#ghoul's propaganda

[monstersmashorpass]

SMASH OR PASS: Abe Sapien, Hellboy

[Art, left; Abe in the Abe Sapien comics] [Middle; Doug Jones as Abe in the Del Toro Hellboy movies] [Right; Abe in the animated Hellboy movies]

Notes from Mod Ghoul: deadass Im convinced the Shape of Water happened bc Del Toro saw how the fandom thirsted for Abe, okay? Abe is an OG 💪 give this fish the love he deserves. Do it!!! He's a good lad!! Deserves so much love!!

Also if ur a fan of Hellboy in general and u haven't watched the animated films, wtf are u doing. go watch them. do it. this is a threat. (affectionate)

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[antichristual]

sorry but i genuinely cannot be the only person who feels like this is the most insane confirmation for copia being the antichrist? i mean he’s literally portrayed as the devil??? he has horns???? and wings???

of course i could just be coping because if he dies im going to never be stable again BUT

[dgaftilwedie]

first time phantom smoked with rain he couldn't stop laughing n rain thought he was actually going to go into cardiac arrest because of it

[shaykai]

I like to think that all of the summons/familiars/pets in BG3 hang out when the party is at camp

[tatatatatara]

Guys please vote for Tatara in this poll he is so sexy and handsome and cute and evil but in a funny cringefail way :( the Clowns like him Matsuri got his arm around him he's so desirable

[wrathofrats]

more pebble and ivy hc to add to the collection? Pls?

Hiii for more info on my pebble and ivy headcanons please see these two posts and also if you’re wondering who the fuck pebble and ivy are

I need everyone to know I’ve been talking about them for months in private, and I have like 4 fics lined up for when I decide everyone is ready for them. They’re my stupid secret obsession.

Ok now that that’s all out of the way, have some random shit I’ve thrown into @divine-misfortune DMs for the past month

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Therapist: so pebble how do you feel about this relationship

Pebble: great. Thats my twink I own him.

Therapist: uh …… ok Ivy how do you feel about that

Ivy: I’m his twink he owns me

Therapist, about to call Terzo to warn him: ok!

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Pebble w rock magic making ivy such pretty jewelry and he’s always like

“I made this super rare demantoid garnet to match the vibes of your aura”

And ivys just like “WOOO SHINY AND GREEN”

I think pebble is gods biggest rock nerd because it’s very on the nose and I think he deserves to be a stupid nerd about something under his dumbass personality

I think mist half flirts with ivy to fuck with him and pebble and ivy just goes wide eyed and stares at the ground and stutters and mist is like “??? Alright loser” and pebbles like “😍😍😍😍”

The insane amount of pathetic awkwardness is rizz to pebble

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Pebble: hold on I have to water my house plant

Mist: your boyfriend has a name you know

Ivy: yay water (:

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Oh my god

Ivy trying to impress pebble, he just desperately wants to hear that laugh, be the cause of it, so he tries to play some stupid prank on alpha or omega but it’s just …

Wrong

Because he doesn’t fully grasp the idea

And pebble can’t help but laugh at him anyways because the attempt was cute enough

Im thinking the poor thing literally writes “stupid” on a piece of paper and tapes it to alphas back

Pebbles never been more in love.

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And something nsfw bc (:

Ohhhhhh alpha is the fucking worst

Don’t think he would go as far as fucking ivy given the chance but he absolutely acts like he’s going to because god it’s fun to watch pebble fume

(Also maybe it’ll get him to actually make a move because all this yearning is going to make alpha sick)

It’s small things a first, maybe crowding him against the counter, tipping his head and saying he’s pretty before letting him go

And it’s not even the move that makes pebble upset it’s the fact that is so very clearly worked ivy up beyond belief. Had the poor thing blushing so hard you’d think he was sick and quickly walking out of the room with his shirt pulled down over himself

Ohhh do you think alpha teases pebble about it? Holds it over his head?

Maybe gets pebble pinned against a wall somewhere with his legs wrapped around alphas waist so he has to rely on him for support, just a normal thing they do

Until alphas whispering how pretty ivy is into pebbles neck

shouldve seen him when I almost got a finger in his mouth, practically drooled over it the pathetic thing

And pebbles begging him to shut the fuck up, growling and digging his claws into his back.

wonder if he would’ve let me. Just allow me to fuck his pretty little mouth with my fingers in front of everyone? He seems pretty easy, I’m sure he would’ve loved it

[captain-astors]

Oh you stupid clown, I pity you. 

(Vote for Eto in the sexywoman poll ! She’s losing again) 

[elmaxlys]

My baby boy is being swept away, please give him your vote 🥺🙏

[ahaura]

the likes of john bolton, who served under reagan and has a long career of being a bloodthirsty vile dog for the US empire, being on television and spouting shit about "iran having nukes" and calling for all-out war in order to annihilate iran in the wake of israel provoking a response from iran should tell you all you need to know about how american media and the state department will be covering this (as always) in the coming days

[monstersmashorpass]

SMASH OR PASS: Beast, Beauty and the Beast

Note from Mod Ghoul: Y'all this dude's an OG monsterfucker monster. A gateway to this for soooooo many. You better be voting to smash/date/cuddle/etc. House of Michael Mouse did my man dirty by turning him back okay-

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[comradecowplant]

haha so cute, amazon making a little joke about their disgusting multi-industry dominance in the trailer for the new show about how capitalist imperialist hubris exploded the world haha so quirky & definitely not a bad omen about how the show will handle the subject matter!

[every-character-ever-poll]

FURUTA NIMURA/KICHIMURA WASHUU/SOUTA - Tokyo Ghoul re

PROPAGANDA:

Everyone I know hates him but he’s so fun! Like, yes, he’s a bit of an asshole and a main antagonist, but he’s such a good character !!

[insanepoll]

ken kaneki propaganda masterpost! i’ll update after each round

reblogs: 1x. 2x. 3x. 4x. 5x.

askbox: 1x.

[ID: white slide with a picture of ken kaneki on the middle. on the top, reads, “Got tortured to the point of insanity and became a cannibal.” on the bottom right corner, reads, “#HE WAS AMAZING #BEAUTIFUL #ate so many people 100/10 #I love him so much you have to vote for him #wonderful boy #AND HE WAS POLITE TOO #HE ONLY SWORE MAYBE 7 TIMES? #HE WAS SO CUTEEEEEEEEEE #The SWEETEST #tokyo ghoul.” /End ID.]

[astronautbeans]

not technically a character available on the swap sheet but can i pretty please have some wolf martyn and cat ren interaction as it is my birthday tommorrow and im just a little guy

heck yeah dude! one wolf Martyn and cat Ren for the little guy coming up! ^^

Martyn could immediately tell it wasn't Tango. Sure the red eyes, the brilliant gold cat ears, tail and claws showed otherwise, but something about him struck as odd. Different.

Not everyone figured it out immediately. People had gotten possessed by friends in these games before and there was always a tell, but it was near embarassing how quickly Martyn perked up at the way Tango had talked. The way his voice was that little bit deeper, how he talked differently. The way he held himself was strange as well. Familiar, almost painfully so.

"Tango!" he called out before he could help himself when the man was about to leave with Skizz back to Love Island. "Wait up!"

When he looked up, Martyn could've sworn he looked happy to be stopped. "Martyn! What can I do for you?" And there it was again. There was no way this was actually Tango.

He couldn't call him out on it. Those were the rules. It just wouldn't stop him from talking to him like there was not a single barier between them. "Just wondering how you've been." To anyone else, it really could've been a question directed to Tango.

His face lit up with a smile, just a bit too toothy to be Tango's. "I've been well. A bit sad I've had to miss out on all the fun." A sadness discoloured his eyes, but he still fully relaxed around Martyn, as if they weren't in a death game and as if they weren't supposed to be enemies. It was just too easy to see him as an ally. "And you, old friend?"

It made him swallow and look away. It just felt so wrong to be there without actually having Ren around. "Good, good. Still getting used to these new traits." As if on cue, he scratched an itch behind his ears. These dog traits really were ... something else. His tail wagged at the laugh that it elicited from Ren- from Tango. "What's it like, having cat ears?"

"It's-" he started, but trailed off. That made them both laugh. "Different. Let's just say that."

His tail swished around to leave a fleeting touch on Martyn's hand, and they both looked up at each other. Did Ren miss him as much as he did? Did he regret all the invites he didn't send because he wasn't sure if the other would accept?

Before he could ask, Jimmy shouted for him. They turned to the noise at the same time, eyes finding the figure running up to them. More regret settled in his stomach. When would he see his old friend — his king, his leader, his best friend — again?

"Well ... See you around, my dude." It was all he was left with, before the last thing he saw was twitching cat ears and a tail trailing just above the grass.

[wrathofrats]

Rare pair hmm perhaps zephyr/phantom?

I’m trying to hard to finish up these rare pairs I know it’s been a while LMAO I still have a couple but hey

I think they’d be kinda super cute for no reason

Like grumpy old man Zeph who doesn’t really let anyone touch them platonically besides ifrit aether and omega, having to learn to let phantom do their treatments. And they grumble about it because obviously, first couple rounds claim that they don’t feel right, that phantoms a good kid but omega and aether do it better

But I think they warm up to him. Stay later in the infirmary with ifrit to give him practice, wait until he gets it right. Both ifrit and Zeph messing with him a bit and giving him tips they’ve picked up on from doing this for so long. They tell him stories, stupid little things about their pack and his current pack. And idk I think phantom is just really happy that Zeph accepts him.

On a horny note bc there’s always a horny note, Zeph fucking loves how good phantom is. Doesn’t take much at all to break him down. As much as Zeph enjoys a fight now and then, they tend to get stressed or go a bit too far on their physical side when brat taming, so seeing such a good little thing on the floor in front of them is such a nice treat.

Maybe makes him fuck them, or rude them, whatever they’re feeling, while the cute little fuck machine does what he’s told and is silent about it (:

[friends-to-lovers-tournament]

Friends to Lovers Tournament: Round 1, Side A, Match 7

propaganda under the cut!

Sasuke/Mai:

THE MOST FRIENDS TO LOVERS EVER. Mai is the MC of Ikesen which is a dating sim/otome game. Originally from the 21st century, she's accidentally time travelled to the Sengoku Era where she unknowingly rescues Oda Nobunaga from his historical death thus changing the course of history forever. She reunites with a fellow 21st century dweller Sasuke whom she'd briefly met right before the accidental time travel, who is now a ninja. Though they're on opposing sides, they're friends in all the routes as Sasuke promises to protect her and bring her back to the 21st century safely. Regardless of which route you're playing, Sasuke will always be your friend and he's the same smart yet silly goofy guy, making references to 21st century events and slang and memes which have the other warlords scratching their heads in confusion. Sasuke's route is the ultimate friends-to-lovers + slow burn + mutual pining combination, as they both gradually develop feelings for each other, yet it's also kinda frustrating (in a good way) bc Sasuke is SO clueless to her feelings and his own for a good majority of the route while Mai was down horrendous for him. The pay-off in the end is really sweet (i legit cried when sasuke finally confessed to mai lol) and spicy (ikesen is uhh a bit of a mature game), which makes the achingly slow burn really worth it. Also Sasuke's just a really nice fucking guy, like real boyfriend material, no red flags, the perfect golden retriever boyfriend frfr

Fuyupoly:

Submission 1:

they're from the winter troupe of the mankai company, and unlike the other troupes they're all adults. that said, they all have varying degrees of trauma and emotional stuntedness. it takes them some time to fully open up to each other bc they're all very cautious of each other's boundaries and don't want to cross any lines which initially led to some issues in the group's formation. over time they've learned to bridge the gap while still being mindful of hard boundaries. at one point they have a discussion about what exactly their relationship is (gay) cuz they were talking about how the other troupes have clearly defined dynamics (spring=family, summer=besties, autumn=rivals & teammates) but they don't,, and homare deadass says they're "people bound by a common destiny" which in and of itself sounds very Gay (like why are you as a man bound to other men by a common destiny), but it goes even further because homare starts spouting WEDDING VOWS: "In sickness and in health, for better or for worse, we shall share our laughter and our tears as those with an intertwined fate... How beautiful we are!" THIS IS A DIRECT QUOTE FROM THE GAME AND THE MC EVEN REMARKS "i can already hear wedding bells in the distance..." 

gradually they become closer, in individual sub-units based on who's paired up as co-leads for a play, and as a troupe overall. also two of its members are childhood friends who had a messy 'divorce' in their young adulthood and it took the game breaking its genre to introduce a timeloop for them to finally make up if that means anything to you. one of their troupe songs "precious to us ~bokura no kisetsu" has some pretty beautiful and fruity lines: "The many kindnesses born in me here / Never fail to breathe life into my chest / Even all the pain and bitterness / Have now become dear to me (Ah…Stay with me)", "No matter how many times our season passes / Let us keep living together / Holding our hands, without ever letting go / Let us open up the curtain of tomorrow", "There is no need for words, because once our gazes meet / Joy sparks a light in your eyes", "Our journey, may it be a brilliant one / As our breaths overlap as one"

a lot of their plays has a LOT of homoerotic tension between the two leads too. their first play has tsumugi and tasuku play angels, and it's heavily implied that tasuku's character has an unrequited crush on tsumugi's character. their third play has azuma play a vampire and tasuku play Just Some Guy and it's generally agreed in the fandom to be one of the gayest, if not THE gayest, play A3 has ever written. obviously the vampire thing is very fruity, but there's also how the vampire was longing to bite the human but was holding himself back, and when the vampire left the human in the end, the human was absolutely HEARTBROKEN over it and was swearing they would reunite one day. the stage play of this takes it even further by having the vampire embrace the human from behind and BITE his neck. the fourth play is a watered-down adaptation of Phantom of the Opera where they genderbend Christine into Chris among other things and change the relationship between Chris and the Phantom to one of friendship.... ostensibly so, because there's still a lot of homoerotic undertones in their interactions. i could go on but this should be enough of a sampling taste 

Submission 2:

the writers rlly said "let's take 2 normal guys who are childhood friends and have been into theatre since their school days and have them go through a pre-canon messy divorce, an eccentric poet with a potentially controversial haircut, an amnesiac sleepyhead who can only be awoken with marshmallows but is also somehow extremely athletic despite doing nothing but sleeping and eating marshmallows all day, a man who is so beautiful and mysterious he breaks gender, and a supposed android from a fictional south asian country, and throw them into a blender, oh and for good measure let's throw in some theatre and angst and gay and angst and gay" and the end result was marriage. i mean it took them a lot of awkward fumbling around and conflicts to get there but they got there and thats what matters. ok *technically* in-text they're all rlly good friends and kinda found family BUT they are found family via marriage papers i do not make the rules chief

Submission 3:

The reason why they are so friends-to-lovers to me is because their relationship is founded on quiet and unconditional acceptance of each other—regardless of how flawed they may be or how heavy their burdens and trauma may be. When the troupe first formed (sans Guy who was in another country at the time), they didn’t have any major clashing personalities at the very beginning and generally they were mindful of each other’s boundaries, unlike the other troupes that came before them. However, it’s BECAUSE they were too mindful of said boundaries that it was difficult for them to break down their walls and bond as a team—and there were a LOT of walls to break down, as all of them had varying degrees of emotional baggage and trauma.

In fact, it’s only three plays in that they finally truly start opening up to each other, with Azuma getting the ball rolling by opening up about the deep loneliness that haunted him ever since his childhood. It’s during this conversation that they also discuss what their relationship as a troupe is, because the other troupes have defined their relationship as a team (Spring is family, Summer is best friends, Autumn is rivals & teammates), and Homare goes on to declare that they’re “people bound by a common destiny” and goes on to spew wedding vows: "In sickness and in health, for better or for worse, we shall share our laughter and our tears as those with an intertwined fate... How beautiful we are!" I mean… it can’t get any more obvious than this, really. They are married.

But anyway, Tsumugi says he wants their relationship to be one where while they respect each other’s need for space, they’ll also be there for each other and share their pains and burdens—or in his words: “supporting each other when our burdens become too heavy to bear on our own”—which I think is really sweet because it carries this idea of quiet, unconditional acceptance; they don’t push each other to share more than they’re comfortable with sharing, but with whatever they ARE comfortable with sharing everyone carries the load and pain because pain is easier to bear when you’re not bearing it alone <3 

A later part of the story focuses on Hisoka, a mysterious amnesiac, being terrified of regaining his memories and facing some “sin” from his past that has led to another character, Chikage, trying to take revenge on him. When he confesses this to the rest of the Winter troupe, Homare asks, “How heavy is this sin you bear?” and Azuma suggests, “Perhaps it’s just heavy enough for the five of us to carry together.” (at this point Guy hasn’t joined yet). The stage play adapts this scene into a song called Key to Memory. The key (pun unintended) part is 1:27 where there’s a back-and-forth between Hisoka and the other Winter troupe members (sans Tasuku because he wasn’t in that particular play)

Hisoka: “I’m scared…”

Tsumugi, Homare, Azuma: “It’s okay.”

Hisoka: “My unforgivable sin…”

Tsumugi, Homare, Azuma: “Let’s carry it together.”

Hisoka: “I might not be me anymore.”

Tsumugi, Homare, Azuma: “It’s all right. We understand and we accept you, so let’s go together.”

And it ends with Hisoka singing: “I was afraid to open the door of my locked memories. But if everyone is here, I believe I can do it.”  In both the game and stage play, Hisoka fully regains his memories and reconciles with Chikage (long story). He tells Fuyupoly he can’t go into detail about his past with Chikage because it’s dangerous but he’ll tell them when the time is right, and they accept this saying that no matter what his past is, they know and love him as their Hisoka which obviously is a very sweet thing for friends to say, but it’s also very Marriage-coded to me.

Later, Guy is introduced as an android from Zahra (a fictional South Asian country) and joins the Winter troupe as a temporary member—because he’s stuck in Japan for the foreseeable future—until they find a permanent member to replace him. The other Winter members have a conversation among themselves and agree that regardless of whether he’s really an android or a human they’ll accept Guy for who he is and help him improve his acting, which again harkens back to the idea of ‘unconditional acceptance’. Eventually it’s revealed that Guy is in fact a human who has forgotten his memories of the past and his emotions. He recovers his memories all at once which shocks his system and causes him to pass out. When he wakes up in his room, he finds the rest of the Winter Troupe asleep around the room—which I believe is symbolic of their whole theme of “quiet acceptance”: they don’t want to push Guy to share beyond what he’s comfortable with, but they’re always there to listen to him and share his load if that’s what he wants. He opens up about the memories he recovered, and they don’t treat him with pity like he’s a lost child, but still extend gentle empathy and understanding. They also emphasise that it genuinely doesn’t matter to them whether he’s human or android because he’s Guy first and foremost. It’s at this point that Guy truly lets himself become part of the Winter troupe/Fuyupoly and not just as a temporary stand-in member, because he’s found a place where he’s found himself again and people who will accept who this “himself” is, whether that be an android devoid of emotions or a human brimming with vivid beautiful emotions.

[Mod note: There’s a LOT more but we’re afraid of crashing the post. I (Deli) summarised it the best I can since I’m familiar with A3, but if you want to read the full thing you can check it out on this google doc)