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You're right. More people can definitely relate to hunting demons or being a werewolf.

Yeah, but those are fun to watch. I don't want to watch a show that makes me feel bad about my body and makes me feel like I need to loose weight.

You seem to have a problem that cannot be solved by television shows.

I watch tv for enjoyment. Not to make me unhappy. I can do that on my own. And I don't need tv to tell me to loose weight. I'm pretty fucking aware of it.

We're not asking for TV to solve our problems, Chard. We're explaining why we won't watch a specific show.

I love you.

I agree with this. I look for escapism in TV shows, not shitty things that might actually exist in my real life.

Yeah, but I'd rather watch a show about a fat person who hunts demons or is a werewolf than a show about a fat person who goes to fat camp.

Me too. More well-written female characters, more fat characters, more POC characters, etc. I'm all over that. But I am mostly into genre TV or very, very well-written drama—it has to have a plot that I'm into watching in the first place. Otherwise, I might as well watch a documentary.

That would be an awesome show.

Suspension of disbelief crushed. The people who'd hunt superhuman creatures would presumably have to be in shape themselves. Not to mention the athletic demands of the roll.

Unless you wanna get some techy hunter in the mix, but even then, rules of drama demand high physical activity. Running to save somebody, etc.

Though it we watched a character actually get in shape as the show progressed, that'd be all kidsa awesome.

If rolls had athletic demands, nobody would get fat in the first place.

Jerk I can roll very well.

There's a very wide range of body types that you can wind up having and still be in excellent shape. I recommend watching some roller derby in case you require evidence of this.

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Sammo Hung as a demon hunter.

"Big" guy who's probably in better shape than anybody here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammo_Hung

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Why not a Nero Wolfe-style monster hunter, ie they're brilliant at the research and analysis and have others do the legwork?

How would it require any more suspension of disbelief than tiny waifish girls who can knock a dude/robot assassin/monster across a good-sized room with one kick? You can get away with a hell of a lot if you can manage to make it cool enough.

OK, but there's also suspension of disbelief involved in a tiny tiny girl having super strength the way Buffy does. Superpowers can't break the laws of physics. She just doesn't have enough body mass to do a lot of the things we see on screen. If realism was really involved, then girls in demon fighter shows would be built more like female athletes than the tiny, super-skinny builds they seem to have.

(I'm not slagging on tiny girls in fantasy shows. It's just that we let this lack of realism go when it dovetails with TV beauty standards).

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This is a thing I have with Homestuck fandom. As a fat person I don't think it's offensive to not draw any of the Alternian trolls as fat, because I don't think the Alternian lifestyle of constantly running for their lives and hunting their own food would allow them to get all that fat (with the possible exception of Gamzee who appears to live on pie and soda). The Beforans and the humans, however, yeah, it's nice to see some of them drawn more well-padded.

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You've...never been in a physical altercation with a fat person, have you?

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Exactly ;)

THIS!

You know what I always wanted to write/read/watch? A story about a fat vampire. A vampire who was fat, but was also a vampire who, er, sucked fat (there has to be a better way to phrase that) the way bog-standard vampires suck blood. Other vampires think there's something wrong/creepy/gross about this poor fatsucker, who can't pass on their new form of vampirism and make more fatpires. This poor shmuck doesn't suffer from standard-vampire weaknesses, although they sweat a lot, but at least they're never broke and don't have to worry about starvation any time soon--unlike blood, there's an awful lot of people who'll pay them to take fat away, and their rates are extremely reasonable.

Re: fat monster hunters

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THIIIIS! I think the whole fat camp thing just underlines that "Look LOOK! This character is fat and that's everything there is to her/him so we shall make this about fat camp!"
Why can't we just have a fat person, asexual, homosexual, etc hunt demons and being baddasses without the show just making some big drama about how they are "abnormal".

Also, I pretty much NEVER watch TV-shows which are about modern day drama, no matter what the cast is. I don't give a shit whether they are attractive or not. Those just aren't my cup of tea, they mostly just depress me.

lol +1