i haven't drawn Sam in a while. my wistful wasian, boba eyes tennis lesbian

The comparison to the older pieces makes me happy that the changes haven't been too drastic, I just keep aiming to solidify her visual identity to myself more and more

Family of Cyprinidae, Water-Type native to Kanto.

A very large chunk of intersex women and girls aren’t allowed to be pro athletes in track or running anymore and I wish more people were talking about it or hell, even just knew about it. I wish there was more of an outcry. I wish people cared more about defending intersex people in sport because why does it seemingly only fall on intersex athletes themselves to fight this shit at great cost to their privacy and safety.

I hope World Athletics rots in hell.

Hey. Stop fucking talking about our oppression like this. It erases us and contributes to our marginalization. Intersex people are not collateral damage or side targets. The oppression we face is not misdirected and meant for someone else. We are targets. There’s a reason gender affirming care bans carve out specific exceptions for intersex people. There’s a reason they are sex testing the way they are, because these regulations are largely specifically directed at intersex women. Intersex people are not unfortunate misdirected targets in their crusade against trans rights, we are targeted too. They hate us too.

It’s one thing to talk about the commonalities of the oppression faced by both trans and intersex women. It’s one thing to find solidarity and talk about the ways intersexism and transphobia and transmisogyny work together and overlap. That is good and contributes to a more complete understanding of all of these forms of oppression. To be clear, I do not and will never have an issue with solidarity and genuine discussion between two marginalized groups with similar goals and significant overlap. Trans people and intersex people should always stand together.

This is not that. This is erasing intersex people from the oppression we face for being intersex. Please understand that we are not hated out of perceived proximity to trans women. We are hated because society is violently intersexist and hates intersex people in our own right.

I need you to understand that this is happening not just because of the current horrific levels of anti-trans rhetoric and policy, but also because intersex women (and a women that may not even be intersex but is simply speculated to be by mobs online because she dared to be good at boxing and beat a white woman while not being white and not being ‘feminine’ enough for societal standards), especially Black and brown intersex women, dared to succeed and be good at sports and that was unacceptable to a deeply intersexist society. The horrific levels of hatred and discrimination that Caster Semenya, for instance, has been subjected to were not just a byproduct of transphobia, it is rooted in racism and misogyny and intersexism.

Is it intertwined with transphobia and do transphobia and intersexism intertwine and support each other? Yes! But I also need people to call it for what it is (intersexism/anti-intersex bigotry) and center intersex people in the oppression we face.

Let me repeat that again: when we talk about the discrimination faced by intersex people, perisex people, and even people in general, including intersex people, need to center intersex people. Because we’re not going to fight intersexism if we refuse to recognize it for what it is.

Like idk it feels like some of you can’t conceptualize that intersex people are a marginalized and oppressed group on our own and that our oppression isn’t just piggybacking off of the oppression of other marginalized groups sometimes. And that sucks.

(if it is alright for me to add~)

Movies-

Kiki's Delivery Service, Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away, Ponyo, Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke (technically not specifically "magical girl", but has similar story themes about friendship/growing up, and various fantasy settings)

The Fantastic Adventures of Unico, 1981 (again, not technically in the genre, but the tone of "magical girl" stories is very strong, and this is also a classic)

Anime/Manga-

Princess Tutu

Tokyo Mew Mew

Magic Knight Rayearth

Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch

Honorable Mentions-

Princess Knight

Kodocha

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Inuyasha

Fruits Basket

.hack//sign (Dot Hack Sign)

Nana

FLCL Alternative (Fooly Cooly Alternative)

Tnechi Muyo/related series (this is what is known as a "harem anime", with one guy being the focus, but honestly... the girls are the stars, and many of them have fantastic powers/abilities)

In which Ed finds out about the curse

Ed makes a plan

遊☆戯☆王 (Yu-Gi-Oh!), Kazuki Takahashi

More carolina cause shes my blorbo

I like how I went from hardly posting anything for a year to posting stuff almost daily lol I'm riding that X-Men Evolution high and now I'm snorting that giant Pietro AU.

Anyway, I think he'd make for a very inconsiderate giant and mess with people on purpose bc that's just What He Does. Also picking up people without permission simply bc it's easier for him to talk to communicate like that. He's gonna have to learn some manners staying at the mansion if he wants to still get help bc idk if anyone really even taught him.

Bonus pic:

I figure Jean would be the one more pissed about this but Kitty is probably the one he'd be willing to listen to more. She's kind of the Brotherhood ambassador for unruly boys.

I love making my friends watch adventure time because they NEVER expect the absolute emotional devastation of it all. you don't know the toll adventure time takes on your mental health until it's already happening to you. adventure time will have you crying your eyes out with your gut wrenched and your heart broken right before hitting you with a fart joke. there's nothing like it. it's beyond comparison

things you will have if you watch adventure time in its entirety:

yesterday I had the thought "visual novel for normal people" (?) and halfway through making this image (which I thought would be really funny) I realized it was completely meaningless

(reminds me if the white-guy-jump-scare video)

Practicing expressions with my muse, griffff

As we speak of Renee Nicole Good, let’s remember Silverio Villegas González who was also shot and killed by ICE agents while in his vehicle, then ICE made claims that differed from video evidence. Let’s remember Marimar Martinez who survived after being shot at by ICE five times, but then had to fight against felony charges that were based on claims that differed from video evidence. Let’s remember Jaime Alanis, Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez and Josué Castro Rivera who all died as a result of ICE raids.

Let’s remember everyone that we know of who died in ICE custody due to neglect and “undetermined causes” in this past year alone. Again, these are the deaths that we know of:

Genry Ruiz Guillén, Serawit Gezahegn Dejene, Maksym Chernyak, Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez, Brayan Garzón-Rayo, Nhon Ngoc Nguyen, Marie Ange Blaise, Abelardo Avellaneda, Jesus Molina-Veya, Johnny Noviello, Isidro Pérez, Tien Xuan Phan, Chaofeng Ge, Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, Oscar Rascon Duarte, Santos Banegas Reyes, Ismael Ayala-Uribe, Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, Miguel Ángel García Medina, Huabing Xie, Leo Cruz-Silva, Hasan Ali Moh’D Saleh, Gabriel Garcia Aviles, Kai Yin Wong, Francisco Gaspar-Andrés, Pete Sumalo Montejo, Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani, Jean Wilson Brutus, Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, Delvin Francisco Rodriguez and Nenko Stanev Gantchev.

You can read their stories here:

Another DTIYS challenge by @creatingblackcharacters !! :^D

Lumi is supposed to have Senegalese heritage, but as stated in Ice's post; there was clearly no effort put into making her look like a Black woman :^/

I really enjoyed redrawing her and the things I got to learn! I hope y'all like it!

@creatingblackcharacters

decided to redo my lumi design for the CBC DTIYS! i didn't want to stray from her original design too far so i added the short locs to somewhat emulate the style of her original hair, a tracksuit jacket to compliment those pants, the senegalese jewerly and pattern on her shirt, and the university tote bag. this was really fun to do and i wish the game she was from wasn't absolutely horrible but alas

Original Post: Keith Porter was tragically taken from us by an off-duty ice agent, and his family is seeking justice during this difficult time. Every donation can help support their fight for truth and accountability. Please consider clicking the link below to contribute or share it with others who might want to help. Thank you for your support! https://gofund.me/530afb61e

https://gofund.me/530afb61e

link for the fundraiser is down this is the new one