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So pretty!!

Ghost don't need to eat y'know! Instead, all 'Mila needs to sustain her physical body are the nutrient-rich potions her mentor makes her. Beware, they have very...questionable flavors...

Art by @bluentear!

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I want a boyfriend.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

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hey guys did you know my comms are open, did you know that.

pricing and tos

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I want this on my walls.... collecting all of them like a kpop stan

I think he’s invaded my brain guys

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happy birthday Leander! there’s actually 5 cakes in this photo iykyk

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My comms are officially open! Only 2 of the three slots left; they’re going pretty fast. One for a portrait and another for a full body.

DM me on Vgen or Discord (@_anam) if you have something specific in mind and you’d like to know if I can do it.

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Well!

So first, let's clear a common misconception: no, President Abraham Lincoln did not love Black people nor see them as human equals. At best he was centrist about it (though, even his implication that 'exceptional' Black men ought to vote got him assassinated).

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do, it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union...I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free."

The "freeing of slaves" after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 was meant to kneecap the economic and military powers of the seceded South. Lettuce stop making a white savior figure out of Lincoln, or thinking that my people's shackles were unchained via anything other than desperate war strategy and extreme violence. Think on that, for a moment.

That being said!

But not everyone in Confederate territory would immediately be free. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as "Juneteenth," by the newly freed people in Texas.

Consider going through the Smithsonian website to learn about Juneteenth! Recognize why it's an actual day of freedom, versus July 4th and the independence of a select few.

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I never know what to say uhhh… #yiddy grab

Leander and Blair

Closeups and original pic under the cut

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corporate needs you to find the differences between these two pictures

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what do you mean you don't have an animal coded frenemy? that's cringe. @strawberry-pockii (sketch/rendering) @faerieliights (lines/base colors) these icons are free to use with proper credit!

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No bc I love seeing dark skin black women get treated as human like everyone else and not just watered down to be objects. It's refreshing and I love this movie so much. It's so good.

Another reason I respect Sinners is how Pearline is treated.

She is a married woman that sleeps with Sammy, when she dances and sings she does it in a seductive/sexy way but she is never treated or viewed as a negative figure. She isn’t a whore, or a slut, and she isn’t viewed as a temptation to Sammy.

In fact, the only part of the movie where you are supposed to disagree or (maybe) dislike Pearline is when she doesn’t want to eat the garlic. The movie makes us grieve her when she is killed.

Any other horror movie would have given her a brutal death, it would have been “deserved”.

Instead, Sinners goes out of its way to show that she is a human being, and despite her sins we love her. Decades after she is killed, Sammy names his bar after her despite knowing her for one day. The movie honors her.

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Something something vampires have no reflection so he can't even try to see his brother's face anymore when he looks into the mirror

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We're all sinners here

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Void is so cool!!

More of void…

@redspringstudio

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