#Eaten alive trope/fatal

[suzyandthefox]

No new content soo

Have the very first Fatal (with reformation) swwh I have ever written

I wrote this almost two years ago.

Oweis does not belong to me, Neither do any of the characters here, just Y/N :3

G/t M/NB noms, Fatal W/Reformation.

NSFW DNI

When you thought about the consequences of your actions,you never imagined they would be like this.

Life was never an issue for you,as a pixie,you spent your time eating nectar,sleeping and ruining a traveler’s day whenever you could, especially when Phobos encouraged you to.

From stealing away some coins,to purposely misleading them,to using your magic to jinx them,you cackled every time you saw their frustration creep up on their faces.

Humans are stupid,and ruining their day was the peak of your own.

Today was no exception,you saw a handsome young man taking a stroll in the woods, with no equipment, nothing but a weapon on his side.

You deducted that he wasn't travelling then, only walking, a grin creeped on your face.

You thought of the many ways you can make him regret coming here, you could perhaps cut this pretty, long, dark hair that he wears in a low ponytail, or you could make him sneeze for a good few hours,or you could make him trip and lose a tooth.

You noticed that unique lock of hair on top of his head, curled like a weird antenna,wouldn't it be funny if you just cut it off? And it bothered you anyways.

So you flied around the human, giggle as you focus your magic into a tiny spectral blade.

Your laughter, however,is interrupted by a powerful force grabbing you from the air,and a fist squeezing you.

“You thought you were going to do something funny, didn't you?”

You gulped nervously,and tried to wriggle your way from the hold,you wings were basically crinkled paper now, you prayed that they still worked after this.

Now that you are so close to the human you realised he… wasn't human at all,nor was he a Celestan.

The unmistakable crescent mark on his forehead, these shining silver eyes, and the unique, asserting aura,you heart sank as it dawns on you.

“A…Axelia-Maiier?” your words barely came out of your throat.

“Don't call me that if you know what's good for you”

Tears flowed,you were screwed,so absolutely screwed.

Out of all days that your prank could have failed, it had to fail in the presence of THE Axelia, you truly hoped it was all a nightmare but no,it was real,every dreaded second of it.

“And now what can I do with you,you little bastard?”

His hand shifted around you and you breathed after long moments of suffocation,but it didn't last long,for the very next second you were dangling in the air from your foot.

“I could pluck your pretty little wings, or I could keep you hanging upside down like this,or I could keep you in my pocket for later”

Even though you were getting a horrible headache from the blood flowing to your head,you noticed how he licked his lips, they must have been dry,right?

“You know what? I think I'm feeling little bit… peckish.” Wait, what does being hungry has to do with…

Fuck.

You really, really hoped it wasn't what you thought it was,but all your hopes were snuffed out as The Axelia dangled you over his mouth, taking his sweet time in taunting you.

On one hand,it was an honour to be consumed by The Axelia, the one and only,but on the other, you didn't want to die… not in such a humiliating way.

“Ahh~”

But your thoughts weren't important, for it was time to face the consequences of your actions. You were lowered into a cavern of deep crimson red,with pearly white gates,and then you heard a little ‘click’ as said gates were sealed shut, trapping you in horrible darkness.

At least you weren't dangling anymore, despite the head splitting headache you were having from being upside down for so long,but the moment of peace went away, and another form of torture took place.

You were rolled and tossed around pathetically as The Axelia indulged himself in your taste, a loud purr vibrate around you,you didn't have even the tiniest bit of power here, just a little snack about to perish forever, for a prank that went wrong.

You had no strength left in you to fight the strong muscle, so you whimpered and sobbed.

“Please, I'm sorry!” “I'm so sorry! I won't do anything like that again! I swear!”

Your pleas fell on deaf ears as you realize what will happen next,and it won't care about how you feel.

“Axelia-Maiier… please don't do this...”

Your voice dies as the unbearably warm environment shifts around you,The Axelia then swallowed your pathetic,wet form whole.

It wasn't easy, given that he still had the body of a human, but unfortunately for you,it only needed a bit of work before it was completely done, which meant that any chances of getting out,if there was any,was now nonexistent.

You listened to the powerful, rumbling heartbeat,a heart full of power, emotions,and what you sensed it to be something far darker, like it wasn't him.

The fleeting, humbling moment passed and you went through a ring of muscle into the stomach.

You would have just listened to the heartbeat of the Axelia and waited quietly for what comes next,if not for your skin sizzling upon contact with the soft flesh of the walls.

You couldn’t get a single moment of rest,every second since the Axelia noticed you was pain upon pain, and now was the strongest of them,you wished that your mind would just shutdown so you won't feel yourself dissolving and melting.

“I'm sorry,I really am…”

The sounds of the body functions,the horrid darkness, the suffocating humid air,and the acids eating at you.

But before the end came,a force grabbed you into the blinding light of the sun again.

You thought yourself to have been digested,but instead you are held by The Axelia again. This time, however,his hand wasn't a cruel, squeezing fist,it was an open palm, perhaps from how brittle your body was after what happened, your bare flesh exposed to the air and sending you in more waves of pain.

The Axelia mutters a spell,and finally the pain was gone, your wings flutter, your skin grows back,you were good as new.

“There! All good! Like nothing happened!”

“Ax..elia?” You muttered in weakness. “Call me “Oweis”, okay? I don't like the title,” “I don't understand… you just killed me,but somehow I'm back?”

“Well that's because I regene_” “No no,I want to know why you changed your mind, why you suddenly decided that I'm a person.”

He shrugged. “I guess I felt bad for you? Like, you are a little bastard who was going to cut my hair and all,but not to the point where I would kill you, that's just cruel.”

“Cruel,huh?” your voice was filled with seething hatred.

“But you are all good now! So it's fine! You sweared to never ruin anyone's day again.”

“No,I sweared I won't do anything like that again,in that I won't be cutting your hair,but I can ruin your whole life in plenty of ways.”

Now fully regenerated,you focus your magic on taking you away from here, you may not be unable to do anything but you can absolutely tell someone else to do it.

And you know exactly who are you going to tell.

[pineappleparfaitie]

TW//CW:implied fatal vore (with reformation,nothing is shown just implied!)

I/prey was reformed after this no preys were harmed in the making of this post-

Based a convo/joke i had with a fren abt a pred eating a prey and then burping up pride coloured bubbles

(NOTE I DONT LIKE...burps..EVEN WRITINF THAT IS KINDA IFFY TO ME THIS IS JUST FOR THE SAKE OF A JOKE DONT EXPECT ME TO DO THIS AGAIN LOL-)

Anyway ft. @karmatheprowlthra cause who else-

(Since im bi and gendefluid thats what colors the bubbles are lol-)

ok baiii (runs away in shame)

[void-draws]

🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃

[enderplane]

Stage 4 is by far the most dangerous stage of void amagimation, as the creature has the ability to reabsorb any redundant limbs that can encumber it.

This stage is classified by the amagimation coating itself in a near completely voidmatter skin, and changing the way in which it feeds. Previously, other organisms would fuse to the outside of the body, and consuming matter via mouth had little benefit as the afflicted would not have a functional digestive system.

Now, the organism gains new mass via consuming other, mostly intact organisms, alive or freshly dead. Instead of a digestive tract, the kyris has internal voiden appendages which tear the consumed organism apart, separating it into individual muscles, organs, bones, and other tissue. Each piece is dragged through the body by muscular mobile worm-like tendrils, and allocated to where it is needed, then fused in place, nerves, veins, & connective tissue being connected to the other accumulated flesh via void. Excess living tissue is stored in the creature's tail.

All living tissue consumed this way is kept alive via void acting as blood and supplying it with nourishment.

This 4th and final stage of VR-C does not have a known lifespan, and will live until it runs out of living tissue to sustain itself.

VOID ROT

This affliction has plagued the earth since the dimensional fusion of 2052. It is incurable and nearly always fatal.

VR-C is by far the most feared and widely known due to its disturbing progression, turning those afflicted into mindless beasts

A particularly formidable feature of VR-C is the fact the afflicted creatures can spontaneously & quickly grow new voidmatter appendages in order to aid them in any situation they may find themselves in. This is always to aid the creature in the final goal of spreading the affliction as far as possible before it eventually is too malformed to continue functioning.

A rare outcome of VR-C is voiden amagimation; this occurs when an afflicted individual is nearing death, and in close proximity to gravely injured and/or freshly dead organisms. This is more likely to ocurr if the second organism is also infected with a variant of void rot. Once another organism is amalgamated, it becomes far easier for another to be. This can progress into a creature known as a kyris, rotbeast, reaper, or void atronoch colloquially.

[vore-scientist]

What would Yonah do, If one of his friends ran at him in panik and ask him to eat them. Like If their got chased or something.(Sorry If something wrong, English is not my first language)

Yonah's not really a great hiding place since there's not really amazing safety spells in canon*.

HOWEVER this is one of my favorite vore tropes so obviously i gotta think about how this would happen.

Then I realize, i have written that story, sort of, "In Which A Couple Of Elves Get Into Trouble" <- i think you'd like it if you havent read it!

They (the elves) dont ask him to eat them but they do ask him for help and its clear they know exactly what that means.

BUT BACK TO YOUR ASK

I would love to write a similar scenario with actual friends of yonah's rather than "friends" (people he's um... eaten/harassed but dont hate him), like one of the wizards.

He'd definitely eat them, but for the drama he'd wait for whatever they were running from to SEE him do it. If its another large monster this would be to lord it over them that He, Yonah, got to eat such a tasty treat, and they did NOT. Stole their snack. Could end up with a fight! and then Yonah's friend would be in for a fun little ride!

If its not a large monster, but another human-sized person, yonah would still wait for them to see him eat the friend. And then catch the person they were running from "for dessert". This could end with yonah just toying with the person, eating them or not, but letting them go (after spitting up his friend). Or he could actually eat the threat (after spitting up his friend). Since whatever can make a fellow wizard panic is uhhh dangerous to leave alive.

Even if this wasnt a wizard friend (wizards are very able to defend themselves and Yonah actually is a lower ranked wizard than most of his friends), it would end up as i described in the previous paragraph. (I like both options, of purely safe or mix safe and fatal)

*(i used to have basically none unless you had a LOT of money to spend and time to cast it, but ive adjusted to include easier short term safety spells, like 20 min duration. you'd have to recast and they dont provide air. so you still need money and time for spells that can handle say, overnight snuggles)

Thanks for the ask!

[alongwiththebees]

Book Tropes

Accidental Murder: Niko accidentally stings Mr. Cavatica to death when he lunges at her. Though it wouldn’t be called “murder” since they’re both bugs, and those kind of laws don’t apply to the insect world.

Adorkable: Niko.

Always a Bigger Fish: Birds, which Niko takes full advantage of to defeat Mrs. Weaver.

Amicable Ants: The ants of Ari’s colony, even if most of them are Large Hams.

Animal Talk: The insect characters are all capable of speaking to each other, regardless of their species, but not with normal humans.

Battle in the Rain: With an interesting twist—because these are tiny bugs, the raindrops are enormous and fall like bombs. They all scatter to avoid these while Mrs. Weaver chases Niko.

Bee-Bee Gun: Subverted when Niko becomes a bee, her only form of protection being her new stinger.

Big Damn Heroes: Flash and Niko arriving to stop Mrs Weaver from delivering a fatal bite to Daniela.

Big Good: Chandra, the Witch of the Wood.

Big Sister Instinct: When Daniela realizes that her little sister has disappeared, she frantically searches the beach and the trail leading there from their house, to no avail, not knowing that her sister’s actually been turned into a bee.

Black Widow: Mrs. Weaver becomes a literal one, as it was Niko who killed her mate.

Cruel and Unusual Death: Mrs. Weaver getting eaten alive by birds is not a nice way to go.

Curse: Piccolo’s honeybee curse is what starts the plot.

Didn’t Think This Through: While in bee form, Niko sees her sister, Daniela, and tries to fly over to her to tell her about her own predicament. She realizes too late that to Daniela, it just looks like a bee that’s going straight towards her. This results in her bolting for the house.

Disproportionate Retribution: Piccolo curses Niko for disturbing the shell that is his “Summer home”.

The Ditherer: Scrap the cockroach.

The Dreaded: Mr. Cavatica has this reputation.

Dreadful Dragonfly: Averted with Flash, who saves Niko from Mr. Cavatica, though accidentally, upon entering the plot.

Everyone Has Standards: Niko, a human girl turned into a bee, has to look away in horror before even a monster like Mrs. Weaver getting eaten alive by a couple of bluebirds.

Exact Eavesdropping: Niko overhears the spiders’ entire plan to rid her house of humans. Granted, she was warned to go listen in by another insect, but that seems a bit too convenient, no?

Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Mrs. Weaver meets her fate via this trope.

Family-Unfriendly Death: Moreso than her mate’s, Mrs Weaver getting devoured by the bluebirds. The last thing she (and Niko, before the bee-girl turns away in horror) sees is one of their gaping beaks clamping around her head and pulling…

Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Niko is described as the Foolish to Daniela’s Responsible.

Forced Transformation: The story deals with this trope throughout, as Niko is transformed into a honeybee and journeys with other bugs to change back.

Grotesque Cute: The cute bluebird couple who eat Mrs. Weaver alive at the end.

Hell Is That Noise: See Sound-Only Death below.

Hornet Hole: Naturally, Niko finds herself in an artificial beehive, where she meets the bees who become her allies.

Humanity Ensues: Chandra casts a spell that allows Niko’s insect friends to eventually be resurrected in human form upon inevitably reaching the end of their natural lifespans, so that they can see each other as much as they want.

“I Can’t Look!” Gesture: Niko turns away in horror at the sight of Mrs. Weaver being eaten by the birds.

Indy Ploy: How Niko tricks Mrs Weaver into getting herself killed. 

Inertial Impalement: Mr. Cavatica meets his end when he lunges at Niko, only to be impaled on her stinger.

Insect Queen: Queens Mesilane and Ari, both of whom are royalty and the literal mothers of their respective “kingdoms”.

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Kava. She comes across as crabby quite a bit. Despite that, she’s still good friends with the other bees and forms a sisterly bond with Niko as well.

Just Desserts: Mrs. Weaver meets this fate, courtesy of some birds whose nest Niko lures her to.

Karmic Death: Mr. Cavatica, who relishes Niko’s fear as he prepares to kill and eat her, is almost immediately Impaled With Extreme Prejudice on her stinger.

Mrs. Weaver gets her Just Desserts when he becomes the meal of some hungry birds. For extra points, she despises birds.

After spending the story lording her superior arachnid size over the insects, it’s this superior size that does Mrs. Weaver in, as the birds are more interested in having the spider for a late night snack than Niko.

Language Barrier: Niko transforms into a bee and gains the ability to talk to bugs, but also loses the ability to talk to humans. Luckily, Chandra Speaks Fluent Animal.

Large Ham: Queen Ari.

Looking a Miffed Animal in the Mouth: Near the end, Mrs. Weaver chases Niko in a rage until the spider (after biting off the tip of Niko’s stinger) happens across a bird which loudly screeches in her face. Terrified, Weaver attempts to run away, to no avail; The bird’s mate is waiting for her.

Meaningful Name: All the bee characters (Niko being an obvious exception) have names for "bee” in different languages.

Misfit Mobilization Moment: After Mr. Cavatica’s death, Niko and the insect characters unite against Mrs. Weaver.

Missing Child: Niko’s family tries to find their missing 13-year-old daughter. Little do they know that she is currently trapped in the form of a honeybee.

More Deadly Than the Male: Mr. Cavatica is less violent than his wife Mrs. Weaver, though more sadistic. After killing Cavatica and chucking the spider eggs into the garbage disposal, Niko laments that still leaves Weaver, whom she herself knows will be even worse.

Mr. Cavatica hides himself for a surprise attack, only to be killed by Niko. Mrs. Weaver attacks the sleeping Daniela with no care for hiding herself, and it’s only by the insects’ intervention that Niko’s family comes out unharmed and none the wiser.

Non-Malicious Monster: The bug-eating birds. They’re really just doing what comes naturally.

In an even more abstract example, the thunderstorm at the end is literally just a force of nature that nonetheless manages to foil the bees’ attempt to take down Mrs. Weaver.

Oh, Crap!: Niko’s reaction upon realizing that she’s been turned into a bee.

And her reaction upon realizing that Mr. Shaffer intends to put her into his hive, although it does lead her to meeting new bee friends and starts her on her quest.

“Niko, get off that flower, now!”

Niko when she gets swarmed by the ants, and later upon overhearing the spiders’ plot to kill her mother and sister.

For Mrs Weaver: “CHIRP CHIRP.”

Only Sane Bug: Kava is the more sensible and mature of the bees who accompany Niko. Likewise, Princess Foumi, though she isn’t without her quirks, is otherwise the most level-headed ant in her colony.

Polly Wants a Microphone: Aponi, Chandra’s wise-cracking parrot, is fully capable of fluent speech.

Predators Are Mean: Despite how Predation Is Natural, neither of the spiders are particularly pleasant individuals. Mrs. Weaver is a Manipulative Bitch, while Mr. Cavatica is a Sadist who relishes Niko’s fear. Both are also planning to kill Niko’s family as well.

Scary Stinging Swarm: A heroic example: Towards the end, Niko and Queen Mesilane lead such a swarm to confront Mrs. Weaver.

Sensory Tentacles: Upon first meeting Niko, the bees of Clan Shaffer investigate the newcomer by laying their antennae on her.

Bleta: She doesn’t smell like any bee I’ve ever met…

Shout-Out: The way Niko is lured into Piccolo's trap is a reference to a Swahili folktale in which an ogre captures the female protagonist this way.

The naming of the bug characters, especially the bees, is an Homage to Clan Apis/The Way of the Hive.

Sound-Only Death: How Mrs. Weaver’s death is described:

…Mrs. Weaver let out a piercing scream, which was abruptly cut off by a different noise: The meaty sound of something being torn to shreds.

Roar Before Beating: The bird lets out a deafening screech right into Mrs. Weaver’s face before it and its mate prey on her.

Truth in Television: A lot of actual bug facts are interspersed throughout the story, such as how bees die after stinging creatures other than insects, or how female ants make up the vast majority of any given ant colony. 

Unholy Matrimony: The two venomous spiders are mates who wish to assassinate all the humans in the house so that their eggs will have a safe place to hatch.

Villainous Breakdown: Mrs. Weaver breaks down when her husband is killed and her eggs are destroyed. And she breaks down even more when her attempt to kill Daniela is thwarted.

Virtuous Bees: The bees of Clan Shaffer are goodhearted bees that want to serve their hive.

Women Are Wiser: Protagonist example: Niko’s worker bee friends are shown to be smarter than drone bee Diden, who is a bigger goofball than even Phung and Niko, the latter of whom helps organize the bees into fighting Mrs. Weaver.

Antagonist example: Mr. Cavatica’s ambush plan is smart, but upon recognizing Niko, he attacks her head on, and is killed by her stinger for his trouble. Mrs. Weaver is smart enough to not only avoid being stung, but to also gnaw the tip of Niko’s stinger off.

Xenofiction: An unusual example, being from the point of view of a girl transformed into a honeybee.

Zerg Rush: The ants swarm Niko this way. Later she and Queen Mesilane lead the bees to attack Mrs. Weaver.

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

I feel like you've touched on this in some of your AUs, but I was wondering what you think about the characterization of Bella as a danger magnet.

Originally, I thought it was used as a plot device to allow Edward to be her savior in the parking lot and in Port Angeles (which to me read as the typical romance trope) and for the James and Victoria plotlines to play out, among other things.

In-universe, however, I find the mention of this distracting. I don't think fate or life work that way where one person would have horrible luck or attract more danger than anyone else (outside of marginalization, which isn't the case here. Even considering the power imbalance between vampires/werewolves and humans doesn't do much of the leg work.)

Is it just a combination of Bella's clumsiness that has landed her in the hospital multiple times and her not being scared of the supernatural? Her sweet, sweet blood that attracts predators? In canon, both Bella and Edward accept that she's simply a danger magnet but that explanation doesn't make sense to me. What do you think?

I'm actually not sure I have touched on it, at least, not directly. I think I just make one-liner gags then go on my merry way.

But let's get into it.

Regardless of whether this is a reasonable thing to believe or not, both Bella and Edward have their reasons for wholeheartedly believing it to be true.

Why Does Edward Insist Bella's a Danger Magnet?

Edward, early in Twilight, is actively panicking about his involvement in Bella's life. He knows that a better man would stay completely away from Bella, worse yet, Carlisle keeps reminding Edward that a better person would move out of Forks altogether (as Carlisle keeps begging Edward to do rather than tempt fate and eat Bella).

Edward cannot justify his existence in Bella's life and it utterly torments him.

And then, it happens, Edward realizes that the gods themselves despise Bella Swan. Bella is riding in the chariot of a man hated by Zeus.

He likens this to a feeling of divine revelation: Bella Swan needs him.

Without his involvement in her life she might be crushed by a van, raped in Port Angeles, eaten by bears, you name it. Something terrible will happen to the most wonderful creature on the planet unless he personally is there to stop it.

Edward is suddenly no longer the monster (or at least, not only the monster), he is Bella's personal protector, fighting against fate itself to keep this beautiful creature alive. A dark protector, kind of like Batman, but cooler.

Edward now not only has reason to stay in Bella's life, he must do so, otherwise she could very well die. THAT SPIDER IN HER BED COULD EAT HER RIGHT NOW.

And true, he still planned to leave in due time, but he also breathed a sigh of relief as he could assuage his torn conscience. Don't worry, everybody, if Edward's not lurking in Bella's bedroom every night with her blissfully unaware then she'll be eaten by a space shark. So it's all cool.

Of course, he always intends to leave her, but now he can do so at a later date.

In New Moon, Edward is reminded that this isn't quite the case. He himself, his family, is the greatest danger to Bella there is. He can no longer justify his presence in her life. As a result he cuts ties immediately.

When he comes back in Eclipse, given all the shit that's happened to Bella, he can once more justify his presence and get that sweet sweet relief knowing that, without him, the universe will literally collapse upon Bella Swan.

Hence, Edward's theory: the universe is actively out to get Bella Swan. Either God is a cruel jackass who is tormenting this perfect person or else made Bella, the perfect woman, specifically so that Edward can protect her. Edward can't decide which.

Bella thought Edward confessing this was deeply romantic.

Why Does Bella Insist She's a Danger Magnet?

Bella is a depressed teenager. Like many teenagers, she thinks everything is about her. Everyone hates her, everyone's looking at her, everyone thinks she's ugly, the universe is literally out to get her.

Bella is not the first, and not the last, teenager to think that the world is literally against her. Everything terrible happens to her and life is woe. This isn't all that weird of a thing for her to believe (especially as, in general, weird shit does happen to her).

More, Edward presents his case very eloquently. Edward's batshit insane, but the beauty of him is that he somehow says it in a manner that's not always immediately obvious. He often sounds rather poetic and reasonable.

Edward says, "Perhaps God is trying to kill you."

Bella sits there eating her mushroom raviolli, "Makes sense to me. Also, you know that waitress is hitting on you, right?"

Is Bella a Danger Magnet?

Well, we don't know anything about higher powers in the Twilight universe, that's left very open ended. What I will say is that a lot of weird shit does seem to happen to Bella with a frequency that, were I to sit down and do the back of the envelope calculations, is statistically unlikely.

Now, some of these follow the others: Victoria hunting Bella is related to Bella first capturing James attention. Bella's involvement with the wolves is related to James and Victoria showing up. Bella's interaction with the Volturi centers upon having met Edward Cullen.

However, let's break down the bullshit that happens to Bella Swan.

First, she happens to move to Forks during the period where the Cullens are in Forks. That Bella happens to move to the small town where there are vampires is highly unlikely to begin with. That she moves there in the time period in which the Cullens happens to be there is also unlikely.

We're already talking small probabilities.

Two, Bella happens to be a singer for one of these vampires. Singers are extraordinarily rare. Aro, who is 3500 years old, has never encountered one. Carlisle, 350 years old, seems to have never met one. Emmett seems to be many standard deviations off the normal for meeting two, still meets them decades apart across a wide variety of space. This is a very small probability.

Three, not a week later, Bella is nearly crushed by a van in a parking lot. Now, this one's a lot more likely. P(Fatality|Icy Conditions) is not devastatingly high but it's not P(Move to Town With Fucking Vampires), but if we're doing the joint probability this is getting really really low likelihood (P(Move to Town With Fucking Vampires) * P(Vampire Singer) * P(Nearly Hit By Truck | Icy Conditions) ~= 0))

Not too long after that, Bella nearly gets raped and left in a dumpster in Port Angeles. Now, this probability, that of sexual assault, is sadly rather high. Especially in the conditions Bella was in. Now, happening to run into a serial rapist who is actually planning to kill her and put her body in a dumpster, that's a bit less high. What's suspect here is, again, the timing of it all.

Not too long after that, Bella happens to be watching the Cullens play baseball when three man eating vampires happen to be in the area. These vampires happen to include James, rather than any other vampire, who decides it'd be great to hunt Bella for sport. Which, of course, dominoes into the rest of canon.

Is Bella clumsy? Does she make poor decisions sometimes? Do some of these events lead to others? Yes.

Doesn't mean a bunch of weird shit doesn't happen to her. If I was Bella, I too, would be wondering what the fuck was up with my luck. I think it's safe to say she fails the Null Hypothesis test.

[olreid]

Ok wait how is tma about being eaten

OH BOY. well first of all,

so jot that down <3

even just on the fundamental level of writing/dialogue, tma is preoccupied with consumption - as a font of horror, as a method of violence, as a type of metamorphosis and transformation. it’s “you always said you were helen.” “i am. i also ate her.” and “his eyes were drinking in every fragment of my misery; he looked at me like he’d just eaten a perfectly cooked steak.” and “they were normal people before, but now they’re meat for the grinder.” and “desperate for one last morsel of terror from us?” and “ceaseless watcher, turn your gaze upon this thing and drink your fill.” but the preoccupation with consumption is present thematically and formally too; tma layers consumption over itself until you get what is essentially a matryoshka doll of cannibalism.

we can first think about the medium through which tma is produced as a process of consumption, the recording equipment eating the actors’ performances and jonny’s writing until such time as we consume the podcast by listening to it. media as consumption is an image we get in-world as well; gerry, eric delano, and many others are consumed by and trapped within the book of the living dead. in binary, sergey ushanka eats the computer and then the computer eats him; he finds it difficult to think because “the angles cut me when i try”. etc. all of this reinforces the image of different mediums consuming, expelling, and/or feeding on those they contain and represent.

the reading of podcast as vehicle of consumption is furthered by the fact that tma is a fictional podcast, i.e. a narrative. i think an argument could be made that narratives of any genre are inherently cannibalistic; happy endings bury you alive in the story as soon as the book closes or the poet stops speaking, while tragic/fatal endings bury you dead in melville’s stoneless graves, whether those graves are the pages of the book or the episodes of a podcast. the story needs to keep eating people in order to continue being told; it needs people to be sacrificed to the past and to the page in order that the person holding the pen might still have a story to tell.

i think this holds true for the horror genre in particular; horror stories are cannibals both in the sense that people need to die for the story to continue and that horror is cyclical/mimetic as protagonists often become the very monsters they are afraid of, so that their humanity is consumed if not their life. the impact of one death - whether literally through loss of life or symbolically via metamorphosis from man to monster - only affects the audience for so long before the spectacle has worn off and a fresh horror is needed to keep their interest. thus, for every episode or chapter that a horror story continues, additional violence is required. and, because repeated tropes become predictable and because audiences expect the stakes to be raised as the story goes on, the horror story gets hungrier and hungrier the longer it’s told.

the specific structure of the horror narrative(s) that make up tma is also consumptive in nature; that is, the conceit of the podcast is that jon reads a different statement about someone else’s experience each episode, and we learn as time goes on that what jon is actually doing when he reads a statement is feeding on the fear of the statement-maker. for jon to go on living, he must eat the statement makers, both in the sense that he is consuming their life stories and rendering them dead objects to be stored in the archive and in the sense that he is consuming their fear in order to gain health and power. jon himself explicitly compares the act of statement reading/recording to cannibalism when he wonders if “reading a statement of the ceaseless watcher counts as some sort of autocannibalism […] re-consuming secondhand terror.” so, each individual episode is itself a record and a product of consumption as individual statements are consumed by the larger meta-narrative, which in turn is being constantly devoured by the archive and the audience.

when we look at the concepts and characters that actually exist within the world of tma, we see that a lot of these are fundamentally consumptive as well. yes tma as a horror podcast is obviously full of death, but when we pay attention to the specific types of deaths that victims experience, we notice that people get eaten quite often. they are consumed by caves, skin-stealing monsters, masses of insects, doors that entrap, and webs that ensnare and encase. the victim in an early vast-centric statement is literally “eaten by the sky.” even those who are favored by the fears are consumed by them; daisy becomes the hunt embodied, melanie is filled with unbridled rage, jonah magnus becomes the very pupil of the eye which kept him alive for so many years.

sometimes, if a person is lucky enough, they are eaten in such a way as to allow them to continue the cycle of consumption by eating others. daisy in her true hunt form eats her way through the apocalypse; jane prentiss infects and consumes anybody she touches, the archivist consumes the fear of statement makers and later in s5 their bodies as well as he incorporates other avatars back into the body of the watcher. this consumption allows avatars to feast and gain power even as their humanity is consumed. for jon specifically, the majority of his arc constitutes a struggle with his own monstrousness and what he feels as a loss of humanity, highlighted by the fact that his powers rely on one of the most taboo and violating acts anyone can commit in modern-day society: the consumption of another person. we see him attempt to quit extracting statements from live people and instead read only those statements that exist already in the archive, but ultimately fail to abstain from the consumption of human horror as the apocalyptic world that he unleashes is compared to a “meat grinder” which is designed to extract and process human fear for the entities’ and avatars’ routine consumption.

in this new world, according to jon, you can either be object or subject; watcher or watched; inflicter of torture or torture victim. we see both jon and martin struggle with the idea that their only two options are essentially eat or be eaten, but ultimately accept their role within this new social order. at the end of the day, tma is interested in questions of transformation and agency not only in the sense of what choices you make, but how those choices might be shaped by their contexts. does it matter what you choose if you are trapped in the stomach of something far larger than you which has its own ends in mind? are your choices even yours at that point? it's martin saying that distortion-helen ate people because she "couldn't help what she was" and jon saying "she didn't even try." obviously being literally consumed by another completely annihilates your agency and sense of self, but what about supernatural or symbolic consumption? what about incorporation into the capitalist workforce, the machinery of knowledge-production, the "meat grinder" of society? are you a being with agency who has the power to change your surroundings or are you simply more "meat for the grinder"?

in summary:

you know ?

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Little doodle :>

[thelittleddemoncat]

No one asked me but here are my takes anyway

🤔 - How did you find out about vore? “The internet told me there was a word for my funny feelings I got when watching cartoons or playing video games where characters got eaten alive. I would also play this out with my toys long before I knew what I was doing.”

😋 - Favorite vore method? (Oral, absorption, etc.) “OV.....and cv”

📷 - Do you prefer to be the predator, prey, or an observer? “Prey and I like my preds to be make male, the rare M/F vore”

📚 - What types of themes do you enjoy in vore? Are you interested in encounters related to fantasy, science fiction, modern times, or something else?” Fear play and most any setting”

🖌 - How do you prefer to create vore media (if you do)? Do you like to roleplay, draw, write stories, mix vore-related sounds into audio scenarios, or other ways? “I draw and rp. (note that I don’t rp on tumblr, you would need to go to my DA for that.)

💻 - How do you consume (pun intended) vore media made by others? DA, Tumblr, anywhere art can be posted I guess.”

😐 - Any vore tropes you dislike? “I hate it when people take other people's pictures like pregnancy pictures and turn them into vore works. It's one thing if you use your own picture or have permission, but to take somebody's precious moment and turn it into your fetish is crossing the line. Aslo pedo stuff, like non-sexal stuff is one thing, but when you sexalzing kids, stay the f away from me, I don’t care if it’s just a drawing, get the f away from me. 

Do you prefer…

🍴 - Soft or hard vore? “Soft”

⚠️ - Safe or unsafe vore? “Safe, but with the prey not knowing that right away to allow for some fear play.

🖍 - Realistic or unrealistic/cartoony vore? “Your eating someone alive and whole, realistic  jumped out the back window a long time ago“

😧 - Willing or unwilling prey? “Unwilling, at least the first time” 😯 - Willing or unwilling preds? “Willing 

🌃 - Same size or size difference? “More into size difference but same size has grown on me”

🏃‍♂️ - Fast-paced scenes that cut straight to the chase or slow-paced scenes that observe details and/or have buildup? “I like some build up to the catching the prey”

Your opinion on…

❗️- Digestion “Only with reform most of the time”

😇 - Reformation “Yes”

☠️ - Fatal vore “Not big on this most of the time”

👅 - Mawplay/mouthplay “I like a little of this, but not to overplayed

🛌 - Endosoma “Sometimes you need a warm play to stay.

🌀 - Hypnosis in vore “Can be fun”

🧪 - Transformation in vore “Not to big on this, but in the right plot it can be ok”

🥰 - Fluff in vore “ Sometimes, but more into fear play”

🍜 - Foodplay in vore “It helps with the fear play”

😱 - Fearplay in vore “YYYYYYYEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS”

🤯 - Turning the tables in vore “Maybe, not sure about this one”

✏️ - Original characters in vore “I have ocs for vore

📺 - Canon characters in vore “In draws sometimes, in rps no”

Characters and Characteristics

📝 - Do you have any original characters specifically for vore? “Yes”

😛 - Any fictional character(s) that you imagine as prey? Would you eat them? “I’m prey, they eat me”

😳 - Any fictional character(s) that you imagine as preds? Would you let them eat you? “Well I will sometimes draw canon characters as preds, but it's more at random then constantly actually picturing it”

🤤 - What are the characteristics (physical, personality, etc) you enjoy in preds? What do you dislike? Males and the Jerk with a heart of gold, No, I don’t hates females pre say, but it can be a little bit of a pain when they are everywhere and other females do nothing for you.

😙 - What are the characteristics (physical, personality, etc) you enjoy in prey? What do you dislike? I like being prey, I have both male and female prey ocs so I am far less picky here.

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Have a little doodle, since I currently have a predcrush I can't come up with any scenarios for ^^"

[void-draws]

Small pt. 2 of my previous post

As per usual: Nsfw/kink dni

[vore-scientist]

Woah, the new nagastuck fic was great! Tbh one of my favorite vore things is full and sleepy nagas/snakes lol.

I’m so glad I happened to write one of your favorite things!! It’s one of my favorite things too! 

The issue I have with it is that realistically, that trope requires digestion, and i dont write fatal vore. With my other AUs I have made it so the preds have a natural high just from having eaten something alive. 

And I kinda do that in Nagastuck, but I limit it a lot more. I wanted something more realistic. 

It’s known fact that the sheer effort involved in digesting prey makes snakes lethargic. So what about nagas? 

Nagas have human halves, and most importantly, a human brain. The human brain consumes a shit ton of energy. So when Nagas consume large enough prey, they dont just get sleepy/lethargic. They are exhausted, and have inhibited brain activity/functions because so much energy is being used to digest their meal. 

The result makes them seem intoxicated