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Art by lei chu

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hi, i hope you're doing well today! i'm looking to create a pantheon for a d&d campaign, and i pictured the goddess of weather & seasons as a black woman. i thought making her hair an afro-like cloud would be an interesting way to design her. i'm worried that this may be insensitive, though, and that i'm othering curly hair. she would not be the only black character in the pantheon, but she's the one i'm most worried about being offensive. what are your thoughts on this design choice?

Black Goddess with Clouds for Hair

I think this is a cool idea! You’ve got regular Black characters (women?) too, so even better. Not that there seems to be any poor implications with having the Black goddess; magical Black girls for the win! She may not need a “counter” exactly, but it’s always good to have multiple modes of representation, particularly as she’s not human. 

This immediately made me think of artwork by the artist GDBee (whose art adorns the walls of my creative workspace)

"Cloud Goddess Collection”

https://gdbee.store/products/cloud-bundle-print-bundle

”Cosmiss”

https://www.deviantart.com/gdbee/art/Cosmiss-344803672

Artist Credits

www.gdbee.art

www.gdbee.store

Tumblr: @prinnay

-Mod Colette

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An Angel

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making a collection

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a wikipedia poem on software entropy

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I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

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Atlantic Coast - Dark Moods

Alexandra Wesche

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i just found out tumblr was storing over three GIGABYTES of cookies on my device without me knowing and that's why it's been running so fucking slow recently... incredible. anyways everyone go clear your fucking cookies. don't let this website run a goddamn video game's worth of disc space in the background for no good reason.

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Fantasy Is A Metaphor For The Human Condition, a comic about magic, and art, and speculative fiction, and being sick, and how they all intersect. Originally laid out/pencilled November-December 2017, when I was in a very difficult place emotionally as I was relearning how to draw post-brain injury.

See more of my Brain Injury Comix at this link & in Dirty Diamonds #9: Being

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stop playing it cool, just be passionate and intense and insane and whoever sticks around is meant for you

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Uluru blackh●le rise, me, pixel art, 2022

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I like the idea that beheeyem also don’t recognize the consequences of their memory rewriting as bad because that’s just normal for them. Like a beheeyem will hear someone say they feel like they haven’t done enough with their life and in a genuine attempt to help, give that person false memories of grand adventures.

Also consider: Beheeyem being used in therapy to help rewrite traumatic memories when appropriate

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