The Puzzler Bunch- Cute Story Idea

Daily Doodles- Day 174- 07/10/24

A 19-year-old Artimax on her wedding day.

I want to give her whimsical rococo vibes, you know, that washed-out pastel candy look that has everyone looking grey and ill, but pretty.

Her headpiece is vaguely ocean-themed with a coral-like structure and pearls.

I also want to do weird makeup. those splotches across her cheeks, nose and chin are going to be brightly coloured.

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I think the really insidious part of the whole "I don't need to forgive the people who hurt me" attitude that's so prominant nowadays, is that it perpetuates the cycle of abuse.

Not every person who does bad things has a tragedy fueling their behavior. But a lot of them do. You can be a victim and also an abuser. Those are not mutually exclusive things. In fact, one of the best ways to become an abuser is to take the pain of the injustice you've experienced and to let it fester inside you. And that is what happens if you don't forgive.

And before anyone tries to tell me that you can't forgive someone because that means letting them to continue hurting you. That's not what forgiveness is. Resuming a relationship with someone who hurt you is Reconciling. Forgiveness is when you choose to let go of the anger and the hate and the bitterness and heal. I know this is an honest misunderstanding, but it's a dangerous one.

You don't have to remain a victim in order to forgive. But if you do not forgive you will become the same as your abuser. That's not a risk, but a fact. The cycle of abuse can be broken but you have to choose to do it.

You have to choose to heal. You owe it others and to yourself.

there's almost no way to say this without ppl making assumptions about what underlining intentions you have vis a vis women and their duties to children, but it's crazy how many posts talk about children like they aren't people lol.

a lot of people on tumblr and Ao3 seem to think Christianity (mainly Catholicism) is just a cool and sexy esthetic narrative force to make your characters guilty and repressed and I'm just like...

hey what about the grace? the grace of God? the grace God gave specifically so we wouldn't need to be guilty and repressed? God's grace? that grace? do they have that grace?

You thought when people painted the "someday you're going to have to choose, for real, between the World and God, you won't be able to walk the line between both" picture that they were talking about martyrdom.

Some extreme. "Trample this picture of Jesus." "Say you don't believe!" "Convert to a different religion!"

You didn't realize that it wouldn't look like that. You didn't realize that when the line gets drawn in the sand, and Jesus is on one side, the other side would look like crying people wailing out, "why can't you just accept me for who I am? Why aren't I enough for you?"

You didn't realize that the choice would be between Jesus the Truth...or a majority of people in the culture making movies, making t-shirt slogans, changing their names, gently telling you that maybe this word in the Bible doesn't mean what you think it means, maybe love just means love, maybe you can have Jesus and whatever sexuality you want.

"Did God really say...?"

You thought it would be something overt. But the bad guys never said, "hey, choose the dark side over the light." They always said, "hey, maybe you don't even know what Jesus said."

The choice is: "It is the Lord. Let Him do what seems good to Him." OR "Did God really say...?"

That's the choice. This is where the rubber meets the road. This is our "choose this day who you will serve." As for me, I'm serving the Lord, and He's holding on to me. He never changes, and yes He did really say.

Hold fast to the truth. It doesn't change. People and cultures do.

K.I.D.S- Komputers Invaders Defence Squad- Main Character Art

Finally got around to adding colour to my characters from an old story I'm rewriting!

The story was originally set in America, where I've never been. It didn't occur to 15-year-old me that I could pick anywhere else. I' 've since switched the setting to my home country, Trinidad and so the characters changed.

They're all 12-year-old (and one 11-year-old) first-form secondary school (high school) students who get caught up in a plot against a secret organisation. They end up becoming temporary members of said organisation for protection.

There's still so much I have to rework. I'm basically starting over with this one, especially since my views have changed on certain things (magic, fantasy, supernatural, etc.)

Like most things I do now, I try to keep God in mind when I'm creating it and I've been having fun with this one!

Daily Doodles- Day 168- 30/09/24

A lazy doodle day. Reminds me of the very simple and very crude sketch I did for day 1.

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So many good text posts ruined by the unnecessary inclusion of some stupid quip about fighting/killing God

Daily Doodles- Day 3- 18/04/24

I'm kinda tired and kept forgetting to draw today. She's my second attempt. I tried doing too much again, but finally decided to actually do the 'doodle' part of this thing 😆

Her hair is my favorite part

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Daily Doodles- Day 18- 04/05/24

She's supposed to be a flower girl 🌺, but her petals look more like fins. She overall gives more of a fish vibe 🐟

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