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aedan and his bue (big uncle energy) (i’m sobbing)

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This is Anas Al-Sharif’s will.

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if you’re a white creator and your brown/black characters are always sassy, reckless, aggressive or cold and your white characters are always soft, demure, shy and introverted you should think about maybe why you did that

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aedan and his bue (big uncle energy) (i’m sobbing)

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so embarrassing to be drawing an OC and forget to add some part of their design...like yeah i made this guy...hand picked everything about them....yeah i forgot to add the things i like about them....

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My detailed post of my Palestinian lesbians (original piece), just as a short little introduction to some Palestinian cultural items!

(Sources: Thobna - Wafa Ghaim, Traditional Palestinian Embroidery and Jewelry - Abed Al-Samih Abu Omar, Palestinian Costume - Shelagh Weir, Palestinian Costume -Jehan S. Rajab, Traditional Palestinian Costume - Hanan Karaman Munayyer, and me!)

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People need to stop being surprised when the Dragon Age fandom is racist and, in this case, specifically racist against Palenstians. This isn't new behavior, this has been happening for years, whether it's in co-opting Palestinian art and trauma for elf and mage oppression or by ignoring zionists who deny them humanity. Dragon Age and its fandom has fostered this kind of environment and maybe if you looked outside your comfort bubble for all of two seconds, you could see that.

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i'm 17 days in at my parent's house and going a little insane (eldest daughter) so if anyone has any Alistair/Aedan/Zevran scenarios they'd like to see me draw in the next few days (in any combination) please let me know! i want to draw but can't really gather imagination rn

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Horrifying update from Mona's page today.

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Breaking | Dozens of Israeli airstrikes target Gaza City, with direct bombardment of residential homes.

Reports coming from civilians right now 💔😭

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I've talked about how White artists get a lot more attention for their nonwhite OC's, and White artists get a lot more praise for drawing ""accurate"" depictions of racialized cultures versus people from those cultures accurately depicting themselves, but there's also this phenomenon that I think it stems from where certain artists (a lot of them White, but it's not exclusive to them at all) will go through some effort of research to depict a specific demographic in an art piece, but not out of a real desire to be accurate.

One example frequently is when People just slap tuuniit on the ATLA Water Tribe characters to give off the impression of being "more accurate" but they clearly don't know anything and didn't do enough research outside of copying photos of Inuit from google, because we frequently end up with artists depicting the 14 year old Katara with tattoos that, in Inuit culture, signify she is already married and has multiple children

(Sticking with a Native perspective bc I'm ndn), A lot of the time I truly think there's Artists that care more about looking more "progressive" to other moniyaws by depicting Native aesthetics they don't actually understand or know anything about, because to other people (their audience who is not Native) it looks more "accurate", even when it's not. It's an ignorant artist presenting vague Native aesthetics to an ignorant audience for brownie points, because this brave, white knight artist was so wonderful as to not draw them as an overtly racist caricature (lucky us /s)

Because there's 1 of 2 ways artists will react:

Stop immediately and correct their inaccuracies and listen to the depicted demographic when we say what theyve drawn is inaccurate (which these artists claim to want to be, they claim to want to be accurate) and/or insensitive. This is the correct reaction if one claims to be anti-racist & wishes to be accurate in their artistic depictions.

Outright say or imply that the people from the demographic they're depicting is wrong actually and is being "too sensitive", that "its just art", or "its just fantasy", which proves my point that they've drawn this out of a desire to be SEEN as "progressive" for using vague aesthetics that, to a White/ignorant audience from outside of the culture being depicted, simply APPEAR more "accurate" and "authentic"

Like these artists aren't doing this out of a desire to be accurate or culturally sensitive, it's out of a desire for praise & brownie points from other moniyaws for having done it.

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I posted a lot of alistair/aedan but kind reminder that the boy has two hands ( ot3 sketchdump next? 👀)

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It was a pleasure to draw Sari Lavellan again for @ashalsdream !! Now with added Bull 🥺💐

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Commission of Faraday Margaster for @frenchfrywitch 🎲✨

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Keep Soup Warm!!!

Please spare what you can to help my friend Soup get a motel room until faer apartment is ready! Its cold as FUCK outside and fae cannot live in faer car.

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