#meettheartist Hello, I'm Jazz! It Has Been A Very Long Time Since I Have Used Tumblr, But I Thought

Here's something a little different than usual! I wanted to play around with some different designs, just for fun. I hope you enjoyed this week's installment of 'Slices of Gremlin'! I am going to continue updating every Tuesday, and if you would like to support the comic and get early access, you can sign up to be a member of the 'Little Creature Club' on Ko-Fi!

*helps a bug outside so people don't kill it*

*flash forward and I'm convicted of a crime I didn't commit*

*no lawyer touches the case for me*

*everyone hears a buzz and turns around*

*the bug is wearing a tiny suit with a tiny suitcase and becomes my defense attorney*

This is a good take. I love writing pining. I love writing romances where the two are absolutely devoted to each other in life and death and everything in between; even if they don't explicitly say it, and they have no hope of any sort of gain, you see them quietly and consistently working for each other's good behind the scenes for nothing but the sheer love of that person.

we think pining is romantic because fidelity is romantic. the reason it pulls at our heartstrings is less the idea of a longing that can never be satisfied and more the idea of someone being faithful to their love even when they’re not getting anything from it

Boy howdy, looks like these cowpokes are in a bit of a scrape 🤠

here’s what I learned in 2024, having been chronically, painfully ill most of the year:

it’s not bad to have New Year’s Resolutions. I myself have a bunch. however.

if you’re feeling like the only way out of your current situation is to scrabble and struggle desperately and Try Harder and Try Harder, that will only get you so far.

you have built-in limitations and there are powers & circumstances outside your sphere of control which will foil your plans.

but do you know Whose plans are never foiled? do you know Who is the power outside all spheres?

I have learned when I ask God to “help me get everything done that I need to get done today,” to make sure I am asking for what I really need to get done, and not what I think I need to get done.

I always get done what I needed to get done that day according to God’s will. even when that turns out to be nothing but praying that I will.

don’t burn yourself out depending on your own scrappy willpower to get somewhere or achieve something. and don’t waste energy despairing about your limitations. God has already decreed the direction in which your life will go, and how quickly it will go there. He knows what you truly need and will provide it without fail.

Here are two more paintings that I made as Christmas presents! I painted sunflowers on a wooden tray, and I did a little mountain scene on a magnet-backed canvas. 💖

what i need is a devout knight

A character arc where the character who did terrible things and regrets them is forced to live, to put one foot in front of the other and find healing, who chooses to pour goodness into the world and make the world a better place

Is more satisfying to me than a character arc where the character who did terrible things and regrets them is redeemed through death

99.9% of the time.

Sure, boss, I’d still be ya henchman if you was a woim