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An aspect I had heard but was never properly prepared for about becoming an adult was how bodies change. Not during puberty, but through other time, especially in shape and weight.
I was always tiny and stick-thin growing up. I'd gotten a lot of praise (and nastiness and grossness) for this my whole life.
Now I'm an adult woman who's not as tiny and thin as I used to be, and I still don't know how to handle it. I've gained weight and I look healthier, probably.
But I'm left with this..... feeling I can't quite describe. I'm not the tiny and thin girl I was.
It feels so weird being a heavier person than I was ever used to being. I went from being a size 4 to a size 14 in 4 years.
It feels weird.
I don't know if I'd call myself fat, or large, or plus-sized. (I don't see any of those as bad things, and hey're not markers of beauty or worth)
But I know I wouldn't call small, thin, or slim words to describe me, either.
And it's .. weird, feeling so awkward and unlike what you were more or less taught to be, unlike what everyone said you are or were, in your own body.
And it's weird trying to adjust to changes like that in a world that can be so hostile and unkind to bodies.
Being one way your entire life and then being another in what feels like no time is hard to adjust to.
(I want to stress I see nothing wrong with people being skinny or fat or larger or smaller. I just really needed to talk about adjusting to a changing body that feels so jarring to be in sometimes.)
i have a few resources i look to consistently but i'm gonna plug anatomy for sculptors as One Of The Most Useful. great if you're a 3D artist, INVALUABLE if you're a 2D artist. gives you turnarounds of specific limbs/fiddly body parts like ears. great especially if you're referencing a photo and start looking at an individual part like 'wait, what the hell is going on in there'
No More No more bombs, No more tanks, No more armies Arrayed in ranks. No more air raids, No more mines, No dead bodies, In long sad lines. No more ruined cities, No fatherless child, No frail widow, Weeping wild. When I have power, There'll be no war, But peace on Earth For evermore - - Just peace on Earth For evermore.
John Kitching
Well it being black history month is reminding me how I wanted to doodle something like this down for a while. Since it’s been a lil detail I always take notice of in drawings. These are very simple depictions but I hope it’s enough to give the general idea! Feel free to reblog
detective inspector hillinghead experiencing homophobic microaggressions, 1890, colorized
Hello! I adore your Bodies fanart. I was imagining Karl in 1890 and how much havoc he would wreak. Also Henry and Karl would get along very well, I think, and Karl would be a *terrible* matchmaker for Henry and Alfred... I'd love to see your take on any of this, if anything comes to you 😍
HELLO OMG THANK YOU FOR THE EXCUSE TO JUST DROP HOT TAKES INTO THE BODIES NETFLIX TAG <3 all these drawings are very scrappy and i lost the plot and this became more like sharing all my hcs but still :')
now that you have brought it to me i really do think henry and karl would be unstoppable, i think they'd constantly have a fun, back-and-forth banter !!! i also can see karl dropping multiple not-so-subtle hints, and all of the detectives being quite supportive. gently too, considering the period-typical homophobia. i do think sometime along the lovelorn pining looks, he gets tired of seeing them orbit each other without anything happening, and this exchange occurs:
more doodles and crying under the cut :)
i will die on the "karl weissman bisexuality" hill. HE TOLD ME IN A DREAM!!!! it's just a little messier for him because he really likes women and will not figure it out ever. charlotte hillinghead TO ME also has the exact opposite problem where she is very much in love with her husband and doesn't have any incentive (or freedom considering the time period) to explore her sexuality. the way she accepted hillinghead's feelings for henry, and was less rejecting and more devastated over thinking he didn't love her or polly, just read queer to me somehow. an acceptance because she's like that too, yk? (maybe a bit of a reach but i don't get to choose who my mind designates as being bi)
i like to think that charlotte-karl experience a spider-verse mindmeld "YOU'RE LIKE ME" moment over being bisexual but they're not quite sure why they're feeling that way because they have no idea they're bi. if you are me you will understand perfectly
and i am a henry/alfred/charlotte poly truther as well (please see above discord ranting from my dms with a friend lol)
on more notes of just giving whichever character i want the bisexuality card, hasan is bi to me too. i think hillinghead and her bond a little over that shared religious guilt, of having their respective institutions be homophobic, and the feeling for so much of their life that they're different, so there must be something wrong. it helps her empathise with him and they quickly become closer because of it :) possibly also introducing him to queer lit, and maybe some non fiction lgbt history books
and one last final doodle because i think alfred as the only detective with an active love life where he's pursuing someone would make the others pretend like they can be adults but they want to know SO BAD and they also give advice once in a while because they're rooting for alfred :) they're all pretty good at hiding how badly they're invested in this (think iris 'casually' asking hillinghead how it's going and the other two perk up in the background) like i refuse to believe any of them are totally immune to the equivalent of office-gossip
this was so so long LOL i hope any of that is coherent !!!!! a lot of it ofc is my own projection bc i am bi, but it's real to me <3
I have stretch marks.
Reblog if you do too. Just to prove that it is more normal than what people actually think.
hey these are some tips for some of the little details in drawing fat folks that some people might not know!
everyone has fat on their bodies so its a worthwhile skill to have, but most art tutorials leave it out. heres some other good tips from artists!!
following my meme post the other day, and talking to friends further on the subject of fat characters in art, especially in fandom, i figured some people might like a tutorial on how to draw them.
this is something I don’t see talked about often when it comes to drawing different body types. sure, weight distribution is a big one, but torso-to-leg ratio affects body types just as much!
For example, I have a longer torso, so high waisted pants rarely reach my belly button and pant legs are always wayyy too long. I’ve stood next to people that were shorter than me, but their crotch was a good 4 inches higher, just because their ratio was way different than mine.
something to keep in mind when designing characters!
