May All Christians Who Claim To Hate The Sin And Love The Sinner Act Like They Love The Sinner In The

I realise now why I don't like reading first person POV fanfics.

Nobody ever writes them correctly. Instead of writing with the personality of the character, the character ends up sounding so detached from the events. It's like they're the faceless narrator recording the events and then jump in to interact when it's their turn to talk.

Just saw someone try to write Danny in the first person POV. The writing was fine, but the POV wasn't POVing.

Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is an excellent example of a successful first person POV.

I remember reading the book for the first time at 13. I've never read a book with a first person POV until then and for a while I wrote a lot of my stories with that POV.

I suck at writing first person POV these days. Unfortunately knowing why I suck doesn't help me suck any less 🥲

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Was wishing there was a positivity post for original fiction writers since I see so many about how fanfic writers are doing so much for their communities even when they're not actively writing, and then I thought:

Be the change you want to see in the world.

So this is a positivity post for the writers out here who are working very hard on stories with no established community. Who can't talk about their blorbos and plot lines and brainstorming to anyone and expect them to know what any of it means. Who don't have much to share publicly, but are hoping they will one day.

You're doing a lot of hard work, and I recognize and appreciate what you're putting into the world, even when you're resting.

so for my french class we have to read this book about a dying child who is encouraged by a hospital volunteer to write letters to God. and my teacher was talking about how God in the book is not a detached, wish-granting deity of religion, but is rather a friend to the child, someone whom the child could share his feelings with.

and i was like:

my brother in Christ wait till you find out about God in real life

The Truth Seekers!- OC Art

I made another fun group of pre-teen friends! They're young detectives interested in solving the strange happenings around their town.

They all have their own ways of gathering the information they need.

Clair Des Vignes prefers the books. The older the tome, the more truthful the info!

Amanda Bernard scourers the interwebs with endless amounts of information at her fingertips! The parental locks do make it a bit difficult though.

Bradly Alton likes to be on the scene! Finding real physical clues and evidence helps move things along.

I think I'll put them at age 12 and the incidents that they investigate are definitely supernatural in nature.

Daily Doodles- Dat 37- 23/05/24

Another cutesy girl in a fantastical dress! My last one is here!

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Hand Sewn Three-Tiered Maxi Skirt- Part 2

Part 1 | Here | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

So this took so much longer than expected because Mistakes started happening 🥲

So, I finished sewing the waistband and it was perfect! Then I started with the two tier-one panels next.

I drew on the seam allowance to use as guidelines because I can't sew straight to save my life.

I sewed the two panels together to make one long panel and I tried to iron the seam allowance to make it easier to fold.

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Unfortunately, my fabric is polyester and my iron was on the cotton setting. It got shrunk and burned and I couldn't salvage it.

Thankfully, I was able to buy more fabric after work the next day! I cut out the tier-one panels again and securely pinned down the seams so I could sew them. I folded them in half and sewed them to each other with a sitch I don't know the name of, but kinda looks like a blanket stitch at first glance.

Here comes the incredibly hard part: pinning the tier to the waistband.

I confused myself for a while and I wasn't sure which side I was supposed to pin it on 🥲 It took me two days to figure out 🥲🥲🥲

I also had trouble lining everything up and kept pinning the tier too far away from the stitching of the waistband. I finally figured it all out though and got to sewing.

I sewed right next to the stitching of the waistband so it looks flush. That's two, more or less neat rows of running back stitches!

Here's the other side, showing the gathering.

Here's how perfect the front looks! You can't tell that I struggled with this at all!

And here's the seam allowance that joins the two panels again. I thought it would look better smaller, so I undid the stitches, cut the seam allowance in half, folded it in half and sewed it all together again.

I tried to do the same with the seam allowance between the waistband and tier, but... 😬😬😬🫣🫣🫣

I cut them a bit too short... among other things. Instead, I'm going to cut a strip of fabric and sandwich the seam allowance between it.

It was a good thing after all that I had to buy that extra fabric!

Daily Doodles- Day 92- 17/07/24

I was trying to draw an OC, but this looks nothing like her 🥲

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Guys, I went looking for this YouTuber I used to watch in my uni days. Her name was Alex and her channel is Pretty Pastel Please.

I couldn't remember her channel name, but I remembered her name and the name of her bird, Archie. I typed their names in and I finally found her channel again, but the first video is from another channel talking about HER DEATH??????? EXCUSE ME??????

My goodness! Her family made a post in the community section. They said her death was sudden. Guys, she was just 30!

I don't know what else to say tbh. I hope her family and friends are doing as okay as they can be and her birds.

If someone who believes in God with all their heart and soul can pray and it destroys whatever you, a witch has tried to put on them, I wanna know why you haven't fallen to your knees in fear and awe of the Living God yet.

Because He's very real and very powerful and you as a puppet of the devil (because all that 'magic' isn't from you btw) stand no chance.

You have to do all sorts of spells and rituals and wait for certain days and collect certain things.

All they have to do is maintain their relationship with The Most High and pray.

Who's really winning?

Daily Doodles- Day 25- 11/05/24

Another catch up doodle! I drew a pretty girl with art nouveau hair!

I loved painting hair like this in the past. It's so flowy and pretty. I did the same with afros, just made the swoops smaller and more clustered.

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