Revolutionize the World

Had a really great panel yesterday at Momocon.

Myself @breanimator / @thethreetomes and my brother ToonrificTariq had a panel to discuss Indie Animation as Black Creators and share our indie series that we're working on. We talked about the development of our projects , why we chose to do our work independently and the future of indie and what this means in relation to us as Black creators specifically.

We both also showed some clips from our shows. He showed a bit of the animatic from the Hey pilot and I showed a early WIP sequence of Episode 2 of TTT.

And shared that our Kickstarter is coming for episode 2 on June 19th

At the Panel , Tariq and I got to meet fans of our work individually and fans who enjoy both and folks who may not have seen our stuff discovered it and are now supporters . Folks gave fanart , he had his first cosplayer , I met some people who had done fanart for TTT online in person and it's just been really great getting to see that so many folks are touched by the shows we're making. That our stories mean something for Black folks and making them feel seen.

Support Tariq's Kickstarter too . He's reached his goal but he's got plenty of stretch goals to hit along the way

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.