Breaking | Dozens of Israeli airstrikes target Gaza City, with direct bombardment of residential homes.
Reports coming from civilians right now ππ
Most of the targets were homes full of residents or displacement camps.
Netanyahu announces that the ceasefire in Gaza has ended, and that the war on Gaza will resume at this moment.
I've talked about how White artists get a lot more attention for their nonwhite OC's, and White artists get a lot more praise for drawing ""accurate"" depictions of racialized cultures versus people from those cultures accurately depicting themselves, but there's also this phenomenon that I think it stems from where certain artists (a lot of them White, but it's not exclusive to them at all) will go through some effort of research to depict a specific demographic in an art piece, but not out of a real desire to be accurate.
One example frequently is when People just slap tuuniit on the ATLA Water Tribe characters to give off the impression of being "more accurate" but they clearly don't know anything and didn't do enough research outside of copying photos of Inuit from google, because we frequently end up with artists depicting the 14 year old Katara with tattoos that, in Inuit culture, signify she is already married and has multiple children
(Sticking with a Native perspective bc I'm ndn), A lot of the time I truly think there's Artists that care more about looking more "progressive" to other moniyaws by depicting Native aesthetics they don't actually understand or know anything about, because to other people (their audience who is not Native) it looks more "accurate", even when it's not. It's an ignorant artist presenting vague Native aesthetics to an ignorant audience for brownie points, because this brave, white knight artist was so wonderful as to not draw them as an overtly racist caricature (lucky us /s)
Because there's 1 of 2 ways artists will react:
Like these artists aren't doing this out of a desire to be accurate or culturally sensitive, it's out of a desire for praise & brownie points from other moniyaws for having done it.
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I posted a lot of alistair/aedan but kind reminder that the boy has two hands ( ot3 sketchdump next? π)
It was a pleasure to draw Sari Lavellan again for @ashalsdream !! Now with added Bull π₯Ίπ
Commission of Faraday Margaster for @frenchfrywitch π²β¨
If you wanna work on creating a character, Bioware released the character creator for free on the store. They don't let you do the inquisitor until the full game. You can do up to 12 characters and can even import another character's appearance if you wanna change something about them.
Awww thanks for the rec!! Tbh I probably wonβt do it anytime soon because I have no idea when Iβll actually get to play but it can be a good resource for later π
veilguard's dialogue is pretty disney-like unfortunately. it's the worst in the first few hours (especially the recruitment quest for bellara), but as it goes on it evens out a bit & there are some good parts
thank you anon π I had heard this before and I'm a little scared... Maybe once I'll get into it I will get at least used to it and get in the "flow" of the game but damn seeing it parodied like this really painted a (too) vivid picture. I know it's a joke and exaggerated but still hhh
yoinked from here. losing my shit, [CROSSED ARMS] is so real
@saltlordofold have you seen this
UNFORTUNATELY I HAVE NOW (thanks for the laughs tho but aaaaaaa)
practice cooldown between comms (tragic conversations often take place at lake Calenhad)
I think the vision for post!origins Warden-Commander Aedan is that he's going to get in trouble with Weisshaupt and the First Warden for being too involved in politics during his post-Blight tenure and his quest for the cure?
Like of course my boy would leverage his Hero status and openly make use of all of his diplomatic training (he already did during the events of Origins), and there's something cool in replaying some of the Dryden/Cousland drama like yess... Kind of repeating the mistakes of his ancestor despite his best intentions... Also it's a mark of him resolutely doing things his way, separating himself from Duncan's methods in some aspects yet getting closer to him posthumously in having to navigate the burdens of the Commander's position...
Delicious delicious drama and intrigue yes yes!! "Holy shit is that the Warden-Commander waltzing in Halamshiral?? Scandalous!! I heard he guested in the courts and high places of Antiva, Rivain and the Free Marches as well... News from the Anderfels is that they DON'T approve of him at all... What's his game??"
did nobody here get the heads up that we're boycotting the Olympics or????
Please read this article from Samidoun (Palestinian prisoner solidarity network)
This one from Al Jazeera summarizing some of the biggest controversies
This one from Teen Vogue about the ecological impact of the games on Tahiti specifically
Le revers de la medaille (the other side of the medal/coin) is a good source on the social impact of the game on impoverished populations and much more
If you have questions don't hesitate to ask them, sorry if the wording of my first message was a little puzzled but I opened this app and felt like I was on another planet for a second
today's vetted fundraisers. please please continue to share and donate in whatever capacities you're able. these families just want to live.
june 25th:
every link on here is an opportunity to give life and hope. don't turn away. your help is urgently needed, whatever form it takes
