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So you might be saying: Lion why a guide on drawing black people? Well young blood it’s because a lot of people cant…seem…to draw…black people..Amazing I know. 

Racist (caricatures) portrayals of black people have been around forever, and to this day people can’t seem to draw black people like they are human. If your artwork resembles any of the above even remotely your artwork is racist and offensive. If you try to excuse that as a stylistic choice you’re not only a terrible artist, but racist too!!! Congrats.

Whitewashing is also a problem. A lot of people refuse to draw black features on canonly black characters. While this example isn’t colored, lightening the skin-tone of a character is also considered whitewashing. So lets start with features!

Now all black people have different noses thats a no-brainer, but black noses tend to have flatter bridges, and wider nostrils. Please stay from triangular anime noses and small button noses. Your drawings should not depict black people with abnormally large noses. (Especially if you do not draw other characters this way)

If you feel like the way you draw lips on black characters is offensive or resembles a caricature,it probably does and you should change it. ABSOLUTELY AVOID PLACING LIPS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FACE. 

Hair is so diverse! Please get used to drawing braids, locs,kinks and coils! If you can learn to draw ringlets and long waves you can learn how to draw black hairstyles.

Add clips! Learn how to draw baby-hairs and never be afraid to add color Pinterest and Google are free my dudes! Also try using square brushes for blocking in coils.

OK THAT’S ALL YOU GUYS

#art ref #important

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If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:

While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.

Please don't stop speaking about Palestine.

#Free Palestine #important

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#sw #we’re just gonna pretend like duel of fates didn’t change the entire fucking game???? #duel of fates or across the stars are the only correct answers #Battle of Heroes gets an honorable mention ONLY for the Anakin vs Obi-Wan version that includes a bit of the Imperial March

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#Parents named me after a Trek character #Is it technically changed if they named me after a name given to a character when they had amnesia?

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im starting to think you guys dont like it when stories make you feel things

#We said ‘parasocial relationships with real people are bad’ and you all said ‘you got it boss!’ #And then you all started forming the weirdest co-dependency on groups of pixels/fictional people I’ve ever seen #Wtf do you mean nothing bad should happen to anyone ever? Wtf do you MEAN everyone should be likable? That no one should ever grow or chang #Bc god forbid they do so in a way that you don’t agree with

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it is a parents responsibility to play good music during their child’s formative years. make sure the nostalgia playlist is a banger

#My nostalgia playlist: ABBA Billy Idol Prince and Pat Benatar

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Firefly drip marketing.

#HSR #when you ask hoyoverse ceo da Wei after 2.0 comes out if firefly or Sam will be playable and all he says is Yes #2.3 you are already a goated patch you could do nothing else but add firefly and you would be amazing #I will be sad to skip Robin’s banner but I am not risking being unable to complete my Stellaron Hunter collection

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sam hiding those rubber ducks on a little shelf under the ceiling was truly some Taskmaster shit, i would not be surprised if Alex Horne showed up next episode to take over hosting, pretend he’s called sam reich, and leave with absolutely no explanation.

#Game changer #Taskmaster #PLEASE #my two favs crossing over #as an American I’ve accepted that gc is the closest we’ll get to having a US Taskmaster (after the first one didn’t take off)

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you know what really gets my goat?

#EL CHUPACABRA AND I WERE BORN IN THE SAME MONTH??????

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I think we should be allowed to kill DoorDash’s CEO and marketing executives for the existence of their “50% OFF YOUR ORDER!!!!!!1!1!!1 (in teeny tiny print: max of $10 off)” coupons

#If you’re only giving $10 off say it’s a $10 off coupon #Don’t plaster 50% off all over the email/coupon/card and then put a lame ass stipulation like that on there #Fuck DoorDash but what else is new

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thought this crowd might enjoy gay pig

#The only gay pig allowed at pride

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Fighting for my life trying to find a phone or tablet with a headphone jack. Fighting for my life trying to find a laptop with a cd rom. Fighting for my life trying to get more than one usb port or, god forbid, an hdmi. Fighting for my life trying to find any electronics that haven't been streamlined into flimsy chastity belts with the structural integrity of a sopping sheet of paper which require me to buy 3 extra devices (each with their own separate charging requirements) all because some silicon valley jackass somewhere decided holes were a bad thing.

#FR #my 10 yr old gaming laptop still works well so I’m just considering looking for a part replacement for the broken CD/DVD drive #Than buying a whole new one that is just…Sucky

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Wow... people having to identify themselves to a government because of they are part of a group that is seen as ¨other¨ or because they want to learn about a certain topic...where i have seen this before...

I don't know... maybe what it is considered one of the biggest red flags in steps of dehumanization of groups, mainly minorities?

Btw, this is what the people behind KOSA are trying to impose in all the United States of America.

[Image ID: News politcs article about USA politics that says ¨Kansas governor passes law requiring ID to view acts of 'homosexuality' online, vetoes anti-LGBTQ+ bill¨ /.End ID]

Link to the article: https://www.advocate.com/politics/kansas-veto-age-verification-gender-affirming-care-abortion

Edit: Since this gained more notes, for those who don't know KOSA is, it is a USA bill that was reintroduced on May 2023 (last year). It is called ¨Kids Online Safety Act¨ (KOSA for short). It has been introduced and reintroduced for a while now since 2022. It is meant with the intention to ¨protect kids¨ by restricting their use of internet by pushing age restrictions and people having to present their ID to use internet or access certain websites, quite similar to the Kansas state bill that got passed. Many groups and people have criticized this bill for the potential censorship it can come with it and do more harm to the kids than help them. Possible censorship that has been suggested this bill can bring is LGBT+ content, politics and news, mental health search, political and social opinions in general (adults included). What is more, it has been put into question the possible invasion of privacy for both minors and adults by having to share an identification to use certain websites. That people could get censored or doxxed by doing this.

As for the bill itself, there was a hearing earlier today in the Senate. ( April 17th-Wednesday). It could take a while before it gets voted and has to pass different stages. Then it would take months (18 months) to be implemented if it gets passed.

I'm not American myself, so i'm not sure how much i can do about this. What i do recommend is making calls to senators and people involved in pushing this bill to make clear your disapproval of it. Try sign petitions or just telling others about it.

Some sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_Online_Safety_Act https://www.stopkosa.com/ https://www.badinternetbills.com/ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/dont-fall-latest-changes-dangerous-kids-online-safety-act

#KOSA #important

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When he’s a 19 year old fascist and you’re a 24 year old democratically elected politician but he has a tiny braid so you’re helpless to his charming pear floating powers

#While Queen is an elected position on Naboo the gif is from Attack of the Clones #By which point Padmé’s term as Queen is up and she was serving as Naboo’s senator #which funnily enough she was not elected to. Her successor asked her to serve in the position and she accepted. #sw

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FINALS!!! Furina vs Kiana Kaslana

(Propaganda under the cut)

Furina:

the girl who saved fontaine. condemned herself to a life of silent pain and suffering without any warning or preparation. she could confide in no one, seek out help from no one, all while bearing the weight of her entire nation on her shoulders. not only did her willpower save everyone in fontaine, but after the prophecy was averted, she was finally allowed to live a normal life.

Kiana Kaslana:

TLDR: she's kiana kaslana what do you MEAN!!!! kiana is a beautifully written character who fully encapsulates what hi3 is about and she's so full of love and guilt and (most importantly) hope. she's a clone who struggles with her own identity/inhumanity and traumas extending from when she was a young child and her guilt but is so so resilient and so so so so compassionate which ultimately reinforces her humanity :)

kiana's character IS the honkai impact thesis statement. i don't even mean it as in she's the literal main character and face of honkai i genuinely mean it when i say she just IS honkai impact. she reflects every single theme that they portray [hope over nihilism (chapter 25 || the flame chasers and just. the previous era in general), having agency over your identity and your own story (himeko, her being k423 and being so linked to sirin, everlasting flames || the kaslana household name honestly, bronya, fu hua, mei, sirin), believing in the humanity's inherent worth (chapter 25, arc city || elysia <- important since as a current era herrscher, she is a successor to elysia AND as kiana kaslana, she is a narrative parallel of elysia), having faith in the youth (himeko, kevin || the other flame chasers! notably su), etc.] her character being so reflective is also sooooo OUGH to think about when you view it as a reflection of honkai's 50,000 year samsara because kiana is a representation of these themes coming full circle (especially since many of these stretch back to the previous era and elysia).

SHE FEELS SO MUCH. she's so full of love and guilt. she clearly prioritizes others over herself and part of her arc is her learning to value and love herself as well!!! she would give herself for the world ten times over because she holds so much affection for humanity!! (WHILE FEELING DEHUMANIZED BECAUSE OF HER IDENTITY AS BOTH A HERRSCHER AND K423) and it's actively apart of her character's growth :'')

dear god her growth… okok. so i think first you have to understand that a lot of kiana's growth obviously coincides w general maturity as she grows from a teenager to a young adult. but aside from that i think people often forget that younger kiana is incredibly self sufficient since her father literally left her with little to no explanation when she was like. what 8? the insecurity she feels at that! the anger she has to navigate while also balancing it with her own feelings of missing and loving him. basically: kiana has struggled a lot w instability and is thus kinda good at navigating it. ex: she isnt shaken by nagazora and literally tries again and again and again to save mei and convince mei to let her help. the thing is this fucks w her a bit though because a big thing that she does as a means to cope w instability is avoiding them (not reflective of real life of course, but in the fictional hi3 this is partially represented in kiana's repressed memories about her actual origins as k423). she can not stand the realization that she killed himeko that she's so deep in denial and doesnt truly realize it until more than 10 chapters after himeko dies! she's so horrified with her being a herrscher she actively tries to not use her powers out of fear, even when it puts her in harms way (the chapter XI-EX CG!!!!!! her literally trying to kill herself!!) she literally runs away from her friends and loved ones because she's so scared of hurting them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! which is why her promise to himeko to not run away is so important!! because it addresses one of kiana's biggest flaws!!!!! this is especially important bc her refusal to continue her avoidance feeds into her arc during the herrscher of dominion chapters where she both faces her own guilt/identity and deliberately chooses perseverance and hope over nihilism!! she is hope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#KIANA SWEEP PLEASE

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If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽

#Belvita breakfast sandwich bars #dark chocolate crème is my favorite but vanilla cinnamon is pretty good. Peanut butter is alright.

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Be me

See a crossover zone about two characters in a shared universe

Ask the creators if it’s going to be a balanced amount of works between the two or if it’s just going to favor the more popular character

The creators laugh. “What do you mean?”

I take out a series to detailed pie charts showing them visual representations of different percentages of a whole

They laugh

”It’s an zine celebrating the two characters and the shared lore between them.”

I buy a physical copy of the zine that includes a free digital copy

It arrives months late and one financial scandal later, and is a 4:1 ratio in the works of the most popular character to the less popular character

I know I probably should have suspected when I saw that almost none of the merch included the less popular character, but jfc.

#Literally out of 30 total works 21 of the newer expy and 5 of the older character #And 4 shared between the two (inclusive of the cover that features them both) #That 5 is also me being generous bc one of those works includes both characters but one is v small and the other v prominently the focus #At some point you should have admitted you just wanted to make a zine for this one character and just did that. This is sort of ridiculous. #4x as many works. Unbelievable. #It feels ridiculous to complain about this but I’m not naming names and the number of zines with financial scandals is like #You could spit on Twitter and land on one #So I don’t think there’s anything identifying in here #So idk it’s just really disappointing to wait for so long and be so disappointed #Bc I love both characters but this just feels straight up ridiculous