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Manifest Destiny was the chant that said “God says White people should rule over other races, so I’m doing what He wants”. To say that when a White person displaces or enslaves a person of a different race, they are MANIFESTING the DESTINY laid out by their God. Manifest Destiny is a philosophy and an order to others to “take what’s yours”.

Here is the first paragraph-

Here’s the wikipedia article for the painting-

Some things worth noting:

The woman in the center is Columbia, the personification of the US. Notice how she’s holding a wire connected to telegraph poles. She’s also holding a schoolbook for the time.

Notice how the Native people and the wildlife are grouped together, shadowed in darkness. See how industry and technology are contrasted against the Native people, as if those two are mutually exclusive.

Lots of delicate Canadians in the notes crying that there's no reason for them to know historical white supremacist lingo from the USA but oop I have news about Canada!!

Ignorance doesn't save you and it isn't an excuse.

There is no removing this phrase from its genocidal intent. To pretend otherwise is to remain willfully ignorant to protect your own ego. You never thought about the phrase beyond "cool;" please recognize that position as one of intense privilege.

Confront the fact we as white people have contributed to and benefited from racism and white nationalism, unknowingly or willingly. The end result is the same: we did. It should cause you discomfort.

You have many people politely educating you about the genocidal intent behind this phrase. Pushing back on that education because of the discomfort it causes is an insult on top of injury, and furthers the genocidal goal of white supremacy.

“Notes on skirts and pants”

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

And here's the whole series. I'm kinda proud of myself - when they all put together I can see the amount of work - and I love my characters a lot. :) Now, I wonder, which one is your favorite? My personal favorite is 2nd - I think I did Lyra justice with those wings. Since this is gonna be a long post anyway, I'm gonna add a few sketches for some of them below.

Is this an understandable mix up? Absolutely. Their names are literally two letters off.

[In Cang Qiong Sect]

Liu Qingge [Shaking the intruder intensely]: WHAT DID YOU DO TO ZHANGMEN-SHIXIONG?

Ye Qinghuan [Being shaken]: I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING, I SWEAR.

It's online. The book was carefully and wonderfully recreated online by hand. You can find it here. The entire book is this easy.

Hey, here is some new frustrating discourse.

I'm going to clear this up super duper quick.

And then we can move on and discuss more important things.

Okay?

Here goes...

Nicolas Cage is an incredible actor who is very bad with money so he has to act in terrible movies because otherwise they will repossess his dinosaur skull collection.

But even when he is in terrible movies with terrible writing he refuses to phone in his performances. And sometimes when you are acting your ass off while saying some of the dumbest dialogue ever conceived it can give the appearance the acting is the issue rather than the writing and story.

Hayden Christensen knows that feeling all too well.

So next time you see Nic Cage in a B movie acting a fool, just know he probably bought some new shrunken heads and forgot to pay the mortgage on his volcano island.

Exercises for all the homies who want to have a long career drawing.

The true problem with being an artist and drawing all day (as I wanted my whole life) is that human backs are not designed to hold that position, so it is very common for artists and designers to have really stiff shoulder blades, creating a chain of muscle strain towards the arm AND the back… and a lot of pain.

These are some physical exercises for artists and honestly anyone who works at a desk.

People really sleep on how good Shen Yuan is at acting.

At this point in the series, Shen Yuan has been coerced into returning with Binghe and practically locked up. In his mind he thinks telling his captor "I don't want to see you" is the cruelest thing he's ever said in either life, because he dotes on Luo Binghe that much.

Multiple times in the series, he describes Luo Binghe's distress making him feel physical pain. This is a man who carried an unconscious Binghe around the Holy Mausoleum while two other heavenly demons chased him and he didn't have access to cultivation at the time!!! Actual nightmare. There is nothing Shen Yuan won't do for the sake of Binghe's happiness and safety.

And for that whole arc?? Binghe thought his shizun hated him!!

Because Shen Yuan is a poser! He says so multiple times! He acts like an aloof and untouchable peak lord, and he's really good at it. He's good enough to make people think that's who he really is, even if his inner thoughts are the exact opposite.

When fic writers consistently write sqq from others pov as captain holt from b99 all will be right in the world