[lizery]

[lacefuneral]

the word empathy is WIDELY misused, even in mental health spaces. 

empathy:

is responding to a person’s emotions by experiencing the same emotion as them (i.e. feeling sad when something sad happens to that person, or happy when something happy happens to that person.)

is an automatic response that cannot be controlled

cannot be learned

sympathy:

is recognizing that another person is in pain, even if you do not experience that pain, and offering comfort to that person

is something a person must actively choose to do

can be learned

compassion:

is showcasing care and support via words and actions

is something a person must actively choose to do

can be learned

if you need an example of a person with no empathy who practices sympathy and compassion, look no further than data from star trek: the next generation. he doesn’t have emotions at all, but he’s still kind to people and wants to help them.

stop telling people that they’re evil because they don’t experience empathy. stop equating empathy with morality. stop equating empathy with caring. stop saying that cruel people “lack empathy.” stop throwing neurodivergent and mentally ill people under the bus. 

[pillbug-02]

scene from my klapollo longfic :-)

[nexttohisteeth]

that exr post about them making Meaningful Eye Contact™

[lookcloverthere]

Mia in a ponytail doodle ✏️

[nortism]

POV: You are Marius entering the back room of the Café Musain

Yes I did use Phoenix Wright as a pose reference. I’ve never played Ace Attorney but it felt appropriate. Happy Barricade day

Stills under the cut

[batcii]

the other day one of my students asked me if i was 'into musicals'. anyway here's a crop of a wip i've had sitting open in photoshop for a year and a half.

[lisztzada]

it is pride month marius

happy pride month & barricade month!

[piierogis]

happy @barricadeday everyone

[efirno]

Un croquis très rapide de Combeferre et Courfeyrac parce que je les aime tellement 💔

A version from my AU where they were wed on a barricade in the dead of night

Their hearts were united for only twenty-four hours..

[paithiart]

Timeskip Franziska Von Karma redesign

I wanted to incorporate more influence of Edgeworth (the new waistcoat and bangs) While keeping the colors and fancy Von Karma style she had before

[efirno]

(un)happy barricade day 💔

@barricadeday

[revolutionnaire-farouche]

citizens I checked the weather app and apparently there's one more day before the storm

[catsdelightful-deactivated20240]

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!

[misslunarose]

This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!

{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}

[obi-mom-kenobi]

I noticed in the comments that some people can’t see the thread, so I took screenshots for y'all!

More will come in reblogs, since tumblr has an image limit

[obi-mom-kenobi]

[jamiegeode]

@creatingblackcharacters !!!

[bionicle216]

Moving on to the last episode of Apollo justice.. I’m so scared

[victorianandthespian]

I got to a point where I can’t tell if I saw this play out irl or if my brain is just thriving off all these gifsets

[kuniidealz]

this is some racist bullshit, and even if you're not into les mis, this needs to be spoken about.

the 40th anniversary album of les mis pre-order is out, and on this, jordan shaw (the black actor playing enjolras) has been replaced with a white actor. the entire thing is directly recorded from the stage 40th show, and yet they've cut out jordan and replaced him with james gish. ONLY jordans songs have been changed!! no shade to james because he's also extremely talented but hes not jordan? he didn't play enjolras in the 40th? and the fact that only jordans songs have been changed makes this just UGH. this is terrible and we need to do something about it

i am also not the type of person to say "we need to do something about this" and stay silent, so do something! I sure as hell am!!! make a fuss about this!! post about it and yell about it and find the "contact us" page on the distributor form, and if you're feeling kind, shoot jordan a kind word on insta at jordanshawuk. this is bullshit and something needs to be done.

jordan did am AMAZING job in his role and truly captured tje joy and passion that is our enjolras. its meant so much to so many fans to see a person of color playing enj who rarely see themselves represented in such ways. so. throw a fit. make a fuss and yell about this <3