#hb2

[yobayyyona]

fast doodle yeaah

[knight-kenobi]

Anakin Skywalker

Late night/really early morning sketch

[fragul]

— s u m m e r —

[project-thoughts]

The Agony of Venus… I always tend to go overboard with the under sketch. This is why I need to stick to my roots of sketching in my sketchbook first before I blow it up to scale on a huge canvas. Saves me all the overthinking from trying to feel my way through the dark and loss of all that beautiful pencil.

[stochastique-blog]

Here we go

What doesn’t kill you makes you wish you were dead. #hb2 https://www.instagram.com/p/CORtffaJpcP/?igshid=1cfww5uuvnve2

[thompsborn]

countdown to hb2 — two weeks until chapter 1

— darling, won’t you take me home?

“You don’t have to do that.”

“Do what?”

“Fight with them.”

“I’m not fighting with them. They were being assholes and I told them to stop.”

“They’re just looking out for you.”

“Maybe. Still, they don’t get to assume shit like that.”

“They don’t know—”

“I don’t care what they know or don’t know. I’m not gonna stand there and let them say that kind of stuff about you.”

“Harley…”

“Maybe they are looking out for me, maybe they’re concerned, maybe they mean well—I get all of that, okay? But I’m looking out for you. I’m in your corner. And I’m not gonna let people say bad things about you just because they don’t know the full story.”

peter’s first year at ESU was a rollercoaster. he started it alone, depressed, barely holding it together—and he ended it in a better place than he thought was possible.

hopefully his second year will be less hectic.

(parker luck has never been the calm kind.)

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Trudy Ring at The Advocate:

A federal court ruled Tuesday that New Hampshire’s classroom censorship law is unconstitutional. The law, House Bill 2, passed in 2021, “actively discouraged public school teachers from teaching and talking about race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and gender identity inside and outside the classroom,” according to the American Civil Liberties Union’s New Hampshire affiliate, which was among the organizations representing the teachers and advocacy groups challenging the statute. It is the first ruling in the nation striking down a classroom censorship law affecting K-12 public schools. HB 2 amended the state’s education and nondiscrimination laws to stipulate that no one could teach that any group of people was superior due to their race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or certain other characteristics, or that any group was inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously. Like other classroom censorship laws passed in states around the nation, it seems to encourage equal treatment of all, but it’s part of a movement to quash any teaching that racism, sexism, homophobia, or other forms of bigotry exist. They are sometimes characterized as "don't say gay" laws. An earlier New Hampshire bill, which did not pass, was based on Donald Trump’s executive order banning the use of federal funds in educational programs to promote so-called divisive concepts relating to race and sex. Joe Biden rescinded that order when he became president, but the primary components of the earlier New Hampshire legislation were wrapped into HB 2.

Teachers and educational advocates argued that the changes made by HB 2 were “unconstitutionally vague,” and U.S. District Court Judge Paul J. Barbadoro agreed. “The Amendments [contained in HB 2] are viewpoint-based restrictions on speech that do not provide either fair warning to educators of what they prohibit or sufficient standards for law enforcement to prevent arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement,” he wrote. “Thus, the Amendments violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.” For instance, he noted, one teacher avoided certain topics both in the classroom and in his role as an adviser to his high school’s Model United Nations project “out of fear that he might violate the Amendments by commenting on the sort of ‘controversial topics’ that frequently arise at Model UN competitions.” Another teacher said he shied away from discussions of the legacy of slavery when teaching about Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved. “These examples are only illustrative of the wide-ranging difficulties that teachers face in attempting to conform their behavior to the vague strictures of the Amendments,” Barbadoro wrote.

New Hampshire’s anti-LGBTQ+ Don’t Say Gay or Trans law HB2 got rightly struck down by a federal judge.

[why-the-heck-not]

How do you edit your photos?

With VSCO: the filter HB2 (about +6 of it), exposure way down, add a bit of contrast, add warmth depending on the lighting the pic had, decrease saturation, add clarity

(Hb2 and clarity are behind a paywall but if u just screenshot it and crop it later; free :) loopholes gotta love ’em)

[lactosegremlin]

i’m kind of losing my shit.

because this actually turned out good???

[alcsec]

types of writing utensils they use

implied modern au. featuring: albedo, kazuha, tighnari, xiao.

cw. none wc. 196

albedo

he uses a cheap ballpoint pen. used to use an expensive fountain pen but it had too many issues like leaking while in the pocket of his button-up, or constantly being taken and misplaced by his lab partners timaeus and sucrose.

kazuha

he writes artistic pieces containing flowery language on the daily and as much as i want to say he has the nice writing utensils from like muji or something - his most used tool is a wooden hb2 pencil he found inside a random desk next to a slab of dried chewing gum.

tighnari

he uses a 0.5mm lead pencil. he has a delicate hand grip along with an eye for finer details. he's able to sketch his botanical drawings with keen accuracy using a thinner lead.

xiao

he uses a 0.7mm lead pencil with a rubber grip. holds his pencil in a deadlock so the grip helps alleviates the tension on his fingers. has to be 0.7mm because he presses down onto the paper with such heavy pressure that 0.5mm lead would either immediately break or puncture a hole into the sheet which would ruin his mood for the rest of the day.

© alcsec. do not modify, copy, repost or translate any of my works

[beemovieerotica]

we're really fucked, seeing how apathetic the response to various trans bathroom bills has been after everything that went down with HB2 eight whole years ago.

like we remember the absolute national backlash, but for me it was scientific organizations stepping up and saying that they were cancelling events and conferences in north carolina, so their employees wouldn't have to navigate all that, or choose between missing out on critical career opportunities and risk getting harassed and fined for using the bathroom?

and it worked, because money talks

and now there's just. this huge swath of the southern states where it's actively unsafe for trans people to go, and organizations are like, oh well! yeah we're still having our big symposium there :) huh why aren't there more minorities in the sciences 🧐

[masoenart]

CASTIEL 🪽

This drawing has nothing to do with fall per se, but this is the first time I have ever drawn Cas.

Also I am seriously 🤣 considering switching to a fandom with clean-shaven men...the stubble dots 🥴.

Below is the image I used as inspo and I'm proud to say that I did not trace the outline, all completely free-hand.

Materials used:

- Compressed paper blender stick

- Laserjet printer paper (used scrap fm work)

- Pencils 9B, HB, HB2, 4H and F

- Gel pen

[eunoia00]

The feeling of blood heating up when the heartbeat skips and comes back

[idrawprettyboys]

This is a character I created for one of my original stories, entitled Carkour. The story is about an extreme sport in which people compete in dangerous obstacle courses with their cars. I haven’t decided on a name for this character yet, but he might possibly be the main boy’s rival. I’m not entirely sure yet. The main boy, Kenji, is going to be brash, carefree and energetic, so I want his rival (and potential future boyfriend) to complement him well. This guy is serious, reserved and aloof. He starts off standoffish and slowly grows closer to others. I’m considering whether he would be a good match for the main boy, or if Kenji needs someone more tough and feisty as a rival. What do you guys think? The characters haven’t been popping into my head as easily as I would like, so I only really have one character set in stone, and I want to build the other characters around him, so I need to make sure the characters mesh well. Also, feel free to suggest names for this boy!

Tools used: Canson cold pressed watercolor paper, Sakura Pigma Micron 01, Uni Prockey, Copic Multiliner 0.1, Spectrum Noir Tri-Blend markers: Hydrangea Blend HB1, HB2, and HB3, True Blue Blend TB2, Copic markers: B34 Manganese Blue, E00 Skin White, E50 Eggshell, R20 Blush, Neutral Grays N1, N2, and N3, white GellyRoll pen.