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wholoveseggs · 3 months
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sweeetieee....rules part 5 fast plzzz
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~ I'm trying babes....
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lilasbutterflygarden · 11 months
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Lila the vampire part 5
School
Marinette is sitting next to Cerise.
Marinette: “What are you doing here?”
Cerise(smirk): “I’m going to school silly. Why else would I be here?”
Marinette(annoyed): “Really?”
Lila(evil smile): “I’ve been asleep for a really long time. If I’m going to live in this modern world I’ll need to learn about it.”
Miss Bustier: “Ok class it’s time for gym class.”
Cerise raises her hand.
Cerise(sad look on her face): “Miss Bustier I can’t do gym class due to my sun allergy.”
Miss Bustier: “Don’t worry Cerise. I’ve already talked to the principal, and we have covered up all of the windows in the school gymnasium.”
Cerise starts to raise her hand again.
Cerise: “Oww!”
Miss Bustier(worried): “What’s wrong?”
Cerise: “It’s nothing really. It’s just my carpal tunnel acting up again.”
Miss Bustier: “I’m sorry! I didn’t know.”
Cerise: “May I be allowed to just sit on the sidelines, and watch the game?”
Miss Bustier: “Yes that will be fine.”
Marinette: “Give me a break! She’s clearly faking having carpal tunnel.”
Cerise(“crying”): “How could you say that!”
Miss Bustier: “Marinette apologize to her!”
Marinette(sighs, and puts on a fake smile): “I’m sorry.”
Cerise(fake crying): “I’m the one who should be apologizing. My special needs are inconveniencing everyone.”
Alya, and the rest of Marinette’s classmates walk up to them.
Alya: “You have nothing to feel sorry for Cerise. We all understand your disability, and we accept you for who you are.”
Cerise(smiles): “Oh thank you so much! It means the world to me to have such kind hearted classmates! Please continue with your class as you normally would. I don’t mind watching.”
Alya: “Ok. As long as you don’t feel left out.”
Alya turns to look at Marinette.
Alya: “Adrien couldn’t make it today.”
Marinette gets sad.
The class starts to play basketball while Cerise watches from the sidelines. Cerise unzips her big puffy hooded coat. Soon all of the boys, and some of the girls(including Marinette)start checking her out. They can’t seem to keep their eyes off of Cerise in her black belly top.
After the game ends, Cerise puts her coat, and pulls her hood back up.
After school Cerise approaches Marinette.
Cerise: “Here you dropped this.”
Cerise holds up Marinette’s cell phone.
Marinette(looking at Cerise suspiciously): “Thanks.”
Cerise: “Don’t mention it.”
Marinette starts walking home. Cerise follows her.
Marinette: “I know you’re following me Lila. Also how did you change your look?”
Lila: “I can shape shift. Can I come over to your house?”
Marinette: “Why would you want to do that?”
Lila: “So that we can be study buddies.”
Marinette: “What’s the real reason?”
Lila: “I need a place to stay.”
Marinette: “What about your castle?”
Lila: “It would look weird if I told people that I live in an abandoned building. Plus I have no money to buy an apartment.”
Marinette: “I’m not so sure that living with me, and my parents is such a good idea.”
Lila: “I’ll help you win Adrien’s heart if you help me.”
Marinette(sighs): “Fine. I’ll talk to my parents, and see if they’re ok with the whole idea.”
Lila hugs Marinette.
Lila: “Thank you! I promise that you won’t regret this!”
Marinette(thinking): ‘What have I gotten myself into?’
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xo8ball · 1 year
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OK OK OK FAVR SONG FROM EVERY FOB/MCR ALBUM (if I listed MV's too I'd be here all day :] )
FOB
TTTYG: Dead on Arrival (my grandpa likes this one so I like it too!!)
FUTCT:Dark Alley, or Get Busy Living!!
IOH: I'm Like a Lawyer, or G.I.N.A.S.F.S!!
Folie á Deux: Headfirst Slide, 27, or West Coast Smoker!
SRAR:,,,the entire album,,,
AB/AP: ...the entire album is such a fucking banger
MANIA: The Last of the Real Ones, HOLD ME TIGHT OR DONT, Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea
SM(F)S: THE ENTIRE ALBUM IS SUCH A FUCKING BANGERRRR AUGH
MCR
Bullets: Honey, This Mirror isnt big enough for the both of us, Our Lady of Sorrows, and vampires will never hurt you!!
Three Cheers:The Ghost of You, To The End, It's not a fashion statement, it's a deathwish (it's not on the actual thing but I love Desert Song)
Black Parade:This Is How I dissapear, Dead!, Mama
DD:TLOTFK: EVERY SINGLE SONG ON HERE FUCKS.
Conventional Weapons: Boy Division, Tommorows Money, The World is Ugly, AMBULANCE
Black Parade/Living With Ghosts:All The Angels, Emily, Not That Kind of Girl!!
(Sorry if this list is kinda long, I'm just normal about these albums :]]] )
you're on tumblr who is normal here :3 (positive)
granpa has taste me thinks!!!!! AND I GETTT ITT its so hard choosing from srar and abap theyre INSANELY cool <3 SMFS MY BELOVED THEY DID DROP A BOMB LIKE THAT AND PRETEND I WAS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT. NO IM NOT I'M BETTER THAN EVER
for mcr, YES desert song deserves that spot from here to the moon (and from the earth to the morgue) ALL THE ANGELS AND EMILY MY ULTRA BELOVEDDDDSSS <3 love that living with ghosts is there you just get it buddy
nows my turn heehaaa!
fob
tttyg : postcards specially has my whole heart, sounds so... TEENAGER. special mentions to : saturday, chicago, dead on arrival, and calm before the storm
futct : i definitely have a fave and it's XO can you see.... but as corny as it is, i love dance dance, and also nobody puts baby, 7 minutes, snitches and talkers, music or misery, and get busy! never gets old :]
ioh : SO HARD BECAUSE ITS BANGER AFTER BANGER ..... defo hum hallelujah because i love her so bad! golden too, carpal tunnel, fame > infamy, youre crashing, ive got this ringing, after life of the party and dont you know who i think i am :3 (DID I LIST ALL OF THEM IDK... LOL LMAO)
FOLIE... you cabt do this to meeee..... literally cant stop listening to the whole album its all good! but top top top Mega Top faves are headfirst slide, suitehearts, 27, what a catch, shipped gold standard and disloyal order, but cant pity 13 queens against eachother<3
ON SRAR ITS SO BAD FOR ME its really good but the mighty fall wins by far it just does it for me. ALSO I REALLY LIKE THEM ALL but tmf.. shes special
abap is crazy good and twin skeletons will always kill me as uma thurman dances on my dead body. cant choose too much, Novocaine, 4th of july and jet pack blues also are very <3 IRRESISTIBLE WINS MV CATEGORY HERE first time i saw it i almost frew up from laughing its so good for my humor
mania will be forever my close to first fave post hiatus! wilson expensive mistakes GETS IT and also sunshine riptide <3
on a special note : believers never die! dear future self and from now on we are enemies are ingrained so bad in me <3
for the newest addition in the family, smfs is a good album back to back! so good right now, i am my own muse, flu game, what a time to be alive and the title track are the ones i find myself singing the most, but i do like every single one!!
Well that's a lot! now for the vampires :3
bullets : this one album hits close! but early sunsets made a home in me, as well as drowning lessons, headfirst for halos, skylines and turnstiles and well demolovers too because!!
revenge : BOMB album will say that. every single song is SO good<3 i never told you will always be mine mine and forever mine! but i really like every single song in there, jetset life is good too, helena and ghost of you also win! oh no THEYRE ALL GOOD also best demo is i never told you. "covered in blood and piss" forever.
tbp is my second favorite album ever, the theatrics, the feeling, the instrumentality....... <3 i dont love you, the sharpest lives, mama and sleep go by far to be my adored most repeated ones, but cant really choose! mcr you put a curse on me
dd is AMAZING the comics are CRAZY GOOD it was the FIRST INTRODUCTION I HAD TO MCR whatever so cool so dancey so party <3 SING IS MY BABY GIRL NOBODY TOUCH HER everynyan hates her but i love her. save yourself, destroya, scarecrow are soooo good too.......... my baby girls
conwep IS MY girl she gets me. gun is the only one i dislike as i said but mdhfjejemwnwb <3333 so much love to her <33333 ambulance, surrender the night, burn bright, kiss the ring and make room! my babies
living w ghosts KILL ALL YOUR FRIENDS FOREVER <3 emily, my way thru home is you and all the angels get it<3
mention to foundations because i still cant heal and cope I LOVE FOUNDATIONS REALLY REALLY BADDDDDD SO MUCH WO M7CH IM SO PUMPED UP FOR MCR5 <3
oh thats longer now. OKAY ALRIGHT drop me your fave era or looks :3
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daeluin · 1 year
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thank you so much to @newdejavuu for tagging me in this fun little game! as per the rules, I shuffled my spotify “on repeat” playlist and chose the first ten songs!
wow i never did one of these chain thingies on tumblr so let's give it a try! I know it says your playlist on repeat but that's currently my 69 fob playlist and that would be boring so let's go for my random playlist that has all my songs:
the carpal tunnel of love - fall out boy (im a joke of myself literally the first song lmao. anyways this is my favorite song of ioh and it was my favorite fob song for half a decade i love it that much and fob NEEDS to play it live)
vampire money - my chemical romance (it may not seem like it but teen me was the biggest mcr girlie u guys don't know how much i was into the mcrmy. i never mourned something as bad as when mcr split. literally cried for weeks)
baam - momoland (ask me how i got obsessed with the overwatch korean pro player scene and how that got me into k-pop. better yet, don't)
rocket man - elton john (listen since i was two i was obsessed with elton john. the first discography i downloaded on netscape was his. no wonder i turned up gay)
national anthem - lana del rey (ok let's be honest we all had a lana phase and born to die is still a really good album. sad everything after that was shit)
snowed under - keane (god i was SO into keane in high school. I went to see them TWICE in buenos aires. they were the 3rd emo band for me <3)
for what it's worth - placebo (i mean how can this be surprising?)
how to be a heartbreaker - marina and the diamonds (i blame all the otp remixes in 2012 tumblr for this)
black jesus - lady gaga (I MEAN HOW CAN THIS BE SURPRISING??? there's an overall theme here)
lies greed misery - linkin park (this is one of the few post 2005 lp songs i can stand but linkin park was my start in bandom everything always comes back to them and hybrid theory/meteora will always have a special place in my heart)
bonus: violencia - el mató a un policía motorizado (no thoughts just listen to argentinian punk rock im no longer asking)
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malereader-inserts · 2 years
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God Must Hate Me
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries/The Originals Pairing: Mikaelsons & Brother!Reader Summary: Same hands that made the moon and the stars, got carpal tunnel and forgot some parts Word Count: 1,413 A/n: I know I've been doing a lot for this fandom but I just can't, this just hits deep
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God must hate you.
You've established this, you'd like to think you've accepted this and yet, you can't.
You bury yourself deep into the comfort of your bed, and you can just hear your siblings on the other side of the door. You scoff to yourself as you sink in deeper, in the comfort of your mental state.
At times like these, you wonder, are you even getting better? You've had such a good run and suddenly, you're craving the feeling of sadness and hopelessness. Your heart burnt with heaviness, your mind was racing and you just felt uneasy, yet in this state, you welcomed it back as if it was an old friend.
God must hate you.
You're convinced because when you look at your family, your siblings, they're everything you're not. You're not as smart or sophisticated like Elijah. You didn't hold your head high as if you were a king like Klaus. You couldn't even swoon men or women like your brother Kol, and when you look at Rebekah - you know you could never compare.
You look at them, and you think, God must favour them over you because it seems like the Old Gods spent so much time on them, perfecting them and imperfecting them if even that was a word.
Sure, you knew they had their flaws, but God, even then you could see the better side of their flaws - you couldn't with yourself.
You're not smart, you think. You're not strong, you know it. So, what can you give back to this family?
A part of you wants to blame yourself, but, it is easier to blame it on something or someone else. Blame it on the metaphysical, whatever God there is, you'll be content blaming it on them.
You look at your siblings, and wonder, what went wrong with you?
It has been one of those days, though you scoff at yourself, you know it's going to be bad for a while. You'll disappear to your old self and you wonder how long it'll last this time, last time it was a few months. Though you felt helpless, you couldn't see yourself getting out of this rut for months.
You were too stuck in your head, and you fear it was for good this time.
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"Awfully quiet, don't you think?"
Elijah raised his eyebrow, lifting his attention from his book to look at his brother with an inquisitive look. Klaus was never the one for the observation, so he was surprised that his brother had not mentioned anything of the sort.
"(Y/n)," Klaus drawls out, leaning back into his seat, "I haven't seen or heard of him for the past two weeks."
Elijah straightens up, now thinking about it, he hadn't seen you at family dinner or even about in the family house. Usually, you like to reside on the sofa with a good film or the show you've recently got hooked on, and he's not seen you there.
If you're not there then you're in the library, fixated on a book or something else of the matter. Elijah knitted his eyebrows together before meeting his eyes with his brother, who looked at him all knowingly.
"Rebekah," Elijah calls out, and within seconds she was there at the doorway, with Kol behind her, "and Kol, good, you're here."
"What is it?" Kol questioned.
"Have you heard of (Y/n)?"
The two looked at each other, deep within their thoughts before looking back at the older two and shaking their head. Kol shrugs his shoulders, almost in defeat and Rebekah looked lost. Unaware why Elijah was asking about their younger brother.
"Interesting."
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Perhaps it was your fifth cry, you don't know anymore, you've lost count. Your heart aches and your body hurts all over, and you were sure you had no more tears to cry, but here you are - still crying.
You don't know why you're crying.
It could be a million reasons and all those reasons might not be the reason why you're crying. You can feel everyone getting sick of you, and to be honest, you don’t blame them, you're pretty sick of yourself at this point.
You are tired. You are exhausted from your head to your soul to your bones. You are so fucking tired.
You are utterly disappointed in who you have become. You wanted to be someone better, someone important, someone beautiful. But, instead, you feel like wasted space, you waste time and you burden the people you love. This isn't the future you had in mind for yourself and you know it's too late.
You hear a knock on your door, you don't move, you fear that if you do they know you're there and will come in anyway. At this moment, you wanted to stop existing, you just want to disappear.
"(Y/n)?" It was Elijah, "I just want to talk."
Elijah was met with silence, looking at his siblings with the same concerned look. They know better than to barge into your room, they can't hear any movement, but they can hear your heart and your breathing, they know you're in there.
"We're here if you need us."
Silence.
The four look at each other, Elijah stays at your door, after finding a stray armchair to place outside your door. He's on guard first, the other three wander off. He doesn't know what to do, does he talk to you with the hopes that you're listening to him?
"You know, none of us is mad at you, we're always here to listen to you. I just want to let you know that you're not alone with whatever you're dealing with."
Elijah sighs, running his hand through his hair, there was no movement on your side of the door, he wonders if you're listening to him or even awake to respond. He feels a heavy weight upon his shoulders, he wonders if he's failed as a big brother to protect you from the world.
After two hours, it's Klaus that resides in the armchair, you could hear whispers between him and Elijah. They talk about how you haven't moved or even responded.
Klaus sketches, preoccupying himself, waiting for you. You know he's on the other side, you could just sense the protective aura behind the door, you can't help but smile to yourself about it. You hear a rip in his sketchbook and the noise of something being shoved under the door. You lift your head up, in wonder, before seeing a sheet of paper at the base of the door.
Klaus smiles to himself when he hears you move, the light footsteps of yourself coming closer to him before you run back to your bed. You admire the drawing of his, carefully letting it rest next to you on the bed.
"I hope you like it."
Kol comes after Klaus, he plays music to fill the silence between you two. It's some god-awful music as well, you shake your head in disapproval, he's playing games on his tablet that he bought himself a few weeks back.
He smiles to himself when he hears the change of music on his phone, fully aware that you hopped onto his music app from your phone to change it to your playlist.
Rebekah takes over in the morning, she can hear you being awake. She sits in the armchair, browsing on her laptop for the newest fashion fad, but you can hear her frustration as nothing seem to click with her.
She doesn't talk to you, like Klaus or Kol, but she is mumbling to herself. Next thing she knows, she has a text message from you, sending her a link about new alternative clothing that might suit her.
In the afternoon, all four of them were at your door, you can hear them in the silence. For once, they were playing nice, just because they can hear their brother suffering.
You were stuck in the hole that you were slowly digging yourself deeper, but, knowing that your siblings were just on the other side. You're starting to think that someone is going to throw you a rope to get you out of the hole.
Sure, you weren't going to get better overnight.
You'll always think that God favoured others, you'll always think that your siblings got lucky with how they were created and formed. But, you knew you had a support system like no other, and it make you special.
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mrbenzedrine · 4 years
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Tagged by: @iero ahh I’m sorry Kayla I didn’t even see this, it was from like... two weeks ago. We all know I eat this shit up though so I will do it anyways hahah
Rules: You can usually tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to! Put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs then tag 10 people. No skipping! 
1. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - Vampire Weekend
2. To the End - My Chemical Romance
3. The Carpal Tunnel of Love - Fall Out Boy
4. Don’t You Know Who I Think I am? - Fall Out Boy
5. You Stupid Girl - Framing Hanley
6. Heaven Help Us - My Chemical Romance
7. Guiltless - dodie
8. Sensible Heart - City and Colour
9. Cemetery Drive - My Chemical Romance
10. Boys Like You - dodie
I tag: @rubbish78 @ohimtherebabey @prettiestgayinthemorgue @valleysofechoes @ieroorhatecrime @killingjarz @gr8tparty @oddlyspecifics @luck-cat
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sylvanfreckles · 4 years
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Impaled (FebuWhump 04)
I had an extremely crappy day at work today...like coming home crying level crappy. So, as a defense mechanism, this came out. Granted, it was always going to be a slightly humorous take on this scenario, but this went a little...extreme.
You can also read this on AO3
Fandom: Supernatural Summary: Who would have thought, in the end, it would be vampire clowns in a busted-up barn in the middle of nowhere?
Not the Winchesters, that's for certain.
And certainly not Castiel, who did not get resurrected again just to die at the hands of a monster with a fourteen-year grudge.
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After everything..after Chuck and Free Will and rewriting their own lives...it all came down to this.
A musty old barn in the ass-crack of nowhere, facing down a gang of vampires of all things.
“So, what, now's when we find out Gordon isn't actually dead?” Dean muttered, standing back-to-back with Sam. “Or, ah, what's-her-name...the hippie one who only ate cows. Think she's here?”
“We watched Lenore die,” Sam reminded him. “And I killed Gordon. I don't think this is either of them.”
“Yeah, unless Chuck brought them back,” Dean shot back. “Cas?”
Castiel, who had been silently and efficiently dispatching vampires turned back at Dean's question. “I find it unlikely Chuck would have considered either of them important enough to bring back from Purgatory.” Another vampire roared up behind him, and without even looking Cas stabbed him through the throat with his angel blade.
Dean had to admit, the flutter of Cas's new calf-length trench coat was pretty impressive as the angel spun around to yank his blade from one vampire and plunge it into another. Jack had apparently hooked his adoptive father up with some new duds on his return from the Empty, so Cas wasn't exactly rocking the whole “holy tax accountant” look anymore.
On the one hand, the long black trench coat was absolutely badass. The way it spun around Cas as he moved in battle reminded Dean of the shadows of wings cast on the barn ceiling all those years ago, and it had a much more stylish cut that emphasized the muscle on the angel's powerful frame.
On the other...the rainbow-colored sweater vest was a little much. But the combination was something that was just so essentially Jack they really couldn't complain.
“Dean!”
Pulled out of his daydreams by his brother's warning scream, Dean managed to deflect an incoming vampire and roll out of the way, narrowly avoiding the dangerous-looking nail that was poking up out of one of the support beams. Damn, they really needed to stop confronting vampires in fallen-down old barns.
Cas hauled him to his feet and manhandled him to one side, a blast of holy power from his other hand obliterating yet another vampire clown. “How many more are there?” the angel shouted over the sounds of battle.
“They just keep coming,” Sam panted. They were cornered now—Cas's angel blade was still embedded in a vampire a few feet away, Dean's machete had gotten notched when it had gotten stuck on a particularly dense vampire spine, and Sam was favoring his right arm as though chopping off so many heads in such a short amount of time was giving some kind of hunter's carpal tunnel. “Are we sure...I mean, is Chuck really de-powered?”
“You think he planned for one of us to die in some shitty barn in the middle of nowhere?” Dean scoffed. “Dude. The man's a hack, but he's not that bad.”
“Enough!” A fourth voice—because, really, the vampire clowns had done nothing but snarl since the Winchesters had busted down the door—cut through the air as another figure strode into the center of the barn.
It was, predictably, another vampire. This one was obviously the boss, judging by the way she was dressed—halter top and jeans instead of baggy clothes and a clown mask. Seriously, why clowns? Was someone trying to make this place Sam's worst nightmare?
“Well, well. If it isn't the Winchesters.” The woman flipped a lock of long, dark hair back over her shoulder. “I'm sure you're surprised to see me.”
Dean stared at her for a moment then glanced over at his brother. Sam shrugged. “Right,” Dean said after a few seconds. “You're...the Ringmaster!”
Sam let out a groan and stumbled back to lean against the wall of the barn. Dean couldn't see much of Cas's face but the angel's body was radiating out disappointment. “Come on,” Dean protested. “Clowns? The circus?”
“Enough!” the woman snapped again. “You killed my entire clan fourteen years ago. I've waited a long time for this day, when my new clan would find the Winchesters and we would put an end to them!”
Dean let his gaze travel up and down the woman's body again. She was still familiar, but that wasn't really enough to jog his memory. “Sweetheart, you're gonna have to be way more specific than that. Fourteen years is a long time.”
Cas shot him a dirty look—though whether it was over the sweetheart comment or Dean's snarky tone of voice he couldn't tell.
The woman hissed in anger. “Jenny? I had been chosen to join Luther's clan? You kidnapped his mate, Kate? Killed all of them to get your father and your precious Colt back?”
Dean sucked in a breath through his teeth. Oh, right, he remembered her now...not that she needed to know that. “Sorry. Doesn't ring a bell.”
Jenny gave a shriek and charged toward him. Cas intercepted, easily turning her momentum against her. Sam charged in, the machete in his left hand now, easily cutting through the seemingly endless swarm of vampires.
With a rueful glance at his ruined machete, Dean took up a position to cover Cas's flank. Maybe he couldn't charge back into battle like Sam, but he could at least keep the small fry off the angel's back.
“This reminds me of the place we first met, Cas,” Dean called over his shoulder.
Cas grunted. “Hell was nothing like this, Dean. This barn has no resemblance to Alistair's pit.”
“What?” Dean shook his head. Right, sometimes he forgot about the whole raised-you-from-perdition thing. Maybe he needed to get that handprint tattooed back on or something...if he could face Sammy's teasing. “No, I meant the barn, man. Where I tried to shoot you.”
With a twist of his hips Cas flipped Jenny onto her back and wrapped one hand around her throat. “You also stabbed me,” he retorted. He was on limited power while he was on earth, but he had enough juice to burn Jenny out of existence.
“Still. Memories.”
There was a ragged cry from one of the vampire clowns—one of the few Sam hadn't managed to decapitate in the last five minutes (really, their heads just popped right off if you got the angle right...his high school history teacher had been so wrong). The vampire charged at Cas and the angel wasn't quite able to defend himself before he was driven back against one of the barn's support posts. Dean shouted a curse at the vampire and took a swing at his head.
The machete stuck. Dean swore and tugged it free, then swung again. The vampire went down, but it took a few more blows before he finally managed to separate the head from the body. “Dammit,” he swore, wiping his forehead on his sleeve. “Sammy?”
“Forty-seven,” Sam panted. He was doubled over, hands on his knees. “That was forty-seven vampire clowns. What the hell is happening?”
“Maybe Chuck's still in charge,” Dean theorized. “Cas?”
The angel grunted. Dean twisted around to see Cas staring down at his own chest, then the angel slowly peeled back one lapel of his trench coat. “Oh. I've been impaled.”
It was the rusty bar Dean had narrowly avoided earlier. It was longer than he'd thought, and the tip was poking out of Cas's chest right below his heart. “Cas?”
“I'm all right,” Cas reassured him, though the spray of blood he coughed up wasn't very reassuring.
“Oh god,” Sam fisted both hands in his hair. “Wh-what do we do? Should we call Jack? Do you need an ambulance? Or, wait, a spell? Maybe, maybe there's something in the car...”
“Sam, this is nothing,” Cas protested. He gripped the bar with one hand, frowning a little when he wasn't able to push himself free. “Though I could use some assistance.”
“No-no-no-no!” Sam waved his hands frantically. He'd pulled a bandanna out of...somewhere...and was trying to put pressure on the wound around the rusty bar. “We'll just...we can control the bleeding, and-and Dean can call an ambulance, and they can take care of you at the hospital.”
“Sam...”
“I didn't even get to say good-bye last time,” Sam whispered.
Ouch. Damn. Dean felt that one, right in his gut. That spurred him to action. “Hey, it's okay,” he said, quietly. He placed a hand on one of Sam's arms and leaned in closer to study the wound. “You said it's not bad? 'Cause I'm pretty sure some of that's supposed to be on the inside.”
Cas coughed and the wound gurgled as he sucked in a breath. “It would be a fatal wound if I were human,” he admitted. “But it cannot kill me. It is merely...uncomfortable.”
“There, see?” Dean knocked his shoulder against Sam's. He was worried, too...he would never get used to seeing Cas injured, no matter how long they were together. Especially not since the angel always tended to get the more...dramatic injuries. Like now, Sam and Dean were coming out of the fight with barely a scratch between them, while Cas had been impaled on a piece of rusty metal.
The absurdity of the situation finally struck Dean. The piles of dead vampire clowns. The woman from their past, who had apparently been planning revenge for fourteen years even though they hadn't even remembered her name.
And, most of all, their badass angel-of-the-lord (even if the lord in question at the moment was their adopted kid) in his rainbow sweater vest and badass trench coat staring down at the metal protruding from his chest like it was personally offending him.
Oh. I've been impaled.
He couldn't help it. He burst out laughing.
Sam turned, scandalized. Cas looked on with resigned amusement.
“He-he just,” Dean wheezed. “Like that snowman...just...”
Cas gave a long-suffering sigh and gripped the piece of metal in one hand. With a mighty twist it broke away from the barn's support beam, and with another wrench Cas had pulled it free from his body and dropped it to the floor. His legs buckled beneath him, but Sam caught him and eased him down, that ever-present bandanna pressed to the wound in Cas's chest.
“Oh man...it's gonna be okay, Cas. We'll...we'll figure this out.”
“Dude,” Dean staggered over to kneel next to them, tears of laughter running down his face. “He's fine, just...just let it go.”
“Stop quoting Frozen and put your hand here!” Sam snapped, yanking Dean closer. “We need to stop the bleeding!”
Cas just stared at them patiently while Sam rocked up to his knees to apply more pressure to his wound. Dean tried to help, he really did, but the entire situation was just spiraling too far out of control. If Chuck really was still writing their lives he'd obviously gone insane.
Sam peeled the bandanna back to check Cas's wound and there was...nothing. Just the smooth, colorful knit of his rainbow-colored sweater vest. Even the blood stains were gone, as though Cas had never been injured.
With a relieved sigh, Sam sank back onto his heels. Cas pushed himself up on his elbows, idly brushing at the straw that was sticking to his trench coat. Dean picked up the rusty piece of iron that had impaled Cas and flung it across the barn.
“Not today, Chuck!” he hollered after it. “No one's dying in some shitty barn in the middle of nowhere, you hear me?”
There was a companionable silence for a moment, then Sam suddenly shot to his feet and looked around. “We forgot about the kids!”
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Jack sees his father both as a badass unstoppable force, and as the caring dad who always has time for him. Thus, when designing his wardrobe for his current resurrection, he went with the odd combination of cuddly rainbow vest and Neo-style trench coat. Oddly enough, it suits Cas more than anything else he's ever worn.
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mychemicalficrecs · 4 years
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Van Days
3:00 am by mournful_optimist, Ray/Mikey, 904 words, Teens And Up Audiences. It's the middle of the night, and Mikey is being weird.
Filled to the Brim by onceuponamoon, Frank/Gerard, 7k, Explicit. This, whatever this is between them, has been a long time coming. Frank and Gerard, a gravitational pull with laws of physics and everything guiding them toward one another and apart only long enough to build the momentum for slamming them back together again.
Today is Tomorrow by alpheratz, Gerard/Mikey, Gabe/Mikey, Gabe/Gerard, 12k, Explicit. They haven't even been a band for two years, and they’re opening for Midtown. Gerard just wishes Mikey would stop telling him about sex with Gabe. And having sex with Gabe where Gerard can see them. And, really, having sex with Gabe at all, especially since Mikey doesn't even seem to be getting orgasms out of it.
It's tough to take a man's shovel when he really wants to dig by autoschediastic, Frank/Gerard, 4k, Explicit. If Frank concentrates, he's pretty sure he remembers Gerard saying something like that about five minutes ago. That he liked dick, he liked Frankie's dick, he kinda wants to get all up on it, hope that doesn't make shit weird.
It's Not A Thing (except for when it is) by ladyfoxxx, Ray/Mikey, 2k, Explicit. Mikey likes it when it hurts. Ray accidentally finds this out.
New and Interesting Ways to Get Carpal Tunnel by jetblackmirror (orphan_account), Frank/Mikey, 984 words, Explicit. Boys will be boys.
Kings of Glamor by desfinado, Frank/Gerard/Mikey, 7k, Explicit. Frank is nostalgic about being a teenager at basement-bar Jersey shows.
clear and present danger by Trojie, Ray/Mikey, 5k, Mature. In which Mikey is the failiest most disaster-prone stick insect, and Ray scoops him out of harm's way a lot
Shivers That You Give Me by turps, Gerard/Mikey, 955 words, Explicit. For the prompt, secrets. Gerard jerks Mikey off in the van.
oh baby here comes the sound by Trojie, Frank/Ray, 6k, Explicit. It's not a skill thing - Ray can jam around on a bouncy, aggressive riff if he wants to and Frank can tune down and chug if the mood takes him, sure - it's just that, when they're noodling around on their own, the melodies that sit in their chests like heartbeats are night and day.
The Salad Days by orphan_account, Gerard/Mikey, 5k, Mature. Bullets era new beginnings waycest, UST then finally kind of RST.
Move over baby; gimme the keys by rivers_bend, Frank/Gerard, 4k, Explicit. because I firmly believe there can never be enough fic where Frank and Gerard have sex in the back of a van.
A Delicate Art by desfinado, Frank/Ray/Gerard/Mikey, 7k, Explicit. Frank's band knows all about revenge plots.
It's All Over My Face by desfinado, Frank/Mikey, 12k, Mature. Mikey makes a pretty awesome roommate.
one for the road by mwestbelle, Frank/Mikey, Frank/Gerard/Mikey, 2k, Explicit. Frank didn’t really get it at first, not when it was him.
In The Centre Seat by ladyfoxxx, Frank/Gerard, 1k, Explicit. "So cold, Frankie, we gotta get warm like penguins. With like, body heat."
Hero or a Grinder by rivers_bend, Gerard/Mikey, Frank/Gerard/Mikey, 13k, Explicit. Gerard and Mikey are his friends, and they’re good guys. Some of the best he’s known, ever, and it’s stressful as hell on the road sometimes. If they need a little comfort, Frank’s not gonna judge.
This Motel Sucks by ladyfoxxx, Gerard/Mikey, Frank/Ray, Frank/Ray/Gerard/Mikey, 2k, Explicit. In which a literally shitty hotel room forces Ray and Frank to seek refuge in Gerard and Mikey's room... and they probably should have knocked.
Won't Know 'til You Begin by knight_tracer, Sena, Frank/Mikey, 24k, Explicit. In which Frank is an accidental pervert, Mikey sleeps with Fabio, Gerard is much too sincere when talking about pain sluts, Ray is terrible with women and great with guitars, and Otter's got really bad taste in music. Alternately, the one where Frank realizes he has a thing for Mikey, Mikey realizes he has a thing for guys, and they're both adorably stupid failboats.
Heart Wrapped in Clover by Sena, Frank/Mikey, 19k, Explicit. Everbody's got their not-so-secret secrets on tour. When you live out of a van, you just can't help but notice things that you shouldn't talk about if you don't want to embarrass your friends or start a fight. Frank wishes sometimes they talked about things, though, because he's dying to ask if anybody else has noticed that sometimes, Mikey wears panties.
Release the Bats by Sena, Ray/Mikey, 10k, Mature. Sure, Mikey's a vampire, but Ray's okay with that. He's still Mikey, after all, still Ray's friend, still dorky and sweet and funny and amazing and, yeah. Maybe Ray likes him as more than just a friend.
Like a Secret in Your Throat by Sena, Gerard/Mikey, 1k, Explicit. Gerard never touches, just watches, and Mikey's not sure he'll ever know why.
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tyrantisterror · 5 years
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Revenge of the ATOM Create a Kaiju Contest: ENTRY ROUNDUP!
Twenty three wonderful monsters were submitted by twenty three wonderful people to the second ATOM Create a Kaiju Contest.  Let’s give them all their due before the winners are announced, shall we?  Just as with last time, I went ahead and sketched them all, because I’m a masochist who enjoys hurting his carpal tunnel ridden hand, and because I feel like it gives every monster a fair shake.
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@bugcthulhu starts us off with Rohobaron, a hot-headed retrosaur/crocodile chimera that can superheat his body to ignite the landscape and incinerate enemies with a touch.  Despite the fairly nasty powers, Rohobaron actually has a somewhat sweet personality, being quick to make friends and staunchly loyal to his allies, though his short fuse can also make him drag his friends into danger.
Design-wise, Rohobaron’s got a very solid concept, with those dynamic fuckoff-big arms and horns  being the most obvious selling points, along with little dashes of character like the gharial lump on his nose and the heavily armored plates on his chest.  You wouldn’t confuse him with the other retrosaur kaiju in the series, that’s for sure.  The idea of a monster this burly and gnarly looking being a sweetheart is the kind of “appearances can be decieving” thing that ATOM thrives on, and giving a kaiju powers that reflect its personality (in this case, hot-headedness = heat powers) is always cool.  There are some minor continuity issues with the bio given what’s going to happen in ATOM Vol. 2, but Rohobaron doesn’t lose points for not reading a book that isn’t fully written yet.  All in all, a wonderful submission!
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@akitymh is next with Charlotte, a retrosaur of the herbivorous persuasion.  Exactly what clade of herbivorous retrosaur it belongs to is intentionally unclear, as Charlotte has a thagomizer like an armored goliath, but also shares some quirks with horned goliaths, despite lacking horns itself.  A missing link, perhaps?  She’s also unusually large for an ATOM kaiju, which suggests she’s been around for a long time - reinforced by her calm and sometimes protective nature, as the older kaiju tend to be less fight-focused than the young ones in ATOM.
Charlotte’s design is very interesting, and I like the idea of having some retrosaurs who don’t quite fit into any one given clade - it makes it more like real life taxonomy to have some oddballs here and there.  Her smattering of armor plates gives her and interesting look, and I like how her long hind legs allow her to go bipedal as well as walk on all fours.  Her neutral personality also makes her stand out among the mostly fight-happy monsters of ATOM.  All in all, a solid entry!
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We continue the prehistoric theme with @ariccio50‘s marvelous armored retrosaur, Scolosurtr!  An genetically modified armored goliath, Scolosurtr’s most prominent features, as you have no doubt noticed, are the two massive yet hollow spikes on his back, which are connected to the kaiju’s two massive hearts and occasionally shoot projectiles when he’s pissed (though this is painful for the reptile to do).  Scolosurtr can superheat his blood as a defensive mechanism, which in turn allows him to melt the ice that often clings to his body in the frosty countries he tends to roam.  The armored monster is very easily stressed out, particularly by his fellow kaiju, and will even bite his tail in an attempt to calm down.
Scolotsurtr’s design is rad as hell - I love a giant monster that looks like a mountain, and the mini-volcano shaped shoulder spikes are such a cool pokeon-esque design feature (I say that as high praise).  His icy, antisocial personality is a fun contrast with his fiery look, and the personality tick of biting his own tail to calm down is a very endearing quirk.  Also, can we appreciate how wide this fella is?  Just an absolute unit.  His powerset allows him to stand out from the mostly tooth and claw fighters of ATOM, while still being balanced thanks to the pain it causes him to use it.  A very well rounded entry!
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@scatha5 brings us our fourth entry, the enormous armadillo Rerradon!  Shy but willing to fight when backed into a corner, Rerradon is a formidable enemy when roused, with thick armor keeping him well defended and enough claws and spikes to make other monsters rethink their choice to attack him.
Mammalian kaiju are, as many have noted, very rare, and Rerradon is an excellent contribution to their small but growing ranks.  I’m a sucker for armadillos too, and Rerradon keeps all the traits I love about them while still having a unique and monstrous look to him.  My favorite detail on this fella, though, is one of his alternate names - “Dracula’s Weird Dog.”  Why?  Well, because of the fact it references some obscure monster movie trivia - both in the 30′s when the Bela Lugosi Dracula first came out, and the 50′s when it was prominently re-released, armadillos were not a particularly well known creature, and would have been considered exotic and strange by most Americans.  As a result, the film-makers of Dracula put an armadillo in the vampire’s haunted castle, banking on viewers thinking it was some sort of strange monster.  And, at the time, it works - most people who saw the film had no idea what the strange lizard rat thing was, though I imagine anyone living in the Southwest probably wondered why the hell an armadillo was in Transylvania.  Obscure references to monster movie minutia are exactly ATOM’s jam!
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Our next monster is @quinnred‘s flying saucer mimic, Mogul!  An enormous descendent of the sea cucumber, Mogul needs both Yamaneon radiation and water to survive, and causes a great deal of chaos in the process of feeding until scientists realize dehydration can drive the creature away,  While too simple in nature to exhibit much of a personality, Mogul’s mysterious nature and accidental imitation of interstellar travelers allows it to leave a mark nonetheless.
An incredibly clever design that I wasn’t quite skilled enough to capture in my sketch (you should always check out the links to the originals here, folks), Mogul is tailor made to a great 1950′s style monster story.  You have the initial mystery with an inherent red herring built into it (i.e. everyone thinking the creature is initially a UFO), the startling discovery of what we’re really dealing with, and a creative solution that scientists come upon when studying the monster’s biology.  While Mogul’s simple nature means it might have trouble in a kaiju vs. kaiju story, it’s incredibly well suited to a stand alone tale, the kind that could really flesh out ATOM’s giant monster crisis.
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@cerothenull brings us our first big arthropod, Acanpetax the enormous assassin bug!  A gnarly insect that wears the bones of kaiju its killed as armor, Acanpetax is a cruel and vicious hunter of its fellow monsters, though over time its vicious ways soften.
Kaiju bones turn to Yamaneon when they die, and Yamaneon crystals are shaped in a way that would give them a very coarse, spiky texture (if my muddied memories of Geology 101 are correct, anyway), making the insect’s armor even more evil-looking, which is great for a monster that (initially) plays a Heel role.  This guy has the makings of a great villain monster, and I like that, in ATOM fashion, he still manages to get a heroic turn over time, especially the implication in his bio that it comes from communicating with the spirit of the snake monster whose skull he currently wears as a hat.  It’s delightfully weird!  A big bug with a solid visual to work off of and a great role and character arc baked into his personality, Acanpetax is a strong contender!
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(no seriously you really need to check out the original postings, my sketch here does not do this fella justice)
@evolutionsvoid also shows ATOM’s big bugs some love by bringing the fungus infested Megaria into their ranks!  Originally a larval cicada that was parasitized (and likely to die) by a fungus, Megaria’s sudden transformation into a kaiju brought her into a more balanced symbiosis with her parasite.  Neither an attacker or a protector, Megaria is a spectator of kaiju fights, and will eagerly watch her fellow giants battle without participating herself.  She is a force to be reckoned with when backed into a corner, though, as Megaria’s fungal growths have given her a variety of sound-based abilities, many of which she is not fully in control of.
It hasn’t been touched on in ATOM much yet, but plants and fungi are affected by Yamaneon radiation in a very similar manner as animal life, and Megaria presents a fun opportunity to explore that.  The idea of a parasite and its victim becoming partners post-mutation is really interesting, and Megaria’s design is just as interesting to look at as its concept is to think about.  Her fungal symbiote also gives her a great number of unique powers and abilities to make any fight scenes she’d be in unique, while her personality as a kaiju spectator allows her to stand out (I can see her making cameos in other stories as a background monster).  Another solid contender for the contest!
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@highly-radioactive-nerd takes us back to the past with the helmeted retrosaur Tsunoking!  Technically a paleo tyrant, Tsunoking sports several defensive adaptations that are similar to those sported by many herbivorous retrosaurs as well, though perhaps his most notable adaptation is the crown of horns that gives him his name (see, he’s pointing to it in my sketch!  It’s a nice crown.).  A proud but honorable monster, Tsunoking is a powerful fighter who prefers to fight similarly powerful foes, and is also rather fastidious when it comes to personal hygiene.
I love the chimeric mix of features here - the dragon-y snout, the pachycephalosaurus dome skull, and the ankylosaurus tail club all give Tsunoking a very unique silhouette among the many carnivorous retrosaur kaiju in ATOM, and would no doubt provide some fun speculation for ATOM’s paleontologists.  The vanity gives his heroic personality a fun flaw to work with, and I likewise think his Samurai-esque honor code could be interesting to work with in a story.  A wonderful prehistoric monster to add to the roster!
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@dragonzzilla brings us a very strange and melancholic monster, the bipedal caribou Najjuk!  In addition to its striking humanoid stance, Najjuk emits a great deal of toxic gas as a byproduct of its Ice Age biology, and its inability to cope with warm temperatures results in it becoming incredibly aggressive and dangerous whenever it leaves its arctic environment.
There’s a clear (but not too heavy handed) metaphor for global warming in the threat Najjuk presents, as the warming of the earth leaves it less cool spaces to seek refuge in, and the caribou’s methane emissions actually contribute to the problem that’s destroying its home.  The monster also has a great deal of pathos built into it - a herd animal that is the last of its kind, forced to live in a habitat that’s too inhospitably cold for most other kaiju to tolerate, making it an incredibly lonely monster.  Combine the symbolism and pathos of its plight with a very striking mammalian design and you have an incredibly unique entry into ATOM’s menagerie of monsters!
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@virovac gives us a truly bizarre entry with one of the most clever descriptions I’ve read so far, the low budget monstrosity known as Nematerror!  A mutant roundworm, Nematerror is one of the monsters considered too simple in nature to have a personality, though it still seeks what it needs with enough voraciousness to be considered a threat.
The really ingenious thing about this entry lay in its description, as virovac chose to describe how the creature would look if it were an actual prop in a low budget 50′s monster movie.  Made from a garden hose, stuffed socks, and some other trash, Nematerror is the kind of cornball monster puppet idea that could only be carried out in the atomic era of creature features, the kind that Joel and the bots would have a field day with.  There’s even a description of how its hose nozzle could be turned around to represent a nematode’s malleable mouth parts!  It’s very clever, and definitely the sort of idea that suits ATOM’s love of cheesy monster movies.
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@skarmorysilver brings us the old and crusty mole monster, Gnomoran!  A sadistic curmudgeon, Gnomoran is a deeply unpleasant monster to face in battle.  With venomous spit and caustic pus secreted from its many facial sores, Gnomoran’s natural weapons give it a revolting edge, which is made all the more nasty by its mean-spirited personality.  However, Gnomoran is also in immense pain, as its healing factor has been thrown off kilter, giving it the kaiju equivalent of cancer.
The design of Gnomoran is excellent.  Like many of the previous ATOM CKC entries, it plays on the secret connection between ATOM and my Midgaheim stories, in this case using my mole-derived Gnomes/Dwarves as a starting point, and working back to show their more explicitly rodent-like roots.  The star-faced mole nose, long beard, big ol’ horn, and lumpy tumors all give him a bunch of iconic design details, and his power set of venom and caustic pus is uniquely gross.  He’s a great Heel monster, with a nasty attitude to match his equally nasty looks and power set, all while still having the ability to be sympathetic.  Figuring out how to explain why his healing factor has gotten so out of whack presents a bit of a continuity hurdle - Gnomoran has symptoms of both cancer and old age, which normally aren’t possible in an ATOM-verse kaiju, so that would need a good explanation.  But design and personality wise he’s a damn good fit!
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DA user Lediblock submitted the chicken/retrosaur hybrid Galiente!  Made by splicing DNA from Tyrantis’s blue nemesis, the Terror, with that of a chicken, Galiente is a panicky, defensive monster who is tormented by the knowledge that other kaiju find his flesh ridiculously delicious.
Galiente’s design is a freakish mix of reptile and bird that goes for body horror, with a patchwork mix of scales, feathers, and raw skin, twisted limbs, and, somewhat inexplicably considering the two animals it’s a mix of, velociraptor feet.  The result is a very tortured looking creature, which fits its nervous and tragically aggressive personality - Galiente is a monster that picks fights because it fears it will get hurt if it doesn’t make the first move.  There’s a sadness that goes along with its wretched appearance and attitude that’s very sympathetic.  The monster’s backstory would probably need some tweaks, though - the many ways it is tied to Tyrantis specifically seem a bit unnecessary, with the “people mistake it for Tyrantis” angle being a bit implausible (and somewhat redundant, given Tyrantis already has two enemies that are his twisted doppelgangers as is), and I’m not sure a monster hunting organization would recruit a chicken farmer into their ranks, no matter how good his business savvy is.  Still, a plausible backstory wasn’t one of the contest requirements, and design and personality-wise Galiente is a very solid concept.
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@protagonistprepblog submitted Gentil, an armored monster with a sweet disposition!  Gentil is designed to be something of an earth elemental, with a mix of traits from various creatures associated with that element.  He sports a healing mist/aura, a poison blast from his mouth, venomous claws, and the standard kaiju powers of strength and nigh invulnerability.  He’s also smart enough to join an organization specifically to help people.
Gentil has a very striking design, albeit one that’s (intentionally) hard to place taxonomically.  He would probably be the result of genetic modification in ATOM’s world, though the way his creator described him as the kaiju of the Earth Element makes me think the intention is for something more magical in origin.  The sweet personality suits his name very well, and as far as monsters go he’s very friend-shaped.  Most of Gentil’s information was shared with me by his creator via DMs, and he’s a very thoroughly developed concept, albeit one that seems to fit a story of protagonistprepblog’s creation a bit better than ATOM.  A wonderful submission nonetheless!
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@dinosaurana submits the nuclear gator known far and wide as One-Armed Louie!  Already a menace when he was just a big, one-armed alligator, Louie became a true menace when he survived the explosive failure of a nuclear power plant, resulting in a number of wild mutations that, among other things, allow the massive crocodilian to assume a semi-bipedal stance.  Louie’s aggressive nature and history of getting into mischief ironically make him a pretty good kaiju to have around, as he will more often than not turn those shit-starting instincts on his fellow giants and end up keeping them in line as a result.  Even Jim Madson, a gator hunter turned kaiju wrangler, can’t help but appreciate how the “rat bastard” has become something of a boon to humanity since becoming freakishly large.
One-Armed Louie brings a true crocodilian to ATOM’s cast, which warms my reptile loving heart.  One could argue that the retrosaurs are all just very weird crocodiles, of course, but while that may literally be the case, most of them don’t look like crocodiles - they don’t have that pure crocodile vibe - and Louie makes up for their deficiency by being very much a big ol’ crocodilian.  Big ol’ gators and crocs are a giant monster movie archetype just as much as big ol’ bugs, and Louie gives them their due very well.  He also looks absolutely hardcore, which fits his aggressive “rat bastard” personality to a T.  A very solid entry for the contest!
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@iamthekaijuking submitted the modified martian monster Nyergolep!  Originally from the planet Mars, Nyergolep was kidnapped by the Beyonder Alliance and experimented upon until it developed psychic powers.  Designed to be a sort of anti-Kemlasulla, Nyergolep is a nervous wreck who hates combat and desperately wants to escape the Beyonders.
Nyergolep’s design takes a lot from Kemlasulla’s, albeit with a lot of twists - fitting for the “Anti-Kemlasulla.”  Its tentacles are much more massive than its legs, with the roles of each set of limbs being reversed (i.e. using tentacles for locomotion instead of grasping, using legs for grasping instead of locomotion), and it lacks all of the armor Kemlasulla has, including the bony plates protecting the head and eye.  The result is a very fragile looking martian, the squishy mage to Kemlasulla’s rough and rowdy fighter.  I like the wiggly line of its upper jaw the best - don’t ask me why.  “Nergle’s” design is a little too closely tied to Kemlasulla’s for me to give full marks in that category, though I do love that wiggly mouth.  Its personality is pretty damn good though, fitting with the other shell-shocked war veterans in the Beyonder Kaiju army.
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@dragonseeker-rex submitted the cactus/bird hybrid Orothorn!  In a story that feels like it came from one of the more light-hearted Twilight Zone episodes, Orothorn began as a normal gilded flicker that happened to befriend an cowboy actor named Mick Auricson (specializing in playing cowboys was A Thing in the 1950′s) after Mick nursed the little bird back to health.  An ill-placed dynamite explosion near a hidden Yamaneon deposit not only supersized Orothorn, but fused it with some of the nearby cactus (violent bursts of Yamaneon radiation can do this kind of shit on occasion), creating a massive, thorny-skinned bird monster with a heart of gold and a fondness for humans in general, and Mick Auricson in particular.  The feeling is mutual, as Mick even commissioned a special kaiju-sized scarf for the bird to wear (which I forgot to illustrate, whoops!).
Birds are lacking in ATOM’s roster (we don’t even have any in the core 50 files), and Orothorn is a unique take on the concept, with cactus thorns sticking out from between his feathers.  Him being a kaiju that specifically emulates the heroic behavior of a cowboy (actor) is also adorable and so very in line with ATOM’s sensibilities, it’s genuinely cute and I love it.  It’s a giant bird with cactus thorns that wears a scarf and thinks it’s a cowboy, how can you not love that?
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Dracosaurus Rex submitted the enormous tuatara kaiju Tuatani!  Initially mistaken for being a retrosaur, this three eyed reptile can shoot energy blasts from his third eye and carries a virulent disease in his blood that infects any who encounter it.  A lonesome creature, Tuatani is very placcid during the day but will go on nightly rampages from time to time, apparently in a fit of vengeful despair at being the only one of his kind.
A clear homage to the Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Tuatani nevertheless has a lot to set him apart from his inspiration, with a multi-eyed motiff that sports an actual third eye as well as several eyespots.  The loneliness that drives him to lash out is a nice nod to both the film and the short story that inspired it, and his status as a Tuatara descendant would make him the last modern reptile missing from ATOM’s pantheon.  The nature of the disease in his blood would need some elaboration, as the immune systems of ATOM kaiju are very strong (being able to regenerate white blood cells almost instantaneously makes it very easy for them to learn which micro-organisms need to be destroyed), but it’s an interesting power for the monster to have.  A very solid entry!
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@umbercario-sablesable gives us the giant silkworm, Munchy!  A caterpillar whose head, jaws, and true legs are covered in a metal alloy. Munchy lives to eat, and with metal jaws he can eat quite a lot of things!  While the insect will eat any non-living matter it comes across, it prefers not to eat living things, which makes it one of the few monsters who finds buildings more appetizing than the people inside them.  Though Munchy has little desire in this world outside of sating its gluttony, it isn’t a malicious creature, and so long as your house isn’t in its path you have little to fear from the monster.
Silkworms have a short but important role in kaiju history, as Mothra’s larva form is based on a type of silkworm, so making a silkworm kaiju plays into a very grand tradition.  Munchy goes for a more morally neutral route than Mothra, though, taking the voracious appetite of a caterpillar and exaggerating it to a proper kaiju scale.  The simplicity of it actually makes for a rather unique kaiju, as Munchy’s single-minded desire to eat as much non-living matter as possible makes it a very different sort of antagonist than the somewhat more complicated kaiju villains of ATOM.  Add to that the massive variety one can find in silkworms and you have a recipe for a very good monster!
(Apologies at the possible inaccuracy of my illustration - google could not find images of the  wakabayashi landrace species of silkworm that he is specified as being, so I had to just look up silkworms and hope I was somewhere in the correct ballpark - and then I missed the detail about his first pair of false legs being long enough to give him a bipedal stance so uh... well I think he’s still pretty cute, that counts for something?)
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Sir K brings us the lung/ryu kaiju Yokaigon the Incredible!  Mistaken for a retrosaur by its initial discoverer (we certainly have a lot of scientists in ATOM who are very bad at taxonomy), Yokaigon is capable of affecting the weather like some of the few psychic kaiju in ATOM’s setting, suggesting latent psychic powers on the reptile’s part.  He is also able to absorb electricity and may or may not be able to fly.  Introverted and antisocial by nature, Yokaigon isn’t driven to seek out combat like most other kaiju, and prefers to be left alone.
With a backstory inspired by an absolutely terrible dub of Varan the Unbelievable!, Yokaigon is a fun homage that winks at some of the mythic creatures that existed in ATOM’s universe long before the series takes place - a surviving Loong/Ryu, much as Kraydi is a surviving dragon and Gorgolisk a surviving basilisk.  While Loongs aren’t covered in my Midgaheim Bestiary project, I have done sketches of what they would be like before, and it’s fun to see them mixed with a suitamation look here.  I don’t think a sea monster necessarily needs to make storms to still feel appropriately mythical, but the hydrokinetic ability to summon sea storms is plausible enough in ATOM (I’ve got a Yeti who summons blizzards in roughly the same way, so who am I to judge?).  And people always want more dragons.
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@toothlessloveshiccup brings us the prehistoric arthropod Insectra!  Despite appearances, Insectra isn’t actually an insect, but actually a much older arthropod that is more closely related to horseshoe crabs.  Forged in a conflict between natives and an encroaching military force in the South Pacific, Insectra protects the local human civilization of her island home while repelling those who would destroy it.  With EMP blasts in her already powerful arsenal, she is a formidable enemy for anyone, man or kaiju, to face.
Insectra’s design has a great Hanna Barbera bug-monster vibe, the sort of thing you could see going toe to toe with the Herculoids or Space Ghost.  It’s simple in some places, but to the point, with great big spears for hands and wide, stompy feet.  Her motivation as a protector is a great nod to Mothra, while having an even more explicit anti-imperialist bent to it.  A very well rounded entry for the contest!
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Shadyserpent brings us the draconic reptile Karax!  Another mythic creature sneaking into the world of ATOM, Karax is a serpentine beast whose vestigial wings allow it to fly (Yamaneon’s ability to defy gravity doing some of its most implausible work yet).  With terrible venom and a better-than-average healing factor, Karax is a deadly opponent, the dragon-like beast is thankfully more focused on collecting shiny objects than waging war against man or kaiju, though his desire to add to his hoard sometimes causes trouble.
See?  I told you people like dragons!  Karax’s design retains the ATOM-approved level of scientific plausibility, with his wings being fairly simple/under-developed compared to the more fantastical dragons of my Midgaheim stories.  He retains the prehistoric monster vibe that other Midgaheim survivors like Gorgolisk and Kraydi have, towing the line enough to fit in with ATOM’s menagerie while still winking at the mythic side of things.  His fondness for shiny objects is both a nice nod to his draconic nature and a fun character quirk that can get him into  the kind of trouble that stories are made of, and the fact that he’s also got more than a few references to the classic giant monster movie Reptilicus is also a plus!  A very good entry.
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@titleknown brings us Neuro-Idiom, a brain monster who creates psychedelic mass hallucinations!  Formed from a bunch of aliens fusing their minds together, Neuro-Idiom conjurs other creatures out of thin air with its psychic powers, and has pretty much every other psychic power to boot!
Neuro-Idiom’s primary design, that of a big walking brain creature, fills a monster archetype that hasn’t been present in ATOM thus far - i.e. the big, ambulatory, disembodied brain, and yes, that is a SUPER popular archetype for 1950′s/60′s monster fiction.  Its psychic projections also pay homage to various monsters in fiction that were actually just the manifestations of an unsound mind - the Id monster from Forbidden Planet, the crawling brains of Fiend Without a Face, and the Crackler from Godzilla: The Series are examples of this concept.  The backstory of this monster would need to be reworked since it kind of ignores that “kaiju” in ATOM is a word with a very specific meaning (you can’t have a kaiju without Yamaneon involved), and the monster having amplified versions of EVERY psychic power makes it significantly more powerful than anything in ATOM’s canon, so that might have to be toned down a bit as well, but all in all it’s a lovely brain monster!
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@drrockso20 brings us our final entry, the massive bison Chief Wrigley!  With gorilla-like arms and enormous horns, this big bovine has the muscle he needs to protect his herd and territory from any creature that dares to challenge it!  He’s not all brawn, either, as Chief Wrigley is clever enough to use the environment to his advantage, and even makes use of simple tools from time to time.  He can telepathically communicate with others, and can sometimes generate electric blasts from his horns.
With a very unique design, power set, and personality, Chief Wrigley has the makings of an excellent protagonist/hero kaiju, the kind who could headline his own corner of ATOM’s kaiju-verse.  Bison are a really underused basis for a kaiju, too - they have very unique heads, and their bodies are build in a way that’s very good at conveying mass.  With just enough special powers to make combat scenes interesting, but not so many that he feels out of place in ATOM’s world, Chief Wrigley is a strong contender in this contest!
Those are the entries!  Who will be the top three winners, and who will get the grand prize?  You’ll have to wait a bit longer to find out, but for now, let’s appreciate how many wonderful monsters we made here!  In a way, they’re all winners in my book, even if I can’t give prizes to the whole batch!
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A playlist I’ve made of songs from 2007 or before that I’ve titled “Two Quarters And A Heart Down”
- All We Know by Paramore
- Pressure by Paramore
- Emergency by Paramore
- Brighter by Paramore
- Here We Go Again by Paramore
- Never Let This Go by Paramore
- Whoa by Paramore
- Conspiracy by Paramore
- Franklin by Paramore
- My Heart by Paramore
- For A Pessimist, I’m Pretty Optimistic by Paramore
- That’s What You Get by Paramore
- Hallelujah by Paramore
- Misery Business by Paramore
- When It Rains by Paramore
- Let The Flames Begin by Paramore
- Miracle by Paramore
- crushcrushcrush by Paramore
- We Are Broken by Paramore
- Fences by Paramore
- Born For This by Paramore
- Welcome To My Life by Simple Plan
- I’m Just A Kid by Simple Plan
- Addicted by Simple Plan
- Thriller by Fall Out Boy
- “Take Over, The Break’s Over” by Fall Out Boy
- This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race by Fall Out Boy
- I’m Like A Lawyer With The Way I’m Always Trying To Get You Off (Me & You) by Fall Out Boy
- Hum Hallelujah by Fall Out Boy
- Golden by Fall Out Boy
-Thnks Fr Th Mmrs by Fall Out Boy
- Don’t You Know Who I Think I Am? by Fall Out Boy
- The (After) Life Of The Party by Fall Out Boy
-  The Carpal Tunnel Of Love by Fall Out Boy
- Bang The Doldrums by Fall Out Boy
- Fame < Infamy by Fall Out Boy
- You’re Crashing, But You’re No Wave by Fall Out Boy
- I’ve Got All This Ringing In My Ears And None On My Fingers by Fall Out Boy
- Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued by Fall Out Boy
- Of All The Gin Joints In All The World by Fall Out Boy
- Dance, Dance by Fall Out Boy
- Sugar, We’re Going Down by Fall Out Boy
- Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner by Fall Out Boy
- I’ve Got A Back Alley And A Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song) By Fall Out Boy
- 7 Minutes In Heaven by Fall Out Boy
- Sophomore Slump Or Comeback Of The Year by Fall Out Boy
- Champagne for My Real Friends, Real Pain For My Sham Friends by Fall Out Boy
- I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me by Fall Out Boy
- A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More “Touch Me” by Fall Out Boy
- Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part To Save The Scene And Stop Going To Shows) by Fall Out Boy
- XO by Fall Out Boy
- Snitches And Talkers Get Stiches And Walkers by Fall Out Boy
- The Music Or The Misery by Fall Out Boy
- My Heart Is The Worst Kind Of Weapon by Fall Out Boy
- Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today by Fall Out Boy
- Dead On Arrival by Fall Out Boy
- Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy by Fall Out Boy
- Saturday by Fall Out Boy
- Sending Postcards From A Plane Crash (Wish You Were Here) by Fall Out Boy
- Chicago Is So Two Years Ago by Fall Out Boy
- The Pros And Cons Of Breathing by Fall Out Boy
- Grenade Jumper by Fall Out Boy
- Calm Before The Storm by Fall Out Boy
- Reinventing The Wheel To Run Myself Over
- The Patron Saint Of Liars And Fakes by Fall Out Boy
- I Won’t Be There by Simple Plan
- When I’m With You by Simple Plan
- Introduction by Panic! At The Disco
- The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage by Panic! At The Disco
- London Beckoned Songs About Money By Machines by Panic! At The Disco
- Nails For Breakfast, Tacks For Snacks by Panic! At The Disco
- Camisado  by Panic! At The Disco
- Time To Dance by Panic! At The Disco
- Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off by Panic! At The Disco 
- Intermission by Panic! At The Disco
- But It’s Better If You Do by Panic! At The Disco
- I Write Sins Not Tragedies by Panic! At The Disco 
- I Constantly Thank God For Esteban by Panic! At The Disco
- There’s A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven’t Thought Of It Yet by Panic! At The Disco
- Build God, Then We’ll Talk
- Shake It by Metro Station
- Romance by My Chemical Romance
- Honey, This Mirror Isn’t Big Enough For The Two Of Us by My Chemical Romance
- Vampires Will Never Hurt You by My Chemical Romance
- Drowning Lessons by My Chemical Romance
- Our Lady Of Sorrows by My Chemical Romance
- Headfirst For Halos by My Chemical Romance
- Skylines And Turnstiles by My Chemical Romance
- Early Sunsets Over Monroeville by My Chemical Romance
- This Is The Best Day Ever by My Chemical Romance
- Cubicles by My Chemical Romance
- Demolition Lovers by Chemical Romance
- Helena by My Chemical Romance
- Give ‘Em Hell, Kid by My Chemical Romance
- To The End by My Chemical Romance
- You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison by My Chemical Romance
- I’m Not Okay (I Promise) by My Chemical Romance
- The Ghost Of You by My Chemical Romance
- The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You by My Chemical Romance
- Interlude by My Chemical Romance 
- Thank You For The Venom by My Chemical Romance
- Hang ‘Em High by My Chemical Romance
- It’s Not A Fashion Statement, It’s A Deathwish by My Chemical Romance
- Cemetery Drive by My Chemical Romance
- I Never Told You What I Do For A Reason by My Chemical Romance
- The End. by My Chemical Romance
- Dead! by My Chemical Romance
- This Is How I Disappear by My Chemical Romance 
- The Sharpest Lives by My Chemical Romance
- Welcome To The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance
- I Don’t Love You by My Chemical Romance
- House Of Wolves by My Chemical Romance
- Cancer by My Chemical Romance
- Mama by My Chemical Romance
- Sleep by My Chemical Romance
- Teenagers by My Chemical Romance
- Disenchanted by My Chemical Romance
- Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance
- Complicated by Avril Lavigne
- Sk8er Boi by Avril Lavigne
- Dirty Little Secret by The All-American Rejects
- Move Along by The All-American Rejects
- WaldorfWorldwide by Good Charlotte
- The Anthem by Good Charlotte
- Lifestyles Of The Rich & Famous by Good Charlotte
- The Chronicles Of Life And Death by Good Charlotte
- I Just Wanna Live by Good Charlotte
- The River by Good Charlotte
- I Don’t Wanna Be In Love (Dance Floor Anthem) by Good Charlotte
- Jamie All Over by Mayday Parade
- Check Yes, Juliet by We The Kings
- 1985 by Bowling For Soup
- MakeDamnSure by Taking Back Sunday
- American Idiot by Green Day
- Jesus Of Suburbia by Green Day
- Holiday/Boulevard Of Broken Dreams by Green Day
-  Are We The Waiting/St. Jimmy by Green Day
- Give Me Novocain/She’s A Rebel by Green Day
- Extraordinary Girl/Letterbomb by Green Day
- Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day
- Homecoming by Green Day
- Whatsername by Green Day
- Brain Stew by Green Day
- When I Come Around by Green Day
- Ha Ha You’re Dead by Green Day
- Warning by Green Day
- I’m With You by Avril Lavigne
- Church On Sunday by Green 
- Castaway by Green Day
- Waiting by Green Day
- Minority by Green Day
- Macy’s Day Parade by Green Day
- Misery by Green Day
- The Middle by Jimmy Eat World
- All The Small Things by Blink-182
- My Own Worst Enemy by Lit
- Hey There Delilah by Plain White T’s
- Ocean Avenue by Yellowcard
- My Friends Over You by New Found Glory
- Absolutely (Story Of A Girl) by Nine Days
- Unwanted by Avril Lavigne
- Stacy’s Mom by Fountains Of Wayne
- The Great Escape by Boys Like Girls
- I Miss You by Blink-182
- Mr. Brightside by The Killers
- Tomorrow by Avril Lavigne
- The Kill by Thirty Seconds To Mars
- How Far We’ve Come by Matchbox Twenty
- Anything But Ordinary by Avril Lavigne
- Naked by Avril Lavigne
- Face Down by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Cute Without An ‘E’ (Cut From The Team) by Taking Back Sunday
- Until The Day I Die by Story Of The Year
- Buried Myself Alive by The Used
- Losing Grip by Avril Lavigne
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