PROS

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.

I wanna crawl inside your skin

Just to be like you

You’re so pretty you’re so skinny

Wanna be that too

I RETURN! With more art of Zozma and Kira!

Lore: Zozma (character with grey hair) is a severely fragile individual. Their personality is... troubled, and full of holes. Kira (character with red hair) is the only other Shara'se (their species) they have met, and they latched on to them hard. (Zozma was raised by human in captivity).

Kira became their role model and their new caretaker. Zozma mimicked Kira, learning how to be a Shara'se -- from a severe alcoholic with their own issues...

They're obsessed with Kira. They quickly became possessive and extremely toxic in their relationship. Kira was their whole world, and their lifeline in surviving on the streets.

Zozma is in love with Kira, but love to them is a very warped thing, because of their upbringing. It means possession and control. It's complete adoration, obsession, codependency. A merging of two people into one chaotic dyad.

Anyway, this is the core of "I wanna be like you". They admire Kira, their saviour, they want to be like them, down to the addiction and the sorrow.

Honestly really happy with the way this turned out, I felt like I really was able to become immersed in the process and am getting the hang of procreate