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The Spirit that Lives On

This took around 11 hours and I have so many progress photos 🥲

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knights kissing

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Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.

It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.

Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.

Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.

Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)

Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!

You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!

If you want it in a simple phrase:

You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.

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Brian, why are you eating leftover cold fries with the bird?

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more of my gangrel ft THE beautiful princess with a disorder 🥀

+ bonus low effort doodle

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(NSFW BELOW)

Before I started doodling Nezha on the cruise, I may or may not have gotten sidetracked on drawing some Monster Prom stuff…

I love Brian and Oz…and Liam

(Literally haven’t touched on this fandom for ages, so I lowkey don’t know why this suddenly came to me.)

I’m so normal for them bye.

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And the spot art i did for @gendervapor14's gorgeous Monet fic for the color white - see the full zine here!

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Part 3 of working on my donquixote family card deck! This time its the jacks

Back when I was thinking of making the name cards just illustrations without the mirrored effect the traditional ones have, I really wanted to do Sugar framed in a toy store window or something

So reconfiguring that idea to fit the mirrored effect was tricky but oh well this is a good enough compromise

[Queens] [Aces] [Kings -Soon!] [Joker -Soon!]

Flipped versions:

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I couldn’t get this idea out of my head so I’m starting a Donquixote card deck! Yes including all the number cards and name cards and the rest of the family >:) Started with the aces bc I had the most concrete vision for them but expect the rest soon!

[Queens] [Jacks] [Kings -Soon!] [Joker -Soon!]

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Contuning my Donquixote Card Deck with the queens! Very happy with how they turned out expect the jacks next 👀👀

[Aces] [Jacks] [Kings -Soon!] [Joker -Soon!]

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Show me how unwell you are by telling me what your top song of 2025 is so far

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do you guys even like girls that have this ...

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Finishing up new body mods ╰(▔∀▔)╯

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