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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.

So its the first day of school after Norouz.

I can't maintain my sanity no more

Made this in my diary last night

Holly bonus

I wanted to draw this better but it felt like i hadn't drawn in forever so

Have some sad scarred arty ispired by @af-answers ' latest post goodbye.

Timangelino ✨ i was too lazy to draw 3 people so i combined them

JULIET

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I felt like killing Artemis to please my inner dark soul

I'm nothing of a writer but I tried to make it better by drawing the scene lol. Also this has blood & a gunshot so: TW

Butler could feel himself panic seeing Artemis lying on the ground, covered in blood with a deep whole right in the middle of his chest. Butler collapsed on the ground, sitting next to Artemis. His hands were on his chest and he was fighting for air. Butler put his hands on the wound and pushed with all his strength knowing it wouldn't help. A flood of blood strated flowing out of his mouth and nose, sliding down and covering his eye. Artemis' eyes widened with fear at the sight of his own blood. He looked in to Butler's eyes, hoping he would save him. He searched in them all he could but all he found was pain. He thought about the times when breathing was so easy, now taking each breathe felt like carrying a weight.

He mumbled a "Domovoi" before he found himself not having the strength to take another breathe.

He didn't want to die, but he did. Right then and there, as he was still gazing in to the eyes of the person he sacrificed his life for. He still had a look of fear in his face. A look that would haunt Butler forever.

In case it wasn't clear Artemis took a bullet for Butler. :D