i don’t know if people outside of brazil are aware of this, but our country just decriminalized
gay conversion therapy. basically, it is now 100% legal for therapists to treat homosexuality as a disease if they want to.
btw here are are some sources to read more about it (they’re all in portuguese): 1, 2, 3, 4.
we need more people talking about this on the media.
please reblog this, especially if you’re not brazilian.
PLEASE READ THIS, ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE NOT FROM BRAZIL/LATIN AMERICA:
I’ll try my best to keep it as short and to the point as possible.
This absolutely outraged me and a lot of Brazilians when it happened, in September of last year. Even the National Board of Psychology said that gay conversion therapy is a violation of human rights and immoral. But that didn’t stop ONE judge from making this decision. ONE. JUDGE.
Seeing your country go backwards in progress reaaaaaaalllyyyyy sucks. And that’s an understatement. However, things could be about to finally get better.
Brazil is on the brink of presidential elections. The currently most popular candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, is a bigot in every sense of the word. He’s racist, sexist, homophobic… I could go on and on.
Recently, a councilwoman named Marielle Franco got assassinated in Rio de Janeiro. She was an outspoken activist for the rights of black and LGBTQ+ people in Brazil.
At the time of her death, Marielle was suing the police for their violence against black women, especially in the favelas. Since her death, protests have arised in the whole of Brazil.
“Political murder! For the end of military intervention! MARIELLE LIVES!”
Bolsonaro, as expected, has barely spoken out on Marielle’s murder. All he’s said so far is that it probably won’t get solved. We don’t know yet who killed Marielle, and it has barely been 2 weeks since her death, but it has already sparked huge amounts of change in the country.
Marielle’s murder has catalysed the black and LGBTQ+ movement in Brazil.
Katy Perry brought out Marielle’s family during a concert in Rio, and dedicated a song to her.
WE ARE ON THE BRINK OF CHANGE. The politicians in power do not represent the Brazilian people.
And to my fellow Brazilians:
Por favor, não esqueçam de manter a luta viva. Nós brasileiros merecemos melhor. Merecemos um país que anda pra frente. O governo não nos representa.
Hello! I wanted to ask something art related- I've watched your streams and youtube videos and I was wondering how exactly you changed your sketch lineart to that vibrant blue? I see you using the autotone setting but is there any pre-setup you did with autotone to get that? I've tried using it in photoshop but it never seemed to do anything aha. Thank you for your time!
Say you accidentally drew your clean lineart over your sketch lineart (like me!)
Go to Image >> Adjustments >> Black & White and this little window will appear
Bump the Cyan all the way up or until the sketch layer disappears.
TADA!
Hmmm but now the lineart isn’t transparent like I wanted it to be….. what do?
If the image is flattened, unlock the lineart layer first (assuming the lineart layer is the background layer)
Go to the Channels tab and click on the little dotted circle on the bottom
This will happen:
Congratulations! You have selected all the white stuff surrounding your lineart. You can either inverse select to get a selection of the lineart or just remove the white stuff by pressing Delete.
I think the thing that really thumps me in the feels about Shiro and Keith is how they both consistently and utterly underestimate how much they mean to the other one, while at the same time making no secret of how much the other means to them.
I mean Shiro was totally willing to tell everybody off for Keith’s sake in “Blade of Marmora”, from Lance all the way to the whole Blade organization and screw this whole alliance thing if you’re not going to let Keith keep his knife.
…And he completely failed to grasp that, yanno, telling Keith ‘if anything happens to me, I want you to lead the team’ wasn’t an honor, or a kindness, and that it was entirely possible Keith would be grieving far too much to cope with his own life never mind looking after everyone else’s. (People who rag on Keith for being a bad leader often don’t seem to realize we only get one episode where he’s both unequivocally in charge and not overtly grieving, and most of the stupidshit that went on in that ep was actually Allura’s doing. The kid was grieving for a fair chunk of S3. Like…utterly-not-coping-with-existing levels of grieving. Bet you anything, Shiro had no idea Keith would take it that hard.)
But the reverse is true too. Keith will immediately spring to Shiro’s aid, whether it’s Shiro freezing in a PTSD flashback or holed up in a cave with chunks ripped out of his hide, and he’ll pull stunts that would have trained ninja stuntmen demanding danger pay to do it.
But he honestly thinks he’s got to prove his worth to Shiro all the time, that Shiro’s only a breath away from ripping him a new one for being selfish, or angry, or generally Not Good Enough, and that Shiro doesn’t notice or concern himself with little things like whether Keith is injured. It took only two episodes of butting heads before Keith decided he needed to leave the team so Shiro could lead it properly, and all of one episode before Keith was withdrawing like mad. And Keith is probably going to kick himself hard to find out that Shiro (or Kuron, or mindwarped!Shiro or whoever it is we have right now) is losing time, and feeling off, and having a hard time confiding in anyone.
And…there’s just something kind of real about both of them being kind of equally boneheaded on this front - like, anyone else could probably tell either one of them Hell Yes, You Mean The World To HIm. But they don’t see it, themselves. And while I love to speculate about it, I’m honestly not sure they ever will.
God please don’t comment on your kids eating or weight please
Also, don’t put bathroom scales in the children’s bathroom. Children are curious. Children may weigh themselves. Children can be influenced by their parent’s talk of dieting and losing weight. Children can develop eating disorders.
“The name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine. Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that’s especially true in the West. But if black South Africans could go back in time and kill one person, Cecil Rhodes would come up before Hitler. If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium’s King Leopold would come way before Hitler. If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson. I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Yes, it was horrific. But I often wonder, with African atrocities like in the Congo, how horrific were they? The thing Africans don’t have that Jewish people do have is documentation. The Nazis kept meticulous records, took pictures, made films. And that’s really what it comes down to. Holocaust victims count because Hitler counted them. Six million people killed. We can all look at that number and be rightly horrified. But when you read through the history of atrocities against Africans, there are no numbers, only guesses. It’s harder to be horrified by a guess. When Portugal and Belgium were plundering Angola and the Congo, they weren’t counting the black people they slaughtered. How many black people died harvesting rubber in the Congo? In the gold and diamond mines of the Transvaal? So in Europe and America, yes, Hitler is the Greatest Madman in History. In Africa he’s just another strongman from the history books.”
— Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (via christymtidwell)
