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davestriderspajamas:

> whinesaboutrp:

> > Oh my FUCKING god, are we seriously having a body type headcanons argument in this goddamned tag?

> > I don’t save reaction gifs but I sure wish I had one to depict banging my head against the fucking wall.

> > pro tip! If you say “I don’t care if you headcanon [character] as chubby” and then proceed to try and prove that the character couldn’t be chubby, you actually do care. You care a lot. And you care in a pretty goddamn ridiculous way. If you really didn’t care, you wouldn’t find it necessary to prove you’re right about the characters being thin.

> nah. I just wanted to share my head canon,and why i have that head canon, as well as why it makes sense in my head. See, i need a reason for the head canon. I can’t just…decide something, without there being back up evidence without it.

> I could care less if you have a ‘X character is chubby’ head canon. Just give a possible reason besides screaming ‘genetics’ or ‘maybe its natural’. Give multiple reasons, or just…dont get into an argument about it. Because its a weak argument.

WHY? Why do hey need to prove it? What if they just like the idea of Dave having babyfat chub or Jake being roly-poly or Jade being outright fat? Why do their headcanons have to align with YOUR definition of what a headcanon should be?

If you just wanted to share your headcanon, you wouldn’t then go on to try and argue that chubby Dave headcanons didn’t make any sense because oh well he has a sword, but John has trouble lifting a sledgehammer. John is 13 and a fake sword is a hell of a lot lighter than a sledgehammer. But why does it matter? Why does anyone NEED multiple reasons?

For that matter, why aren’t “genetics” and “natural build” acceptable reasons to you?

This isn’t a debate club. And for that matter, you don’t get to demand that everyone else prove themselves worthy of your gracious tolerance.

Why don’t YOU give multiple reasons for Dave being skinny? Not physical fitness, oh no, because if we’re going strictly by false, popular culture beliefs about how exercise works, then Dave shouldn’t be skinny, he should be a fucking bodybuilder. “Skinny” and “muscled” are not anywhere even approaching the same thing. A skinny person can have muscle, yes … but so can a fat person.

The human body is a hell of a lot more complicated than “you work out you stay skinny, you eat a lot you get fat” and reducing it down to that is not only factually incorrect, but fatphobic! Do you know how many people there are who are fat by society’s standards that just have heavy builds despite working out regularly? Do you know how much shit they get from people who think it’s as easy as eating less and jogging a little (or, in this case, playfighting with a fake sword against a puppet)?

Do you know anything about physical fitness?

If you “just wanted to share your headcanon” then you could have just said “I personally imagine Dave as skinny.” End of. But you didn’t want to “just share” anything. You wanted to prove you were right and demand that the people whose views didn’t align with yours prove they had a right to think how they do.

Andrew god damned Hussie has said that you can picture the characters however you like. Whatever race, whatever height, whatever build. Which means that other people have every right to picture the characters how they want, and they don’t have to justify that to anyone, least of all someone who thinks that chubby people can’t be physically fit.

So get off your fucking high horse and just realize the world – and the human body! – is a hell of a lot more complicated than you know about.

(And for your information, this argument goes a lot further than just you.)