Forever Forward

When I first moved to Prague I had a colleague who had such great style, and I always complimented her because I thought she was hot and cool. Years later when we were friends, she told me that she always suspected me of trying to manipulate her somehow because that is not how Czechs roll, and it was really inconceivable to her that I was simply complimenting her with no ulterior motive, but that's culturally normal to me?

Also, I am married to a British person, and his mother is an artist -- she's a collograph print-maker, and she told me that whenever she wants a pick me up, she sends photos of her latest prints to me, because I can be counted upon to say something nice. What can I say? I love her work? Her prints are beautiful, so...not faking?

And he was like...are all of you like that? You say nice things to total strangers as if you're life-long friends??

And the entire comment section was like: Yup. Absolutely. This is 100% a thing we do.

And someone looked up a picture of the backpack and shared it and we were all like OMG THAT IS AN AMAZING BACKPACK yeah if I saw someone in any city on earth wearing that thing I would in fact say something.

Sometimes posts on that subreddit are a trash fire, but we were all so happy to talk about times we've told strangers compliments or been complimented by strangers.

🪴Art Booveau: Spring - Venus McFlytrap🪴

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I've been on a huge art nouveau kick lately (Mucha is one of my all time favourite artists and a huge inspiration for me) so I wanted to start an illustration series inspired by his Seasons paintings but with Monster High dolls!

Green is my favourite colour so this first piece has been a bit of a dream for me in terms of colour haha :P

I hope you all like her! I plan on doing pieces for the other seasons if there's enough interest so watch this space <3

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