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A masterpost of resources & posts on how to respectfully draw and represent Piper McLean as a Tsalagi/Cherokee character, and a few posts on the issues with her canon depiction. I am not Native, but a majority of the posts linked here are by Native people.
Note: if you are not Native, you do not get to decide what is or isn’t racist against Indigenous people, no matter how much research you do. Listen to Native voices on Native issues.
Note #2: please do not bombard the creators of these posts with questions unless they say they’re comfortable with it. They are not google. If you have questions, ask someone who has made it clear they are comfortable with it, ask me, or just google them.
Edit Note: I’ve removed links by findingmy//culture, as I no longer feel comfortable with them due to unrelated reasons. If you have suggestions for alternate links to share, hit me up.
some tips on drawing PiperÂ
+ checklist of what not to do when drawing Piper
How to Draw Native Skin (Tutorial)
General How to Draw Native People (Tutorial)
General How to Draw Dark Skin (Tutorial)
color picks from Piper fanart vs photos of actual Indigenous people
on Piper and feathers (archived)
refs: some photos, more, this blog, you can also look through the Piper tags of my blog, tsigililimclean, etc.
further research on indigenous rep: @indigenousfantasy, @writingwithcolor (particularly this!), justin’s (Plains Cree native) representation wishes, rep for dark skinned Native folks, etc.
why piper isn’t good rep: long post on topic, also check the rr crit tags, etc.
Feel free to add on, especially Indigenous bloggers! I will edit as I find more. And also feel free to share this when asking people not to draw racist Piper.
you guys ever think about how trigger turned one singular panel of chilchuck and laios walking and talking into chilchuck implicitly trusting laios while also being cute as hell at him
i think about it sometimes
Her name is Kira Obedinskaya.Â
She’s 12 years old and she’s from Mariupol.Â
Her mom died when Kira was an infant. Her dad, Yevhen, died during the r*ussian shelling of the city on March 17. Kira was wounded while trying to leave the city and (with people she was together) forcefully deported to Donetsk - on the territory occupied by r*ussia.Â
It’s kidnapping.Â
It’s mass deportation.Â
It’s happening right now and I want to scream about that at the top of my lungs.
Kira has a grandfather, Oleksandr, who wants to take her home, but he’s unable to do so. Mostly because r*ssians are unwilling to negotiate. And, probably, because they sincerely enjoy torturing people.
The only thing I can do is scream about her. About her and about all the broken lives. And maybe, just maybe, if we scream loud enough we’ll be heard.
So please, scream about Kira too.
can't get over how much jacob sounds like pilot louis in this scene. louder, more expressive, more movement, more humor. he has a light-hearted dinner table of family members to joke around with again, a lover he doesn't have to walk around on eggshells with, a daughter who's never been happier and it's like he finally feels like himself. "will he get out the door with that BIIIIIIIIG head?"
Ellie: are you my fucking mom or something?!
Marlene: DO I LOOK LIKE-