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🐦 black | oc artist | 27 | yuri enjoyer and connoisseur (she/they) check out my #oc feeds! working on a webcomic! 🐦 ocs, ace attorney, fire emblem 🐦 suggestive (18+)/nsfw 🐦 i love my ocs so much 💖 i have brainworms 🐦 no minors, no ai, no proship/lolisho

one f the things in particular tha tmakes me really happy is the amount of dark skinned women. its not just a fire emblem prblem but a problem with fantasy media in general to have dark skinned men but not d ark skinned women

Like i just feel like i can comfortably self insert into a character if i can customize them or at the very least change their skin tone. and part of why ive chafed so long at fire emblem avatars is the fact that youre supposed to self insert, but i cant, because im black

coming to grips w the fact that i'm a v emotional thinker/poster.... not in a bad way necessarily i just feel things Very Deeply a lot of the time 😭 but like. i'd rather be genuine w/what i feel (and maybe a little cringe w it) than soak myself in irony. irony's a disease actually

alsoooo this point is a little more nitty gritty, but although we are all part of the same diaspora, the majority of AAs are mixed to some capacity, either through interracial relationships or sl*ve r*pe (in my case) we’re a part of the bigger picture and our own unique thing not interchangeable

the afro exists as a form of rebellion, but ultimately takes much more work and many more resources to create & maintain than many of the intricate protective styles originally found in most African tribes, there were some afro puffs or shorter styles, but it was mostly braids & locks

I need ppl who draw black indigenous inspired characters to know there was a lot more going on with black hair in pre-colonial Africa than most African Americans are even aware of themselves and that the Afro is a mostly African American invention with a specific purpose

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don't mean this in a "caping for bluesky or its team" kinda way but like. being able to see who liked a post is kinda nuts right like i don't think i need to be seeing that. however compared to Every Other Site atm it's still a "luigi wins by doing nothing" situation 😭

every engage support feels like some bullshit but then they will randomly hit you with "why did you choose to work for the church our father is a deadbeat drunkard and our mother morally corrupt does that fucking mean nothing to you do you not fucking hate our parents" and you just sit there like oh

can't find it but does anyone else know that tumblr post (i think) that wen "i think we've swung too hard from 'the things you read/enjoy are equivalent to real crimes' and swung too hard into 'actually everything i make/consume is free of sin no matter what" bc. that sums up a lot of my thoughts 😭

i think fandom as a whole has ruined a lot of peoples' ability to engage w real ass issues (like outside of a fandom context) bc bring up some problematic shif happening in x work/fandom and you get hit w "it's just art forehead 😒" as if art only exists in a vacuum seperate from society somehow