#childe is a different beast

[chompmon]

The scream i scrumpt he just cant catch a break

[boarcide]

I truly think that one of the biggest tragedies in BEAST in regards to the Akutagawa siblings is that, at the core of it, Ryuunosuke viewed himself as a beast, and showed his love in a way a beast would, while Gin was the only person who ever saw him as human and judged him accordingly. She did not see a beast acting like a beast, the way everybody else did, she saw a human acting like a beast and it’s part of what drove her away.

The ADA saw their rookie detective at his worst, and watched—and continues to watch—him grow from a beast to a human over time. Consumed by hatred and only knowing how to be cruel, and slowly learning how to become human.

Gin saw her brother at his best—the best he could be in their situation—and then watched him grow from a boy to a beast within moments. The scraps of humanity that he had, all disappearing into rage so primal it no longer made him seem human.

[ryllen]

said wolf,

🐺

[karmaxxx130art]

The bard and the beast AU

Basically, the beauty and the beast, but Steve is a young prince left all alone in a big castle. He is 10 when someone knocks at the door.

It’s a young woman , who just escaped her husband with her two sons. One of them is his age and the other one is just an infant. She is begging for help and he wants to help but he’s also a little bit scared because they are strangers and his old nanny told him to never open the door to strangers or to ask her before doing so .

The thing is, his nanny passed away months ago and he’s been all alone ever since, not knowing what to do or if he could go outside to ask for help, waiting for his parents to come back. They won’t, they are in another castle ,more exciting and beautiful than this one (this one is just here to keep the child that they don’t want far away)

So he opens the door a little bit for them to hear his response, that he is sorry but he cannot open the door. He doesn’t know if he can, he doesn’t have the autorisation.

The young woman, who happens to be a little bit of a witch, explodes with emotion. The man on the other side doesn’t listen to her plea. She is tired, panicking and a little bit concussed when she cursed the person on the other side of the door. He told her that he cannot do anything for her, that this place is empty and he can’t ask anyone. A place this big can’t be empty, that person must be lying.

The curse is cast and it’s only when a child-like cry transforms into some kind of beastly whine that she comes back to her senses. The door is just a bit open so she pushed it. She realized that the one that she just cursed was actually a child near the age of her oldest.

Curses are difficult things to undo, and she cannot do it herself so she enters, searching for someone in the castle to help. She quickly realizes that he didn’t lie when he told her he was all alone here. The only thing that she found was on one of the beds, the corpse of an old woman, the nani.

She stayed with the child that she cursed and her two boys living inside the castle, doing her best to raise the three of them.

Steve doesn’t really understand what’s happening. He was a boy, and now he is a monster but he is okay with that, he got a new mom and he likes her very much because Miss Joyce is really nice.

One day, a young bard will come to the place and fall in love, giving him back his human appearance with a true love kiss.

Steve spent more time living as a beast than as a human so this new body is quite weird and different to him so he asks Joice to transform him back. Eddie, who is bit of a Monster fucker, is thrilled by the news.

She tries but it doesn't work all the way. He is still human but can shift back when he wants.

My other Stranger Things AUs

[synthaphone]

a pokemon discord server i'm in asked everyone what their IRL pokemon teams would be based on where they've lived/their lifestyle, which is a question i love pondering but also always struggle with. I tend to think too realistically and worry about shit like "how much space do i have in my house", "how many + which Pokemon would i be able to care for properly", "do Snubbull have the same health problems as irl brachy dogs?", and "am i a kind enough person to keep a Togetic without it getting miserable?? am i willing to welcome this kind of moral judgement into my life for the sake of cute bird?? how allergy inducing is "joy dust"???"

anyway after much thought + giving myself a full team for the sake of Fun and Imagination:

Torterra- Sinnoh feels like the closest region climate-wise to Michigan, so i think it'd make sense for me to have a Sinnoh pokemon. i really liked reptiles and dinosaurs as a kid, so a turtle that evolves into a big prehistoric looking turtle would be appealing to child me. My yard might be a little small, but Torterra don't seem super active at least, and i could take it on outings to parks

Smeargle- i was an 'art kid' growing up, and having an artist buddy to make stuff with would rule, tbh. although they do seem like a messy companion from the pokedex entries. maybe they can be redirected to paint on canvases that i could hang up around the house to serve the same 'marking territory' purpose though?? That would be fun

Volbeat- i loved catching lightning bugs (and bugs in general) in the yard as a kid, and i still see them around the yard in the house im living in now

Appletun- for all the times i went to apple orchards with my family in fall... also its Small so i could keep one in my house. AND its a dragon and i was also a dragon obsessed kid

Meowth- because i love cats + its small and would definitely fit in my house

Goomy- because me and my partner keep amber snails, and Goomy captures their gormless vibe a little more than Shelmet does, despite being a slug rather than a snail

growing up i think i'd have Herdier, because it looks like my childhood dog- but she's really my parents' dog, so i think she'd stay with them. And the Goomy would probably be my partner's, if i'm being real- maybe for my actual sixth team member i'd have Maushold, since i used to collect Calico Critters/Sylvanian Families? Although Maushold in the same house as Meowth might be kind of dicey. loaded dicey

[denkilightning]

im fully convinced that every harbinger except (MAYBE) scaramouche really respects and likes childe hes just katniss everdeen levels of an unreliable narrator because they still see him as a kid who has a long way ahead of him and hes been traumatised and betrayed by every person hes ever had in his life

[deinodevilmaus]

I give you all another one of my siren designs for EPIC: The Musical! This one is the child siren, Odysseus' "daughter" though, I guess we all know that's not true ;)

[burningcheese-merchant]

Dear merchant, as an Airfryer shipper, please forgive my fellow shipper if they ever attack you for shipping Pitayafire.

Also, *cough cough* "it's dark in my imagination" next chapter?

I have no idea what Airfryer is, but thank you for your kindness anyway 🫡 no one has given me trouble for shipping PitayaFire (yet), thankfully. (Sometimes I wonder why? Never got too much trouble for shipping BurningCheese and Beast x Ancient, either. Maybe it's because I'm pretty unknown? 700-ish followers isn't much in the grand scheme of things. I suppose being such a small fry is a blessing in disguise.) I don't intend to pay them any mind if they ever do. Best not to bother with people like that. "Do what you want and be happy" is the way to go about things, I think. And I've got thick skin and more important things to worry about than internet randos bashing me for wanting the fire man to kiss+fuck the dragon lol

(as for It's Dark In My Imagination... Soon 👀 I'm sorry that's so late, I never meant for it to be. I've had a lot to deal with irl the past couple of months (major crisis of confidence + legitimate emergencies, like the scare with my dog) and it took me away from writing. But I'm trying to get back on the saddle! I'm about 4k words into the final draft, chapter 3 should be posted in the next day or two hopefully! I didn't abandon the fic, I promise! Chapter 3 exists and you'll see it soon!)

[fingertipsmp3]

God grant me the strength not to reply “there are other books you could read and other films you could watch. Hope this helps 🤞” to all the HP fans whinging about JKR’s latest tirade, specifically because of how it affects their enjoyment of the franchise

[lord-squiggletits]

What is the Tarnma penpals au? I've seen you mention it a couple times and am super curious about it!

Hiiii

So the Pen Pals AU is an idea that I got a couple of weeks ago. Kind of self-explanatory by the name, but the idea is it's a post-war scenario with a diplomatic ending b/t the Autobots and Decepticons. One of the many efforts to normalize relations is a pen pals program that's set up to pair Autobots with Decepticons under randomized pseudonyms. The goal is to try and create positive relationships based only on these letters and not any preconceived notions based on faction or identity. (Also it's pre-Earth which means it's pre-Delphi for Pharma, so his normal non-traumatized personality features.)

Pharma and Tarn naturally get paired up under this program, and the first part of the AU/fic (yes I'm going to write it eventually) is them basically having their pen pals relationship turn from friendship to heavily implied mutual romantic attachment. Their individual daily lives are also shown bc each of them is dealing with their own identity-related crisis: Tarn struggling with depression and addiction in the aftermath of all the things he did for the DJD and confusion over why Megatron just had them change so suddenly. Pharma with the realization that his whole life has just been defined by his accomplishments and he's lived his life in a way where he's oft-respected and admired, but never loved for who he is as a person rather than what he does.

The whole AU was originally meant to be fluffy and slice-of-life-esque (there was even an arranged marriage component in the very first conception of the idea), but as I fleshed out the setting more, I realized I wanted to actually delve deep into the implications of a post-war setting. So the Pen Pals AU has taken a darker turn recently; not darker as in fluffy romance to dead dove, but it's more like, the fluffy romance develops and then the past/war comes back to haunt Tarn and Pharma's relationship in a way that's very (re)traumatizing, both for them individually and their chances of being able to stay together as a couple.

So the fact that Tarn was in the DJD/oversaw Grindcore and did countless atrocities is very much an element of the story that's explored rather than shied away from. At first he deals with it on his own, and for a while he lives in blissful ignorance knowing that his pen pal is the one relationship he has with a "normal person" (he knows that his pen pal is a doctor, aka not a hardened soldier and criminal). Unfortunately things get complicated when his pen pal asks to meet IRL because he wants them to be more than friends, and Tarn realizes that he can't move forward with this new, blooming relationship without being honest about who he is. On Pharma's end, he has to grapple with the idea of choosing love over reputation, following his heart rather than his fear of social rejection/ostracization. Especially when the consequences of continuing to date Tarn could go from just "people judging him" to.... well, that's what me eventually writing the fic is meant to reveal. :)

TLDR: Tarn and Pharma meet as anonymous pen pals, end up having a lot of shared issues re: loneliness and isolated public personas, help each other solve their personal problems, share a mutual love of music, and fall in love, then realize who the other is. Complications ensue.

[st3lla-lun4]

i know ive been posting about kinitopet a lot lately but this is my blog and i do what i want soooooo

kinito literally recreating sonny after his death is my new favorite kintopet headcanon yayyyyyy!!!!

i personally LOVE this idea because its a creative take on the "person dies and then has their soul trapped in game/device" trope. kinito can create basically whatever he wants through coding so its not a stretch to think that he can literally recreate an entire person. and a scarily accurate one at that, because of the "all it wants to do is learn" base 64 code on the website.

but why exactly would kinito feel the need to do this? what does he gain from this?

consider the fate that befalls every person who uses the kinitopet program: they're basically stuck there with him forever. he traps people in the program, because he wants them to be together forever, because he considers them as best friends.

so maybe... kinito just wanted to be with his creator again. he knew sonny better than anyone, inside and out. so he created the most accurate replication of sonny there ever could be; perfect, just like sonny wanted kinito to be!

even though kinito considers just about everyone to be his best friend, sonny was probably his best friend.

reblogs are appreciated, i love reading yall's tags!

[billpottsismygf]

I don't think I've ever taken in before how much Wicked Act I (and thus Wicked Part I) takes its structure from The Wizard of Oz. It opens with No One Mourns the Wicked, which is an obvious response to Ding Dong the Witch is Dead* (the first song once Dorothy gets to Oz, and only the second overall), and ends with our heroes arriving in the Emerald City (Merry Old Land of Oz/One Short Day). Our hero is then asked to perform a task so that the wizard will grant her heart's desire. Having completed this task, she then discovers that he is a fraud and that he cannot do what he's promised (nor could he have done the task he set her), so she has to make use of the power that was inside her all along to get where she needs to go.

*Bonus connection between these two songs is the little musical motif ("ding dong the witch is") that the movie version of No One Mourns the Wicked uses in its newly triumphant orchestration at the start (roughly 1:01 and 1:19 in the official soundtrack).

[fafnirhumgy]

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marmalade sunk back in his seat with a sigh, the ever dutiful gamma bringing him refreshments to clear his mind. for all that yuuki adhered to the traditional makeup of any general reyvateil, there were just as many aspects where he didn't. some were obvious - he was a boy rather than a girl - and some were rather genius - his telomeres were quite reinforced, possibly explaining why his need for diquility only extended to pain relief and not life support - while others were obtuse by the means which his existence was possible. on paper, the redirect from a traditional cosmosphere to the genometrics was a good idea. in practice?

well, if the weird visual on his screen of a weird tree wrapping its roots around a pillar of metal was any indication, it was just a bit more complicated than he was prepared for. and the less said about the weird beastly parts in his h-waves, the better.

then again, though he didn't know the exact details about those strange mutations, he did at least know what they were. and that, he could work with.

"..."

unfortunately, that wasn't much either.

another sigh.

"well, gamma, i'm big enough to admit i'm lost on this matter. looks like i have no choice."

his metal companion tilted his head as the professor sipped the offered drink and reached for a barely-used rotary phone. it was the phone, the one he always dreaded using. he had an inkling as to what was about to happen next, but it still warranted asking:

"what will you do, professor?"

"...i have no choice but to ask them for help."

a few short whirs of the wheel, the softly ringing dialtone of the phone, and the seconds-long wait that felt like an hour began...

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"oh yeah, we're free! we'll take a quick pit stop at the town we're at and we'll fly right over. see ya!"

click.

betel looked down at the giant canine monster he was perched upon, his prosthetic arm checking its vitals and sending back all green. well, it was pretty disingenuous to call the beautiful creature he was on a "monster", but that was the scientific term, so what can ya do. his cohort, the "song-beast" draco, was keeping the big doggo occupied by yapping its ear off about something... related to sea shells?

"hey kiddo, you can stop with the seafood talk, you're making me hungry over here too."

a playful raspberry. huh, he was getting pretty good at understanding the song language draco's kind used. seriously, would it kill anyone else to put in the effort to learn even a little bit of the language and what these people called themselves?

the pink dragon perched on his shoulder and switched to common, for his sake. "so, boss, where to next?"

"sage's island. we're finally coming come to nrc!"

"oh yeah, you told me all about that place... isn't it where all the stuck-up douches li-"

"NOT just the douches, i know a few cool people there."

"right, i remember! your childhood crush!"

"yeah! you re-"

betel's face goes flush as he begins sulking.

"let's just go, okay draco?"

"hehehe! you're the boss, boss!"

with a great jump, the small dragon suddenly morphs into a very big dragon, large enough for betel to perch on their back.

one, two, three wingbeats, and they were off to night raven college like a pink winged comet.

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crowley sneezed.

"...why do i get a feeling my precious budget is crying?"

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

very very self indulgent doodle of my blorbinos, the marshmallow gang 🤍

in the wise words of me from the past:

[sirensongster]

I feel like a discworld au Frankenstein would be essentially a city watch book centered around a single Igor's child abandonment case.

[front-facing-pokemon]