Theworldwatches - Sonder Hiatus

Gabourey Sidibe - Portrait by Sam Spratt

A while back, I asked Gabby to come to my studio. Work immediately began and the beginnings of several sketches and pieces started to come together, but I didn’t want to rush the main painting so I shelved it while the usual pattern of clients interrupting personal work took over. Many paintings never get finished or see the light of day, both personal and professional, but Gabby was special. I wrote these notes back during her visit:

Her time in my studio was mostly light, filled with her bubbly energy as we cracked open some beers, exchanged embarrassing drinking stories, taking group photos as if we’d known each other for more than the actual hour we had, and her trying to convince me that she has an actual medical condition where she finds everything adorable. You’d be fooled too if you were lied to by an Oscar-nominated actress with her talent. But when I asked her, stripped of any pretension, that if I were to paint her, how she’d like to be portrayed, she said “I don’t really care about how I’m portrayed” and then she paused and continued “I guess … did you ever watch the show Community? Ya know how the school’s mascot is the human being? I mean, I don’t want to be a grey faceless spandex blob like that, but I’d like to just be a human being. Not someone’s message or idea of what I stand for because of what I look like, just a human, how you’d paint me if I were anyone else".

Have ya’ll ever noticed-

-that T’Challa could be the fashion sibling?

I mean, this man couldn’t walk into the UN  without stealing the show with that shawl-

ace people are queer as hell and must always be welcome in the community.

Imagine people telling you you're weird for not having sexual or romantic attraction... In my opinion, that's just as bad as people telling you you are perverted for loving your own gender.

don’t make me tap the sign…

His leg I cant-

This is that shit they used to tell us when we were kids right? damn its real..

Crows are so smart it’s frightening.

*deep breath*

Ok so once in high school there was this guy who used to make weed candy by melting sugar and mixing it with tobacco extracts and he used to give it to random people saying his grandma made us some candy. We all used to eat it and it was only after some time that we realized we were getting high off them.

He even managed to slip some to a teacher but she didn’t really notice for a long time. People got curious and there was another boy in class who spied on her and found out that she comes to class after smoking. We got her arrested, but none of us ever told anyone about the boy’s candies.

I wanna make a [tumblr] fake post so bad.

In the pattern of how things are done in Wakanda, it should look like this..

So they gave us a close up of Killmonger’s War Dog tattoo...

And I think it’s supposed to read “WAR DOG”

But if you look at this, It spells “WAA Dbe3l”…

What is that even supposed to-

if it was GUARANTEED that u would survive would u rather

A. explore a black hole

B. explore the entire ocean 

Lmfaoooo

BLACK PANTHER (2018) dir. Ryan Coogler