Three Big Fat Poems
Pennfana3 Reviews | 9.33/10 (3 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )
Meditations on being "plus-sized".
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I always feel extremely strange when I'm writing these things, having never really been all that good at talking about myself. In any case, here are the basics: I'm a 41-year-old Canadian who started reading the Harry Potter books about twenty years (!) ago just to see what all the fuss was about. I wrote my first fanfic about a year later, and I've been semi-active in the fandom ever since. I am very musical; I play the bagpipes, I've played the violin since I was about nine years old and I sing with two choirs (a community choir I've been singing with since 1997 and a church choir I've been singing with since late 2008). Writing is also one of my many obsessions, and (much to my relief) the monstrous case of writer's block which grabbed me for a couple of years seems to be gradually letting go. Even so, should I submit any chaptered fics here, it's reasonable to assume that the updates will be pretty far apart even if they're actually finished before I start posting. It's not intentional; I'm just, at times, a little forgetful.
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I know where you're coming from with these poems. I'm shorter and heavier than you. I have days where the first poem sums up my feelings perfectly. They are fewer and further between since I got married four years ago. Most of the time, I agree more with the second and third. ^_^ If you ever need someone to talk to, feel free to look me up.
Response from Pennfana (Author of Three Big Fat Poems)
Thank you. To tell the truth, most of the time (if I even think about weight at all) I tend to think more along the lines of the second and third poems as well. In the last year or so I've been reading up on the Fat Acceptance movement and though I'm not exactly involved with it, it's helping me to build up the self-esteem that decided to take a holiday on the day when I wrote the first poem.
Thank you again for your support, and thanks for the review!
Empathising here, especially to the second one.Amongst my friends there are (coincidentally) a number of men who consider larger built female to be the most passionate, therefore the most desirable. I keep thinking to myself 'where were they all 25 years ago when I needed them?' 
but I'm glad to stick with the wonderful man who proved that size doesn't matter to love :)
Response from Pennfana (Author of Three Big Fat Poems)
Thank you.
I really liked the poems. I have an overweight friend who always gets mocked though she is a lovely person and every mam should be happy to have someone like her.My problem for a while was much the opposite. A year ago I was underweight because of stress syndroms and other stuff. I was eating normally I just didn't put on any weight because my body was out of balance.Summer was horrible because people who did not know me would whisper something along the lines of 'she is bound to be anorexic/bulimic'. If I din't have such a wonderful man at my site it would have been much worse.Anyway, I really like your rant, it's something that has to be said, though I'm afraid the people who read it would not discriminate someone because of their size.
Response from Pennfana (Author of Three Big Fat Poems)
Thanks. As I said in the notes, these poems have been in the works for quite some time; I wanted to be absolutely certain that they said precisely what I wanted to say. I'd have put in something about discrimination based on being extremely thin as well, but I didn't think I'd be able to write it convincingly, having never had that problem, so I thought it would be rather like a squid trying to describe to a giraffe what it's like to be a carrot--almost totally incomprehensible.
And I think you're perfectly right in saying that people who might read these poems aren't likely to be the sort to embrace size discrimination. Still, it was something I wanted to say, and I wondered what people would say upon reading it.
Thank you for your review.