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James Forten who is certified real, unlike Crispus Atticks, is important because whenever a black person in the usa claims to have connection to the united states of america from its infancy , they can point to james forten. But, two key points must be comprehended alongside James Forten. James Forten was a big representative of blacks who fought for the creation of the usa WHILE blacks who fought for the creation of the usa was the smallest minority in the black populace in the european colonies that would become the usa. The black populace in the english colonies had three groups. Black enslaved to white= 90% majority, these are a blend of black people who hate whites to the core, are afraid of whites to the core, while have no desire t exist aside whites. Segregationist + Seperatist. Not merely wanting distance from whites segregation, they want a wall to blockade any merger , seperatist. Black free folk who fought against the creation of the usa- 8% minority, black folk who are free or have recently escaped enslavement who don't like or trust whites, but have a particular distaste for whites in the usa and will aid whites from europe against whites from the usa, with the promise of freedom. At the end of the war of cessation from the british empire, britain was able to get these people to freedom, though many were recaptured or enslaved by whites throughout the larger battlefield. Black free folk who fought for the creation of the usa- 2% minority , people like James Forten. What is my point? From the war of 1812 to the war between the states, most black people have an anti white + anti usa position in the usa or the european colonies that preceded. Black people in the usa to our forever dishonor, keep presenting our history as akin to willing immigrants whether they be black or non black. It isn't the case. https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/587-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentary-episode-1/ https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/588-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentary-episode-2/ https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/589-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentary-episode-3/ https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/590-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentary-episode-4/ https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/591-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentary-episode-5/ https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/592-the-american-revolution-pbs-documentary-episode-6/ EXCERPT from 6 Are we not sustained by the same power, supported by the same food, hurt by the same wounds, pleased with the same delights, and propagated by the same means? And should we not then enjoy the same liberty and be protected by the same laws? ♪ Some consider us as much property as a house or a ship and think how anxious we must be to raise ourselves from this degrading state. James Forten. Narrator: James Forten was born free in Philadelphia. At 9, he had been in the crowd at the Pennsylvania State House that heard the Declaration of Independence read to the public for the very first time. Forten took the promise of the Declaration to heart and never questioned whether its self-evident truths applied to him. ♪ Now, in the summer of 1781, Forten was 14, old enough to fight for his country. With his mother's permission, he went down to the docks, signed on to a privateer, and set out to sea. Forten was one of 20 men and boys of color in a crew of 200. For privateers eager to attract volunteers, race was no barrier. ♪ His first voyage was a triumph, but the second was a disaster. His ship was overtaken and captured by a British warship. ♪ Once aboard, the captain's son befriended him, and the captain offered to release him if he were willing to sail with the boy to England. Forten refused. He could not turn his back on his country. The art is from Portrait of Forten, c. 1834, by Robert Douglass Jr.[ WIKI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forten

Profd made the following post https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12748-made-in-china-why-is-it-considered-usa-adversary/ And it's primary plus elemental position is the USA + China are in a financial synergy that disallows the concept that china is a threat. BUT, said synergy has two problems. First the true relationship of the usa side china isn't financial but militaristic. Second, the generator of the stated financial synergy is not the usa. Nuclear Powered Countries and money The reason the Nuclear powers: USA/Russia/China/ England/France made the Non proliferation treaty wasn't for peace but control. Non proliferation isn't about saving humanity, it is about allowing a set of countries, the exclusive nuclear powers set to be in a class beyond themselves. This is why, Russia or China who continuously are deemed similar to Iran/North Korea/Cuba/Libya under Quadaffi or others are never treated like them. The reason is, the iran's of the world don't have nuclear weapons. Notice the USA has never invaded Russia. why? Russia has a huge nuclear weapons arsenal. For all the rhetoric about Putin or Russian crimes the USA and France through the European Union will never advocate a confrontation into russia because no one can guarantee the nuclear weapons will not fly and the damage from a nuclear war will derail all fiscal activity. But having said that the nuclear powers have never been allies. They are at war all the time. The only time the usa will not see China as a threat is when China doesn't have nuclear weapons while the only time China will not see the usa as a threat is when the usa doesn't have nuclear weapons. Nuclear war is superior to money/global trade system. Most countries can't do it and the usa is trying hard to limit the numbers who come in. But USA/Russia/China/England/ France/ISrael/Pakistan/ India are all enemies, they simply have an arrangement because they are in the rarest class of modern governments, nuclear powers , thus must be treated unlike the cuba's , kosovo's, others who absent nuclear power, simply don't have the weapons to truly threaten the world. Who is the WE in the USA? The post from PRofd has an initial statement. "China has been the blue-collar labor force for the United States of America (USA) for several decades now." The USA is reaching 250 years soon. I have never denied I don't care for the usa, even as a boy. But, the one thing I have never seen in the usa is honesty, truth. The usa , not merely its wealthy or powerful or its government levels, but the common farmers, homeless urban dwellers, and most others have one disease that sickens me. It is the disease of unstraight lies. The very declaration of independence sto the united states of america starts with an unstraight lie. "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal" The following is an unstraight lie "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal" The person who wrote that is a white european enslaving incestual rapist, but beyond his identity, the unstraight lies are ever present. "We" who was we? who is we? When the writer f the line was composing his words, was he speaking about native americans, being massacred? he was speaking about black people of african descent who are enslaved or their descendants? Do all humans know all humans are human? yes. But does that suggest all humans can be spoken for? the answer is never. You can never speak for all humans and thus the unstraight lie. "All men are created equal" the tragedy in this is, the writer was being honest, he was speaking of men, not women, but he is unstraight, he wasn't speaking of all men he was speaking of white european men. But moreover, when anyone suggest that all men created eqaul suggest all humans are created equal , that is another unstraight lie. The two phrases don't connect. All men created equal means just that, not women . All humans are created equal means just that. BUt are all humans created equal? no. Anyone who has seen a child with cerebral palsy struggle knows, all humans are not created equal. Are all humans human? yes, but they are not all created equal. Like the one who wrote the phrase "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal" , Profd in true Statian/ of the USA tradition or heritage, has created an unstraight lie. The USA has a legal structure which suggest all in the usa are united in responsibility to the actions of the usa, The suggestion has never been true. Again, who is we? did black towns in the south want chinese blue collar labor, started, in the 1970s when they were fighting to get labor from the same white owned businesses that fled to china and its cheaper labor? no. Did Native American reservations want chinese blue collar labor , started, in the 1970s when they were fighting to get the legal right to start businesses on reservation land which many still don't have? no. Did fiscal poor white towns in the appalachias want chinese blue collar labor, started in the 1970s, when they were fighting to get keep their land from state governments who were using all sorts of techniques to take their land for natural resources or other projects? no. So who wanted chinese blue collar labor to have the position it does int he usa? fiscally wealthy whites. They started in the 1960s to deire this fiscal change to get cheaper labor supported by many, not all or most, whites who didn't want black people to have any happiness. What a majority of whites wanted in the 1960s was for business to maintain investment in white towns/communities in the usa and blockade the non white in the usa. What a majority of blacks wanted in the 1960s was for business to expand their opportunities to blacks while keeping activities completely in the usa. What a majority of native americans wanted in the 1960s was the right to start business and have native american controlled financial zones in the reservations that could do business with the business in the usa beyond the reservations. Instead white owned fiscal corporations moved 99% of blue collar jobs outside the usa altogether, deleting the desires or plans of most native americans most blacks plus most fiscally poor whites. But in parallel said white fiscal corporations created the modern labored and blue collar populaces around the world outside the usa. The government liked it, because it was like a payment for adhering to the governmental order of the usa. But the price is today. Everyone in the usa knows what i said is true, but too many in the usa want to suggest unstraight lies. The smallest populace in the usa, the mega rich chose to manipulate the labor environment in the usa to cut all the blue collar jobs out and place them overseas. but the 99% didn't want that and even after decades, the 99% still want those jobs back or have become so resentful that they simply dislike the foreigner. Profd argument to the future is instead of complaining about what happened in the past against your favor or want, focus on trying to make the system , that you didn't design and is designed against you, work better for you, however you can. The idea is adjustment while bitter over resentment. while hateful. The element that dictates the polarity is patience. The 1% in the usa can wait for change or ride out changes, whether they want them or not, , they have the money or resources. The 99% don't have the resources to ride out or wait for changes. Which means for the 99% to wait for change they have to embrace a truth, the change may never come no matter what they do, even working for it every day. This is a test of patience and I argue, after two hundred and fifty, 250, years many, and arguably a majority ,definitely a majority of Black descended of enslaved , have no patience to adjust in cycles till finding comfort. IN AMENDMENT How can patience be increased in any person or group... by being earned. If a person goes outside their home one day and a person hits them in the face, they may have patience and come out again the next day. But if a person keeps getting punched in the face every day they come out for three hundred and sixty five days no matter how hard they try to dunk or punch or talk or fight back or any strategy, sooner or later, they will simply stay in the house. Their patience is dried up. In two hundred and fifty years the usa has never had one place in it, not one city or town where native americans were powerful, adored, loved, strong, able to protect themselves no matter what, in control. not one city or town where Blacks were powerful, adored, loved, strong, able to protect themselves no matter what, in control.... yes, some people native americans/blacks/whites/females/ males or other have shown the ability to be patient throughout their life with the usa. But, most will never be able to do that, we are not created equally, we humans are not all the same. POST URL I will post in the commentary to profd's post https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12748-made-in-china-why-is-it-considered-usa-adversary/#findComment-81550 PRIOR EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/682-economic-corner-39-03242026/ NEXT EDITION ? COMMENTARY 05162026 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12748-made-in-china-why-is-it-considered-usa-adversary/#findComment-81550 It seems to me what your suggesting needs to happen in the future is for people ,more people, the ninety nine percent 99%, the majority in the united states of america u.s.a., to embrace adjusting more positively to the fiscal environment or governmental bureaucracies of the u.s.a. led by the u.s.a.'s one percent fiscal wealthy, even if they didn't want them, were unable to stop them being implemented, are suffering under them, or some negative. I can say many people, various phenotypes/genders/religions/ages/ in various geographies in the usa have stated similar to you. There is a movement of people in the usa who stand with you. Is it a majority? I don't know, and I gamble no. In the two hundred and fifty year history of the united states of america, i argue a majority in the populace across all racial types [phenotype/gender /religion or others] have been impatient or unsatisfied with the system. But, the minority in this country has always found a way with its resources to stop the impatient majority from jumping to violence to anarchy/a system absent any ruler whether be the law or an individual. Said minority which today includes women plus blacks plus latinos has gotten the majority to embrace stillness, do nothing which isn't patience it is a calm before a storm, in which every time the calm is extended the storm gets bigger. Two hundred and fifty year is a long extension. I end with positive... some say strong people lead themselves. I argue a peoples goals dictate their actions. Complacency isn't equivalent to weakness, complacency can occur when one is actually happy with the way things are, not merely being coerced into activity by others. The problem with the populaces that make up the majority in the usa is they need to be convinced that engagement will lead to results each populace wants, something that has never happened in the usa. To restate the usa has never had a time in its history where native americans/blacks/whites/ latinos/women men/old/young/immigrants/orphans/prisoners/ or others got what they wanted. Either few win or all lose is what happens in the usa. So the only way for that to be undone is an era of leadership . The usa had a great era of multiracial leadership in the 1960s that was assassinated/poisoned/imprisoned/similar injury by a combination of fiscal plus governmental agents who had something to lose if all groups won. But if a a great era of multiracial leadership can happen once, it can happen again. But, one must have patience. https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/735-economic-corner-40-05162026/

PRIOR ENTRY https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/723-art-comments-04272026/ NEXT ENTRY ? COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1322949419/5284206221 @leothefox be careful with your posture, do you stretch every morning? if you don't consider that to help @scheinbar Danke für die Reflexion. Was befindet sich auf der anderen Straßenseite? thank you for the reflection, what is on the other side of street? @intao i never heard of a hipstamatic camera before? what was the focal length+ aperture of the camera at the time of the photo "Morning Eye"? @KABANOMORI what kind of digital image is ghost? you said references had the deers leg backwards, I don't comprehend. It looks lovely. @MozaGrin it looks like from the ocuulus on a door, nice, whose is looking at the pair? don't tlel me, a cat? haha @darkroots77 I feel great swamp thing vibes with this @300ChickenNuggets what video game is leonard in? <div class="scroll-container" style="background-color: #333;overflow: auto;white-space: nowrap;padding: 10px;"> <!-- put image tags in--> <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/leothefox/art/Dread-Deadline-62SixtyTwo-01-1304549113" target="_blank"><img 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What was your motivation? What response were you met with? Please let us know in the comments below! When I first read this I thought, there are no problems in art. Thinking on my own work, have i made anythingi think a problem? In my own mind the answer is no. I think I have made work that prompted questions that various readers or viewers wouldn't like to read or see or deal with , for various reasons. I reread your prose and thought to myself. What you mean by "problematic' is about reactions. It isn't the artwork that is ever problematic or generates problems, but it is the audience that dictates the polarity of problems. I think of the statues from the roman empire , fully naked that centuries later in the very land they were made were castrated by christian clerics. I think about the original screenplay of legend from horsberg, film made by ridley scott. In the original screenplay Lilly was raped, after rewrites that was turned into the dance scene. But when read by the producers, one of the producers , a female, told scott + horsberg, and I quote "you can't rape the princess". Which is interesting to me on many levels. When Jim Brown did a film 1968's the split, with diahann carroll, written by westlake who is white, jim brown playing the main character parker, who was written white, diahann carroll 's character, playing a petty, working, pure woman was raped and kiled by a white character. I wonder if lilly was not white would hollywood have minded. But I know ridley Scott saw falsehood in it, cause years later when he made the Last Duel in 2021 based on a book by Eric JAge with a design similar to Rashomon of Kurosawa, the entire plot revolves around a raped white woman in 14th century france who upholds she was raped in public which leads to the duel through the legal system of france at the time. A great scene in the movie from an older white female character played by harriet walker proves this moreso. So ridley scott through his won work responded to the audiences problems of perception so to speak that limited what his financiers would allow from his artistic vision in the past. I just have to add, in the original screenplay a young unicorn suckles from lilly's unpregnant breast. I think of an early draft of the Last Unicorn from Peter s Beagle, and in that the unicorn originally was going to be in modern times, along the highway, unseen by humans as the smoke and filth of the mortal world goes by her, herself lost and confused, not knowing if she is the last unicorn and a daze, as she goes by potentially other magical creatures , like dragons, also the last. I think of the original title of "the girl with the dragon tattoo" which was the more appropriate "why men hate women" which the book publishers tld stiegg larsson to change or changed for him. I don't know the truth but know somehow it was changed. So between ancient male statues penisis, raped white european princesses of fable land, living unicorns in modernity frustrated and the last of their kind, or corret titles of books , it proves problems come from audiences plus financiers wanting to placate audiences fears/favors/desires. While I rabbled on I thought about my own work. Has my work ever garnered commentary suggesting my work is problematic? The first truth, which is a little sad to emit, is I am not popular enough to garner decent backlash. That may sound soft but you nead more readers to get a chance of more responses from people who have problems to your work. But I have a few instances i will share the three most clear in memory, and I can even temporally rank them. And to be blunt, my reason fro writing is always thati love to write, i have been writing since a child and i will never stop.but... Earliest, a work i made, not on deviantart, is about a literal visualization, no lesson in the story but it is meant to be be a world described and for those that like it, produce a smile. Most liked the world but wanted more plot. But one in particular, a female, a black female, i am a black male, had issue wwith what i call sensual descriptions of the "magical" brothel. Made me giggle actually. I made the work cause I was raised with a full compliment of fiction/fantasy. What do i mean by full compliment. When one is a Black Descended of enslaved person in the usa, as I am, the larger media in the usa , which has never been owned or controlled in any way by black people, places little black fantasy or fiction . Which makes sense. Disney did not make the black panther films cause blacks and whites love each other. disney made the black panther films cause non blacks in modernity, the last twenty years, are comfortable buying tickets to a movie with few non black primary characters [in Sinners no white primary characters were heroes so.. time does move] and in modernity, black people have the ability to make great returns on movie tickets as well and buy stuff. so... black panther is greenlit. So I don't have an issue with the white power in media of the past , even if it has a financial or communal source of action against blacks or non white europeans. But, the past created an environment where many black people in the usa or elsewhere rarely see themselves in media unless they have, as i did, two black parents fortunate enough to provide it growing up. So, I grew up with high john the conqueror/buck and the preacher/august wilson plays/donald goines books/black poetry /brer rabbit/oscar micheaux before he became more popular or known - while I also heard peter and the wolf at Lincoln Center, saw gaugin works, and tapestries from muslim caliphates, and devo videos. My point being I made the work wanting to add to black DOS literary canon, a common theme for me, I am not limited to that, but I like it. I grew up with my own people in fantasy worlds not just biographies or white interpretations of black people. Somewhere in the middle, a work of mine was reviewed on deviantart [I am not telling you the name, but I will do a scavenger hunt... you have to search using the word "PLAY" in my gallery [[ https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=play ]] and it is a literature work. Only four pages so if interested find it ] but in the review , the reviewer admitted the truth, that the premise I had broke the norm for audiences. It is an even artistic judgement/critique that your work challenges the quality of art work assessed through audience reaction or financial return. It isn't a judgement of creativity but a judgement of commerciality which has validity. I made this cause I like dialog works. I don't mind works of mostly action but I don't feel bothered by people simply communicating in a story. Anyone know the before film series from linklater knows how i feel. I also saw a fictional setting plot element between the characters that is uncommon but made and still makes sense to me. hahaha search Most Recent, I had a story for a writing contest with the theme of superheroes and one of my readers said, and i quote "superheroes don't do this" . You can imagine what you like, I will give a hype badge to whomever guesses right use those imaginations if interested. It isn't in my deviantart so... But I made it cause I thought what should be done if one is a superhero and it occurred to me, the actions i portrayed made the most sense. I think as writers sometimes we think to little on characters actions to make the reader/viewer/audience confirm their pseudoprescience . I have never felt the need to do that. I don't support auto counterpose in works cause good defeating evil isn't unreal or impossible. But great questions @pijanymajk I can see on a closeup of the image frustration in your brush work but i love the chiaroscuro ... play with me and you play with fire... where does that come from? @HelviRiitta very nice, love the colors, poor forest, who started the fire? @MissPopoki Un trabajo de grafito encantador. ¿Qué papel y qué lápiz utilizaste? ¿Es Pesadilla en Elm Street la película de «monstruos slasher» más popular en los medios de comunicación de habla hispana a nivel mundial? lovely graphite work. what paper and pencil did you use? is nightmare on elm street the most popular "monster slasher" film in spanish speaking media worldwide? @HonkyTonkk if in color what color will the rose be? nice collaborative of struggle, between humans in the worst scenarios and a rose @piruniia haha what stoogie is blown by a peace of mind? haha smells great i bet. You say mixed media, which mixed media? @Apelure wow! mother's maw, like grendel's mother @Ptero-Pterodactylus beautiful toes, your right, high heels always make the leg sexier, it is the muscularity it enforces in womens legs. did your wife model for the image? <div class="scroll-container" style="background-color: #333;overflow: auto;white-space: nowrap;padding: 10px;"> <!-- put image tags in--> <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/pijanymajk/art/Fire-1321751673" target="_blank"><img 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And the reception to it is refreshing. I do think the boys, brightburn, invincible in some ways are the children of the watchmen in the sense that the watchmen was originally meant to be a justice league story that dc snubbed because they didn't like the negativity. But the success of watchmen opened the doors to the boys and company. People do love the ability to escape to the world where good or evil is simple, as your prose in the original post suggest correctly. I argue the response to brightburn from a majority of superman fans as well as to superman returns with superman as an absentee father, by superman fans proves many are fans of superman for the escape from reality and it shows in dollars. And I want to say for the record that while many suggest brightburn is a "hell" i argue brightburn has a possbility for peace because at the end, even if all the justice league members are "bad guys" killers even, they will fight each other and in that fight lies the possibility of peace . But while many fans love to escape to the good vs evil worlds, It is nice that the market for those who can enjoy entertainment with ideas that challenge simpler story structures is present and seemingly growing. I wish I could had been in the preproduction for princess and the frog. Peter jackson spent four to seven years preproducing lord of the rings and I think Princess and the frog needed more time. One thing I would had changed is made it where tiana's father succeeded in making the restaurant and it being sucessful and the only black owned business on land in mythic new orleans of the early 1900s. I don't think it hurts Tiana by having her quest to maintain the restaurant, not initialize it. But while I have issues with the main antagonist, the caricature black voodoo man, the character i think is most artfully poor is tiana's "best frined' the white princess whose father seem to be the richest man in town who seems to be impotent while she is ridiculously flirtatious. I will love for someone to cut princess and the frog and take out those two characters and see what kind of movie it is. In paralell, I think black panther in kilmonger had the one of the rarest sights in moviedom, a black character that is openly antagonistic to whites. many movies in the 1970s, black characters said many things but phsyically weren't assaulting to whites. kilmonger, a black character, assaults whites. He is the drop of pure realism that strikes through a simple good vs evil story or set of characters. Coogler and company did well there. Exactly good writing matters, and the ability to turn the screenplay into a video messenger is also needed and not all do well. If you watch sinners without sound, you will comprehend what is going on, regardless of your heritage or cultural standing, you see what is going on and it flows. Black panther similarly, not as sharply as sinners but similarly. But princess and the frog, no. the antagonist in black panther or sinners is clearly defined in their opening scene. Kilmonger is a black man with a fashion dissimilar to white european fashion from his hair to his clothes standing in a museum colored all white showcasing black african artifacts with white people as curators. He speaks to the gentle white curator with unfiltered contempt and dislike. Remmick is running in the daylight seemingly on fire, to the closest house he can, the strangers open the door without his provocation, and he sees the kkk outfit and and adjusts his lie to get in the house from the sunlight. The black voodoo man in princess and the frog has no connection to tiana or naveen, or tiana'as father or anyone or thing, he is a pantomime villain who could have any appearance but was chosen to be a black voodoo man. I stand corrected, he has some connection to the black voodoo woman who is blind but it is undisclosed. poor writing. Exactly, many people as children are simply not exposed to the width of the arts, and even with the modern internet and global media it is still highly lacking. Well, I think it is great that modern audiences , all ages, shapes, sizes, phenotypes, with the power of "google-san" can investigate and explore and expose various elements in storytelling and expose inauthentic or lying but they have to learn to embrace what arts are. I think cameron's avatar movies have a terrible story. But the point of the films isn't visual storytelling but visual brilliance and they are visually brilliant. Like DW Griffith's birth of a nation , you have to judge it for what it is, not what you want it to be. I love communicating, you didn't ramble, you conveyed thoughts and expressions. Part of that experience you and I and not enough others share is , reading something above average length isn't a pain or a frustration. and thank you I will continue. If you want another clue to the scavenger hunt I will give it to you IN AMENDMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1325830821/5284441209 My pleasure I wish I had thought of masturbation, that is good. And I concur, they think themselves above critique but in truth are shameful for they think it less than to exhibit lust. I don't see why nonviolent exhibition of lust is sinful. IN AMENDMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1325830821/5284570927 Thank you for making me think on this... I didn't think about one other flaw in Dr Facilier, [thank you for remembering the name] he is an unbound bad guy who doesn't act unbound. Just like his rival, the blind old woman. She is supposed to be a neutral protector and the only one sh seems to protect and barely is tiana, while facilier is supposed to be the violator and he doesn't violate the city or tiana's best friend or tiana's best friends father. The best example of a better written simple bad guy is the alien in the ridley scott series. The alien doesn't hate ripley, isn't out to get ripley, the alien is out to get all. It wants dallas ... it got dallas it got hudson it got hellboy [ for those who don't know ron pearlman if you are simply a crude "evil " creature then be unbound in who you attack. Facilier doesn't do that either. thank you. Good line "Monkey paw logic" And yes, the screenplay needed more polishig. I like your idea of a redeemed character whose relationship to mama odie, thanks for remembering the name, kicks in. Screenplay needed more polishing hope they hire you next time ah yes, the moon princess, I think japanese media has done well by her in various interpretations, from naruto to ghibli to kubo I have ever seen a usa interpretation. Have you? You said your parents are european, do you recall a European media interpretation, maybe something from bande dessinee? I have only seen japanese interpretations to her story. Exactly, why is a great question for any viewer/reader/listener to have answered when they ask, and if the work can't answer why .... To Camern's avatar, exactly, and i think ever younger audiences , who are reared in the ever more vitriol or numbing fields of the faster than light internet, have to avoid rejection or exclamation of rejection absent taking the time to comprehend a work. they are judging with a better quality but they are also becoming to quick to finalize judgement. The learning never stops while you are alive, thanks again P.S. ahah, ok good fun COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1332141331/5284241755 @leothefox congrats to nearing the completion of "the devil's footprints" @CapnDeek373 how many steps in total @allusernamestaken666 is that a photograph of van gogh's image or your version? @Redsterfish nice clay head, but what will be the body? @zeroequalsq nice graphite, the pose selection is brilliant, graphite always looks vibrant when poses have high contrast the black and white distance is always the strongest for contrast. <div class="scroll-container" style="background-color: #333;overflow: auto;white-space: nowrap;padding: 10px;"> <!-- put image tags in--> <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/leothefox/art/Dread-Deadline-63SixtyThree-1330562573" target="_blank"><img src="https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/2e2f9a87-d578-4aa6-870c-f0577343f003/dm06knh-e31540f0-c367-47a2-bae2-66593c5ad818.jpg/v1/fit/w_300,h_760,q_70,strp/dread_deadline_63sixtythree_by_leothefox_dm06knh-300w.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9NzYwIiwicGF0aCI6Ii9mLzJlMmY5YTg3LWQ1NzgtNGFhNi04NzBjLWYwNTc3MzQzZjAwMy9kbTA2a25oLWUzMTU0MGYwLWMzNjctNDdhMi1iYWUyLTY2NTkzYzVhZDgxOC5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9MTI4MCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.D-jrvotIcd0_xWI7N-7DKYsqg_zO9O5hLk372-zNYq4" height="178" width="300"></img></a> <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/capndeek373/art/fifty-cents-1320023928" target="_blank"><img src="https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/9d16c03f-a8ba-4988-a746-5b5504d92683/dltwozc-2f41fccc-55a8-4755-93b7-523f91c02f8e.jpg/v1/fit/w_300,h_777,q_70,strp/fifty_cents_by_capndeek373_dltwozc-300w.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9Nzc3IiwicGF0aCI6Ii9mLzlkMTZjMDNmLWE4YmEtNDk4OC1hNzQ2LTViNTUwNGQ5MjY4My9kbHR3b3pjLTJmNDFmY2NjLTU1YTgtNDc1NS05M2I3LTUyM2Y5MWMwMmY4ZS5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9NjAwIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmltYWdlLm9wZXJhdGlvbnMiXX0.Y9kdv43P8887rBRU2wRAal57j4-yZFxgDi0kcJl1w4I" height="389" width="300"></img></a> <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/allusernamestaken666/art/Milk-Jug-Van-Gogh-1320002486" target="_blank"><img src="https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/4c920bca-8770-44d8-a67f-64b947eb1b6b/dltw8fq-5608a1e5-c8df-4085-ac50-c26cfd67a903.jpg/v1/fit/w_300,h_900,q_70,strp/milk_jug__van_gogh__by_allusernamestaken666_dltw8fq-300w.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9MTQ2MiIsInBhdGgiOiIvZi80YzkyMGJjYS04NzcwLTQ0ZDgtYTY3Zi02NGI5NDdlYjFiNmIvZGx0dzhmcS01NjA4YTFlNS1jOGRmLTQwODUtYWM1MC1jMjZjZmQ2N2E5MDMuanBnIiwid2lkdGgiOiI8PTEyODAifV1dLCJhdWQiOlsidXJuOnNlcnZpY2U6aW1hZ2Uub3BlcmF0aW9ucyJdfQ.Dxl_aHoMaht_HKhSIHNA9kw0nlUs2xzk8T1iIv8HNns" height="343" width="300"></img></a> <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/redsterfish/art/3rd-1309956816" target="_blank"><img src="https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/e634255a-77a1-43e8-bbaf-e80502e17580/dlnwx5c-6a3b02b2-5bab-4dc2-92e6-07290740f79d.jpg/v1/fit/w_300,h_900,q_70,strp/3rd__by_redsterfish_dlnwx5c-300w.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9MTA2NyIsInBhdGgiOiIvZi9lNjM0MjU1YS03N2ExLTQzZTgtYmJhZi1lODA1MDJlMTc1ODAvZGxud3g1Yy02YTNiMDJiMi01YmFiLTRkYzItOTJlNi0wNzI5MDc0MGY3OWQuanBnIiwid2lkdGgiOiI8PTE2MDAifV1dLCJhdWQiOlsidXJuOnNlcnZpY2U6aW1hZ2Uub3BlcmF0aW9ucyJdfQ._2BesQd3CpwaFYYFtpJm4m8qwRgevfPx7ES9QHka8vM" height="200" width="300"></img></a> <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/zeroequalsq/art/Oh-And-By-The-Way-1324637042" target="_blank"><img src="https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/319562ce-b446-405f-8ce4-53f1b29dfbfb/dlwnkhe-26e51a15-39d1-439c-a9a8-4e29c6e88a86.jpg/v1/fit/w_300,h_900,q_70,strp/oh__and_by_the_way____by_zeroequalsq_dlwnkhe-300w.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9OTM4IiwicGF0aCI6Ii9mLzMxOTU2MmNlLWI0NDYtNDA1Zi04Y2U0LTUzZjFiMjlkZmJmYi9kbHdua2hlLTI2ZTUxYTE1LTM5ZDEtNDM5Yy1hOWE4LTRlMjljNmU4OGE4Ni5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9ODUyIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmltYWdlLm9wZXJhdGlvbnMiXX0.iYWovNGPzhrw76aYv_LM6gVwFOa15GoJ-Khcr566ib4" height="330" width="300"></img></a> </div>

Tree Measure https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Tree-Measuring-Stamp-1329709266 for challenge https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Earth-Day-Challenge-Measure-a-Tree-1321823849 the example https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Simple-Inclinometer-02-1321480452 <span>EMBED CODE</span><br><a href="https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Tree-Measuring-Stamp-1329709266" target="_blank"><img src="https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/5d27c5e0-a455-49cc-8b4e-e651b7aba5e4/dlzoa8i-c5ba7610-d881-4122-bf99-8c194383b8c2.gif?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiIvZi81ZDI3YzVlMC1hNDU1LTQ5Y2MtOGI0ZS1lNjUxYjdhYmE1ZTQvZGx6b2E4aS1jNWJhNzYxMC1kODgxLTQxMjItYmY5OS04YzE5NDM4M2I4YzIuZ2lmIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.F4z4HPrIQPgiIvY1DQ5vquac-AAyAOt4BvczrIvW5r8" height="56" width="99"></img></a>Mermay https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Mermay-Stamp-1329711311 for challenge https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Earn-the-color-me-club-May-2026-Profile-Badge-1326962377 the example https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Legends-of-Akorade-1327118010 <span>EMBED CODE</span><br><a href="https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Mermay-Stamp-1329711311" target="_blank"><img src="https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/5d27c5e0-a455-49cc-8b4e-e651b7aba5e4/dlzobtb-a4540705-d473-4ace-81df-990347f1f742.gif?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiIvZi81ZDI3YzVlMC1hNDU1LTQ5Y2MtOGI0ZS1lNjUxYjdhYmE1ZTQvZGx6b2J0Yi1hNDU0MDcwNS1kNDczLTRhY2UtODFkZi05OTAzNDdmMWY3NDIuZ2lmIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.IHv_mTd0hdyrb3KeczaBAMVfhv4Ek4edLvK-LOYdd_g" height="56" width="99"></img></a>Mother Goose https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Mother-Goose-Stamp-1329731987 for challenge https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/May-2026-Contest-MOTHER-GOOSE-1289531986 the example https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Mother-Goose-with-a-hooded-gosling-1327120224 <span>EMBED CODE</span><br><a href="https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Mother-Goose-Stamp-1329731987" target="_blank"><img src="https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/5d27c5e0-a455-49cc-8b4e-e651b7aba5e4/dlzorrn-7385f71b-a981-451a-ad2f-595b536debf0.gif?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiIvZi81ZDI3YzVlMC1hNDU1LTQ5Y2MtOGI0ZS1lNjUxYjdhYmE1ZTQvZGx6b3Jybi03Mzg1ZjcxYi1hOTgxLTQ1MWEtYWQyZi01OTViNTM2ZGViZjAuZ2lmIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.pdaR2bmVQwKOcd4jyokgq7n851HWnlQFJw5YlOY-Pqc" height="56" width="99"></img></a>

Legends of Akorade At temple, in battlefields, in sporting arenas, Akorade is a cecaelian metalmermay whose legends dwarf any you know. Do you want to see more legends of her? https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Legends-of-Akorade-1327118010 #badge #colormeclub #mermay #akorade #lineart #coloring #may #cecaelian #warriorwoman #richardmurray #hddeviant #richardmurrayhumblr #aalbc #rmaalbc #kobo #kwl #deviantart #tumblr The Legend of Akorade - a metalmermay cecaelian warrior Example for the May Monthly Badge challenge of @color-me-club May 2026 Badge for color-me-club2 days ago No AI generated entries in this group. Check out Akorade on the front line when some surface dwellers invaded the Cities of Treasures. Tentacles actions[clockwise]: killing a surface dweller, shielding children [shield has Sankofa], sending a signal about the enemy similar to morse code [need two ] , getting arrows out of quill, using bow and arrow to kill surface dweller who has killed a fellow warrior[need two], shielding her forward area. The triangular Temple of Legends exterior is in the background. Akorade sailfish fighting in a City of Treasure. The sailfish doesn't impale but slashes, while it is the fastest fish in the sea. So, the cape must avoid the slashes. But sailfish have been known to impale to defend themselves. The arena encompass an area with hydrothermal vents , the hydrothermal plume [black smoke] is extremely hot and can kill. Akorade with a fallen comrades helmet in the Temple of Legends. NOTE: Akorade means treasure in twi I was inspired to the legends of Akorade for #metalmermay by Joan of arc who was canonized may 16th 1920 ; beatified April 18th 1909 ; beatified means a blessed, where figure has entered heaven and can intercede on behalf of someone who invoks them Plus the first observance of memorial day is may 30th 1868 as "decoration day" started by the grand army of the republic a fraternal organization to honor union soldiers who fell in the war between the states. NOTE IMAGE 1: Partial Sankofa symbol on shield protecting children , Sankofa means learn from the past for a better future. Forward area shield has symbol of Yemoja Akorade crown has a snake. She is wearing chainmail. Her wounded comrade has an airgun firing flechettes. URLS Adinkra Symbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adinkra_symbols Information on Sailfish stabbing https://www.myupnow.com/100-pound-sailfish-leaps-out-of-water-stabs-woman/article_1538ce6a-c462-5fbb-ba58-030597f98055.html Fletchette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flechette Hydrothermal Vent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent Do you want me to make a coloring page for you https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Single-Coloring-Page-1732448 Coloring page Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/47013691/comic-coloring-pages TipJar https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 My Original Characters https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/85935373/original-characters #akorade #mermay #metalmermay #hddeviant #richardmurrayhumblr #richardmurray #deviantart #tumblr #rmaalbc #aalbc #kobo #kwl

Earn the color-me-club May 2026 Profile Badge! It is may so the theme for the community relation groups in deviantart is Mermay. Take part of the fun by making mermay lineart. from @hddeviant in @color-me-club https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Earn-the-color-me-club-May-2026-Profile-Badge-1326962377 #badge #colormeclub #mermay #akorade #lineart #coloring #may #cecaelian #warriorwoman #richardmurray #hddeviant #richardmurrayhumblr #aalbc #rmaalbc #kobo #kwl #deviantart #tumblr Join @color-me-club and the other Community Affiliated groups as part of Deviantart celebrating MERMAY!!! It is May and for those that do not know, that means Mermay season! To get the badge make a deviation with the hashtag #mermay and presenting lineart with a mermaid, merman, mercat, merpuppy, or mer-anything. An example below of an entry is to help. Don't worry if you see this challenge after May 2026, the badge is open to be earned by any member of Deviantart after May 2026. My example MerMay Remember to have fun, A Small Gallery for more Inspiration #mermay #colormeclub #metalmermay