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Hi, I'm... Heru!!!
I was born to be a forest witch hermit who cures the people of the village and gives protection against curses but since that isnt a job anymore I had to become an artist so that sucks...
Any way here are some things about myself! In the form of questions cause it's fun.
🌙 What do you usually draw?
Whatever I'm feeling at the moment. I started doing smash bros fanart, them jojos, then touhou, I also draw mythology art of any religion (always from respect, even the joke art) and now I'm obsessed with my ocs so... Yeah.
🌙 Would you do an art trade or request?
No, if there's something I've learnt is that I can't do trades, requests amd the only thing that makes me finish commissions is money. I hate doing all those so no, sorry :(
🌙 What's your gender?
Whatever's funnier at the moment.
🌙 What do you think of generative AI?
I think that we should fuck up ALL data centers and let nature reclaim them.
🌙 Can I send an ask?
PLEASE YES
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A follow up on that vague post/rant about racism in the fandom
Sorry for making a separate post, but the reblogs of the original were getting so clogged I just had to. Please check out this post right here for the necessary context.
💬 0 🔁 9 ❤️ 17 · The user is @leatherskinn , op already explained the whole thing that went down.
@leatherskinn/Sonya being super mega rac
Ok moving on to my rant
Crazy how I wasn’t even gonna drop names and bro decides it’s time to be on bullshit. Apology or not, do you know how crazy it is to bypass being blocked?? And to bypass being blocked by a person who
1) does not want to fucking talk to you
2) you were racist towards.
Not even basic or “normal” ignorance but straight 19th century era racism. Who does that. Tf is going on in Russian schools that they’re teaching PHRENOLOGY
Also notice how when they listed out the “different races” they don’t actually use their phrenology era terminology. They don’t say “Australoid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid” they make sure to say “Australian race, European race, Asian race”. Why not say African/black race? But nah “NEGROID NEGROID NEGROID”
Is that not crazy y’all
You can really tell that this apology is less to legitimately apologize and more to quell their own guilt and embarrassment.
1) There were many people involved in this conversation, but they’d only ever reached out to @bakiuwu . Repeatedly too. Why? There was a whole group of people and you ain’t ever apologized to no one else?? Not that the apology would ever be worth it.
2) They had followed me sometime after the incident. I did not realize it was them, so I followed back. After I realized this I had blocked them. So………….if I’m the co owner of the server and had the server pinned to my acc ANNNNNDDDD my bio says that I’m black. You had to have realized who I was. Like there’s no way. Weird asf to go follow a person who you were racist to like how hard is it to just stay away
3) they very clearly behave as if they’re entitled/desperate to see people’s content. They literally admitted it to @bakiuwu in the tiktok screenshots. This is very clearly the motivation behind these “apologies” as opposed to being remorseful. Because if someone were truly remorseful, they wouldn’t have dragged the. convo as far as they did
4) I want to remind everyone that this isn’t us flaming a person for being ignorant. In the initial incident they were given MANY chances and MANY explanations. Honestly, they should’ve been kicked immediately. But there is a nuanced conversation to be had about how alt right sentiments are peddled in the education systems. It’s not their fault that they were taught these things at a point in life where they didn’t know better. But it is their fault that they decided to be bull headed as fuck about it when other people were nice enough to correct them.
5) I know I’m focusing really hard on the old screenshots, so this will be the last thing I say about that point in time. But it’s EGREGIOUS how their white ass decided it would be ok to default to the “ah man these silly Americans are dumb and sensitive” when a whole gaggle of people from different countries and continents were telling them they were wrong. And then it’s like…the two black people explaining why it’s wrong to call them negroids are dumb and sensitive? Might as well have called us monkeys
So circling back to my main point. I don’t want it to sound like I’m saying you shouldn’t apologize when you wrong someone. Especially if you were in some way bigoted. I think many people need to practice discretion and understand when it’s sensible to reach out and when it is not.
Their behavior, their “apology” (again, I believe it’s wildly insincere but I’ll get to that) is so inappropriate because why are you trying so hard to facilitate contact with people who do not want it.
Sometimes it’s best to apologize. Other times to leave people the fuck alone because you’ve done enough
Literally going out of your way to disregard the boundaries of people you’ve caused issues for shows me that they only really reached out cause it was keeping them up at night. Then it’s like. The person asks who you are and to remind them of what you did and you can’t even own up?? They shouldn’t even have had to ask.
Accountability 101 is being able to be immediately honest and transparent even if it causes you embarrassment. Because…..YOU DID IT. And to be like “aw man I’m glad you don’t remember me” like I know I keep saying it but you can tell they’re only reaching out because they’re mortified. Not because they can actually conceptualize just how harmful their behavior was
Like gtfo bro omggggg. All of this has led to you being put on blast lmao 😭😭😭😭
TLDR: There’s a an artist I see on the tl occasionally who’s said some super racist shit in the past and no one knows asides from me and a few others because it happened in a private server. Racism is very alive in fandom spaces and being black, it’s hard to choose between “keeping your peace” and “starting drama” because people typically don’t care and will attack you instead of critiquing the racist.
I hate hate HATE to be the mf that vagueposts about something serious but with the way fandoms have been moving recently when discussing racism…I’m not in the mood to invite klansmen to my doorstep. With that being said tho, this has been on the back of my mind, and I really need to rant about it .
To sum this up the best I can. A little over a year ago, not quite going on two, there was a racism incident in a (now private) Baki server. A Russian artist (their nationality is important, as they used it to justify their behavior) decided it would be appropriate to start a conversation about “blackwashing”. This conversation quickly devolved, as one would expect, and they:
- kept asking why they can’t draw characters of color white
- Began to parrot phrenologist talking points
- said the word “negroid” multiple times
- said the word “negro” multiple times
The conversation mainly went on for as long as they did because they led with the whole “oh I’m foreign, I’m Russian, this is what I’m taught in school and I don’t understand why it’s wrong 🥺🥺🥺” bit, and there was a presumed language barrier, so initially people engaged with them in good faith whilst explaining that the points they were making were antiblack and they needed to change how they spoke/thought about race.
This quickly fell apart because they chose to debate people on if those slurs were slurs, doubled down on the phrenology shit despite being warned, and chose to argue with the black members of said server. (I would know, I was one of them!) They were promptly kicked. They only “apologized” upon their removal. And Despite being blocked, they decided that it would be ok to find and follow those same black artists across platforms because they “still wanted to see their content”.
The whole thing was never brought to public attention because: it happened privately, ended when they were blocked again, and as a BIPOC you lowkey gotta pick and choose what you bring to your doorstep because people lowkey dgaf. And idk it just wasn’t worth it, I don’t like to do the whole “call out post” thing anyways. So please don’t consider this to be that
But idk it’s all just so??? Crazy to me. Insanely crazy, I still think about it from time to time. Because white people just get to be racist and still expect you to engage with them, especially in fandom spaces. They get to say “it was just a phase” or “they didn’t know any better” or in some cases “it was a different time” and move on with their lives. Not having to make any real changes to themselves while black people are still impacted by their actions
I see their posts from time to time. See people interacting with them, because they don’t know— how would they know?? I wonder if it would even be worth it to say something. Personally, I think there’s no expiry on racism….and I’d consider 1-2 years to be very recent. But the truth is a lot of people don’t see it that way if they’re not personally affected. I mean, not the same fandom but look at how people have been reacting to the TADC situation!
Not to mention how people behave when the perpetrator “apologizes”. Like everythings magically ok after that.
Would people even care??? Long ass rant but what do y’all think. I don’t want this to read as “GO HARASS THIS PERSON NOW!!!!”, which is why I’ve omitted their name. I can’t lie I do have a lot of feelings about this because it’s really weird. That whole thing was weird. I’m in a weird spot cuz god forbid I say something and then everyones like:
TLDR: There’s a an artist I see on the tl occasionally who’s said some super racist shit in the past and no one knows asides from me and a few others because it happened in a private server. Racism is very alive in fandom spaces and being black, it’s hard to choose between “keeping your peace” and “starting drama” because people typically don’t care and will attack you instead of critiquing the racist.
I hate hate HATE to be the mf that vagueposts about something serious but with the way fandoms have been moving recently when discussing racism…I’m not in the mood to invite klansmen to my doorstep. With that being said tho, this has been on the back of my mind, and I really need to rant about it .
To sum this up the best I can. A little over a year ago, not quite going on two, there was a racism incident in a (now private) Baki server. A Russian artist (their nationality is important, as they used it to justify their behavior) decided it would be appropriate to start a conversation about “blackwashing”. This conversation quickly devolved, as one would expect, and they:
- kept asking why they can’t draw characters of color white
- Began to parrot phrenologist talking points
- said the word “negroid” multiple times
- said the word “negro” multiple times
The conversation mainly went on for as long as they did because they led with the whole “oh I’m foreign, I’m Russian, this is what I’m taught in school and I don’t understand why it’s wrong 🥺🥺🥺” bit, and there was a presumed language barrier, so initially people engaged with them in good faith whilst explaining that the points they were making were antiblack and they needed to change how they spoke/thought about race.
This quickly fell apart because they chose to debate people on if those slurs were slurs, doubled down on the phrenology shit despite being warned, and chose to argue with the black members of said server. (I would know, I was one of them!) They were promptly kicked. They only “apologized” upon their removal. And Despite being blocked, they decided that it would be ok to find and follow those same black artists across platforms because they “still wanted to see their content”.
The whole thing was never brought to public attention because: it happened privately, ended when they were blocked again, and as a BIPOC you lowkey gotta pick and choose what you bring to your doorstep because people lowkey dgaf. And idk it just wasn’t worth it, I don’t like to do the whole “call out post” thing anyways. So please don’t consider this to be that
But idk it’s all just so??? Crazy to me. Insanely crazy, I still think about it from time to time. Because white people just get to be racist and still expect you to engage with them, especially in fandom spaces. They get to say “it was just a phase” or “they didn’t know any better” or in some cases “it was a different time” and move on with their lives. Not having to make any real changes to themselves while black people are still impacted by their actions
I see their posts from time to time. See people interacting with them, because they don’t know— how would they know?? I wonder if it would even be worth it to say something. Personally, I think there’s no expiry on racism….and I’d consider 1-2 years to be very recent. But the truth is a lot of people don’t see it that way if they’re not personally affected. I mean, not the same fandom but look at how people have been reacting to the TADC situation!
Not to mention how people behave when the perpetrator “apologizes”. Like everythings magically ok after that.
Would people even care??? Long ass rant but what do y’all think. I don’t want this to read as “GO HARASS THIS PERSON NOW!!!!”, which is why I’ve omitted their name. I can’t lie I do have a lot of feelings about this because it’s really weird. That whole thing was weird. I’m in a weird spot cuz god forbid I say something and then everyones like:
salute to the lady of the holy games / lady of the holy games crowning the victorious woman
formal inspiration compilation (refer to post I and II for other references)
horse harness mostly based on the transcription plates of "Scythian and Amazons'" horse in Материалы по истории русских одежд и обстановки жизни народной Том I
cucuteni-trypillia pottery and 5th century BC Scythian royal tombs of Pazyryk saddle-cloth patterns
300-100BC Iron Age horse bit from the British isles (also inspiration for earrings)
circa 2500 BC Sumerian headpiece and jewelry from the royal cemetery of Ur
Assyrian fringe shawl design based on the 8th century BC low-reliefs of the Khorsabad palace
Hallstatt culture amber necklace
necklace from Güttingen middle Bronze Age (1500 BC) depot
Tumulus culture Bronze Age spiral armbands
lyre based on greek red figure pottery × Hallstatt culture depictions
1st cent. BC/1st cent. AD silver Dacian necklace (used here as a coat-link)
corinthian-type ancient greek helmet (with fantasy horse crest and horse tail & mane braid
Happy Mar10 day! I decided to post all three of my outfit designs that I was playing around with a few years ago for the mario girls (I’ve posted Rosalina and Daisy before). Peach's dress is inspired by 18th century French ball gowns, and Daisy's is inspired by royal ancient Egyptain clothing. Rosalina was kind of a freestyle for me, I just tried to make her feel more other-wordly!
