Me At Age 13, Exhausted At School After Staying Up All Night To Read Fanfic: I Can’t Wait Until I’m

Not Another Paranormal Romance- Artwork 4

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Here are some finalised drawings of all of the main and supporting characters.

Below the picture, I will list them from the top left to the bottom right.

Cyrus Hinds/The demon- In the first sketch, I made it look more like a 14-year-old boy, more human and with a softer face. In the second sketch, I made it look more creature-like, basically how I described it in my short story. I gave it more elf-like features and a sharper face. It doesn't look like a 14-year-old boy, but that's the point.

Gabriella Pierre- Her original design featured a short afro and a flower in her hair. I wanted to be more creative with her hair and decided to give her four smaller afro puffs. I also love how her face came out. I think she looks quite cute.

Amaya Graham- Her design stayed the same. Amaya is the sweet, harmless-looking, quiet friend. I did very loosely base her off an old friend from my school days. They share large spectacles and the long hair.

Marissa Ramdin- I wanted her to be very pretty with an elegant look to her. She's the effortlessly pretty friend that everyone's a little bit jealous of. I may work on her design a bit more.

Kadiah Toussaint- I'm quite happy with how she turned out, especially her hair. Back in my school days, I used to wear my hair in small twists and I hoped to recreate that style in drawing. I think I did quite well!

Sasha Antoine (pronounced Ant-wine)- Yes, Sasha is our 'mean girl'. I based her design on how I see the current high school girls styling themselves for school. I went for that cute, YK2 look with the baby hairs.

Noah McKenzie- He's a newer character I decided to add as support and a new friend for Gabriella. He's named after Noah from the Bible (I also just think Noah is a really cute name). I wanted him to physically contrast Cyrus. A lot about him is very soft and comforting while Cyrus evokes the opposite.

All characters except Cyrus and Noah are 14 years old. They are all in their 3rd year of secondary/high school (we have 5 years of secondary school in my country)

Cyrus is masquerading as a 14-year-old and Noah is 15 and in his 4th year of secondary/high school.

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Not Another Paranormal Romance- Artwork 3

You can read my short story 'Not Another Paranormal Romance' here:

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More cover art ideas and a couple of sketches from when this story had a lighter tone to it.

Gabriella was a very brave (in a stupid way) character who had great confidence in her protection from GOD and openly taunted a demon with it. At the time, I didn't know that you could still experience demon possession and oppression despite being an obedient Christian.

Gabriella is NOT an obedient Christian! I mean, who is when they're a teenager. That's very rare these days.

The current Gabriella takes this entity more seriously as throughout the story, she will learn more about what demons are really capable of.

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See below for more about the cover designs.

I wanted to do a minimalistic cover with just Gabriella and Cyrus. She would be outlined in white and him in black. I was thinking of pink or lavender for the background. I wanted it to look like it was hinting at a cutesy romance.

I also wanted little hints of Cyrus's true nature in his design. His back is to the audience to symbolise him hiding said nature. His slit pupil and the pentagram in his hair (he has it as a fade design) hint at that. My other sketch has a typical devil's tail and a fireball in his hand, but I thought that was going overboard.

The last two sketches are Gabriella taunting and triumphing over Cyrus. Don't taunt demons in real life, please. They're not like how they portray them in the movies. They are NOT nice. You WILL be hurt BADLY.

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I'm an artist who's relearning how to draw character art after a few years of art block. I've also decided to give digital art another go. This is one of my attempts.

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I got stuck on my Ciara piece, so I started a new one!

This is my OC Ruby. She's one of those characters that you just create for the aesthetics. She's supposed to be a magical superhero, but as my views on magic have changed, she's gotta be something else! Haven't decided what yet.

Reluctant Jamette- Book Cover Design 2

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These were the final sketches that I used for my cover design. I did the split-down-the-middle thing to represent how Tamika is mentally separated from these powers that she doesn't want.

The last two sketches show her and Jamette facing each other. I can't quite remember what I had in mind when I came up with this (this is why you take notes!) but I think it was just the continuation of them being separate from each other. I do have plans for the 'Jamette' in her to start fighting against her will.

Today in church I was thrown back into a memory during worship. When I was a baby Christian 14 years ago, I watched a YouTube video put out by another believer. Said video terrified me. The content?

yawning during Bible reading/prayer is demonic influence causing you to see it as boring.

Because of this I spent so much time in anxious prayer, repenting for anytime I yawned. I also fought any yawns that happened by clenching my jaw really tight, causing damage to my jaw line and teeth.

The point of this story? What we put into the world, especially complete misinformation, can be physically and mentally damaging to others. To this day I find myself fighting yawns because it became muscle memory for me. It continues to hurt me by locking my jaw up. We ought to be EXTREMELY careful what we say, and we especially need to speak with the idea that God demands we walk in truth and not fear mongering or lies. The damage you cause with falsehood can last for many years, and you will be held responsible for it.

Daily Doodles- Day 167- 30/09/24

The no-name girl from the previous daily doodle! I drew the protection around her that's preventing her from using the evil demon stones.

The tag for this is #agdoodles

In these times, I think some of the fandom rules from the 90s still sound good:

-Never get a fandom tattoo

-Don’t engage with the creators, you’re going to be disappointed at best. At best.

Daily Doodles- Day 159- 24/09/24

Another drawing based on a story idea that I had.

Be careful what you say, for your words have power.

The tag for this is #agdoodles

Daily Doodles- Day 33- 18/05/24

Busted out an old OC! Her name is Rowena and she was a witch, but I no longer create and write stories where the protagonists deal with the occult, so she's now a regular-smegular human being and really loves insects! 🦋🕷️🐜🦗🪲🦟🪳🪰🐝🐞🐛🪱

The tag for this is #agdoodles

back in 2019 and before, neil gaiman was a fucking creep on here. even into 2020 and possibly beyond (i blocked him in 2019 and left the good omens fandom in 2020, abandoning the blog i had at that time to get away from the toxic atmosphere he created and continued to fuel, so i have no specific examples past that year), he wasn't doing anything to alter or denounce the disturbing atmosphere he'd fostered among newer fans. but fans from before good omens really blew him up always knew he was a creep, and we knew he was an overbearing, manipulative monster for a long time.

he would follow fans and send them messages trying to act like he was our friend, or, if he didn't think you were some kind of prospect, he would reblog your posts and spell out to you all the ways he thought you were an idiot, many of which were homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, and racist. it was disgusting, and i and a lot of people blocked him so that he couldn't do that to us anymore, and we would try to warn incoming fans.

but, by the time good omens became what it is now thanks to the series, he had changed his trajectory and, i guess, finally took his pr team's advice and eased up, only answering asks in as neutral or positive a manner as he could and reblogging posts in a more "appropriate" manner. he deleted a lot of old content and became more of the "resident tumblr cryptid author" rather than Anne Rice Lite™. old fans still knew he was trash, but newer fans thought of him as one of the tumblrinas, who just happened to be a "super cool" famous author, and anyone who spoke of him in any way but positively was told we were just jealous or that we were being unduly hateful.

on top of preying on and bullying fans, he is a zionist, he is anti-library (he believes online libraries like the internet archive are bad because they prevent authors from making money), and he is just generally being a massive bigot and a terrible person. he abandoned his wife and child during the pandemic to fly across the globe to be with a younger woman, and his now-ex-wife is a terf, and he is a barely-closeted transphobe himself. neil gaiman has never been our friend.

i'm glad people are finally recognizing him for the disgusting human being he is, and at the same time my heart goes out to the people who have come forward with their stories about the physical, psychological, and emotional harm this man did to them.