Even went the extra mile with the little intro at the top left which I appreciate since it adds a lot to the scenario imo. Really detailed too with the coloring and all those rips in her tights etc. Either way thank you for doing my request (again), I think it turned out great! Oh man, now I feel bad for imposing on you like that, I hope you got something out of it yourself and didn't treat it as just an obligation or something. /lgbt/ - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender.It’s vital that the people in question get their voices heard, and what they say will probably not be what you thought, since they are a minority and have a uniquely special perspective on our world. It reminds me that so often we get personally offended on behalf of someone else’s minority- whatever that is. If you really want to help us? Consider taking a poke about and taking a look at our language revitalization project! It’s pretty fun and you could even learn a language out of it. Just kind of chill out and think about different perspectives for a moment. So before you spew vitriol about how racist it is that they did that. Embodying a mythic figure that I trusted to protect me during Y2K and sought out constellations in the sky for. Wearing the colors that remind me of a home I no longer have. And there’s Pharah with her hair in braids I haven’t seen my mother wear in over a decade. It will live on for years if not decades. When I first saw the Thunderbird skin I cried, I cried for an hour. The language I learned at the dinner table in 1998 now almost exclusively exists on those cassette tapes my white father recorded that night and in reconstructive attempts from a French academic that studied our language from halfway across the globe. The military took my family across the globe and left us an entire continent away. Families I grew up with in Alaska converted to Catholicism. There’s less than 500 of us remaining, and we’re scattered more and more every year. The last Eyak fluent speaker died in 2008, her name was Chief Marie Smith Jones and she was also the last full-blooded Eyak on Earth. Which is all I can do despite Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian being so closely related, our tribe’s relationship with cultural appropriation is uh, not exactly the norm. Which good! I’m glad people are on guard for it! But it’s entirely possible that Pharah’s father was Eyak/Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian or from another closely related Pacific Northwest tribe, so we can’t really call that yet. The biggest issue I see here is people (who usually arn’t ndn, let alone from pac nw tribes) yelling about cultural appropriation. Please just chill with me for a second while I explain. I don’t have a problem with these skins, in fact I adore them. There are many more, but I don’t claim familiarity with all tribes and I can’t say if their art styles and myths were used.įor your comparison a little sample of the tribe’s artistic styles just to get the point across:Īnd I really have to get something off my chest people. The ones I can pick out being Eyak/Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian, but we often get grouped together so that doesn’t surprise me. They’re pretty damn clearly based on Pacific Northwest tribal cultures. This is a really soul baring post so I’m not so sure about people reblogging it, if you do just try to be respective and remember this isn’t a go-ahead to go and appropriate all native cultures. Okay I’m only gonna say this once and preface this with the fact that I am Eyak and I probably do not want to hear your opinion on the Pharah skins Raindancer/Thunderbird.
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