#north lights

[fuzzymaro]

FuzzyMaro.art Wooden box with lines of the picture burned on it. It is painted with acrylics. The owner of this character is kyuthefox and the box was mailed to them!

[maureen2musings]

Sunrise

Patrick Simon

[janasojka]

Night drive

[nonbinary-vents]

I remember that when everything was happening with Noah Schnapp, so many people were saying that ‘he’s a white coloniser!’ ‘he’s clearly European!’ and ‘how are we supposed to think he’s indigenous to the Middle East when he looks like that?!’ They were screaming so much about he couldn’t possibly be from the swana region due to being pale, despite the fact that… wait for it…

Noah Schnapp is a Moroccan Jew.

The exact the same thing happened with Jerry Seinfeld too, despite him being a Syrian Jew.

But what this tells me is that so many American and European leftists fundamentally do not understand what North Africans and Southwest Asians look like. They do not understand that many Middle Eastern groups are pale, many Middle Eastern groups share features with Europeans— I mean, the Middle East literally borders Europe, did you not expect us to have similarities? This stretches back to the ancient world too. We know that in Yehuda there were gingers, as shown by King David*. Iirc, studies on Rameses the second’s remains show that he most likely had an olive tanned complexion and reddish-blondish hair, similar to a European Mediterranean look— which makes total sense seeing as Egypt is literally a Mediterranean country as well

It’s not just Jews. Persians, Kurds, Assyrians, Copts, Amazigh, Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula**, all of these ethnic groups are incredibly diverse in their features, even without any significant genetic influence from other areas. You cannot just project American and European black and white concepts of race onto the Middle East and act as if that is reality. The world is not split into pale people in the north, brown people in the middle, and black people in the south, and if you genuinely believe that then you really need to look at some pictures of the groups that you’re claiming to be the defender of. Please. I’m so tired of this bullshit lol

*I know that the historical evidence for David is shaky at best and we’re not sure if he was real or not (I personally believe it’s a King Arthur sort of situation where there was a real person here that got turned into legend), what I’m trying to say is that if the Ivrim could have a figure like this who was ginger, then the Ivrim clearly had gingers. Nobody come for me please

**not adding other Arabs because there tends to be genetic mixes with other groups, and my point is about how even without distinct genetic markers from each other, middle easterners groups can turn out with a super intense variation in appearance, especially skin tone

[natureaestheticdreams]

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[illustratus]

Aurora Borealis by Frederic Edwin Church

[timber-delights]

[vintagecamping]

Bowfishing for arctic char near Cape Dorset, Baffin Island. Canada

1975

[deathflare]

the eorzean mind cannot comprehend the vastness of xak tural

[miiilowo]

more spn ponies :-) rounding off team free will w/ cas and jack

[fuzzymaro]

Creator of aurora

I had an opportunity to do a watercolor painting again because of this nice commission for WeltherrscherinSaedis! This work was mailed to the buyer so they are the owner of my original physical work done on paper.  My commissions are open and I do both digital and physical artworks!  Pricelist available at: my webpage fuzzymaro.art

[aestum]

(by Gantavya Bhatt)

[ancientsstudies]

Gwrych Castle by wander_linaa.

[grimae]

Books are now available in my store. Thank you all so much for the support, this was probably the biggest thing I've done in my life so far. It's 535 books of which half were already sold via crowdfunding. Each comes signed and numbered. I also have a few leftover prints from crowdfunding, as I ordered more for safety's sake. Those are also available as bundle, for a very small quantity.

[janasojka]

Blues.

[lunavichi]

LIGHT EM UP BOY.csp