Hi Again, Nia Here!

Atrocities

In a world full of humans that consider themselves the superior beings, there is no question about who the beasts are. It is not animals that torture each other because they want to. The lion is not cruel for hunting a zebra to feed.

There is nothing on Earth capable of cruelty. Except humans.

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I think there’s no one unaware of what is happening in Gaza right now, in Palestine. What started in 1948.

I’ve been aware of the war going on in Palestine for years.

I find it baffling how so many are finding out about this only now, when the corpses of the dead are sky high, when so many are lost and can never go home now.

How dare the world make promises like ‘never again’? How dare the world make promises and once again stand still, as genocides take place? How dare you stand there and look away? How dare you stay quiet?

How can you stay quiet?

I find it horrifying and heartbreaking. I find it even more atrocious that the people doing this should be people who understand what genocide is like.

How can they go ahead and do what was done to them, to others? What about ‘treat others like you want to be treated’? Has that phrase never mattered at all?

I do not understand.

I do not understand.

I cannot understand.

I cannot condone.

Why? How? How can your heart and your mind and your conciousness condone this? How can people who suffered through genocide do this others? How can you possibly try to justify this?

Nothing justifies the killing of innocents. Nothing. Nothing justifies this violence and crimes against humanity. Nothing ever has, nothing ever will. Nothing justifies the atrocities of WW2, nothing justifies this either. I cried when as a child I learned about the Holocaust. I cry now with the people of Palestine, for them.

How can we let history repeat itself? Is the human species really that utterly hopeless? Do we not learn from the past?

Are we, quite literally, the only species on Earth that does not learn from its mistakes?

If a young bunny steps into a trap, it’ll come to know pain but survive. The next time it comes into contact with a hunter trap, it will jump aside.

Animals learn. Nature learns.

Why can’t humans? We are the one species that doesn’t follow the natural balance of the world. Do we even belong here? What kind of monsters are we, to repeat the same mistakes over and over and over and over?

Do not stay quiet. Use your voice, speak out for those that can’t.

Above all, remember empathy, remember compassion, remember love.

Drop aside hate and bias, prejudice and stereotypes, racism and xenophobia, revenge and resentment.

Nothing justifies this. Nothing. Look upon what’s happening with your own eyes and ask yourself:

Why can I live but they can’t?

We’re all human. Aren’t we?

There’s not a day that I don’t think about the genocide happening in Palestine. I mourn and grieve for the dead, with all those suffering.

#freepalestine 🇵🇸

Rocket trip

Soo I liked it so much I colored it!! I’m in love with it. I think I learned a lot about dramatic lightning with this one.

Done on Procreate with a photo of the original drawing and drawing on top of it.

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Crayola sketch ✨✨✨✨✨✨🌺

Again cuz I frikin love it.

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I’ve been gone for too long, but here you go, I finished my starter pack!

I honestly didn’t really know what to put in the accesories compartment, but a backpack and a sword felt right haha. I put in the chips because why not, I am fond of some good chips.

I don’t have orange boots, but I really want them so at least here I have some.

Evolution

I have recently come to realize that I’m at a stage in life where I find myself attracted to a literary genre I never held any interest in: realism.

Or rather, realism with wondrous things sprinkled in.

Specially like that presented in Japanese literature.

What I’m really looking for I think, is connection. Being able to relate to the story to a deeper level than the fantasy stories I used to be so obsessed with (which no offense, but are usually not written to relate with anyone. YA Fantasy writing tends to be bleak when it comes to the relatable side of things).

I am touched by stories about people struggling through life’s bumps, pushing through as they find connections with others and hope in the little things; perhaps lessons they learned as children and forgot as they aged, or perhaps in magical wonders they encounter.

Slice of life stories are specially entertaining to me now. Broken as I am, there’s a part of me that lights up with stories I can empathize with. It stitches me up a bit inside. Helps hold me together.

There are so many books of this kind I wanna read. Stories that can warm me inside and hold my stitches together.

I never thought I’d become interested in realism (after, you know, literally living through it).

Guess a point a comes where you just wanna know you’re not the only one in pain.

Almost done with this piece, which I’m really happy with btw :D

My digital art skills are getting better lately, I’ve leveled up! 😎

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Pretty boi 🌺

Another experiment with the new watercolor paper. I think I’ve only tried to do skin with watercolor once before. At the beginning I thought it looked terrible. But it actually turned out quite okay :D.

I love this one.

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Supernatural is not a good show. In fact, it is pretty objectively terrible. It has moments of brilliance and potential, but it squanders it most of the time.

But there will never be another show like this one.

Supernatural was a show where pretty much anything could happen, and it went on long enough that pretty much everything did. It went from a straightforward, procedural monster-hunting show to a weird, meta parody of itself where the main characters beg for freedom from a cruel and all-powerful writer controlling their fate.

Supernatural was a show made for cishet white men that gained an audience of anything but, and spent years struggling with that dissonance. It became multiple shows at once to appeal to its vastly varied fanbase and, when faced with the need to choose an ending and decide its identity once and for all, ended up angering everyone.

Supernatural was a show that the writers completely and utterly lost control of. I don't think the writers of 04x01 Lazarus Rising could have ever in a million years imagined the events of 15x18 Despair. It became a monster bigger than itself because of the energy of its fanbase. The show itself briefly became a mirror of this dissonance in its final season, before the show finally tried to regain control and ended the way that it did.

Supernatural has had an impossibly impactful mark on internet and fandom culture. It has changed this website in tangible ways that won't be forgotten anytime soon. It was the 12-year-long queerbait, the one that would serve as the scale against which to compare all queer ships before and after. It spawned the only ship to date with over 100,000 fanfics on ao3. It was the homosexual homophobic show. The world's longest, most drawn-out hate crime. And it ended it all with superhell, tetanus, and party city wigs.

Supernatural is not a good show. But it is undoubtedly fascinating and influential. I want to study this show endlessly. It is just so fully insane to me.

Anyways, I'll be posting about this show A LOT tomorrow as well so sorry to my non-supernatural mutuals. I'm jealous that you are not cursed with the burden of knowledge that is this show.

Daily practice sketch #1 (Pinterest reference)

/The girl with the goose

I love this one! Aaaa!

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TUMBLR, I PRESENT TO YOU THE ONLY ARCANE FANART I’VE MANAGED TO FINISH, as of this date.

Took me a while, but I’m extremely happy and proud of this one. All my work paid off, and I think this one has really shown me my progress.

Jayce’s face still icks me though. I KNOW something ain’t right, but I couldn’t figure him out. I’m super happy with Viktor though, it really does look like him.

For some reason I struggled for wAy Too long with Jayce’s face. Like damn. I thought Vik would be more complicated but nope.

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