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The fact that Eric Adam’s (NYC mayor) first response to Michelle Go’s death was to increase the presence of police in subways says a lot about what NYC is doing to combat shit like Asian Hate and homelessness.
Michelle Go was an Asian-American woman who was pushed in front of an NYC subway in January. (It was not investigated as a hate crime: you can read about that here). This caused a lot of concern for the rising rates of mental illness and homelessness associated with crimes like these. And Eric Adam’s response was to increase the number of police in subway stations.
The thing is—this is just making things worse. My own mother is scared of going on the subways nowadays because of Asian hate crimes. My BIPOC friends hate going because of the police. The thing is, we can’t just stop taking the subway. Even after the terrible events on April 12, the shooting on a Brooklyn train, we couldn’t just call an uber to get home—most of us can’t afford that. Even when they hadn’t caught the shooter yet, I was still riding the subway home. There’s nothing we can do.
I have received so many lectures on being a feminine-looking person on the subway. One earbud out, or none at all. Eyes up. Be aware. Don’t take off your jacket. If there is someone—anyone—unsettling, then walk the other way.
It’s worse now. No eye contact. No music. Don’t stand at the edge of the platform, stand in the middle, behind a pillar, behind a person, because someone could push you in. Text me when you get there. Call me when you get home. If there’s someone who looks suspicious, you don’t walk, you run.
If that is how it is for me, a young Asian American, how is if for others? For those women? For those other Asians? For those 2 million Black individuals in NYC? For any other scared BIPOC that live in this damn city?
More police is not the answer. More police means more fear. This does not create a safe environment, as Eric Adams claims it does.
Fund platform screen doors. Fund homeless shelters. Fund medical aid for those struggling with poor mental health.
This does not help our city. And our mayor is blind to it all.
Learning how to draw again and again. I really need to step up my pose-game. Still way too stiff, but much much better than last year. As much as I love painting portraits, it is my new comfort zone now, and I have to step out of it.
Any advice on how to get my pose-game more dynamic, round, and floating?
Immer wieder lernen, wie man zeichnet. Ich muss mein Posen-Spiel wirklich verbessern. Immer noch viel zu steif, aber viel, viel besser als letztes Jahr. So sehr ich es auch liebe, Porträts zu malen, es ist jetzt meine neue Komfortzone, aus der ich herauskommen muss.
Habt ihr Tipps, wie ich meine Posen dynamischer, runder und fließender gestalten kann?
people are so used to online content being curated for their consumption that they forget tumblr isn’t like that… this is my diary. I don’t post for other people. if you find the stuff I post depressing or annoying or too much or u don’t agree or whatever whatever…. that’s fine it’s not For You? it’s for me. there is no audience I’m performing for. feel free to unfollow me if u don’t like, I’m not a carefully crafted online persona I’m a real person
Make your drawing better with these brushes! There are more than 100 of my favorite manga brushes in this set (you can also use them for comic book). These brushes will help you save time.
the idea w/ preorders is that you can like, snag a spot and not worry about them selling out when the pins launch, and it’s usually slightly cheaper during preorder (and also so I can start paying for it immediately teehee) and the benefit to waiting is that, obv, you won’t have to wait so long between ordering the pin and getting it, and you’ll get to see photos before buying
it sure is weird how, when I was young, so many people told me said there’s absolutely no reason to study history or philosophy, and now there’s a conveyor belt of cranks and charlatans who use bad philosophy and misinterpret history to push bigoted agendas. what a weird coincidence
when I was a kid you had to do the charlie the unicorn voice whether you liked it or not. you had to say candy mountain charlieeee in the voice. not like these days
