You are drawing a photo of Hobie. It is going well. I pass by you and stop for a moment.
I lean over your shoulder. I pull up your browser and type Daniel Kaluuya into the search engine.
I go to images. I pull up a photo. I right-click and hit copy.
I pull up your drawing software. I click on the layer. I right click and hit paste.
A photo of Daniel Kaluuya apprears in the software. I click on the eyedropper tool. I hover the mouse over his skin. I sample it multiple times.
"There you go. Hobie's about that dark." I say. I pat you on the back. I leave you to it.
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it's so nice to see kids animation, epsecially fantasy, becoming more inclusive of brown girls. i remember my sisters and i looked up to katara so much when we were kids because she was the only main character of a cartoon that ever looked like us. she wasn't even the protagonist, but she was seen as both pretty and strong and stuck it to sexist jerks and it was so amazing to watch. it's so wonderful that there are so many more kids shows with brown girls as the protagonists & main characters like kipo and the age of wonderbeasts, the legend of korra, amphibia, dead end paranormal park, and the owl house.
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Ok so. This is less concrete thoughts and more scattered ideas but.
Dathomirian Zabrak biology speculations/thoughts!
While at first glance it looks like males are the only ones who have different skin colors and the females are all pale, we do see at least one Nightsister with darker skin (the one whose facial markings are white and resemble a skull), meaning skin pigmentation is present in both but manifests differently in males vs females!
(This is much like birds where the females are the neutral-colored ones while the males have more vibrant colorations and are expected to impress the females to be picked as a mate)
And it's very curious to me that iridonians have very human-like skin tones, while dathomirians ended up having two extremes, either having very vibrant skin ranging from yellow to red, or very pale skin ranging from white to dark gray, both outside the human (and iridonian) range
I think if a transgender dathomirian had HRT their skin color would gradually change with it (much like how birds can change coloration depending on their hormones)
The fact that males have no hair and females have no horns seems very random to me and I will not be thinking about the hair thing but I will say:
Have you looked at Mother Talzin's head shape. Have you seen how strangely tall it looks. What if. What if females "lack" horns because instead of growing at just a few specific points their entire skulls grow and elongate over their lifetimes.
This makes sense if you consider that they live in a "dense jungle" type environment where things (fruits, branches, predators..) can fall on their heads all the time. Having a thicker skull would probably help avoid a cracked skull from constantly getting hit in the head by falling stuff
(No idea what about the hair thing though. Maybe it's something to do with gene interactions. Like whatever gene makes their skin so saturated also deactivates the "have hair" genes. or maybe nightsisters are all wearing wigs and none of them actually grow hair)
Speaking of the geography of the planet, I think it's pretty sad that we never really get a good look of what the Nightbrothers' region looks like outside the village and some mountain terrain around it. Is it more sunny than the Nightsisters' side and that's why their skin adapted to have more color while the females' adapted to lose color? Or is it a seasonal thing and we just never got to see another season in the shows? Or is the village just built in a place that's so high the mist doesn't reach it? We get the sense that it's cold, at least at night, so why are they dressed in such light clothes? In fact, is it hot where the Nightsisters live, or is the entire species more adapted to colder temperatures and that's why they all wear so little?
What would happen if you crossed a dathomirian zabrak with a species that also has non-human skin tones but not linked to sexual dimorphism. Like what if you had a pantoran-zabrak cross, since pantorans are on the opposite side of the color wheel. Do you think they'd be an extremely vibrant blue or yellow-orange-red, or a middle ground, like green? Or perhaps an extreme outside both species' range, like purple? Do you think the "no saturation" gene would take over and make them gray no matter the gender?
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Metro-Boomin Spider and Hobie Brown are Best Friends (they told me)
They're both black man with natural hair, a music career, and good style.
They met at HQ when Metro came up to him to compliment Hobie's jewelry and Hobie told M he likes his bomber jacket
Him and Metro trade hair care tips. Metro records music on the system and mic in Hobies living room and shows Hobie rap from the 90s. They start becoming huge influences in each other's music careers - and they take the others input seriously during the music process
Hobie trusts Met's ear and Met trusts Hobie's ideas.
Plus being from the south, Metro (real name Leland - just called Le) knows what its like being a black man facing police brutality. He's street smart as Hobie, just as - in a different way (money minded and glizzies on deck) - so Hobie doesn't have to look it for him like he does Gwen or Pavi
They're go to each other's shows and dap each other up everytime they see each other at work. They're known as literally the chillest duo on Campus and when they're together they're SO FUNNY.
You look over at them and they're like
If they're too far away to dap it up like they see each other across the walkways they'll yell across HQ like 'YYYEEEEERRRRRR' and Hobie will yell back 'YYYEEEEERRRR'
Hobie and Le. Being carefree black men. And best friends. Metro and Spiderpunk BFFs 4ever.
Just thought you should know.
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i was thinking about the time my mom saw me watching a video of omar's concert and her first comment after asking me if he was the guy i flew to sweden for (she had never seen him, knew absolutely nothing about him) was a surprised 'oh, he's not ugly!'
first of all what a weird thing to say.
but second of all imagine referring to omar rudberg as 'not ugly'.
that's the oddest, funniest descriptor one could come up with that is also technically Not Wrong
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