#SORRY FOR HOW MESSY THIS IS

[lanternlightss]

“… why did you even take that, stardust.”

[teenycat]

i had a really vivid dream about a made-up species of parasite. like i was so convinced they were real i had to google them to make sure they weren't.

anyway i made some really crude drawings because if i had to deal with seeing them so do you

TW for human bones, crudely drawn blood, general nastiness and a really long yap post under the cut

skulls were screenshotted from the interactive 3d google model, which directed me to here btw... i did not have the patience to put effort into learning anatomy... sorry. credits to biodigital!!!

alright SO. they're called underlings. i think. they liked to call themselves a lot of different names but "underling" was the most commonly used term by humans and it's the name i'll use in this post

LARVAL STAGE 1

is the size of a small piece of thread. they sneak into food, usually food that's been in a damp part of the wilderness awhile (eg. foraged mushrooms, shade-loving plants, wild game meat), hoping to be eaten by humans. they sit in the intestines for a few days, gorging on the host's semi-digested meals until they reach stage 2

LARVAL STAGE 2

is about the size of a baby ball python. it eats its way through the intestine lining and squiggles up the spine like a corkscrew until it reaches the skull. some of them will crawl all the way up the intestines, through the entire digestive system and use the back of the nasal cavity to reach the skull (VERY UNPLEASANT) but the former is the more common tactic. it'll hollow out a little nook for itself in the skull and attach itself to the brain.

TAKEOVER STAGE

takes exactly 6 minutes for almost all cases. i'm not super well-versed in how the nervous system works, so exactly HOW this stage happens is a mystery.

the underling will search through the host's brain and begin communicating in whichever language they're most fluent in. it's unclear whether the creature is physically capable of making sounds or if the host can only "hear" it through their thoughts. mostly, it just gloats about all the havoc it will wreak with its new body. the host will lose feeling in their extremities, then the ability to move them, then they experience a sort of "dullness" to their emotions. calm is the wrong word... it's as though the ability to feel strong emotions fades. finally, the host's thoughts will slow and fade as well.

PUPATION(???)

after this, the underling takes full control of the host's body. it will need to consume 7-20 humans (they don't eat their own host for some reason) before reaching maturity, so it has to be strategic about not being caught by authorities before it can reach its desired body count. most if not ALL of it's understanding of the world comes from the host's brain. it'll typically target the people emotionally closest to the host. whether this is for convenience, nutritional benefit or just to psychologically torment the host is unclear.

after reaching maturity, they burst free from the skull and take off into the night sky like flighted manta rays, never to be seen again. some speculate they're an alien species trying to return home, and their emergent flight takes them all the way to the stars

the few lucky souls that survived long enough to hold a conversation with an underling report they're extremely xenophobic and have a sort of fascination with ruling not just the planet, but "all of existence"

[monstermonger]

The Secret Center

[voltoise-art]

This is basically the AU right?

(Silly little thing based on @trekkerac 's FrankenghostAU. I remembered this vine one morning and knew what I had to do.)

[snowangeldotmp3]

btw i feel like this shouldn't have to be said but the reason that agatha hates rio is because agatha didn't get to say goodbye to nicky. rio couldn't offer her any more time. and, in rio's mind, nicky going peacefully in his sleep (and even telling him to turn around and kiss agatha goodbye!!) is the one grace rio feels she can give agatha. nicky doesn't suffer. he doesn't fight. he just...goes. he goes on a walk with his mother and kisses his mama goodbye. but agatha doesn't get to say goodbye!!! she doesn't get those final moments with him!! she wakes up and he's already gone.

[zu-is-here]

I missed you, too

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Horror from horrortalecomic by sour-apple-studios

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[lizgohome]

distractions in the courtroom

[chiricat]

mizumafu

[chanafehs]

Quick doodles for some of my inquisitor faves! Spreading the love back to y’all

Featuring: Inanshalla ( @inanshalla ), Caedo ( @resvarie ), Yelana ( @lyana-chan ), Immy ( @pinayelf ), Eury ( @star--nymph ), and Juliet ( @ardentgrace ) <3

[vaguely-concerned]

the more I play the more I think lucanis basically knows it's illario who betrayed him right from the beginning (he's had a year in the ossuary to think. not that many people knew where he was going. when you ask him 'did Illario know you'd be on that ship' his only answer is the hardest flattest 'yes' you ever heard). so it's not so much about figuring out who the traitor is (because that's ludicrous. we all know. immediately. they didn't really bother to hide it lmao) as about methodically closing off every single avenue of denial lucanis has clung to that whole time with as much or little gentleness as you might prefer until he has no choice but to admit it. because the moment he has to admit it, he'll have to do something -- feel something -- about it. and that's such a catastrophic event in lucanis' inner landscape (he has had TWO people in this whole entire world up until now and will do anything to hold on to them with a heartbreaking child-like desperation, even at and especially through the detriment of his own self) that he'd rather just. not. what if we quite simply. didn't. what if we just stayed here in the emptiness where we can both pretend you didn't hurt me in a way I should never forgive. I have so much practice in that with caterina already it's always worked out great for everyone so far. (press x to fucking doubt but that's trauma logic for you lol)

after everything illario did, so much of the storm of lucanis' emotions around it is 'what the FUCK did you get yourself tangled up in this time and how do I get you out of this mess safely'. what's worse: the fact that your brother murdered you, or that he put himself in horrible danger doing so and thus exposed you to the risk of losing him forever. lucanis' heart certainly has an opinion here and it's fucking unhinged (affectionate)

the themes of dissociation in lucanis' character in general makes me feel nuts. allllll these contradictory messy things he needs to cut off from each other because they can't coexist or be easily reconciled inside him. but all remain stubbornly true separately anyway and will have their due one day. love and resentment. tenderness and fear and rage. terror and longing. love and freedom don't coexist. the burned out golden child anthem is playing in the background. he was always caterina's favourite and he has to keep striving to deserve that dubious honour with every breath he takes and then, presumably, mercifully, some day he will die and be excused and can rest. and until now he's suppressed all the -- natural, healthy, protective! -- negative feelings that threaten the few attachment relationships he actually has, at the cost of ever actually having his needs for connection and safety met and leaving his core self imprisoned and compromised. and spite goes 'what. no. that's dumb fuck that' (*spite voice* I do not understand that and even if I did I would not respect it) and does not allow him to fall back into that, which I think is what saves his life, ultimately. it took being possessed by a demon for lucanis to even contemplate telling anyone he loves 'no' in any way, but hey. whatever gets you there right lol

lucanis is dealing with the freeze response allll the way down baby. and he was even before the ossuary, that just turbo powered it and brought it to a breaking point way before it could happen naturally. but something was going to break eventually no matter what, and I'm just glad that in the end, through the power of friendship and also pure spite, it doesn't have to be him

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Tis but a flesh wound!

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[xylo-art]

Solitude like no other

[essenceofarda]

Some Celeborn/Teleporno Sketches for Celedriel Week !!

[remcadll]

Wow crazy how it’s been two months since mha ended. what the hell was that btw

[zu-is-here]

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[huanted-dennys]

Doodles of @tuima11 ‘s Fic Sleep training

I honestly love their writing style and i’ve been sitting on this for a little bit, I wanted to draw the whole scene with full color but my jobs have zapped the energy outta me

I genuinely love how they write Sandy, I would die for this version of this stupid fish man he’s so cool

Link to Sleep training and their collection The Found Family Instruction Manual