CAN WE GIVE A BIG CONGRATULATION TO MISS CHRISTINE MBOMA?
Mboma won 2nd place for Namibia in the Women’s 200m! She’s the first Namibian woman to win a medal!
//If she seems a bit familiar, it’s because a while ago both she and her teammate Beatrice Masilingi were barred from the 400m because of their naturally high testosterone levels. Before anyone say anything, they’re both cisgender. Despite this, they could still compete in other sports leading to Mboma to win silver in the 200m. While disappointed in the controversial ruling, Mboma is happy to have won.
Since I’m talking about this testosterone levels rule, I must say: terfs do not interact with this post. Fuck off <3
So my birthday passed and the couple weeks leading up to it was hell... at least, on social media. My birthday itself was nice so I’m grateful.
I don’t really wanna dump my grievances onto y’all cuz that’s what therapy’s for, but I will say this: usually, on my birthday, I would draw some of my friends’ ocs/fav characters and give them on my birthday. The reason why I do this is so I don’t feel guilty on my birthday (and why I feel this way is a whole separate conversation). However, I didn’t do that this year. I definitely planned it, but I never got around to it sorry stars, alicita, rena, lorenzo, and kitana. Seeing how everything bad happened just prior to my birthday, I thought, fuck it, I’m drawing for me so I gifted myself this, my fav ocs and a very tired me.
Self Love ❤️
i need to get back to work tho.......................
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Hi!!! I want to go over and give a bit more details about the reference sheet and under the cut, I wanna talk a bit about this blog. Nothing to worry about. Finally got to update her appearance aaaaaaaaaaa-
First, Namibia has small box braids. I know in the past I used to be really lazy and not put in the effort that she does in fact has braids and I’m sorry but I’ll put in the effort now. Here are some videos by black artists on drawing box braids and black hair in general [1, 2, 3].
Next, I wanna go over her canon outfit. As you can see, she has a different pattern than I usually go for. Yeah, so whenever I draw her, it’s always in this style with a simple shirt and a long African printed skirt that I got from here. The pattern I usually draw her in is called Ondelela (2) & is associated with the Ovambo people. I’ll explain more about traditional dresses at a different time, but know that this particular dress is something you would see her wear more often than not but that she has other patterns skirts/dresses.
And finally, just her clothes in general. Something that I don’t think I talk about before is that she tends to wear more lighter clothes. As you can see, all her clothes have lighter colors and, as the name suggest, more on the casual side. Namibia herself don’t really go out of her way to wear the most fashionable clothes. Plus, Namibia can get pretty hot so she would wear more loose and light clothes. She’s real easy-going and her outfits reflect that. I hope so at least.
Hey, so I was thinking about coming back; this blog was really fun and there’s so much more I want to do and discuss. However, I am a very busy and anxious person with college, finding a job, and perfectionism, not to mention my low motivation lol. So to do this, I hope y’all don’t mind very slow updates on this blog because we all know how slow I can get. I just wanna get that out there that yeah, I’m dead but every once in a while, I’ll come back with a little something and go back to being dead. Right now, I’ll focus on updating her bio, pfp, header, organizing the blog, and planning out posts/asks.
