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Fashion Nova Curve’s IG page deletes comments by plus size women.

For a company that refers to themselves as a “Global Plus Size Brand” they post a lot of “models” who’ve had surgery to be selectively curvy.

That’s fine, but that’s not plus-size.

Any plus size woman who comments asking for actual plus size models on the plus size page gets their comments deleted.

Big girls, I know it’s hard out here for us, but don’t give your money to a company that doesn’t care about you. They want you to have a flat stomach, a sharp chin, and padded hips.

@themoodyfoodiee

I get a lot of my basics from places like Target. 

Every now and then I venture in to a Torrid or a Maurices, but only for sales because they’re out of their minds with prices, and I think they do that because they have a corner on the plus size market in physical stores. Also, I’ve had better luck shopping on Forever 21 Plus’ website than I ever had in the actual store. 

My statement pieces, my showstoppers, all come from ASOS Curve. I always feel like the BADDEST bitch in these clothes and they’re often super comfy with a lot of give. They ship from England and weirdly enough get here in 2 days. They’ve got an awesome return policy but I’ve never had to return anything.

For bikinis, I shop Swimsuits For All. Particularly Gabi Fresh’s line (though I don’t see it on the website anymore. They sell out fast!). They actually base swimsuits off of bra size, so I know my boobs will be held on to wether I’m jumping off the diving board or going up against waves.

Speaking of @gabifresh, I want to start buying from her Premme line, as well as the lingerie from Playful Promises. The Premme prices are a little higher than I can handle right now, but it’s just starting up and that’s how these things go.

And we must never forget… the one who was pushing for the big girls all along. Rainbow. The shop that Fashion Nova is essentially copying.

Basically, what I’m saying is, don’t give your money to stores that see you as a second thought or a small section in the back of the store.

Let’s talk about this photo I just came across going through ASOS Curve’s Outlet (which is amazing btw)

This is a model of color with visible stretch marks and I am HERE FOR IT!

ASOS wins all of my love and affection because they are very focused on showing you what their products look like on all sorts of bodies and not just the airbrushed ideal. And almost every product has a little “runway” video, so you can see how it moves.

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Dwarf: everyone’s hairy, but has no ass.

Hi everybody.

@vgstims sent me this crying statue gif this morning and it hit me hard. I suddenly realized that I was in grief, dealing with the death of Tumblr as I knew it for over 4 years.

I never realized just how powerful an online community can be and to see it die is very tough to experience.

I just thought I’d share this with my followers, which believe it or not, is a little short of 50,000 on Tumblr, at 49,516.

The goal of my blog, as a fighter, was to bring the fight gym to Tumblr, to make it as real as possible for my followers, to have them experience virtually what a fight gym would feel like and what Manliness means.

I hope that I did that for all of of you!

As I said previously, I’ll continue to post until Tumblr takes me down, fight to the end!

Always seek Manliness!