeeping, and policement of the community
Often forces people who had nothing to do with the initial drama to take part in a now ever delevoping drama, which creates more callout posts, more slander, more harrasment, and more attacks on community members. Most often effecting the most marginalized members of out community.
Forces people to view content that is often triggering and demands that they make a moral statement about it, while trying to process or cope with the content.
Creates room for Terfs, tehms, radfems, and transphobes of all brands, to stick their ugly heads in and go "see, I was right about the trans cult, do you see what monsters they are".
There is never a valid reason for a callout post. There is no callout post that has ever successfully "held someone accountable for their actions" and there is no callout post that has not done damage to our community.
It is impossible to talk about Patricia as a musician without mentioning how horrible the internet has been to her, as it should be.
âOh well, you know, sheâs put out a ton of albums and they all sound pretty different which is really notable considering she has been actively harassed by kiwifarms for eight years straight and most people who have heard of her tend to side with kiwifarmsâ
her music is so good! AND she made a really good video essay arguing against copyright and modeling how artists can make money without it! and when you bring it up to other left-wing artists, if they make a face and go "oh, erm, that might not be the best source to show people, she's kind of... ...Problematic" then you know they're the type to cut ties to anyone who gets whisper-campaigned or HAL'd and you shouldn't rely on them for anything that requires trust anyway.

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One day, western leftists will need to come to terms with the fact that Arab and Islamic colonization very much did and still does exist and that the negative impacts are still felt by ethnic groups that have been and still are violently colonized and brutalized by that colonial power.
Itâs actually really narcissistic to think that only white European or American countries can do wrong or violently colonize peoples and places. It simultaneously erases the suffering of indigenous peoples who suffered extremely at the hands of non-white colonial powers and infantilizes non-white people by believing they somehow arenât able to do bad things.
You should be able to recognize that some groups can be oppressed minorities in America and still be majority oppressors in other places.
Historically, Islamic colonizers have been just as insanely violent and destructive towards native cultures and people as Christian ones.
People just donât want to admit that the Islamic Golden Age, like the Dutch Golden Age, doesnât justify the widespread slavery and brutal war campaigns that occurred under multiple caliphates and sultanates such as the Delhi Sultanate, the Umayyad Caliphate, Timur, the Ottoman Empire (specifically the late stage Ottomans) and the Mughal Empire.
Did the Mughals, Ottomans, Umayyads, Timur etc patronize great artists, poets, scientists and create great architecture? Did they occasionally rule over long stages of peace and prosperity? Absolutely, but you can use this argument for the Briâish, the French, the Dutch etc and it still wouldnât erase their atrocities.
My supervisor is from Algeria, and has told us a bit about her experience coming from a Berber culture. I know âBerberâ isnât always considered an appropriate term, but sheâs only described herself, people, culture, and language as âBerberâ, so Iâm just using the terminology sheâs used for herself (and our Algerian clients also say they speak âBerberâ). I believe the specific language she speaks is Kabyle, in addition to French and Arabic. She told us a bit about the anti-Berber discrimination she faced in Algeria, and how a security officer at the airport realized she was Berber after seeing her name on her passport, and began mocking her. She wanted to argue back, but was 8 months pregnant and afraid of being thrown in jail. She and her husband were on their way to America, and her husband told her to swallow her pride and think of the baby, because they were almost out of there.
Anyway, how many Westerners even know that there were already indigenous groups in North Africa before Arabs arrived? Not many!
there's a general widespread american-centric issue with people thinking that social and racial dynamics within their own country in the 21st century somehow reflects the power dynamics of the rest of the world throughout history
The issue is widespread because the Internet is still centered on the USA (former superpower gonna ego). Further, not only is anti-intellectualism rampant, leading to generations of incurious people, but also that incuriosity is fostered and nurtured by ad-pleasing echo chamber behavior.
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as âproblematicâ in class and our professor was like, âThatâs cool, but âproblematicâ doesnât really mean anything. It means that the thing youâre describing has a problem, and in and of itself thatâs not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else itâs not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like youâre trying to say that this is bad, but you donât want to say âbad.â Is that right?â
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the âbadâ thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, âIâm uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.â
Once we stopped calling things âproblematicâ and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, âthatâs racistâ or âthatâs misogynisticâ or âew capitalism grossâ out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, âUhhh... Iâm not sure whatâs so bad?â and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I canât help but think of this professor being like, âGood starting point, now letâs get specific.â I think when we have to commit to saying âthatâs ___â it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever weâre claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes itâs art, and it should be full of problems, because thatâs what art is.
#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)