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You don’t realize how many artists have same face syndrome until you try to find an artist who can portray ethnic features. Many of them either lack the skill or the motivation, or maybe the motivation to develop the skill. But sorry I don’t want you giving my Black OC a pointy little nose and that same mouth you drew on that white girl over there.

Next time you find an artist you want to commission, look and see if they have any Black or brown people in their portfolio, and as you search, maybe fruitlessly, all the faces begin to look exactly alike and it starts to feel like you’re looking at someone’s incredibly well executed dollmaker.

People who can draw a wider range of features than just “generic white fantasy girl #9” are stronger artists and more worthy of your cash. (Unless the same face Pixar thing is what you’re going for, then by all means, proceed with mediocrity.) And I don’t mean “draws the same face and gives it dark skin and curly hair” I’m talking big noses, wide noses, flat noses. Monolids and thick lips and textured hair and PEOPLE WHO’S UNDERTONE IS NOT PINK FOR GOD’S SAKE WOULD YOU STOP MAKING PEOPLE PINK?

Anyway, find quality artists by looking for faces of color.

Oh and body shape/sizes other than “impossibly slender elf girl” or “tiddies out anime girl”!

Some folks are saying use NatGeo as a reference which, um…well, OP’s got a reblog specifically about why that is a bad idea that I won’t paraphrase or do any horseshit with because her words matter more than mine.

To sort of shoot that strawman argument of “well, if I can’t have that, then what else is there? You never provided me that!”, I’m going to speak up with a better suggestion for folks who sincerely want to improve: Unsplash is right there. They have a whole section dedicated to people photos, submitted by their userbase for free use: (x)

Here are some fun ones, just from a quick skim right now:

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Like this is just a skim! Folks, we can do better and not use racist resources. Sure, Unsplash is limited by what users submit, but at least by that virtue, there’s so much more there on Unsplash to practice with as an artist for diversifying your face shapes and body styles. And, again, all of these are free to use, so they’re willing models.

I appreciate this addition because you did the work to find a quality source of pictures from models of color who are every day people. They also VOLUNTEERED to have their pictures used for free by artists as reference. That gives them agency, it makes it a oit communication and not colonization.

I don’t want people to never make an addition to my posts, it’s just way too often people blunder along without any care for the core subject - which is racism, not a simple criticism of technique. This shows an understanding of the underlying issue and then says to other white people “hey look you can stop being racist AND not be racist at the same time!”

Anyway, sorry if that didn’t make sense, I’m hopped up on anti anxiety meds after the incident with the dog at the park.

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“If you ever find bald-faced hornets building a nest on your property, here are some things to consider before you get rid of them (assuming you don’t have a fatal bee allergy or anything) :
• They’re great pollinators as well as key...

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If you ever find bald-faced hornets building a nest on your property, here are some things to consider before you get rid of them (assuming you don’t have a fatal bee allergy or anything) :

  • They’re great pollinators as well as key predators, highly beneficial to the environment all around.
  • They’re known for being very relaxed and easy to get along with, as long as you give the nest even a few feet of personal space.
  • They aren’t generally curious about you or your food and drinks like smaller yellowjackets are and tend to mind their own business.
  • By winter, they all permanently abandon the nest never to use it again and THAT NEST IS AN EXTREMELY SOUGHT AFTER NATURAL COLLECTOR’S ITEM YOU CAN SELL FOR A HUNDRED BUCKS OR MORE ON EBAY OR ETSY YOU FOOL JUST LET THE GALS BUILD YOU A HUNDRED BUCKS

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'I've never had the wish to dress normally'

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The Brighton tailor whose identity became his business            

Zack MacLeod Pinsent dresses as a Regency gentleman every day, saying that the clothing is a “huge confidence builder”.

He ceremoniously burned his last pair of jeans when he was 14-years-old and hasn’t looked back since.

His passion for historical outfits has led him to take up a career in tailoring, making clothes in period styles at his workshop in Brighton, East Sussex.

He now has clients overseas and has recently returned from a business trip to New York.

Video journalists: Adam Paylor and Ben Moore

Slideshow…

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idol let’s just say that

I want this man to make my wardrobe for the rest of my life.

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Here’s a link:

https://4ocean.com/pages/octopus 

There’s different colors representing different sea creatures ❤️🌊 

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Just a little reminder that the US Military is the world’s biggest polluter.  The fight against ecological disaster must include fighting the war machine! 

The company I work for actually donates a lot to 4ocean. Here are 3 of the bracelets I’ve collected so far.

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This Brainless Slime Learns And Remembers by Slurping Stuff From Its Environment

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Even without a nervous system, they are able to learn about substances they encounter, retaining that knowledge and even communicating it to other slime moulds.

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might fuck around and kin a motherfucker

which of you is it gonna be

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You. Come closer.

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galaxy brain collab with @hetreasky

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I get really confused when americans, when talking about universal health care are like ‘yeh but it’s not free sweaty :) :) you have to pay it through taxes :) so gotcha!!’

and I’m like ….???? That’s the whole point??? Everyone pays their fair share so that no one has to be turned away because they don’t have insurance??? And no one has to set up a Fundraiser page just so that they DONT DIE???? So people don’t put off going to the doctor because they’re scared of going bankrupt?? Because healthcare is a RIGHT and should be free at the point of access?!?

“So no one has to be turned away” she says hahaha go to a universal health care country and get a necessary operation in less than a few years and come back and talk shit.

Look at the cure rates compared to mortality rates in universal health care countries and compare them to ours, then talk shit.

Tear your ACL in a universal health care country and see what the people say if you should go to their hospitals or go to an American hospital, then talk shit.

2010. I’d been feeling a bit ill. Work was going nuts, so I figured it was stress.  Pretty good call considering a week later work fired their entire IT department (of which I was part).    

But then I got sicker.  And it turned out I had cancer.

Burkitt’s lymphoma, stage 4a. It had spread into my brain and spinal column. 90% cure rate, but I needed nine months of chemo - and not the outpatient chemo, nope, talking multiple week stays per round of the magrath protocol.  Drugs were about 10k an IV bag.  I was unemployed.  And there were complications.

Thankfully I live in a country with universal healthcare.   And it didn’t cost me a goddamn cent to save my life.  I’m now officially past the five year mark to move me from “remission” to “Cured”.

I’ve lived in a universal healthcare country my entire life. And I’ve seen the US system in action.  Your system is fucked. Straight up fucked. You’ve got fucking Dickensian shit going on there, people dying on streets from preventable causes or ending up broke for breaking a hip.   Your health insurance companies have you by the balls and people like you are begging them to squeeze harder.  What the actual fuck is wrong with you? 

“But but but TAXESSSSSSSSS”

yeah no shit. That story above? Happened when I was 32.  I’d spent 14 years of my life paying those fucking taxes that funded the system that saved my life.    And guess what?   Now I’m cured, I’m…Back..at work..And have been for several years…earning waaaay more money and paying back into the system.

This shit doesn’t exist in a vacuum, dickhead.  You’re not feeding some imaginary pack of leeches, you’re paying forward on your own damned healthcare so you don’t have to argue with an insurance company while trying to heal. 

i also don’t get why americans can’t wrap their heads around the fact that universal healthcare is actually cheaper

like yeah your taxes might go up (hell, take a chunk out of the military budget, they might not even change) but you won’t have to pay ridiculous health insurance premiums. it’s a net saving, dumbasses. 

Also I care about people that aren’t me

Also I care about people that aren’t me

the only people I have ever known who voluntarily went to an American hospital instead of a Scandinavian one (Scandinavian hospitals being all universal healthcare), was my big brother’s family who have a son with a heart condition. They’re Icelandic. Iceland, with a population of about 300.000 people, does not have a specialised children’s hospital so the surgery they needed for their child just wasn’t available in the country - not uncommon, so what the Icelandic health care system does in those cases is pay for the surgery to take place abroad in a hospital with doctors who can perform the surgery. So they decided to go to America (Iceland paid) to some hotshot children’s hospital to get surgery for their baby, and they had to wait 4 months for this vital and urgent surgery even though it was paid for up front. In your so-called amazing American hospital. For comparison, the same kind of surgery here in Denmark is actually urgent, so the child has to wait 2 days tops to get the damn surgery.

So miss me with that “waiting time of a couple of years” bullshit. That’s not a thing.

“But you’ll have to wait” – we still have to wait if we’re not rich. At least I won’t be bankrupt by the end of it. 

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Lemme know if you want me to take those down

  • Question: I was actually about to renew my twitch sub to him that day. Safe to say I didn’t lol. Idk man. I really wish he was just super clueless but there’s no way that he isn’t and especially not now since he and his team/friends have blocked and banned people for talking about it. I really wish this wasn’t the hill they’ve chosen to die on lol. This sucks. Been watching him for years and now it’s like 🤷‍♀️ - Anonymous
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    YUP, shit sucks and I just know this behavior is just gonna blow on him sooner or later if stuff like this keeps happening.

    MAN I WAS GONNA GET FRIENDS TO WATCH EARTH WORM JERRY TOO. I’ll just, dip into other shit instead and get that bad aftertaste gone

  • Question: I'm actually coming from twitter, but did you see one of criken's friends/mods bree has possibly/most likely blocked someone for criticizing criken for having n/ick r/obinson on his stream? I wonder how many other people got blocked too. Have you? - Anonymous
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    I saw that! I know someone got blocked by Criken himself after directly jabbing him about ol coochie man.  Haven’t been blocked myself, but then again I haven’t said anything to them.

    Man what a Mess