Reblogging Every Time I Rewatch The Potato War

reblogging every time i rewatch the potato war

missing technoblade hour 

There IS a difference between white passing, light skinned, and racially/ethnically ambiguous guys.

White passing is when someone is a person of color but are practically indistinguishable from a white person. Some white passing ppl are even blonde haired and blue eyed, but are still technically not white.

Light skinned is typically used when someone is clearly not white, usually because of their features, hair, etc. But still have lighter skin than usual.

And Racially/Ethnically ambiguous is when someone is once against still clearly a person of color but their race or ethnicity is still very unclear from their appearance, they can be light skinned but can also be dark skinned too.

Y'all (usually white ppl) really should learn these terms and what they mean before you just toss them around or ascribe them to yourselves (eg. A white person isn't light skinned, just white)

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

OHMYGODOHMYGOD THIS

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Blackness to me is inherently gender nonconforming largely because we will never fit into binary white supremacist notions of manhood and womanhood.

i think some things to keep in mind if youre going to market yourself as a body positive artist or intentionally capitalize on being called body positive..... (absolutely non-exhaustive):

-are all/most of your fat women depicted hyper effeminately? like do you only or largely draw fat women caked in makeup, wearing cute/sexy womens clothing, etc? do you ever draw gnc fat women, or fat women in just like. casual everyday clothing?

-even regardless of gender, are your fat characters all extremely pretty/handsome/fashionable/conventionally attractive?

-are all/most of your drawings of fat people sexualized, posed, meant to be enticing? or otherwise executed in a way that the body is meant to be looked at and Pleasing? do you ever just draw fat people Existing?

-do you draw fat features besides the curves/stomachs? are you drawing large upper arms, full faces, fat necks, etc?

-and actually, are you drawing even the basic fat features to begin with? ie stomachs that sag, rolls, etc. are you just drawing skinny people with extra padding?

-if you Do actually draw fat people just existing, do you draw ‘unsexy’ features that happen when relaxed? are you drawing double chins, rolls, etc?

-do you heavily exaggerate/over-beautify stigmatized traits, instead of just depicting them as normal parts of the human body?

-ask yourself if (even subconsciously) you consider body hair/stretch marks/etc ugly or abnormal and are overcorrecting by overemphasizing them. are you trying to insist that everything is ‘beautiful’ ‘sexy’ etc rather than the fact that all these things are just normal?

-are your characters just people, or are they a collection of stigmatized traits? ie can you summarize your characters as ‘this is the one with stretch marks and body hair, and this is the one whos pear shaped and and uses a cane...’? are you making characters or going down a checklist?