A stormy night

Slimes - It/its Art blog of sorts - SlimeMop #189869 ☕

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@fancyfliers-fr

That is one gorgeous color + gene + apparel combination! A little different from the idea I had in mind, at least in regards to the first two - I see you went for flaxen cherub + ivory stripes (+ ? tertiary?) with Nature eyes, while I, well...

Banana varnish (scars) + flaxen stripes (torn wings) + obsidian thylacine (meant as a progression of darkening hair, as illustrated here:)

And shadow eyes (I blame Stampede for this)

@re-alku

Your tags were cute, so I doodled them

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Hehehehe

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Which pose?

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Voting ended onJun 1

Having trouble settling on a pose for this adopt so... popular vote time

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Well, we got a winner now - congrats to the left pose!

Now to work on it

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Oop, pride icon time for me and @astorichan

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Which pose?

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Having trouble settling on a pose for this adopt so... popular vote time

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Joining the festivities with some quick sketches

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Matchy icons for me and @astorichan <3

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That post gave me thoughts on the - hopefully present - nuance on my own characters as I work more in them. Of my roster, I can say there're fat characters who are so simply because (Honeytank, Lint), as a choice (Fen, Rileth), as the symptom of mental/physical health issues (Grace, Strellion and even Ratty* at one point), as a recovery from said issues (Crow*) or even a combination of these (Grubby, Talvi).

The closest to the two extremes presented there that I can think of though, are just two:

Grace, who might be considered the closest to the "friend-shaped cupcake who gives incredible hugs" due to their mild-mannered, polite and even at times friendly and happy-looking self. However, Grace was raised in a rather fanatical community of Pearlcatchers that view fatness as "a corruption from the True Form granted generously by Her Light" and this is something especially enforced to them by their mother - causing Grace then to eventually try going into periods of not eating a thing, which invariably ended interrupted by episodes of binging when the stress of it all got to them badly enough. Frankly though, this isn't the biggest of problems this dragon has; that title is taken by their involvement in the series of messes that led to the disappearance of their sister, several months prior to their own breakdown and running away from their community.

On the "weight as a metaphor for greed and corruption" there's Talvikki (ironic, as they're a protagonist rather than an antagonist, with the true antagonists being generally thin people), who did try to embrace this view of themself out of loathing of their situation, of their powerlessness against it along with a tangle of contradictory feelings and beliefs deep within them. They come from a community of people who see magic and weight as moral metrics, so the fatter and more magically inclined an individual is, the higher is the chance this someone will be perceived as "power lusting", "greedy" or even "evil". Even as they were thin while young, Talvi began seeing their own slowly emerging magic as a cursed and evil thing best not used at all, and so they grew managing to pass as a person with no magic who escaped this judgment even as they put on some weight later. Then, they're contacted by someone who not only knows about their magic, but also seeks to strengthen it and, well, things go downhill for them since then. Cue Talvi as a currently draw them - someone in their mid-30s with a role in the war overseas that makes them terrifying and powerful, a gut and alcohol problems to prove their "greed" and a deadly magic to prove their "evil". Yet nonetheless, all they want is to protect their family and their friends/employers.

(* Crow and Ratty are technically au versions of my friend's story in writing, so my ownership here is only relative)

[feluka]

i hate the way fat antagonists have their weight moralized and used as a metaphor for greed and corruption and i hate the way it's overcorrected into fat people being "soft squishy friend-shaped cupcakes who look like they give incredible hugs" and i long for the day we have nuanced, interesting, and complicated fat characters and most of all i long for the day people are normal about fatness

[mapleejay]

does anyone else think about how brave all their friends are and get really emotional about it

[mapleejay]

I'm glad everyone is alive rn

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I like these critters

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Assuming your Blorbo got periods (even if they were biologically male, think of it as a hypothetical scenario), how would they react to their first time being on period?

Double down and curl in on themself on the floor, groaning in agony

Complain, but otherwise still function

Resort to lying in bed and doing nothing to wait out the cramps

Take the cramps / discomfort in silence, and continue going on about their day

Voting ended onMay 21

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Do you think you love your Blorbo MORE than the majority of the fandom does?

Yes, I think that

No, I do NOT think that

Voting ended onMay 20

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And I mean it

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[goldensunset]

well when all else fails at least there’s daydreaming about your oc getting tortured and abused and experimented on and assaulted and dehumanized and torn apart and surgically modified and