luminary gardens

and it comes out she accidentally opened ms excel and found out its a great way to create knitting patterns

N.K. Jemisin's article 'Describing characters of color in writing'

Mary Anne Mohanraj's article on approaching characters of colour

Renee Harleston's article How to 'Write Characters of Color Without Using Stereotypes'

Working with Colour, a resource site for writers

the book Writing the Other by by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward, which had a description that cut deep, because I've definitely fallen into this trap out of fear:

and then a video recommended by @sheprd (thank you!) about pitfalls in descriptive language

I haven't gotten my hands on Writing the Other yet (it's still in the mail!) but from reading my way through these articles and watching the Princess Weekes video, I now understand that 'white-ifying' a character you're worried about is a lazy and cowardly solution. so, if I do ever finish the book Eres loses Everything, I'll keep her as is, do my best to be thoughtful, and hire a sensitivity reader to pick out any blind spots.

Writing Diversely FAQ

Writing With Colour blog

A conversation between many writers on writing diverse characters

Four Tips to Help You Incorporate Diversity and Inclusion in Your Writing

This is a painting of Jacek Malczewski called simply ‘Death’ and it’s my favourite personification of death in any medium. 

She’s not creepy or scary, or sexy, or abstract. She is this thick woman with worn hands, dressed as normal, with a non-stylised scythe and pins in her hair: like a farmer’s wife that just came form the field and rests against the wall, catching some sun. She is not creeping about the dying one holding her scythe over their head, she is just there, calmly waiting her turn. 

the Swaddled Baby orchid (Anguloa Uniflora) is in my opinion one of the most unbearably creepy plants on this planet. they are BIG knee-high flowers that look like an abandoned fairy nursery straight out of Pan’s Labrynth, and smell vaguely of cinnamon.

in Normal Orchid Game, the upcoming flower breeding sim, this will be one of the twenty collectable orchid breeds (peek beneath the readmore to see them all). I’m developing this game with a couple family members as a passion project in our free time, so if you’d like to throw some coin our way we’ve made the Demon Orchid (and a few others) available in the store as enamel pins with dyed-red metal

her debut book sounds so cool and thoughtful and makes me a little embarrassed to have entered writing under the driving passion of “I want to fuck an old man”, but it is what it is! we are who we are!

Evening Dress

Girolamo Giuseffi

c.1912