it just feels very much like you’re not letting two things coexist? martin can be fat and tim can be fat as well. like. this can happen. you can hc the rest of them as fat too without erasing the one character that has ACTUAL textual coding. the fanon designs feeling enforced i think may just be a you issue unfortunately because i have seen so many martin designs in which all of them he is fat (which is his One canonical trait) but with a multitude of different hair colours, different skin colours, different builds etc etc… but “rarely thinking of something as canon” despite his weight quite literally Being Canon is a bit. Ok! this is the character that is fat and we can add from there. the way the fandom perceives martin is shit but i think if you can’t see beyond that then at this point you’re not even hating on the character anymore you’re hating on the fandom
also if you want to get into non canonical ed’s to continue justifying why you can’t just let go of ur hate for like two seconds and go Yeah ok martin is fat! then perhaps consider martin who was raised with no idea on portion control and terrible issues with hoarding food because of his financial situation growing up. not many people would have enough food in their house to last them 2 weeks without grocery shopping but martin did! i personally see it as as he got older and started working and started buying groceries he bought everything cheap and in bulk (which, something else i want to bring up, people in poor financial situations does not always equal skinny? it’s easier to eat dirt cheap when it’s unhealthy junk) and started making himself too much/realised things were going to expire and had to eat it all then/etc etc.
please don’t assume i have anything against anyone’s personal headcannons really because like that isn’t what i wanna do at all because like why would i gaf. you are more than welcome to headcannon anything you like (and i literally cannot stop you even if i for some reason wanted to) i just have some frustrations with the attitude that SOME people have towards fanworks and feeling entitled to have other people visualise an audio media the same way they do. like when you’ll see ppl post fanart they did and the comments will be focused on complaining abt like the character missing a non-canon trait. if you haven’t felt pressure to cha
lowkey like you made a good point abt the q&a stuff that i didn’t know and that’s mb there because i typically only really know canon that was actually in the podcast, but also like
i mean i can hate on the character and also have some frustrations with how the fandom interacts with the media sometimes but like in discussions about common designs that feels like something that the fandom obviously feels relevant in? if you want posts of me talking about his character then like there are many on my blog you can search for those they’re actually usually the posts im most proud of 😋
lowkey i literally have zero design for martin in my head (i just dont visualise things like that idk) but maybe i only saw martin as fat because i don’t think he deserves that and i want him sad and cold and miserable but my interpretation should not have to influence yours in the slightest. please be free and understand that im as much of a chud loser as the rest of you and my word is not law half of it is just projection onto characters god bless 🙏
(sorry yall didn’t mean to send it like this i just put my phone down like a boomer and posted it too early accidentally lmao. was gonna finish crafting it a bit more but now idk 🔥)