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A mandatory Bloody Mary post since me and my sister are facing eviction. Commissions are open, but I'm hoping for donations to my kofi

Traditional hairstyles of the Fula people (or Fulani or Fulɓe) 

1, 2: Guinea

4: 1959 Burkina Faso

6: c. 1920

7: Burkina Faso

8. Central Guinea

9. Dalaba, French Guinea (now Guinea)

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Wooden headrests elevate the neck and head to ensure elaborate braids, beads, and cowrie shells remain pristine and protected from dust and the ground. Elevating the head off the ground in semi-arid Sahel regions also helps improve airflow and keeps the sleeper cooler during the night.

Headrests are apparently used in a lot of regions of Africa. Here’s a Mwila woman demonstrating hers:

hey, thank you so much!!! tbh, children are tricky and it took years of practice before i felt like i drew them okay--hopefully these tips are helpful to you!

using georgia and her much younger self as a guide: children have big heads in relation to their bodies, with their features mostly relegated to 2/3 or even 1/2 of the face, depending on the art style. babies and toddlers in particular almost always have large foreheads and big cheeks, no matter what their individual features are.

my children tend to lean more cherubic and cartoonish because i've always adored how rose o'neill, the creator of kewpie dolls, drew children and babies. great big eyes, small noses and mouths, etc.

that being said: as you can see with georgia above, her younger self still has fuller lips and a wider nose, they're just small in proportion to the rest of her head, if that makes sense!

🚨 We urgently need €700 for treatment and medication.

🛑Move for her tears and screams that she does not realize because of her autism🥹🙏🏻

💔 It is heartbreaking to see all of this in such a small body—severe potassium deficiency and its complications, muscle weakness, possible kidney complications, neurological symptoms requiring sedatives, and painful skin ulcers.

Doctors informed us that the infection has gone beyond the skin and is now deepening, with a risk of reaching the bones.

💔 My child does not deserve this and cannot endure more.

🙏 Please have mercy on her. Your donation or sharing could ease her suffering and save her from further decline.🥹💔

Instead you get put into a camp and your camp is the correct one and the other group is evil and immoral and deserves death. Real thoughtful analysis is being swept away by this in-group/out-group nonsense.

For a while I felt afraid to even talk about how what you want to read in a fictional fantasy is different from what is acceptable in reality because that would mean “you support abuse”. And on the other side god forbid you criticize a trope for being racist because “it’s just fiction.”

Ríhanna Kelver, a bartender and trans rights advocate in Laramie, has been charged with aggravated assault and possession of a deadly weapon with unlawful intent after a 13 September 2025 confrontation outside the Crowbar & Grill, whereshe worked. Kelver could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison if convicted on both charges.

Despite Wyoming’s “Stand Your Ground” statute, which allows people to use reasonable force in moments of self defense, Kelver faces up to 15 years in prison for both charges, as well as up to $11,000 in fines, per Cowboy State Daily. Kelver faces an additional year and $1,000 fine for a charge of interference with a peace officer. [...]

They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. And we owe so much thanks to the other oppressed peoples, in particular the Choctaw Nation and the Masai, who sent money and grain to us.

Let me repeat that. The Choctaw Nation who had just gone through the Trail of Tears sent us money to try save Irish lives. It’s led to an understanding between Irish people and Native American tribes, most recently when we donated to the Navajo and Hopi fundraisers for COVID-19 relief, because while it may be a different tribe, Irish people will never forget those who helped us and we’ll help back.

The entire population of the island is less than seven million people. We’re still a million less on this island than pre famine. And it’s not that long ago. My grandmother’s grandparents lived through it. We’ve told the stories, it literally changed the DNA of the country. We have a national fear of renting, because so many people were evicted. People joke about Irish people always offering loads of food, but it’s because there’s that cultural memory of not being able to.