I know white people especially struggle with this concept but like when a Palestinian, or any other group of Black or brown people are calling you in and making a general statement about the state of the allyship for our causes, and making criticism of common behaviours or whatever else, that is NOT an invitation for you to confess your own shortcomings or your journey of self-improvement. Especially not under our posts. Make your own post if you really feel like it. But we don't need to hear your personal story of how you ignored our long-standing genocide until you saw enough people doing the right thing and you decided to follow. Keep that to yourself.
These posts are meant for you to REFLECT ON YOURSELF! BY YOURSELF! QUIETLY! And decide on your OWN what part of your behaviours you can identify being criticized in these posts and fix them!! And if you need help you can ask a question without necessarily giving us all the details of how you used to be ignorant or whatever. We're not here to hand out forgiveness we're trying to help coordinate and organize people to be more cohesive and we're giving you tips to be better allies. We're not giving you counciling for white guilt!!!
I love this chapter title art like wow a wall of elf portraits in which marcille is at the center looking unsure of herself amongst her own kind (in the hot seat, under their scrutiny), the reveal later in the chapter where the other elves are like “ew ur a shitty little half elf our queen thinks half breeds are cringe little freaks and would never even acknowledge your personhood.” even surrounded by other elves marcille is so alienated. what an amazing visual
:D I suddenly felt compelled to redraw the panel. Miss Touden you are my muse
Lineart + original panel under the cut
I mean, look at the improvement from one drawing to the other, Ryoko Kui’s art makes me think hard about anatomy + physics and it feels really good to draw :3
Does anyone have any Ukrainian literature recommendations? I don’t know very much Ukrainian yet but I wanted to try and read some English translations of Ukrainian literature.
I need yall to know that online activism isn't the end all be all and we should encourage and support people who take action irl as much as we can. Stop criticizing and condemning forms of protest people are taking irl if all you do is click a button a day and barely even wanna do that.