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#wyn#danny sullihan#monstrous: book one#soul eater#monstrous series#lily mayne#monster romance#m/m#literature#literature fanart#book fanart#terato#teratophillia#monster fucker#monsterfucker
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GO READ THE MONSTROUS SERIES BY LILY MAYNE GO GO
#my art#ooogh the creatures...#I LOVE THEM#Edin#monstrous: book one#monstrous: book two#Wyn#did i fuck up wyn's eyes? MAYBE#but thats okay gamers#monster lover
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the cato to annie pipeline is still real to me btw and something i think about because katniss is here thinking about both of them like "wow they are mentally ill" except she's legitimately scared of one and sees the other as docile/meek/an extension of her boyfriend/odd/non-threatening.
but what katniss doesn't seem to remember is annie came from a career district so not only could annie have easily been (and probably was) raised with a similar rhetoric/propaganda/mindset as cato but she also could have terrified the other kids in her arena the same way he did. they became trained killers but they're both exposed to the harsh realities of the arena, watch someone they care about die in a horrifically violent way, and lose themselves/their minds/what they were raised to believe in because of it
#and it's so interesting to think about what it would've been like if Cato won#because annie presumably resigned herself to death after her district partner got beheaded#yet even though cato became disillusioned with the Games after clove died you could tell in the book he was still determined to live#if only out of sheer survival instinct#it's like having an opposing mirror reflection in each other#no one wants to “deal with” annie so the Capitol writes her off as meek and unhinged and far gone#erratic and inarticulate and can't cope on her own (aka how fandom sees her)#but cato's a classic strong d2 victor and they need that image so instead of writing him off like with annie#the Capitol invents a narrative of “Oh he's like this bc he's a monstrous beast/lunatic”#meanwhile they both literally are just traumatised and need real help alsjfkrk#okay ignore me I'll go to bed#cato hadley#annie cresta#cato thg#thg cato#thg careers#the hunger games#anna speaks#thg
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Takashi living the warm, full-of-love life that reiko couldn't have (as far as we know in the current canon) feels very much like the grief that dawns for children when they finally realized how much sacrifice their parents didn't always tell them just to give birth and raise them.
Like, technically speaking, reiko only gave takashi a world of problems by passing down the sight and the book of friends decades after her death, but takashi also grasped the wholesome and the awful parts of interacting with both humans and youkai from the memories she had left behind, scattered among all these eternal monsters she had defeated, leaving in them unintentional, but important life lessons for him to find later on in the future. If it weren't for all those societal rejections that reiko received from humans and the hardships from youkai that led her to start the book of friends, takashi wouldn't be able to avoid repeating her mistakes (and, consequently, could be just as comfortable with isolation like reiko was), let alone make the precious balance we now see him have in the present time, where he can make genuine connections with humans and youkai while also maintaining a balance to them. Do you get what I'm saying 💔
#i know that reiko's usual phrase “you can eat me if i lose this match” is meant as a cocky one to signify her monstrous strength#but it sometimes sounds like she doesn't value her life as much to me? that makes me wonder what'd she think of takashi and the life he led#like. i can see reiko dying with the expectations that the natsume name will die with her daughter... but no. it lived long enough to be#passed down to a boy. one who has the same looks sight and power as her but he's living such a different life compared to hers. there's so#much warmth in his when hers has always been cold and isolated. it'll probably feel surreal to her that her presence gave such a drastic#and positive affect to another humans. one who is the exact copy of her but at the same time is the total opposite#sorry i just have a lot of reiko and takashi thoughts. and tell me your name has set the floodgates free haha 😭 i hope this makes sense 😭#natsume reiko#natsume takashi#natsume yuujinchou s7#natsume yuujinchou#natsume's book of friends#natsuyuu#natsuyuu anime#natsuyuu manga
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Do you know this queer character?
Jack is transgender and MLM, and uses he/him pronouns!
#jack jackrum#discworld#monstrous regiment#tumblr polls#fandom polls#poll#transgender#mlm#he/him#books#lgbtqia#do you know this queer character#changed the photo upon request#the old one was used on the wiki but is apparently fanart#I apologize#terry pratchett#finished
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REVENGE IS NOT REDRESS. REVENGE IS A WHEEL AND IT TURNS BACKWARDS. THE DEAD ARE NOT YOUR MASTERS
#deep in the denouement of my nine millionth listen of the monstrous regiment audiobook and it's still the only book ever#maybe its cause im hearing a new voice/version but the duchess/wazzer scene was SCARY i got fr chills. ty jen from the it crowd#and pollllyyyyyyy polllyyyyy my friend polly. i forgot she decked strappi at the end#monstrous regiment#discworld#the vimes voice is growing on me though hes such a bastard in this book. more so than normal#hes like......my fave vimes moment (or one of) is the feet of clay fakeout where he pretends the plot to break his sobriety works#and hes pretending to be passed out and then gets up and breaks rusts nose and downs a packet of what looks like arsenic and goes#MMMMMM DELICIOUS. YAY. that's my fave moment and hes giving elevated That energy in this book
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i have to wonder why "an autistic coded character with a very specific special interest" seems to be a trope in terry pratchett's books
#well i say a trope. there's one in monstrous regiment and one (or maybe two?) in the moist books but still#this is said completely neutrally i'm just wondering#its me talking
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George MacKay you are wazzer goom To Me
#i don’t care#no one can tell me that wazzer isn’t just a silly girlboy#she grows out her hair and gets mistaken for both a man and a women and she doesn’t even care#gender isn’t real#wazzer goom is#happy pride month to her and her only#i’m also going through a george mackay phase can you tell#everyone should go watch femme (2023) right now that movie is consuming my brain#also 1917#obviously#also also just war books/movies in general#please ask me about what i think of camaraderie in WWI i’ll go NUTS#gnu terry pratchett#terry pratchett#discworld stuff#discworld#monstrous regiment#wazzer goom
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I'm still working on the monster romance book rec list (it’s gonna be at least another month, I have like five potential entries to read first, but there’ll be a different rec list posted by new year's in the meantime) and truly I'm only growing more consternated about the lack of monster ladies in f/m romances.
Most of the monster ladies I found were f/f. Obviously it's great that there's several sapphic monster romances, but it's a bit strange to me that m/f romances are so unwilling to make the heroine monstrous or inhuman in appearance. Historically the beauty and the beast story (and its many monster/animal bridegroom variations; east of the sun west of the moon, prince hat under the ground, eros and phsyche, etc) could be used as a lesson/comfort for girls entering arranged marriages, telling them that this strange man might seem monstrous at first but if only she's Kind and Good and Trusting maybe it'll turn out he's a Good Man Actually (take a look at these videos by lindsay ellis and princess weekes for more info!), but today the monster romance vibe is more that of recognition of the Self through the Other (think Shape of Water) as well as questions of What Makes a Monster, Really (also smut, lots of smut, but that's not my vibe and not what I was looking for for this list). A good beauty and the beast retelling will take this into consideration (disney's version being an excellent example).
But is there no longing in the m/f romance world to as a woman feel that we are the monster and wanting to be recognized as worthy of love regardless? Why must the self-recognition always be through a pretty (or at most bland) face? Why is the only piece of media seeming willing to even consider taking the concept of a monster woman finding love seriously fucking Shrek?
Anyway, do tell me if you know of any other titles doing the monster lady romance thing, please, I'm dying.
#obligatory mention that i'm not a historian just a rando on tumblr#i didn't do research on monster romance/beauty and the beast/arranged marriage over what i've picked up through osmosis over the years#so don't use me as a source or anything#look stuff up! i found lindsay ellis' and princess weekes' videos on monster boyfriends interesting and informative#anyway only one of the batb retellings i read for the upcoming list was a reversion with a beast lady and beauty boy#and even then it bent over backwards to make her Less Monstrous#she gets a magical potion that turns her human for a few hours so the romantic lead gets to know her human self as well#she isn't isolated and losing herself/going monstrous/having to relearn humanity because of it but still actively taking part in society#she wasnt cursed bc she did something reprehensible she did but rather bc someone else was reprehensible to her#let her be monstrous! let her make the choice to be monstrous!!#like it was an okay book i liked it well enough this is a problem with the pattern at large#let! women! be! monstrous!!!#nella talks books
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reading monstrous regiment and wrath goddess sing at the same time is really wild because they're both fantasy novels about gender and the patriarchy during wartime that also include a dead god and characters trying to get into the enemy's stronghold but they're completely different in tone and plot
#one is a satirical fantasy novel and the other is a retelling of the iliad#wrath goddess sing#monstrous regiment#lulu speaks#lulu reads wrath goddess sing#lulu reads monstrous regiment#lulu reads discworld#discworld#books#lulu reads
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#wyn#danny sullihan#monstrous: book one#soul eater#monstrous series#lily mayne#monster romance#m/m#literature#literature fanart#book fanart#terato#teratophillia#monster fucker#monsterfucker
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Brevyn isn’t a D&D goliath blood hunter. She’s a WoW Kul Tiran enhancement shaman.
D&D Blood Hunters:
Are a martial class with the crimson rite ability to spill their own blood to temporarily enhance weapons with cold, fire, lightning, necrotic, psychic, thunder, or radiant damage (there is no rock/earth/lava version)
Don’t use fist weapons because D&D has no such weapon category (requires homebrewing, or just unarmed strikes, which generally suck for every class but monks or BH lycans)
Some subclasses have limited self-healing (Ghostslayer rite revival, Lycan regeneration, Mutant reconstruction mutagen), but only the Profane Soul subclass with a celestial pact can heal others with blood maledicts
Can be goliaths, which is a D&D race of humanoids distantly related to giants (implying they are more human than giant) that have skin reminiscent of stone.
WoW Enhancement Shamans:
Are a melee specialization that, along with the other shamans, have/had the ability to enhance weapons with fire, water, earth (which went through multiple iterations before ultimately being removed from the game in 2020, but still exists in WoW Classic), or wind at no cost
Can use fist weapons, including an iconic set that is literally molten lava fists (player characters can use this appearance as long as they have previously looted the item, so this has been a popular farm drop for shamans for more than a decade)
Always have access to a standard healing spell that can be used on others despite being primarily a DPS subclass
Because WoW has race/class restrictions, the only humans who can be shamans must be Kul Tiran (human, but Bigger), a race which was first added to the game in 2018 and playable in 2019 (when Madeleine Roux played the game (especially Classic) to immerse in the lore while writing a WoW novel, which featured several shaman characters, but none of which were Kul Tiran)
Here's a picture of the in-game item:
Man, that sure looks like molten lava claws wrapped around fists, just like the names of the twin weapons: Fist of Molten Fury and Claw of Molten Fury.
Brevyn:
Spilled blood so that "[h]ard, black stone rippling with molten fire formed around her hands"
Otherwise used bare fists instead of a standard D&D weapon
Healed other characters and had no reference to a patron or Profane Soul abilities at any point in the novel
Was a “half-goliath” with normal skin, as opposed to a D&D goliath, implying even less giant ancestry than a typical goliath (human, but Bigger)
The only thing suggesting that Brevyn isn’t a WoW shaman is that she didn’t self-rez, but you know what? Skill issue.
#no main tags#because this is somewhere between a shitpost and criticism#not sure how far along that spectrum though#this post inspired by me listening to my old WoW boss battle playlists and thinking oh I miss my enh shaman#it was so fun to beat the tar out of bosses with those ridiculous lava fis— WAIT A MINUTE#like#what was madeleine roux thinking?#oh man I gotta be careful not to infringe WotC’s IP because we didn’t license anything for this book#so i gotta use different terms for all the races and classes and abilities#but I could totally use stuff from an Activision-Blizzard IP instead even though it has nothing to do with this media#they won't mind because i wrote a book for them under a completely separate contract#surely no one will notice anyway#that’s way better than engaging with the source material copyrighted by critical role#after all then I’d have to learn something new#and the last time I wrote about this red-eyed dead person bound to an apocalyptic-minded Big Bad#the only blonde blue-eyed white women weren’t my OCs#I had to write about all these monstrous races who were stand ins for minorities instead#now’s my chance!
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how do i make you guys read monstrous regiment without spoiling the whole thing
#im going insane this is the most important book ever#fatphobic world and media completely forgotten brain is only sergeant jack jackrum the worlds first ***** ********* ****** and#maladict whos a ***** *** ******* **** and IGOR who ******* *** own ****** MULTIPLE times and and#and and and tonker and lofty who are ******** on the run and and gah#its all so#but i cant sya it cause its the whole point#pleaseeeeee just trust me on this one guyssss#my post#if i ever influence you in any way#please let it be monstrous regiment
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Reading Discworld novels "out of order" can give some whiplash. By "order" here, I mean the in-world timeline
Going backwards in Moist von Lipwig's trilogy was absolutely hilarious, seeing him go from train master to banker to postmaster.
The whiplash gets extra when you go from a book where a character died to a book where they were alive, well, and present in the story
#discworld#isa babble#went from the last book i read with Gaspode being the one where he died#to Men At Arms where he's in one of the first few scenes#i gotta go find The Truth i think he's in that one#even if he isn't it's still a good reread#and yet again backwards since i just read Monstrous Regiment where William de Worde was important
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tagged by @thecactifindahome <3
i tag @lipid, @menstits, @sunieepo, @cocovet, and @kotoneshiomiofficial! but don't feel obligated to if you don't feel like it ^_^
#i wanted to say one of the best audience surrogate characters but i feel like that might be overestimating daniel.#but i still love him#i feel like - even post anne rice - it's so rare to have a human character be unafraid of vampires and crave vampirism to this extent#and still be portrayed as sympathetic#its like. finally. someone who loves the monstrous *because* they are monstrous.#im sure there are other books with similar characters or beats but they're a little hard to find without looking really hard#.txt#my line-up. two iwtv 2 anime girls and 1 cartoon hedgehog#thats where im at rn
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but it is extremely funny that when mal finally gives up the ghost and says something about the a at the end of his name the only reaction he gets is jade going "dat's nice :) 👍" and polly going "yeah yeah whatever. huh i'd be cleaning the toilets right about now"
#like several gender/sexuality reveals in mr retroactively change the context of EVERYTHING that came before but mal is just like. ok#still he/him-ing on principle its not even what i personally think but like with mal. im with polly on this one#like happy for you buddy but like 9 people have come out today. i think i gotta clean the toilets tomorrow#monstrous regiment#maladict#the way people play it fast and loose with pronouns when discussing mal online is so incredible to me like thats#thats exactly what happened in the book. it doesnt even matter you know SOMETHING is going on there#discworld
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