#Color Culture

[classicslesbianopinions]

the other thing about being disabled in academia is everyone is like "yeah we can't do much about the buildings they're old :/" as if "old" being a synonym for "inaccessible" isn't just a constant reminder that the people who built the school did not imagine that someday someone like me might study there

#mod felix #obviously there's some stuff that's way more accessible with like. electricity. like. i can get to the second floor. for example #but like. it's still possible to have. for example. ramps. if you as a culture value disabled people and their work #i miss when i was at a school where 'these are old buildings' meant 'these buildings were built for cows instead of people' #rather than 'these buildings were built for students just not students like you' #and of course this is another one that applies to many marginalized groups and like. many groups more than disabled people #in the sense that like. my school was also built to explicitly exclude people of color. for example #but i speak from my own experience and my own experience is characterized by ableism more than anything else #but like . again if you read this and you're like 'this feels like it applies to me in ways unrelated to disability' #well it probably does.

[zaebucca]

Hisuian ghosts in a snow grove

#pixelart #ドットの日 #pixel animation #zoroark #pokemon #hisuian zoroark #pixel background #pokemon fanart #japanese culture #yokai #ghost pokemon #nintendo #retrogamer #super nintendo #game boy color #8 bit aesthetic #16 bit games #2d animation

[zombiekitty33]

half life fanartist late to half life anniversary millions dead

#half life #half life 1 #gordon freeman #black mesa #cry of fear #afraid of monsters #gorgeous freeman #hlvrai #freemans mind #the stanley parable #entropy zero #me at my computer trying my absolute hardest to make the freemans mind logo have more than 2 colors #it STILL looks out of place but its A Very Important Part of Half Life Culture

[myfairkatiecat]

I feel like Lucy Gray’s fashion sense had an influence on the Capitol. It’s mentioned in the book that she’s wearing makeup, which is notable to Coriolanus and he wonders where she got it from since it was barely becoming accessible again in the Capitol. In the movie one of his classmates mocks what she is wearing, asking if she thinks she’s a clown. It isn’t common to dress like her, but she owns her own style and the Capitol LOVES her. Coriolanus, as he tries to get sponsors for her, makes the case that since she is Covey perhaps she isn’t really district at all, in fact she’s really more Capitol than anything… and perhaps it rubbed off. Perhaps her sense of extra-ness, her fun makeup even at the reaping, her colorful dress at a dark occasion….perhaps that’s one part of her legacy that never truly goes away, even when the name of Lucy Gray Baird is erased from the memories of the people of Panem.

#I know it’s a stretch… #but it really stood out to me #like #someone saying ‘who does she think she is a clown’ in THE HUNGER GAMES? #out of the mouth of someone from the CAPITOL? #plus that line in the book about where her makeup came from #someone from the Capitol seriously surprised to see somebody in makeup #it’s possible they just continued to evolve as a culture #and they naturally assumed a more colorful and over-the-top style #but no I’m going to connect it to Lucy Gray bc I love her #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #tbosbas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #tbosas

[kafkasapartment]

St. Louis and the Arch "BRAINS", 1978. Joel Meyerowitz. Archival pigment print.

#photography #fotografia #fotografie #photographie #color #pop culture #foto #1970s #humor #irony #typography #missouri #donuts

[zambiaz1ne]

A Night of Culture With Readings by Chobela Ndilila: The Entitled Book Launch at the Alliance Française Under The Stars

She passionately spoke about the fact that Zambian stories need to be read and our stories need to be heard, our stories do not belong in boxes in storerooms and backrooms of bookshops gathering dust.

If you are reading this and do not have a copy of this instant Zambian literary classic, may I suggest you part with a K250 (approximately) and purchase a copy in support of the craft and also as a conscious contribution to the growth of our story telling culture and the promotion and strengthening of the published works movement our reading culture and community needs to live. #TheEntitled is…

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#A Story To Tell #Africa #African Literature #Alliance Française #AStoryToTell #AStoryToTell... #Book #Book Launch #Chengelo #Chobela #Chobela Ndilila #Color Culture #Colour Culture #Dixi Books #Lifestyle #Literature #Lusaka #Lusaka Book Club #PEN #Poet #Poetry #Scribe #Story #Story Telling #Writing #Zambia #Zambian Literature

[ddeck]

a youngling and a padawan

#them colored wahooo #actually my culture is posting a wip and finishing the whole thing two hours later #star wars #quinlan vos #aayla secura #deckdraws

[weltandschaung]

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont ~ A woman poses in the traditional headdress of the Burgundians in Saone et Loire, France, in the early 1900s.

#jules gervais courtellemont #autochrome lumiere #autochrome #lumiere autochrome #early color photography #early colour #additive color screen plate #1910s #traditional dress #cultural clothing #headdress #traditional headdress #huge headgear #field of flowers #burgundians #early color #lumière autochrome #portrait #french autochromist

[tiktokmuseum]

tumblr throwback party

#tiktok #tumblr culture #do you love the color of the sky #i like your shoelaces #dashcon #poot lovato #tiktoks #funny tiktok #funny video #funny videos #tiktok humor

[bklily]

Replaying this event I noticed something and it was great.

Jamil's having a little crisis he'll get over it.

(background close-up under the cut so you can have your third eye opened)

#like i traced around the little vases but. if you look at the image. you'll see. #i laughed so hard when i noticed it #THEYRE EVEN COLORED THE SAME #this HAD to be a reference #IT HAD TO BE #i dont even know what theyre originally supposed to be like my guess was vases #but BEHIND THEM ARE CLEARER VASES #so whAT ARE THESE LITTLE GUYS IF NOT AMONGUS #anyway scalding sands has a great culture clearly #twisted wonderland #twst #twst wonderland #my art #lily doodles #twst fanart #twst shitpost #jamil viper #malleus draconia #trey clover #cater diamond #twst yuu #disney twst #disney twisted wonderland #i also started making this and then realized i had an exam so i rushed some very obvious parts rip #firelit sky event

[writingwithcolor]

Author with cultural disconnect: How do I write without making it seem as if I hate my own heritage?

Anonymous asked:

I’m a white-passing Asian author, and I’ve never felt all that connected with my heritage. My current story centers on a fairy (re: fantasy-world POC) child and ends with her realizing that her parents are toxic af and her human best friend’s family takes her in. This is the perfect opportunity to sort through my own issues with my heritage and finally convince my monkey-brain that it’s okay to not know how to cook Vietnamese food or celebrate tet or speak Vietnamese… But I also realize that if I’m not careful, this could easily slip into “Hey, I hate my heritage and so should you!” So how can I stop that from happening?

Writing for yourself first, not an audience

I ask you a simple question: why put pressure on yourself to have any sort of non-offensive messaging for a story that hasn’t been drafted yet and is to convince your monkey brain it’s okay to exist as yourself?

That seems like the fastest way to stop the story from being actually cathartic and instead a performance art piece when you already feel hung up on performing as “properly” part of your culture.

As I said in Working Through Identity Issues and Other Pitfalls of Representation, not all stories you write need to be for public consumption. Especially stories you’re using for your own self-processing and therapy, because you’re trying to get a cathartic moment that is rewriting your own story.

At what point does the public need to be involved in that?

I do understand the compulsion to want to post—I have definitely posted some Questionable™ material in my drive to get validation for feeling the way I do, wanting people to witness me and say “same.” It’s a powerful urge. Sometimes it’s worked, but most of the time it’s just made me feel horrifically exposed.

But you really do not have to post in public to get any sort of validation. Set up a groupchat with friends if you want the cheerleading and witnessing—people who will know your story and give you good-faith interpretations and won’t accuse you of anything. Honestly I’d suggest setting up this groupchat anyway; as someone who just got one again after quite a few years without it, my productivity has skyrocketed from being around supportive people.

Let the monkey brain have its monkey brain moment and shut off the concept the story is for the public. Shut off the concept of performing for an unknown audience. It’s for you. Be authentic, no matter how bad it would look to outsiders. They’re not reading it. Part of getting catharsis, sometimes, is being the worst version of yourself, somewhere nobody else can see it.

Deciding to publish the work

If, after you do write it, you find that you actually do want to polish it up and put it somewhere… edit it. Rewrite it entirely if that’s what it takes. Take the story through the same drafting process every story needs to go through, ripping out the unfortunate implications as you go.

Editing can be its own form of healing, as you try to figure out what this character would need to not be hateful. As you realize, once this longform journal entry is out of your head, what was bothering you now that you can see it pinned down on a page. But you absolutely do not need to write with the intention of editing in that healing. When I’ve tried, it’s fallen flat.

The healing will come from being yourself, no public involved, and writing about your feelings in their rawest form. Anything else is extra.

There’s no point in trying to put guard rails on the drafting process, not for a deeply personal piece. And by the time that drafting process is done, you’ll likely have specific scenarios and contexts that you can ask about, and you might even have ideas on how to fix it yourself once the story has a shape to it.

This is 100% a situation where there’s no real sense in idea workshopping something in the plotting stage. You’re doing something for you. Decide if it’s for public consumption later (while acknowledging “no” is a perfectly valid answer), and only figure out how to make the story not overtly harmful if you decide to put it out into the public.

~ Leigh

#culture #cultural disconnect #creator responsibility #writing #authors of color #asks

[mrsoulstice]

Fine women of carnival

(Feel free to add to this list)

#black woman #carnival 2024 #black culture #fine black women #melanin #so colorful #black excellence

[zaebucca]

Mythical Encounters in ancient Hisui: the Shrine at Newmoon Island Grove

#pixelart #ドットの日 #pokemon #hisuian typhlosion #pixel background #pokemon fanart #japanese culture #yokai #nintendo #retrogamer #super nintendo #game boy color #8 bit aesthetic #16 bit games #legends arceus #darkrai #pokemon legends arceus #mythical pokemon #dark type #torii gate

[princess-triton]

BONK! with a chicken falin...🤤

Crying because I can’t be her

#my art #dungeon meshi #falin touden #or as cultured people says #chicken Falin #I want to draw her like this again ough #one of my favorite form ever #thank you for the prompt!!! #color palette

[grey-wings]

I’m sure I’m not the first to say this but… I was thinking about Mando color symbolism on armor. And I was thinking about Cody changing up his colors. Do y’all know what grey is for in Mandalorian culture? Canonically? It’s fucking Mourning. Specifically the loss of a loved one. Now, who has he JUST lost in the Bad Batch timeline? Yeah. He’s been losing brothers this whole time, and stayed yellow. Even after Ponds. You know who that grey is for. Do with that as you will.

#star wars #the clone wars #bad batch #commander cody #bad batch commander Cody #cc 2224 #codywan #I firmly believe my man’s mourning his jetti #mourning colors #mando culture

[kafkasapartment]

'Wild Concrete #58' Hong Kong, 2013. Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze. Chromogenic print. (however long I’ve been posting here, that’s how long every spell checker says ‘chromogenic’ is either not a real word or it’s spelled incorrectly).

#photography #hong kong #ASIA #color #Architecture #culture #ruins #urban landscape #city scenes #photographie #foto