28•🏳️🌈 Professional bullshitter;part-time vampire; all-around disappointment; writer and artist in the loosest terms Ask me about post-postmodernism and hauntology
From the insta (thylacinx_bookish) / I know I have an intro post here already but nonetheless 🪽
✨Introduction✨
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Finally a proper introduction of what I’m actually working on and who’s behind the silly stories! Apologies it took so long! Thank you tremendously to all the people sending in a question, it means everything and I hope I could provide a satisfying answer 🩶
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Books mentioned (I’m not tagging to authors to avoid spamming, but if that is preferred pls let me know!!)
- Angels Before Man by Rafael Nicolás
- The Saint of Heartbreak by Morgan Dante
- Holiest by Sancta Seraphina
- First Creation by Mars Adler
Not mentioned in the post due to lack of space, but the work of Larkin Bryne and A-thenais also inspired me a lot! (And continue to do so)
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If there is anything more you’d like to know, feel free to shoot me a message!
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Anyway I’ll keep this short since the post itself is long enough. Apologies for the long read! Hope you have a most wonderful day ☀️🪽🩶
Hi :3 do you have any references for Lucifer and Beelzebub so I can draw the husbands? It's condoner btw! Loving the book when I get the chance to read. I wanna draw them so badddddd but I keep my book in my work bag and I can't take that bag everywhere
oh i have an almost endless pile of references *cracks knuckles* get ready, this is gonna be a long one
some of these drawings are a few years old at this point. i periodically go update wings or the clarify the linework for my own visual reference. (this post is a very good example of how my drawn wings have gotten better over the past decade)
if you want close-ups/details of any of these, just let me know!
also... both lucifer and beelzebub tend to wear black. a lot of it.
firstly, for luci. the basics about him are that he's tall, blonde, has powder blue eyes, is deathly pale, and kinda bony at times. he looks like he's sick a lot, because he that's his perpetual state after his fall. he's missing his left wing and has a big scar on his back.
here are two of his outfits in holiest (sorry there's no wing + tail in the one on the right. it's very old) yes, he likes to be barefoot whenever possible, and he does tend to like long, flowy fabrics.
references continued under the cut—
i also put him in pretty dresses sometimes. he's genderfluid, so his presentation is entirely dependent on whatever gender he's feeling at a given time, and he styles himself to match it.
in some of the scenes in holiest, he is also wearing the plain robe that he wore while imprisoned during the harrowing. his hair gets very long during that novel, and his tail sometimes gets pulled out (i'll be redrawing this wing soon)
more examples:
sidenote: after he returns to hell, he keeps his hair in a braid for a while. he later on cuts it to be shorter than it was before his imprisonment (i'm kinda mad at him for this, but oh well)
and of course i need to add luci from heresiarch. i have a bunch more outfits for him, too. the robes that angels wear in heaven tend to be a mashup of ecclesiastic vestments and whatever angelic symbols are relevant to a character. his hair is a bit longer here than it is in holiest, but not by much. here are two of my favorites (casual robes with pet peacock, and war-in-heaven armor)
this one is just a good reference for the proper value structure of his wings at the time:
below are decent refs for luci's back. most of his clothes have spaces/gaps to accommodate his wing and tail (all of the angel's clothes do, but i rarely draw them from the back). you'll probably notice that if they have the lower two wings or a tail, then they frequently have something around their waist—i imagine it's attached to the clothes, or sometimes added as an additional wrap, and helps stop whatever they're wearing from moving or opening up more, since the back is always open or shorter than the front. not that i could draw this the best in the past, but i'm working on it.
one last thing: luci's prosthesis, for if anyone needed a reference or wanted to draw it (i also imagine that the armature was eventually covered with feathers, but it doesn't stop it from looking mechanical... and no he still can't fly):
MOVING ONTO BEE
basics about bee: he's shorter than lucifer and has a medium-deep skin tone. his hair is unruly and curly, so he keeps it short. i imagine it black to match his crow wings, but brown or dark red hints in it can work too. he has freckles! i just like the way they look on darker complexions.
here are references for two of his iconic outfits: the armor that is mentioned in holiest (which is also featured in the harrowing, but not heresiarch, since he had different armor then) is on the right, and! although he doesn't wear this in holiest, on the left is one of the outfits he wore while acting as sovereign of hell during the harrowing. apologies again for wings, i'll make them better, i promise
good luck and godspeed if you attempt to draw the armor, i am on the struggle bus every time i try.
more refs:
so, what does bee wear on a normal day? stuff more like this. he really likes to show off his arms.
for his wingies: two attach at the base of his neck, two larger wings attach to the shoulder blade where angels usually have them, and two wings attach at the lumbar. the top two are to let a seraph hide their face, since their eyes are always glowing with their fire. the lower two are, according the biblical canon, to cover the legs—but i think when in flight, they fulfil the function of a tail and allow the seraph to be faster and more agile.
but!! this is a lot of wings!! i'm totally okay if people want to make some of them smaller, or attach elsewhere for the sake of 'six wings is fucking hard to draw.'
i just got the sudden and intense desire to redraw the above reference, because it's from 2021. i might be doing that soon.
AND WE CAN'T FORGET THE APRON:
because bee secretly longs for a quiet domestic life where all he does is cook meals for himself & his beloved
of course there's a bunch of other refs on my tumblr, but i know that can be a lot to scroll through on mobile. my ig is also filled with art. and i'm in the process of making a document with descriptions/refs for all my main cast... but that's taking a while and not my top priority, since i'm focusing on wormwood's fall.
but i hope this helped!! and i'm glad you're enjoying the story!
Translucent enamel on teeth are kind of a vibe… everything looks better at 50% opacity. Or maybe this is a giant cope after my dentist told me I can’t have energy drinks anymore cause I’m ruining my enamel.
pH balance in your mouth, and how it affects your teeth! Inspired by my dentist scolding me for my daily energi drink consumption, cause it’s apparently detrimental to the health of my enamel… whatever that means
A special post for International Asexuality Day 🖤🩶🤍💜
I'm an ace author, so having ace rep in my books is very important to me.wit For this post, I wanted to talk about the two ace characters from HOLIEST whose POVs we get to read from: Lucifer and Jehoel.
I also made a slide for my upcoming novella Wormwood's Fall, about the ace rep in that work.
There are, of course, many other characters who are also ace, like the other fan favorite, Mikhael... but I think it would be better to talk about him after more stories have been released. So expect a continuation of this series.
And I will of course be making an updated post about queer rep from Pride Month. <3
If you're interested in HOLIEST, it can be purchased here:
If you're interested in Wormwood's Fall, the [introduction post can be found here], and you can add it to your TBR on [Storygraph]. It will be available October 13, 2026.
When you want to wallow but Robin Hobb wrote "You should leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life, my brother. You may enjoy unending pain. I do not. There is no shame in walking away from bones [...] Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you."
