#Perfection/Saint

[watcheraurora]

To everyone missing Perfection/Saint!

Have the first of some one-shots in that universe! This one's a sequel!

Sol

[infernafiresword]

Happy … WIP Wednesday? (I think that’s how this goes? I’ve never been tagged for this)

Tagged by @watcheraurora

Here’s a bit of Fell From Heaven that I haven’t shared before:

It wasn’t until he was a fair distance from the angel’s guest rooms that Impulse called for the spirit of his home. Crux slithered out of a dark corner and bobbed in the air in front of him.

“Will our magic protections hold, with the angel here?”

“Dunno why you’re asking me, I’m literally an extension of your magic, Boss,” Crux grumbled. Impulse raised an eyebrow, and the spirit sighed, swirling through the air like a leaf on the wind. “I’m not sure. You’ve never decided to take a Fallen home before.”

“You make it sound like he’s a stray dog I found.”

“You’ve called him a dog before. Among other things.”

“That I have.”

“Then the analogy stands, Boss. He was right on the cusp of death. Your nemesis was at your mercy. You could’ve put him out of his misery, and yours. Why didn’t you?”

Three guesses who the angel is, and the first two don’t count.

Aaaand one more from an upcoming new chapter of my IW meta fiction crack fic, Fish-Eye Lens!

Imp Kids

Captain Slay: Frost

Captain Slay: Were those LEDs in your coat?

Evil Elsa: sure are!

Captain Slay: Why?

Evil Elsa: It’s Pride Month babes! [Pride.png]

[Image description: a selfie of Deepfrost in a cracked full-length mirror, a massive grin on his face. His coat is partly opened, revealing multiple LED lights activating in the fur lining, making the color convert to a glowing rainbow]

RedWolf: So you’ll add tiny lights for a bit but won’t let us redesign your costume? I see how it is

Evil Elsa: will you two ever let that die?

RedWolf: no

Captain Slay: No

No-pressure tags: @gerudoevernight, @nyxtheeclipse, and @colorlessdaydream

[saym0-0]

im having too much fun drawing @watcheraurora’s fae jim guys.

[gerudoevernight]

Shatter your every wall?

Okay so Shatter Your Every Wall is an alternate timeline of @watcheraurora 's fic I'm Not Looking For Perfection/I'm Not Offering a Saint. In Shatter Your Every Wall, the main couple (Jimmy and Tango) meet at Jimmy's older brother's wedding. Oh, and they're all royalty. Well, Tango takes one look at Jimmy and snatches him away back to his own kingdom. And thus follows a slow-burn romance. In a DnD-like world.

[violence-infatuation]

David Cronenberg for W Magazine, 2025.

Interview by Phoebe Chen, photographs by Grace Ahlbom, and styling by Tori López.

[uisceb]

Endlessly baffled every time I see people water down Glinda’s actions in Defying Gravity to “oh she was too cowardly or too selfish to stand by Elphaba,” as if she didn’t spend that entire sequence from Chistery’s transformation onward doing everything in her very limited power to keep Elphaba safe.

Like the second things start going wrong, Glinda’s entire focus switches to “keep Elphaba safe at all costs.” This girl does not have any magic. She does not have any physical survival skills. She probably has no idea how to throw a punch. She can barely run in those heels. Her one power is her charm and her ability to work a crowd. She is desperately trying to get Elphaba to come back with her not because she agrees with what the Wizard and Morrible are doing, but because she thinks maybe if she can just smooth things over, Elphaba will be forgiven, and she’ll be safe. 

In that regard, there’s a very obvious selfishness to Glinda’s actions - she lacks perspective; she lacks scope; she prioritizes Elphaba over what we as the audience would understand as the “Greater Good” and over her own morals about what’s going on with the Wizard’s agenda; she’s visibly horrified by what happens to Chistery but her first instinct is to comfort Elphaba above all else, despite having no understanding of what's happening.

I am the last person who’s ever going to argue that Glinda isn’t selfish, because she very clearly is, it’s one of her defining characteristics, and it’s one of the main things she has to learn to overcome in order to actually become “Glinda the Good.” This is in no way me trying absolve my very selfish girl who very much made the wrong decision.

But it does kinda boggle my mind when I see the argument that Glinda betrayed Elphaba or is a “fake friend.” Especially because ultimately she comes to the conclusion that the best thing she can do for Elphaba in this moment is to let her go. She knows she would only hinder Elphaba if she were to go with her, she knows there’s no happy ending for them if she tries to run away with her (I think in that moment she might even suspect there’s no happy ending at all). Elphaba is going through her own personal revelation which is beautiful in its own right, but it’s also impulsive, and there’s a certain level of unsustainable grandiose fantasy to it. Glinda almost lets herself be swept up in it for a moment, but her rational side kicks in, because, of the main trio, Glinda really is the most grounded in reality.

I’ve seen a lot of weirdly smug people out there proudly saying if Fiyero was there he definitely would’ve gotten on the broom with Elphaba - and honestly, I think they’re probably right. But it’s not because he’s somehow morally superior to Glinda, or that his love for Elphaba is more pure. Our boy is depressed, he’s nihilistic, he’s lost, and truly doesn’t have any attachments to anyone.

He was genuinely moved by Elphaba’s fearless convictions and he fell hard and fast for her, so I agree he’d be on that broom in a heartbeat, he quite literally has nothing to lose, and everything to gain. He’s found himself wanting to believe in something for the first time because Elphaba brought that out in him, his whole world revolves around her. And that’s very romantic, but because of that, the stakes are much lower. For him, leaving everything behind wouldn’t be a sacrifice, it would be freedom.

Glinda’s gone through the world much differently, much more carefully. She doesn’t have Fiyero’s sense of nihilism or detachment, she’s lashed herself tight to the reality of the world around her. Where Fiyero has been regularly kicked out of schools and freely wandered from place to place experiencing new things and getting into trouble on purpose, Glinda has never stepped outside the predictable comfort and safety of her bubble until meeting Elphaba. She lives in constant fear of failure and being looked down on. She is forever clinging to this persona she’s created because she’s terrified of what will happen if she’s anything less than perfect.

She has constructed her entire existence around being an icon rather than a person - in the beginning, she literally doesn’t know how to be her own self, she’s just barely learning, because of Elphaba. And it scares the shit out of her. 

Fiyero would likely play action hero if he was there for Defying Gravity, and that’s great, but Glinda is weighing a million things in her head, not least of which is “holy shit the person I love most in the world is in imminent danger and I have no magic and no strength to keep her safe, so I will beg and plead and insult and fight her tooth and nail to keep her with me inside my privileged bubble because maybe I can smooth this over, maybe everything will be okay if I just do what I always do and use my privilege to get my way.” She understands the rules of her world, so she’s going to play by those rules because that’s how you win the game.

Elphaba, of course, refuses to play a corrupt game at all, and Glinda gets angry - she lashes out at Elphaba because Elphaba has just put herself in such a dangerous situation, and Glinda is completely powerless to change it. Every little bit of control Glinda is used to having is obliterated.

Her “Maybe you’re not as powerful as you think you are” when Elphaba doesn’t grow wings is so desperate - the words border on cruel, but her tone is both painfully apologetic and above all filled with RELIEF because while her heart hurts for Elphaba, she’s terrified that Elphaba would hurt herself the way Chistery was hurt, and she’s cleaving to the hope that maybe if Elphaba isn’t as powerful as she thinks she is, Glinda stands a chance at undoing the damage, and protecting her. 

Glinda’s selfishness is just so fascinating to me because it’s so rich and so contradictory - she loves Elphaba so deeply and destructively that she fully paralyzes herself when the chips are down and it breaks them both. She fails to be what Elphaba wants her to be, and she fails to be a good person, but there’s no “fake friend” about her actions - she is acting on pure desperation to keep this person she loves safe in literally the only way she knows how, at the cost of everything else, including what’s right, which is something Elphaba could never abide by. Elphaba would never compromise her own morals, but at this point in the story Glinda is willing to compromise everything as long as Elphaba is tucked away in her bubble with her, and that difference in values is irreconcilable to both of them. 

So, realizing this, Glinda does the one last thing she can think of to protect her at this point, and wraps a cloak around her shoulders to keep her warm. That’s all that’s left.

She’s selfish and she’s cowardly and she’s brave and she’s loving and she fails Elphaba and she fails herself and she regrets her decision for the rest of her life and yes I am writing all this with glass under my tongue and between my teeth, she makes me insane.

[facethemuses]

being an alfred pennyworth fan is so strange because so many of you are wrong. what do you mean he's a saintly father figure there to quip at everyone and be the voice of reason???? you don't even KNOW him.

alfred 'abandoned his daughter to run off to gotham only to not raise bruce as well, who promoted all of bruce's worst habits like the #boymom he is, who chose bruce over the children but still didn't let him forget that he was not his father, who lied to the family about julia's existence and blamed her for their bad relationship' pennyworth?

I love him because he ruins everything he touches and is the world's worst father. you like him because you have fundamentally misunderstood him as a person.

you're saying THEE #1 dc toxic boy mom is a saint? what the fuck are you guys ON about?

[watcheraurora]

Oh these look awesome! I love them!

fell off a fence, broke my phone and lost all of my ibispaint wips )-: Have a ranchers sketch until I'm able to make new things again.

(design inspired by @watcheraurora 's perfection/saint au)

[singledigitsalary]

[watcheraurora]

Guess what, folks!

New Perfection/Saint one-shot! One of the more (but certainly not the most) highly-requested one-shot ideas from the original comments section. Enjoy!

Two First Flights

[infernafiresword]

Im really curious about "Did it hurt when you fell from Heaven?" Anything you would like to share?

Sure! :D

That’s the working title (that will probably become the real title, knowing me) for a one-shot set in @watcheraurora’s Perfection/Saint series, focused on Impulse and Skizz’s past :)

Here. Have a look at the first section.

Skizz wasn’t sure how far he’d gone. His sight still hadn’t returned from his Fall. All he was doing was stumbling, occasionally crawling, across the ground of the Material Plane. Chasing that sense of a great power on the horizon that could maybe give him his vision again.

His toes got caught on something stubbornly unyielding and he crashed back down onto his hands and knees in a mockery of supplication.

A rock? A root? Didn’t matter. His bare feet hurt all the same.

He shifted his hands to try and stand. His fingers touched paving stones — not laid like a road, but like a path.

The power felt like it was coming up from the path. Skizz stumbled back to his feet, and forced himself to ignore the feeling of the sharper edges of the stones digging into his skin as he made his way up the path.

Still blind, still guided by his senses.

His toes hit another raised stone edge and he couldn’t get his balance back fast enough. Flapping his wings just made the nerve endings shriek and made him ‘feel’ how crispy his feathers had become.

His body hit uneven stones and planks and he groaned in complaint at the impact.

There was a sound of a door opening and then closing ahead of him. The sound of boot heels on wooden planks, carefully advancing towards him.

The source of the power he’d been chasing glowed in front of him.

Skizz reached out weakly. “I can’t see,” he rasped, hating how shaky his voice was. “Please …”

Whoever was there, they knelt and muttered something in Common. Skizz felt their fingertips trace a pattern on his forehead, and then pain tore through him, but in comparison to his Fall it didn’t hurt as bad.

He squeezed his eyes shut, and then cautiously opened them.

Shapes began to blur into focus, and he wanted to cry with joy as he regained his vision, letting him see who he had stumbled across the Material Plane to find —

Skizz’s ichor ran cold.

The last time he’d seen that face, the Archdemon had been clad in Infernal Steel armor painted black and gold, wielding a sword with a blade sharp enough to cut the sky. 15 feet tall, with massive leathery wings and a cadre of warriors at his back.

Even shrunken down to be the size of a human, his old nemesis’ face hadn’t changed even over centuries.

His ichor went from freezing to boiling in the space of a heartbeat, the long-dormant hatred flaring up in his heart and mind; all higher thoughts replaced with the primal desire to finally see his enemy broken before him.

Skizz pulled his hand back as a snarl twisted his mouth, calling on the magic innate within him — he was Fallen but still an archangel —

His grasp came up empty, a pitiful sparkler burst of light being the only result instead of the holy fireball he was going for.

His actions did not go unnoticed.

The Archdemon grasped his throat and hoisted him up, and Skizz’s vision swam, from abruptly going from lying horizontal to being vertical. His enemy’s mouth was twisted in a nasty mirror of his own, glowing yellow eyes narrowed at Skizz and sharp canines bared; all the old grudges painted plainly on his face.

Skizz tried to take a swing. If he was about to die to his old enemy, he refused to let himself die without landing a blow first.

The strike connected, but not strong enough to bruise. He doubted the Archdemon even felt it.

The Archdemon tilted his head at his feeble attempt at fighting back.

Darkness welled up in the corners of his vision, and Skizz felt alarm at the idea of losing his sight again — an absurd notion, when he was about to die.

A short sentence chased him into darkness. Blunt and biting.

“I still hate you.”

[watcheraurora]

I'm gonna be honest, I don't know XD It's just the way my brain works... but this one being written so fast was lightning in a bottle and hopefully will never happen again for the sake of my sanity XD

That said

OH MY FREAKING GOD! THIS IS AMAZING!

OMG the detail is absolutely stunning! The citadel in the mountains! Jimmy! (Everything about him, but that outfit is fantastic!) The interior of the carriage even! There's embroidery on the curtains! I love the frame of the Ice King from behind! It looks so good!

And then the interior of the citadel?! I am losing my mind over here! (Too late. It's already lost) Look at the frost on the floor or maybe it's a rug and I'm just a derp in the pretty pattern! And the fire in the first panel and the visible wear on the stairs? And then Tango AAAAAHHHHH! Look at him! Coat, circlet! That earring? I love it?! The embroidery on the belt??? Hello?! Gorgeous???! And his attitude!!! And his eyes - they look so just, like, otherworldly and ethereal! I have no idea how you made the fur lining look so good but it's gorgeous

And all the lighting and the snow and just - aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

My friend, you are absolutely amazing! I am so honored and so, so grateful you share your skills with me! This is incredible and beautiful and just - I don't even know all the right words to express the joy and awe I feel you'd think that the Word Nerd would, but the Word Nerd cannot

@watcheraurora How do you write like tomorrow wont arrive ~

They started another ranchers fanfic, a fantasy au with elements of DND in there, and I couldn't not draw fanart for it. Here's a sneaky link for those interested

[saym0-0]

hi fun fact your fanart of perfection/saint inspired me to read the fic. thought you'd like to know that

oh my gosh :D the propaganda is working! /silly thats so cool though i hope you enjoyed it as much as i did <3

[vynnyal]

I've been having a delightful time stumbling over my emojis being used in random servers, so here's more

[saltsig]

taste of your own medicine

[betterbooksandthings]

Best Fantasy Anime (with mostly female leads)

Listen, I love fantasy anime. They are fun and I love a fight scene as much as the next girl. I am relatively uninterested in male leads mostly because of the *cough, cough* excessive fan service. So, without further adu, if you are interested in some fantasy with women at the helm here's what I got.

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

Yona of the Dawn

Inuyasha

Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina

Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss But I'm Not the Demon Lord

7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!

Fluffy Paradise

Ascendance of a Bookworm

I Shall Survive Using Potions!

The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent

Tearmoon Empire

My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!

Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts

Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for my Retirement

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear

I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss

Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

Reincarnated as a Sword

Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools

Kakuriyo -Bed & Breakfast for Spirits-

The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess

Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!

Management of Novice Alchemist

I'll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History

Nina the Starry Bride

Snow White with the Red Hair

ZENSHU

These ones I am keeping an eye on but signs point to a favorable outcome.

The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor

Promise of Wizard

The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom

The Gorilla God's Go-To Girl