#wings of faith

[maddyc-drawings]

Be not afraid!

A thousand stories twisted by time, a thousand painted angels with empty eyes and snowy white wings who catered to the humans so far beneath them.

For behold! I am making all things new.

-

I’ve always thought Andrew would be a little uncanny valley if you ever met him, so I didn’t fuss too much about his proportions.

Wings of Faith Portrait Series 2024 Andrew - Ashton - Emmie - Seth - Dante - Jude

#wings of faith #wof #book wip #writeblr #booklr #oc #original character #art #artist #angel #angel oc #artists on tumblr #artblr #artwork #digital art #procreate

[she-who-fights-and-writes]

WIP Questionnaire ±2

I was tagged by @rjcopeseethemald! I haven't done one of these in a while and really enjoyed the questions here, so I decided I'd give it a go for my wip: Wings of Faith!

Original from @illarian-rambling.

If you want to know more about Wings of Faith, check out my post here!

RULES: 1. Answer as few or as many of the following questions as you’d like! 2. In passing the tag along to others, you can add one question of your own, or replace an existing question.

This art is a bit old but it's the last time I've drawn everyone all together haha

1. What was the first part of your wip that you created?

Surprisingly enough, Emmie (a main character, but not the protagonist) is the first part of my wip that I created (See the red girl on the top left). She was the protagonist of the very first book I wrote in fifth grade, and I wanted to pay homage to that work by including her. However, she's changed a LOT since then (even her name!), and the only remaining carry-over is the red streak in her hair.

2. If your story was a TV show, what would the theme song/intro be?

Intro song: "Run to the Devil" by Dragonwyck or "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult. Outro song: "It Will Come Back" or "Francesca" by Hozier Instrumental: "Dragonlord Placidusax" from the Elden Ring Soundtrack or "Danse Macabre" by The Oh Hellos

3. Who are your favorite characters you’ve made? Why?

Andrew, my protagonist, is by far my favorite character. Writing from the POV of an incredibly sensitive, incredibly traumatized person (who feels things very deeply), while outwardly projecting a cruel and defensive facade is... *chef's kiss* Otherwise, I'd have to say Emmie. She is a very layered and multifaceted character with an incredibly important role to play in the story, and her kindness is refreshing amid a mostly hardened cast of characters.

4. What other pieces of media do you think would share a fan base for your story?

Six of Crows fans

Dante's Inferno fans who don't mind me bending the lore a bit

Fellow ex-Catholics

Fans of Hozier's "Unreal Unearth" album

Supernatural fans into the "corrupted angel x man struggling for redemption" dynamic

5. What has been your biggest struggle with your wip?

Keeping the facts straight. This has been a 10+ year project and sometimes I forget the revisions I've made, and accidentally cut out important details...

6. Are there any animals in your story? Talk about them!

Yes! Rimfaxe is a wraith, aka a shapeshifting shadow monster that takes the form of the things he's killed and eaten. (See the top left of the art above!) Emmie stole him from the government and now he's basically her kid.

7. How do your characters get around? (ex: trains, horses, cars, dragons, etc.)

They mostly walk (or fly on Rimfaxe)! Because Hell has a ceiling, the authorities restrict car transport to government officials ONLY to keep down emissions.

8. What part of your wip are you working on rn?

A giant, chapter-long fight scene that I've been working on for a literal year. It's TORTURE. Can't explain much else because of spoilers haha.

9. What aspects (tropes, maybe?) of your wip do you think will draw people in?

The main romance is an mlm enemies-to-friends-to-lovers angel x demon pairing! (Angel x demon pairings where they're both assholes>>>>>) Also I feel like there's been a void in lore-focused media dealing with angels and demons, and I'm hoping Wings of Faith will fill that void!

10. What are your hopes for your wip?

That I get it done after 10+ years... and that people will like it :')

11. (Added by rjcopeseethemald) What pieces of media have been the most inspiring to you for this wip?

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Hozier's "Unreal Unearth" album

Adding a Question 12: Is there a part of your wip you wish that you could change, but it's too late to go back now?

I don't want to bother anyone by tagging them directly, so I tag anyone who sees this post and wants to do it! Blanks below.

What was the first part of your wip that you created?

If your story was a TV show, what would the theme song/intro be?

Who are your favourite characters you’ve made? Why?

What other pieces of media do you think would share a fan base for your story?

What has been your biggest struggle with your wip?

Are there any animals in your story? Talk about them!

How do your characters get around? (ex: trains, horses, cars, dragons, etc.)

What part of your wip are you working on rn?

What aspects (tropes, maybe?) of your wip do you think will draw people in?

What are your hopes for your wip?

What pieces of media have been the most inspiring to you for this WIP?

#long post #tag game #writing tag game #writeblr #booklr #writing #writers #wings of faith #wof #maddytalks #oc

[fddarchive]

A splash image of The Digi Princess and her wings of faith - from the splash page of Skye and Magimon’s site Tears of Faith

#Tears of Faith #ToF #Skye and Magimon #Skye #The Digi Princess #Digi Princess #Digimon Princess #The Digimon Princess #Digital Princess #The Digital Princess #Wings of Faith

[beautyofpoland]

#ryngraf #husaria #wingged hussars #poland #polska #faith #christianity #jesus christ

[fearandhatred]

at first i thought it was kinda funny in a way that crowley's wings got darker when he learned that they would be shutting everything down so soon since they can literally choose their wing colours. like it was a "ok i'm emo now. i hate you mom" sort of situation

and THEN i thought about the juxtaposition between black and the colours of the stars he created. of those colours he put into the dark universe to make it not so dark anymore. there not being even a trace of black on their clothes or the items they use to create. the whiteness of heaven. and i was like oh :)

because. because his wings getting darker is an unconscious separation from everything that he has identified with and been surrounded by in the past few billion years. the colour is an unfamiliarity that he starts to relate to for the first time. when he experiences, for the first time, things being ripped away from him, and that loss of faith is potent enough to physically manifest in his wings

#fearandhatred #fearandmeta #like i know we all have been seeing the darkening wings as a loss of faith or whatever but like. colours. the significance of colours #and it's not even about white = purity. it's the familiarity of the colour and the brightness of everything that crowley has known #and has been drawn to and has created #and the loss of faith is a loss of faith in EVERYTHING. everything he knows #CAN ANYONE HEAR ME #anyway. it's fine #you know i'm going through it when i start thinking about angel crowley again #good omens #good omens season 2 #crowley #angel crowley #the starmaker #good omens meta

[feelingtheaster99]

I just finished Fourth Wing and I realized that the reason that Xaden never really hated Violet is because he knew about her from her brother and already knew she was a good person and I want to CRY

#is it November yet #the fourth wing #violet sorrengail #xaden riorson #violet and xaden #brennan sorrengail #violet x xaden #like he heard about her from someone who loved her so deeply #gosh there was so much for Violet to process at the end there so quickly #I feel like I’m still processing it so I can’t even imagine how she must feel #to lose such a good friend who died defending your life but also after you just an arguement with #for your entire WORLD to tilt #as you realize your country that you put so much faith in has lied to you #and your love and your dragons were keeping it a secret for so long #and you almost die #and then you find out your brother is alive #and that must be so hard #because it was another painful secret #but also—he’s alive! #Jesus Christ that’s so much at once #fourth wing

[heartnosekid]

faithful beauty (composia fidelissima) | 🦋-🦋

#faithful beauty #composia fidelissima #moths #stim #sfw #blue #red #white #black #bugs #insects #wings #hands #ishy gifs #postish

[tatzelwyrm]

Thinking about Wolfwood praying to god and Vash being the one who answers.

#and he's got the angel wings #trimax #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #vashwood #trimax spoilers #trigun spoilers #blood #also thinking about the label on *that* bottle #wolfwood claims to be a priest #of what faith? huh? #what church are you married to?

[eternal-stuck]

I like Tiffany a lot. Grips the carpets.

#faith the unholy trinity #faith tiffany #faith alu #eternal art #Alu's “wings” are just veiny like 02 from Kirby. Ty for that one Pory :3c

[madcat-world]

Faith (1 of 7) - ClayShaper

#Faith #ClayShaper #stars #personification #wings #surrealism #fantasy art #digital art

[maddyc-drawings]

“What if someone came to you—disemboweled by the hounds after only having lived twenty-six human years—and said that if you followed their orders, you could keep your tongue and live a life of luxury? Would you accept?”

Twenty-six years, barely a gasp of breath on the cosmic scale compared to eternal damnation. It was like comparing the spark of a match to the nuclear fusion of a star.

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Out of all of my ocs from my book wip, Ashton is both the hardest to write AND to draw. Like dude, pick one or the other.

Wings of Faith Portrait Series 2024 Andrew - Ashton - Emmie - Seth - Dante - Jude

#wings of faith #wof #book wip #writeblr #booklr #art #oc #original character #my oc #artist #artists on tumblr #artblr #artwork #digital art #procreate

[she-who-fights-and-writes]

I remember finding your blog back in ~2016 and falling in love with your writing advice and the way you answered others. I remember you often posted about a book you were writing—did you ever finish it? I remember that I saw every update you wrote about your journey as an author and how much i was rooting for you back then. I couldn't wait to read your story and i told myself that i'd buy it even if my english wasn't all that great (and it still isn't now).

I deleted my old blog and now that i came back i wanted to look for you again to see how you were—at first i thought that your blog had been deleted but i ended up seeing one of your posts on my dash by accident and went "Oh! A familiar face!"

I never had the courage to send any asks on tumblr, and I realize now that i also never thanked you for all of your writing advice

So I'd just like to say here, thank you. For all of your writing advice, for all of the help you offer to strangers online and for posting about your book here.

Your advice helped and inspired me so much. You had such an impact on me and my writing and it shows through my works to this day and you have no idea just how much this means to me.

I apologize if this is long. But i appreciate your existence, and i wish you great success on the road ahead

This actually brought a tear to my eye.

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this, and to have the courage to send it. I am so glad that I have been able to help you along your writing journey with my posts. I'm always fighting the worry that my advice is just white noise, and that it doesn't really do anything for anyone, but I'm glad that it's made such a positive impact on you.

And damn, I've been here since 2016? Lmao that's crazy how time flies.

As for my book, Wings of Faith, you can find info about it on my FAQ (Pinned post!) I have a whole host of content linked there, and usually tag it as #wingsoffaith or #wof. Currently, I'm working slowly through a re-write that came as a result of an utterly devastating plot hole my best friend pointed out. It's been tough. I've been struggling with motivation, after more than ten years of an uphill battle. But it'll get done eventually, and I've put in too much love and effort into it to give up now. Hopefully, once this re-write is complete, I will enlist the help of some beta readers!

Much love always. I wish you the very best.

#maddytalks #writing #wings of faith #wof #answering asks #thank you so much for sending this fr #made my week

[sesamenom]

Ar-Pharazon from the Reverse Gondolin AU and as Witch-King of Numenor - thanks to @who-needs-words for helping develop this idea!

#silm #silmarillion #second age #ar pharazon #reverse gondolin au #(well more like the aftermath of gondolin reversal) #this au has consumed my life #on the plus side inspiration for feanor is finally reemerging from under the metaphorical couch so i might get something finwion-y done soo #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa so much to draw so little time #seriously though golden nazgul is such a cool idea #whatever the mordor equivalent for the angband trio is (sauron pharazon and shelob maybe?) is going to look so cool in black and gold #black/gold black hole shelob!! #and prince elrond is super finwiony looking #also he has his wings & glowiness out a lot more so that'll be fun #but yeah basically in the au Prince Elrond realized via foresight what was happening/going to happen in numenor #so he went there and disowned ar pharazon (by extension removing him from the throne) and crowned tar miriel rightful Ruling Queen #then later when sauron showed up he came back kicked sauron out and outlawed the death cult #but between that time sauron secretly recruited ar pharazon by promising him kingship in exchange for his support #and anyways ar pharazon survived all the way to the TA as the Witch King #(mr. angmar here gets to be second in command of the nazgul sorry) #-imagine this guy showing up to be all 'bagginssss' though #the witch king of numenor is somehow even more dramatic #also the whole 'no living man can kill me' is. a bit different coming from a guy who has many enemies in the form of #a) his cousin the Ruling Queen of Numenor #b) his uncle the choice-of-elves-peredhel #c) a bunch of Faithful in the Halls #the dead guys aren't too much of a problem #but i wonder if he heard that prophecy and worried a whole lot more about the Ruling Queens #or Prince Elrond who in the au has very definitely embraced his maia-ness #and then imagine his surprise hearing 'but no living man am i' and it coming from. a random human lady.

[charcoalowl]

ok but now that poll is making me sad because like the Witch Queen and Sister Carpenter would have gotten along famously with each other. Daughter i-maimed-and-mutilated-the-millenia-old-being-of-the-dark-mountain-who-tried-to mould-me-into-his-vessel Dooley, and Mallory i-stood-at-the-banks-of-my-river-that-has-made-me-who-i-am-and-thrown-affrontations-at-my-god-because-i-am-not-his-i-was-never-his-i-will-never-be-his Glass would be actual besties if given the chance.

#i don't see qprs being either of their thing #but they would have connected on such a level #they would be like twin goddesses from folklore #mercer and gage could never #also #daughter dooley would call carpenter 'sister' in a friendly rural charm sort of way #and carpenter would immediately interpret that as a claim of shared faith #but she knows that the witch queen has no god and no sponsors #and carpenter would assume that she was calling them sisters in their lack of devotion #sisters in independence rather than under the wing of some god #and just immediately tear up at the concept #meanwhile dooley is just worrying lest carpenter thinks she's weird and oh she should have probably tucked away the occult books #old gods of appalachia #the silt verses #dammit i want a fic now

[mydairpercabeth]

Ppl we gotta let go of the second book love interest and realize that Xaden and Violet are the endgame

#sjmaas has rotted our brains into waiting for the second book love interest #there is no rhysand coming my ppl #the romantic plot of iron flame will probably be a second chance romance #have faith in our shodowman #xaden riorson #violet sorrengail #violet x xaden #xadenviolet #the fourth wing #the empyrean

[cloudiurmoon]

Faithtober Day 9: Stained Glass

Ngl I'm really proud of this one. I hope you all like it!

Pencil sketch below ✨️

:D

#john ward #faith the unholy trinity #faith game #my art #traditional art #faithtober #unholytrinitytober #faith airdorf #faith john ward #art #If you couldn't tell #I love metallic outlines :) #The yellow panels are supposed to make up wings #But they can be whatever