[voiceforourdaughters]

Lets debate biology.

I feel like a lot of abortion debates are becoming based on feelings, emotions, and subjective morality. I’m not looking for an ugly knock out drag out debate, i just want to discuss hard facts about abortion and see where this goes. 

[apersnicketylemon]

Okay here are the hard facts about abortions:

The fetus, at any time before 35 weeks gestation does not have the capacity to differentiate between ‘painful touch’ and ‘pleasant touch’. Even at 24 weeks, it doesn’t have the part of the brain that registers touch at all, therefore fetuses feel no pain whatsoever during an abortion. Even during the saline abortions that you falsely claim were ‘painful’ to the fetus on your blog.

The fetus relies fully on the body it is inside of to maintain it’s survival and function, thereby requiring that persons continuous consent to remain there, as the right to security of person was deemed more important that a right to life as seen in the supreme court cases in the USA of Roe V. Wade and McFall V. Shimp (In Canada the two cases that did this were Morgentaler, Smoling, and Scott v. Queen and Daigle V. Trembley).

The fetus does not have the capacity for conscious, purposeful, or controlled movement. All movement that a fetus makes is fully involuntary, and happen as a result of the nervous system forming, testing itself out, and testing limb movement in order to ensure everything is in place to ensure survival capability after birth -assuming it survives the pregnancy and birth. In fact, the first sparks of consciousness in homo sapiens happens at 5 months AFTER birth.

In places where abortions are legal and easily accessible, there are lower abortion rates. In places where abortions are illegal or heavily restricted there are more abortions. This is an across-board thing, a global pattern.

Lack of safe abortion access KILLS. An estimated 68,000  people per year die because of lack of access to safe abortions, and a uncounted millions are left with permanent health issues as a result. That’s an estimated 186 people who will die TODAY because they did not have safe access to an abortion. There are an estimated 19 million unsafe and illegal abortions performed annually.

Most abortions are NOT performed on teenagers who were sleeping around and did not use protection. The largest groups recieving abortions are ages 20-24 (33% of all abortions), non-hispanic white (36%), religious(37% identify as protestant and 28% identify as catholic, meaning over half of abortion recipients follow a sect of Christianity) , married or cohabiting (55%), have one or more children (61%), used protection (51%) and are below the poverty line (42% are 100% below the poverty line, and a further 27% are 100-199% below the poverty line. 69% of abortion recipients are below the poverty line). (source)

Abortion has no severe, long term effects on people who get them. There is no increase to breast cancer risks, there is no increased risk to ectopic pregnancies, there is not increased risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, there is no Post-Abortion Syndrome, there is no increased risk of abruptio placentae.

And finally there is the fact that organs, does not a person make. Most things on this planet have organs. Birds have organs, bees have organs, dogs, lions, bears, pigs, cows, and even individual cells have organs or organ-like components that keep them alive. The fetuses development level does not grant it rights because that is not how we grant rights.

Those are the cold, hard facts on abortion. Those are the facts pro choicers have presented a thousand times to you and countless other pro lifers like you. Those are the facts that your group has ignored over and over again in favour of proven misinformation. I have no doubt there will be no response to this, and if there is you will give me lifenews or some other equally biased site as a “source”, despite my giving you only unbiased ones. If you want to discuss the facts on abortion you can’t use websites that are based in lies.

[chasingsolstice]

More witchy tips!

Keep a dream journal. Keep it right by your bed and write in it as soon as you wake up to record your clearest memory possible. You may not be able to remember a dream every night, but this practice will lead to increased rememberance, and possibly eventual Lucid Dreaming.

Start a garden if possible. Nurturing plants is just nice, and using your own fresh herbs is really empowering in my opinion.

Notice when things resonate with you. Anything that gives you pause and makes you curious in a good way, do a little research and learn more about it! I'm talking a color, creature, work of art, plant, concept, literally anything. Research! Free PDF files are available online for tons of books! (I'm considering making a separate post with my own pdf library for y'all too.)

Cleanse! Take intentful baths/showers and clean your body regularly. Try and keep your physical space clean too, and intentionally cleanse the energy of your environment on the regular. (Note to peeps who struggle doing these: I know it's hard to tackle doing these things when you're feeling shitty, but try anyway. Doing these things will improve your mood 9/10 times, even if all you do is wash your face, light a candle, and put laundry in baskets.)

Practice Energy Work. Energy is a part of everything, and connects everything, so being able to sense it is helpful. A common example is being able to tell if you're being watched, even if you can't see the one watching you. One way to practice is by getting in a comfortable position for meditation, and try to sense what you feel inside your body, ex. try and focus on the sensation inside your big toe, and move that awareness around your body. I once was able to sense my pulse anywhere in my body by thinking about it, I consider that an energy work practice. Once you feel confident about sensing your own energy, you can try a crystal, plant, etc, and start playing with energy balls/thoughtforms if you like.

Practice breath work. Similar to energy work, but with a focus on your breathing. There are lots of breathing exercises, so feel free to experiment with the length of inhale/exhale/hold. Breathing exercises will help you in meditation exercises as well. In yoga, your breath is often refered to as your prana, which is your energy. It's all connected.

Write yourself a personal mantra. It should be empowering and use affirmative language (meaning say something like 'i am safe' rather than 'i am not in danger'). Repeat it to yourself frequently. Be your own best friend here, uplift yourself, and engage in self care even if self care in the moment means doing something difficult.

Believe in Yourself. Be the kind of person you want to see more of in the world.

[vylrin-deactivated20231007]

Walter Crane 

[osolovely]

(Zuhair Murad Spring 2020 Couture)

[palettes-and-prompts]

Skin Tones for Humans

These are not all necessarily solid skin colors, some are but others can be used for highlights and shadows in artwork. These are mostly to help artists get an idea of how they want their characters skin color to look. Also, if you’re a writer looking at these shade names to describe these skin colors in your stories DON’T USE THEM. Some of them are alright but most of them aren’t. I’ve been reading fan fiction for a while and nothing annoys me more than reading blue, green, and brown eyes as sapphire, emerald, and chocolate. Like, it’s okay to just write blue, green, and brown. But I especially hate reading things where people use the names of foods and drinks to describe skin colors. I know it’s tempting, I used to be 14 writing fan fiction too, I’m 100% guilty of doing this shit. But listen to me when I tell you, just look up other names for the specific shades you’re looking for. I promise you there are PLENTY. Using names of foods and drinks to describe skin color is so creepy and a little cannibalistic to me. Like, imagine reading a story and the author just hits you out of nowhere with the sentence “His skin was the color of honey roasted ham.” You would be like “Um…what the fuck?” So just look up other words. I promise you, you are better off! The site I use for palettes tends to use the same names for colors over and over again anyway.

Here are the colors and if any of these don’t look right or upset any of you in any way please let me know and I’ll fix them or get rid of them. The last thing I wanna do is upset anyone!

I hope at least some of these help you artists out there! Also I know this post is huge I just wanted to make sure there were plenty of options to choose from and not just like five or six. And the reason this is titled so weird is in case I decide to make a pack of skin tones for aliens or fantasy creatures and stuff.

[genterie]

[genterie]

[ashiruu]

Hi! Is there any chance that you'd be willing to do a tutorial on how to draw or colour noses? I adore the way you paint, and thought I'd ask since I can never do noses right. 😅

Hey there!

Noses can be as hard to draw as hands, I can see why one would struggle with them. So here’s a tutorial that will hopefully teach you a thing or two!

When I draw a nose from the front (which is 99% of the time) I like to start with the nostrils, because they are the most important and most visible part of the nose. Then I just make an outline of the shape by drawing the columella (bottom part of the nose between the nostrils), and the ala (side parts). I put some base color at the bottom of the nose and some lighter color at the bridge of the nose. Then I clean everything up and add some highlights at the tip of the nose and the sides of the ala, like shown.

For drawing a nose sideways you should think of the nose as 2 bubbles and a tube, it helps a lot. Then draw the nostrils and erase the lines of the circles that are not needed. In this drawing I assumed the light comes from above, so a shadow would form under the nose.

Here are some examples of the best noses that I’ve drawn:

Tip: when drawing a face it’s important to remember that the skin on the nose is a bit more pink/red than the rest of the skin!

Also, if you’re struggling a lot draw with a reference! Look up some pictures of noses and try to replicate the photo, that’s how I learned to draw noses.

Here are some cool videos to help you:

How to draw a female nose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1I6sA-Jl7g

Nose anatomy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HDyk4dy7kc&t=2s

[amphany]

I made a tutorial! I hope it is helpful. Some of the styles of eyes are from Studio Ghibli,Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Dangan Ronpa, Fire Emblem, Ace Attorney.

Please ask me if you have any questions! <3

[sheepskeleton]

Sorry, if you've answered this before, but do you have any tips on drawing mouths and lips?

Hello anon! :D I’m not the best at making tutorials and giving tips but I’ll do my best to answer your question! ^^

I sure do love drawing lips! It might be in fact my favourite part of the face to draw. 

Let’s see what makes them so irresistible ;)

tip 1: let them shine! that tiny shiny spot does wonders for the lips - it makes them fuller, softer and more three dimensional. It also makes the lips look slightly wet. Sexy!

tip 2: Build the depth with some darker spots. Quirking corners are great for that, and if you make the darkest spot in the middle of the mouth it seems like it’s about to part. And maybe whisper something seductive ;)

tip 3: The very middle of upper lip is my favourite area, it gives the mouth its distinct character. It’s also a great spot to play with shadows, one lighter stroke, one darker stroke and you have a very dramatic shading going on! 

tip 4: When drawing lineart it’s good to keep the line varying in width and pressure. Equally thin, flat line might look good in anime, but even there it’s rarely the case. Making the line thicker in the shadowy part of the mouth adds depth to your drawing. 

General remarks:

I almost never outline the upper lip, it tends to look weird. Just a thin “U” shape in the middle is usually enough.

Upper lip is usually in the shadow, at least half of it. Lower lip tends to catch the light, especially with pouty plump lips. The more shadow you add under it, the fuller the lips look. 

When drawing male characters I usually play around with skin tones instead of pink and red (see the third row of examples). But it’s not a rule. Some boys rock them rosy lips. ;)

Never paint the teeth white, never. Gray, yellowish and pinkish tones are great. 

And the final tip: use reference! Look for pictures of people with beautiful lips, with thin lips and full lips, try to see which line goes where and how it changes the shape and expression. I hardly ever draw without a reference.

Good luck! 👄

[cyborgraptor]

quick proportion tips

- eyeballs are an eyeball width apart - ears align with the top of your brows to the bottom of your nose, and are the center-point of a profile view - lip corners line up to the center of each eye - hands are roughly the size of your face - feet are the same size as your forearm - elbows are aligned with your belly-button - your hands reach down mid-length of your thighs - both upper and lower legs (individually) are roughly the same size as your torso  (this is all rough estimates for proportion! feel free to add more to help others)

[juiceatron8000-deactivated20210]

People ask me so often for help with anatomy but really they’re mostly struggling with proportion! It’s the most basic starting point n super helpful to know, even if you end up exaggerating proportions a lot down the road. Ofc I’m no professor but I hope this helps :’)

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[nevver]

Once upon a time in the West, Ty Cole

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[metaphorformetaphor]

“And so you cannot learn to love; nor can you learn to die. And you cannot learn the elusive – the non-existent, though keenly desired – art of avoiding their grip and keeping out of their way. Love and death will strike, come their time; only you have no inkling when that time is. Whenever it comes, it will take you unawares. Into your daily preoccupations, love and death will rise ab nihilo – out of nothingness. We are all likely, of course, to lean over backwards to become wise after the fact; we will try to trace back the antecedents, deploy the foolproof principle of apost hoc surely being the propter hoc, try to map a ‘making sense’ lineage of the event, and more often than not we will succeed. We need such success for the spiritual comfort it brings: it resurrects, even if in a roundabout way, the faith in the regularity of the world and the predictability of events, indispensable for sanity. It also conjures up an illusion of wisdom gained,[…]”

— Zygmunt Bauman, from “Falling In and Out of Love,” Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds (Polity Press, 2003)

[hermionc]

reminder to be wary of any news coverage you hear or read that doesn’t come from a direct source because there is always some type of spin on EVERYTHING.

[spirantization]

I want to expand on the grammatical explanations and the implications these headlines create. Firstly, it’s important to note what active and passive voices are and why we use them.

Active voice puts the agent of the action in the subject position. It places emphasis on the person who did the action. Headline #2 is active. We know who did the action. Who struck the journalist? Protestors.

Passive voice puts the receiver of the action in the subject position. It places emphasis on the receiver of the action, and not on the person who did the action. Both Headline #1 and #3 are in passive, but they’re slightly different. 

#1 is non-agentive. Who shot the photographer in the eye? We don’t know. It doesn’t say. Was it the police? Protestors? Someone else? Readers are left to draw their own conclusions or insert their own biases to fill in the blanks.

#3 is agentive. Who hit the reporter with a pepper ball? An officer. We know who did the action, but because the sentence is passive, the emphasis is on the reporter who received the action, and not on the officer who did the action.

It’s important to note these differences and be aware of how we use active and passive sentences. Passive sentences are not inherently bad; there are times and places where they are useful and more appropriate than active sentences.

HOWEVER, there is a clear pattern of passive voice headlines obscuring police brutality or racism. We see this same pattern again and again. Police shot a photographer in the eye. An officer hit a reporter with a pepper ball on live television. Omitting the agent of these actions, or shifting it out of focus, is harmful.

So as you continue to read news, and see headlines likes the ones above, ask yourself: Who did these actions? Who benefits from being named? Who benefits from being omitted? What kind of narrative is being created?