I used to climb trees

I would also like to give a shout-out to Medieval Names Archive my beloved 💖

How to draw: Not white characters

How to draw a Black person

How to colour Black people skin tones

How to draw dreadlocks

How to draw African hair

How to draw curly hair

How to draw braids

How to draw braids part 2

How to draw cornrows

How to draw Bantu knots

How to draw two strand twists

How to draw an Asian person

How to colour darker skin tones with alcohol markers

How to draw hijabs/traditional Muslim hair coverings

How to draw a hijabi girl

All links and art provided by @ itsajart on TikTok

Before you go “mY aRt sTyLe iS dIfFrEnT tHoUgH” you can moderate it and play around with your style to get it to fit.

also some tumblr/instagram posts, if it’s okay to add:

drawing black people (instagram--the rest are tumblr posts)- color, naturally kinky/curly hair, protective hairstyles

more tips on drawing black hair

drawing mixed people 

drawing asian people (goes over east, southeast, south asians--LOTS of good resources and tips in the notes from my knowledge)

drawing east asian people

drawing north american indigenous people (no images, just a textpost, but by an inupiaq person)

Important!!!

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Apparently there's an evolutionary theory that the reason why Africa has so much wild big-ass megafauna while the big-ass megafauna on all the other continents went extinct is because they evolved right beside humans, and knew us well enough to not get hunted into extinction.

So while everything from giant koalas to giant sloths barely had the time to think "what the fuck is that" before getting pierced by a spear and getting their bone marrow gently fed to babies and the toothless elderly, Africa had elephants who had all the time in the world to learn to tell apart human languages and teach the next generations of their herd which human sounds mean that this tribe won't hurt you, but humans who make this kind of sounds are a danger. And hippos learned to conclude "I think I'll fuck up this two-legged weird shit on sight."

That’s true about African Elephants being able to distinguish between human languages, BTW.

The original study they did on this is really cool, and it showed that not only can elephants distinguish languages, they respond differently depending on the general age and gender of the person spekaing. The researchers played recordings of different people speaking either Maasai or Kamba. All the speakers were saying the same thing, "Look, look over there, a group of elephants is coming."

What they found is that when presented with voices speaking Kamba, the elephants were supremely unbothered. The Kamba are mostly farmers, many work for the park services, and they rarely present a danger to elephants.

When presented with the voices of adult men speaking Maasai, the elephants drew close to each other and started investigating. The Maasai are largely cattle herders, and they sometimes come into conflict with elephants over water and grazing lands.

However, the elephants did not seem nervous when presented with the voices of women or young boys speaking Maasai. They were aware that only humans with deep voices were a threat to them.

They also seem to recognize that if humans are talking, they aren't necessarily a threat. Humans pursuing large game like elephants are stealth hunters. If you can hear them coming, they're probably not trying to hurt you.

Anyway, elephants are amazing and one of the creatures high up on my list of "non-humans who are probably people."

Reblogging for those fabulous details.

@primroseprime2019 @ktmbs-inspired

Oh that is adorable

@birdblogwhichisforbirds

these are dinosaurs

I was expecting him to just drop the ball… but damn.

YO… just so you all know! he doesn’t think they’re eggs! this type of bird is a seriema and they use that funky neck-whip to kill lizards and snakes. he is actually Just Having A Good Time

@primroseprime2019 @ktmbs-inspired @glacia-art

“Just Having a good time”

XD imagine

I am super against light pollution, and have been for decades

but I am also super annoyed by the way it's framed as "without light pollution you can see how beautiful the night sky is" way more prominently than it's framed as "hey, did you ever stop to think of how much energy/resources/money are literally wasted by having so much light shine up into the sky?"

so people get the idea that light pollution can only be remedied by eliminating all night-time light, which would make being outside at night very inconvenient, instead of by making night-time light shine only on the ground where, y'know, the people who need it are

The mildest example of what OP's talking about in Dunedin, Aotearoa:

This is just with the streetlamp equivalent of using lampshades. Imagine what truly directional city lights could achieve?

@ktmbs-inspired

This was genius!!!

mushroom chat just dropped

link to the article cuz it's actually really interesting

@primroseprime2019 @ktmbs-inspired

FREAKING RAD

@primroseprime2019 @ktmbs-inspired @glacia-art

I feel a great need to share my cat again

Remember when they said “what does the fox say” and then said the noise that would happen if you stuck a man in a blender

And then they did it on glee

they blended a man?

sorry I forgot what I was talking about

Meanwhile foxes doing noises like

@primroseprime2019 @ktmbs-inspired

Fox fox fox fox!

people with siblings have you ever in your life called ur sibling bro or sis bc i have not and i just imagined myself doing it and gagged. it would feel so weird

thinking about that time I was at some kind of diversity and inclusion thing that involved discussion in small groups and one straight girl said she really wanted to be a good ally but sometimes there were some things she just didn’t know and was too afraid to ask for fear of accidentally being offensive. and as the only queer person in this 4-5 person group I said well go ahead and ask me, I don’t care if you accidentally use the wrong term right now or whatever, it’s better to talk about it and learn something, I love talking about queerness and I’ll answer the best I can. and she just looked so nervous and in the end wound up refusing to ask for fear of causing offense. and it wasn’t just the group setting, I’ve known straight people to act similarly even when it’s just one on one

and just. you guys. this is what purity culture and the “if you don’t know something you were never a real ally in fact you’re a bigot in fact you’re worse than bigots because you pretended not to be one” attitude does. how can our allies be allies if they’re scared to talk to us? to ask questions, to make mistakes, to learn? can we please bring back the idea of “in good faith”? there’s way more to say here about identity politics and virtue signaling and acting like language is more important than action but I’m too tired for that right now

please feel free to add to the discussion (regardless of if you’re queer or not), I would love to hear about people’s experiences with this and if others feel differently about it

We live in a culture that actively suppresses queer knowledge and history. You cannot blame someone for ignorance born of that kind of indoctrination. It’s not your responsibility to educate, that’s true, but it’s also selfish and harmful to attack people who are trying to be better. It’s more helpful to reach your hand out and risk getting burned than to burn that bridge yourself.

This is really a problem too. When I came out a lot of people who loved me didn’t know what to do, and were raised in purity culture and suppressed history.

I was raised in it too. But I only learned about myself because other people were kind and open about themselves.

However I did have friends raised in the exact opposite environment. Where they believed if someone didn’t support you they didn’t actually love you.

From my experience the people who didn’t support me at first just didn’t understand. They didn’t know anything outside of our bubble. Having someone as close as me popped that bubble, and confused them. But they still loved me. Many of them asked questions, and now most of them not only love me, but support me or have even realized things about themselves.

I know their our bigoted people out there, who are bigoted because they choose to be. But that’s not the mass majority. Most just don’t understand. Don’t let the shouts of hate, overwhelm the whispers of ignorant or questioning.

Happy Pride!

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

I wait every year for this! Oh my gosh.

I reblog this every year without exceptions.

So, there's apparently research coming out now about microplastics being found in people's bloodstreams and the possible negative effects of that and I feel the need to get out ahead of the wave of corporate sponsored "be sure to recycle your bottles!" or "ban glitter!" campaigns and remind everyone: It's fishing nets. It's fishing nets. It is overwhelming fishing nets It always has been fishing nets. Unless regulations are changed, it will continue to be fishing nets. The plastic in the ocean in largely discarded nets from industrial fishing. The microplastics are the result of these nets breaking down. The "trash islands" are also, you guessed it. Mostly fishing nets and other discarded fishing industry equipment. Do not allow them to continue to twist the story. Do not come after disabled people who require single use plastics. Do not come after people using glitter in art projects and makeup. These things make up a negligible amount of the issue compared to corporate waste, specifically in the fishing industry. Do not let them shift the blame to the individual so they can continue to destroy the planet and our bodies without regulation.

Industries are incredibly resistant to taking responsibility for their own waste, to the point where “consumers are responsible for industrial waste” is somehow considered a sensible, ethical, worthy sentence.

It is actually perfectly reasonable to say that “industries are responsible for industrial waste” and “the effects of industry can, should and must be fixed by industry” and “Industry can, should and must be held responsible for its impacts on the commons, such as air, water, oceans and land.”

@ktmbs-inspired

I'm disgusted!!!

i need y'all to steal and repost my anti-lawn memes to as many pinterest boards and facebook pages as possible

Some cities are catching onto how bad grass lawns are for the environment and encouraging No Mow May! Which is not enough, but it’s a good start. Look into it in your area, and if it’s not a thing, MAKE it a thing!

@ktmbs-inspired

Things you can do instead!!! Irish moss or moss 👍