Lair of Lore

Here's some suggestions:

One: Ask one of your friends, instead. If they're also working on a story, you can return the favor.

That's how J.R.R. Tolkien made friends with C.S. Lewis. That's how Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein (yes, she wrote it based on a dream, but she and her friends were all stuck in a rainy summer writing stories together).

Two: Call your grandma, and ask her for an idea. I'm sure she'd love to hear from you when it's not a holiday or her birthday.

Even if she gives you an idea that you know is all wrong, the reasons why it's wrong that spring to mind immediately, will help you figure out what's right.

Three: (if you don't have a grandma to give you wrong answers) Personify that Inner Critic in your head, and write down all the things it says about how your story is stupid. Then, write down your answers arguing back about why your story is a good idea.

At least the page won't be blank, anymore. And you can recycle your Inner Critic and make it into your story's villain.

There is zero reason on this, Our Earth, to ever use a plagiarism machine.

I been somewhat following the "Argentinians being Extremely Racist during the World Cup" saga, and like... BONKERS lmao. How do you manage to purge an African population of 30% without some true hate 😭

It does explain that mindset that I have always found odd about Latin American racism, which is that (valid!) resentment of the US for being part of the Global North and Imperial Core, while simultaneously sharing so many of its racist, white supremacist beliefs. It's like... So you don't hate the racism portion? That's not the problem to you? 😅

https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1551&context=law_globalstudies

Hi, biracial colombian here(making this clear since I’ve noticed one of the most common things people like you do is assume people on her talking about racism are always white and either from the usa or from europe). It is absolutely not a white supremacist myth to acknowledge the fact that Argentina did very much try to purge its Black population. Cut that “hiding my racism behind the facade of anti-imperialism” bullshit for two seconds and try to think on why the fuck did we latinoamericanos ended up having a lot of multiracial heritage. It wasn’t just something that happened on a whim, it wasn’t just “population just got mixed early on,” it was a result of trying to whiten the Indigenous (and later on the Black) population. Blanquiamento. A term that is still nowadays extremely important to our relationship with race as latinoamericanos, due to it still taking place in the context of individual and family settings. Yes, brown people in Argentina exist, but if we want to look at say, statistics, then you’d have to admit that the majority of Argentinians are white and of european descent.

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And yes a lot of them do very much believe themselves to be europeans lol ask anyone from any other country in latinoamerica, ask argentinians themselves, a lot of them will agree on the a reason why for a lot of us they’re not considered part of latinoamerica. Because they. They don’t really want to be.

My first artfight attack on @hatwolf of their character Suldren!

I'm still focusing on comic pages during july, so in order to not burn out on doing 2D art, I decided to do something a little different for Art Fight this year and do 3D sculpting!

Happy birthday to Lyudmila Pavlichenko (born July 12, 1916), Soviet sniper in World War II, with 309 confirmed kills.