Dude, I'm So Sorry About The Steven Universe Ask. I Mean, I Shoulda Known, This Is The Steven Universe

really when you think about it, how amazing is it that we have the privilege of reading God’s written and spoken word

Daily Doodles- Day 7- 22/04/24

I made a companion for the pot head lady! A watering can man! The perfect match!

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Naw I liked the wrong thing and now my dash is effed!

I don't even know what I touched!

An excerpt from the current story I've been writing.

She had noticed them immediately as she raised her head to breathe in the unusually cool air. They stopped her in her tracks and she nearly fell over as she missed the steep step-down on the broken sidewalk.  There were many of them and they hovered still in the sky as far as her eye could see. They were smooth, ice-grey disks with no other defining features. They almost blended in with the grey of the sky, but they were so big that they could not be missed. Carissa stared up at them, open-mouthed, hardly believing what she was seeing and hardly believing that no one else was seeing this as she wildly whipped her head around to see if anyone else was gaping up at the sky. The old lady in her yard across the street was watering her plants. The school girl in her blue uniform further up the street was giggling at her phone. The lanky man wearing a graphic t-shirt and ridiculously sagged jeans swerved around her on the sidewalk, shooting her an annoyed glance as he passed. Trinidadians were known for making a scene when they saw something out of the ordinary.  Maybe she was just seeing things.

This is still unedited, but I know I'll be keeping this section in.

Daily Doodles- Day 171- 04/10/24

A new character for a new story idea!

At the moment, her name is Artimax and she's a 59-year-old woman who lives in the forest village with her husband and children.

When she was 19, on her wedding day, she was accused of a heinous crime that she didn't commit and the people dragged her from her wedding and threw her into the 'dark forest' (I haven't decided on an ominous enough name yet) as punishment to fit the crime.

Her almost mother-in-law was ecstatic because she never liked her and her people-pleasing almost-husband didn't try to save her.

She was supposed to die in the forest because no one who entered came out.

Turns out people live in the forest, happily and comfortably. She made a life for herself there, met her husband and kids and healed from early life hurts.

That was until she got a letter in her mailbox though, from her ex-fiance's family clearing her name and inviting her to a 'welcome home' party.

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Daily Doodles- Day 104- 29/07/24

Did some more colouring with my multicoloured pen for this elegant, blonde lady! 💛💕

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i feel like this is a topic that needs more than just a tumblr post to fully expand on but. i think that in modern-day christian culture we place WAY too much emphasis on Feeling and Emotion . and i think that this attitude is part of the reason why the most common struggle you hear is "God isn't speaking to me/I can't hear God". feels like the standard set is that you're constantly feeling a Supernatural presence and it's Big and Obvious and it Shows and you can't contain it... when that's just not it. God can be quiet. God can nudge. God's voice is contained in the Bible that you hold between your hands. If you're not "hearing Him" then maybe your expectation of what hearing Him is is flawed.

Private Eye might be throwing stones from their own glass house, but I still enjoyed this:

[Text reads: Book review - Nevermind by Neil Gaiman. Strange, otherworldly tale in which a weird, gothic author is accused of inappropriate sexual behaviour over several decades. Mysteriously, by some dark magic, nobody in the real world pays any attention to the allegations, everyone looks the other way, and strangely cannot see anything wrong with the writer's conduct. What on earth is happening? Could it be that sinister forces, i.e. vested interests in publishing, film, television, theatre etc, would rather this story disappeared for good? Yes.]

Won't it be a terrible waste of the money he must be paying Edendale to bury this story if we all refuse to drop it?

Daily Doodles- Day 64- 18/06/24

I saw a drawing of Wonder Woman on YouTube shorts with her hair floating and that's what inspired today's doodle.

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You don't need anyone's approval for the stories you write and the art you create. But it's also absolutely valid to want some approval from your audience. Kudos and likes don't determine your creation's worth. But it just feels amazing to receive them.