Jun 3, 2019
艦これまとめ１２ | A丸 #pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=65224757
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艦これまとめ１２ | A丸 #pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=65224757
I gotta know, do you have a gorgeous freeman design to go with beauty Calhoun?
I tried drawing Gorgeous before, but I am not too happy with the design, honestly. I’ll have to give it another shot sometime.
That said, I just don’t think I can top @barneysimp‘s & @nerdepic‘s designs for Gorgeous. They are just... so fitting & handsome. And very tall. 😳
I’ll happily just be the one who has a Barney/Beauty design to complement those two. <3
Compliments You Get But Do Not Hear!???? Piles 1-3 Respectfully
Pile One: You’re a very beautiful person your face is alluring. People love your hair and think it really fits your overall look. People think you’re gorgeous the first time they see you but may not always tell you this verbally. You have a really nice body too no matter the height or size. People like the length of your legs. You are complimented a lot on your sensuality as well it is very welcoming to others. People are comfortable around you to tell you their life story they feel you would understand them in a deeper level and validate their feelings. People don’t feel judged in your presence and they love that about you. You’re very kind.
Pile Two: Even your close friends see the benefits of having you as a life partner. So many people see you as the hubby/wifey type and think it’s just second nature for you. You make people want to settle down. Anyone would be lucky to have you. This is what people think while in your presence but don’t want to seem weird if they say it a loud. You’re the ideal partner for a lot of people around you. Many people you know may have crushes on you but don’t communicate this in fear it may ruin their proximity to you that they do have. You’re a really good friend and many people feel so blessed to know and have you in their life.
Pile Three: You have taught people so many important things in your absence. The compliments you get the most but do not hear come from people who do not have access to you any longer. These people see you have very wise and gifted in nature. You have opened more heart spaces in this life time by walking away than you’re fully aware of. Many people consider the death of their relationship with you as a catalyst to their own spiritual journey. People see you as an earth angel that they were meant to meet in this lifetime. You are a soulmate to some. Many people say you’re a tough person to lose but it showed them a lot about the behaviors they needed to change.
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₊˚⊹♡ a sunday kind of love
pairing: beau arlen x fem!reader
summary: beau always knew a way to make your heart flutter. even if it meant going into a field and handpicking flowers for you
cw: tooth-rotting fluff.ᐟ beau being an absolute sweetheart.ᐟ pre-established relationship [married].ᐟ
word count: 1k
inspo: a sunday kind of love by etta james
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the sunshine rays snuck their way through your bedroom curtains, the golden light falling softly upon your tranquil features and bouncing off your messy but adorable bed hair.
as you naturally wake up from your peaceful slumber, you notice the other side of the bed being empty.
the only thing lying on beau’s pillow was a little handwritten note. you roll over to reach it and read,
Closer
tracklist
— ♬ "I drink the honey inside your hive. You are the reason I stay alive"
— ♬ Sex Addict! Fyodor Dostoevsky x Reader, NSFW, female reader, graphic depictions of unsafe sex & sexual obsession, brief mentions of masturbation, stalking & somnophilia, psychological manipulation, lobotomy (yes, fr), manga spoilers for Fyodor's ability, MINORS DO NOT INTERACT, 3.7k words, no beta
— ♬ NOTE: I DO NOT CONDONE, ROMANTISIZE, OR SEXUALIZE WHAT IS DEPICTED IN THIS STORY. EVERYTHING IS A WORK OF FICTION. READER'S DESCRETION IS ADVISED.
i was thinking about the way Lucien likely views Elain, and here's what i came up with.
Lucien is likely still dealing with the fact that someone he loved (Jesminda) has died.
he is now mated to someone he hasn't even propeely met-they're just on the same side in this war against Hybern.
it is also very clear to everyone including Lucien that Elain is very much not interested in him and is struggling with her own trauma and heartbreak.
when we see into Lucien's head thanks to Feyre's well-intentioned snooping, Lucien has this visceral reaction to Elain's physical beauty. Almost for certain, we can know that this was because of their (unaccepted) mating bond; we know that this kind of attraction can be caused by the bond. but also Elain is just absolutely drop-dead gorgeous-i get it, Lucien.
but it is very possible for one to think a person is hot and also not be attracted or drawn to their personality. (yes i love Elain and no this isn't an insult to her) Lucien reflects (as we see through Feyre's mind) that Elain had been thrust upon him, and he had loved Jesminda's personality.
Lucien also comes to spend more time away from Elain (respectfully giving her space and also creating his own) and with the Band of Exiles. personally, i wonder if something is going on with Vassa, because she seems like someone Lucien would be really drawn to-fiery, charismatic, loyal, etc.
anyways, i do not see textual evidence that Lucien cares for Elain in any sort of a romantic way. i do see him perhaps having those feelings for another female, just as Elain does for Azriel.
How It Started (Part 2): The Mermaid
How black is “too black”?
Right when you thought the stress was over, new and improved kinds of stress and anxiety spring out at you like a jump scare. I love a good jump scare but, in my arrogant opinion, they’re a lot less entertaining when they worm their way into your irl existence.
A few months ago, I started writing an action-fantasy novel called “Crystal Blue,” which happens to be my first EVER action fantasy novel. There was a lot about the genre that I still had to learn, but, as is typical of my stories, one of the first notable elements of this story was its highly diverse cast.
The main character is a biracial (Welsh and Cameroonian) mermaid trying to keep the general populace from knowing she’s a mermaid. (I promise it’s not as cheesy as it sounds.)
Tropes aside, it’s a major part of this mermaid’s character design that she has VERY dark skin. Like, her skin is literally black.
Reason being: her grandfather was a pretty dark-skinned guy already, the mermaids are kind of magical, and dark skin is gorgeous.
Here’s the hiccup: I was not very good at drawing, and I wanted to make promotional art for my story.
I’m a much better artist now than I was a few months ago thanks to the magic of practice and boring (but useful) art lessons. But back then I was just starting my digital art journey and I had no idea how to draw someone with really dark skin without their features (drawn with black lines) looking washed out.
I’m half Hispanic (Dominican on my dad’s side) and half African-American, so I’m not ignorant of things like blackface, sambo dolls, and other racist caricatures of black people. I just wasn’t prepared for people to bring up Mr. Popo when I asked a forum full of artists for some advice on how to make my character’s features more visible.
When I say things got wild, I mean things got WILD.
People posted comments (or…rants?) claiming that my character was not “representing” anyone and looked “lazy.”
Some folks boldly assumed that I didn’t know any black people because of my struggle to draw this mermaid. Others claimed that the mermaid’s skin was “just too dark for it’s context” - POC readers wouldn’t care that I gave the character the darkest skin I possibly could, just whether or not the character looked good.
I can’t speak for the entirety of my diaspora, but as a POC myself, I respectfully disagree.
As a black woman, and a black female writer at that, I’m sick and tired of black characters being restricted to a highly limited range of colors, especially black characters that are supposed to be pretty.
For some inexplicable reason, it’s only the racist caricatures that are allowed to have very dark skin, and that idea in itself is wrong and harmful.
There are thousands of shades in the black diaspora, and all of them are beautiful. Whether your complexion is molasses black or cashew-colored or anything in between, you are lovely. So why are some “black” complexions deemed more acceptable than others while other (real) complexions are dubbed lazy or racist.
For those who don’t know, and are curious to learn, there really are people in the world whose complexions appear ‘exceptionally’ dark or almost literally black. I know some personally, and when I was a child, I literally thought their skin was black.
Do these women not deserve to be represented?
Personally, even if my readers will only care how pretty my mermaid looks, I would much rather see an ‘average’ looking character who strayed away from the norm than one more “pretty black girl” cliche.
To the unkind commenter’s credit, they did say that there were other characters with very dark skin who still looked beautiful, but since I hadn’t done much rendering, my character looked “lazy” and I needed to use a different color.
The thing is, I didn’t know HOW to do the rendering. That’s why I was trying to get help.
Unfortunately, asking for advice led to cyberbullying in the form of passive-aggressive (or just plain aggressive) comments.
The most well intentioned artists who replied often just didn’t understand my point. They thought I just wanted to make a character look “black” (african/african american) and again and again the suggestion was to give them a chocolate brown complexion.
But that’s the problem. This is a character- a PERSON - not a concept. I wasn’t trying to just make a character who could “represent” a black girl like some sort of avatar for the entire diaspora. I was writing about one specific individual, who was a-typical, but still important.
I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with chocolate brown. I love chocolate. Chocolate is a beautiful color. But it’s not the ONLY color that black people come in.
The problem with lightening my character’s skin, even to a shade that was still (relatively) dark, is that it continues to turn us into tokens.
Writers and artists keep recreating the same black character and inserting them into different books, shows, and movies. More often than not, black characters in shows that don’t revolve around the black diaspora have extremely similar hair, facial features, and complexions, and that complexion is usually chocolate brown. That’s when we’re lucky.
Sometimes black characters are given the exact same facial structure as the white characters, and the only difference between them and the other characters is their skin tone.
Again, it’s very often chocolate brown or lighter.
But there is so much more to us than that.
So many faces, complexions, and hair textures fall under the umbrella term of “black” and those people deserve a moment in the spotlight too.
There are people in South Sudan who wear complexions every bit as “unrealistically” black as the complexion that I gave my character. So even if other artists fail to see the value of my creative decision, that doesn’t invalidate it.
Deep dark/black skin does NOT turn a character into a caricature. The very fact that particularly dark skin brings to mind racist caricatures is because of prevailing racist mindsets.
I think about it like this. If someone drew a white character with a 9H pencil and their features were hard to see, most people would just blame the mistake on the artist's inexperience. They wouldn’t assume that the character design was racist.
The only reason why it doesn’t go both ways is because we’re all still associating dark skin with sambo dolls.
That’s unfair. It’s unfair to artists and it’s unfair to all the people who really have this complexion who will never be represented because people are afraid to represent them, or are told not to.
A few months after this experience centering around my mermaid character, I met an asian artist who told me they hadn’t practiced drawing dark-skinned characters very much because they were worried about being offensive.
This isn’t the life we should be living.
For once and for all, black skin is not a problem. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. We NEED to keep fighting to make this world a place where no one is afraid of the dark. No one should have to worry that giving a character dark skin or broad noses will make them “racist.” Racism is based in our intentions, not in our mistakes or even in our ignorance.
After 4 months of practice, I (defiantly) continue to draw characters with (literally) black skin tones. It isn’t lazy, in fact, it takes infinitely more work than it does to render my light and medium brown-skinned characters whose complexions never wash out their facial features. I’ve gotten better at art as a whole, and I can now draw these black characters in a way where their features remain visible and their designs remain distinct.
I am proud to be the creator of these lovely people.
We are all defiantly beautiful.
I love your works sm! Are there any other hxh writers you can rec?
hi! thank you so much! i have a few that i recommend, but keep in mind that i don't think all of them write for chrollo anymore. as @lliminall once eloquently stated in my tags: "chrollo being like ‘am I really that easy to imitate’ hon respectfully you’re a philosophy bro I walk into the western philosophy section at Barnes and noble and I am accosted by fifty men with identical personalities to you" which i think sums it up pretty nicely as to why people stop writing for him... so be respectful. also, i don't write for feitan, but i do have asks about him. these beautiful souls have feitan fics so please go show them love