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Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

If you ever wondered why they call tattoos and piercings "unprofessional" and "unsophisticated"

days of color pants ☀️🌿

The other day I was surfing the internet and I found this specialized painting colour wheel, it shows how real paint colours relate to each other. 

Outside: the purest/brightest colours.

Inside: naturally muted or earthy colors, like browns and ochres.

The Center: dark neutral tones used for mixing shadows.

The Lines: the lines connect colors that are opposites, if you mix them you neutralize the tone creating clean grays or browns instead of muddy puddles.

I want to share this with you because I think it is really illustrative!

Pigment-based colors mix differently than light-based, and it's much more difficult to achieve bright saturated purples with pigments. This wheel is for pigments (just adding for the sake of having the vocabulary)

Using copper-based pigments vastly increases the range of blues and greens, but it still has a narrow range that can be used to mix truely bright purples and violets.

Indigo can be a little bit easier to reach. But once you're talking about pigments and dyes, "indigo" can sometimes refer to the source of the color (a dye made from the indigo plant, a deep navy blue) OR the hue on a traditional colorwheel, which leans slightly more purple than navy.