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Originally Posted by alpaca witch

I'd consider myself a progressive thinker and advocate for what some would call "social justice" but really most of it just comes down to you know... common decency and just NOT being an asshat? With that said, I really can't see how this show would be guilty of fat shaming. If anything, it has more sympathetic and realistic overweight characters than most other shows could claim. Like what exactly do you want? All fat characters to be portrayed as perfect, untouchable white knights who do know wrong? That's just as silly and unrealistic as the alternative. I wouldn't even say Timothy's fat really, just chubby. He's pretty active even if he's out of shape, although now he's quite literally out of shape as a writhing mass of organs but still.

The only time I can remember being a bit disappointed in the show was with the whole "April derp" thing for various reasons. First of all putting annoying and outdated memes in cartoons is stupid as hell. It may have been funny at the time you wrote the script but by the time it gets animated and aired it's most certainly out of date. Memes have a shelf life of like, a couple weeks at most before they become overdone and irritating.
The other problem I had with it was due to the fact that the word "derp" is intended to make fun of special needs people. I know most don't see it that way, and the writers probably just saw it as a funny internet word, but bottom line that's where it comes from. I'm all for poking fun at anybody but it's really not funny when the person you're making fun of can't understand you or has no control over the thing you're making fun of. Like wow, congrats, you picked on a special needs child good job! What next, you're going to brag about how you beat a paraplegic in an uphill race, or how you can beat up your 5 year old sister? It's just the lowest common denominator and just not really funny in the slightest. I'm sure I'll get some sort of flack for this post but honestly, if you feel upset or something then you're probably part of the problem and need to look into why it is you're upset in the first place.