Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@chaosonwheels23 it really is SO appealing in that way!! i am glad that the communities i've come in contact with, that rebellion and punk heart is still beating strong. that unapologetic nature of it is so wonderful to me! (ok i may still be starry-eyed because i've been reeeeeeeal careful about where i'm dipping my toes into but lmao still counts)

so rufflebutt stupid dress is not only saying "i am going to be here, and Real, and Big, and Take Up Space", but also, "i am not going to hide myself for your convenience. i am going to wear lace, and a tailored bodice, and pretty things. i will not hide in the black muumuu of shame because of that expectation."

"i will be who i am and not what you expect me to be."

and really - a woman making that statement - ain't that feminism as hell tho

and fashion is i think inherently transgressive and rebellious in some ways for any fat woman. if you look at the majority of options out there, ok, if you're 'small' for plus size, or 'fat cute', you can get some cute things. past about size 22 US though, and you have a wasteland.

and that wasteland is full of clothing meant to disguise the fact you are a person. better to be a walking tent. in black. always black. god forbid you have a COLOR in your life.

yknow what makes it clear as day that you ARE big? that you ARE going to take up space, and assert your needs, in just the sheer and basic way of taking up physical space and existing in the world?

putting on a motherfucking big-ass rufflybutt petticoat, and a dress that is going to stand out in just about any space you will ever go

the thing about being a woman is that misogyny expects you and demands that you shrink into the background - that you are small and fold yourself up to be more convenient for others to walk around. you don't demand things, you don't assert your needs, you don't take up space.

plus size women i think get a special extra emphasis on that pressure. you are Bad because you are Big. Proper Women are Not Big. Not Big Like You.

so i'm up too late icing down my shoulder watching trashy youtube videos and someone is tackling the question "is #lolitafashion feminist" (and the answer is yes thankfully) but it does cause one to ponder the subject

obviously i'm not coming from the same point of view as a japanese woman - different culture pressures - but to me it's very much yes, and very much linked to my exerting myself as, well, not just a woman, but a woman who is fat

@fluxom_alt it could be worse

you could have both the nightmares and also a craving for broccoli salad now

@fluxom_alt but it is essential to the true core of white culture:

putting completely unrelated foods together, mushing them together with mayonnaise, and calling it a salad

@fluxom_alt i have one suggestion for something you forgot:

mayonnaise.

dear santa all i want for christmas is a confirmed rotator cuff issue that requires surgery

time to hope for the ultimate #spoonie christmas present tomorrow

...........a diagnosis where they can actually do something to fix it

@tr4shc4t guess what i'm dragging you into this so we can be confused grandparents together

GUESS WHAT EVERYBODY I DRAGGED MY BEST FRIEND HERE SAY HI TO @tr4shc4t !!!!!

@ my muscles: how much magnesium spray do i need to hose you down with to get you to Stop

on that note, if you ever need to choose which roman writer to fight, one hundred percent fight catullus. he deserves it. you will be filled with righteous fury as you break his nose. it will be glorious

idk how i got such strong feelings about it but i do have extremely strong feelings about catullus and how he is, in fact, a fuccboi.

ovid meanwhile pitches fits in fandom until he's lauded as a Big Name Fan, and probably has had some Cassandra Clare moments. meanwhile virgil is the equivalent of like... if SCP was started and 3/4 written by just one person, and that one person was pleasantly surprised by everyone going apeshit for it and making fangames etc. but also was all 'nice meeting you i need to get back to writing now'

incidentally on the topic of 'classic writers in social media', catullus would 1000000% be a fuckboi on youtube, possibly twitch. "wow that's harsh," you might be saying, "he's one of the latin poetry greats, it didn't seem too bad" - 1. his most well known piece of poetry is literally just a sappho poem but made cishet 2. Go Google Catullus 16. I'll Wait.