#i love this little monster

[gourmet-trash]

WIP meme "A Serial Killer Walks Into A Bar (part 2)"

ooh thank you for asky inky! this wip is from the sandman, and it's the sequel/continuation to a serial killer walks into a bar that i have been chipping slowly away at over the last few months! i suspect one of these days i'm going to do what i did the first time around and sit down, start writing, and look up and be done. but until then progress is happening but slowly!

who knows how much of this will stay, but i've included an opening snippet below the cut for, y'know, corinthian being a serial killer.

He keeps his distance this time. For a while, at least. 

Headlines of a copycat killer surfacing in London are not exactly the low profile Corinthian should be keeping, but he is who he is. No amount of warm calloused handshakes and easy as pie smiles are going to change that. The proof is under his fingernails, stained pink against his palms. Change is for creatures who were born, not built, after all. 

So he does what he does best, reminds himself of the things he’s good at rather than the things that leave him unsteady and pathetic. He shoves the sentiment and weakness out of himself, drives it between ribs and into muscles that aren’t his own as if he could really plant it in someone else’s heart and leave it to rot in their cooling corpses. 

And Corinthian almost thinks it works. 

It feels good to be back. To have work for his hands and a mission filling his mind again. Good to be busy and distracted and indulgent once more. It feels good. Until it doesn’t. 

Maybe it’s the flop of his hair. Or maybe it’s the hideous little sweater. Hell! Maybe it’s the shape and color of his eyes, big and brown and wet. There’s no clean precision in the way he kills the guy. No finesse. He tears more than he stabs, pummels the pathetic look off his face, and carves open his palms to find nothing of value or interest at all. 

One glassy brown eye stares empty and blank up at the ceiling when he’s done, the other deflated and hidden under fractured bone and meat, and he doesn’t even want to eat it. He knows he won’t like the taste. 

It’s not reported as a Corinthian killing, which makes sense as much as it doesn’t. It was, of course. But in a way it wasn’t. 

Hard as he tried, he couldn’t shake whatever it was fucking Gadling had left on him, couldn’t bury it in blood or crush it under bones and bodies. But he had, apparently, managed to leave the luster in its place. The work becomes dull so fast he almost leaves one alive, halfway through carving. He doesn’t, of course, he isn’t that stupid. But that he considered it at all is more concerning than anything else.

[lemongogo]

undine ^__^ !

[fantasticlyclever]

Santa came to work and my girl was being such a little ham!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The girls are here!!!

[afterartist]

I have a healthy taste in fictional characters

[lomlompurim]

respost separated from the og post bc I really liked this silly little thing I made

And a little extra of my own

little binghe has a goal in this life and it only gets worse once he mets sqq, no one dares to threaten his position as sqq's future wife, he literally was born to be his spouse!!

[gloombeaches]

also idk if anyone else on here has seen some of the new scaremester covers sooo comp post of all the covers shown off so far!

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Danny was...unnerved, which is unusual considering his upbringing as the child of mad scientists obsessed with the undead.

It had been a few weeks since he had moved into Wayne manor after a conflict between batman and his parents, which led to his home and his friends and family being blown up in a lab malfunction. Most of Amity Park was destroyed in the blasts, including Vlad and his mansion.

Usually Danny would be more suspicious of super rich dudes, but the sorrow in Bruce Wayne's eyes as he pleaded to let Danny take him in was genuine and well, Danny didn't exactly have anywhere else to go. Plus, Bruce looked weirdly guilty when danny told him none of this was his fault, which was weird. Jazz was in college and always looked exhausted on video calls, so he didn't want to bother her there.

The part that bothered him most wasn't that there was anything dangerous or bad happening, but rather the opposite.

Danny was used to dodging his home security system when it randomly targeted him. He was used to ghosts popping up out of nowhere to suckerpunch him. He was used to danger.

And now that there was none, he was jumping at shadows.

Things got better when he met Psaro. He was in the process of being either mugged or kidnapped, he wasn't sure, when this angry goth teen with silver hair and ruby eyes literally came in swinging a steel chair. After the beat down and subsequent rescue, Danny offered to buy them some food. Psaro tried to reject the offer until his stomach suddenly growled, making him blush, and Danny dragged the older goth teen to a restaurant.

They've been best friends since. Psaro later introduced him to his friends Rose and Toilen, explaining that they weren't from this world and that Rose was an elf and Toilen was a Teran from a planet called Terrestria. Danny assumed that Psaro was an elf like Rose due to them both having long pointed ears and mostly focused on Toilen thanks to the "other planet" bit.

Meanwhile, the bats have been keeping an eye out on Danny (aka stalking him) and his new, obviously magical friends.

[moth--blood]

monster falls my beloved,,,,

[wilchur]

I've seen a lot of people talk about how the game doesn't give you any leeway when you play The Dark Urge, how it makes it very clear that Durge was A Bad Person, but I haven't seen it pointed out that Sceleritas seems VERY well versed in gaslighting the hell out of them and steering Durge away from any doubt or guilt in regards to their actions. Makes me think that they've probably had those types of conversations before because Durge actually always had a soft spot, only it got smaller and smaller in time. I have not had the opportunity to see the Heal cutscene yet, but I've got the butler in my camp now and he had some interesting things to say, like

[Durge: Can you tell me the worst thing I ever did?

Sceleritas Fel: There was one time you gave a beggar some coin while we were en route to the Devil's Fee.

Sceleritas Fel: You didn't kick him or spot on him or anything! I was so shocked I almost fainted!

Sceleritas Fel: I still have nightmares about it to this day. But I'm sure you only did so to lower the suspicions of the Flaming Fist. Surely?]

and it struck me because tossing a coin to a beggar is a bit of a thoughtless act isn't it? You don't put much thought into it, you just see someone in need and you do it. Out of empathy, generosity, something The Murder Incarnate should not be capable of. Sceleritas' uncertainty of Durge's reasoning for it totally convinces me it was NOT intentional. A simple act of kindness that slipped out.

ALSO

[Sceleritas Fel: The only way for a Butler to die is if we are not of use to our Master. But you have always needed abundant assistance.]

They always needed abundant assistance. Why? Because they kept slipping out of Bhaal's grasp? We know they did at least once, with Gortash. Maybe it was not the first time, maybe there are more "Letters of Forgiveness" tucked away somewhere.

To me pre-tadpole Durge is just terribly mindbroken and indoctrinated person hooked onto the sense of safety, purpose and acceptance of their dark side that the cultists and their father give them. Yeah they enjoy murder, gore and all that. That's the curse of their blood, but I don't think they were ever entirely consumed by it. Morality, guilt and empathy have always been there on the edge of their mind. Losing their memories (depending on player choices I know, but bear with me) was what they needed for them to be finally brought forward.

[emberglowfox]

gouger

[stil-lindigo]

little dove.

a short comic about Ash and Snow's first meeting / how Snow got her nickname.

Snow's story

Ash’s story

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[alexandriaellisart]

nap time

[gaal-dornick]

Come on, time for some science shit.

MONARCH: Legacy of Monsters | 1.01 and 1.02

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

He was just being a silly little guy!

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