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Last year we still had Terranova on our minds. After all, we showcased at BitSummit and released a Japanese demo version—and was featured in
Did you know????
We still make games!!! YES!!!!!
I haven't posted anything here in ages, but I came back to say: hi!!!!!!
I made a new game with mabbees. It's a digital cassette tape with FOUR ORIGINAL SONGS WOW!
It's also FREE!
(We would of course love it if you paid us $3 but if you want it free, you got it free!)
Radio station WJLX can no longer broadcast its AM programming since the incident.
“What do you mean the tower is gone? Are you sure you’re in the right place? I actually used more colorful words than that,” Brett Elmore recounted to NBC News. “He said there’s wires all over the ground and the tower is gone.”
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so this lead me down a fucking hour-long rabbit hole. i watched a video (linked on the radio station's wikipedia page) where some young guys walk through the radio tower property a week after it was allegedly stolen, and it's an overgrown jungle. looks like it's been abandoned for years. the door is hanging open and there is lichen growing on the linoleum floor inside. down in the comments there are locals saying the area is not exactly out in the boonies, either; there are people and businesses on that road. not to mention that a 200 foot radio tower is fucking gigantic. there is no crushed vegetation from dismantling the tower. no sign of any vehicles recently on the property other than the 1 set of tire tracks from the police vehicle which came to check it out when the report was received.
the tower wasn't stolen. it hadn't been there for years before the report was filed. google earth shows the tower up on site in 2022 and gone in 2023 so in all likelihood, it fell down sometime then. ALLEGEDLY, the fcc had been on them for an inspection of their am radio tower, and then a week before the fcc were scheduled to come out and inspect it, the station reported the tower missing. so. that's an hour of my life gone. you're welcome? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Then how… I believe you, but how…
how had they been broadcasting
had they been?
It's easy. They WEREN'T.
Hi, so admittedly I own one of the other radio stations in the same freaking town. And by own I mean it's in my name but I leave the technical stuff to my dad and pretty much absorb my information from being around him and the station all the time.
ANYWAYS!
The guy who runs WJLX isn't actually licensed to run an LPFM he is licensed to run an AM station. The AM station is supposed to be the one he plays his music on and he can run a translator to broadcast onto the FM frequencies as well. BUT! Only if his AM is still the main station. He can't do FM only.
That means two power bills basically. Those can be pretty hefty for a radio station.
And since no one really cares about AM these days he did the worst thing possible. He LET HIS AM STATION GO OFF THE AIR. His AM station has been off the air since as far back 2013. We have video of us testing his frequencies that far back. He's been running full time as an LPFM only for at least a decade now which in his case is illegal AF and is a $10,000 per day fine from the FCC if he's ever caught.
Well, low and behold he was caught and now he's trying to claim he didn't know because his tower was "obviously stolen".
For starters, it was eventually stolen. But only after it had already collapsed to the ground and rusted for several years. Metal scrappers will take nearly anything that looks to have been abandoned long enough.
TLDR; If he'd been running his station properly then he'd have known the exact moment his tower stopped broadcasting. He'd have known the moment it fell. There are these things called silence detectors (at least that's what we call them) and their whole job is to tell us we're not broadcasting anymore.
ya'll who's up for group meowing
the aircraft emergency frequency (known as GUARD in the usa) is SUPPOSED to be used for emergencies. the frequency is 121.5 mhz. it is for all international air distress and emergencies and stuff (theres a different one for military)
however. for some goddamn reason. for at least the past ten years (maybe more) there has been meowing. random pilots going “meowww!” on the emergency frequency. this is often followed by at least 8 different people yelling “GUARRRRD” “YOUR ON GUARD” “STOP FUCKING MEOWING” and at least 3 others meowing also.
i have a radio and often tune into this frequency if i want to hear local airplane pilots/control tower operators act like absolute fools.
here’s some operators using GUARD to try to contact a flight that went missing (they found them) and just the absolute nonsense, the one guy spamming caribbean music, the voice changer, and the meowing and guard police are so fucking funny. GUARD is always doing shit like this. its great. (note that he isnt on the frequency until 1:30, so the other shit is just normal coworker conversations. “who the fuck eats honeydew” is just two coworkers not abusing resources).
usually radio etiquette is a lot more professional for these guys but mistakes do happen. people tend to be pretty quick on the jokes tho. if you ever want to listen to the funniest shit ever a lot of amateur radio operators upload the funniest dialogue they catch on youtube pretty often.
@antifatemptress is this true?
Yes, unfortunately this is true. Pilots are children. And since we're all legally obligated to monitor guard at all times when able, these guys know they always have an audience. Things I've also heard on guard include:
• someone barking, which was nice variety and very much appreciated to see more canine representation in my field
• airline captains making full cabin announcements, not realizing they were transmitting, followed by several other pilots asking questions as if they were in the cabin
• airline captain making about half a cabin announcement before stopping cold, pausing for about 3 seconds, and mumbling "...I am so fucking sorry," then presumably making the announcement again to his actual cabin
• two pilots for different airlines speaking Italian to each other (one of these was actually my captain, the other guy was a friend from his last job)
• pilot doing a radio shockjock voice saying "aaalrighty folks you're listening to one-twenty-one-point-five the GUARRRRRRD, bringing you the lastest in aviation disasters, mishaps, and tragedieesss! Up next, four more hours of nonstop cat soundssssss!"
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it is absolutely incomprehensible to me the way peoples thought processes on here work. its like a mix of extreme gullibility and also paranoid skepticism, combined with the self assurance that their way of life is the only one. and lot of you are willing to accept authority on literally anything without thinking about it. i get messages on here basically asking me to tell them what to think about a particular issue. i like to post history and political information but my first impulse always is to look into things on my own instead of asking people what to think. information literacy and basic research methods should mandatory fucking classes for high school jfc
anyone else remember that post where there were 10+ people in an all-out brawl over martin luther's skin color? someone should write a thesis on that
I would like to add some hope to this and say that multimodal literacy (and by extension multiliteracies), the form of literacy that allows us to make that sort of research, thinking, and insightful analysis, is becoming a mainstream push in education. It's being taught in teacher's education programs (for primary and secondary) now, so things should start to improve there. (your mileage will of course vary with the quality of your department of education)
Educators recognise that the way literacy is taught just isn't enough anymore. The world is complex, information comes from so many types of sources, and people need a way of processing it all. As far as I can tell from reading the literature, the early 00s were spent recognising and understanding the phenomenon, and the 10s and 20s have been spent developing and refining the techniques necessary to build those skills and understanding.
NATIVE CARBON DIOXIDE FOUND ON JUPITER’S MOON EUROPA
The discovery made using NASA's powerful space telescope brings scientists a step closer to determining if the salty water oceans of Europa
HOLY SHIT, IT'S HAPPENING! EVERYBODY STAY CALM!
For those confused, this combined with liquid water being there makes this the strongest evidence of alien life to date.
These are conditions shockingly similar to earth.
For anyone wondering, the reason Europa (as well as Saturn's Enceladus) is warm enough to have oceans is because of the tidal friction from the large gas giant right next to it. (Also why Io is constantly erupting, it's so close to Jupiter it can't stop) Any life on these moons could resemble the life we have in geothermal vents and sunless depths of our own ocean.
Hey, happy Earth Day! Who wants to talk about climate change?
Yeah, okay, fair, I kinda figured the answer to that would be "ugh do we have to?" What if I told you I have good news though? Good news with caveats, but still good news.
What if I told you that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, we've avoided a whole degree celsius of global warming by 2100, or maybe more?
Current projections are 2.7C, which is way better than the 3-5C (with a median of 3.7C) we were expecting in 2015. It's not where we want to be - 1.5C - but it is big, noticeable progress!
And it's not like we either hit 1.5C and avoid all the big scary consequences or fail to hit 1.5C and get all of them - every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid is going to prevent more severe problems like extreme weather, sea level rise, etc.
This means that climate change mitigation efforts are having a noticeable impact! This means a dramatically better, safer future - and if we keep pushing, we could lower the amount of global warming we end up with even further. This is huge progress, and we need to celebrate it, even though the fight isn't over.
It's working. Keep going.
I will talk till I'm blue in the face about how historical women have been excluded from academic spaces but I also think historical women are judged based on their education level.
Why is dancing frivolous but hunting isn't (albeit dangerous) why is it negative to spend hours sewing but not hours riding.
Yeah she didn't read a book but did her brothers? Did her father? Do you see them as naive or stupid for not owning any books? For not writing anything other than business correspondence? Or are they allowed to absorb culture by ear?
Also how many people do you know who haven't read a book since high school because its really quite a lot of people
Hoooo boy I have thoughts
I think the negative or positive values assigned to certain tasks and not to others has to do with how gendering was tied into valuemaking throughout history.
I was actually having a conversation the other day about the negative connotations of sewing in modern and sometimes historical perspectives. Sewing was a task that everybody did, unless you were like a landed noble or monarch or uber-wealthy. You wanted to be able to repair your clothes if they got a small tear, or put your own button back on. If you wanted to be in one of the fabric trades, you needed to know how to sew. A number of other trades required sewing too: bookbinder, sailmaker, glover, hatter, shoemaker, cordwainer, milliner, taxidermist- if you wanted to do any of those you had to sew. Especially in historic periods before the advent of fast fashion and poly-fabrics. Fabric was expensive, and was more expensive and valued than labor. The labor that went into a mantua or suit or jacket cost way less than the fabric itself, and fabric was an investment. People would leave clothing in their wills so their kids could re-use the fabric to essentially upcycle fabric.
So already labor was pretty low in value in many historic settings, it's definitely a more recent thing to think highly of labor (20th century I think). But here's the kicker- all those trades, all that labor, required actual literal years of education. Just not the book kind. Book education (a Classical education, if you will) was associated with the people who could afford to do it because they didn't have to spend their time learning another task by experience. So that doubles down on non-book education being devalued. Let's make it worse! This is where the gendering comes in. Most male dominated industry had guilds, which regulated pricing, ensured steady wages, gave out loans to start shops, and other things like that. Women weren't really allowed to form or manage guilds, since guilds were by men for men. Which meant that female dominated industry, such as millinery, dressmaking, alemaking, and eventually dance or etiquette instructors, didn't have enforceable price regulation or mutual aid benefits. So the labor from any of those trades was valued even less, since they all operated individually and couldn't stop others from driving pricing down or the like. So because of the strong association with women's labor, tasks like sewing were viewed as not valueable. The American mythos of 'the homespun' made this even worse, as it reinforced the idea that sewing was something that was natural to women, and women could just do it without spending seven plus years learning to make clothes and fibrecraft properly.
Dancing, however, is somewhat trickier, since there wasn't really a guild for that; like sewing, dancing was a learnt task that crossed gender boundaries. The weird bit here is the fact that in the 18th and 19th century, though dancing was important and people were taught from childhood how to dance in a very intensive education, dancing and posture were part of a social ideal of 'natural grace'. This idea was present in the Renaissance era too, and it has a specific name that I can't remember right now in Italian. Point is, you were supposed to be great at things and graceful and elegant and what have you without seeming like you were putting any effort into it. Both men and women were taught this, but as we move further into the industrial age, men spent more time learning bookish things that'd be useful in running their factories and companies, while women kept up with the social arts. Eventually this leads to an idea of women naturally just being good at dancing, and also that women liked dancing, more than men, who were rational and therefore above enjoying things that women liked. Honestly they probably only appeared to like dancing because it was one of the few activities they could do to socialize. So that association with women again leads to it having lesser value, once again disregarding the literal years of learning.
So yeah, women are being judged on their education level, because that's considered a "male" metric and therefore a "valueable" one. Any labor, activity, form of education, etc that has a female association has long since carried a stigma of being worth less than a man's. There's a quote out there about professionalization in the early 20th century that says something like "Where there's money involved, there's also men". When men were involved, things were considered more valueable, and thus more money were put to it; when something became valued independantly of male labor (the beer industry, museum administration and conservation), men quickly became involved and the thing lost it's association with women.
Anyway so that's long but TL;DR: Women are judged based on education because any labor or education required for that task that's considered 'womanly' is also considered less valueable.
Most of this rant is off the top of my head, but some potentially useful sources:
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2016/04/18/craftswomen-and-the-guilds/
https://theconversation.com/the-fragility-of-womens-rights-how-female-guilds-wielded-power-long-ago-73265#:~:text=Most%20guilds%20were%20operated%20by,by%20and%20for%20female%20workers.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5068828/
https://fscj.pressbooks.pub/ushistory/chapter/changes-in-labor-organization-and-gender-roles/
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-history-of-womens-work-and-wages-and-how-it-has-created-success-for-us-all/
https://daily.jstor.org/the-silkwomen-of-medieval-london/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26405466
As someone that has grown up surrounded by beaches and done surf life saving, I know how the sea works. Lots of people dont. Every summer multiple tourists die here because they don’t respect the sea, if you’re going to the coast, here’s a thing I saw on Facebook.
reblogging for all of us that grew up in land locked states, then visit the ocean and are used to just plunging into a lake.
These are not unique to the sea btw. Rip tides are also a danger in other large bodies of water, like the Great Lakes
I had heard of rip tides, but I would never have guessed they were the calm-looking part. If I had been looking for a safe space to wade, I would have avoided all of the white parts (turbulent! terrifying!) and gone straight for the rip.
lake michigan has rip tides and strong currents and also the highest kill count of all of them because people think of superior and huron as The Scary Ones. lake michigan has beautiful beaches along very big cities, and eats tourists like popcorn. do not underestimate lakes, but particularly not the great lakes.
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Beating The Heat While Fat: Torso Skin Folds
Being fat in summer is hard for a lot of reasons, and one of them is skin folds. This is because skin folds love to trap moisture, and moisture+heat=bad. And moisture+heat+friction=worse.
When you have skin folds, summer can really suck. I'm not going to touch on any of the mental and emotional issues that come from the way fat bodies are treated- I'm talking about the physical issues that come from heat. Fat people sweat more! Our body fat acts as an insulator, meaning that we have to put out more sweat for evaporative cooling to be effective- and trust me, it's not always that effective.
There are lots of places skin folds develop, but the two I'm going to focus on today are abdominal and chest skin folds, and give you some specific information and recommendations for what you can do about them.
The abdominal skin fold, also known as apron belly, is tissue that hangs down over your abdomen and upper pubic area. The more technical term for this is a pannus. This tends to be a skin fold with a lot of surface area, since it usually goes from hip to hip, the whole length of your front. Pannus can also develop after a pregnancy, or after weight loss (and weight loss surgery). The principle is the same- the area under it needs to be cared for no matter how it develops!
Chest skin folds are probably the most common type of skin fold because most people with breasts has them. But you don't need mammary tissue to develop this skin fold! Anybody, regardless of sex, can develop overlapping skin on their chest. There's many more protective products available for people with breasts, due to the cultural expectation of bra wearing. But for folks with gynecomastia or pseudogynecomastia, there's less information and resources out there.
By the way: gynecomastia is excess breast gland tissue that develops in men/AMAB people. Pseudogynecomastia is when the glands don't develop but the fat deposits do. Externally and visually, they're very similar, but there are some physiological differences that... don't matter for this piece honestly. Whether it's glands or fat, the tissue is still there, and still needs to be taken care of!
Skin Fold Skin Care
Nobody teaches you this stuff, so don't feel bad if you don't know it. When you're fat, nobody ever tells you how to take care of your skin, unless they're shaming you for it. Usually the only people who care about fat people's comfort are other fat people. So let's talk about how to take care of your skin folds in the summer.
The key elements to skin fold care and comfort are keeping the skin dry, but also keeping it hydrated. Sounds a little paradoxical, I know, but when I say "dry" I'm referring to the surface of the skin. You have sweat glands all over your body, and when you sweat on the surface of your skin, it evaporates or it's wicked away by your clothes. But when air can't get to it because it's under a skin fold, the moisture just stays there. And that's not good!
Moisture trapped between skin folds can lead to a few things that aren't a lot of fun. It can promote skin yeast infections and bacterial infections. It can lead to intertrigo, a red bumpy friction rash. Heat rash is more likely in the summer... because, well, it's hot.
One of the best things you can do is introduce a barrier between the sides of the skin fold. This can be barrier cream (my least favorite, it's messy), body powder, friction gel (like the kind of thing you use for chub rub on your thighs- think Gold Bond or Bodyglide sticks, or Monistat anti-chafing gel), or a physical barrier made from soft cloth.
For a pannus, you can get these things called tummy liners that are a crescent-shaped band of cloth. You lift up the pannus, lay the band against your upper pubic area, and let the skin fold hold it in place. Some people will tuck the front of their underwear under the skin fold, but for others this is less comfortable. And this whole thing is about keeping you comfortable, so do what feels right.
If you have breasts, a bra with cups is a great way to help keep them dry. A bra without cups will often squish them together, and while it can still keep the area under your breasts dry, it can promote moisture between the breasts. For some people, this isn't a problem- it all depends on the size and shape of your body. The cups don't have to be wired- they just need to keep your breasts separated so that they're not rubbing against each other.
If you don't want to wear a bra with cups, or if you don't like the feeling of wearing a bra at all, or if you want extra sweat protection, you can get cotton bra liners, just like the tummy liners. They work the same way- lift your breasts or chest tissue and put the liner in the fold beneath. If you have a small skin fold that doesn't come down very far, this might not work so well, but if you have a larger skin fold that's got more than half an inch or so of overlap, this should stay in place just fine.
You can also of course wear bra liners with with bras. The band will hold it the liner in place, adding an extra layer of padding and sweat protection. But if you don't wear a bra, if your breasts or chest tissue is substantial enough, it will stay in place.
Bra liners are flat. If you wear one, unless you're shirtless, nobody will know. They can help keep you dry, even if you don't have developed breast tissue- like think about the skin folds that fat people without breasts get.
Even if you're not getting a shower before bed, it's a good idea to take a gentle wipe and swipe in between the skin folds. It'll help soothe the skin and prevent bacteria or yeast from colonizing the surface. Be sure to wash the folds with a gentle, ph balanced soap or cleanser. And when you get out of the water, whether that's a shower, bath, pool, lake, whatever, take some time to dry your skin folds. Don't rub- pat them dry. Rubbing can irritate them. It's easy to forget, but you'll be glad you did. This kind of hygiene practice makes the skin feel nicer, calmer, and less irritated, and you deserve to be comfortable!
Hydrate or Die-Drate
When you're fat, you need to drink more water than smaller-bodied people. We sweat more and we have more surface area to our skin, which means more sweat glands, which means we lose more water. The best way to do this is simply to drink more. Drinking will help keep you cool and replenish the water lost to sweat anyways, so it's really important to keep that up in the summer, when it's hot!
If you don't like plain water, no worries! All liquid counts! I drink a lot of iced tea- even though it has caffeine and caffeine is a diuretic, the net effect is not dehydrating. And everything with water content counts, including the food you eat. Watermelon is 92% water. Cucumbers are 90% water. Popsicles are almost entirely water with some sugar in there. Get them at the store, or make some ice pops in the freezer with your favorite fruits. Freeze grapes, they're super delicious when frozen, and grapes are like 82% water. Try to think about your daily snacks and meals in terms of water, and see where you can add a little more hydration!
Now, you may want to know, how much is enough? The old 8 glasses a day adage isn't really accurate. The current science suggests 3,000 ml for men and 2,200 ml for women, but where do these numbers come from? The fact that there's a sex difference suggests that this is based on average body size- and it turns out these numbers come from European population studies that did not include a lot of fat people. So I did some more hunting and some reliable, but not peer-reviewed sources, suggest that you should drink about half an ounce of water per your weight in pounds. That's an easy enough metric to understand! And you can always drink a little more. While you may have heard of people becoming sick from water intoxication, that's extremely rare.
So in conclusion: drink lots of water and keep the area underneath your skin folds dry. Allow yourself to prioritize your comfort and don't feel bad about the skin you're in. Eat a popsicle.
Feel free to add on with any additions and other helpful tips, but remember: fatphobic commentary is not welcome here, and mean comments will be removed. Advice to lose weight is not helpful- even if someone is losing weight, they still have to live in the body they have now. And that body deserves to be cared for.
White People on tumblr who dont listen to rap, ignoring all the racial and historical context of why Kendrick is going against drake to just make it a fun trendy meme/ Kendrick being a hater is the same exact reason Kendrick called drake a colonizer
As someone who knows, like, nothing at all about rap, could someone give me a SparkNotes rundown on the racial/historical context of the situation? Because I've tried to find a good summary but mostly all I've found is very light hearted "lol this is hilarious" stuff or dramatised "OOHHHH, THERES BEEF' stuff, which hasn't really helped me work out what's going on
There are no "sparknotes" for years, if not at least decades of racial/historical context for a whole genre of music that leads to this point.
However, if you're truly interested in learning about it, F.D Signifier has a whole indepth video about Drake and where he stands in the Rap/Hip Hop community
Also
This is a good follow-up to that video
Also, for general understanding of how Hip Hop ended up comodified to give even more context and understanding why it's considered that Drake is just a colonizer in the genre, I recommend Lil Bill's 3 parter on how the hood and subsequently rap and hip-hop got comodified
Theres also vids going over every diss exchanged between Drake and Kendrick and all that but those don't go over why people like Drake are a problem.
My solution for bloatware is this: by law you should hire in every programming team someone who is Like, A Guy who has a crappy laptop with 4GB and an integrated graphics card, no scratch that, 2 GB of RAM, and a rural internet connection. And every time someone in your team proposes to add shit like NPCs with visible pores or ray tracing or all the bloatware that Windows, Adobe, etc. are doing now, they have to come back and try your project in the Guy's laptop and answer to him. He is allowed to insult you and humilliate you if it doesn't work in his laptop, and you should by law apologize and optimize it for him. If you try to put any kind of DRM or permanent internet connection, he is legally allowed to shoot you.
With about 5 or 10 years of that, we will fix the world.
Don't forget to give him a 2GB/mo data plan, and the person that's responsible for breaking bandwidth gets their own connection throttled.
Okay, so: the premise of the Final Fantasy VII remake is that the audience's demand for the remake to follow exactly the same plot as the original has manifested as a horde of evil ghosts who intervene in order to keep the story on the expected rails, with a particular emphasis on ensuring that characters in the remake die at the same times and under the same circumstances as their original counterparts. At the end of the remake's first instalment, Cloud and friends fight and defeat the king of the Evil Plot Ghosts, an act which breaks time and creates a multiverse where everybody's fanfic is real. Sephiroth subsequently merges with all the fanfic versions of himself and becomes some sort of fucked up metanarrative god. Later, Cloud simultaneously succeeds and fails in preventing Aerith's death, which partially dislocates him from the prime narrative reality, and he begins perceiving an adjacent fixit-fic universe where Zack never died. The Aerith of that universe then teams up with Cloud to fight Hyperdimensional Meta Bullshit Sephiroth, a battle that ends inconclusively when Sephiroth flees, stranding Zack-lives-universe Aerith in the prime narrative reality, though only Cloud can see her. The game closes with the revelation that, unbeknownst to everyone else, Sephiroth slipped the Black Materia into Cloud's pocket during their fight, setting in motion the events of the unpublished third instalment. Have I got all that straight?
#i don't understand why they did this #it would have been so much easier to just actually remake ff7 #if they wanted to do a weird meta sequel they shouldn't have marketed it as a remake (via @saltdust-crusader)
To the extent that Remake/Rebirth is trying to say anything at all, being misleadingly presented as a straight remake seems to be central to what it's doing. I think it's genuinely trying to frame an argument that first-party remakes are fundamentally the same species of adaptation as fanfic – which isn't exactly a novel argument if you're even passingly acquainted with contemporary media studies, but seeing it in this particular context is pretty fucking bizarre.
okay hey real question: what are good ways to describe fat characters?
I see a lot of 'have more fat characters' and I'm Here For It but as someone who is skinny and in a world where most existing literature makes characters fat only as a joke or an indication of some variety of moral badness, I'm not really sure how to describe them in a way that's not objectifying or insulting. like, I've grown up on poetic descriptions of thin characters ('long slim fingers' and 'willow figure' etc etc) but I haven't read flattering descriptions of fat characters and I don't know where to start. I've seen a lot of 'how to describe poc' or 'how to describe disabled characters' or whatever and I've seen art ref posts for drawing fat characters, but no posts about how to write them well. so. open call for advice or for examples you've found and like??
I remember at least two posts about this subject. Alas, I was only able to find one.
Howdy! Fat short white woman here. I've got some hopefully helpful thoughts on this which I will share a little later (I've got a few things to do first sadly).
In the meantime, OP (or anyone else) if you have specific questions about what it feels like for me to be in a fat body or what I personally do and don't worry / think about... I'm more than happy to answer.
In the meantime - I know you said you've seen ref posts for drawing fat characters...but here's one I like (in case you haven't come across it) that is nicely wordy: https://www.tumblr.com/bacchicly/677854396964634625?source=share
Ok here's an actual one about writing fat characters that I've skimmed and that has some good advice!
[Social media resources updated 9/20/18 – Article resource update in progress] Are you a skinny writer? Do you want to write an awesome fat
Ok as promised I've written my own post - idk if it will be helpful to anyone - but here's the link:
https://www.tumblr.com/bacchicly/740728531300073472/a-few-imperfect-thoughts-about-writing-fat?source=share
Happy writing!
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