I'm just going to leave this here, because this woman said what I've been trying to articulate for ages much more effectively and succinctly than I've been able to
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).
but twins are genetically clones…like, that’s just a normal person. it’s way more effort to make a robot that passes as a person. finding out i’m a clone would be like “oh advanced ivf i guess” but being a robot i’d question why tf i had to suffer menstrual cramps as a robot. who would want a robot to have those??!
Map of Baltimore to give a sense of the geography (I think you can probably infer where the bridge collapse is). The port of Baltimore is going to be shut down for the foreseeable future.
Michael Fakhri, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, calls out the nations of the world at the UN Human Rights Council, even those allegedly supporting Palestine, for doing nothing to stop the starvation of Gaza. Sanctions now.
i saw a post on twitter by a european saying americans are fake for their random compliments to strangers and their general cheery demeanor and like no. no no no you don’t understand. if you get a random compliment from an american on the street about your outfit or whatever, that is 100% genuine. we mean it. we aren’t lying we are making a small but fleeting connection with you because our lives are shitty but the human condition is enduring. oh god i’m clutching my chest
this is such a dumb idea that when my friend told me about it i refused to believe it was anything but fake until i saw proof from disney. it has all the makings of an april fool’s joke. at least it’s temporary.
Marvel's taking over Tokyo's Small World for six months this winter. Not a fan of this, at least the Disney characters had a "Fairy tale adapted characters placed in their countries of origin" angle for the most part.