thinking abt that person who left that tag on my post abt colorism abt how us brown/black ppl should just "make our own stuff" instead of complaining
and i always think abt how i kinda resent the fact that now that we have more black and brown princesses they don't really get the sweeping swoony fairytales like the white ones did
raya and moana don't get a love story. tiana was a frog for most of the movie. they retconned the love story for asha in wish
maybe unpopular opinion but yeah its cool to show girl power and girls can be independent from men but man i just want to see a black or brown princess who gets to be the princess the prince saves from the dragon lol
and when i do make this stuff ppl will call it hetslop
"make your own stuff" and it will go purposely unpromoted and unsupported, and when it fails it's because "diversity is forced and boring" and not "people prefer stories with the same white characters because racism, no matter how worn out the idea is".
If you're writing 18th century dialogue, this website lets you search words and phrases to double-check whether they were in use & meant what you intend. It doesn't include every period-accurate use of a word/phrase, but it certainly helped me separate genuine 18th century grammar from the vague tangle of 💬old-fashioned fancy-speak💬 I've internalized from TV and video games.
If you're trying to mimic 18th century dialogue you should look at legal records because they'll include, potentially, quotes of spoken phrases which do read differently than the formal tone of published works. You also want this guy:
Listen, nobody who's ever opened a history book says we didn't do that shit first. Pick an atrocity and chances are there was a time europeans did it on mass to someone for the sake of profit. The difference, is that we have for the most part put that behind us, while the US is just sinking deeper and deeper into it. We're not perfect, and we were a lot worse in the past. But it has been a while since we were the problem
Lord Treavor Pendleton prepares for a night out at the Imperial Opera House, the first performance of the Season is not an event to be missed. Company has eluded him and finding himself alone as Dunwall's aristocracy stares expectantly. On the opposite side of the auditorium, his beloved Josephine Buckley sits with similar anticipation.
My gift for @newbordeaux as part of our Dishonored server 2026 Gift Exchange, featuring her oc, the lovely Josephine Buckley. Enjoy!
The light glistened in the prince's eyes, and for a heartbeat one of them shone a different hue. It felt as if the gods themselves had granted Dunk one chance to fight for Baelor, as he had promised. "Perhaps I was fated to die for him after all," he thought.
the O'Farrell ladies are on my mind lately (when are they not) and the public Dishonored gift exchange creation period is gonna be starting soon, so I've been focusing most of my artistic energy on finishing Moira's ref sheet. it's slow going, but I aim to finish by the end of the week! (wish me luck 😫🫠)
Moira is going to have a few dresses and maybe one (1) pantsuit in the lineup. I started with a dress she would wear for work.
I'm also sitting on a couple of thumbnails for portraits of Sylvia and Maeve that I'll make mockups for.............eventually..........................I have commission work and gifts for others that take priority.
the third thumbnail is unrelated to anything: I wasn't sure what to do with it, so I just sketched a random landscape. for reasons I haven't uncovered yet, I strongly associate Maeve (and her daughter) with willow trees.
and those are my WIPs for this week! I also have that aforementioned commission work, but I like to keep my commission sketches private, so I won't be sharing those here.
buuuuuuuut as a lil bonus, I'll add some Moira hair exploration sketches under the cut. I'm gonna explore hats with some of these styles, but I've been sitting on these sketches for a minute and I'm too excited to share them. so y'all get a sneak peak ;)
I actually can't remember if I've already shared these and if so. BLEH. you see them again!
Her original styles are still the best, but I really love the Queen Bee and I wanna work it into at least one of her outfits.
thanks for reading this far! 💜💜💜
I tag @momoboyds, @newbordeaux, @saltedscrawlings, @hampop, @vaas, @puppercupboard, and if I missed you or you'd like to play along, I tagged you, too!
I don't really miss Tumblr that much but sometimes making little posts and putting them somewhere ruled. And interacting with others back before this website kinda went down the drain. Little tag games and ask memes & reblogging each others stuff.. remember how we used to run
Lord Treavor Pendleton prepares for a night out at the Imperial Opera House, the first performance of the Season is not an event to be missed. Company has eluded him and finding himself alone as Dunwall's aristocracy stares expectantly. On the opposite side of the auditorium, his beloved Josephine Buckley sits with similar anticipation.
My gift for @newbordeaux as part of our Dishonored server 2026 Gift Exchange, featuring her oc, the lovely Josephine Buckley. Enjoy!