actualelffucker:

actualelffucker:

okay enough is enough

“elves are designed to be aesthetically perfect and the ideal standard of beauty” okay but whose ideal standard of beauty are we using here??

usually when this is said, it means “you can’t picture elves with lots of body hair/fat elves/visibly trans elves/etc because those aren’t beautiful”

piss off with this bullshit.

beauty standards have been shifting and changing for millennia. take this concept back a few centuries, and everyone would be drawing elves with visible fat rolls to show their wealth and status and beauty.

not to mention the fact that literally everyone on earth has a different image of what is perfectly beautiful. you want elves to be the pinnacle of sexual/aesthetic appeal? cool, that’s great, you still need the full variation of possible body types and appearances, because all of those are beautiful to someone.

you can’t just draw/write nothing but pretty little willowy twinks and excuse it with “but elves are beautiful”.

it’s not acceptable, and it’s not even accurate. we can all do better.

to clarify: I don’t care if you, personally, want to draw pretty little willowy twink elves, as long as you think about why you are doing so and acknowledge the fact that the beauty standards you are using are your own and not universal.

accept that your interpretation of “beautiful” is not the only possible one, and carry on doing whatever the hell you want, if this post really makes you that defensive and butthurt.

also, re: “it’s a fictional world/it’s just a book” – I’m talking to the fandom here, which certainly isn’t fictional.