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We discussed the issues describing People of Color by means of food in Part I of this guide, which brought rise to even more questions, mostly along the lines of “So, if food’s not an option, what can I use?” Well, I was just getting to that!

This final portion focuses on describing skin tone, with photo and passage examples provided throughout. I hope to cover everything from the use of straight-forward description to the more creatively-inclined, keeping in mind the questions we’ve received on this topic.

Standard Description

Basic Colors

Pictured above: Black, Brown, Beige, White, Pink.

“She had brown skin.”

This is a perfectly fine description that, while not providing the most detail, works well and will never become cliché.

Describing characters’ skin as simply brown or beige works on its own, though it’s not particularly telling just from the range in brown alone.

Complex Colors

These are more rarely used words that actually “mean” their color. Some of these have multiple meanings, so you’ll want to look into those to determine what other associations a word might have.

Pictured above: Umber, Sepia, Ochre, Russet, Terra-cotta, Gold, Tawny, Taupe, Khaki, Fawn.

Complex colors work well alone, though often pair well with a basic color in regards to narrowing down shade/tone.

For example: Golden brown, russet brown, tawny beige…

As some of these are on the “rare” side, sliding in a definition of the word within the sentence itself may help readers who are unfamiliar with the term visualize the color without seeking a dictionary.

“He was tall and slim, his skin a russet, reddish-brown.”

Comparisons to familiar colors or visuals are also helpful:

“His skin was an ochre color, much like the mellow-brown light that bathed the forest.”

Modifiers

Modifiers, often adjectives, make partial changes to a word.The following words are descriptors in reference to skin tone.

Dark - Deep - Rich - Cool

Warm - Medium - Tan

Fair - Light - Pale

Rich Black, Dark brown, Warm beige, Pale pink…

If you’re looking to get more specific than “brown,” modifiers narrow down shade further.

Keep in mind that these modifiers are not exactly colors.

As an already brown-skinned person, I get tan from a lot of sun and resultingly become a darker, deeper brown. I turn a pale, more yellow-brown in the winter.

While best used in combination with a color, I suppose words like “tan” “fair” and “light” do work alone; just note that tan is less likely to be taken for “naturally tan” and much more likely a tanned White person.

Calling someone “dark” as description on its own is offensive to some and also ambiguous. (See: Describing Skin as Dark)

Undertones

Undertones are the colors beneath the skin, seeing as skin isn’t just one even color but has more subdued tones within the dominating palette.

pictured above: warm / earth undertones: yellow, golden, copper, olive, bronze, orange, orange-red, coral | cool / jewel undertones: pink, red, blue, blue-red, rose, magenta, sapphire, silver. 

Mentioning the undertones within a character’s skin is an even more precise way to denote skin tone.

As shown, there’s a difference between say, brown skin with warm orange-red undertones (Kelly Rowland) and brown skin with cool, jewel undertones (Rutina Wesley).

“A dazzling smile revealed the bronze glow at her cheeks.”

“He always looked as if he’d ran a mile, a constant tinge of pink under his tawny skin.”

Standard Description Passage

“Farah’s skin, always fawn, had burned and freckled under the summer’s sun. Even at the cusp of autumn, an uneven tan clung to her skin like burrs. So unlike the smooth, red-brown ochre of her mother, which the sun had richened to a blessing.”

-From my story “Where Summer Ends” featured in Strange Little Girls

Here the state of skin also gives insight on character.

Note my use of “fawn” in regards to multiple meaning and association. While fawn is a color, it’s also a small, timid deer, which describes this very traumatized character of mine perfectly.

Though I use standard descriptions of skin tone more in my writing, at the same time I’m no stranger to creative descriptions, and do enjoy the occasional artsy detail of a character.

Creative Description

Whether compared to night-cast rivers or day’s first light…I actually enjoy seeing Characters of Colors dressed in artful detail.

I’ve read loads of descriptions in my day of white characters and their “smooth rose-tinged ivory skin”, while the PoC, if there, are reduced to something from a candy bowl or a Starbucks drink, so to actually read of PoC described in lavish detail can be somewhat of a treat.

Still, be mindful when you get creative with your character descriptions. Too many frills can become purple-prose-like, so do what feels right for your writing when and where. Not every character or scene warrants a creative description, either. Especially if they’re not even a secondary character.

Using a combination of color descriptions from standard to creative is probably a better method than straight creative. But again, do what’s good for your tale.

Natural Settings - Sky

Pictured above: Harvest Moon -Twilight, Fall/Autumn Leaves, Clay, Desert/Sahara, Sunlight - Sunrise - Sunset - Afterglow - Dawn- Day- Daybreak, Field - Prairie - Wheat, Mountain/Cliff, Beach/Sand/Straw/Hay.

Now before you run off to compare your heroine’s skin to the harvest moon or a cliff side, think about the associations to your words.

When I think cliff, I think of jagged, perilous, rough. I hear sand and picture grainy, yet smooth. Calm. mellow.

So consider your character and what you see fit to compare them to.

Also consider whose perspective you’re describing them from. Someone describing a person they revere or admire may have a more pleasant, loftier description than someone who can’t stand the person.

“Her face was like the fire-gold glow of dawn, lifting my gaze, drawing me in.”

“She had a sandy complexion, smooth and tawny.”

Even creative descriptions tend to draw help from your standard words.

Flowers

Pictured above: Calla lilies, Western Coneflower, Hazel Fay, Hibiscus, Freesia, Rose

It was a bit difficult to find flowers to my liking that didn’t have a 20 character name or wasn’t called something like “chocolate silk” so these are the finalists. 

You’ll definitely want to avoid purple-prose here.

Also be aware of flowers that most might’ve never heard of. Roses are easy, as most know the look and coloring(s) of this plant. But Western coneflowers? Calla lilies? Maybe not so much.

“He entered the cottage in a huff, cheeks a blushing brown like the flowers Nana planted right under my window. Hazel Fay she called them, was it?”

Assorted Plants & Nature

Pictured above: Cattails, Seashell, Driftwood, Pinecone, Acorn, Amber

These ones are kinda odd. Perhaps because I’ve never seen these in comparison to skin tone, With the exception of amber.

At least they’re common enough that most may have an idea what you’re talking about at the mention of “pinecone.“ 

I suggest reading out your sentences aloud to get a better feel of how it’ll sounds.

“Auburn hair swept past pointed ears, set around a face like an acorn both in shape and shade.”

I pictured some tree-dwelling being or person from a fantasy world in this example, which makes the comparison more appropriate.

I don’t suggest using a comparison just “cuz you can” but actually being thoughtful about what you’re comparing your character to and how it applies to your character and/or setting.

Wood

Pictured above: Mahogany, Walnut, Chestnut, Golden Oak, Ash

Wood can be an iffy description for skin tone. Not only due to several of them having “foody” terminology within their names, but again, associations.

Some people would prefer not to compare/be compared to wood at all, so get opinions, try it aloud, and make sure it’s appropriate to the character if you do use it.

“The old warlock’s skin was a deep shade of mahogany, his stare serious and firm as it held mine.”

Metals

Pictured above: Platinum, Copper, Brass, Gold, Bronze

Copper skin, brass-colored skin, golden skin…

I’ve even heard variations of these used before by comparison to an object of the same properties/coloring, such as penny for copper.

These also work well with modifiers.

“The dress of fine white silks popped against the deep bronze of her skin.”

Gemstones - Minerals

Pictured above: Onyx, Obsidian, Sard, Topaz, Carnelian, Smoky Quartz, Rutile, Pyrite, Citrine, Gypsum

These are trickier to use. As with some complex colors, the writer will have to get us to understand what most of these look like.

If you use these, or any more rare description, consider if it actually “fits” the book or scene.

Even if you’re able to get us to picture what “rutile” looks like, why are you using this description as opposed to something else? Have that answer for yourself.

“His skin reminded her of the topaz ring her father wore at his finger, a gleaming stone of brown, mellow facades.” 

Physical Description

Physical character description can be more than skin tone.

Show us hair, eyes, noses, mouth, hands…body posture, body shape, skin texture… though not necessarily all of those nor at once.

Describing features also helps indicate race, especially if your character has some traits common within the race they are, such as afro hair to a Black character.

How comprehensive you decide to get is up to you. I wouldn’t overdo it and get specific to every mole and birthmark. Noting defining characteristics is good, though, like slightly spaced front teeth, curls that stay flopping in their face, hands freckled with sunspots…

General Tips

Indicate Race Early: I suggest indicators of race be made at the earliest convenience within the writing, with more hints threaded throughout here and there.

Get Creative On Your Own: Obviously, I couldn’t cover every proper color or comparison in which has been “approved” to use for your characters’ skin color, so it’s up to you to use discretion when seeking other ways and shades to describe skin tone.

Skin Color May Not Be Enough: Describing skin tone isn’t always enough to indicate someone’s ethnicity. As timeless cases with readers equating brown to “dark white” or something, more indicators of race may be needed.

Describe White characters and PoC Alike: You should describe the race and/or skin tone of your white characters just as you do your Characters of Color. If you don’t, you risk implying that White is the default human being and PoC are the “Other”).

PSA: Don’t use “Colored.” Based on some asks we’ve received using this word, I’d like to say that unless you or your character is a racist grandmama from the 1960s, do not call People of Color “colored” please. 

Not Sure Where to Start? You really can’t go wrong using basic colors for your skin descriptions. It’s actually what many people prefer and works best for most writing. Personally, I tend to describe my characters using a combo of basic colors + modifiers, with mentions of undertones at times. I do like to veer into more creative descriptions on occasion.

Want some alternatives to “skin” or “skin color”? Try: Appearance, blend, blush, cast, coloring, complexion, flush, glow, hue, overtone, palette, pigmentation, rinse, shade, sheen, spectrum, tinge, tint, tone, undertone, value, wash.

Skin Tone Resources

List of Color Names

The Color Thesaurus

Skin Undertone & Color Matching

Tips and Words on Describing Skin

Photos: Undertones Described (Modifiers included)

Online Thesaurus (try colors, such as “red” & “brown”)

Don’t Call me Pastries: Creative Skin Tones w/ pics I 

Writing & Description Guides

WWC Featured Description Posts

WWC Guide: Words to Describe Hair

Writing with Color: Description & Skin Color Tags

7 Offensive Mistakes Well-intentioned Writers Make

I tried to be as comprehensive as possible with this guide, but if you have a question regarding describing skin color that hasn’t been answered within part I or II of this guide, or have more questions after reading this post, feel free to ask!

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Ancient Greek culture has been misinterpreted and used by Northwestern Europeans and North Americans for various purposes. You might have been conditioned to believe that the ancient Greek culture is the same as what colonizers and imperialists have spread around. But it’s not. It’s just a mockery they have made of ancient Greek culture.

Using it as a tool on other nations was already bad enough (and, thankfully, this has been addressed by many other posts in this site), but let’s not forget they first misappropriated it from somewhere and that’s bad, too. By viewing the ancient Greek religion and architecture as Northwestern European and North American, you make their actions seem credible. 

Colonizers and imperialists sold you colorless marbles, pretty columns and gods “fucking around” and they made you believe this is what ancient Greek culture was. They dressed up in chitons and togas, they decorated their houses with Corinthian styled pillars and Hellenic style busts and they believed they had a claim to the heritage. They treated Greek culture like it died after the Romans and they are the ones that can and should continue it.

Meanwhile, Greeks have been preserving stories, the language, the dances, the food, they have been copying and studying their ancient philosophers and scientists, they have been fighting so their antiquities won’t be stolen by others.

I deeply understand the need to shake off and attack colonizers and colonizing mindsets. And there are many ways to do that. But if you think that by offending ancient Greek culture you offend colonizers and imperialists, you are, sadly, mistaken. You offend the people who are growing up in the Greek culture.

Yes, we are still here. Yes, we are connected to our past, we are still preserving it. Our history is long and our evolution continuous. We have a culture one thousand times richer than what they briefly showed you in school and the aesthetics you like. We are happy when people are partaking in it but it hurts when others treat it like a free-for-all product and ‘promote’ it without respecting the standards of the culture. And then they turn around and ask us “Why aren’t you satisfied? Don’t you see we have made you famous?”

We are saddened and enraged by what was stolen from us and misused. We feel helpless when our voices are never heard when it comes to our ancient culture, because now people consider it property of richer nations. Most foreigners are taught to see us as “people called ‘Greeks’ who live in the place where ancient Greece was” and nothing more. Sometimes we also hear “those are some new, mixed people, they are not like the ancient Greeks”, implying that we don’t have a right over our own culture. (I don’t have the time to analyze all the reasons this sentence is wrong). And we are already too powerless, too numb, to say anything. Sometimes, we, too, are conditioned to believe this all makes sense.

Please, take some time to consider this. This is something beyond my personal blog. It’s something all Greeks discuss and it would be great if it got more recognition. (Heck, copy and paste it on your own blog, if you don’t want to give me the notes. I really don’t care).

Short answer for this question, "please follow the ancient texts and depictions of the culture as the natives of the culture have done for millennia, because ancient deities from another culture aren't your coloring book".

Long answer:

Dark-skinned in the Mediterranean sense, it's fine, because that's also in the ancient depictions and it reflects the appearance of the local people. But I sense you are seeing this matter as some type of "white supremacy" of some sort and that's why you are focusing on the Black "race". In reality, the iconography excludes even the most light-skinned Russian.

"Aren't there black people in Greece?" Yes there are (even though veery few compared to the country's population. Greece is among the least diverse countries on the planet). But also consider: Aren't Black people in China? Aren't Black people in Mexico? Aren't Black people in Mongolia? Aren't East Asian people in Congo? Aren't White (e.g. Slavic) people in the Arabian Peninsula? Do you think each country should change the depictions of their gods to suit the minorities in the country each century? Countries worldwide never did that. They keep the ancient depictions of their deities and the deities reflect the appearance of the local people.

Greek people also do that and have done so for millennia. The sudden decision for "diversity" after 2.000 years later came not from the Greeks who preserved the culture, but from the US Americans who started the trend so the Greek pantheon can reflect their own society. This shows a type of ownership by the US over the Greek pantheon.

Since these people have grown too familiar with Greek antiquity (a superficial image of it, mostly) they have adopted an imperialist stance towards our deities. If the Americans (people on the other side of the Atlantic) judge our pantheon as "too White" then that's the global standard, all of a sudden.

This doesn't happen with mythologies the US people (I would also put Northwest Europeans) are not interested in. For example, would you go to a Mongolian person and ask "sorry but why can't we make your gods Black? Why can't we make them look Cherokee? Why can't we make them look Korean?"

Well, technically you can (and gods can transform), but I hope you can understand why you as one person and as an outsider changing Mongolian deities wouldn't be the politest thing to do. Such changes aren't for a few people outside a culture to decide. This isn't for a few people inside the culture to decide. The shift must come from the culture itself in a way that reflects the opinions of the majority.

((Aka not your 1-2 young Greek mutuals on Tumblr and TikTok, but even my yaya on the mountain and my theia on the shore should be ok with it. Also, most Greeks as of now feel very uncomfortable with the appearance changes in our gods. If you go on the streets and ask Greeks about the matter, the majority will say "wtf my dude? Why would you even do that?" And yes, that includes dark-skinned people.))

For many people on the Western side of the internet to extend the same courtesy of the Mongolians - in our hypothetical scenario - to Greeks is very difficult. The reason is they don't see the Greek pantheon as our heritage. The Americans think they have broken free of the colonization mindset of the antiquity stealing Europeans but they are wrong. They still see the Greek pantheon as something theirs, with the younger often perceiving it as characters from a very cool fandom. (No, the Greek gods aren't just "cool deities I learned about in school" for Americans and that's it. There's millions of Greeks who still consider them extremely important for our tradition, and part of our national identity).

In some cases, US Americans feel they are the continuation of the "western civilization" so the gods belong to them now and can change them as they see fit (or "appropriate"). Meanwhile, they don't know how the average Greek even looks/-ed like. Or whatever they know is mostly based on 40's racist propaganda - that's why they often tell Greeks they don't "look Greek". (see my tag #greek speaks) I don't need to spell out how absurd the whole thing is.

Take a look at my F.A.Q. in the section "What’s this “don’t change the depiction of the gods” all about?" There the mindset of the most privileged nations for the Greek pantheon is best described and it covers different scenarios and also Greek history. It's long but a serious disentanglement must be done because this is deep-rooted imperialist thought that must be undone.

people have tried to create a peaceful, oppression-free society before, but it turns out that’s really hard.

The reasons it’s really hard are almost entirely practical and many of them are the boring and logistical sort of practical.

And not just the people you want to die. In fact, the members of The Rich (… and their kids. Most 'kill the rich' revolutions have also ended up having to murder their minor children so as to avoid them growing up into counter-revolutionaries) that you don't kill personally are probably more likely to survive than your average person. One of the benefits of being The Rich is easier access to resources.

But like… overthrowing the government and reworking society from scratch is probably going to fuck over the healthcare and welfare systems at least a little, and people depend in them to survive. The inevitable counter revolution and fighting in the streets will lead to innocent civilians getting caught in the crossfire.

An actual violent armed revolt and overthrow of the U.S. government (not that I think many people have seriously thought about/considered that) would result in mass death, likely of millions or tens of millions of people. The reason is depressingly simple: infrastructure.

The Texas cold snap disaster and the Nashville bombing are tiny pieces of foreshadowing for what could happen if violent unrest spread across the country.

First thing: foodways. We are totally dependent on a huge, inter-state system for food. Very little of the food eaten by anyone anywhere in the country is produced locally. If we suddenly stop being able to ship food supplies across the country and in from other countries, many communities cannot fall back on local resources. At all. Our crops are grown in gigantic monocultures. Rural and isolated areas are often almost totally dependent on chains like Dollar General for grocery shopping.

Second thing: electricity. Not only would it be ridiculously easy to knock out the electricity of most areas, our electrical infrastructure would probably fall apart within like a few months on its own without constant maintenance. Over winter break my community had a couple power outages that affected a few hundred people. They lasted only about half a day because there are workers on call at all hours of the night to address and fix those problems. We’re literally dependent on people being available at all times to access and repair the infrastructure, and if anything happens to those people, their resources, their supplies, their ability to travel to the source of a problem, we’re fucked. Homes will no longer be heated or air conditioned, food stored in freezers will thaw out and rot.

Third thing is transportation. Americans are almost exclusively dependent on personal vehicles that run on fossil fuels for transportation outside of large cities. There are no passenger trains or buses for a huge portion of the country. If anything happens to people’s ability to access fuel and to drive on roads in cars, they’re not getting anywhere except on foot.

It is important to realize that America is BIG. A lot of Americans live in very isolated areas with an incredibly low population density. It is not at all uncommon to have an hour-long commute to work every day, or to live two hours from the nearest supermarket. Distributing aid after a wide ranging collapse of any of our infrastructure would be an absolute nightmare. You couldn’t easily gather people at a central location and provide them with necessities. They can’t get there. You can’t even tell them where “there” is.

Every life sustaining system in the country is being held together by a scrap of dingy duct tape. The system is thoroughly broken but it’s broken in such a successful way that there is nothing else to fall back on. There are no local communities that are meaningfully self sustaining, at least not any that couldn’t be thrown into fighting for survival practically at the push of a button.

And literally all of these things are designed around capitalism.

If you violently overthrow the American capitalist system and replace it completely with something new, these life-sustaining systems are going too. The private companies that manage the power grid are gone; who’s coordinating efforts to keep it up and running, and how? The big companies controlling all grocery stores are gone; how are we going to reorganize foodways? How are we going to source and distribute food? We’re doing away with fossil fuels; where is our electricity coming from, what is powering the vehicles that carry our food, how are 300 million people going to make it to the places where food is being distributed? How will you inform them?

It only takes about 5 minutes of thought to realize that actually “overthrowing” capitalism means that everyone within capitalism that is most harmed and oppressed by it ends up dead within a month because there is no existing system to take care of those people.

I think people are just wildly optimistic about the ability of a loose unorganized group of revolutionaries to miraculously organize and distribute necessities to people, to which I can only answer that you need to read a goddamn history book.

This is what I mean—horrible botched revolutions, and in particular communist revolutions, usually aren’t horrible because primarily their ideas are flawed. They turn into nightmares initially because of very boring reasons like logistics.

Even if all humans were innately good and unselfish, it is just so ridiculously fucking hard to coordinate large numbers of people and large amounts of resources and all the red tape that is necessary to even begin to work out how to make a built-from-scratch society function is mind boggling. “Whoops! We accidentally starved a million people to death because we miscalculated how much bread they would need. Sorry....”

Imagine starting to try to regulate food safety, but the FDA no longer exists, food safety laws are void, the people that worked for the FDA are unemployed, the people that worked at the meat packing plant are unemployed, the people that shipped beef to the meat packing plant are no longer doing that (and also their trucks have no fuel because you shut down the fossil fuel industry), the basis of the farmers’ livelihood has collapsed. How do you even consult the scientists that would know about food safety and make sure their work is peer reviewed?

The answer is that you don’t, because everybody is eating rats cooked over fires made from burning furniture, because you can’t just pop one Entire Societal Structure out and slide a new one in like they’re VHS tapes. It never happens this way.

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Many of you, I’m sure, have heard of these 3 lovely sites that straight up STEAL OUR FREAKING CONTENT. If you have a tumblr blog, I can guarantee you’re on all three.

We have:

Tumbex

Tumbral

and Tumgir

As and artist who literally write on every. Single. Post “Don’t Repost or edit” I AM INFURIATED.

There are not one, not two, but THREE blogs taking ALL of my content from ALL FIVE OF MY BLOGS without permission, and no way to contact or remove it. All of their emails are fake. So trying is fruitless. Not to mention they are all absolutely INFESTED with viruses. (If you decided to look yourself up, click out almost instantly)

Not ONLY do they steal all my (and your) work, but they ALSO post all your stats. No no, I’m not talking about notes. (Though they got those too >:() I’m talking about Your blog private stats. 

Followers

Numbers of each post type

Average amount of notes (Though on at least Tumbral I found these HORRIBLY inaccurate)

Point is, you NEED TO KNOW that every. SIngle. Post. You make is uploaded to this site in REAL TIME. The second you hit “Blog”. 

It’s honestly disgusting since, as an artist, I work VERY hard and its really not that hard to respect my wishes of not being reposted without a heads up. Imagine my surprise when I found My Varian art while searching google for a website I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW EXISTED!!!! How messed up is that?

There is currently no way to take your blog off these sites, and so a warning to all:

We are being monitored. Your blogs are being shown to people not of this site, whether you have search on google/tumblr enabled or not. It keeps reposting. 

PLEASE BE CAREFUL MORE THAN EVER ABOUT WHAT YOU POST! And avoid posting private information because it’s now more exposed. YOU are more exposed.

We are all at risk, and if anyone knows more or a way to rid our blogs from the sites, PLEASE REBLOG WITH ANSWERS!! This breaks many privacy codes. 

I’m not sure what else to do other than reblog this information to help others know, and watch what you post. But please please Please Be careful.

1. after losing the war in 1994, the az government spent the next nearly 30 years on a) dehumanizing armenians, b) blaming armenians and losing the war for the terrible socioeconomic state of the people in this oil-rich country while president and his family steal all of the money their oil produces, c) pushing armenophobic propaganda on the population since kindergarten age, d) oppressing and humiliating the other ethnic minorities living on its territories, e) regularly violating the ceasefire of 1994 whenever the internal situation get tense and the ppl get angry, f) selectively sending the youths of said ethnic minorities to the bloodiest parts of the frontline whenever said ceasefire violations happen, g) suppressing free speech, arresting journalists, harassing and threatening those who dare to voice their discontent, etc.

2. in early 1920s, josef stalin, in order to appease the new turkish "republic" and its leader ataturk, with the hopes of using turkey as the base for spreading the communist revolution further into asia, passed artsakh (also known as nagorno karabagh) with its 95% ethnic armenian population onto the new created turkic azerbaijan republic (a country that did not exist before 1918, that's what newly created means), despite the opposition from the people of the region in question and the republic of armenia.

3. during the 70 or so years that artsakh was part of the azerbaijan republic as an autonomous region, the gov of azerbaijan did everything they could to a) suppress the development of the region, b) change the demographic of the region by moving turkic population to artsakh

4. in 1980s, the people of artsakh, utilizing their rights stipulated in the soviet constitution, petitioned both moscow and baku to be allowed to reunite with armenia. as a response to this, the azerbaijan government started large-scale repressions against the organizers and activists of the reunification movement. arrests on made up charges, threats and violence followed (more info on all that in the link provided below)

5. the people of artsakh then held a referendum as was their right under soviet constitution, and more than 90% of it's population voted in favor of seceding from the azerbaijan republic. the response to this were the anti-armenian pogroms in baku and sumgait ( https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-01-18-mn-305-story.html)

6. all this grew into the first artsakh war, which azerbaijan lost, as mentioned in point 1.

to sum it up: artsakh was never a part of the independent azerbaijan republic, during it's brief 70-year forced az control its indigenous armenian people were oppressed via various government policies, the people of artsakh deserve to live a free and happy life in their homeland, free of threats and fear of annihilation that is sure to happen if azerbaijan takes control of the region

to them, it's just a territory and they want that territory without the people.

for further reading, check out this comprehensive timeline of the artsakh history up to 2017( when it was written)

https://www.evnreport.com/spotlight-karabakh/spotlight-karabakh

then, this: on what actually happens to armenian lands and cultural heritage when it's in azerbaijani hands

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2019-11-07/armenian-monuments-azerbaijan

while you are at it, read up on the armenian genocide and keep in mind that turkey, specifically for this war, moved syrian jihadists to azerbaijan to fight against armenia and artsakh. read up on the kind of internationally banned ammunition azerbaijan has been using against the civilians in artsakh capital, and then maybe make your judgement.

cardi b apparently made a post about it, talking about how there's a genocide going on in armenia, and azeris started harassing her so she sort of backtracked and said something like "i didn't know there was two sides to this" and like it's not the only person they've done this to!

this video on twitter actually explains their tactics (the girl in the video is basically translating azeri post) how they target people who speak out in support of armenia and make them rescind their support.

so yeah. it's important for us to fight against the misinformation. and i think i have no respect for any armenian person who chooses to not engage because the internet is our battlefield. this is where we fight because it's the least we can do. (note i said armenian person, because i don't think its fair to ask this of people who don't have a personal stake in this war).

when we say we are being threatened by genocide, we are not exaggerating

Boring fact about me: I don’t eat red meat very often

I played Among Us for like 3(?) hours yesterday

I’m goin to school tomorrow :’( but also day after tomorrow my bestie’s gonna have her first day so I can gloat about my holiday XD I’ll have school on Tuesday , Thursday and Saturday , my school is kinda having 2 groups , due to the government’s order to decrease the number of students in each class so ye . (Also FINALLY DONE  with the 4 panels where I wanted to work on the emotions shown the most , now I can handle the ones where it’s ten times more important and actual dialogue takes place -_- )

My boring fact is that I love raman . That’s it.

I tag u guys :

@casualneonglitterpainterposts @mmini @thatr34llyw3irdgirl @theweirdserofangirl

My boring fact is that I only need 6 hours of sleep for my day to go smoothly(any more sleep is no problem either obviously).

A boring fact about me: I like to eat the crust of the pizza first. Smh.

A boring fact about me is that I’m constantly craving something or the other, whatever the thing may be…

Tagging- @cake-in-a-tin @silversickles @thegothbookworm @hayilaa-kats  and uhh @who ever

Boring fact: I don’t like mushrooms

boring fact: i put my science textbooks in my device case to fool my parents (aHhHh bAdAsS)

boring fact: i have hyperextending knees:)

Boring fact bout me🤔 : I don’t eat any meat other than chicken…. Had an issue while I was a child but since then no more meat😁

Boring fact about me: I wait for the last minute to get anything, literally anything done :| 

hehe

Boring fact about me: I don’t like wearing socks

Boring fact about me ;

I have two stitches under my chin.

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boring fact about me: i used to want to be a car designer

Boring fact about me - I like my food spicy

My boring fact is: I listen to jazz music to destress and unwind.

boring fact about me: i always take a shower with hot water, except for the last 40s when i put the cold water

my boring fact: if i feel like my noodles look bland, i look for random vegetables from the ref i can just throw in there. (once i picked leaves from our garden and put them in my bowl)

My boring fact(?): I do birdwatching and once named the most birds of anyone in my class

My Boring Fact: When I sleep at 8pm I will always wake up at 12am(sometimes 11pm) and I only need atleast 5 minutes of sleep or none for my day to be n o r m a l

(many have been very concerned)

Hmm…I guess my boring fact is that despite having so many alarms set for the morning, I never fail to sleep through most of them fjdjdk

i cant think of a fact,,i watch a lot of gore i guess, like a lot

Boring fact about me- I’ve never had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (my sister is allergic)

Even when I prepare stuff in advance + get up earlier, I always manage to be a case of Almost-Late-Had-To-Run.

I’m lactose intolerant, so it’s goat milk yogurts only for me.

I hate any form of tomato other than sauce. No ketchup does not count.

And even then I still would choose anything else than tomato sauce if I were given the choice. (Pizza is an exception)

I was scrolling through Tumblr and came across a post of KNOWN PEDOPHILES ON TUMBLR (many of which have or want to rape actual children/minors)

THERE ARE ACTUAL PEDOPHILES ON TUMBLR TRYING TO GET IN TOUCH WITH MINORS ON TUMBLR