#let me be gay with a monster

[bloodlustvampfag]

Can some monstrous scary blood sucker come fall in love with me already so we can be gay together???? I'm tired of waiting!!

[beeg-bark]

lying on the bed forcing yourself to keep still to see just how much pain you can tolerate as they're slowly raking their claws down your back and they get close and go "you're taking the pain so well, such a good boy" and uhhh your brain shuts off??? uhhh yeagh >>>>>> definitely one of the sensory experiences ever of all time thank you, absolutely bluescreened my brain

[letmeremindyouvn]

When you work in the Backrooms and get rizzed up by one of the entities.

Some concept art for a new game I'm working on. Zecharias is about to be a menace to some Backrooms researchers. :>

((Zecharias is the main yandere love interest from visual novels I'm making. They are romantic horror visual novels about art, nostalgia, and liminal spaces.))

[pinksilvace]

He is... as they say... gender fluid

[number-1-haxorus-fan]

WHY IS FOMORTIIS SO FUCKING *HOT*

I WOULD ABSOLUTELY SUBMIT TO THE DEMON KING IF HE LOOKED LIKE THIS

If he was fighting me, I would let him fucking annihilate me and I would thank him

[ccarrot]

Why tf is chuuya a vampire anyways BRO HOW DID YOU GET TURNED

[lil-bits-grooving]

"tord-coming-back" theory time cause we doin this

We've seen the teaser. We know the character. The question is, where does he fall in the story? I'm not talking about the timeline because why would they put a bleeding wound where his bandage was if it wasn't to signify that the teaser takes place BEFORE The End? (Also, the absence of his not-so-injured left arm further proves the timeline.)

What I'm actually asking is, will tord take on a protagonist or antagonist role if he comes back? That's really up to the scriptwriters but I'm on the internet so it's PLOT HEADCANNON TIME!!! It goes a little sumn like this:

He starts targeting/pranking/ew classic bullying style (think Dudette Next Door mixed with Spy vs Spy) his friends from afar with an undertone of revenge cause they blew up his stupid robot.

Eventually confronting the characters trying to get on their good side again after the previous step doesn't work.

And then it splits off from here with different story ideas:

(Protagonist) He actually apologizes at the gang's apartment doorstep after failing so much to kill them, characters react as they would, and the boys OFFICIALLY take him back into the group to do more dumb adventures as the Red Army plotline looms over tord as he keeps it a secret or slips up. The whole "at first I hated you but now I don't but I already sent bombs to your location so now we have to fix this together."

(Antagonist) ORRRRR they reject his apology and he sticks with his classic bullying ways, hurting the gang more than he intended to but has to stick with the whole Red Army leader tough guy attitude while secretly regretting his actions. Not the whole "take over the world" part but the "you blew up your friend's house" part. he finally attempts to take control of the UK while the three try to stop him again as he gets closer and closer to actually succeeding. AND WE AIN'T DOING A TBATF SITUATION HERE. HE'S NOT MAKING THOSE STUPID FUCKING MASKS HE JUST WANTS THE GOVERNMENT.

A quick reminder that this isn't The End. If he's back it only makes sense that he'll be here for a while as another one of the boys. But if not, it's more realistic he'll just keep coming back kinda like zanta, showing up to be an antagonist with an actual background and motivations for an episode then dips again until next time. Hell, it's an absolute possibility that the teaser was just a way to get more people to buy the youtooz.

But I'll be DAMNED AND SHOT DEAD if they don't do SOMETHING with his character. Not after that dope ass teaser all hidden and stuff. It's been 8 years man, make this happen.

[ichthyorelationships]

ideas: i didn't really think of him being underwater but they deserve to have drama by crying there too so i just think you could say something about the composition being denser than water or w/e. proteins

i'm always like good thing he didn't try to exit asap via swimming in ciao alberto But What If He Did lol. just swim Somewhere else along the coast, maybe panic about [money??] & whether somehow this ruins school for luca, whether he can get in touch w/o it being On Sight b/w him & all marcovaldos, consider just kind of trying out other places, traveling after all...fascinating considering the other povs on the issue like: now there's the paguros to sympathize w/a kid vanishing, luca however in a somewhat more novel position there, giulia's throwback to alberto being a bit perplexing lmao, kind of thinking the best massimo could do is have a prewritten letter for luca to give to alberto If Possible, conveying something like i know you didn't set my livelihood on fire on purpose but even if you did i'd want you to stay. and luca in a position to do all of "maybe give the island fun facts so someone can check if he's there" & "wait & hope alberto can/does get in touch" & "have a lot of feelings"....not even the context of what this drawing is about necessarily, just tacking it on here anyways. ahead of time i went "heh now i Know they're gonna have it get little Real here b/c it's really about alberto wanting the security of feeling he can 'earn' a sustained relationship" then the short cleared & i was lying completely dead on the pavement

[uhhh-ghouls007]

I’m so sorry about the person I’m going to become when Renfield (2023) comes out. But it’s inevitable.

[strangesickness]

i LOVE gay werewolf posting its my number one hobby. going to write richie gay werewolf very scary door one-shot because we as a society are deprived of bill & richie friendship moments. like don't get me wrong i love fics where bev or stan know he's gay first but like. i feel like it could be any of them, they all know each other so well, they're all so close, it'd just take one oh moment for any of them to realize how in love and how afraid richie is.

[just-some-trans-nobody]

Who are you and what are you doing in my trashcan?

[ittyybittybaker]

have you ever wondered what andrew and co. were listening to at Eden's Twilight?? well then do i have the playlist for you! here's a mix of Nicky's Club Bangers that he made for the monsters nights out. there's enough songs to have you dancing until dawn, exactly the way nicky would want.

unlike my other mixes, this doesn't have anything to do with him as a person or his ~feelings, this is purely a mix of songs i think nicky would jam to at the club. there's a whole mix of genres and languages but they're all made to PARTY. basically, this is every song that makes nicky go 'that's my JAM' while running to the dance floor.

hope y'all enjoy!

[a-lawless-son-among-hate]

something I found at the local thrift store 0.0

(it's actually my attempt at making a gay pulp cover, but with the Wolf of Turkey Mountain)

[thehappiestgolucky]

The most unamused looking man ever. Sir you’re gonna fight your besties spirit dragon and Satan idk what else to tell you

[friedunicornstudio]

Page 4 out of 5. You can’t threaten someone who’s into that.

[childofaura]

Ok I thought I was gonna be making one nitpicky rant about TLoU show deaths but

I guess I’m actually making two. Because I saw another death and while I find there was nothing broadly wrong with it, there was some cinematic choices that drove me bonkers that I just wanna stress over.

So the rest will be under the cut, but for starters, this is about Sarah and Tess

Ok so Sarah isn’t really the meat of this rant, but I do want to talk about her death scene in the show because several things about it had bugged me. And please, I’m not really here to talk about the race swap. Overall I think it’s a little sus, moreso because the actress is the daughter of one of the executives of the show; so it suspiciously indicates nepotism. But the actress herself actually managed to do a pretty great job for Sarah’s death so really I couldn’t give a shit. ANYWAYS, the show’s death. What bugged me about it was the fact that there were CUTS while Joel is trying to comfort her and struggling to pick her up. The beauty of the cinematic choice in the game, where it turns into one continuous shot the moment Joel crawls over to Sarah, is that it inherently puts us in that moment with Joel, and by panning the camera over instead of cutting each time, it really shows how Sarah is right at death’s door, like you can HEAR the exact moment that she cries her last little whimper and just... goes quiet, right when the camera pans towards Tommy’s face. The problem with having scene cuts is that it drags the scene out in such an awkward way. Plus, Sarah’s still actively crying while Joel is screaming for Tommy to help him, and then the moment it cuts to Tommy the audio just cuts out very clumsily. As it cuts back to Joel Sarah’s just already dead, and additionally it makes no sense for Tommy to call to Joel to have him realize Sarah’s dead when she was still screaming and crying right as the camera cut. And then additionally, I’m not fond of the addition of Tommy saying Joel’s name, it feels almost... cold and detached. Like the tone of that line is “Joel she’s dead, it’s too late”. Whereas in the game, he’s moving towards Joel and Sarah and he’s in so much shock because he’s watching his niece dying in a crying, bloody mess.

So long story short, nothing wrong with the scene itself (though I gotta say I don’t think I’m a fan of Pedro Pascal’s line deliveries while he’s trying to stop Sarah’s bleeding. That’s less of a “one’s better than the other” and more of “that’s just my opinion that the emotion of the line delivery in the game was better”). Scene stayed true to the game.

But ohhh, OHHHH, you wanna know which death REALLY ruffled my feathers? Tess. Tess’ death was done so damn dirty in the show compared to the game (and side note, I hate the change to Tess’s character design. I loved the short hair held up by the headband, and I loved the short sleeves that showed her arms). I think by changing the entire death in the show, you take away from the character herself, and let me explain how.

In the game, they get to the Firefly meeting place, the Fireflies have been wiped out, and we find out Tess has been bitten. The military shows up, and Tess tells Joel that she’ll buy them some time and convinces both him and Ellie to leave. And the IMPORTANCE of her line “I WILL NOT turn into one of those things!”, which I’ll talk about. Joel and Ellie leave, Tess composes herself and gets ready to fight the soldiers. As you leave, you hear gunshots and hear Tess scream, and you find out she took out two soldiers; there was six guys and Tess took down two of them. This death is a perfect encapsulation of Tess’ character: resilient, stubborn, tough-as-nails, takes matters into her own hands. That is a death that treats the character with respect and actually plays into the character’s personality. It FITS. Tess is a woman whose life, her choices, it’s all in her hands and she will do what SHE wants to do.

In the TV show, they get to the Firefly meeting place, the Fireflies were killed by infected, and everything still plays out the same with Tess’ infection reveal (and I gotta say I’m not a fan of the dialogue choices nor am I a fan of the fact they tried to heavy-handedly push how Joel and Tess are a couple with the cuddling scene, whereas in the game the ambiguity of their relationship plays better into that final scene. I like the “Look, there’s enough here that you have to feel some sort of obligation to me” way more). Joel hears the infected, Tess starts tipping over some gasoline and grenades, and Joel and Ellie leave. Tess is panicking and frightened as the infected approach and flood in while trying to light the lighter, and then the BULLSHIT. The FUCKING KISS from the infected. And no I don’t wanna hear any ‘bUT it’S NoT A kISS, iT’S INfeCTiNg HEr’ excuses. It’s a fucking kiss disguised under the thin veneer of being some cool new infected lore, and it changes the entire death from a defiant last stance to a creepy, voyeuristic scene that’s going for a cringe-out factor. Like... Sure, you COULD explore that method of infection, it COULD be a neat behavior that we haven’t seen before.

But you don’t do that for Tess. She’s the wrong character to explore that with, and the show better actually try to stay consistent and show that again if people are gonna use the excuse of that scene being necessary. And the reason why it bugs me so much is because Tess, despite her short time in the story, is such a poignant character. She’s Joel’s partner, she’s OUR first partner. Taking that power out of her hands, putting her in this freaky powerless position where it’s like she’s being taken advantage of, does not compliment the character, especially when the death is a very easy to pull off trick that only solely relied on the lighter not working for cheap tension. If you wanted to give us a tense action scene, they could have actually shown us the Tess gunfight scene from her perspective, maybe give her one or two more kills than she had in the game. But this death was really insulting to the character.

TL;DR I’m incredibly autistic about all this dumb shit and it really just boils down to a difference of opinion.