AO3 Is SILENCING Me. Anyway I Wrote She Who Became The Sun/He Who Drowned The World Fic.

are you afraid of dying alone?

death of the divine ✸

as your flatter talk shivers down my spine i hear the Holy One exposing all the lies (Lord, forgive me, i know my flesh needs to die) x

baal / lucifer / michael from angels before man and angels & man by @nicosraf

close-ups + work progress under the cut

og sketches

cleaned up sketch (i can't perceive my own messy sketch's coherency ok)

1st version. didn't like how thick the lineart and the colour palette isn't clicking with me. is so i scrapped it. decided i want to do frame/illuminated manuscript thingy so i added frame and re-centered michael.

i kind of winged it for the final version, so i don't have progress of me picking colour palette or compositions. idk how i did it, i just did it, it was hard. i had a bad day so i blanked out the entire day to just lose myself in this illustration. and then uh. tada.

now some close-ups:

and some notes:

i know i want lucifer's skin to come across as "gold", so i keep picking his colour in the orange spectrum. bcs yanno--the sun (morningstar). naturally baal is more red leaning, which i think also suits his lion associated imagery well (because lion -> strength card (in tarot deck) -> red. idk, it's how my brain is)

originally michael doesn't wear an armour. i decided last minute to put him in one because fuck it; (1) armour cool and (2) i am a masochist ig

both baal and lucifer wear lipgloss. this is entirely dedicated to rafael's (the author. not the angel.) suffering. they share lipgloss by kissing, you fools.

michael has "jellyfish" hairstyle because. the front bob kinda reminds me how catholic friars/monks in certain schoolings cut their hair in that bob hair? yknow the one?? ya?? anyway it's for that imagery.

both baal and lucifer's legs are caging michael. bcs they're what ground him (vices/temptations) ahahahahaa

i actually asked rafael (author not the angel) and he said he imagined baal is a brunette, which is the same like i had in mind. except that baal asked that he got depicted as a wizened old man/wizard. so now he gets a beard and his hair is white. (he also insisted i gave him a stylish beard)

if u look closely at the jewelries the demons wore; one of lucifer's rings and baal's visible earring have gemstones the colour of michael's eyes

in return, michael's sash is the colour of the demons

baal has a ring with heliodor (yellow) for lucifer, and lucifer has a(nother) ring with red ruby for baal

baal's other gemstones are topaz and lucifer's are yellow jasper

both demons have pearl necklaces. they're supposed to represent michael('s wings ahahahahahaahaha)

my headcanon is that michael's wings are brown like sparrow's actually. BUT during the war, god gave him more power and authority and my understanding is that he got tempered into a perfect sword; so his wings turned white. when book 3 came out and they finally bang (I FUCKING HOPE THEY DO. RAFAEL. THIS IS FOR YOU RAFAEL.) his wings will turn brown againehehhehe

lucifer's coat has wing-like cut at the ends to represent his no longer existing wingsbye

michael is blue because one time i shared this imagery with rafael; michael wearing blue because of the same reason virgin mary is depicted in blue. god's favourites are in blue; fated to suffer and be left behind.

fin.

ronan complaining about capritwt is so funny when you look at capri tumblr

nona cow theory

before i read nona the ninth, i saw spoilers that convinced me nona was the soul of the cows john killed. reading the book only further confirmed this

well look who it is. my old friend. the conses of my quences.

I know Abigail saying Ianthe was "never quite the thing" is probably meant to reference some kind of political beef between them, but I just have this mental image of 14 year old Abigail being handed baby Ianthe at whatever the evil necromancer equivalent of a christening party is and just immediately deciding that this baby's vibes were weird.

me: hmm time to google something

google every time: can i PLEASE have your location PLEASE 🥺🥺🥺 I need to know where you live so BAD 😫😫😫😫 Where do you fucking from?????? 😩😩😩😩😩😩

Lestat and Louis Jock and Professor spicy roleplay sketches inspired by @sharkthinkers' new fic "Concatenate"!!

When I read that Lestats' idea of a Jock outfit was a crop top and shorts I knew I had to draw this 😤

i’m pretty sure ronan lynch described his feelings for adam parrish as an oil spill. and gansey said that loving blue sargent was like breathing. and adam parrish said that making ronan lynch smile was as charged as making a bargain with a magical forest. and ronan lynch said he would rather die than hurt adam parrish. and gansey said he would do anything just to make adam parrish smile. and ronan lynch gave blue sargent his flashlight so she wouldn’t be in the dark. and gansey and ronan lynch ran to adam parrish’s trial. and ronan lynch dreamt a sun and handcream and a car. and gansey could sleep after talking to blue sargent. and adam parrish came to get ronan lynch when he was drowning in his own mind. and ronan lynch wrote remembered over and over and over for noah czerny. and gansey and ronan lynch went and got orange juice. and adam parrish never wanted to fight with gansey again because he was his best friend. and ronan lynch worshiped adam parrish. and gansey wanted the old ronan lynch back but really just wanted any ronan lynch he could have. and they were all in love with one another.

tamquam-

-alter idem

bro we’re literally in the end times rn i wouldnt even be surprised if i open the news and hear about some guy in new zealand starting a cult because his cryo project funding got cut atp 🙄