#monster ballads

[greeneyezblackheart]

Song Of The Day

[ilikebeesandflowers]

Cas walks into a thrift shop for a new pair of jeans and maybe a book to read in the car. He leaves with a pair of cargo pants and a paperback copy of Cat’s Cradle that fits nicely in the pockets, and a gift for Dean. He doesn’t know how to make a “mixed tape,” but this audiocassette of “Monster Ballads” looks just right.

[balthazar-sketti]

Monster Ballads infomercial.

[laurachouettepoetry]

[silverycryptid]

that one ghost girl

[weirdlookindog]

“Oh, long and weary is our way”

Joseph Noel Paton (1821-1901) - Elfinland Wud

illustration from Samuel Carter Hall's 'The Book of British Ballads', 1842

source

[maysrinn]

Deep in the Meadow 🥀

The songbird and her two little fledglings, its just gonna be the two of them for quite some time ✨🐦‍⬛

Lucy Gray is making each day at the edge of dawn strolls with both her gremlins through the meadow while singing soft lullabies. While Janus is off in minutes it takes longer for Clementine to fall asleep simply because she doesn’t wanna. She wants to stay up and chase the glowing bugs! and eat them

[solstrix]

Yeah, you could say I’m pretty amped about this design lmao- (gets sniped)

[theboarsbride]

"What is a marriage but a mating bond bled onto parchment with ink, and sanctified by human prayer?"🐉

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Some lore beneath the cut

So uhhhhh big angsty bit about Saoirse and Ser Llyr is marriage and love...

Saoirse is conflicted as her newfound dragon instincts want to claim Llyr through a mating bond to make him wholly her own while her human heart wants to love and hold affection for him and she doesn't know which emotion is more genuine, and she's confused because she's never had these kinds of feelings before...she wants them to have a human marriage since she views it as Llyr claiming her as his own just as she does to him with their mating bond. Llyr meanwhile is conflicted because he uhhhhh may or may not have cheated on his wife back home with this scary dragon lady that saved him from a cursed forest?? But he loves how said dragon lady makes him feel secure and protected and helped him explore a long-dormant, long-repressed sensuality and therefore helping him achieve a new sense of freedom?? But his wife remarried, thinking he was dead, but he still feels guilty about it because she was still a kind wife?? Lots of messy feelings but in the end..........dragon lady wedding and happily ever after :)

[godofstupidsentences]

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins / Antigone, Sofocles

How do you mourn a brother you wanted dead?

[ballad-of-elgado]

Really wanted to draw Link again + my rathian subspecies as the featured monster. More or less just wanted to doodle a little and colored it on a whim.

-> Support me on Kofi!

[ao3-anonymous]

Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (12/25/2023)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms.  Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

Overall:

Over 1,000 Fics:

Over 5,000 Fics:

Over 10,000 Fics:

Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard

[kartoonkane]

[shadepiplup10]

Zorya has a message!

Zorya belongs to @needle-claw!

[daisychains111]

being in an active fandom goes so hard bro...like you're telling me I get to live life as a 20 years old getting new hunger games/ percy jackson content...like 12 year old me is in actual heaven rn