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I hate that I’m always trying to find cool biology themed stuff to wear but all the “nature inspired” clothing companies just have like two crossed arrows or a minimalistic mountain on a sweatshirt. Fucking lame, that’s barely even nature-adjacent. Put the life cycle of a salamander on a jacket, put hyena skeleton patterns on leggings, put a damn field guide of birds of prey on a peacoat and THEN you can have my money. Do NOT give me a shirt with a leaf on it that says “stay wild” or some bullshit I would much prefer clothing that broadcasts to everyone around me how many teeth an adult Jaguar has or how some pitcher plants can catch and digest rats.

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Otras pruebas d color ;;;; - me agrado mas como se ven los ojitos con celeste mas claro en el ojo hah no suelo subir fanart d juegos como our life- pero ya subi fanart de los morritos d obey me asi q ya me expuse jjdsjsd

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Saw an ask about an apparent problem of people drawing Qiu whiter than he is and whitewashing. With that in mind, I think you should hold the same standard for Tamarack for artists that draw her darker than she is to outright black. Tumblr and Twitter in general have an obsession with coloring traditionally white/pale characters the complete opposite race or adding details like kinky/coiled hair and see no issue with it but raise hell the moment a poc is one hue lighter. It erases their identity just as much as everyone says whitewashing does but everyone constantly falls back on the "only whites can be racist so changing their identity in art is okay!!" pipeline

Tamarack comes from a German family and is white, so please take the same level of importance when artists "blackwash" her or any other character in your series.

You know generally, I don’t like to use this blog to as a place to act like I’m the best, most correct person in the world and respond to things where I’m simply telling an anonymous person they’re wrong. I’m just someone who has people following me because they like the stories this company makes.

However, this is something that people should know. If our POC players draw our characters having a darker skin tone than they do in-game and/or give them a different hair texture, that’s alright. I’ve fallen off on reblogging stuff on Tumblr but it’d still be liked or reposted on Twitter.

Whitewashing means far more than the literal act of a single individual making someone look white in a fanart. If a trans player wanted to headcanon a cis character was trans, that’s one thing. If a cis person decided to take the only trans character for miles and insist they are, in fact, cis, well that’s another matter entirely. Your experience with your race and your experience based on sexuality or gender aren’t the same things, it’s not a one-to-one comparison at all. But can people who don’t get it at least start to see how there can be a difference in impact here?

The people who are oppressed in this country aren’t hurting you by trying to enjoy the media that most of the time intentionally excludes them. POC weren’t the ones dehumanizing white people in horrific ways. The overwhelming majority of stories and representations of heritages out there have been and still are white people’s already. Anyone reading this who was thinking along the lines of what’s in this ask need to get comfortable understanding and accepting that. And if you don’t, maybe you should find another game because I’m not going to “protect white identities” from being drawn as people of color. In fact, I think it’s actually really nice if our characters are fun and comforting to people of color so much so that they’d like to imagine those characters being included in their own culture. I think it’s strange that someone would be angry about it.

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#ragbros #filo kaeya..... #reblog

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‘Slug’ by Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799 CE), who was a Japanese painter of the Maruyama school. Ink on paper, Edo Period

Blog and more

#reblog

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FUCK I MISS HIM SO MUCH

He’s coming to visit in the Baxter DLC 🥺️

#our life

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A compilation of stuff I know about drawing Asian faces and Asian culture! I feel like many “How-To-Draw” tutorials often default to European faces and are not really helpful when drawing people of other races. So I thought I’d put this together in case anyone is interested! Feel free to share this guide and shoot me questions if you have any! I’m by no means an expert, I just know a few things from drawing experience and from my own cultural background. 

#reblog

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i’m crying

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ive spent hours drawing a fish who wants to see the wip. i may be going insane

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A gaggle of Ammonoids. Can you name them all?

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Detail of a mosaic depicting a bird perched atop a lotus pod, 2nd century

Nile River animals mosaic, Casa del Fauno, Pompeii 

Now held at the Naples National Archaeological Museum

#he is so real #:(((( /pos

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most of y'all probably already know about this website, but if you're a writer and you're looking for names for your characters (especially ones that fit a particular theme) might i recommend magic baby names?

you can enter one (or multiple) names and it'll automatically generate names that are thematically similar to the one(s) you gave them, which can be SO HELPFUL when you're looking for inspiration

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"I often think back on the night we first met. I was this pathetic kid crying my eyes out, and... You were there for me, you always have been.

Little did I know that you were the love of my life." - Cove Holden (Step 4)

#reblog #oh this is so lovely and warm #our life

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HI I LOVE YOUR COVE IN A BARONG DRAWING SO MUCH. i just think its cool to see a fellow filipino ^^

akdjskkdjc tysm!!! i really strive to share that feeling of "oh wow theyre filipino too !!" so im glad you got to see it :DD

#bee.txt

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My piece for the MDZS 1000 lights zine

#reblog #this feels so tender

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happy anniversary to the love of my life

Happy Anniversary Our Life: Beginnings & Always! 🎉

[Guest art by kanincooker on Twitter]

Our Life: Beginnings & Always launched two years ago today 🥳️. It originally went live with Steps 1-3 and two DLCs, an expansion for Step 1 and one for Step 2. In the past couple years we’ve released the Step 4 epilogue, three more DLCs (Step 3 expansion, Wedding, and Derek’s Story), and made that little Cove bonus Moment for the Patreon.

It’s amazing to me how long it’s been and how much has happened in that time. But I think the most incredible thing is that, even after two years, interest in Our Life hasn’t really dwindled at all! Every time we’ve released new content or even just previews, people have been excited for it. I’m so grateful players have continued to enjoy what we’re creating with this story. Thank you so much to everyone who has made a life for themselves in Sunset Bird 💕. And I’m looking forward to what comes for the Our Life universe in the future!

#our life

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The Prince of Fortune

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