A While Ago In The Shower I Was Thinking Of Tlg And How Artemis Dyed When The Sun Was Rising. The Sunrise

By the way im 15 now.

Ive had this blog for 4 damn years

11 year old me wouldn't be as proud as she hoped shed be but ive made progress ig.

hey i don't want to be mean but since samirah is hijabi it's bad form to show her neck or hair. i know riordan does it in the books but his portrayal of her there is quite bad - there are lots of guides on the ways to draw hijabi respectfully if you look them up

Dear I'm a Muslim myself

I know about hijab's rules...

The reason I let a few strands of hair show was pretty personal, as an Iranian hijab was abusively forced to me, and in school they used to terrorise us with threats like if one strand of your hair shows, youre going to be hung over from that on strand in hell.

The way Samirah was described, she isn't very bound to traditions. She has her own beliefs. Even if theyre not totally Islam-accurate, theyre hers, with her allah.

Thats why I let a few strands of hair show, to show its not THAT serious, a few strands is more than fine.

And for the neck, different muslims have different beliefs, depends on you honestly.

Basically, seeing Samirah's fanart on google and stuff, i get it, its offensive cuz like theres a lot a lot of hair showing.

But a few strands of hair will always seem fine to me...

I hope i explained this well?

Sorry if i got too personal. Hijab is something i can talk about for days😅

Across the spiderverse.

Headcanon that Nimona popped up to help Ballister before the actual scene where she introduces herself to him.

Ballister loses an arm, wich could result in his death, and hurts pretty damn much, and nimona just shows up and takes care of him in his early days. she has lived 1000+ years, and probably has gotten hurt a lot, so she just knows how to take care of injuries.

Imagine Ballister wanted to get somewhere safe, passes out in some street from pain, nimona takes him there, helps stop the bleeding, gives him painkillers, cleans the wound, etc.

And Ballister doesn't remember any of that. He remembers those memories shadowed with pain and blurred by painkiller drugs, he just prefers not to ever think about them.

Hi Alma! How's our precious prodigy doing??

Hey cry🥺

She just got back from school lol

BUT hows our kind-hearted queen doing?

"What have they done to you?"

This put my artistic abilities into way too much challenge.

Stop whitewashing Holly Short

I feel like I have to have this talk somewhere outside my head.

I, a 14 year old teenager of color, have always loved Holly Short.

She was described as powerful, with features like a hooked nose, and a dark skin, that made her beautiful. Things that I have always been insecure about, teased for, insulted for, were what made her beautiful.

The powerful woman, who fought sexism and always did the right thing, IMMEDIATELY became my comfort character.

I started to feel better about myself. Draw portraits with my favourite features in my self exaggerated in them. I loved my own features, because she had them.

And then, after reading the whole series and loving it, came the thirst for content. Content in wich, Holly Short, was always whitwashed.

So many fanart, official comics, covers, the goddamn movie! In all of them, Holly wasn't how i imagined her to be. The fact punches me every time. Her skin, her features, are FLAWS that people just prefer to erase from her character.

I still remember how sad i got when i first was raving to a friend about Holly and she said 2 my face how she thought she would be prettier if she were white.

Whitewashing Holly is basically saying the same thing.

Many may go, "whatever, who gives a shit about her color".

But things like this are what make teenagers, kids, like me back at the time, insecure and hating themselves because of simply simply being born the way they are born.

Alma! Welcome back! You have been missed

Thank you so much ! 🥰❤️❤️❤️