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- A job

- Good relationship with father

- Neurotypical brain

- Ability to top

Tarot Readings to Support Black Lives Matter

Readings are by donation ($15-25 CAD), and will either be two pages typed out, or 30 minute live video.

Tarot has been an incredible tool to help me understand the workings of my head and my heart, so, until further notice, readings are in support of @blklivesmatter, the @blackvisionscollective, and the Black Mental Health Fund in Toronto.

For every reading booked, I will also donate $5 from my own pocket to @dust2onyxtarot to sponsor a deck, to make it possible for black readers to get copies of Courtney Alexander’s stunning tarot deck .

DM me to book a reading, or with questions you might have. And please spread and share, and send me along any other offerings of this sort that I’ll be able to support. If you are protesting, or are an active front line and essential worker who is unable to protest, DM me — let’s figure out a way to chat.

whitewashing is a problem in this fandom. 

i will not deny that i have been guilty of it, especially in my earlier gifsets. there are many other fantastic tutorials for how to fix whitewashing and they absolutely helped me in other videos, but none really worked when i tried giffing the boot so i assumed it was just “impossible” to fix and posted the gifsets anyway, which was wrong and incredibly disrespectful to amber, eva, and other bipoc members of the hadestown cast.

my methods are not perfect, but i figured i’d make this tutorial so other people can avoid making the same mistakes i made when they want to gif the boot because, i get it, the lighting is absolute hell. but that is absolutely no excuse to whitewash.

this is an unedited gif (only sharpened) from the boot. as you can see (in reference to the pictures of eva and amber below), they are very whitewashed by the stage lights.

the gif above is from my most recent gifset. as you can see, i have darkened their skin to be much closer to the skintones in the unwhitewashed reference pictures.

i have never made a tutorial before, but i am going to try and show the method i use to fix whitewashing in my gifs.

the other day, i made a post about fanartists and gifmakers contributing to fandom racism by whitewashing characters of color, and it occurred to me that some people might not know exactly what i’m talking about. i’ve seen posts akin to the one i made posted by content creators that make this exact mistake, and i just want everyone to be clear on what i’m talking about, and how to correct it.

for as long as i’ve been in the hadestown fandom, i’ve seen people whitewash persephone. they make her pale and then defend themselves by saying that it’s “difficult” to get her skin color right. well, now it isn’t! i’ve compiled six skin tone palettes from six different pictures of amber. granted, a couple of these pictures are in different lighting, or have a filter on them, but even if you look at those, none of the colors that i picked from those pictures are even CLOSE to white. you no longer have an excuse to whitewash persephone. well, you never did, but now you have even LESS of an excuse to whitewash her.

amber identifies as mixed, or a biracial Black woman. this is no invitation to make her skin as light as you want. as seen above, her skin has lovely red/pink undertones to it, and her palettes are all very warm. each color on these palettes is color-dropped directly from the pictures. i encourage you to use these palettes when you draw persephone, or any character that amber has played.