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[such_heights]

Hi all,

Am looking for resources for a couple of friends of mine, and was wondering if any of you have some links/suggestions off the top of your head!

1. I am looking for novels that feature positive portrayals of women who aren't thin.

2. I am looking for resources to help someone who's currently in a pretty bad pit of depression but having trouble articulating that and reaching out. That sounds all too familiar to me, but I don't recommend my own strategy of going and going until you snap. Anything about first reaching out for professional support or recognising that's what happening is an illness and not a moral failing would be most welcome.

♥!

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[axiom_of_stripe]

the only one i can recommend off the top of my head is fistful of sky by nina kiriki hoffman, warning for abusive mother punishing teen daughter for being fat but not for the character punishing herself as a teen or an adult; there's one scene where she is magicked into being much heavier and enjoys it. hmm: there's also the changewinds series by jack l. chalker, but i remember very, very little of this series -- not enough to recommend it, given the results of a quick google. those are books in which the weight of the protagonist is a plot point, which is probably why i remember them in this context; i would like to think that there must be others....

[such_heights]

Thanks so much for the suggestions!