Yo! During covid and with the fires we all know artists can use a little support with their businesses being shared on social! (If we are mutua s or good acquaintances, drop the link into a personal message to me and I’ll share your business!)
I’m posting a link to an artists whose Shop is called :
Weasels on Easels
https://www.etsy.com/shop/weaselsoneasels?fbclid=IwAR0ZuyddQlQCjdVP6KsjOUAxtxHCEp0zclr_0v5hnFFJIeEVkF7LAXn7FEE
The shop features fine art and costume building supplies. It has a wide selection of fursuit type goods: Noses, jawsets, resin claws, resin heads blanks, nice smelly sprays for suits etc.! Check it out ^^
<I’m serious y'all. I would like to start sharing my pals shops at least monthly.>
(Something a bit different, based on requests from patrons Diana Bartosh, Jacy Stesney and Luis Graciano who all asked for some form of comforting comic and this little bird just popped to mind. I’ve been thinking about not indulging blind optimism while still pushing back against feeling helpless/ overwhelmed, I hope this spellamthing gets at that, the words feel a bit earnest and embarrassing to share but maybe that’s alright! )
White people: if you want to help long term: get used to being told your opinion is wrong, irrelevant, or unwanted. Tell your friends to get used to it. Work on getting used to it and do this work with other white people. Because white supremacy has all of y’all very used to being right and being an inherently valued voice and if we’re going to fight white supremacy you’re going to have to be comfortable surrendering that expectation and also white people will need to learn how to handle being rejected or disagreed with. It’s an extension of racism and racial trauma for black people to try and educate or speak up about our issues only to expose ourselves to your white fragility which makes you defensive– this defensiveness can look like shutting down, silencing us, painting all corrections or disagreements as ‘fighs’ (extending the idea that black people are aggressive) etc.
White resilience is the opposite of white fragility and black people are VERY good at resilience, unfortunately. Listen to us we know how to combat this.
So I'm reading a romance novel (first mistake) that is centered around something I do professionally (major mistake) and I'm LOSING MY MIND over the inaccuracies.
Like, ok cool, I get that what's going on is unprofessional but its allowed to be because it's a /romance novel/ but it just... Feels like this person didnt even talk to anyone in the industry....