#Once Monsters

[angeart]

23, 19, 99

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helloooo! <33 we hit another maneskin here, crane wives, aand once monsters!! 💕

# 23 - Måneskin - GOSSIP

This place is a circus, you just see the surface They cover shit under the rug You can't see they're faking, they'll never be naked Just fill your drink with tonic gin, this is the American dream, so

Sip the gossip, drink 'til you choke Sip the gossip, burn down your throat You're not iconic, you are just like them all Don't act like you don't know

# 19 - The Crane Wives - Hollow Moon

I'm a fool I've been howling at a hollow moon There's something burning in the empty room inside of my head Fill it up with doubt, let it in, let it spread

I won't be sleeping There's too many monsters in the backyard And I feel them creeping Closer, closer, closer

I'm afraid Is this a bunker or a shallow grave? Either way I'm left Holding onto the shovel and rope Digging in the dirt, finding bones, finding ghosts

# 99 - Once Monsters - The World That I Love Hates Me

Been on this planet long enough and now I know The highs are always low And there's nothing at the end of any road On the outside I just say I'm doing well But I feel like I'm in hell, can you tell?

'Cause I'm fighting for my life Nobody is on my side Nothing's ever going right All I know is I wish I could be set free I don't know how many gods Are holding all my cards I just think that the world that I love hates me The world that I love hates me

[would-they-listen-to-that]

Would Jack Atlas (Yugioh 5ds) listen to "Take My Throne" by Once Monsters?

[21chemicalfalloutdays]

New Discoveries 2023 (June)

Vulgar, Sam Smith, Madonna Me and Mine, The Brothers Bright Neglected Space, Imogen Heap The Killing Kind, Marianas Trench The Exorcist, CALYPSO, David Goldstein, Selma Cheeks Intruder, LongestSoloEver My Name Is.., Once Monsters Sleep Isabella, Abney Park Satanic Aesthetic, Angelspit House of the Rising Sun, Lauren O'Connell

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[one-song-at-a-time]

#203 || My Name Is.. --- Once Monsters

[kicks0u]

slush puppy! 💜

[crypine]

soft,, feather,, warm,, waaaa

[venomgaia]

gal who calls you girliepop and collects bugs

[tsuutarr]

You almost scream when something falls into your basket, certain that you'll have to deal with a large bug. 

You soon calm down when you realize that your sudden visitor isn't a bug, but a tired garden fairy. He leans against your basket, looking worn out, causing sympathy to well up inside you. You push some of the berries inside your basket his way, causing his eyes to brighten.

After that, you've had a little fairy stalker following you around everywhere. But you don't mind – he's cute and harmless, after all. He fits into all your dollhouses and gets full eating just a few berries, so there's no way he's anything dangerous. 

In fact, he helps you out a lot! He makes you tea and helps you clean despite being so tiny. And it's really cute when he sits on your shoulder or gives you little cheek kisses or little gifts! You're still wearing that necklace with an adorable acorn charm he made you.

So of course you appreciate his company. Besides, you've been feeling a little lonely as of late, what with so many of your friends getting sick lately. You're not sure how you avoided the weird stomach bug that's been going around, but you don't really question it.

Because really, why would you ever question it? It's not like you're aware that your new little fairy friend enchanted that necklace of yours to make your friends sick whenever they talk to you, nor are you aware that he's been feeding you enchanted tea to make you more fae than human, hoping to whisk you away to the fairy realm.

Because really, why would you ever doubt him?

He's so cute and harmless, after all.

[mmelolabelle]

Armand is someone who has been has been trained (in brothels, by Marius, and by 500+ years worth of life experience) to adapt himself to what the people around him want. Throughout seasons 1-2, different people get very different versions of Armand, depending on who they are and who’s retelling the story at the time.

It’s the primary way Armand protects himself, whether he’s a teenage sex slave or the oldest, strongest person in the room. It’s how he controls people. Fundamentally, it’s the only way Armand knows to make people love him (an approximation of love at least). Worse, it’s the only way Armand knows how to love — by twisting and contorting himself into whatever form he thinks his current obsession wants or needs him to be. He even does it to his victims for crying out loud.

And then here’s Daniel, who is constantly seeking authenticity and truth. Who’s bullshit detector is never “off”. Who cannot tolerate any kind of masquerade, manipulation or lie – no matter how kind or well intentioned. Not out of any moral or ethical objection, but because Daniel simply cannot leave things well enough alone once something attracts his attention. He has to know. He has to see where it goes and how it ends.

“It’s my job, I’m built this way”

“It’s in your nature, Mr Molloy. Couldn’t get out the door without lobbing one more bomb.”

Daniel knew something was off about “Rashid” from the beginning, so he began to pick the situation in Dubai apart until Armand revealed himself. And then he kept going until he completely destroyed the narrative Armand had spent 77 years constructing.

Daniel deliberately and systematically pulled “Armand, Amadeo, Arun” apart and laid him bare with nothing but but a laptop, some free time, a near-suicidal disregard for his own personal safety and a mouth that just wouldn’t quit.

There’s power in being seen, in being known, ugly parts and all. What would it feel like, to be completely exposed like that for the first time in centuries?

So yeah it makes sense to me that Armand, who puts on all these acts and artifices to draw people in, but which only serve to ensure they’re kept at a distance, would turn his big sad orange eyes on the person who blew them all to smithereens and be all “…I wanna do this forever, actually.”

[trauma-bot]

patron saint of never growing old

[one-song-at-a-time]

#145 || Messed Up --- Once Monsters feat. Chloe Adams

[kan-be]

so I’ve had this fantasy AU in the back of my mind since 2021 and I finally decided to draw some stuff on it

[ace-lemonade]

there's so much going in this one scene: the way laios doesn't even hesistate to nap on marcille, chilchuck immediately pulling a blanket over him, the little satyrs jumping over a gate

[amelia-yap]

vomits another AU