OOC: An RP!
((8d This Tumblr is now attached to the Intersection RP!))
Playing around with SAI, the water tool, the crayon tool (set to the specifications found here), a skin color palette, and shading styles. I….rather like the result. Guinea pig was my OC, Kaida Courcel. (Mind, this is her perhaps older, after she stops dying half her hair. But she keeps the same general style for a while. She likes it.)
((OOC: Reblogging from my main.))
No matter how much we miss someone, or miss the chance to know them…all things end.
But perhaps, one day…we shall see them again.
For though our bodies fade, our souls are immortal.
I used to light a lantern on Obon for my mother. Now I light it for her and all those lost during the war.
(Also posted on my main. Art by Bucktoothed Penguin of Gaia Online. Will probably post this again around Obon itself…but I got the art today and HAD to show off.)
A California-based teen is hoping to spearhead a national boycott of Girl Scout cookies after the organization’s controversial decision to admit a 7-year-old transgender child to a Colorado troop this past fall.
The girl, which World News Daily has identified only as Taylor from Ventura County, Calif., appears in a YouTube video in which she claims her organization is using proceeds from sales of the popular cookies to “[promote] the desires of a small handful of people.”
“Right now, Girl Scouts of the U.S.A…is not being honest with us girls, its troops, its leaders, its parents or the American public,” Taylor, who claims to have been a Girl Scout for eight years, says in the clip. “Girl Scouts describes itself as an all-girl experience. With that label, families trust that the girls will be in an environment that is not only nurturing and sensitive to girls’ needs, but also safe for girls.”
She goes on to note, “I am asking you to take action with me and boycott Girl Scout Cookies.” The video eventually concludes with a tagline for the Honest Girl Scouts site, which describes itself as a group “concerned with the alarming choices GSUSA has been making,” and “advocating for a change back to simply building girls of good character.”
Last fall’s decision to admit Bobby Montoya after initially excluding her has already been met with considerable controversy. In December, three Louisiana-based leaders resigned and dissolved their troops in the wake of the incident, with one calling it “an almost dangerous situation” for children, according to The Baptist Press.
At the time, the Girl Scouts of Colorado subsequently released a statement through the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), noting, “If a child identifies as a girl and the child’s family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout.”
After confessing to having difficulty switching from male to female pronouns when discussing her child, Montoya’s mother Felisha Archuleta defended her daughter to ABC, saying, “I believe he was born in the wrong body…no one would know he’s a boy unless they pulled his pants down.”Normally I reason with myself on how many boxes of Girl Scout cookies I should buy. I usually tell myself only to buy two because I could easily go overboard. I think this year I am going to buy more just because of this boycott.
I support the Girl Scouts and their inclusion of transgirls.
OOC: This child reminds me of the assholes that constantly put me down in school, and the girls that made me never want to return to girl scouts. Guess what, little girl. Transgirls are girls, too. And the fact that the Girl Scouts overall acknowledges this is a step forward for them. So, take your cisgender assery and check it in the coat room, please.
Guess where my spare money come cookie season is going.
(via novastrike)
-does not expect many asks- |D;
(Source: brookemftw, via lockspeaking)
Inspiration: Powerful Beyond Measure (how great are you?)
This video is actually really helpful, I’m not even gonna lie. Just press play, listen (no need watch the vid) and just keep scrolling, bro. You won’t regret it. Or watch it in a time of need to motivate yourself
Though I do like some aspects of the video, it’s the quotes, the vocals that have me reblogging this. It is…rather inspirational.
(Source: youtube.com)
My favorite part about parkour…those moments when I feel like I’m flying.
((OOC: This image was done for me by the most lovely Chrystali of dA and Gaia Online. <3))
OOC: Welcome!
((This is an IC Tumblr for the Gundam Wing incarnation of my OC Kaida Courcel (age 15 as of April 22nd in the series, adjust as needed for interactions after the series; resident of the Kyoto area of Japan; Japanese-French-Irish descent; cousin Saileach ‘Lock’ Oícheghealaí was a soldier in OZ during the series). Don’t ask why I started it…I just felt like it! 8| My ask box is always open unless otherwise stated, and I am always open to random IC-type interactions! <3))