Game On —
Greetings, fierce, freethinking fatties and welcome to Fierce, Freethinking Fatties.
Consider this preseason.
Spectators welcome.
I think that before we begin this creative venture, we should get to know one another, both in terms of style and substance. We can’t truly come together as a cohesive unit with knowing which color Voltron cat-mobile we each are.
Clearly, I’m the green one.
Now, tomorrow is Wednesday, which was the deadline for submitting your badge crap.
I mean, come on… look at those rockin’ badges over there?
And you know what the added benefit is? Stiletto Siren gets top billing (for the time being… I have an idea I’ll put on Ning for the badge order… you know, if it becomes a prime piece of real estate) and it goes in order of submission.
So, you Jenny-come-latelys better get your act together before I assign a badge to you. And your badge will most likely feature Dave Hasselhoff in some fashion or theme.
And I mean it.
Now, here’s the deal.
You can contribute at the frequency you’re comfortable with. I’d say no less frequently than monthly. If for some reason you need to take a break… cool, let me know and you’ll be welcome back in the fold once you’re ready.
So, you’re probably asking yourself, “Self? What the hell am I doing here? This Atchka! guy seems awfully unstable and I heard rumors that this community blog is the beginning of some kind of outer space suicide cult. How else do you explain the 200 acres of Arkansas wilderness he purchased with his GoDaddy gift cards?”
(THANK YOU NO CELERY PLEASE, ERYLIN AND DUFMANNO!!! You ladies are the badger’s handcuffs!)
Well, here’s what you’re doing here (at least until the Great Zeppo returns to devour His devoted children… which is us, by the way), at least according to the court order:
- You’re here to be entertained.
- You’re here to entertain.
- You’re bored.
Pick a group and go with it.
The important part is becoming part of this community. Glance through the themes or Elizabeth’s questions (I’ll post the Word file on Ning).
The way I envision FFFs (dufmanno ftw) is a sort of central hub for our big tent brand of Fat Acceptance. It’s the mothership, as it were.
Orbiting the mothership are your individual blogs, which are on their own unique mission to be you… the person behind/beneath/under/within the fat.
You have your personal blog where you’ve got your rhythm down. You know what inspires you, what brings you joy to think about, explore intellectually. In short, you know why you love blogging.
That part of you is just as important to Fat Acceptance as the part that can refute any anti-fat talking point with relative ease. Fat Acceptance is about freeing ourselves from a preoccupation with weight and being who we choose to be.
For some people that means turning around and trying to help other fat people achieve peace of mind, like a bodhisattva. Others get on with their lives, happier in their own skin and not only do they, but their family and friends reap the rewards of self-acceptance.
But no matter what method of Fat Acceptance you are living, you should not be excluded from the conversation. A woman who is fat positive, but agrees with popular medical opinions on obesity, is just as welcome to the Fat Acceptance table as a woman who accepts the science, yet still feels uncomfortable in her own skin.
Fat Acceptance is about more than just converting people to our way of thinking, our way of interpreting the evidence. It’s about working together to put an end to the dehumanization and the denigration, the disrespect and the dismissals.
To me, Fat Acceptance is about making this country safe for my two little girls to be fat or thin without feeling inferior. It’s about teaching my son to find true love by not buying into the Industry Standards for Beauty℗. It’s about standing up to all those assholes of the past who took it upon themselves to make my wife feel like shit. It’s about learning the honest, simple truth about taking care of my body and maintaining my health, so I’ll be here to take care of them and the grandchildren.
So, my plan is to inject my strain of Fat Acceptance into the Fierce, Freethinking Fatties. I’ll still post FA-related things on Atchka!, but I’ll want to save special entries for this blog. Entries that capture the essence of what I want Fat Acceptance to be.
And that’s what I want from you. I want you to inject your strain of Fat Acceptance (from your cryovac Hazmat Suit) into Triple F, and let’s see what sort of killer mutant virus we can unleash from this little petri dish of ours.
Which is why I want each of y our initial posts (except dufmanno, who already submitted a post, and so earns a gold star) to share what the hell Fat Acceptance means to you. What are you here for? What motivates you to read/write/discuss/argue/participate/draw explicit pictures of barnyard animals in funny hats?
If you have already submitted a badge, then you have been added as a contributor and can create a post. If you have no submitted a badge, then you are a naughty, naughty monkey and have been excluded. Email me at atchka@hotmail.com and I will add you, but only if you promise to submit the requested info SOON!
Let the preseason begin!
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I guess I qualify as half good half evil as I’ve done the post but not my badge. I *think* I sent you a pic for my badge, but I’m getting ready to join the outer space cult if it will spirit me away from four feet of white fluffy imprisonment. Seriously, I haven’t seen a plow yet.
Okay, I’m going to get out of my snow fort and send the personal pic and the descriptive words, today.
My plan has worked! I have smoked out dufmanno from her icy fortress! Next I will badger her until she sends me a shipment of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies!
Peace,
Shannon
I’m totes the red voltron cat-mobile. Red is my power colour; wore a red shirt for the 22 hours of labour for my son, wore a red dress to my grad from university, wore red my first day of classes at teacher’s college. Noone wants to mess with the woman in red.
Loving the blog, loving the feel of it; small request? Can you please change the font on my badge to Georgia? As for a first post, I shall submit this weekend as I am currently buried in course work and essays.
Georgia is my favorite too!!!
And you’re totally the red cat-mobile. Done and done.
Peace,
Shannon
Since I never watched Voltron, I am gonna have to just take a stab in the dark and say “I’m the orange one!”
Um… if there was an orange one.
I can’t wait to post my “why I am here” - Are they going to linked from the “about” page so peeps who come to the site new many months from now can jump back and see who we are?
NCP,
I was actually going to link on the bio pages, so when people want to find out who you are, they’ll be able to read your mini-manifesto on Fat Acceptance. I just deleted the About page right before I saw your comment.
Peace,
Shannon
Oh, and there were only five Voltron cat-mobiles, so we’ll have to include colors not in the original show by necessity.
That being said: what sort of deprived, loveless childhood did you have where you didn’t get to watch Voltron? Loser!
Peace,
Shannon
Well… I DID watch Captain Planet… that’s one of those “powers combining” things… so at least the CONCEPT is familiar
Captain Planet was so lame! That’s like preferring “Heathcliff” to “Garfield.” Come on, man!
Peace,
Shannon
Don’t be dissin’ the Cap, now!
lol
I think Voltron was more my son’s era than mine (I grew up in the 50s/60s), but purple is my color, if you’re going to give me a cat-mobile (which is kewl with me, DH and I have 2 cats). I’ll be posting my why-I’m-here one of these days, probably sooner than later.
Your son can probably catch you up to speed, but basically there were five humans who drove five robot cats that would join together and form one massive Voltron robot, whose combined power could vanquish all evil.
Purple cat you are.
And I look forward to your post.
Peace,
Shannon
Shit voltron that’s one of my favorite shows.
I’m an alpha male, and thus the black one. Or maybe the blue one, because I like hot women.
Actually it doesn’t matter, because all of Voltron is cool.
Dude, I feel terrible for saying this because you’re so enthusiastic, but you can’t be a Voltron with us. Only the contributing bloggers are Voltron. And besides, you hate everything we stand for, so you’re closer to being like Voltron’s arch-nemesis, Emperor Zeppo (which, oddly enough, I just made a reference to the Great Zeppo regarding the cult… then, I go and look up Voltron villains and, lo and behold, their main enemy is Emperor Zeppo… so, some synchronicity might be in your favor).
I hate to exclude anyone, even somebody as anti-fat as you, but it wouldn’t make any sense.
Peace,
Shannon
Well… Voltron probably wouldn’t have been as much fun without Zeppo around, no?
Oh, absolutely. What’s the point of forming a symbiotic robot army without an evil-doer to vanquish?
It’s just a bunch of losers in spandex driving animal-themed clown cars.
Peace,
Shannon
My sons and I watched Voltron in honor of this post last night (Netflix streaming yay!)and totally loved it. We also did stint with 80′s Astro Boy and the Thundercats for good measure.
I finally sent you the stuff for my badge, personal pic and descriptive words even though I am STILL stuck in this freakin icy fortress. I have not seen a plow yet and I’m getting ready to toss the kids into the snowy hedge maze again so I can chase them with an axe. (that’s THe Shining, please don’t send me hate mail)
Thundercats HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
What a great show. And Voltron was just awesome. Glad you loved it. That was definitely my decade for cartoons. There was also a show called Mask that I remember really liking. And although I did watch He-Man, I loved She-Ra because you had to find that cat-thing that was hidden in each episode. I don’t think I ever found it on my own, but man, did I try.
And thank you for complying. I have called off the bounty hunters.
Peace,
Shannon
Hey Shannon - I wanted to put a FFF badge on my blog sidebar, but I couldn’t crop out the background behind “fatties” in the header.
Any chance of getting a set of Blog badges we could make available for folks to use?
maybe 200×200 and 300 x 150, etc. etc?
Great idea, NCP. I’ll get working on that today. I’ll go with the 300 x 150, as I don’t want it to be too wide for most people. Thanks for the suggestion!
Peace,
Shannon
Okay, I’ve created a badge and posted it on Ning. Thanks for the idea NCP!
Peace,
Shannon
A little late to the conversation, but I loved Voltron but I was definitely a She-Ra girl all the way… that was a cartoon that was not to be missed!
I never did find that damned creature. I’d just stare and stare and stare at the background for him, but nothing. I’m a moron.
Peace,
Shannon