#monsters ink

[jaylestial]

WHO DID THIS??!?!!!!!

And can we be friends?

[kittennightfarts]

[strawberryhologramsworld]

[jikothemartian-z]

♨️~😈 Demonic Stiletto 😈 ~♨️ (AKA Demoncore Stiletto)

Song Name: Monsters Ink by SkyDxddy

Song Name: Demons by Neoni

Song Name: Fragile Minds

[disneyparksattractionstournament]

Side poll series while we wait for submissions to be closed Aug 28th!

Which attraction that replaced the other is better? DCA edition!

(this will have no impact on the main bracket or anything!)

Videos of rides under cut!

[mathraptor]

Time to share this freak here.

Yup, this guy's made the rounds a few times on other sites, now he lives here.

[themapisonfire]

Been playing with a visual for a bit

[blanchebees]

Some watercolor xenos

Tip jar

[animentality]

[inkskinned]

you know, you know. no gods, no masters, no kings on pedestals. everyone is fallible. death of the author. you know! you are balanced about your intake of media - you allow the wiggle room, the grace, the gratitude, the skepticism. nobody above criticism.

but still. a weird gut-punch feeling, something akin to betrayal. you read the article. surprise! an author you love is actually: a serial fucking predator.

well, shit. what now. no, you knew he was a person (all people are), but now you're wondering - what have i overlooked by accident? what messages have i internalized that are strange and cruel? and also, like, what the fuck?

his actions lay a thick glaze on top of everything. like each place is now ruined, opaque in a new way. but okay, fine, you've done this before. you knew better, right? you've been betrayed by many a cherished childhood author.

still, this stickiness. fuck. can you pick up that book again. will you read it to your children. you've recommended it to others - will you ever do that again? and of course, of course, no parasocial relationships. you were theoretically above this kind of sentiment. but the artist informs the art, right.

so it's not something as clear-cut as feeling he owed you, specifically (a stranger) better behavior - just that you kind of, in a distant and odd way... sort of trusted him to do better. it's not like a real trust or something speakable, just the faint hope that the product (good books) was a thin representation of the soul. now it feels like the product (good? books?) was a mask. in some small or insignificant way, your previous support of this person lent them power. your money and your time and your laughter.

and the thing is - you have this terrible, echoing sensation. how many times will this happen? over and over. you find out that the singer you love is actually a predator. you learn over drinks that your favorite high school english teacher is in jail for what he did to her. you listen to the news idly and suddenly discover that a woman you used to idolize has been abusing her kids for an actual eon.

what can you touch without the static melting off. you can't even really complain about it too much (you were supposed to know better, and besides, you don't want the same re-split "it's not your fault, love what you love" basic advice), but now it's here. somehow, it feels like - you let him into your life.

it's not that things need to be pure or an artist has to be like, endlessly perfect, mindful. demure. it's more just this terrible truth that has been replayed through your veins so often it feels criminally vain. power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. did you want any one person to be worth that power?

it's just that he wrote books where he seemed to understand that. he seemed to know about hierarchies and unfair systems and bigotry and privilege. you thought they were books about what it means to struggle. you thought they were about having power and still using it for good rather than for control. he spooned you a narrative of being a good guy, a kind soul. you fucking bought what that fucking monster sold.

maybe that's why they were fantasies, after all.

[jamilsc11]

Draculaura My Traditional Fan art

I HAVE OPEN COMMISSION

[oliviarampaige]

“Watchdog of the Old Lords”

Day 25 - Hell Hound

The blood makes us human no more.

[claie171art]

Thinking about soulless beings.

Bonus comic:

I don’t think they’d get along really well, except maybe on that point.

[ambersonic96]

Day 22: Monsters

[salligora]

My character for our next campaign!

Hes an ex whaler (leviathan hunter, Dishonored hi) that was banished from the crew since he faced something eldritch in the deep sea and, uh, became weird (he ate his crewmate) Now hes just a goofball, shapeshifter and a slutty monstrous fish

[fabiansociety]

new tattoo new tattoo