#jay scratchings

[stellar-jay]

"Tell her I am the White Toymaker. Tell her the White Prophet lives farther down the street, five doors down on the left."

I'm still messing with my design for him. I'm not yet done with The Assassin's Quest but I'm just so happy that he's roughly happy right now. I love his gay woolen hat. I wish for his future as much color as he can stand. I wish for his future for Fitz to finally pick up on the fact that he's flirting with him.

NOTE: I am not done with the series and I'm guessing a lot of people won't click this read more, so I'm just not gonna be looking at tags or reblogs lest someone tags it with like "man i love the fool can't believe he turned out to have an evil twin in the tawny man trilogy" or some shit. i dont take chances.

[sleepynegress]

*sigh* Featurism...

So, I woke up to this shit on the Twit app and I've only hit on this issue before, but today I'm digging in. Colorism is something that is not addressed often enough, but intersected within that and even more rarely spoken about, is the issue of featurism. The young actress above just got cast as Juliet in the latest big staged prestige production of Romeo and Juliet, opposite Tom Holland. And as usual the blue-checks, everybody else including "black", and even Black regulars are all-in on the cruelty.

...But I want to breakdown a nuance that is too often skipped over when this happens. The two people named with her, give away the featurism game, here; a particularly nasty form of often internalized racism. I guarantee if the young actress looked like this?

She'd definitely still get racist attacks, but the particularly nasty shit I'm seeing attacking her looks wouldn't come. In fact, I could see some people thinking they are defending her with "but she's pretty!" or more specific... "obviously she's mixed" comments. -Something pretty much every Black woman with features that don't align with a narrow perception of blackness hear often (and we'll get to why I specified women in a minute). And don't get it twisted...

These aren't exclusively nor standard white features either (see: the many ethnic features w/in white ethnic groups that also get hit to a lesser and non-racialized degree such as large "hook" and/or Romanesque noses for example, which is definitely about anti-semitism, anti-Romani sentiment, and other disparaged/discriminated against ethnic minorities in Europe) and yes, blue eyes are naturally occurring within non-mixed and dark-skinned Black people due to a mutation called Waardenburg syndrome. But there is a REASON why fetishizing even certain ethnic features within the African continental diaspora has been a thing for a long time...i.e. "the dopest Ethiopian" from the Tribe Called Quest lyric is pictured as this:

and this:

and not this:

...despite them all being Ethiopians of various tribal ethnicities.

A wide-nose, a tighter curl, coil, or zig-zag pattern of hair, fuller lips and often, but not always (because I've given examples above where features "mitigate" skin color) darker skin. Zendaya is grouped with Tracey and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, despite being both lighter in skin color and having a Black parent and a white parent because her nose isn't what has become the standard surgical look...that too many celebs have. This includes the ones who got so-called "ethnic" work or just a slight 'refinement'. No, her nose is born w/it, made for that good African air, as I call it. Nostrils prominent, nose bridge wide:

I went make-up free as well, because even make-up practices these days, go for that narrowing highlight technique i.e. just below it's subtle.

Sza is a an example of it taken to extremes, even with the Hollywood standard "ethnic" refinement she did get.

The thing is... I don't blame or attack her for that. Because you see above that is just a taste of what happens. Lil' Kim was relentlessly bullied by the men in her life for her ethnic features for her whole life...and that is why she is off-limits to this day for me when it comes to all the work she's had done.

...And this is where I explain why I specified men being mostly exempt. It's because "Blackness" including all the physical features associated with it, is by default masculinized. ...Which is why Idris Elba is considered one of the most handsome men in the world, w/o the caveats that even Lupita Nyong'o often gets. Nobody calls Samuel L. Jackson ugly. He is even idolized and fetishized by a specifically white male gaze for how culturally "Black" he is perceived to be for all the wrong reasons, his signature "motherfucka" for example (and I could go off on a whole other tangent here, but digressing). All this to say... Featurism sucks. It's not talked about enough. Blackness in all variations is Beautiful. Tracy Chapman looking as young she does?? Hell, mark it down to both her dark skin (a natural UV protector) and not messing with her given features (and being a lesbian, men will age you. lol -I got jokes-):

P.S. THANK GOODNESS for Tems and her rising prominence as a beauty as well:

P.P.S. Even Jay-Z the billionaire rapper has had the comments over the years about his lips and nose, hence that lyric in Beyonce's Formation.

[songjay-ay]

That one Inuyasha screencap except it’s Ninjago

[tapricornzzz]

v3 landing but its cometcared..... most of these designs arent canon so dont get ur hopes up!! im just a silly guy with my bucket tool and a dream. IVE BEEN WAITING TO POST THIS SINCE COMET JAY WAS REVEALED ON PATREON. i hope u like it :0)

[shrublee]

"Im gonna get so much work done!" me at 3am:

[quirkle2]

Shigeo still doesn’t know how to answer. He hasn’t answered, and he knows that’s weird, and maybe a bit creepy, but it’s also characteristic of him, so maybe he doesn’t need to stress over it. He simply sits there in the heavy rain instead and watches Reigen’s pink tie get dragged by the gales. And then Serizawa crouches down, lowers his hand out, and shelters Shigeo’s head with the draped fabric of a clear umbrella. In Shigeo’s world, the rain stops.

scene from my wip fic recondite :]

[an-overgrown-greenhouse]

her ass does NOT practice lab safety

[blackbatcass]

watching mark waid slowly, gradually, and very intentionally build up a cast of characters that over time become extremely precious to wally and become so interconnected and deeply important to his life that they’re family.. flash v2 it was an honor🫡

[jarondont]

pride is a damsel

IN

DIS-

TRESS

[shreksstepfather]

An evil guy trying to kill people for no reason, just an average day in warrior cats.

[stellar-jay]

"It's a message, I believe. A calling for a significant act. As you are the only one l know who endures being called Fitz, I believe it's for you. As for what it means, how should I know? I'm a fool, not an interpreter of dreams. Good day."

[blubberingblobmonster]

When DR pt2 comes out and office worker Jay or just any type of worker Jay is real and he has a kid with him I want someone to draw him to that one tiktok audio that is like 🎶 A single mom who works two jobs, who loves her kids and never stops... 🎶 Because that is just so Dad Jay core

[creatingchimera]

redraw of the promo art for the ending of volume 2!!!!

[lildoodlecat]

Gave in and bought an open box copy of the Zestiria collectors edition ✨✨ 50% for the chibi figures let's be real. But I was also eyeing the art book (even tho I already have all the art in the world guidance book) and the dawn of the shepherd ova.. the steelcase is cool too!

Unfortunately the code for the Alisha dlc and legacy costumes and such was already used but that was to be expected ;w; tho tbf I wasn't really planning on playing the PS4 copy of the game it came with. Since I want to ng+ the fuck out of my PS3 copy anyway

Anyway here's the highlights

Mikleo and Edna were the most annoying to put together bc I can't figure out quite how Edna is supposed to sit on her stand and Mikleo's staff kept popping out of his hand sjxkdk

[undead-potatoes]

I think one of my favorite BG3 camp details is Scratch and the owlbear cub playing together, like they're really just running around after each other but it's still so cute, my babies are having fun together 🥺

[firesofdainix]

Every ninja (and Wu) is neurodivergent