Daily Doodles- Day 52- 06/06/24

Daily Doodles- Day 107- 31/07/24

An Oc of mine from a dystopian-type short story I want to write. In her world, people willingly get their natural body parts replaced with robotics. Being a flesh and blood human is seen as barbaric.

She wants to be 100% robot, just like the most popular and well-respected people in society. Obviously, there's a catch and she may have gone too far to avoid it.

The tag for this is #agdoodles

Daily Doodles- Day 175- 07/10/24

The Dark Woods! Well, it's supposed to be a forest actually.

I was inspired to freehand draw this and it went from a rough doodle to something more complete.

This is where Artimax and her family live, btw.

I still haven't come up with a name for the forest yet.

The tag for this is #agdoodles

Too many people are having the same dreams.

I hope those who are looking find this

For everyone else, I don't argue on the internet, so argue with the wall 🧱

Don't get it twisted. Jesus didn't hang out with prostitutes because He approved of their lifestyle. He engaged with them - He loved them! - because they were in desperate need of a Savior. Real love doesn't tolerate sin. Real love holds you in His arms and asks, "Child, why do you keep hurting yourself like this?"

Fairy Tales are a necessity because they dare speak the truths that the world never wants to hear;

That adults are cruel to children.

That you will suffer injustice, but that doesn't give you the right to be unjust to others.

That there are negative consequences to indulging vices.

That upholding moral principles is always the better path, even in the face of hardship.

That you will die someday.

And that inspite of all the bad in the world, it is worth persevering and finding the love and joy that is out there.

i do think a lot of online disability spaces have adopted anti-effort/anti-progress/anti-recovery stances similar to mental health spaces in the early to mid 2010s and it’s worrying me because we’re STILL trying to undo the harm that was done by that line of thinking when it came to mental health.

i’m not doing the whole “pull yourself up by your bootstraps and try harder!!!” shit that we’ve all heard before but i do think there is a fine line between “allow yourself to rest when you need it” and “if something is difficult to do then just don’t do it because You Deserve To Relax!!!!”

struggling is part of having a disability unfortunately and encouraging people to completely avoid any discomfort that could improve their quality of life in the name of relaxation and “being gentle with ourselves” is going to prove extremely detrimental to peoples lives in the long run

I will say it once again.

You cannot be a "Christian Witch". Those two things are inherently incompatible. Christianity means relying completely on God, ceding control of your own life to His divine plan, trusting in His providence and Fatherly Love. Witchcraft means trying to manipulate both the natural and supernatural world to domineer control of what you think they should be.

You cannot serve two masters.

Thank you and goodnight.

No one is wholesome. No one is "pure." Such expectation wears away at a person's soul. It is like handing someone a magnifying glass, and with that glass, they look at their life. The previous actions in their life. Sorting such actions into pure (precious, worth protecting) or evil (wrong, worth eliminating), and after measuring the weight of the actions, they decide if they themselves are good or bad. "Am I still pure? After looking at these actions, am I still wholesome enough to receive care and love?"

I've seen it and felt it. I recoil when I see others call people wholesome as a result. (Actions can be in good faith. That is 'wholesome'. But an entire person...?) It is a comforting word for some, however.

Here's the cleaned up sketch!

I was actually digitally inking it tonight but accidentally lost all my progress 😩😩😩 I'll start over this weekend, because my hand isn't used to drawing on a tablet.

FINALLY! A POSE GONE RIGHT!

I've been working on relearning all the drawing skills I lost and one of the most difficult things for me has been dynamic poses.

This is my OC Ciera and I thought I would try out this pose with her as she's the easiest to draw.

It's not perfect, but it's loads better than my other attempts! I'm going to ink and color her in!

I resurrected an old character from one of my scrapped stories!

It was one of my spiritual, magical fantasy stories where the characters were witches, making spells and throwing their spirits in and out of the astral realm.

Now that I know how not-great THAT is, I don't write those kinds of stories anymore. I CAN reuse the characters for my new, more God-centered stories though!

This is Candice (or Carissa. Haven't decided yet), a 32-year-old working woman. She used to be a 26-year-old unemployed woman also named Candice, who used to be a 22-year-old university student again, also named Candice, who used to be a 16-year-old boyfriend stealer (yikes!) called Tamara, who used to be a 13-year-old hunted by a supernatural vampiric creature, the original Tamara.

She went through multiple iterations and multiple storylines over the years and hopefully, this one sticks. She's honestly a whole new character at this point!

I have a bit of her story written on this post right here.

It's an end-of-the-world/alien invasion type thing. A lot of my stories are still supernatural, but I put a lot of the supernatural in their rightful place and don't have my protagonists fooling around with any of it.