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Some new outfits for Emerald I wanted to share on here!

The costume in “Lady Swan’s Last Dance” was designed by @stephanos-spaceopera. I just followed her design notes and thorough color palette sheet for reference.

Here’s a link to my post and Emerald’s fashion board for anyone interested to see more:

https://www.tumblr.com/afrophunk/819143716248928256/emerald-fashion-board

We have even more lovely outfits for Emerald, cuz I still can’t make a full character turnaround to save my life 😔🤙🏾Dressing up my OC like a doll will have to do

If you're curious for a more in-depth look in Emerald's tastes in fashion over the years, I got just the thing for y'all to check out:

"She'd forced me to to wear a beautiful outfit that was just my size... ✨️ SKINNY ✨️"

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.