#caffeinatedowlbear

[shinakazami1]

Secret Santa for @caffeinatedowlbear - fanart of Meet Me Hallfway which was a secret santa gift in the past! This scene was my fav and I recommend the read!

Some close ups also - Rhys face and Jack's that was a reference whueheueue

And thanks once again to lovely @ryzselo for making this event possible! Lovely artist, great painter!

[reasonsforhope]

The Vox article on progress comes across as very thorough... right up to the point where it does a drive-by on fat people by citing ob*sity as an example of a problem (while there remains no proven causality between larger body size and negative health outcomes; much of the latter can be attributed to weight cycling (yo-yo dieting) and the daily stress of experiencing weight discrimination).

Then they circle the block and come back to cite weight-loss drugs (!!!) as a 'solution' (I'm not even going to start debunking that one, as I would become an unskippable cutscene). The startling lack of research into this subject can't help but undermine my trust in the rigor in the rest of the article. :(

I'm absolutely not suggesting that because of one blind spot, the rest of the research is bunk. But it does poison the intended emotional impact of the piece with a reminder that even in the world of progress, people of certain sizes are unwelcome and seen as a problem to be solved. :(

Wherever you stand on the issue, I would respectfully request that links to that Vox article come with a content warning for fatphobic language and discussion of weight loss. Thank you.

Fair enough, I did super wince at and hate that part of the article (that's where I stand on the issue). Warning added. (Okay for a warning for "fatphobia" to cover both parts?)

Re: the rest of the research, I have fact-checked a lot of those things mentioned and read a lot of the links myself, so I can vouch for much of the rest of it.

(Also added a warning/heads-up for Western-centrism in the article, because that was in fact bugging me so much.)

[4rchiel]

(not pictured: Jack laughing his ass off)

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Started reading Lost & Found by @caffeinatedowlbear on ao3 (which is insanely good and I cannot recommend it enough😤💕) and cackled so hard at this part I had to make a doodle of it.

Rhackies go read this fic!!!!!!!

[phenikas]

As per @caffeinatedowlbear and @sky-birds' request - Rhys as a PA + Jack's coffee order. More specifically a very unprofessional (early in the corporate ladder) Rhys who has no idea that the new CEO seems really keen on keeping him around.

Sure, working for Jack has its ups and downs, but Rhys really misses not having to babysit a literal man-child that kills anyone who looks at him wrong. Too bad Rhys has no idea that getting fired by the Handsome Jack is not an option.