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🎀🐍 THIS IS A STORY - ARC 2 FINALE (Pennylou comic series) 🐍🎀

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Let's get the formalities out of the way - credit for the hotel panel goes entirely to Hazbin Hotel's animation team as it was lifted directly from the show! I couldn't replicate it in a million years even if I traced it, wayyyy too many details 😭

With that said, WOW! I can't believe it! We actually got to the end of what I had originally scripted! That happens, like, never!

So, what now?

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✨DEVI'S MERCH NEWS✨

Are you a Hazbin Hotel fan? Would you call yourself an Alastor simp, an Angel Dust enthusiast, perhaps you ship yourself with Lucifer? Or are you like me and love our underappreciated snake boy just a tad too much? Well have I got something cooking up for ya!

🍎 GRAND REVEAL: 31.03.2025 00:00 GMT+1 🍎

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✨COMMISSION FOR ASLARIMAR (IG) ✨

Really enjoyed drawing ��the boyfriends✨, Taral my beloved 💕

I took this commission as a "preorder" because we're friends and because I didn't want it to take up slots, but here's a reminder that commissions ARE officially reopening soon! I'm aiming for the end of the month, I just reaaaally don't feel like making a new comm sheet that's long overdue, lol

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🎀🐍 CONFRONTATION (Pennylou comic series) 🐍🎀

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Ah Betty, how easily do the cold walls she puts up always crumble...

Make no mistake, not all is forgiven YET... but it's a good first step. What fate awaits Betty's mom next? Tune in to the ARC 2 FINALE NEXT WEEK to find out!

I just wanna talk about her design for a sec - I know there are plenty of spiders in the show as is, but I was looking into animals that kill their mates and the moment I saw the red hourglass marking of a black widow I was instantly like "okay, this would translate SO WELL to a red dress". And the "widow" part fits too 🤭

Lastly, for those unfamiliar with the show or in need of clarification as to why she glitched when trying to touch Betty - we only see the embassy once, and Adam uses a semi-tangible hologram instead of being actually physically there. It might just be his personal preference, sure, but I like to think that's just how embassy meetings work, with identical rooms on both ends visually overlapping.

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Had to jump on this trend (original under the cut) because what do you MEANNNN that's not pretty much Betty in the original pic 😭

I wonder if anyone would be interested in a print of this...

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🎀🐍 REVELATION (Pennylou comic series) 🐍🎀

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Can y'all believe I sent Pentious back into therapy and got him diagnosed just so I could justify the autism line because my friends and I found it too damn funny to let it go and it didn't make sense for him to have known already? 😂 Because that's precisely what happened.

The end seems rather ominous... But I think you know what's coming next :]

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when people find details in my art that i didn't intend to mean anything but still find a way to connect it to the themes of the work or find meaning in it thus making the piece feel more whole because of both the creator and the viewer

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🎀🐍 CHANGE (Pennylou comic series) 🐍🎀

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Woo, we're slowly wrapping up Betty's development arc! I bet my favorite commenter @breadinvader will have a field day picking the symbolism apart, lol

2 more comics left until the Arc 2 finale 💕

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To me, this ship is MY HuskerDust.

I love it when I’m commissioned to draw my favorite ships! 🥰

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Did a little edit of the Bandai Sir Pentious plushie because WHY DOES MERCH ALMOST ALWAYS MAKE HIM LOOK MEAN AND WHY IS HIS HEAD SO WIDE. JUST LET HIM BE A CUTIE PATOOTIE FOR ONCE

I would SO buy him if he looked like this. Alas... :(((

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🎀🐍 MAKE IT UP TO YOU (Pennylou comic series) 🐍🎀

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After all the drama and trauma, y'all deserved something lighthearted 😅 Lowkey based on real life because how the HECK are you supposed to respond to 🔥 pics 😭

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🎀🐍 NOT LIKE HER (Pennylou comic series) - EPILOGUE 🐍🎀

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Betty promised to find another way to keep Pentious safe... And she keeps her promises.

@bbsundae 's Caerwyn makes an appearance yet again! I guess she's part of the lore now. Lute shouldn't be able to stir up any trouble... at least for some time.

By the way, today is double upload day since I didn't want you all to wait a week for something so short! If you're reading this right after I posted this comic, the next one should be up in an hour from now!

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Btw, since some people have asked - since I'm almost finished with Arc 2 of the comic and will finally have some free time, I'll be officially reopening commissions in the second half of March!! Get your money ready if you want one!

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🎀🐍 NOT LIKE HER (Pennylou comic series) - Part 5 🐍🎀

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AUGHHHHH THE SUFFERING 😭😭😭 At least Betty's got nothing to hide anymore. It's... bittersweet, to have one's soul laid so bare.

Now all that's left to be taken care of is the Lute dilemma. All in due time...

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Devi's ramblings about her own oc x canon ship pt. 2

Now that this part of Betty's past has been revealed (please read Not Like Her - part 4 before reading this if you haven't yet, unless you don't mind spoilers for my comic!), time to talk about my all time favorite contrast between Betty and Pen, that is, the effects of Betty coming from an abusive family, while in my headcanon/theory, Pentious being kind of the neglected black sheep of his family.

Because it really does dictate a lot of their behavior. Pentious, not having received enough attention as a child, seeks people's approval at all costs and has no self-esteem whatsoever beyond the one thing he knows he's good at. He's dramatic and feels like he has to be loud and bold to make himself heard.

In contrast, Betty shies away from attention (especially the negative type) and is very conflict avoidant because she's learned that if she makes herself small and agreeable, she's less likely to get in trouble.

In interpersonal conflict, if unable to separate herself from the situation physically so that she could cry it out where no one would see her, Betty assumes a cold and distant façade, however fragile it is with emotions bubbling right under the surface. She feels that she can't show emotional weakness, or else she risks someone preying on her vulnerability.

On the other end, Pentious immediately resorts to people-pleasing because he's panically afraid of losing the reassurance he practically feeds off of. Luckily for him, his tactic seems to break down the walls Betty builds up pretty easily.

And I often think about Viv saying that Pentious would like a family, even though he wouldn't easily admit it. And the fact that sure, in the context (since it was in response to whether he actually has a son) it probably mostly refers to, y'know, creating a family. Having a loving partner, some kids... but like... Where are HIS parents. What if he wants a family (and he cared so much about Charlie and Lucifer reconciling) because his own didn't give two fucks about him. Meanwhile, Betty only associates having children with misery because she, as a child, told herself that if not for her, if not for the need to "keep the family together", her mom could've left and no one would've had to die when that is very far from the truth and not something she should ever blame herself for.

I don't have any nice way to close this thought. That is all, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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At last, it's out! This was a result of a Q&A over on Instagram, please remember though that my ask box on here is always open 🤗

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🎀🐍 NOT LIKE HER (Pennylou comic series) - Part 4 🐍🎀

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The secret is finally out... and it's certainly not pretty 😔

Meet Betty's grandma, Leonora! It's really funny that I named her that because she's lowkey maned lioness-inspired. The "leo" in her name is a complete coincidence but hey, if it works it works!