Where They Got Their Names From =)

know your demographic! cause this guy doesn’t!

Victor Nizovtsev

I should have known if I brought up wc I’d have to talk about. But it includes of a lot of issues with feral/furry designs that use feathers in hair. I don’t necessarily know why the conversation only started and stayed in the wc fandom when horse/wolf/lion feral fandoms are still doing the same thing.

Now having feathers in the design isn’t a racial attack first thing off because there’s a lot of context around what feather’s are used, the shape, and where they are placed. If the look is anything like "rave Coachella looking tribal fantasy feathers and beads" it’s probably insensitive. I’m not to sure why it has to be feathers, I honestly think the wc fandom are holding themselves back when it comes to forwarding designs in a unique way. Tail feathers are also left out in this conversation as well, one or two feathers or feathers in the shape of a birds tail are fine but bunched together feathers are leaning to close to how we have our horses wear feathers. This is in the context of the design already looking like a "medicine cat" already its bad. it’s like those yt girls wear feather head bands but animal addition.

I’ve talked about this before but silhouettes are so important, like Native American stereotypes are on the global scale you cannot escape this silhouette you just have to avoid it. There’s no "but it’s in so many other cultures" no it’s not it’s totally unique to our people that’s why people flock to it because it’s so "mysterious, sacred" whatever their weird twisted up reason is. There’s so many unique ways to break this silhouette you just gotta be more creative. And I feel like instead of being more creative and coming up with totally different ideas it’s just easier to lean on these visual native stereotypes to get across "wild mythical nature fantasy"

I could get into the horse fandom and the weird situations they’re doing over there but that’s another crazy thing. I should say because someone will ask, ostrich feathers on like show horses or knights or puss in boots style is fine not the same thing (breaking the silhouette) they’re not related.

And it comes down to understanding what you are drawing and where this imagery comes from, I’m not gonna get my feelings hurt because of your design but I’ll question why are you drawing stuff like that. You cant remove that cultural/stereotypical imagery, and if you don’t care about it then you don’t care about the history or how it looks on your character and art.

I made it this far on the internet but if you want to be conscious about these things good on yea it doesn’t take much☺️👍

Edit: can’t believe I gotta say this but yes other cultures utilize feathers, if people are using feathers that are used in their culture then don’t harass them. That’s weird have some common sense. Ostrich feathers, peacock feathers it’s actually so interesting how native birds to an area affect the culture there.

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Cas (to Anna): Together? I am NOTHING like you, you fell!

poor dude’s like ‘nonoNO, I can’t have anything in common with an angel who sacrificed her divinity because she had fallen in love with humanity so completely as to tear her own body asunder for them. That would mean acknowledging that i’m gay. (which i am not).’

[ID: Diarra Jasmine doodled a colorful image of her wonderful fat body with a poem she wrote. The poem reads:

Would you hate your body if the world didn’t?

If you could go somewhere without society saying no in the form of chairs that are too small and clothes that don’t fit?

If you could eat without someone jumping down your throat to assign moral value to food

If you could move without the weight of the world adding to the weight of your body

Assuming they know the fate of your body

Would you hate your body

if you didn’t constantly hear death’s chorus with every swish of your hips

“I’d rather die than look like you”

“You’re gonna die soon”

They chant and they dig

a person sized hole based on what they think your heart looks like?

Your heart looks like

The heart of a person who deserves to feel at home

not at war

Simply because they are a person

At home

And not at war

Would you hate your body if the world didn’t? End ID.]

(Source) @diarrajasmineyoga

mod ivy did it,, she finally got me to draw twuffins,,

machaon caterpillar (old world swallowtail) | malbafont_macrophotography on ig

I’m having feeling about this rewatch.