Please excuse me while I cry over how much I’m gonna miss the RPG version of one of my characters! 😭
First board was put together about a year ago (based solely on her own story). The others I made over the course of our game and a short time after it concluded.
Okay, I’ll get over it! Time to get back to her actual story. I hope she continues to surprise me. 🥲
JOKE-OGRAPHY:
This cartoon references a lot of verses, so here's an explanation for them all:
Matthew 1:18-24 is about the Annunciation (Gabriel announcing to Mary that she will bear the Son of God). This takes place "when Mary and Joseph were betrothed but before they came together." In this context, the word "betrothed" is being used for the stage of ancient Jewish marriage where the bride and groom had entered into the marriage contract but did not yet live together. So Mary and Joseph are legally a couple, but Joseph doesn't take her into his home until the end of this section after the angel reassures him in a dream. The taking of the bride into the groom's newly built home was the final stage of the marriage.
Matthew 22:1-2 is the beginning of one of Jesus's parables where He likens the Kingdom of Heaven to a king preparing a wedding feast for his son. The Bible is just lousy with wedding imagery when it comes to God's relationship with mankind; or rather, marriage is lousy with imagery pointing to the ultimate destiny of humanity to unite entirely with God in life-giving, self-giving love.
Matthew 26:26-28 is where Jesus lifts the bread and wine at the last supper and declares them His Body and Blood of the covenant. Jesus's cup is the cup that all other cups and covenants reflect all throughout the Bible. THIS is the big one, where God pledges Himself once again to mankind, IN THE FLESH!
John 13:33 and 14:1-3 are where Jesus talks about leaving the disciples for a time, then assures them that He's going to prepare a dwelling for them in His Father's house. He adds that, once He's done, He'll come back for them, to take them to Himself. In light of the other verses compressed into this fun little amateur Bible study, we can see Jesus is once again using very wedding-coded imagery to speak about heaven and the anticipated union with the Divine.
Thanks for reading! As a reward -- and because I can't post something without a joke (per MY covenant with my patron, St. Lawrence) -- here's a classic: "What do you get when you eat all the potatoes?"
These are Mood Boards for my characters Ciar and Sorcha in volume two of their story. These kids both grow up so much in this volume, I hadn’t really realized that their aesthetics changed over time. 😅
I made these boards back on Halloween night this past year. The spooky season always makes me think of my Athol siblings. Just trying to post more to motivate myself to keep writing! ✍️
I’m writing in third person. The mc has to talk to their mom, and I’m struggling on how to address her 😭😭
“Her mom said”: Kinda clunky? Her mom? Whose mom? It shouldn’t need to be “her mom” because this is third person limited, and everything is told from the mc’s pov so OBVIOUSLY its mc’s mom…
“Mom said”: Aaaaaand now she’s our mom. She’s everyone’s mom. She’s my mom, she’s your mom. The communal mom
Ok, but hear me out. The first time I played Breath of the Wild and realized the main interaction with random pumpkins in the ground was food-oriented I couldn't believe it :O