#multicoloured Asian

[ayanos-pl]

【庭】ドクダミの葉にナミテントウの幼虫

#ナミテントウ #幼虫 #庭 #ドクダミ #昆虫 #Harmonia axyridis #Coccinella axyridis #Asian ladybird beetle #異色瓢蟲 #harlequin #multicoloured Asian #Asian ladybeetle #larva #larwa #biedronka azjatycka #japan #garden #ogródek #insect #owady

[mahou-furbies]

I thought I'd wait until the designs for the whole team are revealed but since we got a proper view of Will's look let's have a few words on the reboot already.

Overall: I think the new art style is fine, haters gonna hate. Will having orange hair instead of red isn't really an issue for me either.

I'm always interested in the henshin look and so far I'm not really into this yet, hopefully it'll grow on me or at least look more interesting in a group of (hopefully) similarly themed but still unique designs. My biggest issue is that it doesn't look very magical, without the twirly patterns the pieces would be normal enough to be worn as a casual outfit at least individually. The symbol on the chest also feels a little unfinished and basic and more like a pin you could get at a comic convention.

As for the wings, I think they're alright but make me think of fairies rather than witches, but to be fair the old ones aren't really witchy either. The old ones are more iconic/memorable though but also a pain to draw.

Also this time around it appears they left out the "the transformed version looks older", which I suppose is fine, the original did actually use it as a plot element and give some character to the girls, but not that much and I really wouldn't care for the discourse.

Regardless Even if I prefer her old look, I think the worst thing they could have done would have been use the same design again, which I don't care for since I've already seen it. And the new look isn't awful so overall feeling positive about this.

Will's love for frogs seems to have survived. She also has freckles which is great.

As for the other girls, I think they look alright too. I prefer Taranee's new hair, Cornelia and Irma haven't changed much (though Cornelia has some moles which is also a nice detail) and as for my fave Hay Lin... I miss the ponytails but as a friend of multicoloured hair I like this too. Dunno about the "Asian girl with a dyed hair streak" trope though but at least if any of the girls were to dye their hair like that I would say Hay Lin would be the most likely one personality wise.

Also since we're changing things around, I wonder if they'll do anything about Hay Lin's name? I hear it's not very Chinese.

Finally Elyon with her "what the hell is going on" design. I really like the old look and the new one is fine as well, it's just strange that she's the only one to get such a huge overhaul, there's nothing left of her old design.

#w.i.t.c.h.

[disabilityshowdown]

expected when i started running this tournament to learn a lot about disabled characters i'd never heard of before, did not expect to get so attached to quirks of numbers that my brain would make up whole crossovers with fandoms i just learned about through this poll?

anyway they are friends now i have decided and are talking about science

(wylan and cinder poll backstory)

[ID: Fanart of Wylan Van Eck from Six of Crows and Linh Cinder from Lunar Chronicles, sitting next to each other and chatting. Wylan is a pale skinned teenager with haphazardly curly red hair and freckles. He has old fashioned scientific goggles pushed up into his hair, and is wearing a red shirt, navy blue jacket, brown pants, shoes, and fingerless gloves, and a blue scarf tucked into his shirt. There is a brown leather satchel beside him. Cinder is a tan skinned asian girl with dark brown hair tied up in a ponytail. She is wearing a grey tank top, khaki green pants, and white shoes. One hand has a fingerless leather glove on it, her other hand is instead a metal prosthetic, with burn scars where it connects at the wrist. Visible at her ankle is another metal prosthetic, this time for her left leg. The background is absent of detail and filled with multicoloured paint splatters in a way that suggests a 3d space.]

#technically i drew this while the poll was happening in the hopes i'd get to use it #aaand then the chronic fatigue crept up on me again and i haven't been all that conscious the past two days #so shhh this poll just ended #but ye! i've loved six of crows for years so i know how to draw a wy #but this is the first time i've ever drawn fanart for a fandom i'm not even in #cinder is just based off her description on the wiki hope i didn't get anything too wrong #but i am just. im lov them.....? #not sure if im gonna use this art for their teamup going forward may have to draw yet more wy and cinder art #but look at what you've all done to me #im gonna have so many new interests by the end of this #six of crows #wylan van eck #lunar chronicles #linh cinder

[powerfulblob]

Whoa! Fanart??? from a game??

I’ll be doing a daily posting challenge for the next 26 days of Entropic Float 2 Kickstarter, for Land of the Witch!

Check out @nicohverse for more info about it! I’ve played the demo, it’s a super cool blend of sci-fi and fantasy, with excellent worldbuilding!

Here’s the first: It’s Sharma!

[ID: A digital fanart of Sharma Ansari from the game Entropic Float 2: Land of the Witch. He rolls his eyes and purple giant text in a teal exclamation speech bubble reads “Tired” in all caps. Various speech bubbles with ellipses coloured teal surround him. Sharma is a South Asian man with dark skin, long and waved muted green hair, brown eyes, a thin mustache, multicoloured stickers on his face, and a golden necklace. end ID]

#entropic float 2 #sharma ansari #posting challenge #day 1 #image described #blob's art

[zeus-japonicus]

Can you tell us more about Asian Pirate musical?

it would be my pleasure, thank you for the question!

[Image description: Five illustrations of characters from the waist up under a banner that reads Asian Pirate Musical. Top left is Zheng He, a Chinese man wearing a red yuanlingpao with a golden dragon design, and a black futou. He points with a scroll and has a sword at his hip. Top right is Sek Yeong, an older Chinese woman with a bob of grey hair. She wears a light blue Tang suit with a red and gold half-cape, and jade accessories. She holds a pistol and a dagger. Bottom left is Keliling, an agender Southeast Asian person wearing multicoloured clothing, including a plastic poncho and a large rimmed hat with SEA patterns. Middle is Nazar, a Black person with a curled afro. Nazar wears batik orange clothing with an apron whose pockets are lined with tools. Bottom right is Riang, a non-binary Southeast Asian person wearing multicoloured clothing including a high-necked vest with see-through sleeves. They hold a holographic spanner against their shoulder. Every portrait is set against a map from the era and location that they are from. end ID]

The year is 2049: A lone pirate sails the Straits of Melaka under a red sky, alone… until a storm throws seafarers from across time and space onto the same ship. The five form an unlikely crew: 14th century Muslim diplomat and navigator Zheng He, 19th century pirate queen Sek Yeong, 23rd century space revolutionaries Keliling and Riang, and 21st century climate survivor Nazar, desperate to get off a dying Earth. Together, they delve into what it means to be free, to resist and to grieve, and to stand in solidarity in the face of our future.

Asian Pirate Musical (APM) is the baby of me and six other rad creatives. We had a Work in Progress showing just before Covid (literally the week where everything started shutting down in London.... what a wild time to cram hundreds of people in an unventilated theatre built in the damp arches beneath a railway track...) and then we wrote the whole show in lockdown. We're now at the point where we're pitching it to companies and throwing applications for money at various walls but... yeah.... it's not the best time to be trying to get a show on in London, ngl.

If ya wanna hear some samples of some of the songs, you can find them on youtube:

so, yeah, queer asian found family pirates is kind of a theme for me! hopefully one day soon we'll find its home, and you all can join us for the trip! we have socials and a website and stuff so, if you wanna keep updated with it, you can follow us there ^^

Also, the header art was drawn by Charis Loke, who is very cool!

#ask nemo #asian pirate musical

[therealnuclearplatypus]

valzhang Childhood Enemies to Lovers 👀👀

slaying, anon

lemme just...

~❃~

3 years old:

"Mommy, look!"

Leo brandished his Lego-built contraption. Esperanza smiled indulgently at him, trying to make sense of her son's multicoloured creation. "What did you build, mijo?"

Leo frowned at her like the answer to her question was obvious. "It's a flying ship!"

"Ah, I see," Esperanza said, tilting her head, trying to see the vague shape of a ship in the thing in the boy's hands.

"And it has a dragon as a ... the front part," Leo continued.

"You mean the figurehead?"

"Yeah! That one!"

Esperanza laughed. "Oh, bebito. So creative. You'll do great things one day."

Leo looked up at his mother with large eyes. "Like you do?"

She smiled gently. "Even better than anything I can ever do."

***

She dropped him off at the playschool, much to the boy's annoyance. He walked in and sat down in a corner, fiddling with some wind-up toy he'd found.

"Can I have that?" a small voice asked.

Leo looked up. He saw a taller, chubby Asian boy squinting at him. Leo squinted right back. "No. I'm still playing with it."

"But you've had it for ages!" the other boy protested, getting angry the way only a three-year-old denied what he wants can.

"Not true!" cried Leo, getting angry as well. He instantly disliked this boy.

"Hey hey hey, what's the racket? Frank, c'mere," called a teacher. The boy—Frank—reluctantly made his way back to her, but Leo could see in his face that he hadn't made a friend.

Oh, well. His loss. Leo could live without annoying presences in his life. He was only three. He didn't need that sort of stress.

~❃~

7 years old:

A new school year. Leo missed his old school, but a prank gone wrong had seen him expelled. Now he's in some new school he already hates. With not a single familiar face.

He walked to his locker. All around him, people who already knew each other talked and yelled and laughed. He closed his eyes.

When he opened them, he saw a boy attempting to open the locker next to him. The boy was tall and well-built, a bit on the chubby side, with buzz-cut hair and Asian features. Leo thought he was beautiful.

Then he recognised him. Now grown, the boy from his old playschool was his schoolmate.

Frank. Frank Zhang.

Leo didn't still hold a grudge over the fact Frank had wanted his wind-up toy. But some sort of resentment still bubbled within him. He'd been his childhood nemesis. He needed a nemesis to spur him on.

It was as if he'd grown so used to resenting him that he didn't have the energy to feel anything else towards him.

Such was the brain of a seven-year-old.

Frank noticed him staring. And he seemed to recognize Leo, too. But, unlike Leo, Frank tried his hand at niceness.

"You new here?" he asked, still fumbling with his locker.

"Mhm," Leo hummed, eyeing Frank's hand on the lock.

"Cool. I'm Frank."

"Leo."

"Did we ... forgive me if I'm wrong, but have we met before?"

"I don't know."

"Playschool maybe?"

"Possibly."

Frank narrowed his eyes at Leo's dry responses. He gave up and resumed battling his locker.

Leo rolled his eyes and sighed. He reached over and helped him with the key.

Frank looked at him sheepishly. "Thanks."

Leo shut his own locker. "Don't mention it."

No matter how beautiful he was, he still didn't like him.

~❃~

13 years old:

Leo sat down. The school canteen was full of bustling students. Leo still hadn't integrated with too many kids, despite it being his sixth year here. He had a handful of friends, but they weren't here today. The biology students had some field trip or other, and all of them had chosen biology but Leo. So he sat alone at the table, picking at his mac'n'cheese.

He heard a familiar chatter of voices behind him. Hazel Levesque, Reyna Avila Ramirez-Arellano, Lavinia Asimov and Frank Zhang.

He turned. He caught Hazel's eye and winked. He'd always thought she was cute. There was no getting anywhere close to her though. She and Zhang were a couple, and proudly so. Leo had absolutely no chance with her.

Not that he'd stand a chance if she were single, either.

Then Leo caught Frank's eye. The Asian was as beautiful as ever, not that Leo would ever admit that aloud. Plus, he still didn't like him.

He really didn't.

Zhang was rich, which automatically made Leo dislike him. Then again, his best friend from his old school was Piper McLean, daughter of the rich and famous Hollywood star Tristan McLean ...

But Piper was Piper. He liked Piper.

Plus, Zhang still had his mom, despite her being in the army. Leo would never wish the pain he'd felt at his mom's passing when he was eight on anyone else, but it was a bit of a slap in the face, seeing Zhang, whose mother had such a dangerous job, and still had her, when he'd lost his own in a warehouse fire he'd started.

It was a dumb train of thought. But he still felt the sting of it anyways.

Leo looked away and made eye-contact with Reyna, who immediately scowled at him. Leo smiled winningly at her. Her scowl softened.

Lavinia waved at him. Leo waved back. Then he went back to his food.

He felt a hand on his back. Hazel.

"Are you just gonna stay here alone?" she asked, golden eyes gleaming.

"Well, yeah." Leo shrugged.

"That's not fair. Come sit with us!" Hazel insisted, and didn't relent till Leo was sat wedged between her and Reyna, who munched on her mashed potatoes in silence. She seemed reluctant to even breathe Leo's way.

Which was fine. Leo knew Reyna was like that.

Lavinia talked nonstop, about her ballerina father, her tap-dancing lessons, how she wanted to dye her hair pink.

"You should dye your eyebrows too while you're at it," Leo said through a mouth full of mac'n'cheese.

Lavinia's eyes lit up with delight. Hazel's lit up in alarm.

"Oh no. Oh no you don't. Valdez, why?!" she cried while Lavinia laughed. Leo was laughing, too.

"I'd pay good money to see Vinnie dye her eyebrows pink," Frank put in, "or at least, try to."

"Hey!" Lavinia protested, still laughing. Hazel elbowed her boyfriend, who laughed along with the rest of them.

As they left the canteen, Frank walked alongside Leo. Frank seemed to want to say something but remained silent, which infuriated Leo.

"If you wanna say something just say it," he said, sounding more snappish than he'd intended to sound.

Frank looked taken aback. "No, I just ... you always seem so distant. Have I ... hurt you, in some way? Did I say something? I'm sorry if I did."

Leo stared. Sorry, it's just a one-sided rivalry because you live a better life than I do, it's not you, you're quite nice, but I'd rather hate you and villanize you in my head to make myself feel better than actually try to get to know you and realize I was wrong about you all along. That was the truth. But of course he didn't say that.

Instead, he said, "No, you didn't do anything."

"Then ..." Frank was still staring at him with those gorgeous brown eyes. They looked like smoky quartz. Beautiful.

"Then, what?" Leo said, not even looking at him.

"What's your deal?" Frank burst out, cheeks reddening. "I know we're not exactly friends, but that's no reason to—to hate me, the way that you seem to do!"

Leo looked at him coolly. "Maybe we're not friends because I hate you."

Frank stopped dead. He looked at Leo, hurt written all over his face and Leo just wanted to take back what he'd just said but he couldn't, he never could.

"Oh," he said in a small voice, "okay."

Then he walked away.

~❃~

17 years old:

The sky was a lovely shade of blue, the colour of forget-me-nots. It was summer, and Leo was going back to his apartment after meeting up with his old friend, Piper.

They'd spent the entire morning laughing and reminiscing, until Piper had to go. Leo walked back home, to his rented apartment in LA. The rent was quite high, but it was close to his high-school. Plus he shared with a roommate, Calypso. His ex-girlfriend.

They were still on good terms. All was good.

Cal was back home making dinner for the two of them, and Leo's mouth watered at the mere thought of her homemade chicken pie. He quickened his pace.

He wasn't looking where he was going. He walked straight into a broad-shouldered young man, who squeaked, "Sorry, sorry!"

Leo took a step back and was about to apologise when he saw who he'd bumped into.

God, why couldn't he ever shake Zhang off?

Recognition made Frank's eyes widen. "A—Are you okay?"

"'M fine," Leo said. Then, after a noticeable pause, "Are you? I rammed into you pretty hard."

"It's alright." Frank looked awkward. "I, uh. How've you been?"

Oh no, a conversation. "I'm doing well. You?"

"I'm fine. It's a really nice day today, isn't it?"

Leo eyed him suspiciously. Ever since he and Hazel had broken up, Frank had seemed more ... nervous around Leo. He was yet to discern why. "It really is. Was out all morning, the sky's as clear as it's ever been."

"True, true." This idle talk was tiring both of them. Just as Frank was about to bid him goodbye, or at least that's what it seemed like he was about to do, Leo burst out, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I've been a real immature asshole, and you've constantly been at the receiving end of my assholeness. And I'm so sorry for that."

Frank looked surprised. "Oh. Uh. It's not like I've done anything to remedy our barely-there friendship, so ..."

"But I started it! I was so jealous of you, you seemed fo have everything. Money, a big house, friends, a mom. And I thought, I'd resented him as a dumb three-year-old, maybe that doesn't have to change, maybe—maybe I could just hate him and have it be justified because he has so much more than I do. But hate can never be justified, can it? Even if you had it better than I did. But over the past year, and it's embarrassing that it took me so long to come to terms with it, but over the past year I thought, having a mother in the army can't be easy. Being Chinese in a very racist country can't be easy. Nothing was easy for you, but I was too caught up in my own head to see that. I needed someone to bring down, so that I could feel better about myself, and for some godforsaken reason you ended up being that person. You didn't have to be, you didn't deserve to be. No one does. So I'm sorry. I'm really, really sorry. I've wanted to say that for a while now."

Frank just smiled. "I'm sorry, too. And, for what it's worth, I'm sorry about your mom. When my mom died last year, it felt as if the world was ending."

Leo stared. "Your mom ... died?"

Frank looked away, pained. "Yeah. In Afghanistan."

"I—I'm s—"

"Don't say that accursed word again. It's unbecoming of the loud and crazy and unapologetic Leo Valdez I know." He smiled again. "But then again, I don't really know you, do I?"

Leo made up his mind right there and then. "We'll fix that. We'll fix everything."

Frank was still smiling. "Okay."

~❃~

23 years old:

"FRAAANK!"

"I'M COMING!"

"That's what he said!" Leo called with a laugh.

"Oh, shut up," Frank muttered, entering the kitchen and walking to the stove, where Leo was making pancakes.

Leo planted a kiss on his boyfriend's jawline. "Breakfast is almost ready."

"Yum," Frank murmured sleepily, burying his face in the crook of Leo's neck. The latter smiled. Pure, unbridled joy swept through him like a tidal wave. The way it's always been since he and Frank first got together.

And even before that. Back when they were just friends.

All the pain of having him as his nemesis, translated into all this happiness of having him as his love.

An enemies-to-lovers type of story. Leo honestly hated that trope in books and movies. It always seemed so ... unrealistic. But then he understood. He'd resented Frank for being everything he could never be, but only because he couldn't see the truth of who he was. Who they both were.

For behind every smile and frown is a story. Leo hadn't known Frank's, so every easy smile meant utter idyll to Leo, and he hated him for it.

Then he grew, and saw the immaturity of his errors. Now, grown some more, he's grateful for the fruit of his labours.

Frank kissed his neck. "'M hungry."

"They're almost done," Leo repeated. "Patience!"

"But it's too early for patience," Frank retorted. Leo laughed.

"I love you, you know," he told him.

"I know," Frank said, and that was the beauty of it. He knew. He didn't doubt it. "And you know I love you, too."

"Yeah," Leo said softly, "I know."

He didn't doubt it, either.

~❃~

well, this is complete and utter crap. but im too attached to it to delete it. oh well. 😕

#rick riordan #read riordan #pjo hoo toa #pjo #hoo #toa #percyjackson #percy jackson #the heroes of olympus #heroes of olympus #the trials of apollo #trials of apollo #camp half blood camp jupiter #camp halfblood #camp jupiter #rr #rrverse #riordanverse #frank zhang #fai zhang #praetor fai zhang #praetor frank zhang #praetor zhang #leo valdez #valzhang #fraleo #freo #asks #writing prompt #answered asks

[dear-indies]

hi, i love the blog! I was wondering if you could help me with my fc research? i'm mostly looking for fcs with brightly colored hair - pink, green, blue, orange, white, it doesn't matter as long as it is clearly artificial. thank u in advance ♥

White/Platinum:

Riz Ahmed (1982) Pakistani - in Sound of Metal.

Ritu Arya (1988) Indian - The Umbrella Academy.

Lee Hong Ki (1990) Korean - in A Korean Odyssey.

Lali Espósito (1991) Argentinian - Sky Rojo.

Jade Cargill (1992) African-American.

Jacob Artist (1992) African-American / Polish - in New Apocalypse.

Tati Gabrielle (1996) African-American / Korean - in Uncharted and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

Aquinas / Kang Min-soo (2000) Korean - is bisexual.

Pink:

Michaela Coel (1987) Ghanaian - is aromantic - in I May Destroy You.

Jacob Tobia (1991) Syrian - is non-binary and uses they/them.

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (1991) African-American / African-American, Puerto Rican - in Tick Tick... Boom.

Megan Jayne Crabbe (1994) Afro-Jamaican and White - is queer.

Florence Rose (1997)

Anna Diop (1988) Senegalese - in Titans.

Sonia Ben Ammar (1999) Amazigh, Corsican / Polish - in Scream.

Gemma Chua-Tran (?) Unspecified Asian - in Heartbreak High - uses they/she.

Green:

Ashton Sanders (1995) African-American - in Native Son.

Red:

Aslıhan Güner (1987) Turkish.

Beanie Feldstein (1993) Ashkenazi Jewish - in Build a Girl - is openly dating a woman but doesn't want to label her sexuality.

Jung Da Eun (1994) Korean - in L.U.C.A.: The Beginning.

Monique Kim (?) Korean - is queer.

Blue:

Julio Torres (1987) Salvadoran - Los Espookys - is gay.

Jade Hassouné (1991) Lebanese - is queer.

Jessica Henwick (1992) Chinese Singaporean / English - in The Matrix: Resurrections.

Ilona Verley (1995) Nlaka’pamux - two-spirit and genderfluid and uses they/she.

Rish Shah (1995) Indian - in Do Revenge.

Ian Alexander (2001) Vietnamese / White - in Star Trek: Discovery.

Multicoloured:

Naomi Watanabe (1987) Japanese / Taiwanese.

Thanaerng Kanyawee Songmuang (1996) Thai-Chinese - in My Ambulance.

Kaiit (1997) Papuan / Gunditjmara, Torres Strait Islander - non-binary (she/he/they).

Ayumi Roux (2001) Japanese / French - in Skam France.

Anna Lambe (2000) Inuit - in Trickster.

Please let me know if you want more specific suggestions!

#fc help #rph #rpc #aria-dnea #ariadnea

[musicandgallery]

Harmonia axyridis

Harlequin ladybug (Aka Multicoloured/ Asian ladybug) nymph

Thanks to @sweetly-obsessing for providing this info.

(2 photos)

#musicandgallery #my photos #nature #ladybugs #insects #larvae #natur #insekten #marienkäfer #larven #Harmonia axyridis

[harperhug]

中秋节快乐!/Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

照片显示一位戴眼镜的妇女，穿着彩色裙子，拿着两个用蛋黄的月饼对着相机。/Pictures of an East Asian girl with glasses in a multicoloured dress holding two mooncakes with egg yolks in them to the camera.

#personal #chinese stuff

[scarletlettergay]

A lot of folks seem to ship because they're convinced their biases are in a real 100% relationship etc. And then call folks homophobic for not agreeing. That's a little weird and maybe fetishy to me especially when it's cishet non-Asians playing telephone across multiple cultural codes they don't understand.

I can actually relate better if folks were honest about their vicarious, wish-fulfilment fantasies of youth, splendour and sex instead of owlishly sublimating it and preaching 'truth'. It's like there's romantic 'tastes' and our own orientation and preferences guide what is the ideal ship fantasy.

I ship Taejin because it has the coolest and most interesting vibe to me. It's what I would love to have. Two tangent thinkers who are very very different, independent but have amazing chemistry. Taehyung is all languid, decadent, pretty, romantic, coffee-rich, quaint and wildly multicoloured; Jin is all geeky, handsome, peach-glowy, wholesome, shrewd, gently iridiscent. It feels magical. Like some sort of Irish coffee cream brew.

A lot of Taejinnies like to ship Jikook but I don't exactly get the appeal and don't think them quite as sus. Some of their actions seem incongruous. It's a very flirty, fresh thing they have, golden-peachy, a little sassy, a little Gen Z /y2K. Kind of like JK's Left and Right. They're boba milk tea.

Jimin's personal notes are way spicier. Maybe why I like VMin too, it makes me think of a great Coorg cinnamon coffee thing.

Taekook : Now unpopular opinion, they have solid visual chemistry. It's not technically impossible. But they're like coffee and tea, two great flavours but that are immiscible. To use their potential MBTI typings as shorthand, as an ENFP and an ISTP, they share literally no life orientations in common. They bond over being ambitious, but what they're ambitious for is very different. That's fine as a friendship, even as a very close friendship, but I don't personally think it very shippable beyond the cute-boys-looking-good level. To my chagrin, very few others want to actively be with someone who literally challenges them, like a constant Rubik's cube. As Ne-dom that means me, with my I can adapt to anything enthusiasm, not convincing my set-in-stone INTJ crush who is a-Ok with their cotton-candy ISFJ partner (sigh).

I have no clue how to end this mental middle-of-the-night rambling (not crazy, just have ADHD and borderline synesthesia). But peace between all the ships and I'll be so satisfied to see all of them living their best lives, whatever form that takes for them, alone or together.

Freedom :)

#bts #Taehyung #Jin #Jimin #Jungkook #BTS shipping discourse #taejin

[katiajewelbox]

Women’s History Month March 2024

Discover a bouquet of women botanists and plant scientists from history!

Barbara McClintock

Why does Native American flint corn (Zea mays) often have a multicoloured mosaic pattern of kernel colours? The biological answer is transposons or “jumping genes”! Dr. Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was the American cytogeneticist who discovered that certain genetic loci can change position on chromosomes, a phenomenon called “transposition”, using multicoloured corn as the model organism between 1948 and 1950. McClintock courageously pursued her calling as a biologist despite societal attitudes discriminating against women in scientific careers. She went on to win the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for her work on transposons.

Janaki Ammal

The first woman to earn a PhD in botany at a university in the USA was actually from India! Janaki Ammal (4 November 1897 – 7 February 1984) was born in Kerala, India, to a family of civil servants. She travelled to the USA via scholarships for Asian students and earned both a Masters degree and PhD from the University of Michigan by 1931. At the John Innes Centre in the UK, she co-authored the Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants (1945). Later in her career she worked on breeding superior varieties of sugarcane and eggplant in her home country.

Estelle Leopold

A botanist interested in both the past and the future of plant life, Estelle Leopold (January 8, 1927 – February 25, 2024) pioneered the use of fossilised pollen and spores to document environmental changes over vast time periods. Her research uncovered connections between climate change and evolution plus extinction of plant species, including trends of the central regions of continents experiencing more species turnover than coastal areas. Her work as a conservationist led to the protection of the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in Colorado, and she also helped prevent the building of dams in the Grand Canyon as well as oil shale development and the transport of nuclear waste in the Pacific Northwest.

#womeninscience#womenshistorymonth#plantscience#botany#barbaramcclintock#scientist#womenscientists#botanists#janakiammal#estelleleopold#history#inspiringwomen#WomenInSTEM#womeninplantscience#PlantBiology

#katia plant scientist #botany #plant biology #plants #plant science #women in science #women in stem #stem #stemblr #science #plant scientist #female scientists #women scientists #womens history #international women's day #women's history month #women in plant biology #women in biology #biologist #researchers #academics

[underworld-citizen]

A RACIST CONSPIRACY let us believe that ancient roman marbles were white while they were in fact painted!!!

the association with between the colour white and the white """race""" is something you have nowadays. Back then white was a compliment for a fair skinned woman who didn't need to leave the house to work. Classist sure, but not racist (and definitely not white; pale yellow, brown, or pink. A white marble statue wouldn't obviously reflect the skin tone of anyone. Even nowadays no people have a white skintone). The white statue <- -> white people equivalence is only something that works in your culture, please leave it in 21st century tumblr.

anything carved has the colour of the material you carve it with. If I make a cameo in a green gemstone it doesn't mean the person represented is green. If I make my statues from white marble (which allows me to see the prowess of the artist better than multicoloured marble) that doesn't necessarily mean I'm depicting a specific ethnicity. If I paint my statues that doesn't mean I'm depicting a specific ethnicity EITHER unless I paint them brown or i guess pinkish yellow (the "white" skin tone). Did the statues have their skin painted? Or just hair / clothes?

"greek statues were made of bronze to be true to skintone but muh evul romanz melted them down to make weapons". My dude. My dude. Have you perhaps seen the many extant greek statues THAT ARE MADE OF WHITE MARBLE??? But more than that, have you ever seen A GREEK PERSON??? Come back to me and tell me they're not white. They're white people with a tan from living in a sunny country, that's like saying (white) californians are not white because they are tanned (i'm tailoring this example specifically for americans because americans have a special kind of ignorance and also equate everything to racial conflicts when in fact things are much more nuanced). Which incidentally fits with the "white" as a classist compliment for women (and goddesses) because they didn't have to leave the house to work and as such they did not tan. Which is something you see in other cultures, e.g. south Asian, even nowadays, and lasted in the West until the industrial revolution made it so the poor had to work indoors (or underground). Also (rich, influential) Romans were such Greek weeaboos that (the conservatives) had to make laws against Greek culture superseding the Roman one, so i kind of doubt they would be destroying Greek art... and making weapons with BRONZE when IRON works way better smh.

Also the painted statues look goofy af so i kind of understand the people who wanted to believe they were unpainted for aesthetic reasons. Yeah sure """there was a gradient and that is only the base layer""" but people back in the renaissance had no way to know that since we're doing this rumination nowadays with MICROSCOPES.

I see no evidence of a racist conspiracy but by all means enlighten me.

#fight ignorance with ignorance #wow i hate tumblr

[akari08biyori]

いきもにあ2023 New items✨

These key holders are designed to look like a pocket on the back of ladybug's back (seven-spot ladybird, multicoloured Asian, Amida tricolor).

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[infifashion]

Types Of Jewelry

Finding the ideal jewelry to go with your current look might be difficult. We recognize that the sheer number of jewelry options available can be intimidating. We have compiled this helpful list of the 16 best types of jewelry with images for you to pick from in order to make things easier for you.

Finding the ideal jewellery to go with your current look might be difficult. We recognise that the sheer number of jewellery options available can be intimidating. We have compiled this helpful list of the 16 best jewellery types with images for you to pick from in order to make things easier for you. We have even made different sections  for types of jewellery names. Below are the list of few on the jewellery

Antique Jewellery - Jewellery that is old or vintage is ideal for a stylish, elegant appearance. With a saree in a soft, muted colour like beige, cream, or pastel blue, you can wear a chunky necklace or a striking pair of earrings.

2.Temple Jewellery - Temple jewellery is a sort of ethnic jewellery created using various gods and goddesses' images. The original concept for temple jewellery included gold objects with priceless gemstones set into them.

3.Gemstone Jewellery - Precious and semi-precious stones like emeralds, rubies, and sapphires are used as the foundation for gemstone jewellery. The stones are precisely cut and polished before being used to create the finest jewellery items. 

4.Platinum Jewellery - Because it retains its shape, wear, and colour even after years of wearing it, platinum is a protective metal that is frequently thought of as eternal and everlasting.

5.Minakari Jewellery - Indian traditional jewellery known as minakari, or meenakari, has been made since the 16th century. The Mughals brought the Minakari art form to India after it was created in Persia.

6.Navratna Jewellery - Sanskrit for "nine gems" is navratna. These jewels include the following: hessonite, cat's eye, diamond, ruby, emerald, coral, pearl, blue and yellow sapphire. Most south Asian civilizations consider this type of jewellery, which has several multicoloured stones, to be a symbol of wealth and success.

7.Bridal Jewellery - Every woman imagines her own extravagant, gorgeous wedding. Since your wedding is a once-in-a-lifetime occasion, choosing the perfect outfit may ensure that you are the centre of attention on your special day.

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[houseofgerrard]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Guerxuan Cotton Multicolour Top​​.

[dolllikelove]

‘Let it all go and be sexy’: the Asian aunties exploring their sensuality through Zumba

In this Melbourne gym, an army of middle-aged women are finding confidence in the chest shimmies and ‘slut drops’ of the high-energy dance regime * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email I remember the first time I saw my mum attempt a body roll. The room was lit with multicoloured fluorescent flashing bulbs, and we weren’t alone – we were in a Zumba dance class with 40 other bodies sweating it out in activewear. And there was my 61-year-old Chinese mum, coiling her torso back and forth like I had never seen. I had been to Zumba before, but had dismissed it as a novelty exercise featuring a giddy instructor in a wireless headset and clashing prints. But in this unassuming gym in Melbourne’s south-east, it felt different. The odour of sweat was the same, the dance routines were familiar, but in the front rows of the class were a dozen or so Asian “aunties” – middle-aged women – gyrating their hips in time to the music. Continue reading... http://dlvr.it/Sk2Wkd