#[muse lists]

[dinrelsanddragons]

ok ok one more muse list: HALLOWEEN COSTUMES

alphabetized

Armok: A half-dragon. He thought it would be hilarious to go as a half stone dragon, up until he realized the wings would be a bitch to make. Luckily, Shanz was willing to assist, and with the aid of the castle seamstresses, created some wire-supported wings for him to wear. He's got fake horns, makeup to turn his skin gray, and everything.

Bryn: A devil. She's got little horns, tiny wings– again provided by Shanz and the castle seamstresses– and a tail added on to her uniform. She thinks it's a good fit, for a particularly fiery and devilish woman.

Erdan: Erdan swapped out his royal guard's cap for a similarly colored wizard hat and called it a day.

Gateni: She wasn't dressing up initially, but some persuasion from her husband and daughter have her in a witch's outfit. She thinks it somewhat fitting, at least. Sareni adores it, and Saryfel couldn't help but point out that Gateni took the opportunity to ask the seamstresses to accentuate certain curves that he knows Hylians are very... attracted to.

Gwyn: Gwyn pulled out a rogue's ensemble from gods-know-where– well, she's not telling her son it used to be her uniform.

Halcyon: Dressed as a kitsune. However, she's keeping a few of her pirate effects, so one supposes she is a mixture of herself and the costume.

Hubert: With great assistance from Shanz and the seamstresses, Hubert has a copy of the Charged set. It's not magic by any means, but he wanted to honor his family's duty to Farosh.

Isaac: He's in the garb of a scarecrow complete with straw sticking out of some seams, and has swapped his halberd for a pitchfork for the moment.

Lambda: She found the nicest dress she could find, which is actually a damn nice backless piece, and she's pretending it's a princess dress when it's... more of a commoner's party piece than anything. Still, she's very excited to show off her rarely visible black dragon tattoo.

Leonard: Tallula put him in a black cat outfit. The joke lies in his complete and utter resignation to going along with everyone else– but on the inside, he's too happy to make his beloved smile.

Link: He didn't want to dress up, but Gwyn pulled out a number of cute outfits, and Raven pitched in his opinion as well, and came up with a green tunic and cap that oddly seem to suit their son perfectly... (hint: legacy tunic)

Lita: Dressed as a flame dragon, sans wings. She's got horns and claws, though.

Thorn: To his dismay, he's matching Leonard as a black cat. It wasn't Lita's idea– he just likes cats a bit, and thought it was nice. He feels like he's walking bad luck sometimes.

Raithyon: Raithyon found a tavern wench's dress and put it on, corset and everything. It actually fits well, leaving plenty of room to breathe, and Pyxrin is more than a little titillated about it. Raithyon looks damn attractive when he's showing off his pecs.

Raven: He wanted to just go in uniform, but Gwyn had another idea– so Raven pulled out some old armor of his from his younger days, donned a black knit mask, and he's a suit of haunted armor. He's very warm in it, though.

Reownha: She initially wanted to match her sister, but Reownha kind of ended up outdoing her. She's in a princess dress– by which the writer means she's wearing a very nice piece that passes for royal fashion, even if it's not made of the same materials.

Rhoam: He's the king, does he need to dress up? But he is, because he can't be a hardass all the time. With some aid from Shanz for design input, Rhoam is currently dressed in ancient Hyrulean fashion, as King Rauru, but over a dark gray tunic and breeches. (Not like a furry, but god knows he's not as young as he used to be, so he can't show off like he may have in his youth.)

Sandalio: He's going as the most frightening thing he's ever encountered: A Hyrulean noble. His friend Reyes is absolutely amused by this.

Shanz: Shanz made his own rendition of the royal guard outfit and it's quite striking– his skills in crochet have really flourished.

Taunch: Taunch has a mask crafted of leather to give the impression of being a full dragon, but on two legs. He had the idea while speaking with Armok, and the two agreed it might be fun to simply trade: A full dragon for a half.

Vair: With extensive assistance from Shanz and the seamstresses, Vair's in the Ember set. He's sweating a fair amount in it, and it's not magical, but his sister insisted.

Valanthe: Valanthe found a goddamn ballgown to put on. She's actually very good-looking in it despite her very striking scar over the right side of her face. She's not afraid of being caught off guard or without weapons, as she's perfectly capable of conjuring her own daggers.

Wulf: Dressed as a wolf. He thinks he's hilarious.

Wynne: With extensive help from Shanz and the tailors, Wynne is garbed in a nonmagical version of the frostbite set. She's a little concerned about showing that much skin, and somewhat envies Vair for being thoroughly covered up– but when he jokingly suggested to switch, she refused, a little flustered. She's honoring Naydra, it would be inappropriate.

[eggoverlord]

May Albums

How I Left You - Knifehandchop - Some kind of electronic

DISCO4 :: PART I - HEALTH - Industrial weird metal etc

The Mollusk - Ween - ??? Weird rock

Fragments - Bonobo - Some DJing stuff

The Campfire Headphase - Boards of Canada - IDM

Endtroducing - DJ Shadow - Trip Hop

Evanescence - Scorn - Industrial and Dub

Selfless - Godflesh - Industrial Metal

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Post Rock

The Violent Sleep Of Reason - Meshuggah - Djent

1982 - Honor Role - Like Hardcore Punk with kind of almost math rock

Camofleur - Gastr Del Sol - Math Rock

Four Great Points - JUNE OF 44 - More Math Rock

Flemish Altruism - A Minor Forest - Even More Math Rock

Heaven or Los Vegas - Cocteau Twins - Dreampop

My Arms, Your Hearse - Opeth - Progressive Death Metal

In The Zone - Britney Spears - Pop

Tri Repetae - Autechre - IDM

Call Me If You Get Lost - Tyler, The Creator - Hip Hop

Paper Mâché Dream Balloon - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Folk

Life After Death - The Notorious B.I.G - Gangsta Hip Hop

This Is The Album Of A Band Called Abadesi Shank - Abadesi Shank - Some stranger math rock

Live And Cuddly - Nomeansno - kinda mathy punk

April In Paris- Count Basie - Swing

'67-'69 STUDIO et LIVE (2022 Remastered) - Les Rallizes Dénudés - Weird Experimental Psych Rock

Growing - Sleeping People - Math Rock

Beats, Rhymes & Life - A Tribe Called Quest - Jazz Hop / Acid Jazz

Burner - Breadwinner - Math Rock

Animals - TTNG - believe it or not, more math more rock

Ágætis byrjun - Sigur Rós - Experimental Rock

Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 - The Jackson Five - Soul

Great Annihilator - Swans - Experimental Rock

midcity - clipping. - Industrial Hip Hop

haha - The Garden - Like. If jungle, surf rock, and punk had a baby

More Skin With Milk-Mouth - Giraffes? Giraffes! - Math Rock

Absent Moon, A Hylics Song Cycle - Chuck Salamone - Psych Rock thing made for a game I really love by the composer of the actual game check out Hylics and Hylics 2 on steam also kind of musical theater sounding

What Happens After the Death Is Recorded - DJ Rozwell - Mr Wizard DJ (I still don't know what genre he is)

Atrocity Exhibition - Danny Brown - Experimental Hip Hop

Purple Onion - The Les Claypool Frog Brigade - Funk psych rock or something. Its weird

[iphigeniacomplex]

it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

[little-sw33tie]

I LOVE TRANS PEOPLE

I LOVE SKINNY TRANS PEOPLE

I LOVE FAT TRANS PEOPLE

I LOVE MUSCULAR TRANS PEOPLE

I LOVE DISABLED TRANS PEOPLE

I LOVE TRANS PEOPLE WHO DON’T OR WANT TO TAKE HORMONES

I LOVE TRANS PEOPLE WHO CAN’T TAKE HORMONES

I LOVE TRANS PEOPLE WHO TAKE HORMONES

I LOVE TRANS PEOPLE WHO HAVE AFFIRMING SURGERIES

I LOVE TRANS PEOPLE WHO DON’T WANT OR NEED AFFIRMING SURGERIES

I LOVE TRANS PEOPLE WHO CAN’T HAVE AFFIRMING SURGERIES

I LOVE TRANS PEOPLE THAT ARE APART OF SYSTEMS

I LOVE NON-HUMAN TRANS PEOPLE

I LOVE TRANS POC (THIS INCLUDES MIXED POC OF COURSE!)

I LOVE TRANS WOMEN

I LOVE TRANS MEN

I LOVE TRANS PEOPLE OUTSIDE THAT BINARY

I LOVE PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES TRANSEXUAL

I LOVE STRAIGHT TRANS PEOPLE

I LOVE GAY TRANS PEOPLE

I LOVE AROMANTIC SPECTRUM TRANS PEOPLE

I LOVE ASEXUAL SPECTRUM TRANS PEOPLE

I LOVE NEURODIVERGENT TRANS PEOPLE

I LOVE BEING TRANSEXUAL

I LOVE HOW DIFFERENT WE ALL ARE

I LOVE TRANS PEOPLE

[apollos-boyfriend]

what's your personal list for dsmp reunion? also who do you think would actually go

tommy goes but also because he’s the host so of course he has to be there. jack goes as a “joke” but has a fun time. badboyhalo doesn’t go but not because he doesn’t want to but because he does Not travel. foolish and tina show up in his place. tubbo puffy and phil of course go, as do charlie and quackity. hbomb would go i think less because of the server and more because he just likes hanging with people. i can see niki aimsey and eret going but it’s not as strong of a conviction. karl and hannah would maybe go also to be social which provides a 50/50 chance of purpled’s appearance. i think contrary to popular belief connor would go just because i swear to god i see that man in every major twitch/youtube event. sneegsnag would also inexplicably be there.

[feketeribizli]

[authorafterhours]

No, but Hannigram has GOT to be seething with jealousy over Symbrock because that level of intimacy? Literally being able to live under the other's skin? With how often Hannibal and Will are described as wanting to crawl into the other's ribcage and stay there? Murder husbands would be feral, your honor.

[physical-manifestation-of-spite]

[dinrelsanddragons]

Muse D&D Builds: 5.5e

All stats are done in point buy or standard array. All species and subclasses are chosen solely from the new edition. This is for Zelda verses. I will do some different shit for the upcoming D&D verses, including allowing legacy stuff.

Armok Ailbhe Class: Oath of Devotion Paladin 5 (Would be Oath of the Crown if it had been reprinted) Species: Dragonborn (Copper) Background: Soldier Stats: Str 16, Dex 10, Con 16, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 12 Feats: Savage Attacker (origin), Great Weapon Master (general), Defense (fighting style)

Brynhildr Llwyd Class: Champion Fighter 3, Barbarian 2 Species: Human Background: Soldier Stats: Str 16, Dex 12, Con 16, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 10 Feats: Savage Attacker (origin), Tough (origin), Great Weapon Fighting (fighting style)

Erdan Tiltathana Class: Oath of Vengeance Paladin 5 Species: Elf (Drow) Background: Soldier Stats: Str 10, Dex 18, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 14 Feats: Savage Attacker (origin), Defensive Duelist (general), Defense (fighting style)

Gateni Yaeldrin Class: Evoker Wizard 5 Species: Human Background: Custom: Soldier Stats: Str 8, Dex 14, Con 16, Int 17, Wis 10, Cha 10 Feats: Magic Initiate (Wizard) (origin), Alert (origin), Resilient (Con) (General)

Gwyn Allaway Class: Assassin Rogue 4 (Would be Inquisitive if it had been reprinted) Species: Human Background: Wayfarer Stats: Str 10, Dex 18, Con 10, Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 10 Feats: Alert (origin), Lucky (origin), Skill Expert (General)

Halcyon Nivard Class: Thief Rogue 4 (WHAT DO YOU MEAN, SWASHBUCKLER ISN'T IN THIS BOOK?!) Species: Human Background: Sailor Stats: Str 10, Dex 17, Con 12, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 16 Feats: Tavern Brawler (origin), Alert (origin), Inspiring Leader (general)

Hubert Langlois Class: Eldritch Knight Fighter 5 Species: Human Background: Noble Stats: Str 10, Dex 15, Con 14, Int 16, Wis 10, Cha 10 Feats: Magic Initiate (Wizard) (origin), Skilled (origin), Observant (general), Defense (fighting style)

Isaac Michaels Class: Battle Master Fighter 5 Species: Human Background: Soldier Stats: Str 16, Dex 10, Con 15, Int 12, Wis 12, Cha 10 Feats: Savage Attacker (origin), Alert (origin), Polearm Master (general), Great Weapon Fighting (fighting style)

Lambda Blackscale Class: Draconic Sorcerer 3 (I am MAD about Divine Soul not having representation here) Species: Human Background: Custom: Criminal Stats: Str 10, Dex 16, Con 14, Int 8, Wis 10, Cha 16 Feats: Magic Initiate (Cleric) (origin), Magic Initiate (Wizard) (origin)

Leonard Edwards Class: Battle Master Fighter 5 (would be Banneret if it had been reprinted) Species: Human Background: Soldier Stats: Str 18, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 10 Feats: Savage Attacker (origin), Tough (origin), Shield Master (general), Defense (fighting style)

Lita Arcuna Class: Champion Fighter 4 (Fuck Around and Find Out verse) OR Oath of Glory Paladin 5 (older verse; would be Oath of Redemption if it had been reprinted) Species: Human Background: Noble Stats: Str 10, Dex 18, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 14 Feats: Tough (origin), Lucky (origin), Duel Wielder (general), Two-Weapon Fighting (fighting style)

Philip "Thorn" Stanton Class: Hunter Ranger 5 Species: Human Background: Soldier Stats: Str 18, Dex 14, Con 10, Int 10, Wis 14, Cha 10 Feats: Savage Attacker (origin), Skilled (origin), Piercer (general), Defense (fighting style)

Raithyon Blackscale Class: Thief Rogue 5 (Would be Swashbuckler if it had been reprinted) Species: Human Background: Criminal Stats: Str 10, Dex 17, Con 12, Int 14, Wis 10, Cha 14 Feats: Skilled (origin), Alert (origin), Shadow-Touched (general)

Raven Allaway Class: Battle Master Fighter 5 Species: Human Background: Soldier Stats: Str 17, Dex 14, Con 13, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 12 Feats: Savage Attacker (origin), Tough (origin), Fey-Touched (general), Interception (fighting style)

Reownha Blackscale Class: Thief Rogue 3 Species: Human Background: Criminal Stats: Str 9, Dex 17, Con 10, Int 16, Wis 12, Cha 10 Feats: Alert (origin), Skilled (origin)

Rhoam Hyrule Class: Oath of Glory Paladin 5 (would be Oath of the Crown if it had been reprinted) Species: Human Background: Noble Stats: Str 17, Dex 10, Con 12, Int 11, Wis 10, Cha 16 Feats: Skilled (origin), Savage Attacker (origin), Inspiring Leader (general), Great Weapon Fighting (fighting style)

Sandalio Ferro Class: Battle Master Fighter 5 Species: Human Background: Soldier Stats: Str 17, Dex 16, Con 12, Int 10, Wis 11, Cha 10 Feats: Savage Attacker (origin), Alert (origin), Polearm Master (general), Archery (fighting style)

Shanz Dinrel Class: College of Lore Bard 3 Species: Human Background: Isekai Entertainer (custom) Stats: Str 8, Dex 12, Con 12, Int 16, Wis 10, Cha 16 Feats: Crafter (origin), Magic Initiate (Cleric) (origin)

Taunch Kimbatuul Class: Battle Master Fighter 5 (Would be Banneret if it had been reprinted) Species: Dragonborn (Silver) Background: Soldier Stats: Str 17, Dex 12, Con 15, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 12 Feats: Savage Attacker (origin), Shield Master (general), Protection (fighting style)

Vair Bhelthir Class: Champion Fighter 5 Species: Human Background: Soldier Stats: Str 18, Dex 10, Con 15, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 12 Feats: Savage Attacker (origin), Tough (origin), Great Weapon Master (general), Great Weapon Fighting (fighting style)

Wulf Arcuna Class: Trickery Cleric 3 (Trickery got reprinted thank god) Species: Human Background: Custom (Feylost, but with Noble facets) Stats: Str 10, Dex 14, Con 11, Int 12, Wis 17, Cha 12 Feats: Magic Initiate (Cleric) (origin), Healer (origin)

Wynne Mulrennan Class: Life Cleric 5 (Would be Knowledge if it had been reprinted) Species: Human Background: Noble (custom) Stats: Str 14, Dex 10, Con 10, Int 14, Wis 18, Cha 10 Feats: Magic Initiate (Cleric) (origin), Healer (origin), Ritual Caster (general)

[eggoverlord]

Second month of music lists

Violator - Depeche Mode - Synth Pop me thinks

Rose Mountain - Screaming Females - Alt Rock Kinda Indie Rock Kinda

3 Feet High And Rising - De La Soul - Alternative Hip Hop

Agressively Humble - Chll Pll - Weird ass electronic math rock with Zach Hill

Second Wave - Gay Beast - Queer Math Rock!!!

In Advance Of The Broken Arm - Marnie Stern - Math Rock

Heavy Rocks (2022) - Boris - Heavy Metal and Stoner Rock for this one with a heavy dose of experimental

III - Acid King - Stoner Doom Metal

Cuz I Love You - Lizzo - Pop and Hip Hop and R&B

The Creature - R.O.T.W.L.C.F.T.S.C.B.M.H - Grindcore

Ignore Grief - Xiu Xiu - Fucked up (experimental industrial or smthn)

Sunflower - The Beach Boys - Soft Rock

Perfect - Mannequin Pussy - Less Soft Rock

Remission - Skinny Puppy - Industrial

World Music - Goat - Stoner Rock / Psych

Raise! - Earth, Wind, and Fire - Pop and Funk

My Back Is Killing Me Baby - Car Seat Headrest - Indie Rock

Untrue - Burial - IDM / Dubstep

The Budos Band - The Budos Band - Their own thing, so really, the genre is also The Budos Band. Idk though, closest thing is some kind of funk

TOTEP - Kero Kero Bonito - J-Pop or something

Kid A - Radiohead - Experimental Rock

Spectrum - Hiromi - A Mix of Jazz Fusion and Classical

Cryptomnesia - El Grupo Nuevo De Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Math Rock w Zach Hill which is my favorite type of math rock

Strawberry Jam - Animal Collective - Experimental Rock

Drunk - Thundercat - R&B Funk bass shit

Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys - like punk rap and funk in one

Pottymouth - Bratmobile - Riot Grrrl Punk

Love Me Forever - Pinkshift - Queercore (sounds stupid but is a real genre that's been around for decades look it up)

1000 gecs - 100 gecs - Hyperpop

OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES - SOPHIE - The cooler Hyperpop (no shade to 100 gecs, enjoyed the album)

Enquiring Minds - Gangsta Boo - Hip Hop

Run The Jewels 2 - Run The Jewels - Hip Hop

[corviiids]

ok here is a playlist about light yagami

| light | no surprises - radiohead // | the death note | uprising - muse // boulevard of broken dreams - green day // | misa amane | starlight - muse // | ryuga hideki | do you want me (dead?) - all time low // | memory | i love you - woodkid // | the death note ii | NOSE BLEED - stand atlantic, sueco // you're gonna go far, kid - the offspring // when your heart stops beating - +44 // dead! - my chemical romance // wake me up when september ends - green day // | yagami | mama - my chemical romance // disarm - the smashing pumpkins // father and son - yusuf / cat stevens

also on youtube

(thoughts and context under the cut)

no surprises - light's nihilism and disillusionment pre-kira - without the death note i think light would have gone down this line faster.

A heart that's full up like a landfill A job that slowly kills you Bruises that won't heal You look so tired, unhappy Bring down the government

uprising; boulevard of broken dreams - self-explanatory i feel

Rise up and take the power back It's time the fat cats had a heart attack You know that their time's coming to an end

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me 'Til then I walk alone

starlight - misa towards light

Far away from the memories Of the people who care if I live or die ... My life You electrify my life Let's conspire to ignite All the souls that would die just to feel alive

do you want me (dead?) - light and L's early rivalry and interactions in college are largely exploratory, simultaneously more and less openly hostile, still cautious and uncertain where they stand with each other.

There's no such thing as a perfect crime Don't play that You've said it enough Cause you want me Or you want me dead

i love you - self-indulgent haha i couldn't resist. takes place in a similar continuity to my fic where light and L start a fake relationship for the investigation but when light briefly thinks it's real after he loses his memories. i think canonically light is too irritated with L's poor moral compass to develop true feelings for him even during this arc, but i do think it's reasonable to think light might develop a bit of a puppy crush and a desire for L's attention lol. simultaneously it's kinda a bit of L at kira.

Is there anything I could do Just to get some attention from you? In the waves I've lost every trace of you Where are you?

NOSE BLEED - i think this is the most lawlight song ever. (this also made me think of a couple of my fics.) after light gets his memories back i think his attachment to L transforms into a bit of disgust directed both at himself and L

I'd rather be lonely and hate myself Than someone you think about ... So this is what you get For messin' with my head Don't wanna end up dead (Dead) Six feet in the ground

you're gonna go far, kid - nobody wants to hear that this song is about light yagami but it is. lowkey this is L to light while those bells are ringing

There's something in your way And now someone is gonna pay And if you can't get what you want Well it's all because of me Now dance, fucker, dance Man, I never had a chance And no one even knew It was really only you

when your heart stops beating; dead! - self-explanatory and victorious in a hysterical about to start crying way

I'll be there when your heart stops beating I'll be there when your last breath's taken away In the dark when there's no one listening In the times when we both get carried away

Have you heard the news that you're dead? No one ever had much nice to say I think they never liked you anyway Oh, take me from the hospital bed Wouldn't it be grand? It ain't exactly what you planned

wake me up when september ends - listen i concede this one doesn't make a ton of sense but i've included it because the vibes work for me. something something a melancholy coming back to the self, a rude and painful awakening after a loss of innocence you cant run from. look over there, a distraction

The innocent can never last ... Here comes the rain again Falling from the stars Drenched in my pain again Becoming who we are

mama; disarm - light to his family, to the world, a manic little soliloquy

Stop asking me questions, I'd hate to see you cry Mama, we're all gonna die And when we go, don't blame us, yeah We'll let the fires just bathe us, yeah You made us oh, so famous ... You should've raised a baby girl, I should've been a better son

I used to be a little boy So old in my shoes And what I choose is my choice What's a boy supposed to do? The killer in me is the killer in you

father and son - are you ever just so god damn sad about the yagamis.

FATHER I was once like you are now, and I know that it's not easy To be calm when you've found something going on ... SON Keeping all the things I knew inside It's hard But it's harder to ignore it

[unboundprompts]

You don’t have to do this if you don’t know the music, but could you possibly do prompts based on Muse (the band) songs? If I’m requesting wrong I’ll send another ask, my apologies ^^;

Muse Prompts

➢ writing prompts from Muse songs. feel free to edit as you see fit.

"I thought I was a fool for no one but baby, I'm a fool for you." - Supermassive Black Hole

"You may be a sinner but your innocence is mine." - Undisclosed Desires

"You're something beautiful, a contradiction." - Time is Running Out

"Your mind is just a program and I'm the virus." - Psycho

"You'd see that we should never be afraid to die." - Uprising

"I will be chasing a starlight until the end of my life." - Starlight

"I've exposed your lies, baby." - Plug in Baby

"Give me your heart and your soul." - Hysteria

"You set my soul alight." - Supermassive Black Hole

"This ship is taking me far away. Far away from the memories of the people who care if I live or die." - Starlight

"I know you've suffered, but I don't want you to hide." - Undisclosed Desires

"I tried so hard to let you go but some kind of madness is swallowing me whole." - Madness

"I could use someone like you. Someone who'll kill on my command." - Psycho

"You and I must fight to survive. No one's gonna take me alive." - Knights of Cydonia

"I just wanted to hold you in my arms." - Starlight

"I want to reconcile the violence in your heart." - Undisclosed Desires

"I need to know, is this real love?" - Madness

"You will be the death of me." - Time is Running Out

"How can we win when fools can be kings?" - Knights of Cydonia

"Love. It will get you nowhere. You're on your own." - Psycho

"This chaos, it defies imagination." - Panic Station

[wordswhisperinthedark]

I'm starting to see a trend... Luke as a disappointed, frustrated wife, and AJ as a sad, sopping mess of a husband 🤣

[melverie]

NO BUT YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND IF MEPHISTO WAS RAISED TO BE DIA’S PLAYMATE AND ONLY FRIEND THAN THAT PROBABLY MEANS DIA’S ALSO HIS ONLY FRIEND

HE’S GETTING REPLACED BY SOME FALLEN ANGEL THAT BASICALLY JUST ARRIVED IN THE DEVILDOM AND HAS ONLY KNOWN DIAVOLO FOR A SHORT TIME AND ALL HE CAN DO IS WATCH FROM THE SIDELINES

[kyliafanfiction]

I saw a bit in a Taylor/Amy fic (the latest chapter of Desperate Times Call for Desperate Pleasures) where Amy compared Taylor to a Necromancer Princess (it fits in Context) and that immediately made me think of a Fantasy AU of Worm. No shards/powers, or at least not in the Worm way, but playing with the characters.

And of course that has me thinking about who everyone would be in such a story idea:

Taylor - necromancer, obviously, given the inspiration. Maybe not a princess, but of some high birth. Danny Hebert is still his canon personality, but as a necromancer. Probably a distant father since the death of Annette. Maybe he's consumed with trying to find ways to restore her to full life or something. Doesn't control bugs, maybe? Or maybe she controls swarms of dead insects in addition to or instead of the usual skeletons and zombies? I'd lean to no bugs, just skeletons and zombies, but YMMV. Keeping her bullied/etc experience may be harder, but if Emma is also a noblewoman, perhaps of higher status (maybe Taylor's low nobility? Or not at all?)

Amy - she's a cleric of some healing-related goddess, presumably? The rest of her family are probably all Knights and Paladins of some sort. Her birth father could be some sort of Bandit King type guy who played up a 'honorable highwayman' schtick (and may actually have been a noble as well as a bandit) akin to the 'code' and 'better than the other villains' thing he had going in canon. Her guilt over not healing all the time probably wouldn't be a thing because there'd be too many other healers, but you could still play with the idea, and she'd still have that separation from her family because she's not a warrior.

Tattletale - no magic, just really smart. Probably a 'Rogue', if we were applying classes to it.

Rachel - Ranger, obviously. Has a wolf animal companion, maybe actually gainfully employed as one of the Royal Huntsmen or someone who prevents poaching on a King's Forest type place. or maybe she's a poacher herself. Probably the latter, but the former could be done well, IMO. Either way, definitely still pretty feral from not spending a lot of time around most people.

Brian - maybe some kind of Paladin of darkness type thing. He could be sworn to Taylor's father as her bodyguard (and Taylor still has her canonical attraction to him).

Alec - I'm honestly not sure. If I were wedging it into D&D classes, some form of Bard, but I wouldn't necessarily want to be bound specifically to classes. Still, he could either have magic specially around manipulation and controlling of the body, or maybe he's like, half-demon, or quarter-demon (and Heartbreaker is either a demon or half-demon) and that's the source of his power. I lean towards the latter.

Aisha - Illusionist? Uses her magic for lots of pranks and stuff, and gets really good at making herself invisible, etc.

New Wave - as I noted, the rest of New Wave would probably be knights/paladins of some sort. Maybe Vicky, Sarah, Crystal and Eric ride griffons or some other flying beast? Vicky on a Pegasus sounds really fitting. Also probably a noble family, but definitely recently ennobled or low nobility, to play into the privileged WASP upper middle class vibe New Wave has in Worm

Lung - could be an actual Dragon, could be a guy who shapeshifts into one, maybe a half-dragon (playing on his half-chinese/half-japanese canon backstory and how he was an outsider in Japan as a result). Warlord or roaming bandit type guy, probably. Oni Lee would be a teleporting assassin who works for him, and Bakuda as an alchemist making explosive compounds and such is there.

Armsmaster - a master Smith and warrior. Already has a Halberd. maybe he does enchanted runes into his weapons or something to make them sharper

Miss Militia - either she's a super skilled archer of some sort, or maybe a magic who specializes in big, flashy attack spells (fireball, etc)

Dragon - Secretly a construct (or disembodied animating spirit?) of some kind that has free will and sentience, but pretends just to be a construct-crafting mage? Might not be able to keep using that name if Dragons are a thing in-setting. Depends.

Kaiser - probably a normal noble in his public face (Max, of the House of Anders), known for his charity towards the poor (only the humans, of course), but secretly the leader of a racist militia-type group that persecutes nonhumans in the Kingdom? Or specific groups of humans. Or both. Probably doesn't have magical powers, but does have some cool enchanted gear he paid a fortune for, and hides just how good he is with a sword, except in his secret persona?

Hookwolf - actual werewolf? Still works for Anders, presumably.

None of these thoughts are necessarily final, really, and I have a few more, but nothing quite formed yet.

Obviously, more might need to worked out, including plot and the particulars of the setting (is Brockton the whole Kingdom? Is Brockton Bay one city? A major focus? Maybe Brockton Bay is a larger region, and some of the various parts of the Bay are distinct cities and towns in the Bay area. I have a setting that involves both Paladins and Necromancers in prominent roles that I might repurpose if I was going to write this... which I still might, but not yet).

Other characters could play all sorts of roles, would have to think more on their equivalent versions. Can't just make everyone some flavor of wizard/warlock/witch/etc, and wouldn't want to be married to specific 'classes', but it's a solid starting point anyway.

What would you all envision 'Fantasy AU' versions of some of the characters? Do you think I'm way off the mark with some of them? Obviously 'Fantasy AU' covers a wide swath of possibilities, so there's a lot of variation. Still, curious as to people's ideas with it.

Obviously, if I wrote it, it would be Taylor/Amy in the long run, (I am nothing if not a predictable, hopeless shipper) maybe involving Taylor (and the AU's version of the Undersiders?) kidnapping Amy at some point, who knows.

[crybaby-bkg]

cw: this got long sorry 😔 but creepy/perv bakugou, recording, film major bkg x art major reader, masturbation, coercion, dubcon before it just becomes con, voyeurism/exhibitionism

as an art major, you typically did some works for a few students on campus; for their plays, as background pieces while they danced, a cover for their released songs. it wasn’t out of the ordinary for people to ask you to create something for them, and you enjoyed it more often than not. but, you weren’t usually the art itself.

Bakugou is a friend’s friend that you’ve seen a few times, ran into at the library or at coffee shops. he’s a film major, and always looks so unhappy about the whole thing, as if he didn’t choose it himself. you joke to Mina that you think he’ll graduate and become one of those directors that hate everything and yell at the actors constantly and later on get sued for being a dickhead. you never say it to him though—you’ve never spoken more than a couple words to the man.

it’s why it shocks you when he approaches you one day. it’s after one of your painting classes, and he stands outside the door with a frown and his hands shoved in his pockets, his eyebrows scrunched as if pissed at the mere sight of you. he asks you, in that low and gruff tone of his, if you could star in his final project for the semester. says it’s supposed to be a film made with this criteria and that, but, you’ve kind of checked out on the conversation after the first sentence.

“You mean, you want me to create something and that be the star of your film?” you ask him, feeling so intimidated at his stature. he always seems to loom, his hair shadowing the lights above, creates a cast over a portion of his face, makes his eyes look…unsettling. like they’re looking straight through your flesh, can find the marrow in your bones. he scoffs like you’ve offended him, rolling his eyes into his skull, mouth pulled tight.

“No.” his voice is firm, gaze concentrated only on you, like the halls are empty and you’re the focus of his lens. “I want you to star in it.”

his words confuse you—you’ve never presented yourself as an actor before, never alluded to wanting to be in the spotlight if not for what you create with your hands. but he shuffles on his feet, looks desperate even. there’s some hemming and hawing for a minute or so—why not choose Mina?—she’s busy—why choose me?—‘cause you’d be perfect for my short film—what’s it about?—you’ll find out once you get the script.

and even after you hesitantly agree and get the script—you still don’t understand what you’re doing. why you’re here, why you’re the only person, why it has to be a solo film, why there’s damn near zero lines in the entirety of the have-to-be forty five minute film.

the scenes are all so long, and maybe it’s because movies aren’t your forte or chosen major, but you just don’t get it. one scene; you’re staring at yourself in the mirror while Bakugou holds a small, black camera over your shoulder. he’s eerily quiet behind you, whispers out a faint fuckin’ go when you have to wash your face in the sink, makes you do it over because your movements are too jerky and unnatural.

the rest of the scenes go that way; you doing regular at home activities, being put under a lens, quietly barked at to do this and move that way and fix your hair and remember to frown.

“Isn’t there another way to film this?” you ask him on the fifth day of shooting in his spacious loft. there’s a bubble bath scene coming up, one you dont understand the importance of, but Bakugou tells you it’s the most necessary part of the entire thing.

“No,” he grunts out, looking at you from under his lashes as he sits on the lid of the toilet. “But I’ll make it soapy, so the camera won’t see much.” the camera? much? you weren’t worried so much about what the camera captured as you were the man behind it. he looks at you with such intensity, you feel naked already despite the robe you wear that’s suspiciously already your size.

he leaves the bathroom when you sink in the hot water, returns before you can say it’s okay, hears the water splashing and thinks that’s good enough. he kneels on the floor beside you, camera pointed directly in your face, makes your chest hot and your skin feel prickly. the scene passes on regularly enough; you run the water over your arms, tilt your head back as you sigh, whisper the few lines scripted, lean back and close your eyes, sigh again. it’s almost relaxing, makes you forget about the friend of a friend recording you naked right now. almost.

“Touch yourself.” Bakugou suddenly demands, hushed and quiet behind the camera. your eyes immediately shoot open, looking to him in question, how he’s eerily still in his spot hovering over you.

“Huh?” you ask, unsure if you heard him correctly, looking around the rounded lens in your face, trying to ignore the red blinking light. but Bakugou only frowns.

“It’s a masturbation scene. Touch yourself.” he repeats, voice louder, more demanding this time. your stomach twists at the thought of doing something so intimate in front of him. he’s a handsome guy, for sure, even made you consider asking him out after this, figured he was just serious about his work and awkward about certain things. but…something had been off about this entire thing since the start.

“But—but I don’t, I’m not,” you stutter, sitting up a little, the bubbles covering your chest starting to disperse with your movements. but Bakugou only sits a little higher on his knees, finally pulling the camera away from his face for the first time since he’s asked you to do this for him.

“You want me to fail?” he asks, booming voice eerily quiet in the silent bathroom, carmine eyes dull, shaded over with something terrible. “Then do it.” he tells you when you shake your head quickly.

you stare at him until he gets back into position again, camera back pointed at you. when he doesn’t say anything else, you swallow thickly, wondering if the art that will come out of this will be worth it. so you listen, sneak a hand under the water, start touching yourself in a way you never have in front of anyone.

is it bad to say that it’s exhilarating? being watched and recorded by someone who breathes so heavily every time your voice hiccups? being directed to touch your chest next when the suds start to disappear and your nipples start to peek through? is it bad that you want him to send you this portion of his film, only, just so you can watch yourself again and again? make a portrait of yourself with your fingers on your nipples and your knees raising from the water and your head thrown back from the intensity in oil pastels?

“That’s a wrap.” Bakugou announces when you finish, head spinning and still panting. you look over to him, how he closes the camera, the obvious bulge in his pants. “I’ll get you a towel.”

you wonder when’s the next time he’ll need you. or better yet—maybe he could be the star in your final drawing project? you had finished it already but, what was the harm in starting over with him as your muse? as naked as you are? camera not blocking his face so you can paint the similarities of his blushing cheeks and eyes when you direct him to look at you? to touch his chest? to play with himself just like that?