titsay
AnasAbdin
Cosmic Funnies
Mike Driver
Sweet Seals For You, Always
d e v o n
★
roma★
izzy's playlists!
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
i don't do bad sauce passes
NASA
almost home
art blog(derogatory)
we're not kids anymore.
todays bird
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Kiana Khansmith
@theartofmadeline
$LAYYYTER
seen from United States
seen from Türkiye
seen from Italy
seen from United States
seen from Spain
seen from Switzerland
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Türkiye
seen from Spain
seen from United States
seen from Germany
seen from Venezuela
seen from T1
seen from United States
seen from Spain
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from Belgium
@afroflowerr
I miss making clay eyeglass charms!! Some of my designs were inspired by my dear Besan 🦋🌸🫶🏾
Creating a master links post for @bessalah GFM and her relatives!
Besan’s family has long been verified by @/90-ghost. Many of the family’s accounts have been terminated.
Besan’s GFM link
Kifah’s GFM link
Hossam’s GFM link
Tahrir’s GFM link
gijinka redraws
Hello! Thank you for being here. As you all know, Congo and Sudan are currently in states of emerge… Mutual Aim needs your support f
$3,064/$30,000
This campaign was started by @/atute_insp on tiktok and her team Mutual Aim to collect money for the DRC, Sudan, and Tigray. The donations will be divided between the three causes. If you would like do donate but don't have the funds to donate to multiple campaigns, this is a great way to help both the Congo, Sudan, and Tigray.
Hey guys, thank you, I don't know what to say, I don't know how we'll give you back, we Philistines. Just all we can say, thank you for your time and effort you give us. You are truly the greatest people on the planet. Thank you someone who supported us and donated to us
Hey guys, if it weren't for your donations But now, all of my family and I are dead. Especially my father, because he is a cancer patient and the lack of medication is a very difficult reason. Because of your donations, you have saved us all. Everything I can say is truly thank you to all of you from the heart of Gaza. I'm really happy you consider your second family.
We are very close to €13,000, we only need approximately €750That's a small amount. We can get there together. Please Sauna to complete our lives, we really need some money in these times Share the post and donate even a little thank you my loved ones
Hi My name is Ibrahim, a young man from the Gaza Strip. I'm li… Ibrahim Family needs your support for Donate to help ibrahim and his family
Please help us, please donate if possible It's so simple, your donation will simply save me, I'm not taking that money to entertain, my friend. Just to buy my food and medicine Thank you
€12,236 raised! that's 31% of the goal, and means they're getting closer to reaching a third of the goal, please help support them <3
We're so close to our mini-goal, guys. Let's go there together. I'll be the happiest person in life if we do. Just donate to me and my family
lesbian day of visibility... Y'ALL SEE ME?
(and if you do, your perpetually impoverished favorite author is always in need of help: paypal.me/marsinaries)
I'll make a more eloquent post on both substack and Patreon, but I'm having to push back on writing right now, as I am severely burned out. Like, your fae can barely think, nevermind write 80k words for faer second novel. So, I won't be getting my next check for a while, and I don't know when I'll start getting royalties, so I'm going to have to ask all of you lovely people to help keep me and my family afloat. It'll be at least until September-October, and in that time I'll be trying to write a few short stories here and there, but honestly, I'm one bad day away from checking myself into a hospital. So! To avoid that, and if you'd like to support me and my work:
Paypal.me/marsinaries
Venmo.com/fluoresensitive
Patreon.com/fluoresensitive
And of course, you can always purchase ON SUNDAYS, SHE PICKED FLOWERS anywhere you can buy books. But not Amazon.
Happy Pride month y'all
A collection of flags i’ve made!
from top to bottom, left to right: Rainbow Lavender flag (just a fun redesigned pride flag that has the flagship lavender flower as a community symbol) Trans lesbian, Black lesbian, Trans bi, Black bi, Trans gay, Black gay, Black trans, and Black nonbinary
aaannd if you wanna donate ^_^ https://ko-fi.com/frogwhomp
I miss making clay eyeglass charms!! Some of my designs were inspired by my dear Besan 🦋🌸🫶🏾
Creating a master links post for @bessalah GFM and her relatives!
Besan’s family has long been verified by @/90-ghost. Many of the family’s accounts have been terminated.
Besan’s GFM link
Kifah’s GFM link
Hossam’s GFM link
Tahrir’s GFM link
When Amal surprised me by telling me she named her newborn after me, I felt like part of my heart had gone to Gaza and remained there ever since.
This part of my heart is now breaking. Amal, who's been on a poor diet because she can't afford better food, is unable to breastfeed baby Mina any longer, and is unable to afford enough formula to compensate, and now both mother and baby are weak and malnourished.
Amal is suffocating from the stress of having to provide for her daughters. Her husband Motasem is doing everything he can (recently, he was almost caught in a bombing while trying to get food) but they're both overwhelmed. I wish there was anything I can do for them.
I'm begging you to donate if you can and share if you can't. I want, more than anything in this world, for these kids to grow up healthy and for their parents to be able to rest.
Fundraiser Vetting info
Amal Ashour's family is #175 on our list!
Hello friends, I'm Sahar! Lia & I are friends of the Ashours & Shehabs, and we'll be helping them run this campaign. Both families have had
Vetted! #175 on the verified fundraiser list vetted by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi
vetted by @bilal-sala7 line #46
Wait, you were actually born in the 1900's? Thats so cool
i am going to eat my own entire skin
Reblog if you were born in the 1900's.
lesbian day of visibility... Y'ALL SEE ME?
(and if you do, your perpetually impoverished favorite author is always in need of help: paypal.me/marsinaries)
I'll make a more eloquent post on both substack and Patreon, but I'm having to push back on writing right now, as I am severely burned out. Like, your fae can barely think, nevermind write 80k words for faer second novel. So, I won't be getting my next check for a while, and I don't know when I'll start getting royalties, so I'm going to have to ask all of you lovely people to help keep me and my family afloat. It'll be at least until September-October, and in that time I'll be trying to write a few short stories here and there, but honestly, I'm one bad day away from checking myself into a hospital. So! To avoid that, and if you'd like to support me and my work:
Paypal.me/marsinaries
Venmo.com/fluoresensitive
Patreon.com/fluoresensitive
And of course, you can always purchase ON SUNDAYS, SHE PICKED FLOWERS anywhere you can buy books. But not Amazon.
Imma say this and imma start my day, but
Like I said to the person who was threatening me with their own suicide yesterday (before blocking them), I think it's worth considering why y'all make excuses and/or get defensive when someone says something is racist.
Why are you that upset? If I said the design is racist, why are you telling me every reason you thought it wasn't, as if that's going to make the harm any less upsetting? As if it's going to rationalize it (which, really, underscores that you think there's an overreaction occurring).
"Well I thought it was-" "but I thought it was-" "well to be fair, it's-" why do I have to bring an entire court case of evidence to prove harm, but the harmful party/situation in question gets the automatic benefit of the doubt in your mind?
I get being thorough and not accepting anything at face value. But it doesn't escape me that excusing and rationalizing racism is the default response. If we're doing that every time someone approaches us... You may wonder why y'all don't get approached with said problems.
THIS PART. The person I dealt with yesterday may have been an outlier as a response, but the rationalization is so common. It is astounding how many people easily slide into being Racism's Defense Attorney like... WHY? Do you recognize where that puts you if you are proven in the wrong? Why does racism need a lawyer? It's like saying Jeff Bezos needs a welfare paycheck.
Cows that have been shampooed and blowdried
Braved the Southern humidity and heat at 7am to bring you images of my brown arm in different types of sunlight and greenery. No reason, of course.
Also I present: my arm at green tint and -41 saturation. Versus. My arm outside in a shaded area in ambient lighting where the sun hasn't fully risen. Again, no real reason.
Prev I know they're good references lol, that was also part of the point was so people can see how brown skin ACTUALLY functions in the light. Melanin loves light!! My arm is literally GLOWING. So shying away from colorful lighting with brown skin... unfathomable decision.
I also have a severely underrated lesson for this too:
“The Same Place as the Music”: Lighting & Color
“The Same Place as the Music” Lighting & Color
“Where is the light coming from?” “The same place as the music.” Andrew Lesnie, Cinematographer of LOTR
How & Why It's A Problem
If I had to summarize the frustration I have with this topic in one image, I'd use JeCorey Holder's (queer Black creative!) meme:
Now here's the thing. I'm not saying you have to be a master at lighting. I'm surely not. Hell, I still play around with lighting in my art in ways that aren’t the ‘most realistic’. You can’t ask me the technical explanations behind ‘color theory’ or 'contrast' without me doing some more reading. However… I don’t think anyone needs an art degree to understand this point:
We should be able to SEE your brown skinned Black characters!
I brought this up in my lessons about skin tones and blushing, and it applies with lighting as well. If all of your other characters have focused light and shadows, so should your Black characters.
However, this does NOT mean making them lighter-skinned!!!!
It's not funny nor logical at all to suggest that they somehow can't be seen like your other characters when you’re the one creating the piece. It's like a classic fifth-grade racist joke, “You blend in at night”. Har-de-har.
I was once rudely told to my face (well in the DMs) that a Black character that was completely Europeanized looked like that “because of the [sepia] lighting”. So I'm going to give you all, gracious readers, an example to show that that's not true.
This is Ana Flávia, Afro-Brazilian model! Gaze upon her beauty! Notice how in both of these filters, Ana did not, in fact, turn into a white woman! Because, my friends, that is not how that works! At all!
Here are some other examples of Black people in non-color lighting:
None of these people vanished from the frame just because there was no color. They didn't have to paint on lighter makeup to be captured by the camera. What do they all have in common (in this example)?
Lighting!
Now let’s discuss different ways to think about and potentially try instead!
What I want you all to keep in mind, is that the art you’re painting:
And I know that's silly right, like yeah no shit Ice, we knew that. BUT my point here is don’t be afraid to study photography, theatre, and staging for ideas. They actively work with light! It’s why I share so many images of models; it’s purposeful, focused staging of light with many of these compositions!
Brown-skinned Black people- brown-skinned people in general- GLOW in the light! Our skin reflects environmental light! There’s so much opportunity to play with that, and you can see different examples in those mediums.
Here are a couple articles of lighting in film focused on Black actors.
When lighting a person with dark complexion, the answer is not LIGHTENING THE SKIN, it’s understanding how light reflects off of dark skin.” -Nilah Magruder
Nilah Magruder (Black creator!) has an ENTIRE, thorough and wonderful essay on the topic, far better than I could give! She incorporates the use of cameras, lighting, painting, and more- so rather than be redundant here, I'm going to spotlight (ha see what I did there. It's okay, I know I'm funny) her and her explanation.
Incorporating Blackness in Color/Colorful Lighting
@dsm7 has an excellent and short visual explanation of how picking certain colors will lead to washing out or whitewashing Black characters, and how certain lighting and backgrounds (think the black and white photos on brighter backgrounds) will change the way their skin tone looks.
@nicosbighead has one of my favorite images on here, that shows how many different colors can still be used to convey the image of Blackness. Notice how all those pinks still worked?
@gaksdesigns has a beautiful picture here that I feel utilizes the light in a very minimal yet effective way to show highlights even on a palette that's fully brown.
This article approaches from a lighting perspective via filmmaking, but essentially Sade Ndya suggests instead of increasing the amount of light, change the color/lens of the light based on your character’s skin, as well as for the circumstances of the scene. They'll remain vibrant that way, and you’ll still capture what you need.
I know one way I do this on CSP (I think I’ve mentioned this but I can’t remember) is to use the Add Glow tool with the same or a similar shade of the character’s brown skin tone as a highlight under natural light, or maybe use different colors or filters depending on the sort of light on their skin at the time.
Here’s a reddit about it too, just because I know y’all value Reddit on here, and someone else discussed the topic that both Nilah and Sade discussed.
Is It Intentional?
There are going to be times where you intend for the light to be minimal. Maybe it’s a style choice. That should still show purposeful composition. Here’s an interview with famed Black director Ava Duvernay discussing the intentional darkness on Black actors in the prison scene in the movie Selma. To show that they're both trapped in prison AND that Martin is temporarily low on resolve- it's a part of the story that's being told.
I'm always talking about this: there is a difference between intention (and following through), and neglecting to think about it at all. And neglect isn't what we want, because often we can tell visually when it is- when an artist simply did not think to do it for one versus the rest.
Sidenote, on Youtube in the suggestions after Ava's interview, are also plenty of videos discussing lighting for dark-skin as well- why not take the chance to look?
Conclusion
We do not lack for light! We aren’t flat and lightless when you see us in life. It's actually a pretty awesome part of being brown-skinned. If you’re giving proper, flattering lighting to everyone else, give it to us as well. Study and experiment with ways to highlight brown skin.
You already know what I’m going to say. It’s going to take practice, same as anything else, because it’s the thought that counts, but the action that delivers!
Can someone help a black bi girl eat today and maybe tomorrow ? I’m hungry with a cold at work $hopesoda Venmo:hope-soda Pypal [email protected]
5 bucks would help me get home from work today on the train
