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i just ate a pint of ice cream in like fifteen minutes and here’s some quick summaries of like my favorite monster-related story worlds i’ve made up in my own trashy brain. mostly for the purpose of having something to refer back to if i start referencing related stories or characters or whatever out of the blue.

monsterverse:

surreal horror with like the tiniest touches of scifi

a pre and post and post-post-apocalyptic (depending on where on the timeline events land) world in which the appearance of rifts in reality results in a full scale invasion by monsters from another plane of existence.

the otherworld where most of the monsters come from originally is kinda inherently Vast and Unknowable. the physics are made up and the laws of nature don’t matter. in the process some of that effect leaks through the rifts too, but it’s not equally dispersed so there are places where the world still seems mostly Normal and places where its all definitely gone to hell in a handbasket.

the monsters dont follow an exact model. there are no specific species per se. humans try to classify them based on the way their presence manifests and the specific dangers they present but like their world they are kinda hard to define as a whole. some are sentient and/or sapient and some are not. some are somewhat humanoid and some are very very not.

the monsterverse is kinda my baby and because of the crazy nature of it there are a loottttt of deets i cant fit all in here but if youre at all into it keep an eye on my #monsterverse tag because i like to bring it up and expand on stuff totally at random.

the goblin market/marketverse:

high fantasy meets low/modern fantasy. a big ol mishmash of my favorite fairytale tropes.

obvs the early bones of it were heavily inspired by christina rosetti’s the goblin market as well as some other good good goblin centric media which i’ve talked about before a little. stuff like labyrinth and the princess and the goblin and so on.

though its grown to include a ton of other fantasy creatures, its still very goblin-centric and the key to the whole deal is this sorta nebulous concept of the Market which is a setting, an event, a device to explain goblin society/culture as a whole, a device to explain goblin magic, and a living bestial entity unto itself.

essentially the marketverse is a world divided into overhill, where humans reign, and underhill, where the fae reign, and the liminal spaces in between where the respective groups fuck shit up for each other in a variety of ways. humans in this verse are aware of fae, but less so as time goes on and the two divisions sorta shift apart in trajectory.

most of the time if im talking about classic fantasy creatures or fae as a general concept it has to do with this verse.

infinityverse

probably the least developed overall which is ridiculous because i’ve had some of the key characters and elements since i was like in middle school.

fantasy and scifi. lots of different areas of inspiration but probably most of all the sandman and his dark materials series and similar works.

a massive complex world in which abstract concepts like time and space and death and love manifest physically or paraphysically in the world as deities. and can be killed. and someone killed time.

important periods of the world’s unique history manifest as physical locations and operate like ordinary countries, with borders and rules about who can get in and out and who can stay. many of these zones are inhabited by nonhuman creatures. some zones are even very human-exclusionary.

deities can move freely, though they often choose a specific zone as home, as can certain people regardless of species if theyre chosen to possess a certain object called a timepiece, which automatically and accurately measures time no matter the zone and also can direct the weilder to places where for whatever reason the barrier between zones is thin enough to pass through. only one timepiece can exist in a zone at a time and its always found in the possession of a specific person designated for each zone, usually a member of whatever dominant species exists there.

i dont post much about this one because its so. confusing. why did i do this to myself? but still i have a handful of characters and ministories already sorta designated to this verse so. here we are.