Y'all

Furthermore tanning as a aesthetic act is based in white supremacist beauty ideals. Specifically, the act of white people co oopting browner skin as something to signify beauty and health while also punishing people of color for not having the lightest skin possible.

I miss lying in the beautiful, warm sun so much. But we should probably be a little bit more honest about what it does for you and why we are conditioned to do it without production.

Sincerely, the white motherfucker that loved to sunbathe and now no longer can, bc of cancer! The people of color around me are also getting skin cancer, they're just not checking for it. So it's developing to worst stages. Put on some fucking sunscreen and don't stay out too long.

i like the nose and the mandatory curly black hair is there but he looks too heterosexual and okay with being alive. scans as some generic normal highschooler instead of something with something unfixably wrong w him. that's john-paul. 3/10

drawings that are extremely informative as to the artists opinion on his morality. i like the slightly longer hair but it's not curly. the expression is cute and the littleguyness is good also but hes overall serving manic pixie evil straight boy and not gayass with something wrong with him. humbly requesting that people stop giving him this one generic dress shirt. he wouldn't wear that. 3/10, could be higher if the shirt was gayer

hair isn't curly but it's at least wavy. he looks like a little freak (this is very good). automatic bonus point applied for the background aisha. sufficiently gay and stupid little shirt design. puckish but the obligatory haunted doll look in the eyes is still there. appropriately childish looking too, he's distinctly a little guy. he would like this one because he would think it makes him look cool (and aisha is there). 8/10

creative and fun experimentation with alec's outfit is always an automatic bonus point even if he wouldnt actually wear it. love the design here. again not black curly hair but still understanding the importance of giving him Fancy Little Outfits and thats helping to carry some of his Energy. i can see how this is a regent someone could have in their mind palace. 6/10, would be higher with appropriate hair

at first i was like "love the fake armor abs on the obviously teensy guy thats really good" but then i opened the full image and saw they draw taylor like this

so now i'm scared maybe they're supposed to be real abs? no they probably aren't. they probably aren't. we at least have black hair this time, and of the ideal alec length, but not curly. nice classic gay poofy little outfit and i always enjoy the more simplistic mask designs 4 him. it's a little strange designwise that the shirt is cropped short enough to show midriff but 7/10 overall for the general pose & costuming carrying his Energy (<- choosing to believe the abs are fake on purpose) (theres another drawing they did of taylor where she looks really endearingly lanky and freaky so idk whats going on w the other one. the thigh gap and cutesy pose...please)

a classic. so close to curly, so close. right general shape and length though. almost feels a little too perfect--i like how the first 7/10 is like...fairly conventionally attractive/what Would be deemed a pretty boy, but is distinctly sort of exhausted and sunken looking. some clear eyebags & more haunted-freaque looking eyes could bump this up to a solid 9/10 or mayhaps even a 10/10. outfit could do with some more visible poof but theres not much visible, to be fair to it. maybe the sleeves are gay as hell i wouldnt know i cant see them. good coronet design i definitely think thats basically what its like. i do like how pensive he is. 7/10 ijust wish he was less healthy looking

sorry this one is kind of hard to see so small but ive comitted to the bit of just posting the gallery screenshots at this point. youve probably seen this one in full its old. this is a very 2014-era regent but i think it carries charm. we have a Curly Haired Regent! and he's unpleasantly pale and his costume is all poofy and he's got moles/beauty marks [confetti noises]. and again, automatic bonus point for aisha being there. he is NOT taller than her and this is a [scared] you guys think aisha is that lightskinned? moment but, like, overall feels like a very charming encapsulation of their dynamic in the book. i'm always a little mixed on this alec because it's not at all how he looks To Me but there are all the necessary ingredience in there. and i do enjoy how the artist achieved their goal of trying 2 emulate oldschool comic vibes. feels like the style undersiders Should be drawn in and maybe thats it feels True To The Boy to me. 8/10 honestly. it's true to the boy! its not the boy in My mind palace but it is the boy. which is funny because:

the local brockton bay wards are going to have a homophobic slur to say about this one. curly black hair. 10/10

thats john-paul. 2/10 at least he looks bored and theres a puppet motif

automatic bonus point for aisha and a cute aisha at that and i like the crown but the outfit, as in many cases, feels too generic-masc-suit-y. nice to see him happy but honestly just does not capture how Fifteen he is enough--not enough baby fat. 4/10 some of the necessary ingredience are there but i think the design needs a few more gos to scan coherently as him instead of a stunt double with less chronic depression. that is a good aisha though

"X band has always been awful!" Actually, they put out some really, REALLY good songs, that doesn't negate what the singer said or whatever. You can disagree, sure, but you not liking a thing doesn't make it poor-quality, and someone being a trash person doesn't make their output poor-quality, either.

As someone who has loved many problematic things only to watch "always sucked" rhetoric gain legs ONLY when the thing is declared Wrong To Like, it's frustrating. People aren't wrong for enjoying things that you don't like.

It makes people who did like the thing feel really defensive and annoyed, and they aren't wrong to feel that way. It's fine to be annoyed when someone is being a dick, even if they are right.

IDK, thus just makes me really mad. Maybe because I lived with someone who for years made fun of my tastes until I stood up to them. I don't like seeing people get made fun of and shamed for what they like. It doesn't help anything. Ever. Literally. Give it up. Adjust your angle of attack. Criticize the person's actions, comment on the content of their work and not the quality.

Women watch porn. Women produce porn. Young boys are also trafficked. There’s multitudes of porn that don’t involve women at all and are purely involving males. Many women also routinely make the argument that pornography (and prostitution) is empowering or a good career for young women. This is also making the presumption that in a porn film that involves both a man and a woman the man cannot be equally a victim which is a disgusting and untrue statement.

The pornographic industry being exclusively created and run by males is pure fiction. Women are involved and also part of this evil and you cannot escape that reality. Even so I never said that it’s not for men to do nothing about, the point of the post is that it’s going to take BOTH good men and good women to fox this problem.

Pointing fingers at each other and going “it’s your fault sweetly :)” genuinely helps no one and communicates you me that you’re more interested in shaming men then you are actually ending porn.

If porn is going to be ended you must acknowledge women’s role in it. And that the men addicted to porn are ultimately victims as well and no more evil than a drug addict.

Porn is an ultimate disorder and destruction of the goodness of relationships and sex. And it’s only going to be destroyed is men and women stand together as we always have.

Don't wait to be yourself.

However high the cliff that you must scale, however deep the forests of dread through which to pass. Whatever it costs you in spoons and illusions of comfort, fight with every sinew NOW.

You must grasp whatever you have, whatever youthful energy and spite, even if you think it too poor a supply. Every bit, direct into bring yourself.

It's worth the fight and it is worth doing sooner. Once you have, every moment thereafter is better than all that went before.

This is not a joke. When you are young and in a vulnerable place it’s completely ok to just not come out. If you don’t know for sure that your parents will accept you then they don’t deserve the PRIVILEGE of knowing you. Go out and be yourself with friends but the romanization of “coming out” when the people who hold power over you are bigots is dangerous and misleading. Fuck em. They don’t deserve the beautiful truth.

By all means fight with every sinew and dig deep into the yawning anger of compassion and self worth but having to defend your existence in your own home isn’t anything I would wish against my worst enemy. Drop some hints and come out when your have your own power independence and foundation.