I don’t normally respond to passive aggressive asks from anons like this, but I’m gonna go ahead and address this now, since I knew I’d get it from someone in the tumblr SU community.
Rose is not pregnant in the picture. She is depicted as thick as her painting above the door in the show and in non pregnant scenes. She is still CLEARLY a plus sized woman. Since part of her stomach is covered by her arm in the poase I took care in showing that her arms, belly rolls and legs show her thickness. As a plus sized woman myself I believe that I have depicted her accurate to the character, while still in my style.
I understand fat erasure is a problem in the art community, and it’s great to finally have a beautiful, graceful character depicted as plus sized. But it’s disappointing to see the comments on LITERALLY EVERY rose picture about someone disappointed in her depicted size. This community is going to turn off every artist from even wanting to TRY to draw artwork of this wonderful fat woman, for fear that they ‘disappoint’ someone, and that is a god damn shame.
I’m sorry you’re disappointed, but in this case I stand by my depiction of the character. This will be my only response on this matter.
On a similar note: If anyone sees my artwork as disappointing or offensive to your sensibilities, I encourage you to utilize tumblrs new block feature. It will prevent you from seeing any further artwork from me in common fandom tags.
Why does nobody ever talk about how weird Maryland is?
Nobody ever talks about Maryland, period. It’s like they forget it’s a state. There’s no real stereotypes about people from Maryland, because it’s right in the middle of the east coast, EXCEPT everyone from Maryland is obsessed with crabs and Old Bay seasoning. You may think I’m exaggerating, but my friend’s brother used to actually drink Old Bay straight. The only time I ever saw my boyfriend look at me with anything other than pure love and respect was when I said that I thought crabs served in the shell were overrated. McDonalds in Maryland serves Filet-o-Fish WITH OLD BAY SEASONING. Once I saw a production of The Little Mermaid in Maryland, and the actor playing the chef sang “now some Old Bay!” instead of “now some flour,” and the audience burst into rapturous applause in the middle of the song. Old Bay is as essential to Marylanders as flour.
The official state sport of Maryland is jousting. No joke.
And once, I went to a McDonalds’ down the road from Camp David while George W. Bush was staying there, and there were free-range chickens who lived in the parking lot. It made me uncomfortable.
Edgar Allan Poe, John Waters, Frank Zappa, and F. Scott Fitzgerald are all from Maryland. Oh, and John Wilkes Booth. Something weird is in the water there. My money’s on Old Bay.
Truefacts, I interviewed for a job in Maryland and on the drive back to the airport after my interview, the driver spent a solid forty minutes talking about Old Bay.
