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That article below is why Louis’s scales in Part of Your World are golden bronze btw because he’s in his element in the ocean. Also why his eyes start as golden bronze as well but go green as the transformation completes because it parallels how there’s still that element of distress and betrayal about it all (on a narrative/metaphorical level! the colour isn’t technically connected within in the world to Lestat’s betrayal and Louis’s grief, it’s just a piece of imagery that I thought worked well + imitating how the sea eats away at everything, it’s also oxidising Louis’s eyes until he belongs to it- think also that quote that Louis thinks about bearing the form of the thing (the sea) eating at you as if it wouldn’t cannibalise itself and he’s partially wrong because the sea does stop eating him once he capitulates to it. There’s that ongoing image about Louis letting the sea draw out everything that doesn’t serve him, letting the sea eat it/have it/take it away and in going to the sea he gets it all back, he gets to be that version of himself, everything he thought the sea had eaten, and I’ve gotten off topic, anyway- that article? Background to how I chose the scale colour and why I eventually went with the bronze to green eyes option).
#let’s 1am so I know I’m definitely rambling this is what being inside my head looks like enjoy#little mermaid au tag#also Lestat’s scales are bone white in his siren form because he mirrors the throne#(which is carved out of driftwood bleached white as bone)#the two forces in Louis’s life that are trying to shape him and have him#one alive (Lestat) and one dead (the throne)#both monstrous#Louis uses the same kind of language about Lestat shaping him that Louis uses for the throne/the crown#the ongoing question and theme of being made#being made in your father’s image#being made in your maker’s image#*sniper takes me out*#but really what are you really#what shape do you need to be#not just for your own survival but to be able to really live#and what parts of you can you survive carving off
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sin eater
#sorry its been a minute!!! the horrors. you understand.#anyways yall ready for another gloom tag essay because here we go!!!#im constantly thinking about the ramifications of uzi literally eating cyn and her now being apart of her.#specifically how it impacts uzi mentally. like dgmw i LOVE the silly cyntail shenanigans in fanart (ive also contributed to this) however#when i really think about it in relation to uzi's arc i go crazy insane#uzi is a character who is grasping for control after a lifetime of not having it.#she has no control over how her peers treat her. she has no control over khan neglecting her for reasons that arent her fault.#she quite literally has no control over the solver taking her over and making her do monstrous things against her will#which solidifies her feelings of being a freak monster who everyone was right to outcast and mistreat.#because im Unwell i interpret her calling herself god as a way to convince herself of having control- and to lock away feelings of impurity#if anyone is in control- if anyone is loved and cherished despite any and all wrong doings- its a god.#and that all comes to a head when she eats the heart of cyn thereby destroying the AS- a literal manifestation of a corrupted god- for good#finally taking back control from the entity that had been terrorizing and traumatizing both her and her loved ones. but did she really?#cyn is apart of her now. powerless sure- but that doesnt take away the horrors she wrought previously#and even so- has uzi ever stopped being just a host? do you think shes terrified of cyn regaining power out of the blue?#do you think uzi ever stops feeling like a monster?#“sin eating” was a thing that happened where someone would consume ritual foods to take on the sins of a recently deceased person#thus absolving said deceased person of any sins and putting them onto the sin eater. being a sin eater ensured eternal damnation.#and i just think about that a lot. when applying that (symbolically ofc(somewhat literally. she very much is a cyn eater)) to what uzi did.#“gloom you're reading way too much into this” THE LITTLE GOTH ROBOT. MAKES ME INSANE IN THE HEAD. OK!!!!!#gloom.art#murder drones#murder drones fanart#murder drones uzi#uzi murder drones#uzi doorman#uzi md#md uzi#uzi fanart
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the cato to annie pipeline is still real to me btw and something i think about because katniss is here thinking about both of them like "wow they are mentally ill" except she's legitimately scared of one and sees the other as docile/meek/an extension of her boyfriend/odd/non-threatening.
but what katniss doesn't seem to remember is annie came from a career district so not only could annie have easily been (and probably was) raised with a similar rhetoric/propaganda/mindset as cato but she also could have terrified the other kids in her arena the same way he did. they became trained killers but they're both exposed to the harsh realities of the arena, watch someone they care about die in a horrifically violent way, and lose themselves/their minds/what they were raised to believe in because of it
#and it's so interesting to think about what it would've been like if Cato won#because annie presumably resigned herself to death after her district partner got beheaded#yet even though cato became disillusioned with the Games after clove died you could tell in the book he was still determined to live#if only out of sheer survival instinct#it's like having an opposing mirror reflection in each other#no one wants to “deal with” annie so the Capitol writes her off as meek and unhinged and far gone#erratic and inarticulate and can't cope on her own (aka how fandom sees her)#but cato's a classic strong d2 victor and they need that image so instead of writing him off like with annie#the Capitol invents a narrative of “Oh he's like this bc he's a monstrous beast/lunatic”#meanwhile they both literally are just traumatised and need real help alsjfkrk#okay ignore me I'll go to bed#cato hadley#annie cresta#cato thg#thg cato#thg careers#the hunger games#anna speaks#thg
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thinking about Jonathan "I dont want to become a mystery" Sims who's only legacy is a disembodied voice enacting the one thing that brought forth their inhumanity, and a title thrust upon them that doesn't care for the person it has marked and maligned in favour of voyeuristic hubris.
#there was something about repeatedly hearing the term archivist said by the protocol crew detached from the context we know it to be#where it is nothing but both monstrous and alien#only being moved forward by a desire we all have as humans#but its own nature making that sensually terrifying#and unable to trust the praxis of our sanity#jon sims and martin blackwood i hope you are safe somewhere drinking tea and looking at cows#tmagp#tma#the magnus protocol#the magnus archives#tmagp spoilers#tma jon#tma martin#tma archivist
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My controversial opinion about Hob Gadling is that I believe he’s absolutely the sort of guy that “puts things behind him”, and tries to wash his hands clean of the things he feels icky about. This is implied pretty well in the show, with him blithely moving from soldiering and robbery to printing, from slaving to… whatever it was he was doing in the 19th century instead. That being said, this is not at all the same as actively trying to atone, or even making a concerted effort to be a better person, and I really wish fandom could tell the difference!
#the amount of times I’ve seen people argue that Hob has redeemed himself and ofc feels really horrible about his role in the slave trade#but there is ZERO textual indication that’s true#in fact judging by how he acts in the 19th century and how he was after all the other shit he did that he maybeeee feels kind of sheepish#and would just like to move on thanks!#i love flawed characters and I love monstrous characters and I love hypocrites and I love friendly amoral assholes#Hob is genuinely a super compelling character and embodies the sort of greed of humanity we see in other forms in Madoc and Burgess#he’s got a more friendly face and he’s a slightly lighter version of it but sandman presents humanity as fundamentally flawed and greedy#and Hob is that to a T#I’d really love it if fandom embraced this version of Hob#making him a fluffy anti-racist progressive hip college professor is just so weird#or especially when they have him espouse progressive views… in the past???#look Hob is actual facts a worse person than the Corinthian in a lot of metrics#when I see 17th century Hob talk about the beautiful diversity of humans I just lose my mind a little#also he’s clearly a wolf of Wall Street yuppie asshole in 1984#hot take Dreamling would be more fun and spicier if people leaned into Hob’s canon traits more#both Dream and Hob are kind of awful#I actually like Hob!#but… man I do not like fanon Hob one bit
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Our friends have all but left us. They departed many years ago.
Alt versions under the cut!
#moom makes bullshit#digital art#art#artists on tumblr#Pokémon XY#Pokémon#professor sycamore#AZ Pokémon#wanted to make AZ look a little monstrous so claws and the Whole Mane#you ever realise you are still capable of sympathy after witnessing one of the most benevolent men break down in tears#because lysandre has harmed you both and yet you handle it much better than he does for the lack of attachment#also fun fact i actually did draw sycamore's whole body#but it's completely obscured because he's curled up against az's chest#so that was a mild waste of time! whoops lol#lyrics are from Hungover in the City of Dust by Autoheart#Autoheart my favourite gay angst band#as said from the mouth of an angsty lesbian
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considering retiring from comedy forever because idk if i can ever top this [x]
#dungeon meshi#labru#dunmesh spoilers#someday i'll write something that captures the poetry of kabru hating his eyes and laios thinking they're beautiful#both because they see it as something monstrous#someday ...
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the thing about Jason. Is that even if he’d survived Ethiopia. Even if he’d never even gone to Ethiopia. He would’ve stayed himself - in the sense that the disagreement between Batman and Red Hood began long before Ethiopia. I think the thing about Jason is that the death, the revival, none of it mattered much; that he was a sweet kid, that he was an angry kid, all of that didn’t matter because something in Jason directly opposes something else in Bruce. It’s easy to pin point Jason’s death as the cause of why “everything went wrong” between them, but that’s not really the truth.
#the thing is it was always going to be this way! because of who they both are!#anyways yeah the thing about Jason is he DIDNT change. *Bruce* thinks he did. Arguably maybe Jason does too. But the truth is he didn’t#he’s still just himself#makes me think about another post where someone brings someone else back from the dead#And keeps expecting for the other shoe to drop#for the the resurrected person to be altered or monstrous or came back wrong in some way even if they didn’t..#Jason todd#bruce wayne#batfam#batfamily
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More of my interpretation of Sun and Moon from @anangelcalledinquisitor's fic A Love Most Monstrous. SCP Daycare Attendants! Go check out their fic. You can find some more of my doodles of Sun here.
I've barely drawn the DCA before, but this was very fun :)
Enjoy!
#my art#doodle#SURPRISE i ended up drawing both Moon AND form 3 sun >:)#hope you like their designs :)#Also i had so much fun drawing these guys but it's 1am and i need sleep#anyways hope this was a nice little surprise for you inquisitor!#scp AU#fnaf sundrop#fnaf sun#fnaf moondrop#fnaf moon#fnaf sun and moon#a love most monstrous#fnaf sb
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Honestly Jonathan/Mina/Clarimonde could be juicy af. Given that these two radiate exactly the extreme idea of what she craves, and then some. The Harkers are potentially the type that will share on special occasions. And she's nothing like a Dracula type vampire to "infect" them any more than Dracula already has even if she sips a drop. And Mina deserves having a good time with a lady that made her head turn
Mina: Would rather destroy herself immediately than risk imperiling the one she loves.
Jonathan: Prepared to kill, perish, or be damned for the one he loves.
Clarimonde, sweating, white-knuckling her coffin lid: "I think I hauve consumption"
#the Harkers are both almost comically tailored for Clarimonde's EXACT type romance-wise#while she wouldn't be nearly as monstrous or pushy about it she would 100% find herself in the Dracula role#in the sense of 'Hi I'm a vampire who really likes your vibe Please Please Can We Make This Throuple Happen PLEASE'#in another life they could have made it work#clarimonde#dracula#mina harker#jonathan harker#dracula spoilers
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replayed nitw for the fourth time
thinking of a tattoo about it because i want to carry a part of this game with me forever
#nitw#night in the woods#i remember watching letsplay lying in bed at night years ago#and sitting at school surviving lessons thinking of how i would come home sit at my laptop with a cup of hot coffee and play nitw#and now i like mae am stuck in my city failed with both studies and work#continue my monstrous existence while all my friends are actually doing something#understanding all this probably better than i ever could#(i love this game. it is so dear to me.)
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AO3 section for The Handmaid's Tale: June and Serena should hate-fuck
Me: I mean do you but I don't see it
Me when there's a long sequence of June having sex intercut with Serena at the state funeral she carefully engineered for her asshole husband, set to a moody cover of Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain": ...ohhh. oh yeah. no yeah I get it now
#the handmaid's tale#there's Enemies To Lovers hate-sex and then there's 'these people will never not want to kill each other on some level' hate sex#both are good and this is the latter#(with a clear good guy and bad guy. everything monstrous about June is because Serena created a world that made her a monster)
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he does something similar to edgeworth when he gets cornered hehe
#makes sense they are both dramatic#yet again I am not immune to being in love with prosecutors in these games#ace attorney#dual destines#ace attorney dual destines#apollo justice trilogy#aa5#pwdd#ajt#aa5-2#the monstrous turnabout#simon blackquill#dual destines spoliers#apollo justice trilogy spoilers#ace attorney dual destinies spoilers#aa5 spoilers#pwdd spoilers#ajt spoilers#aa5-2 spoilers#I don't put a liveblogging tag cuz I always post screenshots with the notes I write while playing after I finished all of the case :D
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A future only Seo Doyoung can fantasises about
#WHAT IS DYDS WITHOUT SOME ANGST#At its core… Doyoung’s feelings for Dongsoo is genuine#a love that is both pure and innocent yet monstrous and all consuming#evilive#악인전기#biography of a villain#도영동수#dyds#fifi’s art#shhhsoftnwet#seo do young#han dong soo
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i'm sorry but this is sending me into the goddamn stratosphere, if you send people to physically attack my mom, torture my sister, cut my six year old son's head off, threaten to murder my toddler, and then also threaten to rape my six year old daughter, i would be very happy and jovial in declaring war on your psycho ass for pulling that shit on people who literally didn't do a thing to you.
consequently, if i sent people to physically attack someone who never did me any harm, torture my sister who never did me any harm, cut my six year old nephew who never did me any harm's head off, threaten to murder my toddler nephew who never did me any harm, and also threaten to rape my six year old niece who never did me any harm, i would be very full of regret and sorrow for what i've done, because those are bad things that i did.
#personal#house of the dragon#hotd#like yeah no SHIT aegon's super gung-ho to carpet bomb rhaenyra and her side#you murder my kid and beat up my mom and make my sister go crazy and literally threaten to RAPE MY SIX YEAR OLD#i'll go apeshit i'll have the time of my life talking about how you're gonna suffer i'll be happy as a clam about it#like rhaenyra should absolutely feel bad and fear what she started! what she started was monstrous!#and by not thoroughly denouncing daemon and removing him from her side for it she's clearly endorsing it!#and people have the right to be happy about causing her bodily harm as a result for either tacitly or outright endorsing things like this#you know things like child murder and threats of violent rape against little girls#(and i mean even just the bad precedent to set of 'you did something that hurt me so i have the right to take it out')#('not on you or anyone who supported you but civilians who weren't even remotely involved in the situation at all')#like come on rhaenyra's side is in the wrong for blood and cheese and it's so fine for aegon (as the person most deeply affected by it)#to be happy about any retribution he could bring on her#just as it is both fine and actually really good for rhaenyra as a character to feel bad about it#as the wrongful party#be fucking for real
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I can’t stop thinking about how the darkling is a character that has existed in a survival mindset for literally hundreds of years. like I cannot even begin to fathom what that kind of thing does to someone’s brain
#grishaverse#sab#shadow and bone#aleksander morozova#the darkling#myramblings#i am always thinking about how he is a survivor of the world's cruelest atrocities#and the worst part is is that these atrocities are *ongoing*#that is almost a millenia of persecution and torture and fear and just bare bones survival#paired with the burden of shouldering every other grisha's plight#and not only that but being viewed inherently as monstrous by his oppressors AND his people#because he is outcast by both#like when you stop to think about his character for more than two seconds it is utterly horrifying
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