and like why is there even still gender segregated tennis in the first place. it's hitting shit with a racket. anyone can do that against anyone. like I feel like we've had pretty significant proof that women can and do whup any man's ass at tennis for uuuuuuh however long the Williams sisters have been doing it. what on earth is the point of "sex testing" the players. let them all just hit the fucking balls at whoever they want who gives a fuck.
Body Horror: Things that cannot happen in real life.
EX: The Thing, stomach mouths, eyes on hands, etc
Gore: Fresh injuries, often severe.
EX: Severed leg, gutspill, deep gashes, etc
NEITHER: Healed injuries and burns, congenital differences, missing appendages, etc. If I could theoretically go to the store and see that character browsing the isles- It isn't body horror or gore. That's just a person.
*AND the amount of people that tag, not just fictional characters, but real human beings as body horror is staggering. Its not solely a fandom issue, ableism and bigotry against anyone that looks sufficiently "different" is prevalent in real life and has devastating consequences.
hi guys so a week ago my country Colombia was hit with a very strong earthquake that left a lot of people affected and to this day we still need a lot of help with donations to help the victims.
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Hiei and Yukina for @creatingblackcharacters' Melanin Beam Challenge this year! Happy birthday!!
Last year I drew Kurama, because I'm able to draw him (and Hiei) from memory, so it let me focus on the research and design adjustments (rather than having to also learn a new character from zero). But also like...while I don't follow the tags, I do occasionally run across YYH fanart, and I've noticed that when people change any of the guys' skin tones it seems to always be Hiei (and/or Yusuke) who they make darker. Which reeks of colorism (in the "darker = more aggressive" manner), so. Fuck that, pretty boy Kurama got to be unambiguously Black and beautiful last year.
This year I went for the twins, because...well, I'll grant that usually folks are only drawing the main four guys, at least from what I've seen, but. Hey y'all who usually draw Hiei with darker skin...how would you draw Yukina, if you haven't yet? If your instinct is to make her look different from him, why is that?
My process, rambling thoughts, and a version without the deckled edges under the readmore!
Have the no-deckled-edges version before my rambling, so you can see better (without having to scroll a thousand years) how Yukina has hooked her thumb around Hiei's to (kind of) hold his hand! Because he may not want to suffer physical contact from pretty much anybody unless it's a fight, but she is allowed because he loves her (even if he may never be comfortable saying it out loud).
One of the other reasons I went with the twins is because Rebelle updated and added a symmetry tool, which gave me the idea to use it to give them mirrored poses! Also, where Kurama was done with oil brushes (for the impasto effect, and to test out the new bristle brushes), plus a color palette based on paints for cel animation? For this one, I instead used a palette based on Prismacolor colored pencils, and challenged myself to only use colors I physically have (so I can eventually test out/compare some digital vs physical results, for color blending and such). I also used my colored pencil brush set (that I am still working on refining aaaaa), because I need to do a proper practice pieces with them to see what settings need adjusting!
(I've mostly just been doing scribbly tests as I build the brushes. I've not had the time/energy to try them in a full piece (though I did start an old lineart recolor), which is VERY different from test scribbles, and this helped highlight some things that I was able to fix while working on it! The brushes still need more fixes, but...part of that is a "go on the forums and politely ask the devs if they would kindly consider making an adjustment or two to how the blend curve works at the lowest point, because while the previous version may have technically been bugged, it worked better for this very specific purpose of looking like colored pencils, via avoiding overblending fine texture into digital smoothness.")
I also used a paper that has little dark flecks in it, some blue and some brown, because it gave me a subtle impression of both snow and embers! I had to decrease the scale of it slightly, because it's a more rough paper that made it difficult to get even coverage with the colored pencils. So I had to find a size that gave me a more fine texture, without totally losing visibility of the flecks I picked it for.
(And then I messed that up at one point when I tested a brush setting change with a smoother paper real quick, forgot to change the paper back, and colored Hiei's coat with a totally different paper texture...so I had to erase and redo it to make the texture match. Which was actually the second time I redid his coat, since the first time I colored it was one of the points when I realized my brush settings needed fixing, because the shading looked weird. I also almost made the hiruiseki the wrong color. >.> I reflexively made them cream (in part also because it stands out better against Yukina's kimono so my brain went "this makes design sense"), but then remembered the necklace ones are blue and THAT IS AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION DUE TO THE SOURCE OF EACH COLOR/TYPE OF STONE)
I also didn't draw Hiei last year because I didn't have time and he felt like the "obvious" choice, as far as his hair just...needing texture, the end, done, easy-peasy, now it's a sculpted afro. (Though freeform locs would also work really well.) Kurama took more research and consideration, and was more fun in that way. (Though the cornrow design could definitely look better, and I have SO MANY thoughts that I didn't put in that post, so like. I'll probably do another drawing or edit with him sometime, with each age we see him at, and ramble more in that post.)
But drawing Hiei and Yukina let me at least ponder a tiny bit more over her hair, and how it'd be similar-to-but-different-from Kurama's (since the silhouettes are so close). I went with a low puff twist-out for her, though it took a bit to settle on what to do for her bangs...I'd considered finger coils, but ultimately made them twist-outs too, so she could have accurately maximum floof. Though the shape is a little flat on the right side because I didn't want to totally cover her pointy ear 'cause I think it's cute.
The media blackout on Palestine coinciding with new bomb types dropped in a ceasefire tells its own story.
Nothing says "ceasefire" like a Thermobaric bomb. I guess "ceasefire" means something else down there than here... What pigs. They saw it as too hot and the temperature is too high, so they bombard us with heat generators. Damn them. If we don't save my father, he'll die
No, no, no, why is it happening to me like this?! My father's condition is very serious He was taken to the hospital Can you imagine my father would die if we didn't help him out We have to raise as much money as possible because To have an operation. We can't forget it the prices are high here please share 🫂🫂
Please guys, the doctors told me his condition is serious and he can't last any longer. Please donate to me to help my father I ask you for help now. If anything happens to my father, I will not forgive anyone who ignored my words. Please share and donate now please
Why is no one donating? Please imagine putting yourself in my place How'd you feel Your father's condition is serious and deadly She seeks help from others and only gets ignored Please donate a little to me. Please, my dear friend Please, if you read my words, don't ignore me Please! Don't ignore!
Remaking bc notes and I think ppl associate notes with not needing any more help
Can anyone help me eat today pregnant black woman currently really struggling with the day to day currently I have no more detergent no more money and no more dishwashing soap the job that said that was gonna hire me is ghosting me I think all in all pretty discouraged bordering on s*cidal :/
I don’t want to say too much on here but there are bad ppl looking for my bf/bd right now and unfortunately I stay with him I’m sure it’ll be fine I hope but his brother was shot earlier today and I just would like help building emergency funds in case I have to go somewhere else tonight or in the near future
Since Takumi's VA, Jay Rincon, is also a singer and has been in musicals (in the UK, don't know about him being in US musicals), I wonder if he's done any songs with Takumi energy
Honestly, I'm kinda glad Outlaws didn't become popular because y'all would whitewash the HELL out of Asara and the other characters of color/nonhuman characters played by POC.
Honestly, I'm kinda glad Outlaws didn't become popular because y'all would whitewash the HELL out of Asara and the other characters of color/nonhuman characters played by POC.
Reminder that spring will always come back, music will never stop being created, and there are still so many books left to read! You’re alive! You’re alive! You’re alive!