The Alicia-Bloem's Hell

French-english blog of my art, my ideas and some things I appreciate, like Undertale and my projects.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Native artwork is honestly fucking gorgeous and it infuriates me that when you think of or try to look up “Native American art”, you get fetishistic, colonizer bullshit.

I’m so fucking sick of it. We’re always defined by how other people see us.

[tenochtitlan-archive]

That and native art is so underrated too. It’s hard to get attention to my artwork, it’s hard to get attention to any native artist, art competition, gallery.. anything. We all spend hours, days, even weeks honing our skills and creating art for ourselves and others. People only want the creations we slave over when it’s cheap or free. They don’t recognize each detail and it’s meaning or the intricacies we took time to sketch out or bead in or sew or anything.

I go to festivals in my area where lots of indigenous people (namely First Nations or Salish) are. A lot of their tents have the stereotypical fetishing native art incorporated into a product somehow and it makes me a little forlorn, but there isn’t much I can do but be sad. Now that’s a part of a bigger issue I can’t get into now, but you see the problem.

Art from all nations needs to be recognized.

I bought art from a creator named Harmony Hoss. She was so friendly and she sells her art at Pike’s Place in Seattle as a Tlingit woman. Tell me her formline isn’t absolutely gorgeous. But she goes so unrecognized because people are so unimpressed with her hard work.

Anyways, support native artists.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

For anyone who wants to support Harmony Hoss, she has a website!

Unfortunately, it’s incredibly difficult finding real Native artists online just because of how many people blatantly lie or use misdirection to make people think that they’re Native. If anyone has recommendations for Native artists, feel free to share them!

[tenochtitlan-archive]

Here are some native artists and businesses!

Sa-Cinn - https://sa-cinn.com/ - Northwest Coastal-based native business that showcases different artists who make a variety of items such as prints, blankets, jewelry, and drums.

Dancing Blackbird - https://dancingblackbird.com/ - Native hat-band artist based in Arizona. (https://etsy.me/2ES5FDi)

Shotridge - https://shotridgenativeamericanart.com/ - Family-owned Tlingit art business. (https://etsy.me/2EOXXtt)

Harmony Hoss - http://harmonys-art.com/ - Tlingit traditional artist who sells prints online and in Pike’s Place, Seattle. (https://instagram.com/hoss.harmony?igshid=fmqf1v8fjpic)

Thunder Voice Hat co - https://www.thundervoicehatco.com/ - Non-mass produced Navajo-made hats. (https://instagram.com/thundervoicehatco?igshid=qee5nrj3sx0g)

Ahyoka Studio - https://etsy.me/2Zo9ucx - Oji-Cree creator of keychains, earrings, and stylized dreamcatchers. (https://instagram.com/ahyokastudio?igshid=mzkx8liuives)

Earth Maidens Emporium - https://etsy.me/399rAn7 - Jewelry and stylized dreamcatchers made by a Cherokee man and his partner.

Nipinet - https://instagram.com/nipinet?igshid=1f5o0z2i288bx - Anishinaabe Métis tattoo artist (& a mutual of mine. 🖤)

David Robert Boxley - http://davidrobertboxley.com/ - Tsimshian artist. (https://instagram.com/davidrobertboxley?igshid=jktg991on3tm)

Spiderstitch - https://instagram.com/spiderstich?igshid=1eehi5qj4qnds - Mexica-Wixárika artist who handmakes beaded earrings.

Beyond Buckskin Boutique - http://shop.beyondbuckskin.com/ - Lots of different native fashion. Their buy native list: http://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html?m=1

[otahkoapisiakii]

Here’s some more that are some of my faves!

John Isaiah Pepion (Instagram link)- Blackfeet contemporary ledger artist who also has earrings, phone cases, and blankets on his site which is linked on his IG bio. My fave t-shirt is from one of his pieces back when he was first testing out merch and he ran some off. I’m still crossing my fingers and trying not to hit him up like “this would be dope on a shit” every time he posts a new piece

The Chief’s Daughter (Instagram link) - Karli Crow Shoe a Pikanii/Blackfoot/Nez Perce designer who focuses mainly on beadwork; she does a ton of custom works and is influenced heavily by Niitsitapi culture for sellable work

Bunky Echo-Hawk (Instagram link) - Pawnee/Yakima visual artist and visual performer. You’ve probably seen his work floating around Cyber NDN Country even if you’ve never heard of him; he’s the one who painted Yoda as a Pawnee that one time years and ages ago. He sells prints and stickers on his website where there’s a link in his IG bio; he’s pretty popular but Imma always feel like everybody needs to know Bunky’s work

Tumblr’s own resident Bear But Not Really That Kind, @baapi-makwa who’s Insta link is here. An Ojibwe artist working almost exclusively with ink and pens, there’s a link to his Patreon in his bio as well

Kiamichi who is on and off tumblr as @mahtheyzhawey and can be found on Instagram here and is an amazing beadwork artist from the Ponka and Chahta Nations. She made my sweet ass piece with the big ol coyote medallion got me lookin like my cousin on Tribal Council and shit

The Cauldron & The Crown (Instagram link with a link to the shop in the bio) - BlackNDN Tsalagi jewelry maker whomst is on here as well but tbh I can only remember their personal blog and not their arty blog which is my fault but to keep it a hunnid, @crouchingtiger-hiddennegro is funny as hell and I have no room in my heart for anything else

Needle Knot And Thread (Instagram link) - May’s a textile artist from the Tsalagi Nation and makes such dope lil embroidery samples, earrings, patches, and quilt squares n stuff! There’s a link to an etsy shop in the bio

Ali Watson (Instagram link) - an Oglala Lakota jewelry maker who’s also a cool person! My fave pair of earrings was made by Ali! The turquoise ones with the dentalium drops; there’s a link to a main website in the bio

Panda Moon (Instagram link) - Y’all remember that dope beaded moon pin I got not too long ago with the little bat dangle? The homie Jennifer made it! She’s Southern Cheyenne and beads jewelry and pins. She could REALLY use the capital right now as she’s in a financially dire situation having recently escaped a horrible situation. If you don’t want to buy anything from her which, why wouldn’t you but that’s none of my business; there’s a link to her GoFundMe on her bio too!

Project 562 (Instagram link) - Matika Wilbur from Swinomish and Tulalip Nations. Now, she’s a photographer so this isn’t strictly the kind of art that we’re discussing BUT I feel it’s super important to include her because Project 562 is about photographing Indigenous People BY an Indigenous Person FROM an Indigenous perspective. It’s about reclaiming imagery, narrative, direction, and power that was written for us by the Olde Timey white ethnographers like Edward S Curtis

I have DEFINITELY forgotten people on this list and if any of y’all who know I fuck witcha the long way come across this and don’t see yourself on here, know that I am sorry, that was unintentional I can only blame it on the fact that I’m tired as hell and I got the Brain Rot at the best of times

[valsdas]

britney spears has lost the court case, again, to end her father's conservatorship over her, and it makes me so fucking SAD that no one is in her corner, apart from like... britney stans that the rest of public opinion and internet treats as a joke. hashtag free britney itself started as a joke. meanwhile, she's now saying that she will not perform any more as long as her father has control over her, and still, no one seems to be in her corner. she has been infantilized since the beginning of her career, and her mental breakdown added that extra ~insanity~ layer to it all, thus turning her into someone who is treated condescendingly, with pity, with sarcasm, like a lobotomized version of her former self performing for others to make fun of her. but she is not given empathy. where is the fucking compassion?? not even out of nostalgia for a pop icon formative for an entire generation, in the full meaning of the word? who is having britney's back?? she deserves so much more.

[writing-prompt-s]

You are the dangerous Chaos Mage. Everyone fears you. You are actually just dyslexic and keep reading you spellbook wrong.

[natenae]

no ones knows what spell you’ll cast next, least of all you

[croakings]

here are the things that they test for, at the Academy: potential, intelligence, temperament, flexibility.

here are the things they do not test for: reading comprehension, a fear of god or death, basic common sense.

this is, of course, entirely by design; they don’t care where their students come from so long as they are or may be powerful. literacy isn’t a requirement. they teach that for the duration of your time there your mind and body are no longer yours, but your teacher’s to mold as they judge to be fit. they tell you to do something and you are meant to do it, no questions, no protests, no second thoughts permitted. if you come to them cow-eyed and sitting on a deep reservoir of arcane ability, popular wisdom says your proctor will weep with joy when presenting your results to the higher staff.

it has, in their defense, been an extremely successful system by anyone’s standards. not even you were prepared for yourself.

you are no longer a student of the Academy. as far as you’re aware, they’re denying that you were ever a student at the academy; the last version of the story you were told was that you swept out of nowhere, blew up an entire wing of the Academy of Mages as an attack on the Crown and its future assets, and have since been drifting around the countryside causing wanton chaos, as you will until the knights finally manage to hunt and put you down.

there are nuggets of truth to this story, unfortunately.

you were tested as having so much potential as a Mage that your instructors informed you to your face that if you dedicated yourself to your studies, you might very well become a thing of legend. you received more special attention than you knew what to do with. you were drilled in the structure of spells and the history and theory of magic until you could recite practically every piece of magical literature backwards. you were made to practice the foreign syllables of the Ancient Tongue until they rolled off your tongue with ease.

and then you were given your spellbook.

here is a series of facts: there is no one alive who knows the meaning of more than a few words of the Ancient Tongue, and those who can claim even that sliver of wisdom inevitably spend the rest of their lives in seclusion attempting to be the one to discover the key to unlocking the rest. student mages are not allowed under any circumstances to practice any spell that has not been extensively demonstrated and discussed by their instructors. student mages do not receive their spell book until they are at the edge of graduation, which is accomplished after a formality wherein they are expected to read a single spell from a random page. spell books are in and of themselves a mystery to the modern world of magic, and are created with a single spell caster in mind; they provide what is needed without fail or exception. they are rumored to be alive. until a Mage becomes familiar with common incantations provided, not even they know what a spell will do, outside of the fact that it will be what is desired.

a final fact: for all your life, whenever you have laid eyes on a page, the letters have skittered from their resting places, mixing and dancing with each other according to their own will.

what you told yourself is that this was simply a manifestation of your great power. what you told yourself was that if this was of any consequence, surely someone would have noticed, would have mentioned. what you told yourself was that you were going to be a legend and nothing was going to stop you.

and, well. again, you’ve certainly heard enough stories of yourself.

you are aware you have in some small way brought this upon yourself; you have no resources, no friends, no place where you may go to seek shelter. there is no one that would believe your innocence. there is nothing you can do to prove your lack of malice when to the rest of the kingdom its existence is self-evident. so you keep reading your book, as the knights draw ever closer. you read your book when you are hungry and alone in the dark. you read your book when the sun is shining on you and you can feel your power roiling like the sea and think that surely in this one moment nothing else can go wrong. you read your book because it is the only thing you have left, and you know that even still they are probably going to catch you eventually.

you are the chaos mage, and there is nothing that anybody can do about it.

[teaboot]

The number of times I have been delighted by witty banter only to find out later that I was “Flirting” is both unfortunate and disappointing.

[teaboot]

“haha so what about that guy, huh?”

Me: what about him

“Well you seemed super into him”

Me: what why

“…dude you were flirting all night”

Me:

Me: Whoms't™™

[trainerdelaney]

I found out several of my female coworkers were planning on trying to get our male coworker to ask me out because “You guys kept flirting” but I was like “We were literally just goofing around. Like we literally just told jokes to each other. Literally just stuff that friends do, the same stuff you and I do.” I was definitely 100% NOT flirting but everyone thought I was

[trainerdelaney]

“You were laughing at everything TJ did!”

“He paper clipped a banana to the ceiling, Isabelle. That’s fucking bonkers”

[eeby-the-mcdeeby]

Good time to remind everyone that if you don’t know that you’re “flirting” you’re not flirting. Flirting is an action that has to be done with conscious intent, since the point of it is intent, henceforth you can’t do it without realising.

[lexiecon-overlord]

It’s the ✨heteronormativity✨

[weloveshortvideos]

[rehfan]

If you are having a bad day, please unmute.

(Huskie puppy doesn’t quite get the howling thing. Sounds like a baby babbling.)

[filbipott]

“Banana!”

[iamallrightfine]

* day is fixed* 

[chileananderson-deactivated2017]

ok. i super needed this.

[stellagibsonisalifeforce]

THIS. The whole world should watch this.

[yperoxo-paidi]

πεθαινωωωωωωωωωωωωω

[chrissongzzz]

[milky-katzchen]

They tried it

[shining-wizard]

Don’t think that my boy Andy doesn’t know that neither

[thewayistare]

he said i won’t get dragged on y’alls behalf

[futuristicballoondream-deactiva]

Aslo This:

[candiikismet]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[ithelpstodream]

[rena-rain]

NOT OKAY WITH IT

I WAS HORRIFIED WHEN I FOUND OUT

THEN I TALKED TO PEOPLE AND THEY WERE LIKE “SO? ISN’T IT MERCIFUL?” NO BITCH IT’S NON-CONSENSUAL COSMETIC SURGERY ON BABIES. C O S M E T I C. SINCE WHEN ARE WE CHILL WITH COSMETIC SURGERY ON BABIES?

MORE VISIBILITY TO INTERSEX ISSUES

I DIDN’T SEE THE ADVOCACY UNTIL I WENT LOOKING FOR IT AND THAT SHOULD NOT BE HOW THIS WORKS

THESE SURGERIES ARE GENITAL MUTILATION. PERIOD.

I’M ANGRY AND RANTING AND I WANT MY FOLLOWERS TO KNOW THAT

[felixxism-remade-deactivated202]

LITERALLY UNFOLLOW ME IF U DON’T SUPPORT INTERSEX RIGHTS.

[catchymemes]

[unclefather]

they’re not in stock because he bought them all

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

@yoriick

[mlder]

I can’t stop laughing at Carrie being told “NO” by Mark. Also, Harrison Always Knows Best.

This is from a documentary called “From Star Wars to Jedi” released in 1983. Thanks @wookieekisses because I found that bit thanks to your post!

[patethenovice]

They’re figuring out the beats of the scene –while Harrison is tied up–.

[who-talks-first]

So what Mark said about them basically having to make everything up themselves (with Harrison as impromptu leader) is true.

[zecurlyone]

The original films were only good by accident and thats why none of the prequels or sequels worked

[jackironsides]

The original films were good because a lot of non-George-Lucas people worked hard to make them so. Carrie, Mark and Harrison fixing the dialogue wasn’t an ‘accident’. Marcia Lucas didn’t fix three films in edit by ‘accident’.

The prequels and sequels didn’t work because they thought that George Lucas was the genius behind the films, when they were a success despite him, not because of him.

[undertalethingems]

Yup, here it is–my extremely basic tips for drawing skeletons of any sort! 

This isn’t meant to be a full tutorial–the animal kingdom is far too diverse for one casual tumblr post with sketchy art to cover. Instead, it’s meant to highlight some of the patterns you can use to make drawing skeletons easier for yourself, and help combat some of the common mistakes I’ve seen.

As always, looking up references–photos of real skeletons and anatomical diagrams alike–will be your best means of improving your understanding, but maybe this guide will help you know where to start. I can only hope it helps!

[biscuitsarenice]

imagine… Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella

Musical prodigy Alma Deutscher aged 11 (seen here with younger sister Helen), is staging her first full-length opera, Cinderella.

Composer, pianist, violinist… Alma learned to read music before she could read words. She began playing the piano aged two and at four years old she was composing her own music.

[animeengineer]

She’s 11 and she just topped Märchen Mädchen.

Look at her enthusiasm. It’s like watching a Bill Nye or Bob Ross of music.

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[liberalsarecool]

Never normalize Nazis.

[fanfckery]

I hate _% of people statistics being used like “oh it’s such a small number” cause 1% is a small number but 1% of 7 billion is 70 million. That’s more than the population of the UK, France or Italy.

6% of the US is 19 million, as stated above. There are only 3 states that have over 19 million people in them. 19 million is the population of the entire state of New York. That’s more than half the population of California.

Taking populations and turning them into percentages is okay until you try to say “oh that’s not a lot of people” but the reality is… That’s millions. That’s enough to be its own country. That’s fucking scary.

[janothar]

For comparison, that’s 3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country. Without allies, we don’t stand a chance.

[animeengineer]

Another way to make percentages real is set them up as an “x out of 100” ratio and reduce the fraction. So in this case, 6% becomes 6/100 becomes “three out of every fifty people you meet are Nazis or their sympathizers.” Then think about how many people you meet in a day, and wonder which one will call the secret police on you.

[motherbychoice]

Care to debate abortion?

Nah

[reproductivejusticeandliberty]

Mood. -V

[kiwianaroha]

This reminds me of a party I went to last year. I was standing with some friends, chatting, and someone said something that indirectly implied that sexism exists. Some trivial recounting of the basic facts of daily life for most women. Something so mild, so uncontroversial, so mundane that I don’t even remember what it was. 

Suddenly, this man standing on the outskirts of our conversational circle piped up with “actually, I think men are more discriminated against than women these days.”

 All conversation died.

I turned to look at him and he had this smug, insufferable grin on his face, relishing this moment, expecting us to waste our time and energy refuting this ridiculous thing he had just said.

The Devil’s Advocate was among us.

And, in my mind, I saw the next 15+ minutes playing out. The parade of facts and statistics in a vain attempt to defend ourselves, our gender, and to prove that misogyny is real. The glib, snide denials from some shithead who is getting off on our pain and frustration. The Gish Gallop of bullshit that would take a whole evening to properly dismantle. It was depressing and overwhelming. I hated it. I had to kill it before it began.

So I looked him dead in the eye and I said “OK,“ shrugged, and just walked away. 

Nothing I have ever said to another human being has ever been so crushing. As I walked away, I watched the smug grin vanish and confusion and anxiety set in. The rest of the group turned their backs to him and carried on as if he had never spoken - as if he was invisible. He was still staring at me when I walked over to another friend and told her what he had said. I pointed him out for her and made direct eye contact with him while we both laughed.

tl;dr: Don’t feed the troll. Let it perish, cold and hungry, in the wasteland of your indifference. It is weak and you are strong. Live your best life.

[crtter]

I was in 1st/2nd grade grade when the big Pokémon boom of the late 90s-early 00s happened. It was HUGE. Every kid was into it and we’d watch the show and play pretend and collect the cards and bring our game boys to school to trade Pokémon during recess. I was lucky to have supportive parents, but I remember how teachers and other adults would scoff and say how tired they were of Pokémon, how annoying and juvenile it was and how they couldn’t wait for us to “get over it already”. I might have been young, but I still remember how much these kinds of comments bummed me out. Why in the world are we being mean to little kids who like Fortnite

[zabam93-deactivated20190323]

Why are you comparing pokemon to fortnite???

[crtter]

Because… Fortnite is very popular amongst children at the moment? And there are adults who dismiss it in the same way other adults did when Pokémon was big, calling it stupid, saying the dances are annoying, how much they can’t wait for the “fad to be over”, etc. It’s pretty much the same scenario.

[azzandra]

Fortnite has a lootbox system that is glorified gambling, and can cause patterns of addiction in even adult minds, and that is in fact its intended goal in order for the game to make money from microtransactions. That’s how all games with lootboxes function. That’s how they draw in their customer base and squeeze more money out of them.

Like, I don’t judge kids who enjoy Fortnite. My little cousin plays Fortnite.

But last week, my little cousin also stole his mother’s credit card and spent about a month’s salary on microtransactions without his parents’ knowledge.

Modern gaming has become vile and predatory in ways that we didn’t have to deal with as children.

And we shouldn’t be mean to children about this, but we should definitely be coming down on these companies like a pile of fucking bricks.

[space-lord-joe-kewl]

Delicious.

Finally, some PROPER FORTNITE CRITICISM

[topographicocean]

Take it from a whale, this shit’s bad

[myfrogcroaked]

These Pics Are Composed Of As Many Pixels As There Are Animals Still Alive In These Species

A brilliant 2008 campaign by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been resurfacing thanks to a recent reddit post going viral. The campaign, called WWF Japan – Population by pixel, was created by the agency Hakuhodo C&D / Tokyo.

[mousathe14]

Oh no…

[aviandakota]

Y'all this is BAD

[lyinginbedmon]

Wow this is a really elegant way of describing why falling populations result in a narrow and incomplete picture of the actual species

[mysharona1987]

[lethotep]

Papyrus ramblings

So this got really long

…

So with the King Papyrus ending we know Sans lies to Papyrus about the deaths of everyone.  

People often note that Sans appears to lie to ‘protect’ Papyrus, people rarely note the reverse it seems, even though Papyrus seems to lie, or at least misdirect quite a lot. and a lot of the time it’s around Sans.

Papyrus intentionally waits until Sans is gone before dropping his mask of optimism and positive talking in the King Papyrus ending

 and starts talking about his loneliness and fears only once he’s sure his brother won’t overhear them. 

His face when he talks about everyone having “gone on vacation” strikes me as more willful ignorance/denial than actual acceptance of Sans’ explanation. 

That is not the face of someone who believes what they’re saying.

I noticed that much of Papyrus’ occasional naivety and ignorance seem deliberately played up on his part. This is particularly noticeable on phone calls where Papyrus is talking to you alone, vs ones where he’s with Sans or Undyne. [example someone else posted] Depending on which context it is you’re speaking to him he’ll often contradict himself with what he claims to know or misdirect the conversation entirely.

Of course this misdirection isn’t just aimed at Sans and Undyne, as Chara/Frisk we get a lot of it too. Some of his lies seem pretty harmless and kinda sweet at face value though, such as when you first meet him and he claims he can’t get past his own puzzle in the  room_tundra_xoxopuzz room, but that he will help you solve it.

Yet if you phone him at the previous spike puzzle later (room_tundra_xoxosmall), he tells you he can just step over them without needing to solve them, so him hanging around is entirely for your benefit. 

Papyrus: HMMM… THE SOLUTION TO THIS ONE…? I ACTUALLY JUST STEPPED OVER THE SPIKES. SO THE SOLUTION IS TO BE VERY TALL AND HANDSOME.

(Seriously just ask him for help, if you haven’t tried it already! If you ask him, he tells you there’s a button on the tree that deactivates the puzzle). I find this whole situation kinda cute, actually.

And back on a sad note - to the King Paps ending! After his heartbreaking confessions, he quickly goes back to proclaiming he can’t give up because he has to stop everyone else from giving up.

Once again putting up a positive face to allay any concerns. And this also seems to mirror his relationship with Sans, on a larger scale. 

After all, one of the first conversations you have with him contains this

And together it honestly makes me wonder how much he puts on just to stop Sans from worrying. Because Papyrus worries about Sans a lot, even if he shows it with nagging and trying to be a shining example of greatness.

I also find it interesting that Papyrus talks a lot about making friends and getting people to like him, yet when you do the Friendship Hangout (not the date) with him he still quickly decides it’s too much,

without trying to hurt your feelings, of course,

and quickly redirecting the focus onto someone else 

And then there’s one other thing I want to mention before wrapping up this ramble:

People treat Papyrus’ goal of joining the Royal Guard as naive, since we find out Undyne would never let him join. But she’s never said anything about it to him, so as far as he knows it’s an obtainable goal, which he can work towards and do something about. 

Then there’s one thing most monsters seem to treat as something just around the corner, clinging to hope - reaching the surface.

But when hanging out with him in his room, while talking about driving on the surface one day he says,

dismissing it off hand as unrealistic. 

Whether this is a standing opinion of his or something that only came about after he fails to capture you it’s unclear. But it does give some extra insight into his character I think.