#eldritch or die trying

[oxventurequotes]

prudence: i could’ve killed you all, i say wistfully

dob: you say that at the end of every adventure

[morkses-awful-house]

This clip really made me laugh. Johnny's face is a treasure.

[confoodles]

If I had a nickel for every time Mariah played a character that was incredibly attached to their phone to the point of putting themselves/others in harm's way because of it, I'd have 3 nickels which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened 3 times.

[potato-lord-but-not]

I've been a fan of yours since before the Malevolent era, but it still seems so crazy to me that there was a time not too long ago when you weren't drawing eldritch polyamory at all

No literally when I listened to the first episode of malevolent I had no idea what was in store for me. like I wouldn’t be able to even fathom the predicament I’ve found myself in.

[cairafea]

stupid dungeon meshi au where laios is an unexplainable eldritch monster thing that constantly eats anything he can get his hands on. everyone in the party treats him like a slightly disorderly raccoon. everyone outside the party gets a fastpass to heaven from just seeing him.

[wigglys-dikrats]

what’s a hatchetfield quote you would use to convince someone to join the starkid cult fandom ?

[stevieharringtonwifeguy]

post apocalypse au where the plot of stranger things doesn't happen but vecna still tears the world open and brings the upside down right side up. and the scattered people who managed to survive the initial earthquakes and power outages and complete breakdown of society have to contend not only with creatures from the upside down trying to eat them, but also with what the bleeding of an alternate dimension into their reality is doing to their bodies

people with prolonged exposure to larger tears seem to be slowly changed into something else, like some radioactivity from the dimension is mutating them. people grow claws, or leathery wings, or their face peels open, or they turn into unrecognisable piles of eldritch goo. there's vampires, were-demogorgons, flayed, weird ghosts, and the number of super powered people like el was in the show skyrockets

other people who manage avoid this fate shun those that fell to it. and to an extent it's reasonable, some people who get changed in this way completely lose their humanity, like the flayed, and while others retain it it probably doesn't seem that way when a vampire-like person needs human blood to survive. but a lot of people are just as terrified of the changes happening to them as other people are, and while they may not be harmless, they'd much rather use their new biological advantages to keep people safe

despite this, people that have been 'corroded' by the upside down are ostracised, feared, sometimes outright hunted by regular humans. so sometimes, they band together. form their own little apocalypse groups

eddie is in one of those groups. he wouldn't say he's the leader, bc they don't really have a hierarchical structure and eddie likes to think he's managed to maintain his anarchic ideals even in the face of the apocalypse. but he is the oldest, and the most scary looking (if not the most actually dangerous), so the combination of everyone being younger and his ability to scare off corroded-hunters that come looking for them means everyone else kind of follows his lead

so no one really questions when he comes back to camp one day holding two passed out humans. a mole-dotted man and a freckled woman, probably about eddie's age, who were injured and had crawled into a ruin building to die. and like. what was eddie supposed to do, leave them there??? no, gareth, it has nothing to do with how pretty the guy is. no, eddie doesn't know how they'll react when they wake up in the middle of a corroded camp, they'll cross that bridge when they get there. el says she senses that they're good people, so clearly everything will be fine actually!!!!!

[samscorch]

pokeys so terrible with keeping up a disguise next time hes just gonna put on some groucho glasses an hope no one notices

What are you talking about, that's a totally normal human guy who just moved to Hatchetfield

[littlest-bugz]

No way I just watched a horror game playthrough, and it made me cry like a fucking baby

[autumnalwalker]

Last Sentence Tag

Thank you for the tag, @the-down-upside-finch.

Rules: post the last sentence you wrote in your WIP and tag as many of your followers as there are words in the sentence.

Another line out of the next Empty Names chapter (19, full chapter will be posted this weekend):

Starlight of the Dark Forest nevermore must sing.

That's 8 words, so 8 people to tag.

@wordwizards

@theprissythumbelina

@blind-the-winds

@ceph-the-ghost-writer

@cat-esper

@eldritchx

@void-botanist

@mjparkerwriting

Plus the usual open tag to anyone else who wants to join in.

But also, because I always get a little over-excited when I wind up inserting poetic-ish spell incantations into my prose, here's the full version of this as a bonus excerpt:

“O Green World, answer this mere traveler’s call.   Rise up so that we might bury this unclean thing. Pierce and purify, be sweet and swift the fall.   Even that which knows not death still may feel your sting. O Green World, by my blood and breath forestall.  Starlight of the Dark Forest nevermore must sing.”

[oxventurequotes]

cthulhu: as far as curveballs go, this was pretty soft

cthulhu: also i know what baseball is!

[bijesperfahey]

Thinking about how Lark and Normal had such different reactions to what they saw on the throne and how ‘Larks’ entire monologue was about how it was all his fault, about how Lark blames himself for everything that has happened, and earlier in the series Sparrow refers to ‘what they did’ but Lark says it’s what he did

Thinking about how when Henry touches Lark on the throne he feels Love, Confusion, Betrayal, Sadness and Anger.

How Anthony says that he looks at Lark and sees sadness and self hatred in his eyes

How in Anthony’s monologue the Doodler specifically feels Lark’s self hatred and resentment. How it’s that that grows into the resentment for everything in the world.

It’s your fault and everything is bad- and it’s obviously not just the Doodler that feels that way

About how the Doodler looks at humanity as it’s dad, but also it resents humanity as much as it loves it and wants it’s validation

These flashhbacks are only a few years post season 1- sure he’s older but he is still a literal child being confronted by the weight of these emotions from an eldritch being that directly parallel so much of what he’s gone through and actively stem from the choices he made

Does he say they have to kill it because he knows what it’s like to feel this way? Because he knows what that rage and resentment feel like to him, a human being, and knows what it grew into for him, and can you imagine how much worse it is coming from the Doodler? They can’t risk not stopping it and the surest way to do that is to kill it?

Does he say it because killing the Doodler is the only way he’ll be able to forgive himself for releasing it? To make sure this can never happen again, by getting rid of it completely?

Or does he say it because he can’t imagine a way to help it? It’s just something he can’t comprehend, there’s no other way to end it, there is no happy ending.

And Normal now is the age that Lark was then, and he’s going through it too but in a completely different way! Normal is also dealing with a lot of incredibly complicated feelings, especially regarding his parental figures. He’s darker than he was at the start of the series, but all he wants is to be loved respected for who he is.

And maybe it makes a difference, but he has a support system that’s not just one person (Sparrow for Lark)! He has friends, and people to talk to and he still has so much hope for himself and compassion for the world, so of course that’s going to extend to the Doodler. This entire time the teens have been saying they need to find another way, that they can’t doom a whole planesworth of people just to save their home

So like. Why wouldn’t that extend to the doodler, now that they know it’s an option??

[metaphysicae]

so we started a new campaign! it’s a custom system my partner built and to say i have been obsessed is an understatement.

[solidwater05]

I dreamed that Glitches posted a link that was obviously the equivalent of a rickroll saying it's pasta. I sent an ask saying something along the lines of 'oh, this link isn't working correctly, do you have any idea why that could be happening?' and they started listing characters that could have fucked up the link. This somehow ended up in Glitches potentially revealing meta knowledge to me. I got a pop-up asking me if I really want to know

Note: the link was a song from Shrek that doesn't exist irl but it was the equivalent of All Star and the replacement of Never Gonna Give You Up. What a trainwreck of a dream

[bijoumikhawal]

abruptly realization that a fantasy book I liked a lot as a kid was about a child being groomed and escaping her would be abuser

[cheerfulmelancholies]

Omg yes! The world is going to end in 48 hours so why are we worrying about romance right now when you're the only person who can stop it?

Another kind of diversity we need in writing is protagonists without love interests. Give me adults with full-fledged stories that don't include falling in love.