I like my fatfic to be good writing first. I'll sacrifice nitty gritty detail for it and even tolerate drifting away from the actual fat stuff. Unless it's a super-short vignette that means some semblance of a plot, stylish prose or at least a distinct POV, and a little depth to the characters. I don't mind long stories, as long as they're not going in circles or too self-indulgent. I like original descriptions and not relying too much on numbers to describe size. I prefer extreme but believable WG, even if the setting is fantasy or there are supernatural. I only like OCs, I won't read fanfic about celebrities or video game, anime, etc characters even if the writing is good. I can't explain this. I won't say who I hate because that list is way too long but my faves include (DA names, as I remember them): marlow0 stc9892 ophion8118 maverickthewriter TMaximar onion88 BobotheHoboWrites ProphetofAdephagia Dania201 SpartacusDA MrTones Mashuky halrion Westmetal ShrubberyLogistic ExtraBaggageClaim geepheadmedia Springbokkx BratwurstGuy charisawriter saintx74 fatty-writes Denbu Sonic-Purity n-o-p-e2525 elroycohen crudeatoms MadelineMaple squeezymcsquashins WilsonB (first WG/fatfic writer I ever encountered, back in the 80s so a sentimental fave)

>>11353 >I like original descriptions and not relying too much on numbers to describe size. I think the best approach is to rely mainly on description, but to throw a number every once in a while to ground expectations.

>>11360 Or when it makes sense, like she's being measured for clothes or at the doctor's office being weighed. Otherwise "Jenny was 5'3" and weighed 350 pounds" lands with a dull thud. Good writers allow for the reader's imaginations to fill in the gaps.

I'm very much a "Big numbers go up" enthusiast. I want detailed descriptions of what the body looks like, but it frustrates the hell out of me when authors never mention a character's weight. You can describe a character's "heaving, swollen breasts, hugely distended belly, and innumerable jiggling side rolls," but that could describe someone who's 500 pounds or 5,000 pounds. Hard numbers give me the direct imagery of growth, so when I see those, especially with an associated timeframe, it gives me a much more vivid image of the actual progression of the gain. I'm not just looking for stories about fat people, I'm looking for stories about fat people actively and constantly getting fatter. An associated pet peeve of mine is when a writer does give hard numbers and descriptions but drastically misjudges the ratio between them. I was RPing with someone once and we got to the point where we were talking about weighing multiple tons each and she said "My belly almost hits my knees!" and the conceptual dissonance irrevocably killed my boner for that RP.

>>11369 Why not both? Writing could have a qualitative description, plus the narrator or POV character guesstimating a weight. Also as annoying as something like "beach-ball belly" phrasing might be, I think it's a good instinct to compare body parts to something commonplace. I'm a particular sucker for breasts being described as "head-sized" or larger, or hips being judged to be wider than a doorway. But personally I think numbers can easily be distracting if there's not a reason for a character to be discussing them or to be guessing. Different strokes, hurr Agreed on your second point though. Come the fuck on, people, MyBodyGallery exists (for the smaller sizes anyways), and it's not hard to find guess-timates for ultra-size+ body types as well.

TL;DR: vast amount of people are posting LLM-written stories and not labelling them as such. e.g. this story is obviously written probably wholly by an LLM not labelled as such. https://www.deviantart.com/aquanrodeo/art/Lena-s-Descent-WG-SSBBW-Fit-to-Fat-Slob-1215940431 (earned me a block) Earlier on, this is too obviously LLM written. https://www.deviantart.com/eguy127/art/Stephanies-Appetite-Part-1-1134867273 I don't mind people using LLMs or genAI, it's great fun, but I mind the lying. And it's not like anyone would give a fuck, I think, whether they jerk off to porn produced wholly or only partly by a squishy brain. That is, it seems obvious to me because every time I'm using Deepseek for some ERP what I get is fairly similar in quality and there are subtle tells in the structure.

>>11370 This isn't unique to writers as well, I've noticed that artists have a tough time assigning realistic weights to sizes. It's pretty immersion breaking when you see a character clearly resembling a popular 600 pound SSBBW and the artist labels it as 400 pounds. I can forgive artists/writers for not having a good idea on how a blob-sized person would weigh, but from a math perspective, as a fat person gets larger, the change in their appearance is gonna get smaller as their weight increases (weight is proportional to volume, so as weight increases, square-cube law applies)

>>11369 >>11370 >>11372 >An associated pet peeve of mine is when a writer does give hard numbers and descriptions but drastically misjudges the ratio between them. I think that's part of my aversion to numbers, as a writer and a reader. People are really bad at guesstimating and it puts me right out of the story when the stats don't match the action. I may be way off too but if the numbers are in my imagination they can never be wrong and my disbelief stays suspended. BTW this is especially the case in mainstream fiction, especially anything written before 2000 or so. For instance I was checking out the Nero Wolfe series, where MC Wolfe is presented as notably, shockingly fat. He's a shut-in and people do double takes when they see him. His weight, at 6' tall? Between 260 and 320 lbs. Granted, these books take place between the 1930s and 50s, when people were much thinner and 300 lbs was gigantic, but still... >narrator or POV character guesstimating a weight I've had this in my stories, where the MC is an FA and so he's all-in on numbers. If it's from their POV then they can't help themselves but think "Wow, she must be at least 400 pounds!"

- Love me some extreme weight gain to the ridiculous. Too bad there are practically zero good stories that get to that size. Either end too quickly, have shitty writing, or are way too fucking long. Fuck you Adipose for wasting my time. sfx777 is kind of the gold standard. HeroOfFricks was really good with this, but they seem to have gone dark because of shitty Saxxon fans. The absurdity and nonrealism are part of the appeal, but so is the fucking intimacy. - Not enough solo character lit. Like, exclusively one character gaining weight with zero outside help or even inclusion. - Apocalyptic weight gain is only good if it's not taken too seriously. - Fat societies are boring asf. Multiple gainers in one work is reeeeeeally pushing it. - Nobody knows how to write good feederism. Especially at unrealistic levels. It's never as intimate as it should be. - Fuck the tube. The tube kills the feederism. Despite that, Stalker of Stalker is probably the best WG fic I've ever read and that has the fucking tube. - Fuck fatspeak. - Love cosmic sizes, but can't stand the word "blob". Kinda can't stand the word "fat" either. - It's not about the weight. It's about the gain. - Shitty stories compel me to write.

Hot take: People can have tropes they like, but when almost your entire gallery has the same 3 tropes it gets old really fast. I can't remember the name of the writer, but there was this one writer where the vast majority of his stories were just "Bimbo mom with huge tits will literally not stop feeding her stay at home daughter, even if shes a massive blob and she is beyond over stuffed" and reading them back to back was pretty mind numbing, because it just felt like I was reading the same story over and over again just with different character names. It's even worse when its a fanfic, because then its just molding pre-established characters into roles that don't feel right. >>11372 The thing with that is that the square cube law kinda fucks with everyones perceptions of what certain weights actually looks like. However at the same time, trying to be "realistic" with how heavy a certain level of fatness actually is is kinda a lost cause. People usually stick to (With realistic-ish stories at least) that half a ton is definitive immobility, and a full ton is in the realm of blobhood, but then when you actually do the maths, 1 000 pounds in actually looks......not that big? But then, if you were to try and make the weight realistic, then because a lot of people aren't used to it, it's just gonna be even more confusing. So really, its only when people muck up the more realistic sizes is when its egregious. Its more forgivable in writing since there's no visuals, but stuff like art mucking up weight can be a bit of a peeve (Whenever a see a weight listed in a SweetDreamCoffee comic, I just instinctively go "That's bullshit", because those girls will look like they're in the realm of USSBBW and then they'll say "I'm 400 pounds")

>>11404 You’ve given me some great new authors to follow, so thanks! And I agree that Stalker of Stalker is a unique triumph.

>>11508 It also depends on body shape. A 1000 pound woman with most of her weight on her lower half looks huge, but if the fat is packed evenly around her body it doesn't look as impressive.

There are certain plots and tropes that I'm so tired of seeing that if I come across a story with them, there's a high chance it's a boring cliche story that I'm going to dislike, even if I'm otherwise good with the level of weight gain and kinks - Anything to do with the bully cheerleader/athlete brought "low" by weight gain. This story has been written 1000 times and your take is not going to be any more original. Bonus negative points if its set in high school or references Mean Girls - Similarly, most stories with models gaining weight are boring and just have the character go from super model to obese without much fanfare or exploration - College set works better be damn original or interesting to read. Congratulations on discovering the concept of the Freshman Fifteen, you're not being clever when you turn it into the "Freshman 150". I'm fine with a character having gained a realistic amount of weight in college as a background detail, but don't make it your whole story unless you're a really good writer - Any story where a guy secretly fattens up his girlfriend and she is instantly fine with it and has minimal or no conflict or turmoil, even more so if it's never revealed and the story just ends with "my girlfriend is 400 pounds and a huge lazy slob and happy" - This is a newer one that's only beginning to be old hat, but stories about streamers getting fat. I actually do like this setup but I'm seeing so many works that just absolutely do nothing unique or interesting with this, just "what if a streamer snacked a lot and got fatter with each stream" Again none of these (well except the first IMHO, that was becoming tired in the early 2000s) are damning and can be done well with quality writing, decent characterization and/or interesting twists. But considering so much wg fiction out there lacks all three of those, the above have become my bad story smells.

• I admit it's a little irrational but it's an immediate click off when I see Japanese names in a story. Japan is the skinniest, most fat-phobic developed country on earth and putting a story there, or among Japanese people is weird to me. I get this stuff is almost always anime/gamer/manga fanfic which is a turnoff to begin with. • 20k words to set up the characters and situation and then 120lbs to 500lbs (or whatever) in 3k words. >>11521 >certain plots and tropes that I'm so tired of seeing Office sabotage is really musty at this point too. But like you, I always leave the door open for a new take, or just good writing. If the writer knows what they're doing I don't care how cliche it is.

>>11404 >- Not enough solo character lit. Like, exclusively one character gaining weight with zero outside help or even inclusion. Any tips or ideas you have for fully solo WG fic? I've tried my hand doing this but I feel like it's hard to build character motivation in an interesting way without either some kind of external pressure or turning the story into stream of consciousness

>>11734 Food addiction is obviously one of the best ways to get individual weight gain.

Pet peeve 1: When an artist keeps using a word incorrectly/they don't actually know what the word means. I like Mopatop, but the next time he uses the words "Temple" and "Gullet" for bellies I WILL face palm. Pet Peeve 2: When a writer uses an oversly specific description too many times. Borin23 is simultanousley not that bad at this while also being the biggest offender, because he has this weird obsession with saying "Bigger than P cup" for so many of his descriptions of breasts. I really don't understand it.

>>11734 >>11743 I think they mean just one character is fat and/or experiences WG, not 2 or 3 or 10. Not nec that the fatty is the only character in the story. I'm guilty of adding more fatties when I run out of ideas.

this is honestly maybe more of a hot take on writing and stories in general but i have definitely seen it a lot with wg lit and comics I've seen a lot that have a great first story of a main character and maybe a friend getting fat, all chill, but then the story just keeps going and then multiple characters are introduced and then they get fat and then all of the sudden its like 5 or 6 hugely overweight people, its 600 pages long like maybe its just me but it just seems like a drag and usually happens when a story gets popular so they just make it so unnecessarily long because people who liked it initially are hooked and will read whatever comes out. basically just replace fat for superheroes and im complaining about marvel

>>11786 Isn't that mostly just Mollycoddles and maybe Dr-Black-Jack? >basically just replace fat for superheroes and im complaining about marvel Nah, the fat's still a central focus and at least keeps you drawn in for a good enough time.

>>11786 This is such a big one. It seems like 80% of comics and stories do this. The main character gets fat, and then suddenly everyone does. To the point of absurdity. To the point every thin character who is introduced ends up hugely obese. Even the Feeder character who served as the thin contrast to their massive feedee will randomly end up huge for no reason, completely flipping their character and suddenly be really into gaining weight. It's the audience fault as much as the writers - Every single comic with a thin character will have 100s of comments being like "When will she get fat too???" "Do I see her getting a bit chubbier???" It's sometimes nice and fits the story for feeder to gain a little bit of weight, it makes sense that being around someone that huge would warp your perceptions. But they don't end it at a little bit of weight gain - they always end up just as huge and ruin any contrast.

>>11789 The feeder ending up big or bigger than the feedee can be a neat thing if its the point of the story, but when its a thing of "All the skinny characters get fat But ALSO the feeder gets fat too and is the biggest one" is when it's excessive

>>11790 >All the skinny characters get fat But ALSO the feeder gets fat too and is the biggest one >excessive >Speaking heresy Unless it all devolves into immobility.

Too many stories about girls straight out of college or high school, I’m tired of 18-25 yr old athletes getting an injury and just gaining weight. Give me at least a 40 yr old in a fantasy world with something romantic and not just lust goon trash.

>>11803 I kind of get the sentiment, but the use of "goon" while propping up 40 year olds makes me think you're from tumblr

>>11804 When i say 40 I’m thinking of Anne Hathaway and Scarlett Johansson And I’m from ifunny

>>11803 You don't want "goon trash", you want "goon trash for women". What exactly does your hunger have a desire for with a female who has reached wizard status in a fantasy world?

>>11806 Wizard 💀 I don’t know why I just like the idea of the look and calm personality of older women

>>11803 Is something like this more your speed? https://www.deviantart.com/extrabaggageclaim/art/The-Spoiled-Hero-COMM-XBBW-WG-997774664

>>11808 I appreciate the thought and like that premise but that weight’s way too high for me, my limits like 370lbs but thank you

>>11803 My stuff features a lot of 40+ women, pretty sure it's not goon trash though I'm not 100% on what that is. https://www.deviantart.com/mrwrong1/art/Elle-s-Belly-1-994020564 https://www.deviantart.com/mrwrong1/art/This-Little-1-of-3-814483497 https://www.deviantart.com/mrwrong1/art/La-Petit-Boite-1225151511 https://www.deviantart.com/mrwrong1/art/840988482?action=published

Question for bros here, how much "set-up" do you expect/tolerate in a story? How much non-fetish content at the beginning you can handle. Obviously longer stories, or ones with a more detailed plot may need some time to set the scene and build things up, but how much is too much? Do you need allusions to future weight gain to keep you hooked, or do you need the story to dive straight into fat/weight gain? Can you stomach pages of story entirely devoid of fetishism if it's to set up the scenario?

>>11865 For me it all depends on the skill of the writer. I can tolerate a lot of non-fetish content if they've got the goods. That said, if I feel like they've shoehorned fat stuff into what should have been a non-fetish story then I'm not so cool with it. Send that shit to your college literary magazine. I'm not here for that.

>>11865 A person can take their time to set things up but if you're gonna hold off on it for one or two uploads, you better go out of your way to fill in that void with talk of fat background characters or something because that's like putting out a dozen comic books but none of them have any fights. Also you shouldn't need much time for set up but a lot of people seem to think you need to unload everything in one go, when you only need some context, with the rest being able to be spread out among the weight gain.

>>11369 >>11370 >>11374 A good way to ground the size of an character without using weights is to use their clothing size (3XL, 4XL, etc.) instead, but this requires the writer and reader to have familiarity with plus sized clothing. (For context, most of the popular SSBBW models like Boberry or Jackie, who weigh around 600 pounds, wear something around 6XL pants.)

>>11865 If you're worried about this as a writer, one trick I use is non-linear storytelling. Show them a bit of where we're going to provide excitement for how we get there