hi, i'm jess! i used to be rootcellars and long before that i was zethia. i've had this blog for years, left and returned many times, hence the old format theme... going to start posting my art here again FOR REAL this time. i draw whatever i'm interested in at the moment and try not to take it too seriously! hope u have fun here!
)my piece for @grishaversebigbang 2021, a moment between nikolai and zoya in the garden for @nazyalenskyism's wonderful fic, feels like gold!
thanks to corporalki @romasjuliettes and check out the other drawings by @elle-bo-illustration (x), @sartagos (x), and @erandraws (x) :)
not to get political but im begging you guys to stop coming to hawaii. in maui theyre asking to put a ‘pause’ on flights bc we literally do not have enough room or staff to service you. the roads are so full that its causing a major backup when ppl need to get to work.
on top of this, i heard that by September? theyre expecting to get rid of the mask rule (if 70% of ppl are vaccinated/all goes well) but ill be honest w/ you, i know many locals arent getting the vaccine and i know plenty of tourist arent gonna take the necessary precautions.
homeless hawaiians aren’t even allowed to sit or lay on sidewalks to keep up the “paradise” image for tourists
PLEASE stop vacationing in / moving to the occupied Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. You are actively participating in violent settler colonialism when you do, even if you aren’t white. Never in my whole life have I seen our airport THIS packed!!! Our islands cannot support this many people – especially during our dry season and in the middle of a PANDEMIC!
Tourism makes it impossible to keep up with the rising cost of living. It brings in revenue and with that, becomes the fake state’s priority. Tourism pushes native Hawaiians from their land and homes, puts locals at risk for covid19, directly harms the delicate environment and native species here, houseless folk (many whom are native Hawaiian) are being illegally swept to make room for tourists at beaches, and locals are being restricted and fined for using water on east Maui, all while hotels can use up all the resources no problem and our government approves a million dollar home construction for new part-time residents (when locals who have been here for generations are being thrown into poverty, barely staying afloat, losing businesses and even their homes). “Hawai’i has become the Blood Diamond of the Pacific. We are mined for our splendor, and our residents live the every day, complex consequences.”
It’s absolutely VILE what is happening here. I hope yall know that Hawaiʻi was overthrown and occupied by the US military, and isn’t even legally a state! Hawaiʻi is not your vacation spot, so you better tell your family and friends to stay at home.
I bet the little amongus guys taste delicious I bet you could crunch like five of them in your mouth at once I bet the suits like a candy coating I bet there's chocolate inside like an Eminem
Noir (2019) SUNMI
on food/the food writing industry & colonialism/racism
“I am certain that most, if not all, Americans have heard of Hawai’i and have wished, at some time in their lives, to visit my Native land. But I doubt that the history of how Hawai’i came to be territorially incorporated, and economically, politically, and culturally subordinated to the United States is known to most Americans. Nor is it common knowledge that Hawaiians have been struggling for over twenty years to achieve a land base and some form of political sovereignty on the same level as American Indians. Finally, I would imagine that most Americans could not place Hawai’i or any other Pacific island on a map of the Pacific. But despite all this appalling ignorance, five million Americans will vacation in my homeland this year and the next, and so on into the foreseeable capitalist future. Such are the intended privileges of the so-called American standard of living: ignorance of, and yet power over, one’s relations to Native peoples.”
— Haunani Kay-Trask, “Lovely Hula Hands: Corporate Tourism and the Prostitution of Hawaiian Culture
Ikko Tanaka
4 works: GGG Exhibition
The point of reading isn't just consume tropes 🙄 it's to log every book you read at your local librarys summer reading program making you eligible for fun prizes and an end of the summer pizza party
Eleanor Swordy (British, b. 1987), Contact, 2021. Pastel on paper, 14 x 11 in.
hi! I love your art so much 🥺 I was wondering what program and brushes/brush sets you use? your kagehina in the laundromat drawing is one of my fav pieces EVER I just love the color & brushstrokes!!!!
hi thank u so much 😭 i use clip studio paint and the kagehina piece was painted mostly with the default oil paint flat brush for the background, and thin gouache brush for the characters! i adjust the amount of paint slider to control blending and i also like the blender from the artist21 pack on clip assets (free).
i really really love painting with csp (THIS IS NOT SPONSORED BY CELSYS THO I WISH IT WAS) because the color blending engine is a dream to use *___* i got procreate when i got my ipad but i could never really get used to it and now i pony up the subscription fee for the csp ipad version because it's just unbeatable i think...
