Idle Thoughts of a Crazed Magician A small corner of gleaming insanity in a world where everyone values their minds.

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foervraengd:

The thing with a “main character”, is that the reader see the story/world from that characters point of view - we can often read the characters thoughts and feelings more than other characters in the story. You can also use the perspective to increase this “effect”.

You can use the eye-level to display the world seen from the main character. Look at the two pictures above, the characters have the same size on both pictures - the only difference I’ve made is to switch eye-level. And by just doing this, we switch between the adult and the kids point of view - even though they both look at the same thing.

So, when you are doing a perspective, FIRST decide the eye-level and after that start placing out all those annoying guidelines.

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racemash:

2ndadolescence:

le-kif-kif:

nedahoyin:

siddharthasmama:

sourcedumal:

racemash:

The classic doll color test performed with a white child, complete with the parent’s excuses reactions

The little girl even says she picked the white figures as the good child because it “looks like me” and the dark girl as bad because “she’s dark”. When Soledad O’Brien asks the girl’s mother about it, we’re met with quite a few colorblind based excuses and “well, we just don’t talk about race”.

“We don’t talk about race!!”

And your kid is saying racist shit regardless.

That should fucking tell you something, lady.

But of course, it won’t. I bet you cash money she won’t change a thing, continuing to use that color blind bullshit.

This is why the whole idea of not discussing race with white children is bullshit. No, it won’t “taint” them. When you don’t talk about it, they still form opinions — racist ones — because they don’t know any better, so to speak. Then one day they grow up into adults that are, guess what, still racist. As Black folks, we pretty much all had “the talk” as kids/young people; our existence in this society dictates that we do, because racism is a part of our lives at an incredibly young age. Colorblind ideology has been proven to be toxic as blatant racism. And little white kids can be just as racist as their parents.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOP..!!

we dont talk about race with kids but a small child ran up to my professor’s wife and said she had a terrorist baby.

we dont talk about race with kids but white children were encouraged to go to lynchings to see white supremacy. because (trigger warning: graphic details) jesse washington, whose charred body is floating around on tumblr posts, had his teeth yanked out by white children so they could sell them as lynching souvenirs.

we dont talk about race with kids but kids clearly PICK UP ON RACE. many POC parents dont explicitly discuss race but clearly, white ppl, kids pick up on it!!

The video above is no longer available, but judging from the image this should be the same footage.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opULrjQv0Kg

Just a quick note: The original video is actually still up and working just fine, but because it’s CNN there may be international restrictions or some sort of Adblock detection bc I’ve seen only a few other people say it’s not working for them.

Either way I’m glad you were able to find it!

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