Once you say a thing

So I’m in the habit of drawing an eyeliner star on my cheek. (It started when I was Amanda Palmer for Halloween, and sometimes I do a heart a la Marina Diamandis or Emilie Autumn, but I just kept doing it and it became a Luna Thing.)

Anyway, I had it on during commencement, and didn’t wash my face between then and coming home, when I saw my grandmother.

She greeted me with a hug and then a kind of panicked expression. As soon as I was out of her hearing range, she turned to my mom and started whispering frantically. Both my mom and I had to assure her that no, it’s not a tattoo, it’s temporary.

And she went “Oh thank goodness, I was going to tell you to take her to the doctor tomorrow and have it removed.”

(If I’d been on my game and she would have gotten the reference, I would have licked a finger and smeared it off, a la “Bring It On”)

Damnit. I wanna see this episode.

escapefromredroom:

destructivemistress:

rubee:

[INTERNAL SCREAMING]

[EXTERNAL SCREAMING]

[INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SCREAMING]

sudden desire to produce a blond child for this exact reason.

erikonakao-tokyo:

today
http://blackmeans.com/

jhameia:

shwetanarayan:

And done!
So this is my attempt at a steampunk Indian character. I was irritated into it by bad depictions of Western-aesthetic-pretty Indian Girlies in fake saris. Her hair is partly “inspired” by the Indian-rapunzels, because like Battameez, I cannot imagine an Indian woman with that much hair left unbraided.

I’ve tentatively named her Amrita Bai, but that’s probably not period-accurate so it’s subject to change as I do more research. Her family’s from Tamilnadu, & are Vishwakarma caste (specifically metalsmiths, I assume), but they moved to one of the forts under Shivaji’s control, and she’s training under a mechanical artificer there. — All subject to change as I do more research. (Plz do tell me if this is faily somehow…)

Real saris are hard. And group-specific; this is a Tamil-brahmin 9-yard sari, and probably not quite period accurate but I’m not sure how it’d be different. No blouse, because this is from my no-British-Raj alternate India. I haven’t actually worn a 9-yard sari myself, so I’m not at all sure I have the folds right on this one. But I did get input from my mother, who has.

Anyway ya know what’s not hard? Making her skin dark. I find that dark skin is so much easier to get looking human rather than zombie than pale skin is, so extra wtf to those whitewashers who say it’s haaaard.

And now I run off to the doctor.

reblogged it before, but always worth reblogging steampunk POC characters who lack Victoriana