I Need To Not Draw So Late At Night But I Could Not Resist The Siren Call Of 'draw Your Asshole OC In

Momma helping me out 😃 #wip #acrylic

More carving/etching/idk and I'm sure if I used tools for wood it'd work but jamming to bjork and using scratch board tools will suffice

RESOURCES ON WAYS TO HELP THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT

includes educational materials on black history, structural racism, effective allyship, and ways to donate without any money

the atrocities and injustices black americans have faced for centuries by the very nation their ancestors built has gone on for far too long. it has been proven time and time again america is indifferent to the flagrant abuse and murder of african-americans by the system society told us growing up is meant to protect the people. its abundantly clear that is a lie.

as i am writing this on june 6th 2020, 12 days after the death of george floyd, all 50 states and over 580 american cities have held protests against racism and police brutality. the whole country is crying out towards their injustice and america is long overdue for deep societal change. but that is not all.

in addition to the u.s. 19 other countries so far have joined and held protests against the systemic racism and police brutality perpetuated by their own governments. from argentina to australia, canada to brazil, mexico to japan, this list goes on. this is NOT an american only issue. police brutality is worldwide. globalized colorism and racism is prevalent and real. to quote andré 3000, “across cultures darker people suffer the most, why?”

i am speaking as an asian-american. and im also saying this as a nonblack person. george floyd was murdered directly by derek chauvin but 3 other officers aided in his murder, including an asian-american man named tou thao. he stood by doing nothing to help while a white man murdered a black person. a horrific representation of the culmination of antiblackness in asian-american communities. its not just white people. we are complicit to such racism as well. we must start with ourselves. to terminate structural racism we must eradicate it at the root so it may never reach such a scale ever again. in america, and many other countries, every nonblack person is complicit in the oppression of black people. we must work to undo the anti-blackness ingrained in us and our own people. we have to hold them accountable for anti-black racism before it grows and one our own is complicit to another racist murder of a black person. no matter how much it makes us uncomfortable and no matter who you might upset.

we cannot look away. we must immediately fight for change. a few convictions will not be enough. “reforming” the police will not be enough. a few new laws will not be enough. not until every black person brutalized and murdered by the hands of police get justice, and not until we ensure that this will never ever happen again. this problem is deep, and we all must work intra and interpersonally to solve it. and if you’re not speaking out, if you’re choosing to be quiet, you are part of the problem.

when we look at history often we’re appalled and shake our heads at the atrocities committed by society. why did people do that? why did people allow that? why did it go on for so long? it’s because people stayed silent and didn’t do anything to stop it. in oppression, there is no neutrality. if you stand by and say you don’t pick a side you are picking the side of the oppressor, because you’re allowing oppression to happen. in the era of slavery, would you say you would have advocated for abolition? or would you have turned a blind eye and let it go on? now look at the reality of our world today and ask yourself what side of history you’re going to be on, right here, right now. because this is a global movement. and history is in the making.

in the words of my friend @corpsentry: the world is at its tipping point. its up to us which way it falls

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Done for tonight

Update on #2t9 painting - working on flooring

Foot studies and well angry mutants who want to destroy things

God, @myvelvet-goldmine​ has been unbelievably patient with my ass ;_; lookit this pretty art, thank you for indulging me and my love of vampires.

Prologue is up over here: heraldry

“Blue paint highlighting the blueprint of his not-quite-dead veins, golden hair and lashes rendered snow white.” - heraldry, arachnida, A03

I’m so damn glad I chose to do vamp Laurent for the 2019 Reverse bang, after seeing the amazing amazing beautiful things @jesibeans is doing with it for their fic over on A03. The prologue is up, please go read it, it bring this right to life 🙏 (link in comments)

(Story notes from the author - TW: Pretty blatant discussions of paedophilia/child sexual abuse, grief, death, dying; - things that exist in Capri but may not be what you’re up for right now)

The veretian court are vampires, pets are their lovely human blood stock, all of this is turned to poetry under @jesibeans’ hand

Hey! I’ve been in a bit of a spot so I went ahead and reduced some originals for sale!

http://jesibeans.storenvy.com/collections/1638156-reduced