#the body of the beast

[willowmckinley]

From the body of the beast

Raylan sees them, blurry and gray. He realizes Harlan—Harlan who has been created from the blood of those living there—doesn’t have eyes, but sees them all the same. There are so many, and Raylan falls into only a few.

Harlan wakes up.

Two girls, late teens, huddle together in an abandoned shaft. They wrap their arms around each other, and they’re obviously scared, but Raylan can’t tell of what. They wear clothing that doesn’t make sense to Raylan, fashion that hasn’t been invented yet. Thick red travels down one’s leg into the dirt. The other sports a bloody nose. She wipes her lip with the back of her hand, and it comes away red. She lets her hand rest against the floor of the cave.

Harlan wakes up.

A man backs away, his arms are up, he keeps shaking his head in dissension. These flashbacks don’t have audio, but Raylan can read No and I’ll get you the money on his lips. Raylan can’t see what corners him, but the man’s back hits the mine wall. Red splatters up the rock where his head used to be, as the man crumples to the ground.

Harlan wakes up.

A Bennett—he has the look, the face, the same stupid grin— a bullet scratches through his shirt, spilling over the dust, and he smirks, smoking gun in hand, twirls and holsters it.

Harlan wakes up.

A woman in an old fifties house dress claws into a rubble pile. She wails, and full sobs shake her body. A cave in, Raylan suspects, and she breaks her nails in a futile attempt to dig out the rocks. She’s not like a widow in an old miner’s tale, Raylan thinks, she is the widow in an old miners’ tale. The wreckage cuts deep gashes across her palms, and Raylan sees bright red bleed out of the wound, the only color in this gray scale memory. Hazel.

Harlan wakes up.

An old memory. Raylan knows this one. Boyd pulls Raylan up the mine shaft, the two of them running from the rocks falling behind them. Blood snakes down each of their forearms, meeting at their hands, forming one drop before flying to the floor, left behind in their haste.

Harlan wakes up.

Loretta McCready stands too close to the edge of a mineshaft. A minor scrape Raylan hadn’t even guessed at now glowing red and dripping just into the black.

Harlan wakes up.

(I might also send you a bit from your omegaverse if I can fucking narrow down 500 words)

Raylan! Thank you for the ask about "The Body of the Beast"! I'd also love to answer about "The Soil in Your Belly" :D

Ohhhh, this scene. I'm glad you picked one from Harlan's point of view, because all of it was soooo fun to write. Harlan has her little blorbos (something I couldn't write in the fic, but you know know in your heart to be true).

To be honest, Harlan's scene is the second scene I wrote for this fic. I wrote the very beginning-- Harlan reaching up to grab them, pull them into the past, and them to wake up there-- and the very last. Writing all the sandwich in the middle was what took the longest. I think that's fitting, though, for Raylan's line to have been for this was always how it was going to end, and I, as author, knew it too.

This part had gone through some edits, of course, once I knew more about everyone, including Hazel-Virginia and how Raylan might feel upon seeing her. I'm happy to have included her, and I hadn't called her Virginia until her second appearance, because I thought it'd be fun for readers to have one chance to come up with the minitwist themselves, haha, just before the offical reveal.

The two girls and the man who died, they were to give more numbers to the different favorites Harlan has, while not making too many characters as we know them special. That said, I also used them to show that Harlan doesn't necessarily have a type, in that the man who borrowed money is a coward and unwise to be borrowing from those he shouldn't. The girls, from the future, show that Harlan doesn't pick from any time period either.

The blood that Raylan and Boyd spills is intended to keep them as a set, while also showing how united they were in that moment. They are but one blood, they are so close. I imagine it makes Harlan's blood magic easier to use than if they hadn't been, haha, though I also suppose she doesn't have concepts of "easy" for her to make decisions around.

Also, Loretta was fun for me as well, because Harlan has already changed the time line. Even if she does bleed into Harlan, it won't be in this way, as Raylan and Boyd have changed their futures. It's to show that Harlan has different responses to time lines than other characters, as she is a minor god, and they are not. I think it's also just to prove how lovable Loretta is. Even Harlan loved her so.

[shpepyao]

[time-woods]

beastdesign for bills wierdmageddon form . . mostly did this as an exercise

[goryhorroor]

“1950s horror movies contrast radically with their 1940s predecessors. understandably – they were reflecting a whole new world. audiences wanted stories that connected directly to their lives, to the ever-expanding technology in their homes and workplaces. they also wanted horror movies that played to their fears – stoked by politicians – of the shadows that lay beyond their immediate, personal experience of the shiny american dream (applies to some of these movies).”

[hairychestloversblog]

Errrrr …… Wow 🤩 That’s all I can say really 🤩

[goblinshop]

The prince Agdon fight has to be my favourite moment from OUAW, The whole thing is just so good it drives me mad.

[eye4muscle]

Washboard abs of Yusif Nurullaev

[bodymodificationnation]

By oozy_tattoo

[dr-awkkward]

Slay the Princess text posts, part 15 (in celebration of the Pristine Cut's release!)

[part 14] [part 16]

[cinemamind]

It is done. It is finally done.

I completed my book (part 1)

It has zombies...

Characters...

BIG DUMB VEHICLES...

A dead city...

More zombies...

And mystery...

Corpse Planet is a personal graphic novel project that I have been working on for quite some time. I'm still making adjustments, but once everything's ready for publishing, I will let everyone know where to get a copy.

This is just a proof copy for now.

EEEEE I can't wait to share more once it's all ready...

[wonderarium]

rawr

[shpepyao]

got into spooky month mood, distracting myself from my OCs supposed to be a werewolf but it went a bit too far from og idea

[tomorobo-illust]

See hi-res version here: patreon.com/posts/118065153

"Cut the cord and face tomorrow Smash the door down, takin' charge All the way..." - Ambiguous (English Lyrics by Merr)

The different stages of Guzma and Xurkitree's fusion. While they eventually gain control over most, if not all the different forms, Form 4 is very rare and only occurred once when they both pushed beyond their limit. It does not last long because it's so unstable.

Side note: That is all Guzma's blood, don't worry they didn't hurt anyone >w>;

[hairychestloversblog]

What I wouldn’t give to explore this guys body 😊

[cute-girls-from-vns-anime-manga]

[hfjonewiki]

the autism won today