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To all of my queer and trans siblings, we will survive.

To my fellow beautiful Black and Brown brothers and sisters, we will survive.

To my fellow women, we will survive.

To our friends who were once strangers across the ocean in Palestine, The Congo, Sudan, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran, and more, we will survive.

To the next generation, we will survive, so you can too.

To fight, is to survive, so that’s what will continue to do.

Misha is doing so much for all of us and I'm so glad for it

So i heard the news hadnt made it here yet

Edgar Meelow

I've finally drawn my favorite boy! Edgar is my oldest and most beloved OC, and i used to draw him all the time. I've never drawn him from this angle - but I'm super proud of how it turned out! i used alcohol markers, ink pen, and colored pencils.

my first digital drawing of Edgar (from 2020) as a comparison. this piece was made before i had decided much about his story, so all the royal details were undecided and unused since. this was also during my early days of digital art - when i first started looking at programs outside of MS Paint, but i still had a screenless drawing tablet.

trying to get back into drawing little comics. this is of Sebastian, an OC whose story i haven't fully figured out yet, but i know it's tragic

Okay I JUST realized I never posted these on here—- BUT BASICALLY, about a year and a half ago I started doing these experimental black hairstyle posts that were threads long on Twitter, to give artists a source of inspo for their black ocs whose hair they wanted to try something new with! There’s more to black hair than just the selected styles portrayed in media, and I thought it would be fun to show people how much texture, shape, fades, length, and style can be combined when drawing black hair—-cause it’s a kind of manipulation our hair can do irl! The OG posts were lost with the hacking of my original Twitter account (@/bagels_donuts) but I’ve since reuploaded the whole thread to my new Twitter (@/ItsDonutsFR)! I hope artists on tumblr find these useful, sorry it took me so long to post them here😭🙏🏾 I’ll upload them all in parts!

Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades

final painting in my art class, took about an hour and a half

drawing of an elf that i'm taking to a competition very soon - will let you all know how it goes! inspired by the elves in the LOTR series, and the concept of infection in general. the final image almost looks inverted with the colors i chose, which i love because of how it adds to the unsettling feeling

i grew up in places that had fireflies, and it was beautiful. they don't make much noise like cicadas and crickets do - they just quietly drift around at night, and occasionally flash their lights. they like to hang low over the fields, weaving between grasses and tree trunks to find each other. i loved watching them for hours, sitting in a camping chair in the yard with my parents, and it was like living in a lullaby

Wanna do something useful, that really does have an effect? I have been calling my reps in the Senate, Congress and State Gov.

I've been calling every single day since the election, a different issue and solution each day. It takes about 1 min per call. Hate phone calls? Email them!

My own calls on issues have ranged from Voting No on Trump's cabinet picks, his violations of the constitution and out civil rights, LGBTQ+ Rights, and his unforgivable pardoning of violent seditionists. Pick the issues that matter to you most. Make a list!

example: "Hi, I'm [ ] from [ ], and I wanted to let [Rep] know how I feel about [issue], and that they should [solution]. Thank you!" and then they take your contact info and thank u for using your voice. Be polite, and try to be succinct! One issue per call or email.

They have to listen to us. Every phone call helps me feel a little better, and is a more effective use of my voice than complaining on social media.

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Stay strong, fellow Tumblrites ♥