#my malevolent stuff

[cirrus-grey]

I don't know if there's any audience for this crossover at all but I need John (Malevolent) Venom (Venom) and Bartimaeus (The Bartimaeus Trilogy) to meet.

John and Bartimaeus can have a dramatic title-listing showdown and all three can bond over getting stuck in a human body for various reasons.

[wojtekaneko]

tfw the god of madness tells you to chill out

[koszmarnybudyn]

Laying in big beds with loved ones is a need and a want.

[dricacchi]

you're so right yellow traumatize this bitch right back

+ some LQ wips (just so you guys can see him without the torn-bed-sheet-turned-scarf/headscarf thingy covering his face):

[sernhuh]

Jumping on faroeverse

[jenijro]

My dumbass be like “oh give me more podcast recommendations” knowing damn well I have at least 500 other podcasts to listen to

[worldwright]

Malevolent Yellow thoughts have been fermenting for months now. It's the nature versus nurture of it all. Is a good person born or made? How much can they choose it in the face of a world that won't let them?

When John first woke up with Arthur, he was terrified. He had no idea who he was, where he was, he had no control over his form or direction, he had no purpose. He defaulted to the survival tactic most familiar to him: manipulation. He wanted to control Arthur -- and thus, his own situation -- without leaving himself vulnerable. It worked, for a time. But his own memory loss made him slip up, and it turned out Arthur was more canny than he anticipated. And yet, when gaps opened in his defenses, Arthur responded with kindness. Understanding, sympathy. He didn't take advantage of that vulnerability. Honestly, even without his month with Lily, I believe John would have opened up to Arthur.

But John's relationship with Arthur had begun on even footing. Neither of them had any memory. Both were lost and confused and desperate for answers. Both were wary of each other, but forced by circumstance to work together. Another place where they could sympathize. They both made compromises along the road as they settled in with each other.

But Yellow?

Yellow is the exact same as John was. Terrified, alone, with no control and no memory. But he was greeted with someone who KNEW him. Someone who his manipulation didn't work on. Someone with all the power over him while he was left with no leverage and no escape. And this person told him who he was supposed to be. Said, I know you. No you don't! The person who you love was grown, not born!

Of course, Arthur realized this eventually. But the damage was already done. Instead of learning to fit together organically, it was stilted and forced, tainted with the expectation that Yellow would eventually be someone he knew nothing about -- someone who both he and John himself would have recoiled from upon first waking!

John and Yellow have a fascinating dialogue about strength and weakness. Yellow claims to know the meaning of strength. Maybe he does. It's all he's ever known. John claims to have earned the power of weakness. Vulnerability. Trust. Yellow never got a chance to find that. It took John time and love and reciprocated weakness to find that meaning for himself, and to embrace it. Yellow was under threat from the first moment he existed. And when -- suddenly, without warning or countermeasure -- he was trapped with Larson instead, he had no choice but to continue using the tactics that kept him safest.

Yellow is a prisoner, first and foremost. He never had autonomy, not even to decide what he wanted. Arthur told him that he wanted to become someone weak. Larson told him that he wanted to be an all-powerful god. One of those tends to have more control over their circumstances, and Yellow chose accordingly.

[cacodaemonia]

Arthur Lester and John Doe (loosely based on a photo of Riz Ahmed in this Vanity Fair article - photo taken by Peter Hapak)

[doyouhaveeyes]

ive wanted to draw this moment for over a year so. yay<3

[mothnether]

scene redraws

[mikonez]

I'm just dumping everything I have in one post that is all

[cirrus-grey]

Hey you know how I made a post a bit ago comparing Bartimaeus and Nathaniel, John and Arthur, and Venom and Eddie?

John and Arthur, you better fucking not.

[wojtekaneko]

John design, based on this post. He's a worm, he's a bird, he's a tree, he's whoever he wants to be. But most importantly he is a kitchen faucet! Love drawing him! Closeups under the cut c:

[mintisbored]

Why don't YOU shoot John??? May I remind you you ALSO have an arm???

[dricacchi]

someone came into my room and asked if i was drawing the peaky blinders

[sernhuh]

Almost Family

Do u ever sit and think about how Arthur and Bella went through a whole pregnancy together