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USA Native Plant Resource Masterlist

Because Google is totally useless and won't help you with ANYTHING

iNaturalist: Take photos of living things you see, post them, and the community will identify them for you. Data from iNaturalist is used in scientific research.

Wildflower.org Plant Database: Enter search criteria and find some plants. Very useful if you're looking for plants with specific qualities or know what you have in mind.

Native Plant Finder: This website is still in beta and is a work in progress, but it will show you plants for your area ranked by the number of butterflies that use them for their caterpillars.

WildflowerSearch: AMAZING resource for identification and for learning about new plants. Shows you where plants are native/not native, TONS of search filters.

Native Plant Trust: A New England organization, but probably useful to anyone.

Northern Forest Atlas: Great images and identification resources for trees; has good pictures of bark, seeds, buds, leaves.

FloraFinder: Another plant database site that's being slowly built up by a passionate nerd.

MonarchWatch milkweed by USA ecoregion: Tells you what milkweed species you should plant for monarch butterflies.

Native Beeology: Not plants, but a closely related subject.

I will add more and post an updated list as I find more.

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Ok so just about every summer fast fashion chains bring blouses like these back into rotation:

These particular ones are from h&m and romwe, tho you can find them all over the place, but the thing is that these designs are pretty blatantly lifted from eastern european traditional clothing designs (but poorly made & without a penny going to those eastern european communities). So, if you like these types of designs but hate fast fashion, I’ve decided to compile a list of some alternative places where you can buy them from actual eastern european artisans. Just as a side note, you are more than welcome to wear these designs even if you do not belong to the culture the design is from, the only issue here is with big corporations profiting by ripping off our culture and then doing nothing for our communities.

Also, a heads up that while the fast fashion version of these shirts are generally really cheap, the traditionally made ones are usually start at around US$50 or more, depending on the complexity of the designs & some other factors (but they also last much longer than the cheap ones & are pretty much always made of natural fibers, like cotton or linen). You’ll notice that many of these places make garments to order, so you can often contact them to request a custom size or color.

So, without further ado:

BRS - Here you’ll find a lot of items that are made in the romanian tradition but feel fresh & updated. Gorgeous & ethically made but kind of pricey (with most blouses in the $150-250 range)

De Toujours - This brand is collaborating with romanian artisans on a traditionally made blouse that costs €200

Folklorica - A poland-based etsy shop with some blouses embroidered in the Polish tradition, along with other traditional and tradition-inspired garments (most items are in the $30-50 range)

EtnoSoul - A ukraine-based etsy shop, traditional & tradition-inspired fashion. They have embroidered blouses along with other things, such as dresses & children’s clothing. They also have wedding dresses & men’s embroidered shirts, which both look sick as hell (price range: $90-270)

SvitVyshyvanok - Another Ukraine-based etsy shop, really pretty embroidered dresses!! (price range: $60-200 for most items)

This is ofc an incomplete list, please feel free to add on! Also, if there are local or diaspora artisans of other cultures whose traditional designs resemble that of these types of embroidered shirts, please feel free to add them as well!

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Thanks for the great response to those last pics!! Here’s process gifs :) 💛

🍃 The garden one was started with photoshop for the color sketch, then all procreate for the lines + painting (that’s what’s shown here) and only back to PS for last color + texture tweaks. 

🥧 The kitchen one was PS for the color sketch, then lines in procreate, then all coloring & clean up in PS again!

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fucked up how colors look different depending on what screen you’re looking at them on. that should be illegal I think

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i want to depression nap but i don’t want to fall asleep for the night. it’s 1 am

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Hi! I’m really sick of whitewashing and the various excuses that artists come up with, so I wrote a guide! How To Not Whitewash, at least with regards to skin tone. Please make use of it, and encourage other artists to do so as well. Here’s a link to this guide on a Google Doc - this document has image descriptions. Feel free to contact me if the link stops working, or if you have questions (in good faith).

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More How To Draw Manga - Vol. 4: Mastering Bishoujo Characters

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Norton work in progress vid

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note that it works best with thin lineart (I used SAI2 for this, but I think you can use any art program  with a overlay layer mode)

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thinking about that WoW epidemic

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good essays i’ve read this year

“the siren song” by nina maclaughlin

“out there: on not finishing” by devin kelly

“illuminating kirinyaga: meaing and knowing in mount kenya’s forests” by tristan mcconnell

“on the igbo art of storytelling” by ikechukwu ogbu

“poetry fills tehran streets as iranians adapt nowruz rituals to corona restrictions” by alex shams

“writing emails to my late father” by krista stevens

“panic is worse than pain: how fiction failed me after trauma” by jenn ashworth

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books recs by authors of color

this is by no means a comprehensive list but for anyone looking to diversify their shelves i’ve sorted some personal recs + recs by people i trust by genre!

fantasy: - where dreams descend by janella angeles (filipino-coded mc) - a song of wraiths and ruin by roseanne a. brown (african, Black, & anxiety rep) - the gilded wolves by roshani chokshi (filipino, algerian, indian, & autism rep) - the ghost bride by yangsze choo (malaysian rep) - the never tilting world by rin chupeco (sapphic rep, asian-coded cast) - wicked as you wish by rin chupeco (filipino & queer rep) - forest of a thousand lanterns by julie c. dao (chinese rep) - we hunt the flame by hafsah faizal (arabic rep) - the poppy war by r.f. kuang (chinese rep) - forest of souls by lori m. lee (hmong-coded mc) - spin the dawn by elizabeth lim (chinese rep) - gods of jade and shadow by silvia moreno-garcia (mexican rep) - girls of paper and fire by natasha ngan (malaysian rep) - scavenge the stars by tara sim (desi-coded mc) - the bone shard daughter by andrea stewart (east asian-coded cast, sapphic rep) - cemetery boys by aiden thomas (trans & latinx rep) - the mermaid, the witch, & the sea by maggie tokuda-hall (queer, japanese, & Black rep) - the epic crush of genie lo by f.c. yee (chinese rep) - the rise of kyoshi by f.c. yee (sapphic rep, east asian-coded cast) - star daughter by shveta thakrar (indian rep) - shadow of the fox by julie kagawa (japanese rep) - the wolf of oren-yaro by k.s. villoso (filipino rep) - jade city by fonda lee (chinese & queer rep)

historical fiction/fantasy: - these violent delights by chloe gong (chinese & trans rep) - descendant of the crane by joan he (chinese rep)

sci-fi: - binti by nnedi okorafor (african rep) - we set the dark on fire by tehlor kay mejia (latinx & queer rep)

contemporary: - clap when you land by elizabeth acevedo (afro-latinx & sapphic rep) - mad, bad, & dangerous to know by samira ahmed (muslim & indian rep) - love from a to z by s.k. ali (muslim & chinese rep) - our wayward fate by gloria chao (taiwanese rep) - the surprising power of a good dumpling by wai chim (chinese & mental illness rep) - full disclosure by camryn garrett (Black rep, mc w/ HIV) - the henna wars by adiba jaigirdar (sapphic, bengali, muslim, & afro-latinx rep) - you should see me in a crown by leah johnson (Black, queer, & anxiety rep) - i love you so mochi by sarah kuhn (japanese rep) - i’ll be the one by lyla lee (korean, queer, & fat rep) - patron saints of nothing by randy ribay (filipino rep)  - it’s not like it’s a secret by misa sugiura (japanese & queer rep) - loveboat, taipei by abigail hing wen (taiwanese rep) - somewhere only we know by maurene goo (korean rep) - frankly in love by david yoon (korean rep) - dating makes perfect by pintip dunn (thai rep) - when dimple met rishi by sandhya menon (indian rep)

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windows users, save money using these free apps!!

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oh hey new guide thinggg~ some basics on how to practice! there’s SO much I could add to this, so it’s just the basics :O

short (kind of): there’s more to practice than doing something repeatedly, it’s also learning new things, problem solving, and honest critique. Each of those is its own skill…also be nice to yourself!

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Is there a website to look up models or people  to draw, with gender, ethnicity, and age filters. (if possible)?

 For example if a wanted to make a cartoon character realistic and use a real person for reference or to edit the photo to look like them?

I’ve been just googling  white 20s male, black female 40s etc. (can’t find any good references for kids either)  and been sifting through the results.

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disclaimer: I am east asian. if anyone who is not white sees anything wrong with my phrasing, inaccuracies, or insensitivity, or something I missed, please feel free to add on. I’m just one person with one perspective; none of what I say should be taken as The Singular way to draw an Asian character. if you havent done so already, please take the effort to expand your view of Asian culture outside this one tutorial.

if a white person reblogs this and adds something stupid I’m going to bite and kick you like a wild animal

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disclaimer: I am east asian. if anyone who is not white sees anything wrong with my phrasing, inaccuracies, or insensitivity, or something I missed, please feel free to add on. I’m just one person with one perspective; none of what I say should be taken as The Singular way to draw an Asian character. if you havent done so already, please take the effort to expand your view of Asian culture outside this one tutorial.

if a white person reblogs this and adds something stupid I’m going to bite and kick you like a wild animal