people got way more excited about this than i expected! but i’ll focus in on one lady in particular
Ruth Smith was born into a family of fat lady circus performers, with her mother Ada Smith being known as the Human Blimp.
Ruth was already fat as a kid, but also got a job at a candy factory, which definitely didn’t help. (or maybe it did who’s to say) Eventually, she followed in her Moms footsteps and joined the circus first as Ima Waddler, then Lady Beautiful, before settling on Baby Ruth
She worked with Barnum and Bailey earning $300 a day (over $6k in 2026!) and that’s where she met her husband Joe Pontico, a balloon salesman.
She only weighed 4-500 pounds but advertisers kept adding to it, which made her want to give the truth to her audience and she worked to gain 772-815 (sources vary) at her highest.
However, she wanted to be the first woman to weigh 1,000 pounds and seemingly her whole life was dedicated to this (seems VERY FAMILIAR)
“Smith) installed large three-way mirrors in her home and dressing room so she would be able to admire her body from all angles…She seemed to completely enjoy the process of gaining weight, from the eating of the foods to the appearance of new fat on her body”
Other fun feedist fic things about Baby Ruth
They had to widen to doors to her sleeping quarters on the train because she couldn’t fit
She had an operation to remove loose skin, but it had to be postponed when the bed broke and her pulse shot up (i mean that speaks for itself imo)
When she went to visit her sister, she fell through the floor and needed to be rescued by crane
She did pass pretty young due to (seemingly) a mistake in anesthesia administration to remove a fatty tumor.
Idk if she was a feedist or not but it’s cool to learn about fat people throughout history. She seemed full of joy and loved her job and body and had a family who loved her too. I hope in whatever life comes after this, she got to her goal weight and then some.
of course i had to include some of her measurements because im a FREAK
Sources
Baby Ruth was one of the most famous sideshow performers during the 1930s. The Fat Lady weighed 815 pounds & her goal was to get to 1,000 lb
Fattest human being ever known to medical science was the late Mrs. Ruth G. Pontico of Tampa, Fla., who was 5 ft. 5¶ in. tall and weighed 77
Three eggs, eight strips of bacon, four slices of toast, orange juice every morning- but that wasn't enough for Ruth Smith to tip the scale
everyone talks about feedees eating but I think feedee sleepiness is so underappreciated, their plump perfect body is working so hard overtime to turn that big heavy meal into extra fat that they need to take a nap about it. so cute and sexy. also they might get super cuddly and want belly rubs <3 <3 <3
How do you usually like a feeder-feedee dynamic to develop — slow and intentional or more spontaneous?
Well I'm not one to cover a sudden fast food bill out of nowhere, but I do like paying for a treat here and there to start.
Moving forward I'm fan of encouraging the use of things like cake shakes and covering the ingredient cost.
It can be gradual but it allows for some spontaneous acts here and there.
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I think the problem with that is that people use the social contract to essentially enforce mob rule or just general suppression of "undesirables" within a general society. The social contract is highly limited to whatever framework you currently live in and needs to be heavily examined. For instance during the French Revolution the concept of "the general will" was used as an equivalent and questioning it was often used for a reason to remove heads. We also have to avoid the idea of coerced participation within social contracts like overpressuring assimilation. It's one thing I like about the punk culture. While it seems outwardly unwelcoming you can tell that everyone there wants to be there and abide by community norms.
best trope is the one where the character’s godlike power is also killing them btw. they don’t even lift a hand to kill the monster but now they’re delirious with fever. they save a friend’s life and said friend immediately finds them emergency medical care. they raze the enemy to nothing and it takes far too long to find their pulse with all the bruising. their friends just constantly having to patch them up and worrying over which feat will be their last. et cetera
So firstly I think getting your panties is a twist over characters not having the same eye/hair color is stupid as hell (let’s not even get into how that’s used as an excuse to be racist to poc being cast as white characters 🥴🥴🥴) but also Annabeth was blonde as a reversal of the “dumb blonde” archetype because Rick is a misogynist who thinks he can only write (good, strong, virtuous) women as being contrary and rejecting femininity and only using stereotypes when it pleases him and otherwise 180-ing them rather than deconstructing them and therefore reinforcing them. in this essay,
I actually don't agree with this interpretation. There is an argument to be made that the gods in PJO aren't actually sentient, or at the very least highly reflective of human society and governed heavily by compulsion. Thus the gods behave in a stereotypical way because they are humanity's stereotypes given form. Their children can be tempted to fall into those stereotypes, effectively growing up to be like their parents, or embodying a stereotype. It seems to be yet another reference to development can be stunted by absent parents or parental abuse.
I would also argue that Annabeth does deconstruct the dumb blonde joke. She is a blonde from the American south with two learning disabilities. She could very easily fall into that trope. Instead she genuinely shows herself to be very capable, while still dealing with issues from her disabilities.
In a similar way, Leo is Latino and likely has had to deal with the associated prejudices that come with it due to his learning disabilities. He also grew up for a good chunk of his life without his mother, and while she did a very good job raising him, he hasn't exactly had many strong parental figures around. As a result you can see that he is a bit disrespectful to women, but it is likely because he no one told him to do anything otherwise. He's genuinely compassionate and can empathize with them, but he does on occasion say and do things that aren't socially acceptable.
Wrapping things up with the Aphrodite kids, I kind of think they are a pg analogy to children who grow up with hypersexual parents or parents in the entertainment/modeling industry. You see Aphrodite kids who get a strong aversion to it things like conventional beauty or romance, as well as ones that overcompensate with it. Piper grew up in a celebrity household and goes to great lengths to look kinda grungy as a form of rebellion. She hates makeup because she associates it with unwanted attention. At the same time she has hyper-romantic leanings. Just like many children in an analogous situation, she is growing up to hate aspects of her neglectful household, but embrace aspects as a comfort mechanism. She is another case of abuse, just like the others.
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