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@creatingblackcharacters - (I owe you my whole life! Thank you so much for helping me!) She is amazing! She has lessons about Black People's Hairstyles, Black Cultures, and Black History! She even talks about serious things as well. Like Sexualities, Gender Identities, and Antiblackness racism that is happening! She even hosts CBC Book Clubs where she posts Chapters from Books that she's reading. And make Quizzes at the end of Books. So please, go check her out! And please, read her Lessons! Thank you!

@uptownlowdown - If your Black OCs are settled a bit in the past. She is the excellent person for you! She has a lot Vintage Black Fashion and Vintage Black Hairstyles! She makes amazing and gorgeous Art of her OCs! She even makes posts of Vintage Black Movies too! So you can use them as references as well! Please check her out! And please, read her posts! Thank you!

@naylissah - I followed her on here and she also has a YT! I learned many different Black Hairstyles from her videos! She even helped me when it comes to serious things while drawing Black Characters! I love her Artstyle and the way she makes her videos! Please check her out! And please, watch her videos and subscribe! Thank you!

Her YT Channel:

DjaRodney Art - He is a new YouTuber who I was checking out. He helped me when I was drawing Dembe Locs. I was having fun while I was doing so! His Artstyle is so cool and amazing! He does a lot of Portraits and "How to Draw" References videos! I highly recommend him! Please check him out! And please, watch his videos and subscribe! Thank you!

His YT Channel:

https://youtube.com/@djarodneyart?si=NhjTKHd8BNg_Psbw

These are the videos that I was watching while I was reading the Black Hairstyles Lessons from @creatingblackcharacters Blog! I highly recommend watching these videos after reading her Black People's Hair Lessons! -

(For some reason it's not letting me put the rest of links):

https://youtu.be/yQt-LEaBRP0?si=oUGEPwa8ZxQJRcVD

https://youtu.be/yFGwmUCH9aI?si=vSNRzf-0NLAwZMrs

https://youtu.be/d0Ta0XKlisg?si=4T1HlIIYH4CSztQa

Black People's Hair and their Hairstyles has many Meanings, Stories, and History! Now! It's time to learn about them!

"BuT wHaT iF iT DoEsn'T fIT mY sTyle-"

*I proceed to grab your neck*

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I primarily self-publish, although A Coup of Owls has published one of my novellas, and I've been in a few anthologies!

After you decide the shops you distribute to, you then have a choice of library apps to distribute to - Hoopla, BorrowBox, Vivlio, CloudLibrary, etc.

Unfortunately, all of them except Hoopla, I think, autoreject erotica, but everything else I publish I make sure to make available in library apps if I can!

Bc so many ppl focus on the idea of telling A Trusted Adult, but even a well-meaning individual can fuck up and let abuse fall through the cracks or not know what to do

Whereas if a child tells LOADS of adults AND other kids, there's far less opportunity for an abuser to do damage control

Consistently telling their story and spreading it around disempowers the abuser to control and coerce the flow of information, or to utilise gaps and weaknesses in systems of reporting or welfare to isolate the child

There was one episode with a trans woman getting different gender-affirming operations, including breast implants. It showed the procedure, and (what I found so fascinating that it's stuck with me for decades), as soon as the doctor put the implant in, a censor blur popped up on the nipple.

And you just know there was a meeting between the TLC lawyers and the editors and producers of the show to discuss what the difference was between a "man nipple" (can be shown) and a "woman nipple" (no no must obscure, 'tis naughty). And they decided that as soon as the implant goes in and the nipple has more mass behind it, that's the moment when it becomes a woman's nipple and must be hidden to comply with TV rules.

But it's the same nipple. On the same person. I know what it looks like; I just saw it. But TV and obscenity rules are rules, and the rules say woman nipple = sexual and therefore explicit, but man nipple = neutral, just fine.

There's really not a whole lot of direct page redraws in Chapter 5 of Beanstalked. Many old pages and panels got expanded upon when I rebooted along with a ton of new scenes being added in so I can't do many neat side-by-side comparisons with them.

HERE'S ONE PAGE THAT I CAN COMPARE THOUGH!

Aside from obvious character design changes, I decided to make Jack less calm during the punchline panel because I mean...bro is in a real shitty situation. Pin doesn't have much to worry about since he'll just get put back together again by Azure once he shatters from the impact of the ground but Jack is another story.

I also figured it'd be a good time as ever to show that Jack DOES have some regrets about climbing that beanstalk because, as of right now in story, bro doesn't see ANY benefits from having planted and climbed it in the first place. I MEAN, yeah he saved Oriana and Pin and learned more about his dad and the fact he himself is Bookmarked but he's also being chased by a bloodthirsty giant and falling thousands of feet from the sky.

I then ask, "what would it be like if you could simply give us feedback, have us graciously receive it, reflect, and work to change the behavior?" Recently, a man of color sighed and said "it would be revolutionary."

I ask my fellow whites to consider the profundity of that response. It would be revolutionary if we could receive, reflect and work to change the behavior. On the one hand, the man's response points to how difficult and fragile we are. But on the other hand, it indicates how simple it can be to take responsibility for our racism."