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Next up everybody's favorite Archangel! I want to avoid "White = good" showing beauty goes beyond WASPy, evangelical standards. He can be read as afro/SWANA depending on the viewer.

While i liked the 2011 superbook one of my biggest gripes with it is how every angel was just white, blond haired blue eyed. So i wanted to depict Michael differently from traditional depictions, to demonstrate how anyone can be an angel.

#Superbook #superbook 2011 #archangel michael #angel #edits #I took a page from Angel Wars with their depiction of diverse angels #seriously though does every single depiction of biblical figured HAVE to be bone white? GET CREATIVE! #christianity

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#winx club #roxy winx #open poll #vote now on your phones

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If I wrote s4 Roxy would be yellow or indigo to complete the rainbow & give her her own theme color Instead of bumming off Aisha 😭

#winx club #roxy winx #winx club season 4 #redesign #edits #the 7th winx being yellow or a dark blue/indigo wouldve made so much more sense

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Now in glorious 3D!

#winx club #nereus winx club #black edit #edits #merman #You know how some character designs look better with a lil extra melanin? #like giving him a warmer complexion brings out the purple/blues in his palette; grey skin made him look washed out

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2 More nereus.top is my edit bottom is canon. Really abysmal how he's supposed to be black (being Aisha's cousin) yet LITERALLY HAS GRAY SKIN HE LOOKS LIKE BLEACHED TUNA.

#nereus winx club #nereus #black edit #edits #winx club #merman

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Rainbow was ASS for giving nereus gray skin + wanna make him look related to aisha since they cousins and all that #winx

#nereus winx club #edits #winx club #triton #merman #mermaid #nereus #black edit

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Both suffer from the same problem of they're passable enough but severely held back by writing and squeezed into a plot last minute.

#Nereus #nereus winx club #artie pendragon #king arthur #artie shrek #shrek #winx club

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I painted lagoona's legs and decided to add freckles honestly i think they remind me of a blue ring :>

#Working on a few projects

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Eve carries a hammer that forms into a giant mallet btw

#I love giving tiny woman weapons bigger than their bodies #its such a fun trope and if somebody can put the fear of God in adam it's her

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30 Heal Your Inner Child Affirmations 🧸🍭💛✨

I am worthy of love and acceptance.

My feelings are valid and important.

I forgive my past and embrace my present.

I am deserving of happiness and joy.

I am safe and protected.

I trust the journey of healing.

My inner child is resilient and strong.

I am in control of my life now.

I release old wounds and embrace healing.

I am enough, just as I am.

I deserve to be treated with kindness and respect.

I am capable of creating a life I love.

I am surrounded by love and support.

I am proud of who I am becoming.

I am deserving of all good things.

I am healing more and more every day.

I am open to receiving love and care.

I am connected to my inner wisdom.

I am free from the burdens of my past.

I am brave and courageous.

I am deserving of inner peace.

I am in charge of my own happiness.

I am worthy of trust and understanding.

I am loved for who I am.

I am constantly growing and evolving.

I am deserving of a life filled with joy.

I am a beacon of light and hope.

I am deserving of comfort and security.

I am in a continuous process of healing.

I am embracing my inner child with love and compassion.

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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something that's easy to miss when we talk about problematic tropes about marginalized characters is that a LOT of them are fundamentally really just side effects of the fact that the story is so rarely ABOUT those characters. women get shoved in refrigerators to motivate male characters because the writer never cared about the woman as a character in her own right in the first place, just about her effect on the man, and this is just where it's becoming really obvious. characters of color get to be wise mentors or quirky sidekicks because the writer liked the idea of a diverse cast in theory but wasn't willing to write a non-white lead and those are the good-guy roles that are left. if you want to do better the answer is usually not to go down a checklist of problematic tropes and make sure you're not doing any of them, it's to treat marginalized characters as fully realized people with agency and narrative focus in the first place, and if you're doing that right a lot of this will follow naturally.

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you know what really gets my goat?

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