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Even if you do end up changing your image in
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Okay, found this through a post by dewhitton but for this snarky comment you really don't need to hunt down this Amazon.com review by Anne Rice. I'm going to quote the relevant portion here:

And no, I have no intention of allowing any editor ever to distort, cut, or otherwise mutilate sentences that I have edited and re-edited, and organized and polished myself.

So the scene in Interview With a Vampire where a black woman is described both as beautiful and as if carved from diorite* is all Anne's fault and I don't get to blame an editor for not catching that horrendous blunder? I literally tossed the book aside and ignored it (more than 300 pages into the book at that point) for three weeks over that one word.

*For the non-geologists, diorite is a coarse-grained, black and white rock. It's speckled. A dalmatian could be carved from diorite, not a beautiful black woman. If she needed a rock to use in the description she could have used basalt or gabbro or obsidian or onyx (to name a few). The first three are all usually black, onyx is actually more often striped but people are used to thinking of it as black due to its use in jewelry.

Doodles

Just a couple of doodles from the last couple days.

This guy with the braids and mohawk is actually a second generation character in one of the many stories kicking around in my head. I can't for the life of me remember his name, it's in my notes on my main PC though. His mother forbid him to shave his head for a proper mohawk like his father's (no, I don't really get her logic in allowing this either) so this is a passable compromise. He thinks this is way cooler than his dad's hair, but don't let mom know that. In case it's not clear, the hair on either side is in cornrows until it reaches a point in line with the back of the roached portion and his ears, then it's just braided out. The hair behind that line is in lots of itty bitty braids, though I have no idea how to get that idea across on paper yet. Just the relatively few braids in this drawing had me rethinking the wisdom of characters with lots of braids.

As for this one, well I'm sure where she comes from. I was just fiddling around with faces and ears and that lead to the short hair which in turn lead to piercings (yes, I'm on a piercings kick right now) and from there to the tattoos/makeup and funky hair dye. Apparently her name is Zef, perhaps short of zephyr which is a pretty cool word that doesn't get used enough.

I kinda like her.