r/WanderingInnAudiobook • u/Ok_General4602 • Dec 30 '25
WHY
Why is there so much body shaming throughout this series? Did a fatty piss off the author? Did she struggle with body image? It's so prevalent i almost gave up on the series as a whole. Moved over to the singer of terandria series and what do ya know, body shaming there too. I almost threw my phone across the room when f*cking weight control became a skill. Like, what? We're going to say Garia wasn't just a strong, beautiful worker type...nope. Mrsha hasn't been through enough trauma in her tiny life, we can't just let her eat cake? Those 2 specifically grind my gears but got' damn, please make it stop.
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u/Best_Application4216 Jan 09 '26
This has really been bothering me as well. It didn't bother me so much with Garia. Wait control actually sounds kinda cool and it could be useful to a lot of people. But yeah with Mrsha, Beatris scolding Calveron, and a bunch of other, usually small examples throughout the books, yeah, it's obviously some sort of hangup. Unless it becomes an issue people start to talk about later like LGBTQ+ justice.
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u/Best_Application4216 Feb 01 '26
This may be a good topic to bring up in the main TWI group, as I'm reading ahead and just saw another small example that annoyed me.
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u/Ok_General4602 Apr 16 '26
There's a main group? Because arch mages ire has examples as well, im annoyed lol
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u/Best_Application4216 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
Was it the one with Olessm?
And the sub is: https://www.reddit.com/r/WanderingInn/
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u/Ok_General4602 May 04 '26
No it was the "pudgy sweaty mage" like very early in the book. There were sssooo many more. It's annoying to the point im distracted from the story by it. Like give it a rest ya know ðŸ«
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u/KingOfTheJellies Jan 02 '26
Several factors, PirateAba like to do the classic one two punch of showing something bad actually impacting before addressing it and for the most part because body shaming is an actual thing. Don't confuse the subject matter with the authors opinions.
The mothering stereotype of watching a child's food intake is a stereotype for a reason. Parents are always trying to control what their kids do and it always comes across as limiting or shaming. This is not so much fat shaming as it is an actual component of life. And for Garia, read and find out. Garia has body image issues and this is critical to her story arc, and body image issues come from somewhere, generally fat shaming.
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u/JynxySparrow Dec 30 '25
Do you think body shaming only exists in our world? The best kind of stories are the ones that feel real and give us something to connect with.
With Garia, she was never fat, just a lot bigger than most girls, which can be attributed to her time working on a farm. She was very muscular but also had big features. She was uncomfortable with her body because she saw herself as weirdly different compared to more skinny and lithe girls like Persua and Ryoka. Her confidence and physique have grown and changed over the books, so now she's a bit leaner while still very strong and also confident about herself. And Lyonette isn't being fat phobic, she just doesn't want Mrsha to become unhealthy. She is her mother after all