Under Her Bows

For the Melanin Beam Challenge, I picked Purah because she's one of my favorite LoZ characters, and I thought it would be fun to make a Black redesign of her and give her coily hair. I also love eccentric scientist/engineer/inventor characters who are women, and I want more of them to be Black women. I realized while brainstorming designs that her canon design has a headband that matches the trim of her coat, but you can barely see it, so I decided to make it more prominent for the redesign. It was really fun to make!! Happy Birthday and thanks for all of your lessons!

Credit to @ezlo-x for the background texture! It's on their Ko-Fi here

some art for @creatingblackcharacters Melanin Beam Challenge!!!

First up is Frieren since she was the first character i thought of for this! Inspired by some wonderful Black cosplayers on insta like hannah.sherlie

Then we got Hakumei and Mikochi-- this manga/anime is near and dear to my heart and it is an honor to melanin beam the girlies.

It's about both of them living together in a tree trunk going about their lives as tiny people. Mikochi is a seamstress who also makes various home goods for a local store, while Hakumei is a carpenter/handyman. Peak slice of life calming vibes.. but not many Black characters? There's background charas in a couple places they visit but no one on the main cast which is a shame! So they're getting the beam. (They're both meant to be Blasian here, with Hakumei still being ginger since that had, like, plot relevance)

- it’s fun to be awake & in an upright position

- consciousness is a gift

she did not experience "male socialization." when i look back on our childhood, it is easy to understand that there was no privilege to that concept. she was forced to try and shrink herself into the shape of a man, and was abused when she didn't succeed at playing the part. being "raised as a boy" only highlighted the stark incongruity between what was expected of her and what she was. this repeatedly led to her facing violence.

My nephew is very allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Last year my sister discovered all hot dogs and hamburger buns now contain sesame. Not "may contain", but listed in the ingredients. This year basically every brand of sliced bread also now contains sesame, making it very difficult to find bread items he can eat.

They're just adding it to their products, so they can just list it as an ingredient and not bother with worrying about cross contamination. And they aren't even bothering with telling anyone. Capitalism is going to kill us all.

"Which brings us back to Kellogg’s. Back in 2016, the company found a way around the added burden and expense of complying with the FSMA: they simply began adding trace amounts of peanut flour to their cracker products. Doing so allowed them to list peanuts as an ingredient of the product, freeing them from having to prevent cross-contact.

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Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, a far right party who are currently in the process of a serious bid to become the UK government. they are just straight up evil.

Count Binface is an intergalactic space warrior with a bin on his head. he likes to run as a novelty candidate in general and mayoral elections. a big thing he likes to do is run as a candidate against the incumbent prime minister:

(Also pictured: Boris Johnson, Elmo)

Anyway, in brief:

Nigel Farage is currently in the midst of a big scandal about his finances

He has decided to deal with this by 1) making a show of nobly resigning from parliament and then 2) immediately running in the resulting by-election

He has stated that he is letting 'the people' judge his actions and implied that if he wins that will prove that he has been exonerated in the court of public opinion

His goal was presumably to get a big resounding win over the other parties, proving that The People still love him.

the other parties have thus far decided that this is a 'vanity election' and, well, there is one very easy way to ensure that he will not beat any of them, and that is simply not to play.

and as a result the only person who has so far confirmed they are running against him is Count Binface. no matter the outcome this makes Nigel Farage look like, u know, a fucking clown.