A painting done for one of the Discord servers I’m a part of for the Year of the Dragon, which is this year.
A while ago I asked people on the server with dragon avatars (characters representing them, not always sonas) if they wanted to be in this piece and these were the people that replied.
Characters from top left to bottom:
Hamyb (@hamyb-dragon)
Angel (@nataliaechothorn)
Miguel (on Discord)
NefariousDS (on Discord)
Neltharion/Nelthar/adeathwing(Discord)
Oran (@oransvillage) (who isn’t a dragon but shhh)
And anyone following me knows Pendara I hope.
I had fun making this and I hope you all like it too 🙂
Sometimes I remember that white chick who decided to quote a tweet of mine where I was saying that it’s fucked up to talk about settlers being traumatized by decolonization… and like she decided to bring up her settler grandma “trauma” into it. Algerians were calling her out and then this Algerian girl said “Oh your grandma is a pied noir? I’m a wahrania” and this will forever be my favorite tweet of all time.
The historical reference was perfect and over a year later I still think about this answer.
Context: During French colonialism in Algeria Wahran (Oran) was a settler majority town. It was a region very violent against indigenous Algerians and the segregation was worst than in the rest of the country. When the war of liberation started it got worst the settlers became more violent. Even buying food was dangerous and Algerians from Wahran had to send group of men to be able to go buy food for the neighborhood safely, you couldn’t send a child or a woman or even go alone as a man it wasn’t safe. Toward the end of the war when they realized that Algeria would be independent and the OAS was created (a white supremacist terrorist group) they found a lot of support in the settler population of Wahran. It was so horrible for Algerians that at the independence they attacked the settlers who were still in Wahran to kick them out. Colonial nostalgia means they call what happened a “massacre” and always talk about how traumatizing it was. Wahran is THE “traumatic” experience they love to mention so much. So the girl saying “your grandma is a settler? I’m a Wahrania” is just so freaking sweet.
Je reprends ma série de vieilles photos. Ici les vieilles voitures, qui ne l'étaient pas à l'époque !
Une 2CV - Mostaganem, 1955. Mon oncle et ma tante
une traction avant Citroën - Bussières (Auvergne), 1938. A gauche, mon grand-père maternel CORRECTION : merci à @tsakkiemgbgt qui me précise que c'est en fait une Citroën Rosalie !
idem (je pense ) - Oran, 1951 - Mon père au volant
Une 4CV (je pense) - Mostaganem, 1956. Ma grand-mère et mon grand-père paternel.