My idiot brain thought that it would be nice if I read some angsty 'Jeeves and Wooster' fanfics for a change, but now I'm sitting on a family gathering on the verge of a breakdown, because I read that one mercury poisoning fic.
Not me waxing the top of my eyebrow and half of it coming off now it’s looks so weird I should have just left it like I use to but I wanted to clean it up a little bit
hUhHHh wHy DOes mY hEaD HurTs sO mUch? Well maybe it's cuz you've been writing notes with the smallest handwriting you could possibly do for days and now you're trying to read and memorize them all in twelve hours you dumb bitch
they say if you repeat the words 'sad middle-aged robot detective' three times, i'll appear out of nowhere!
god, okay. this one. i thought i'd do something out of my comfort zone and swung way too far the other way; unfamiliar character, extremely unfamiliar artstyle, the rps marker tools (which i have never used) made to emulate real alcohol markers (which i have also never used), the absolute worst canvas choice for those tools, done in colour (i work almost exclusively in greyscale) and at one point i tried to go for some crazy cool-toned light/warm shadow thing. typically my speedpaints are pretty straightforward, but this one is all footage of me trying to wrangle my way out of my mistakes, which is valuable in its own way. if nothing else, it's trained my problem solving, though the smart play would have been to avoid 80% of the problems. live and learn
Okay but I do get really tired when people rag on Narnia's Biblical parallels for being too overt. Like, yeah dude. It's written for kids. Most kids don't do subtlety. I knew my Bible better than probably 95% of third graders, and yet my parents still had to clue me in. I've talked to people who grew up secular and didn't realize Narnia was Christian until well into adulthood. The Christian parallels in Narnia are at a pretty perfect level for most kids, and the fact that we as adults continue to get new spiritual meaning from it as we grow is a real testament to the depth of Jack's writing.
Maybe the problem with Christian fiction is that it's non-denominational. People are just "Christian", with no effort put into showing what practicing that religion looks like for them specifically. No indication that there are other Christians who could have different beliefs. No wrestling with differing ideas and the struggle of how one should live out their Christian faith. And that makes it unrealistic and unrelatable.