30-something

[errfbound]

[fyblackwomenart]

Joshua Oyeleye

[byjove]

I think about The Man of the Hole so often. 27 years alone. 27 years with no one to speak to but strangers to wave to. Survived a genocide, a massacre that killed everyone he had ever known and later, an assassination attempt. He still tried to warn researches about the traps he built. He was only about 60 when he died in 2022. The people who tormented him in life later desecrated his grave.

[yuumei-art]

It's wild blueberry season in Sweden and I've been picking and eating my fill everyday from the forest behind my house! The entire forest floor is covered in wild blueberry bushes and the tangy taste is so cosmic, I had to paint them✨ Photos of the berries I picked!

Painting process~

[toast-star]

something i think a lot of white people don't understand is that saying racist antiblack things 'ironically' 'as a joke' 'satirically' or 'as bait' is still... just being racist. as if saying 'bait used to be believable' somehow undoes the disrespect? as if pointing out that its probably a bot or a psyop nullifies the slurs? as if informing me that its a meme/copypasta/reference means you're not at fault for repeating them? as if any of this is okay? it doesn't work like that. why is the hatred and disrespect of black people acceptable background noise for you? why do you find it funny?

[sir-illmatic]

[cryptonature]

Each time I encounter a desert planet or ice planet with a breathable atmosphere in a sci-fi or fantasy, I’m reminded how little we have internalized the knowledge that Earth is only livable for us because of the organisms who share the world with us.

[miniyeo]

[anakinh]

original quote

[originallandlockedmariner]

[arcadebroke]

[phantastische-illustrationen]

Artwork for Gandahar, 1983 (Philippe Caza)

[creatingblackcharacters]

In 2D art I like to show how darker skin tones seem to reflect more light in a scene/show the colors of lighting more than lighter skin tones do. This is pretty easy to do when blending colors. But I was wondering how this same effect can be achieved with 3D character modelling? I'm trying to learn low-poly modelling for gamedev and I've tried messing with various properties like specularity, roughness, and metallic, but the materials always just end up looking wet or something to me. I remember in an answer to an earlier ask you said you're not familiar with 3D modeling techniques but I'm super curious if any of your artist followers have tips!

There's a person on here who posts their 3D modeling of their Black fantasy character with white locs and it's killing me because I wanna direct you to them but I can NOT remember their blog name. Y'all know who I'm talking about! We gotta find em and tag em!

[the-return-of-yagamimi]

So the aforementioned blog is @yagamimi-string, but I think my other character Vita will be a better example of how I portray lighting on darker skin, keeping in mind that I'm going for a retro style - it's not perfect but it gets the point across. Though, this style is specific to the version of Blender I use (2.79) and I wouldn't know how to replicate it in anything else, but hopefully this helps anyway

(Had to upload it to YouTube because Tumblr is stupid about videos)

[padawan-historian]

[phiredigital]

you know what I just realized? I couldn't take anyone seriously that didn't love You Remind Me by Patrice Rushen...

[anxietyproblem]

[oak23]

We forgot about it

[dickheaddutch]

[valilihapiirakka]

I once signed up to participate in a study on how depression affects memory, forgot I was meant to go do it, and when I emailed to apologise to the PhD student running it she basically told me that a) she was very used to this happening and b) the weird irony of her theories’ correctness making it very difficult to arrange proving them had by now gone from infuriating to hysterical

[plain-flavoured-english]

I went to the Grand Canyon when I was depressed and I literally forgot the whole thing. Like, the only reason I even know I was there is that I have photographs of myself standing in front of the Grand Canyon with dead eyes but i have absolutely no memory of it

People talk about depression like it’s just being sad all the time but straight up your brain stops working and sadness is just one of the many, many consequences of that

[eptck]

you have to be kinder to people with memory issues.

you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

you have to be kind. you have to be kind.

[michygrimes2025-deactivated2026]