Greybeard Halt!

Life sucks rn

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.

The evil boi but hes got tattoos

next kid is Axel Coral Fowl Rider

(Coral after Holly's mom cause why the heck not)

He was born five years after Aida.

He is adopted, blonde hair, green eyes.

Hes always babied by her older siblings

He's pretty smart,not a genius-in-every-freakin-field like Arty but hes an incredible hacker.

Hes very energetic like Jacky is but isn't that much of a fan of adrenaline SO

Wip of my take on artemis's children:

First born kid is Aurora Julius Fowl Rider (yes her middle name is after Root, that made Holly tear up.) but everyone calls her Jack or Jacky. The nickname came from a time in her childhood when she wanted to be a pirate like captian Jack Sparrow and Alex started calling her little Jacky and it kinda stuck. Shes got brown eyes and black hair. Shes kind of a mix of both Artemis and Alex. Is very athletic, also very intelligent. Shes obsessed with guns, and builds her own high tech guns. She grew up very close to Holly and also wanted to be an police officer just like her. She takes a lot of risks, loves to party and of course, shes gay.

She graduated academy a few years early and kicked criminals' asses in New York City since she was 16. She also worked as a spy for LEP.

+i just need to add some angst, she dies in her twentis.

Ill be posting about the next two children too.

I dare you to do A2 and D7 😆😋

Sure!😄

Alex : babe why u looking at me like that?

I have a lot going on this summer irl ( im moving out ), therefore i missed out this years fowlfest :( and I have no idea what the prompts are this year 😂

So instead, i only have this humble sketch of our pretty boi to offer

The Fairy Thief

Texture

No texture

Where it all started lol

This painting idea has been living way too long in my head

It didn't turn out exactly how i imagined it either but it was fun

All hail my old af art

Now those are from 2020, befor i got into digital drawing

Now these bad boys are from 2021-