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Varian Demiurgos | Altera Luce

Varian Demiurgos, or from his title Altera Luce, is Michael's son who got newly exiled from Heaven. This is him in his angelic-demon form. Much like his uncle Lucifer and father, he too is a seraphim or archangel.

I swear I have lore for him that I wanna share if anyone's interested. I'll post a another one for his girlfriend. Have fun!

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It's my 1 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳 nice

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Fate really enjoys playing with my life

Unknowingly fall for someone who isn't mine,

'Cause I found out you're with someone I know

Kindly stay away, my clandestine gaze towards you so

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I made a little Halloween art of me and my bf.

We wanted to go for The Owl House vibes so I drew us some palismen.

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I cannot even begin to state how important Willow as a character would’ve been for me, if Owl House aired when I was a child. She’s such good representation.

Like Willow, I had a chubby round face, glasses, and struggled with asserting myself. But the 1990s and early 2000s was the era of girlbosses like Buffy and Kim Possible. If we did see a shy character with glasses, lord knows they wouldn’t receive a romantic protagonist arc until they got a whole makeover.

And yet, even without a makeover… Willow gets to be cool! She became popular at Hexside, is the captain of a sports team, and!!! the goddamn child prodigy of the Emperor’s Coven??? our beloved gen-z zuko??? has a huge fat embarrassing crush on her??? That would’ve blown my mind as a child!!!

Much like all of Owl House’s other amazing representation, even though I didn’t benefit from it as a child, I’m glad that modern nerdy chubby-faced kids can feel cool, when they watch Willow succeed at life.

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Tagged by @ticktockteapot

In no particular order

1 - Spirited Away (2001)

2 - Enchanted (2007)

3 - Encanto (2021)

4 - Alice In Wonderland (2010)

5 - Beetlejuice (1988)

Oh shoots I've forgotten the names of my moots. Anyone can join 😅

WHEN YOU GET THIS SAY YOUR 5 FAVOURITE MOVIES AND TAG 15 PEOPLE

@sullisuu thanks for tagging me!!

(in no particular order)

isi & ossi

lord of the rings trilogy

Elvis

Dune

Love actually

@flyingpurplepeopleeater42 @mousmoula @gleek-runner @summergirl2408 @pk--fire @honeybadgerr @darkside-cookies @drseward @purple-amaranthe @capymaraa @mne-bolno @angelixgutz @georgeinamerc @forever-eat-sleep-manatee @i-control-the-die

no pressure ofc

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You have no clue how long I've waited for any content to cone back to this Fandom. Thank the gods

Sometimes, we have to take matters into our own hands. ( ╹▽╹ ) I'm glad you enjoy it! If you crave for more, the wonderful @wcmi-22 has written a lovely collection of WCMI fics

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Everything's too fast I have a Math test fast approaching and i haven't finished the storylffdlghehhf cx,z ?cxv.

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Aaaaah I'm supposed to upload that story but college is crawling in my skin djndhjdhsus

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Alice being sailor? 👀👀

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"I am a beautiful palm tree."

Here's some late Alice in Wonderland art based off the Disneyland Alice from one of Bri-chan's YouTube videos. And yes, I've been messing with halftones lately.

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Happy Alice In Wonderland Day! Grab your teacups and have a mad tea party!

My RPG Alice (Stained Glass), circa April 2019 (a.k.a my previous profile pic)

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I'm really sorry y'all I just need more time. I've honestly been procrastinating and preparing for college but I'll soon post that fic featuring Alice.

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Alice will be in the picture soon, I just need more character study

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What's A Good Title?

It was a beautiful day outside. The momeraths are singing, flowers are gossiping. On day's like this little Reginald Leopold Theophilus III would spend the weekends with his grandfather who happens to be the famed Mad Hatter of Wonderland, the first Reginald. "How was your tea party yesterday, great grandpa?"

"It was splendiferous until a little girl joined in uninvited. Uninvited! She was rather agnorant at first." As described by the old milliner whilst pouring some tea, trying to recall more about the blonde girl. Listening to his grandfather, all Reggie could think of was tea, manatee.. Tea and -tee.. Teahee!

Tuning back into his great grandpa's stories, Reginald concluded that this Alice girl has a hair that needs cutting and that she is a menace to society. "When she comes back here I'm giving her a piece of my mind. She is not gonna be a friend.. Never ever."

"Now, now, Reggie. That's not how it goes, people can still change who knows maybe this Alice won't be so prude if she returns..." Woah. Did his grandfather just give some very sane advice? "And if she's still rude, you can always escort her in the Tulgey Woods."

As Reggie as it gets, that went from one ear to the other. The boy visited his grandfather more frequently, setting traps around Wonderland. One of which backfired on the poor white rabbit but was also how he met the March Hare's nephew, Ears, who was now in tow of whatever mission this freckled boy had.

As years went by, the Mad Hatter title was passed on but so did his grandfather. That was also the year he began seeing a purple squirrel that distracted him quite a lot from his haberdashery work but also helped him get flings, breaking hearts here and there. Now, he was always on the hunt for pretty women rather than hunting for unsuspecting blue cladded blonde girls. That was until one fateful tea party when Ears invited a lady, "It's also someone you happen to know."

On that very same day, Reginald Leopold Theophilus III once again swore that he does not want to be friends with Alice Liddell... but rather be more.

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I'll posting one of my first WCMI fic soon.

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Your English teachers lied to you.

Thought I'd post my old writing advice guides onto this blog since I deleted my old one. I hope it's helpful!

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Listen. I respect the hell out of teachers. The vast majority of them work crazy hard and most of the time, including the times they give you well-meaning ‘writing rules,’ only want to instill good and helpful habits into you.

That doesn’t change the fact that many of these rules are stupid.

Here are my top five ‘writing rule’ pet peeves, and five rules that should be followed.

✗ Don’t write ‘said.’

Okay, I know this is common knowledge by now, but it’s so important. The concept that you can never write ‘ so-and-so said’ is hurting novice writers’ narratives. Said is invisible. Said is powerful. Said is transformable. If every quote ends in a strong synonym, it is distracting. Sometimes, in an established repartee, quotes don’t need to be tagged at all. Or an adverb following ‘said’ might be better for the narrative than any single verb.

Eg. // “I hate the rain,” grumbled David.

“I love it,” Claire announced.

“You love everything,” he muttered.

“Including you!” she giggled.

versus.

“I hate the rain,” grumbled David.

“I love it,” said Claire.

“You love everything,” he said impatiently.

“Including you!”

✓ Don’t write ‘something.’

Cold hard truth, baby. ‘Something’ is a draft word. It’s what you write when you want to think of a replacement. I cringe when I see it in a sentence that would have been improved tenfold by a specific noun or descriptive phrase in its place. There are times when ‘something’ works or is the only option, but experiment by replacing that word with more description before deciding it’s necessary to keep.

Eg. // He pulled something shiny from his pocket. She craned her neck to see what it was. A metal flask. versus. A flash of light caught the metal he pulled from his pocket. She craned her neck to see what it was. A drinking flask.

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✗ Avoid adverbs.

This is true and false, but I’ll address the false part first. The concept that you can’t use adverbs at all is ridiculous. Don’t blindly (!) replace every adverb in your prose with a single verb because someone said you should. You want whatever you are writing to flow well and to deliver the best impact or imagery. Sometimes that means adverbs. Or you might want the verb to be discreet (such as when using ‘said’) but still want to invoke emotion. That also means adverbs.

Eg. // "Don't do that!" she spluttered, panicked by the urgency of the situation. versus. "Don't do that!" she said frantically, panicked by the urgency of the situation.

✓ Use strong verbs. At least consider them.

Verbs make the world go ‘round, people. Most of the time, a strong verb will make your writing flow well and deliver the best impact or imagery. Weigh a strong verb against an adverb + weaker verb and decide the one you want to keep in a scene. Don’t just stick with whichever you wrote first because you grew attached to the sentence.

Eg. // She held up her blood-slicked sword proudly, her other fist raised triumphantly. versus. She thrust her blood-slicked sword into the air, her other fist clenched high in triumph.

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✗ Don’t use a thesaurus.

I. HATE. This rule. I had an English teacher in middle school who marked any words she thought you had looked up as wrong. As a young reader with a large vocabulary, I was always needing to prove that I hadn’t just picked a random synonym from a thesaurus, that I knew and deliberately chose those words. (That sentence has a great example of a necessary adverb! Get BENT Mrs E. (She also hated adverbs.)) This is the same idiotic concept as telling artists not to use reference images. Use a thesaurus if a certain word is failing you or you hate every word you’ve come up with yourself. There’s nothing bad or shameful about it.

Eg. // There are no examples for this. I’m not sure how I would even do that. Insert stock photo of someone perusing a thesaurus here?

✓ Don’t use words you aren’t comfortable with.

Now, when you search the great wide web for a synonym to a word and then choose whichever one sounds nice because hey, the internet said it was interchangeable, so it must be! … Yeah. Don’t do that.

I use a thesaurus to find words that I can’t think of in the moment but they are always ones I still know. Every word has a subtle (or not so subtle) connotation that you need familiarity with before deciding it is the perfect replacement. Know your words before you start playing Mix n Match.

Eg. // Amusement in the profession puts transcendence in the performance. (Utter nonsense, written by me and thesaurus.com) versus. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. (Inspiring quote, written by Aristotle)

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✗ Don’t end sentences with a preposition.

Whoever made up this rule is an elitist hack. (I just googled it, and supposedly it began with a bunch of 17th century scholars who thought English should have Latin’s grammar, so. Yeah. Elitist hacks.) Ending sentences in prepositions sounds wayyyyy more natural than the alternative. If you don’t want to sound stilted, beat this rule into the dirt.

Eg. // They didn’t know of what she was capable. versus. They didn’t know what she was capable of.

✓ Be conscientious of your sentence construction.

A lot of grammar rules are bogus. Not ending a sentence with a preposition, not starting a sentence with a conjunction, not laying face down on the floor and screeching… Oh, right, that latter one isn’t a rule, it’s just what you want to do when you have to think about grammar.

But, regardless of bogus grammar rules, you need to put thought into your sentence construction. Editing (not writing) is the best time to do this. That’s when you can make sure the words flow together naturally as an individual sentence, as part of a paragraph, and within the chapter as a whole.

Another common construction faux pas that I see is disregarding the sequence of events because you believe it will have greater impact. In reality, if you avoid putting your narration out of order, it usually results in stronger sentences.

Eg. // "Tell me it's not true!" He stood in the doorway after bursting into Kyle's room, panting from his sprint up the stairs. versus. He sprinted up the stairs two at a time and burst into Kyle's room without knocking. "Tell me it's not true!" he demanded breathlessly.

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✗ If you break writing rules you’re a bad writer.

If anyone tries to convince you of this, kick them in the neck. (You heard it here folks, kick your DANG TEACHERS IN THE NECK.) (Not really, please don’t.) (If you do, though, don’t say that I encouraged it.) (I’m not encouraging it, I just want to make that clear. Please be nice to your teachers, they have hard jobs.)

Rules were made to be broken. You just need to know the rules in the first place in order to decide to break them, so it’s never a bad thing to educate yourself on general writing advice. Still, there is a fine line between creative liberty and bad writing, and sometimes a famous book or author turns the latter into the former. Know your stuff, but don’t be afraid to throw your stuff into the fire and watch it burn. (Figuratively. Don’t literally throw your possessions into fire, that’s irresponsible on so many levels.) (A lot of parentheses in this rule rant.) (Now that’s just bad writing.)

✓ Take writing rules and advice with a grain of salt, but don’t ignore them.

As a novice writer, or even an experienced one, it is hard to differentiate between which rules work best in your own prose. You may only realize it in hindsight. That doesn’t mean you should ignore every piece of writing advice or dismiss criticism of your work. Think critically about your own style, read books you enjoy and think about their styles, and deliberate– don’t dismiss. Maybe your writing style requires no dangling prepositions or never using an adverb. That’s your decision to make. Just… don’t make it because you’re too stubborn to see how you can improve.

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That’s all I’ve got! Do you have any pet peeves about common writing advice? Feel free to reblog and add your own!

Don’t forget to write a sentence of your story today! Thanks for reading~