AvAcado Not Avocado

She/her Certified yapper about both my friend's and my own OCs Pfp by @holidamned

[helplessavacado]

💖 Introduction To The Nonsense 💖

My name is Alex, and I moved here from Instagram (also helpless-avacado, nothing if not consistent). I’ve got a love for fantasy, sci-fi, birds, beasts, bugs, and biblical lore. I am a LoTR and Hobbit fan, a lover of Blue Eyed Samurai, Arcane, Spiderverse, and my bestie’s stories. I’ve got a few tales of my own in the works, and more than a few fanworks just for funzies.

BEFORE YOU DM ME PLS LOOK AT THIS POST (asks are fine, dms I'm more picky about)

Establishing navigation tags early to simplify things:

Semi-Religious Stories

• #shoulders(avacado) — The first legitimate prophet since John of Patmos, Jenny Woods, starts seeing her death alongside apocalyptic visions, and does everything in her power to prevent it. Religious trauma and existential horror galore.

• #threerealms(avacado) — Jean has to deal with two over-invested supernatural entities bickering over their future in the afterlife. Found-family, queer-self-love, and a coming-of-age in spite of all the difficulties.

• #Heresy(avacado) — Biblical stories penned from the perspective of Fallen angels, so convoluted, so many characters, SO much blasphemy

• Angeltober2024 & Angeltober2025 masterposts

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Babes (with religion sprinkled in cause I'm predictable)

• #divineinheritance — Manifest Destiny, colonialism, imperialism, and all the horrors that come along with it but in Space. So many alien species and so many concept sketches.

Dwarrowdams, AUs, Etc.

• #tagalongau — a self-insert that took on a mind of her own and became an entirely different character. Alda joins the company of Thorin Oakenshield, shenanigans ensue.

• #pilkado aus — general tag for characters and stories that both @pilkypills and myself have a hand in

• #erid_luin_roundup — a beautiful tale detailing the discord that Óin and his family go through after Erebor/Dale is destroyed. So much chaos, so many romances, and such a beautiful homage to community and connection!!! (Pilkado aus)

• #quest_to_Mazam — Thâri and Góa go on a quest to both discover and recover family lines… with the unhelpful addition/third wheel known as Henní lmao (Pilkado aus)

• #design.a.dwarrowdam — a December drawing challenge centered around the beautiful dwarrowdams that Tolkien didn't take advantage of so I did. Prompt list and my Masterpost (for 2025 ).

Self Indulgent Stuff

• #talesintertwined — Pirate/Mermaid AU/Crossover (my OC, Kylen, and @holidamned's OC, Mary). They’re in love, and they deal with the trauma of abandonment in a world that's hunting you down for no reason other than your existence. No further explanation needed.

• #marymonday and #wormwoodwednesday — a lil drawing challenge that holidamned and I do every so often for our OCs

[sancta-seraphina]

You've probably talked about it before, but I'm curious, what drew you to associate Lucifer with peacocks? And, Beelzebub with crows? Your art is stunning.

Well there's multiple reasons, actually ☺️ I am always happy to explain them.

I'm putting this under a break because I got long-winded

🐝 Starting with Bee because there's less to explain.

With Bee, well, I just like crows. But even in Heaven, Bee (Bael) was a bit too dark and ominous (in both personality and looks) for the other angels (this is stated in Holiest actually). I wanted a similarly sinister bird to match him, but also one that was somewhat silly. The crow suited him perfectly here. I also get to make jokes about how he’s the “original goth.”

There’s also one of Aesop’s Fables about a crow (sometimes a jackdaw) and a peacock, in which the crow did not like his black plumage (Bael does not like his black plumage during Heresiarch for aforementioned reasons) and stole some of the peacock’s feathers to wear out of envy, but was eventually humiliated. It’s supposed to be a cautionary story about vanity. Uh, I guess in my version, the crow kind of stole the peacock’s heart instead of his feathers, and the peacock ended up telling the crow that he adores his dark plumage (it is indeed one of his favorite things about Bee). Sorry for the cute Heresiarch spoilers. 

🦚 For Luci, it's mainly lore related. There's a surprising amount of folklore that relates peacocks with both good and evil, and also with death and resurrection.

The most obvious, which is the thing everyone presumes about my Lucifer, is that it's a reference to the peacock angel Melek Taus. But it's not that simple, and for obvious reasons I did not want to appropriate that religion (which, while sharing some themes, is very different from Christianity). I did not want my character to be a Melek Taus interpretation, and it will take up way too much time and space to explain why. I can go into detail about that some other time.

Putting that aside, the peacock shows up in Biblical folklore, too, albeit in negative ways. There is a tale which states that the peacock was one of the animals in Eden. He, along with the snake, was tricked into helping Satan, and both animals were cast out. The peacock is also rather famously associated with the sin of pride/vanity, especially as a symbol in art—which ties it directly to the devil, since that is his sin, too. No one can deny that they're gorgeous birds (but I always ask, how much of this was due to prejudice regarding the previous paragraph? The genocidal history indicates a lot). I won't list all of the other Christian folk beliefs here—I say 'folk beliefs' because peacocks are only officially mentioned in the Bible once, I believe.

Moving on, peacocks also have a curious connection with death, resurrection, and funerals. Peacock motifs are frequently found in Roman crypts, often cited as being related to the myth of Hera and Argus. Everyone here probably knows that my Lucifer has a complicated relationship with both death and resurrection. It's so much to explain, but his relationship to death (or more specifically, with bringing death to humans) is actually the main reason his plumage became white, since, in my works, white symbolizes death and all angels who are associated with it (the Malakhim) have white plumage. Sometimes Lucifer and others consider his acquired leucism a part of his punishment/his own journey towards his demise, but sometimes he just views it as the way he is related to the lowest choir (since he has aspects of all 9 choirs, and couldn't figure out for a long time how he was related to the Malakhim until this happened). He can be very unreliable about his feelings regarding it in the books. He's not wrong in thinking it's related to his body's decline, either, considering how it started. I'm just here to tell the exact reasons I did it.

There's literally so much more I could say on this subject, because it's so tied up in my story's lore in its own unique ways. But, I've yapped enough it seems.

[lonicera-edulis]

[helplessavacado]

i hit post limit for the day :(

hate to say it but I'm not surprised lmao

[a1eckzandrah]

My aroace queer platonic secret third thing oc x canon

[helplessavacado]

HIGH FIVE FOR THE AROACE QUEERPLATONIC SECRET THIRD THING OC x CANON TWIN 🙌

[helplessavacado]

its queer time. you know what that means

do you want me to make like queer posts (I have, and will continue to do so)

[helplessavacado]

bestie it was inevitable that your/our character named ana would be genderqueer

we're consistent what can I say 😂

[helplessavacado]

SHOULDERS CHARACTER REFERENCES THAT I MADE FOR ARTFIGHT RAH

my account linked here btw

[helplessavacado]

I am a simple woman

[lonicera-edulis]

Sketch commissions for @pilkypills!

And a bonus sketch because I put characters in wrong positions at first.

[helplessavacado]

CHEWING ON THEM ALL

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AMAZING CHARACTERS OF ALL TIME

[helplessavacado]

i am no longer in your walls…. i am at work….

booo work

[lonicera-edulis]

"I like six eggs with my ham, when starting on a journey: fried not poached, and mind you don’t break ‘em.”

[the-mikey-way]

“we need more weird queers!” you guys can barely handle a hairy woman

[the-mikey-way]

and frankly? some of you struggle with hairy men.

[helplessavacado]

Would you happen to have an Art Fight?

I don't 😭😭😭

I love the concept but the month of July is so busy for me (Birthdays to draw presents for, college orientation, Work) and the pressure to draw Full Pieces for anyone who draws me anything would drain me so quickly (I know it's not mandatory nor is that how the point system works, but that's what my brain tells me needs to be done)

I'll do one next year maybe!! If I'm not exhausted!!! I sincerely hope I'm not!!!!

[helplessavacado]

I'm doing it

Art Fight

An art gifting game

[sillysiluriforme]

so pride month huh

[tolkien-oritober-event]

Oritober is Four Months Away!

Our upcoming gen and safe for work month long celebration of Ori creeps ever closer! Here is the initial post, where more details can be found! We hope you will join us in creating and sharing works centered around our favorite scarf-clad dwarf!

The prompts list will be released on June 30th.

[sancta-seraphina]

I just wanted to say I really adore your angels and the feathers on their bottoms I really enjoy Lucifer too… I’ve just started reading holiest but I can’t wait to read more RAHHH

aw, thank you, anon! i do hope you like it... it can be a heavy read at times. i promise there's lots more of luci in the upcoming novella.

also apologies for taking a few days to respond, it's only because i wanted to doodle luci and his pretty tail for you: