#motherhenna

[motherhenna]

Had a lot of fun making these! Translating my OCs into a more cartoony style was an interesting project. Though it's mostly for my own personal use, stickers are now available on redbubble for anybody who's interested!

[starrrbakerrr]

Hi! Can you recommend any everlark or thg blogs? I’m new and don’t know who to follow

There are so many!

If you want gifs and such, @dailythg is important to follow.

Meta, fanfiction, book-focused and Everlark centered content: @thesmileykate @rosegardeninwinter @mollywog @katnissmellarkkk @thesweetnessofspring

Fanart: there’s such good fanart, it’s one of my favorite things in the tumblr sphere. There are so many talented people on here and I’m sure I’m missing someone but @gremlinddrawss @leulahart @little-lynx @millennium-queen @thekayart @lionydoorin @tellmelater @smallpapers @rosenacree @vixnarts @charlunday @cassidyjaneart @motherhenna have regularly posted Everlark fanart in recent months/years and it’s so good!

I follow a lot of tags like #everlark etc, and that’s helped me find a lot of people that post about the Hunger Games, too!

[zu-art]

Full-body commission for @motherhenna of her awesome OCs! It's the second time I draw them ♥

[ commission info! ]

[peeta-pocket]

love to see that we had a similar meltdown about Katniss’s peaceful expression, succumbing? submitting? (but like positively) to love in @motherhenna’s gorgeous art 🥹 it’s what she deserves

Hi darling!! Ohhh my lawd, okay so I just had to go find your post to read your tags and um hi hello, we are totally sharing a brain right there and i'm so incredibly happy about that haha.

YES!!! I simply cannot get over her facial expression of those very words we used to describe it. @motherhenna's piece evoked so many emotions for me all at once. It's as if she feels completely surrendered by and to his love - fully accepting the bliss and the peace that goes along with that. What gets me the most? The absolute trust and bravery in accepting such a feeling, especially with her background of being abandoned by her mother, then going into survival mode and forced responsibility, thereby shutting out even the possibility of love as it is considered dangerous because of where that could all lead; it's not just about a relationship that would lead to having children that could go into the games, but loving someone so deeply that you are etched into each other's soul and if they leave in any capacity, she would be broken like her mother was after her father died. When you grow up with that mindset, even the possibility of loving someone is terrifying and also unthinkable that it would be reciprocated or deserved. Her bravery to make that leap combined with her trust in Peeta's love and devotion is one of my very favorite parts of their relationship and just thinking about that makes my chest ache.

Ugh okay, I have to stop because honestly, I could talk about THAT aspect alone forever (I see so much of myself in Katniss when it comes to that it hurts) and could very easily write a 1000 word essay on it haha. When I say the hold these two have on me is peak-level insanity, I truly mean it haha

[kinged]

@/motherhenna is a whitewasher

"Henna," real name Helen, is a white person who creates whitewashed art and refuses to take critisim for it and acknowledge what she has done wrong at all. She had some of her followers "absolve" her because to them "it didn't look like whitewashing." You can make your own decisions but I'll post some of her art and you can see for yourself

[ID: a picture that is based on a poster for mob pyscho 100. It has Mob, Reigen and Dimple in the foreground with a city scape background. Mob and Reigen are given light eyes, sharp, white noses and sharpe features. Dimple is also given the same nose. End ID]

[ID: A comic of Reigen, Mob, Dimple, Ritsu and Teru. It is all grey scale, except a red blush on all of their noses, Reigen's tie being red, and the tongues that are shown being red. Reigen in the first page is shown setting up a camera and in the second page it shows everyone else posing, with Reigen rushing into frame to try to get into the picture. All of the characters have the same noses as last described, and all of their eyes are eyes that you would see on white characters. They are all drawn in the same angular way as before as well. End ID]

There are more examples of her whitewashing, but they are all readily available on her blog if you would like to see for yourself. I figured that this so far was enough proof of her whitewashing characters.

When she was approached by others, she refused to seriously listen to what they said, and only responded to people who were nice, and supporting her, telling her that they thought she wasn't whitewashing and that they're "sorry she was being harrassed" when she was clearly not being harrassed, just told to take the consequences for her whitewashing that she did not do. She has had problems with her art before, creating genderbends, and creating "diverse" characters that had no real diversity in them. Again, all of these are available on her blog and her art blog, I just wanted to keep this short and concise.

Here is her responding to one critisim of her art:

[ID: Three screenshots from her blog, all responding to an ask. It says "Yikes okay I get that this is a touchy subject, but the venom feels a bit uncalled for. I'm sorry if my use of lighter eye colors on POC characters every now and then makes you uncomfortable. But I simply don't see how these are "exact same features", and I find that a really rude observation."

She then posts four close up screenshots of characters she has drawn. They all have similarly drawn eyes, all lighter colors for the eyes, the same nose but slightly altered, even though three out of four of these characters are supposed to be people of color.

She then goes to say "Here's just a small example of the many different eye and nose styles I draw in, three of which are people of color. I have struggled with drawing "asian eyes" in the past, but I've put a lot of effort into making them work with my style."

She then posts a picture of six different eye references she used, labeled from A-F.

She continues with: "These are all examples of "asian eyes", and shockingly, not all of them are identical! I draw Mob's eyes to resemble the middle left (c), and Reigen's to resemble the bottom left and middle right, as I want to replicate the lazy, half-lidded style he's drawn in the anime.

"So if you don't like my style and don't like how I draw asian people, fine--nobody HAS to like my work, and I do take constructive criticism into account, which is why I've put as much effort as I have into drawing racially diverse characters. I legitimately don't want to make anybody uncomfortable. But I think it's shitty to assume I don't care or only draw the same features, which is simply not true.

"In short, I think it's really presumptuous and exaggerative to call me a white washer for something like this. Again: you're entitled to your opinion, though I do wish you could have come off anon so we could discuss this privately. As you so politely hinted at, I am indeed white; however, I work every day to learn more about what I can do as a creator to make media more diverse and welcoming to non-white people. I realize all this venom is coming from a place of genuine hurt, which is why I'm trying to be gentle in my response, but I do think the vitriol is a bit misplaced. As an olive branch, I can at least offer to keep eye color more in mind in the future and maybe draw Reigen with dark eyes next time. I want to be accommodating, but I also reserve the right to take creative license when adapting anime into my own art style." End ID]

With this, it just goes to show how little she truly cares about drawing accurate representation, she only cares about being called out for whitewashing and being adamant that she is not racist. There are some this that she referenced, like being called white, because she does not have her race in her bio and still to my knowledge has not put it there.

Since getting that first ask, she has had several people come to her to tell her that she was in the wrong, but has not responded to any of them and said that she deleted them because they all just "wanted to pick a fight with her over discourse." She calls all of this discourse, like it is something petty and not worth discussing, when in reality she is being racist and when finally people are addressing that to her, she doubles down and says what she's doing isn't racist, when she cannot determine that for herself.

[artist-rat]

Are your commissions still closed? I'm only asking because of the message you answered a couple days ago saying you have a waitlist--don't want to be a bother but I really like your TES art and would love to see my own TES characters in your style someday~

heyy! ohhh yeah that might've been a bit confusing but yeah, they're still closed atm! i'll open commissions + the waitlist again in early January!

(dw you're not a bother at all! and that sounds great! i remember seeing your own art around (love it!) and the pics i saw of your TES characters back then were absolutely LOVELY! very much looking forward to it if you're still feeling like getting a comm once i open them again! <3)

[motherhenna-art]

Some OC eyes--a redraw of a really old piece I did back in 2012~

[veinslikefeathers]

i have to be fluent in photoshop and illustrator for my ma, so i did three (3) things

[damianvertigo]

is that his [stand] or his fursona?

(via Li4mricee)

[jadebots]

@motherhenna

wait do people not think it's funny? It practically defined my sense of humor throughout junior high and hs

YES ACTUALLY A LOT OF PEOPLE DO they just like... think it’s something entirely different than what it is.

To tbh be honest it perfectly captures what being a nerdy teen in rural America is like. 

[incorrectfeaquotes]

Submitted by Anonymous

Chrom: (Looking at Baby Lucina): What are its stats?

[little-lynx]

JOHANNA MASON

We did another monthly challenge with the girls on Instagram! This time we were drawing Johanna ;) I loooooove every single one! Just looks how amazingly different they are! I really love to be a part of thg fanart community ❤️ please check all the girls profiles, they are great! ❤️ aaaaaaand something really sweet is coming in September 🍂🍁

@oakfarmer @theartofdreaming1 @am2cdesign @motherhenna-art ❤️

[anotherpokemontale]

I… freaking.. loved this quest :’< even more than the other two tbh

Wanted to capture one of my favorite moments from SV--I've replayed the game like six times but Arven and Buddy always make me tear up.

Remember that every reblog and tag mean the world!

[b0zart]

Simon for @motherhenna ✨

[acesexualspock]

I posted 2,973 times in 2022

6 posts created (0%)

2,967 posts reblogged (100%)

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@motherhenna

I tagged 1,996 of my posts in 2022

Only 33% of my posts had no tags

#star trek - 473 posts

#dc - 325 posts

#batfam - 187 posts

#spirk - 114 posts

#bruce wayne - 98 posts

#jason todd - 97 posts

#ds9 - 92 posts

#tim drake - 91 posts

#dick grayson - 88 posts

#haikyuu - 85 posts

Longest Tag: 136 characters

#‘perfect’ narratives where the audience is satisfied with the outcome of the plot/with the characters don’t inspire as much fan activity

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Shout out to hurricane Ian for knocking out my power and phone service 😔🤟🏻

3 notes - Posted September 30, 2022

#4

Crash ;)

4 notes - Posted April 1, 2022

#3

Listen I’m a Trekkie first and a person second but GOD is the Kenobi series fucking me up. Leía and Ben’s dynamic is SO good and agh I just wish they could be a happy little family

14 notes - Posted June 8, 2022

#2

I’m about to puke, y’all. I defend my thesis in an hour aaaaaahhhhhhh

22 notes - Posted April 26, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I’m very proud to present my undergraduate thesis:

To Boldly Go From Zine to AO3: A Study of Fanfiction Culture in the Star Trek Fandom

Read it here on AO3!!!

1,279 notes - Posted April 29, 2022

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[artist-rat]

commission for @motherhenna​ of her wonderful skyrim OCs! 💚