“No Girl Had Been Courageous Enough Before To Challenge The Status Quo, To Challenge Men.”

A little OT (sorry) but I thought it was useful to share with anyone who loves dogs: Here is how to save your dog with CPR (image taken from Working Dog magazine)

Holy crap - why, YES, Luke Cage, yes I do!

Nanny of the Maroons, as the show goes on to say, was a leader of a city of formerly-enslaved Africans in Jamaica. They regularly raided plantations to liberate others. Rumors swirled that she was royalty, but her origins are a bit unclear - the show says she was Asante, but I think that’s still uncertain?

She beat the hell out of the British for years, and was reputed to have magic powers. She fed her people with quick-growing pumpkins, made the British ill with her herbalism, and camouflaged warriors so well, British soldiers would hang their coats on them, thinking them trees. Said soldiers would then decapitate the British and vanish into the forest. She could supposedly catch bullets with her bare hands.

To this day, the site of old Nanny Town is a place where unwelcome visitors reputedly go missing. 

And yes, I cover her in my first book. 

(she’s so cool! so glad her story is suffusing its way into pop culture! she fits in perfectly with the storyline they have going in Luke Cage.) 

The All-Women Team of Scientists That Trekked to the Heart of Kilauea Volcano's Eruption

As the eruption at Kilauea volcano turned the southeastern corner of Hawaii’s Big Island into a river of lava this summer, residents and tourists were instructed to stay the hell away. An all-women team of scientists from the United Kingdom, however, was asked to do the exact opposite.

“It’s just so cool that [five] women were the best people to call.” - team member Emma Liu.

God Bless Veneida Smith.

So this whole thing started with this tweet by Twitter user Katie Henry (KT_NRE). I started plowing through newspapers to find every mention of her - and found most that were out there, but a man named Todd Sanders, who had access to Pennsylvania libraries, found quite a few more. All of this takes place in October and November of 1922, before timeskipping to September 1923 (her third escape), October 1923 (her guilty verdict), and March 1924 (her escape attempt with Roxie Starcher).

I have been unable to find her obituary or anything else out there about my new hero.

Female, 13 - 18, large eyes, small nose, square face, small mouth, standard weight, East Asian

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Anime protaganist it is then :P

Hey, guys! I’ve noticed that there are a lot of artists who struggle with “same face syndrome,” or the tendency to draw all their characters with the same face. To help you combat this, I’ve created two different challenges!

The first (pink) one is mainly geared towards artists who are struggling with same face syndrome and want to start branching out. It covers topics that a lot of artists struggle with when drawing faces, such as age, weight, and face shapes. It’s not super specific, so you still have some wiggle room.

The second (yellow) one is a bit harder and is mainly geared towards artists who want to really challenge themselves to diversify their faces. Personally, I think this one’s the most fun to work with despite it being more difficult. Chances are with this one, you’re not going to be drawing a whole bunch of beautiful people. You don’t have to roll for every option on this one either.  A certain combination of rolls from 10/13 of the options may give you a great character idea, and that’s great!

I hope you guys enjoy these! I’d love for you to send me your drawings if you do one (or both) of them.

Two years ago, I wrote about Micaela Almonester, a tough-as-nails woman from the 1800s who survived an incredibly abusive relationship (her father-in-law shot her multiple times!) to build some of the great architecture of New Orleans. Today I got to see it in person for the first time. Her initials are still in the latticework.

http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/micaela-almonester