Cmffa:
I love writing. Been writing a lot of fanfiction and now SSBHM feeder centric stories. My writing has improved considerably with the practice. I love to draw and used to be pretty good, but lack of practice for 5 years has really taken a toll on what I can produce.

Otherwise, I play video games and adore horror! I have a horror and sci-fi podcast that I typically do every Tuesday, though had to skip this past one because of things going on in my life and my co-host’s.

I’m in the planning stages of a Lovecraftian based horror screenplay. I have a fanfic that can easily be changed to having original characters and I may release that as a short horror story or submit to a contest.

I also have an original story I’ve been fleshing out for decades and am finally satisfied with the story and want to create a story bible then a pilot script. The pipe dream is to have it be an adult animated series. My Big Bad in it is a powerful SSBHM. 😝 But no one has to know about how that’s tied to my kink 👀

An artist I adore loved the story and characters so much that she drew me art for it. I can always post the character design of the fat villain as well as his Lovecraftian body horror form

BigBellyBurgerBoy1:
What are some examples of stories with a character gaining weight that don't come off as fatphobic? In the writing world (and in every other world, for that matter), it's very rare when a story portrays someone gaining weight and it isn't a joke or a punishment, like being heavier is the worst thing somebody can be.

I'm writing a story where a witch character (well, witch adjacent), casts a spell on a mean girl to gain weight, eating things she would never eat before, in larger and larger quantities, until she gains more and more weight as a result. Now, by that premise alone, you could tell that fatphobia is baked into it from the start, but I believe there's a way to do it without it being so, but I'm just not sure how to do it.

For more context, the witch character herself is fat, a college student who gets bullied by the aforementioned mean girl (yes it happens in college too, not just high school), who stumbles upon witchcraft one day while doing research for a term paper, and (half) jokingly casts a spell on the mean girl to fatten her up. Oh, and the mean girl is the other " protagonist" of the story, so it's from both perspectives. They both learn some harsh lessons throughout the story, but come out of it wiser than before. At least, that's the idea.

What do you think? Can weight gain without fatphobia be done in a story, and done well? Can it work in a story like this? Let me know your thoughts, I'd love to hear some feedback on it.