Writing Plus-Sized Characters: new article at Adventurotica.com
New article up at Adventurotica! Free to read (as is everything on the site but the members-only story content).
Writing the plus-sized character.
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a fat girl, and knows that I am committed to the principles of size acceptance. It's very important to me. So, in my stories, I try to make an effort to include ( Read more... )
Writing the plus-sized character.
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a fat girl, and knows that I am committed to the principles of size acceptance. It's very important to me. So, in my stories, I try to make an effort to include ( Read more... )
Spot on.
And you know, in some types of stories that aren't erotica or romance it doesn't bother me all that much. Sometimes it works for the story and the character, and is done well. But there's a specific way we are asked to identify with a main character in a sex/romance story that just becomes oppressive and skeevy when played at that angle. Please, I spend so much of my time hurting over how I look, I don't want to have that rubbed in my face in a book that's ostensibly about escape, and I sure as fuck don't want it rubbed in my face with the thing I want and can never have and almost fucking killed myself trying to get being used as the "undesirable" thing! She's too thin? How much worse should I feel, being too FAT? She thinks she's too thin but she's secretly actually delicately beautiful/ethereal/waifish and appealing and the narrative makes sure we know that? Well, god forbid a book imply that it's actually okay to be FAT.
It's not even any one instance, it's the weight of them all together that does it, the nearly invariable sameness of all of it, that drives me bonkers.
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