deathbirby · 1 year ago
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Who/what is that dragon in the back supposed to be??
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I don't remember the Umbral Beast looking like that?
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FINALS!!!
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Propaganda:
Taylor Hebert (Worm (webserial by Wildbow))
Human girl who has superpowers that let her control bugs. She shunts all emotions off into her swarm of bugs, leaving her totally blank and stoic. She outsources sensory-input to her bugs, so she never looks or reacts to anything. In a fight, she reacts to opponents there is no possible way she could see, because she sensed them with her bugs. Overall has virtually no facial tells and moves in a way that makes her seem like she isn't a person. very creature <3 she is just a bug girl
shes such a FREAK. shes completely human (tho with an eldritch alien creature extradimensionally attached to her mind) but God does she not act like it sometimes. she has the superpower to control bugs and uses it to become the worlds most terrifying hero slash villain slash warlord slash apocalyptic threat. she has her bugs crawling all over her all the time. she uses a swarm of flies to scout out areas and then leaves flies in everybodys hair so she can keep track of where they are. she practiced having her bugs make noises until she figured out how to combine their noises into human speech so now she can talk through her swarm. she makes decoys of herself out of large pillars of bugs. once she was concussed and in the hospital and subconsciously calling her bugs to her so she was just covered in insects while the doctor tried to help her. then there was ANOTHER time she was hospitalized and got bored so she made a bunch of bugs so a little dance on her chest. whenever she's in costume and talking she has her bugs make noises to distort her voice and make her sound more scary and she doesnt even realize shes doing it anymore. she surrounds herself in a swarm to disorient her enemies. she doesn't even notice when her hair covers her eyes or anything like that because shes scouting out the area using her bugs so she doesnt have to see. she once used a tide of bugs to clean herself off and dust off her dress after having sex.
#she views herself as more of a swarm of bugs with a girl-shaped computer to control them than a girl herself#her body is just an extension of her bugs which is large and inconvenient but ultimately part of the weapon
#taylor “dissociates into bugs” hebert#taylor “keeps bugs in her hair” hebert#taylor “choke them with bugs” hebert#taylor “no one could ever love me” hebert#taylor “violence is always the answer” hebert
#normally i would want a worm character to win#but#bdubs is a strange little man. he's unusual.#Taylor's just got the 'tism.
she literally is a walking superorganism comprised of one human and a lot more bugs to the point where she frequently moves her head as if she can see through walls (with her bugs, she can), talks through her bugs, has been described like a corpse whose ghost is living on in her swarm, keeps functioning thru her bugs even when her human body is out for the count, et cetera. no disrespect intended but genuinely what in the world are you talking about. She cleans her pussy off with bugs after fucking. Her pussy. With bugs. And she thinks it's normal. Because the bugs are part of her. Is this thing on. I reiterate that she literally requires an emotional support cloak of bugs. She is so dissociated from being an actual person that she treats her human body like an inconvenience and her bugs like the primary operators. Is This Thing On.
#now i told myself i wouldnt comment anything on the rb... but#“She cleans her pussy off with bugs after fucking. Her pussy. With bugs.” CHAT IS THAT FUCKIN REAL??? IS THAT CANON???#cause if thats just a hc thats wild and i dont know if its better or worse if its canon#propaganda
this is indeed canon! there is a scene where, after fucking her boyfriend in an abandoned building, she stands up and cleans dust/etc off her naked ass body by having her bugs run across her and clean her, which presumably translates to "they are eating the dirt/sweat/etc off her." her boyfriend smiles affectionately at this, because he also has something wrong with him. she also does things like use bugs and spider silk to deliver her toothbrush straight to her hand in the morning while monologuing about "checking in on her hive" (her hive is the people in her villain territory.) she is a walking panopticon. her friends sometimes talk to bugs under the assumption it's taylor watching them and they're always right. at one point she confusedly asks someone if he's arachnophobic because he doesn't want her 10k black widow spiders to live in his apartment with him. she is basically like if a cockroach was a girl. I would never lie to you about Taylor Hebert, Unsung Champion of Polls About Weird Characters.
#taylor ofc#wait hey those are my tags as propaganda!! cool!#i stand by it#anyways yeah one of her main character traits when looked at by an outside perspective is just how WEIRD she is#everyone thinks she's a freak#even when you're reading her POV you sometimes have to stop and be like 'hey girl what the fuck'#one time she put bugs on her boyfriend's dick
She also turns into a bug monster at one point. Not all on her own, but she very much turns into a bug monster. Literally And Physically.
And she uses this to survive like a cockroach, she had Just Been Ripped In Fucking Half and thrown in the ocean to die and BOOM. bug monster transformation (with a little help) climb out and keep fighting, against an opponent so vast and powerful a human couldn't even comprehend his true form (not eldritch cognitohazard, just planet-sized + multidimensional), who could kill her in an instant. She's always surviving against the odds she's so cockroach coded (affectionate!) #@ pollrunner if you're still accepting propaganda please take the 'turns into a bug monster' as propaganda#the rest can be ignored or trimmed to 'she's always surviving she's so cockroach coded' but pleamse. the Time she Became A Bug
#she's such a freak!!!#she kills like it's the only thing she was built how to do#she kills people and things like it's chess and she's a grandmaster#as soon as the violence is off she's just a fucked up offputting little one woman panopticon
One of my favourite descriptions of Taylor from someone else's POV, from Interlude 14.
“A figure stood behind Yan. Her costume was barely recognizable—She wore a short cape of tattered black cloth over her body armor, a skintight black suit beneath that, and there were folds of black cloth draped around her legs like a dress or a robe. The entire fabric seemed to ripple and move. It took Sierra a second to realize it was crawling with a carpet of insects.”
“The disconcerting part was the girl’s face, or lack thereof. Her expression was masked behind a shifting mass of bugs that moved in and out of her hairline. Sierra couldn’t even tell where the bugs ended and the scalp began, as the small black bodies crawled into and onto the black curls. There was a hint of something like glass where Skitter’s eyes were, but the bugs ventured far enough over her eyelids and around the frames that nothing was visible in the way of goggles, glasses or skin.”
“Skitter hadn’t made a sound as she entered. She hadn’t spoken, and her footsteps had been quiet.”
#taylor “driving while blind wasn’t as hard as I’d thought it would be” hebert#taylor “hangs out in superpowered darkness for a long time without being at all worried” hebert#taylor “fools a near-perfect lie detecting hero by offloading her emotions on her bugs” hebert#taylor “figures out how to communicate with the Dog Autism girl like right away” hebert
#taylor hebert kill them with your self-sustained insectoid dehumanity!
Jonny d’Ville (The Mechanisms)
Since we’re not technically human
He’s so feral hes canonically committed every single crime theres a name for i think he deserves to have a tail that flicks around when hes being mischevous. perhaps some horns or fangs as well. as a treat
Idk why but he's a feral creature
Have you seen the man? Especially in that one picture where he is fully on the wall.
absolutely no canon implications that he isn't human, but that man* absolutely has a tail. and sharp teeth. and creature ears. he purrs but he pretends he doesn't and if you bring it up he'll bite you. he's had rabies more times than you can count.
#Just sayin#Johnny eats people and says it's not cannibalism if you aren't human
#DID LYF SING THE PART IN SLEEPING BEAUTY? NO. VOTE JONNY
#Jonny’s a creature#vote Jonny
#sorry for that Hermitfans but my boy Jonny is feral and i think he is a creature
#chat vote jonny#HES LITERALLY JUST A LITTLE CRITTER PLEASE
#look at that face#he’s a creacher
#it's jonny d'ville i don't have any more to say
All crimes but sex crimes, because Jonny isn’t a MONSTER
#JONNY#i'm so sorry pearl you are too well adjusted for this#he's got devil in his name#(that he gave himself because he's a huge fucking nerd)
#LITERALLY LOOK AT HIM THE GREMLIN ENERGY IS OFF THE CHARTS
#voted jonny for the rabies
also. hold up. the pearl propaganda is saying to vote for her because she's an alien and a bloodthirsty fighter? BOY DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU ABOUT JONNY FUCKING D'VILLE
five am pearl this five am pearl that, jonny's just like that all the time
#please vote jonny. i know we're pitting two bad bitches against each other but jonny has tried to eat a guitar
#CMON GUYS VOTE JONNY D’VILLE HES SUCH A CREATURE#HAVE YOU SEEN HIM??? HAVE YOU HEARD HIM TALK ABOUT THE OCTOKITTENS???#VOTE JONNY
#Jonny is such a creature
#jonny is literally THE creature
#come on vote Jonny that thing is creachur incarnate#and he can sing#his fave food is human flesh and more violence
Jonny man entire existence is teeth claws belts and trauma
#that guy is so feral#just vote jonny#also there was this one time where he found a half dead dude on the moon and brang it home to show to his gay pirate friends#just sayin#and also this harmonica solo over his father's dead body in one eyed jacks#iconic#anyway vote jonny
#literally jonny bites people and eats them regularly
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starlightshadowsworld · 3 months ago
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My thoughts on Bsd chapter 117
Spoilers below
I knew it!
Well not really but I knew Bram being here had something to do with Akutugawa. That's his godamn coat.
... Wait nooo.. Nooo! Fuck you don't make me watch Bram die again.
Aya trying to mean to lessen the blow. Bram feeling like he failed her. The flashbacks to his daughter...
"One day I'll carry you on my back"
Devastating how dare you.
Honestly considering how seriously Akutugawa keeps his promises, this seems like a good idea.
Ayyy Kunikida!
I do love how we're leaning into making Fukuchi some eldritch horror. Because fundamentally he should not exist.
Because it goes against everything. He is not of this world, of course his very existence fills you with dread.
I didn't think one look would take out Junichiro tho.
Kunikida filled with absolute terror and still having the strength to say what are you, fuck he's so cool.
Oh... Fukuchi can talk. Kinda ruins the vibe a little tbh but okay that's a choice.
"I am all. I am none." I am justice. I am the night. I am Batman.
I agree Kunikida what is going on at this airport? Everyone in Bsd talks about shit going on in the Train station but that is nothing compared to whatever this is.
Public transport man don't use it in this universe. Or any transport to be honest.
I love that Fyodor's just standing here not saying a word like okay fine you can have this one.
Ohhh ohh why did he sneak up on him ahhh nooo. Also you can't see one of Kunikida's hands and I am concerned.
Oh yeah this is the first time anyone in the Agency but Atsushi and Fukuzawa have dealt with Amenogozen.
Someone really should've told the others this fucker lives up to his name as the space time sword.
Atsushi you might wanna go the other way, whatevers going on there isn't looking so good.
Thank you Kunikida, see why don't we all just pack up our shit and leave.
"Tanizaki when I give the signal use your ability to escape"
You know this means whatever comes next is going to have everyone be like erm actually it could just be Junichiro's special ability.
Asagiri knows this fandom to well.
... AHHH!!!??!????? WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK
KUUNNNIIIKIIIIIDAAAAA!!!
That better have been Junichiro's ability I swear to God nooooo! OHH AND ATSUSHI GOT THERE TOO LATE
Whyyyy why would you do this?!
Ohhh his hands are melting I'm like actually crying.
I feel like this itself is a sign that those killed by Amenogozen can come back because no one dies in this series. Because there's no way Asagiri would just kill Kunikida off... I hope.
Atsushi grabbing Junichiro out of harms way like that must've been the hardest decision to make to go.
"Fantastic move"
He's so proud of them.
Very confusing statement from Fukuchi that this blade shouldn't be able to harm Kunikida(?) as it stabs him. I don't know what this line means, if it's meant to mean anything.
Literally paralleling lines to when we thought Kunikida died in the helicopter soo... I dunno what to think anymore.
Also during the helicopter thing, Kunikida essentially told Junichiro that he was in charge... And now Junichiro's had to watch him maybe die again.
The shot of his notebook on the ground is just foul.
Atsushi no it's not you're fault!
I share the sentiment Junichiro I really do.
... THE SWORDS ABOVE HIS HEAD WHATF THE HELL?!
And it ends.
I don't think they'll get Junichiro too but Atsushi was alone in the epilogue.... Oh no.
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theonewhowails · 10 months ago
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IM CHEWING ON THE FUCKING FURNITURE
I HAVE JUST BEEN WATCHING THE TRAILER OVER AND OVER LOOKING FOR SHIT TO FIND AND SPECULATE ABOUT!!!!!!!!
avert your gaze if you do not wish for sins of the flesh spoilers
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LIKE LOOK AT THIS!!!!! i initially thought the nakey leaf was only gonna be a thing for the nudist ritual and would happen to everyone uniformly for the same amount of time. so it is fucking SENDING me that EVERYONE HERE IS WEARING CLOTHES EXCEPT NARI
individual outfits!!!!! do you think we will find them and gift them to followers the same way necklaces are? maid dress leshy. why is he serving looks (lol) tho. is that a hairless cat in the top right corner. IS THAT FUCKING SOZO IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT????? FOLLOWER SOZO??? ALIVE SOZO??????? I COULD CRY
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a tiny sozo i found in the end image....cutie
also it looks like we'll be able to upgrade our cult and temple even further!!!!!!! or perhaps customization options? either way the stone floors and stained glass in the scene are sexy and im eating them. also theres a bones interior in some shots
also why does the guy in the middle gotta pitchfork. WHY ARE THEY ALL PULLING OUT PITCHFORKS. WILL FOLLOWERS BE ABLE TO FUCKING REVOLT???MOBS???? please that would be so funny
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also fighting followers??? my initial thought was that this might be a progression from dissenting and now they can kill you(whimsical) but on closer look the eyes do not look like dissenter eyes. they look more like the eyes of eldritch opponents we fight
furthermore look at this ritual??
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it looks much the same as the ritual the bishops perform before going eldritch, and we're clearly leading it, but the energy isnt going to US, its going to the follower in the center??
there is something to be said about how the lamb grows stronger by defeating and consuming their enemies...... it would be really interesting if we're going to get into organic free range home grown adversaries...... when you think about it, taking a loyal follower, corrupting them with eldritch power and then defeating them to absorb the power they gained would be sort of like a more refined form of sacrifice. and also way more fucked up!!! :D
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if sacrifice and cannibalism was too tame for you. get ready for letting your followers ritually EAT A BITCH ALIVE. its giving The Lottery vibes but maybe thats just me (nerd)
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look at this shit which looks like a fucked up commandment stone. are they sacrificing health here???? for eldritch horrors???? ooooohhh
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calamari getting into a slap fight is killing me but also i am going NUTS at the prospect of expanded follower relationships!! we had the seeds of it before with how followers can become friends, some give us quest for their crush, and reading their minds shows they can have conversations that go well or go poorly, and now theyre extrapolating to their logical ends: followers can get into physical fights, can fall in love, can have children!!!! GOD there could be.... actual generations of cultists......ToT
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auspistice simulator lmao. but also theres two intersting things to consider here:
follower activities that take place at night, which could make nighttime in the cult more interesting and lively
if we might need at times to step in to break up a fight. would that suggest consequences for not doing so. Can The Followers Beat Each Other To Death Now.
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also killing me that while this fight is happening maid leshy is just. drunkenly swaying and making creature noises. look at him. i love him
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therainscene · 1 year ago
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Crazy together: Byler, Cthulhu, and cosmic horror
Cthulhu is a queer horror film from 2007 that I've always been fond of. I rewatched it recently and was struck by some of its similarities to Stranger Things: small town vibes, conformity themes, cosmic horror as queer allegory, a gay protagonist with a childhood best friend slash love interest named Mike...
The film has an ambiguously villainous ending for its main character, Russ Marsh, and it's an ending that suits this story pretty well, imo -- so given how much it reminds me of Will's story, I thought it would be interesting to compare the two.
[Content warning for rape and (bloody) attempted suicide, both depicted in the movie and mentioned below the cut.]
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👆 [That's the entire movie available for free on YouTube, courtesy of its director. You don't need to watch it to understand this analysis tho. Spoilers ahead.]
Cthulhu is a (very) loose adaptation of The Shadow over Innsmouth, a cosmic horror story about an outsider who arrives in a small fishing town and unearths a cult that interbreeds with immortal sea-dwelling monsters. He ends up making the horrifying discovery that he's descended from the cult's founder and thus doomed to turn into a monster himself.
The film uses this premise to talk about queerness: As an openly gay man, Russ has always been an outsider and was never going to participate in his hometown's, uh, traditions. Unfortunately, his father is the cult's leader and his sister is infertile -- Russ must participate.
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[Yes, that's Cara Buono. If you enjoyed her portrayal of Karen as a loving but deeply conformist family member who does a better job of supporting the status quo than supporting her loved one, but just wished her character was more one-dimensional -- then this is the movie for you!]
Russ doesn't actually know much about the cult at the start of the film -- he fled to the city in his teens and dismisses his father's proselytizing as "Joseph Smith frontier horseshit" -- so it isn't until he returns for his mother's funeral that he begins to unravel the truth.
It's a good metaphor for how it feels to look back on a bigoted or abusive upbringing and realize: wow, that was a lot more fucked up than I thought it was.
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As you might expect from cosmic horror though, this isn't a healing or empowering process for Russ.
Rather, he just keeps running into brutal reminders of how powerless he is in the face of the town's overwhelming, ingrained homophobia: at one point he's raped to satisfy his father's need for an heir; at another he's falsely jailed for the rape and murder of a boy he was trying to rescue from the cult.
It's similar to the torture Will endures in S1 and S2: he's kidnapped and symbolically raped, reflecting Troy's coded "killed by some other queer" comment, then bullied for having the audacity to survive it. He even stands up to a literal eldritch monstrosity and is rewarded for his bravery with yet more loss of autonomy.
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You might be wondering if these stories even count as cosmic horror. Cthulhu only ever vaguely hints at the existence of, well, Cthulhu, and Stranger Things (which deliberately tweaks its genre every season) reveals that the Mind Flayer was basically just some guy all along.
But I think it's a bit of a misconception that cosmic horror is about star-sized masses of eyeballs and tentacles that drive you insane with their inhuman incomprehensibility.
Really, cosmic horror is about powerlessness, inevitability, and comprehending all too well. To know that horrors exist beyond the everyday facade of human existence -- whether they take the form of unknowable monstrosities from the void or of violent bigotry in an otherwise pleasant town -- is to know that your existence is nothing more than a delicate soap bubble floating in a vast, uncaring universe made exclusively of sharp edges. Even if you return to the everyday world, you can never return to blissful ignorance.
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And that’s what drives you insane.
Will has something of a knowledge motif following him around: He's a wizard named Will the Wise. He illuminates. He has True Sight. He's a super-spy. He's part of the hive mind. He was studied in the lab. He was violated at school and in a library. His neck prickles when Vecna is close. He knows what Vecna is thinking.
It's too much cursed knowledge for one little boy to bear.
But he doesn't have to bear it alone.
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Will is lucky to have a bunch of loving friends and family, and their support does a lot to help him cope... but even his fiercest supporters, Joyce and Jonathan, tend to be absent for long swathes of time. There's only one character who can be consistently found by Will's side through the majority of every season, and that's the boy who promised to go crazy with him.
[Strictly speaking Mike wasn't by his side in S1... but he fought hard to bring him home the whole time they were apart. Tomayto tomahto.]
Russ has a Mike too. (Literally -- his name is Michael Shields lol.) His childhood best friend reconnects with him soon after he arrives back in town and pretty much immediately becomes his sole trusted confidant as Russ falls down the cultist rabbit hole.
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A quick aside -- Russ's past with Mike is a glimpse into a possible future for Byler.
Russ and Will have both been saved by their Mikes from giving in to the despair of being treated so brutally by their towns: Russ's Mike caught him mid-suicide attempt when they were teenagers--
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--and Will's Mike, of course, helped rescue him from the Upside Down and sat patiently with him the whole time he was possessed.
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Unfortunately, both Mikes are also conformists who are unwilling to leave the safety of comphet. Russ ran away to a more liberal environment where he could exist in peace, but Mike stayed behind and married a woman. This could easily end up being Byler's fate too.
So while Russ and Will might be alive thanks to their Mikes, they now have to live the rest of their lives without the love of the boy who gave them the drive to face it in the first place.
And it isn't as though the boy doesn't want to love him back.
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The jury is officially still out on Byler, but Russ's backstory is very much not about a sad gay boy having to get over his sad gay crush on his straight best friend -- it's about a pair of would-be lovers getting torn apart by a town that refuses to let them be themselves.
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I want to emphasize that both of these pairings consist of a visibly gay guy and a straight-passing guy.
In both stories it's typically the visibly queer one who actually interacts with the horrors, while the straight-passing one tends to observe from a position of relative safety, either escaping before anything too nasty happens to him, or more often, simply learning about the horrors second-hand from the visible one.
(There's one key exception at the end of Cthulhu -- but we'll come back to that.)
This is such an important dynamic that it's even unsubtly foreshadowed in Byler's first scene together:
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This informs the way the characters support each other. We've already seen the obvious the safe one acts as a mental tether for the endangered one so he doesn't go insane with despair dynamic, but there's a reversal too: the authentic one inspires the conformist to join him in what was never really insanity so much as a different way of looking at the world.
Russ doesn't have any designs on seducing Mike -- much like Will, all he expects is some support from his best friend -- but his dogged questioning of the town's status quo still leads directly to Mike breaking out of comphet and admitting to what he's always really wanted:
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[Learn from your elders, Byers: this is the proper way to respond when your love interest says that home just isn't the same without you.]
But Cthulhu's protagonists are confident adults who know how to quickly resolve their romantic tension. Byler are frightened kids in a five-act coming-of-age story -- their version is a little messier.
Mike has always been inspired by Will, right from the very first episode -- he decided to risk looking for him in the woods because he figured that's what his brave and kind friend Will would do.
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The first two seasons thus show us Byler's dynamic at its best: an endless feedback loop of Will's strength and insight inspires Mike and Mike's devotion supports Will. (Very cleric and paladin of them.) But they're still children at this point, and don't really notice the blossoming queerness in their relationship yet.
S3 adds puberty to the mix and oh boy do they notice the queerness now. Too scary no thank you cancel unsubscribe uninstall. Will's bravery falters. Mike devotes himself to the grim duty of having a girlfriend. The loop breaks under the pressure.
They fight about it in the same location that introduced us to their dynamic and call each other out on failing to hold up their respective ends of the bargain:
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"Why aren't you there for me anymore?"
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"Why are you refusing to face reality all of a sudden?"
Note that Will's knowledge motif makes a return here -- just before the fight, he dresses up in his Will the Wise costume in an effort to inspire Mike again. But the tone of the scene is silly and cringey -- as correct as Will is to point out that they don't need to abandon their childhood dynamic just because they're growing up, pretending that it isn't going to mature as they age is, um. Unsustainable.
Deep down, Will knows that he'll eventually have to address the terrifying truth that keeps tapping insistently at the back of his neck.
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By S4, Mike is starting to come around -- he's still deep in comphet, but he at least recognizes that it's making him unhappy, so he reaches out to Will the Wise for advice. Unfortunately, Will learned the wrong lesson in S3, and all the advice he offers is designed to push Mike back into the arms of comphet.
By the end of the season, Will has even orchestrated a grand heterosexual love confession in the foolish hope that sacrificing his heart on the altar of heteronormativity might finally make the horrors go away. (How's that working out for you, Byers?)
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And so we've arrived at that ambiguously villainous ending.
By the climax of Cthulhu, Russ has uncovered the awful truth: his mother was murdered by his father to lure him home, extract offspring from him, and trigger the apocalypse. It's already begun; there's no stopping it. Shambling horrors -- his ancestors -- emerge from the rising sea. Russ is expected to become the immortal leader of this sunken new world.
He and Mike make plans to flee town together, but Russ runs into his father. He's brought to the shore to admire his kingdom before being handed a weapon and commanded to make sacrifice to Cthulhu:
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Russ glances between Mike and his father, assessing his options. Soon even the cities will be consumed; he can't Smalltown Boy his way out of this again.
He raises his weapon--
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--cut to black, roll credits.
All too often, queer villainy is shown from a straight perspective, presenting queerness as inherently threatening. This is the type of villainy embodied by Vecna: he's a vengeful and predatory outcast who forces his version of reality on others (especially children) and refuses to compromise his dangerous nature.
Cthulhu shows us queer villainy from a queer perspective. Russ, like Will, is harmless: he's kind, has no interest in vengeance, and just wants to live his life in peace. What drives him to villainy is the temptation to throw queerness under the bus in the twisted belief that appeasing the majority is the key to escaping homophobia.
Of course, there is no escape. Sacrificing the man who trusted him to guide him gently into the reality of queerness just means he's succumbed to the madness and become a homophobe himself.
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S4 concludes with Will in a similar position to Russ: teetering on the precipice of madness as he helplessly watches the world fall apart at the hands of the villain who would stop at nothing to force him to join his cause.
But where their situations differ is in what cause that villain represents.
Russ's antagonist is a straight homophobe, representing societal homophobia -- far too powerful a force for one man and his lover to have any hope of defeating. But Will's antagonist is that offensively queer-coded-for-straights villain, representing internalized homophobia -- all along, the prickling at the back of Will's neck has been his own instincts warning him of what happens when you allow bigots and abusers to have a say in how you define yourself.
True love can certainly defeat that.
Unlike Russ, Will hasn't reached the end of his story yet--
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--and unlike his older namesake, Mike isn't kneeling on the sacrificial altar, but standing by the side of the boy he promised to go crazy with, ready to face the horrors of Hawkins -- together.
[@bylerween2023 day 4 🐙]
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just-sp-in-inginthevoid · 6 months ago
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I hate having to say something crossed my mind after it happened so here,
How do I feel about the Yotsurugi siblings so far:
The sister, Shikaba, Taira: I know I'll like them, already vibing with them, but can't say they are favs for now. They're chill. Shikaba plz turn into an eldritch monster at some point+ bonus point for whatever you have going on with eyes
Torazo, Kou: I know they exist. waiting for the potential. Torazo gets bonus points for the non conventional for manga nose shape
Kuran: Son. I love him. wasn't sure about it, he was with Shikaba, Taira and the sister category prior to today's chapter but yeah, he won me over
Shio:... honestly? Not much of a fan, very neutral. waiting to see more and since he's the first adopted son and he's teased as a main antagonist, there's no way we're not getting more
Satsuki: I'd only like him if he's truly fucked up me think. Bonus point for having an eye-themed Astro
Goshiki: pointy dude! hehe, design is growing on me like ivy - bonus point for unusual eyes, non conventional manga nose AND non conventional manga face period. he doesn't seem like the most enlightened (see chapter 1) and if that's the case and he's not the sharpest one in the drawer, well, i'll be very happy to have a dumb son. plz Wakui do smth interesting with him
Hibaru: protagonist. waiting to see how he'd differ from other shonen protags. cute, but neutral opinion; wish to see him succeed tho!
Terasu: FUCK SHIT UPPPP COME ON - he's Hibaru's shield, Hibaru's yin, and I need them to fight at least 2 times more: one where Terasu wins and one where Wakui gives his answer to the paradox of this damn Chinese tale with the spear and the shield. I need him to get corrupt, even if for a bit: and reading chapter 3, Wakui better be cooking something and make it foreshadowing. Bonus point for the fact everytime I read his name I think of the French verb terrasser ( to defeat, to kill, lit.: 'to throw (someone) on the ground')
The two missing ones: since they're missing my curiosity is high and Wakui must be preparing smth for them. trying to keep my expectations low and not come up with any idea bc I don't want to stray from canon, especially not before it even happens. Even if they're dead or incapacitated I'd be rooting for them, me think. also until it gets refuted, the guy with the bottle from chapter 1 in one of them
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enlighten3d · 7 months ago
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WELLL claps hand together
the story is about these teenagers trying stop an evil cult from destroying the entire multiverse, so they go to different dimensions to stop their evil ways. Also they are teenagers so they have to deal with personal angst, family issues, morality, school ect ect while trying to stop the cult leader and their right hand men
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Caroline is technically the main character of my story, she is basically the bubbly, positive one of the group. Her family is rich as hell, they used to live in Taiwan as successful business people but they moved to America because they wanted to make more money. Her family doesn’t really like her and they emotionally and physically neglect her since she came out as a transgender girl and her older sister is kind of a coward and doesn’t stand up for her (fun times)
anyway she ends up having to do a group assignment with her childhood friend which she kind of drifted apart from (Andie) and some punk girl she probably has a crush on (Mimi), they eventually end up in an abandoned house and find out that their town is run by an evil cult that can teleport to different dimensions. So they feel guilty enough to stop it.
they think the best course is to beat the 7 plane hoppers who are in the way to kill the main cult leader, the stag. though out the whole thing Caroline is basically pushing through by toxic positivity saying everything is alright even though they have killed many people, she also kind of convinced herself that this is a video game and is probably more okay about sacrificing people and herself (for the better good)
Also her sister possessed during her 17th birthday party for funsies
HIII SO RRYYY IM ONLY GETTING SROUNF TO THIS NOW falls over and dies
thank you for the food that is oc lore, i am eating it om nom nom
that all sounds FUCKING AMAZING ACTUALLY. cults ?? universal travel bullshit ????? all while dealing with normal teenage bs ?? thats beautiful. poor little guys. they need a break. i CANNOT imagine trying to exist as a teenager while trying to take down a cult qyehdjdkkdks
dont worry.. your eldritch horror loves you... i am so glad to know that ! /silly
..fuck her family ! they can rot ! caroline )): you dont deserve any of this..
THAT MUSTVE BEEN A REVELATION ?? WOAH ?? just. doing a school project and ope government is a cult (/hyp)... insane
i actually fucking love the whole like. unwilling chosen one Vibe to all of this ?? yes theyre not chosen nor are they truly unwilling but. the Vibe is the same. the guilt (on thier part) is real...
caroline. love. youre fucked up. just like me frfr. agh thats. so cool tho ?? 'EVERYTJING IS FINE, ALL OF THIS IS A GAME !!' and ljke. fuck thats such a fun thing in fiction when a character copes using that ?? its the perfect level of fucked up bcs it rlyyy drives rhe point home and. im giving them all a shock blanket okay ?
oh boy !! thats fun !! poor sister..
what does the cult worship‽‽ i am so fucking curious..
lso like, whats the difference between each plane? is it an alternate reality sorta situation where things are relatively the same but Different, or is it judt flatout. different EVERYTHING (people, laws of physics, all that jazz)?? or somewhere in between or outside of this ofc.
do all the plane hopper guys like.. stay in different universes and have a branch of the cult established there..
why does the cult run the town in the first place ? was it a thing where like. they wrre the original settlers but then the town expanded aorund and beyond the cult ?? or did they move in and do a slow takeover.....
fuck i have so many questions /pos
this is. so cool. i love the Vibes. theyre so... Impending.. ahdjskdisjjdjsks
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princewinter15 · 1 year ago
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thinking about how the aeons in hsr really feel similar to the entities from tma... like just the vibes of them being so mysterious, powerful, and untouchable with a dash of them being Utterly Eldritch is a+ for me
like. and some of them correspond really well to certain entities
nanook - the slaughter (also could work as desolation or extinction but i feel like the legion makes them more slaughter adjacent)
lan - the hunt (fucking duh)
yaoshi - the flesh (yaoshi's deal just reminds me of jared's gym tbh)
aha - the spiral (something about aha's origin as witnessing the empty horror of existence and then just laughing about it feels SO spiral to me. could also be stranger with the whole mask motif tho)
oroboros - the hunt (shared with lan because while lan's definitely the kind of hunt that daisy and the vampire hunters had, with the sense of misplaced justice fueling bloodshed, oroboros is the more animalistic fear of being eaten)
tayzzyronth - the corruption (bc the corruption has two major themes - filth + toxic love. a creature that created a plague of insect monsters out of sheer loneliness rly fits this. could also be the lonely but im feeling more corruption tbh)
terminus - the end (It's Literally Fucking Named Terminus)
IX - the extinction (yeah. could also be the lonely but mostly extinction)
fuli - the eye (their followers literally just spend all their existences gathering memories from people like. fr)
nous - the eye (they're both equally eye-aligned tbh)
mythus - the dark (literally came into existence in order to prevent nous from knowing everything which works very well with the whole thing the dark and the eye have going on)
akivili - the vast (funnily enough as much as akivili gives me vast vibes i feel like their existence sort of counteracts the vast lol)
thats all ive got so far but like. im so tmabrained about everything
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versegm · 1 year ago
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OH FUCK I meant to send you a Director's Commentary thing when you reblogged it BUT I FORGOT anyway how about the deets on "And the Audience Clapped"? (If you're still in the mood)
For you? Always <3
The actual fic has a trigger warning for uh. Everything? The base premise of the fic is "Guda has incredibly disturbing intrusive thoughts and does not react well to them" so even if I don't think I'll get into details in my play by play, tw for thoughts of sexual violence, onscreen self-harm and suicide attempts, and overall blorbo from my show spiralling bad.
My primarily goal when writing this was "I want to see how fucking worse I can make Guda." But I'm a weenie I actually like bad endings so my secondary goal was "but I want it to end well."
I have absolutely no idea if I succeeded. I feel like I chickened out too much tbh (<- squicked out by sexual violence) and as for the ending I'm often told that what I qualify as a "good/okay ending" is often "fucking horrifying" to other people. Still I like the final result so that's everyone else's problem. This was however a nightmare to tag which is why I just went the "choose not to use archive warnings/fuck around and find out" route, because if I tagged everything it would be WAY too long.
Anyways. "What if the player was an outer god." I post about it a lot in a comedic tone over here. I wrote it as self indulgent porn somewhere else. But I really wanted to take it in a more... realistic? Direction I guess? What if things weren't automatically fine and ok because the story demanded it. What if it was in fact an incredibly distressing situation to be in. I don't like writing monsters are villains (not my vibe) but that does not mean the monster loving you & having good intentions should always be an instant smooth sailing. Which really means that Guda will be stuck in intrusive thoughts central for nearly 6k.
Now for a more specific play by play of the fic:
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The problem with writing the POV character being possessed is that it is incredibly hard to showcase when "this is something normal from the character" vs "this is someone else speaking through the character" (doubly so when the character themself does not realize the possession is happening) So I was at times less than subtle about it. In case it wasn't clear, this is the player being worried about Guda, and Guda misinterpreting the feeling because "this is someone else's thought" is not typically the first conclusion people would draw. Anytime in the fic where you see Guda having conflicting emotions, or being confused about their own feelings, that was a case of player feelings interfering with their owns.
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Outer gods are basically eldritch gods in Fate lore. As such I don't think they really have like. A body the way humans consider it. That's why the fics have various instances of weird fascination towards flesh and how it functions. From the perspective of a god, it'd be like suddenly figuring out how an ancient watch works.
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When you're being possessed by someone who is 1) incredibly not fucking normal about your bestie and 2) does not know the difference between intimacy love and violence. Bottom text.
Also a lot of people initially assumed that I picked Castoria in this specific scenario because I, too, am not normal about her. And I mean. That is partially true (tho not to that extent lmao) but also Castoria IS canonically one of the closest people to Guda (& the most likely to realize that something is wrong.) It's not just "I'm having horrible thoughts about some random aquaintances" it's "I love this person with all my heart and I want to give them the world, but I can't even give myself to them because my existence is poison." So double the agony.
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This was inspired by one specific scene from Mairimashita!Iruma-Kun, available on mangadex and probably crunchyroll please for the love of god read that manga it fucks SO hard.
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When you're an Outer God with only a very vague knowledge of humans and what they look like so instead of focusing on eye color or haircuts you're just fascinated by the fact that this lil one has thirty-two teeth. Bottom text.
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This whole section is meant to be "all the times Guda died before the player rebooted the games," so I picked all the hardest boss fights I could think of. There's someone in the comments who asked me months ago if they should pick up a guide for the Cernunnos fight because I brought it up like five times in that paragraph alone. My guy if you are following my blog, yes, you should. You really fucking should.
Also I use second person a lot when writing Guda fic because it's easier (they/them can be confusing when you're writing multiple characters in one setting) but ofc for this fic this also gave me the opportunity to write some moments where the player is directly talking to Guda (or at Guda, rather.)
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I wanted to show that while the player was at their most Not Normal about Castoria, they do love everyone in Chaldea, which is why Guda is being more affectionate than usual here.
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I'm just really proud of "You imagine lapping at her open wounds, lapping at her wet cunt." Intimacy and violence but also holes and fluids you know how it is.
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My bitch Guda who wouldn't wish to bother others & show any weakness if they had a gun to their head.
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Christ I can't summarize MHXX's lore concisely, but she is repeatedly compared to a character from a sitcom, hence why her first comparison is to tv shows.
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This is meant to be a call-back to that bit earlier where they wonder how hard they'd have to bite to make Castoria bleed.
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To lb6 players out there: I was thinking of Gareth writing this line.
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I don't remember if I told you, but Castoria has Fairy Eyes, ie is capable of perceiving lies (tho the exact mechanics are unclear.) That's why Guda is being extra stubborn. They can't deny that they're fine because she'll know it's false, so they're trying to dodge the entire conversation.
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My bitch Guda who is taking the entire situation soooo well (casually deshumanize themself & considers being dead in the same sentence)
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[Castoria voice] why don't you get into bdsm and then maybe you'll feel better.
Anyways, that was blorbo from my game having the worst life of their life! I think I could have done worse, and will endeavor to do so soon. Still damn proud of it tho!
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magical-girl-brainrot · 8 months ago
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Could you remind us what your magical girl project is about?
i have, many of them. so i'll give a quick recap of them.
team horror gals is about an ensemble cast of horror genre themed magical girls and their token dude of guy Kane as they deal with things like collage, day jobs, working for a eldritch horror made of fear and it's bitter rivalry with a fellow horror who doesn't wanna be a horror anymore. the vibe is very much "what if we followed the dark magical girls instead?" with the bonus of the different age group compared to the usual magical girl work. i plan for it to be a horror/dark comedy
Onyx and the Pretty Knights deals with a fella named Onyx, son of an evil queen of a more typical magical girl setting. he finds himself taking the place of the Pretty Knight's leader after she approaches him with a deal that includes her fucking off and not being involved in the fight anymore and Onyx taking her place by taking her form. i got the idea for this when i saw cure unlovely from pretty cure. and the vibe is v much based on pretty cure.
it's untitled but i do have a magical girl story about a city called Janus and it's magical girls. mostly following two known as Iron Maiden and Lady Nocturnal. girls without magic of their own who somehow manage to be 'magical' girls anyways. it's very much based on me thinking "marvel and dc would be cooler to me if it was magical girls.". bootleg magical girl spiderman was gonna be part of that two but then it became it's Own Thing.
i have, four mythology based magical girl works but i got a different ask about that so i'm gonna ramble about them there.
and those are like, the major and fleshed out ones. tho i got a few loose ideas in my head for some. like one based on the question "what if you took the non human teammates from pretty cure and made them all the one team?", something with like- persona 3's end of the world vibes, and some more.
plus i have my own magical girl Lore system!! cuz i made a tabletop game system for me and the lads. the system itself will probably never be public. but! i would love to get around to rambling about Da Lore (besides. many of my other magical girl settings deal somewhat in the mechanics showing up there.)
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furrbbyx · 2 years ago
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M👹NSTER March Day 6: Eldritch (Aladdin retelling)
Lucky me I already had something going for day 6 so here's the outline for a re-telling of Aladdin because I really like that tale and because I wanted to write about hot eldritch entity getting pussy'd down in one of my favorite stories.
SFW-ish. No seggs.
cw: using prisoners as zombies, mentions sex, death, scheming, yandere vibes, Jafar
Do not reproduce, do not copy.
Approx 1000 words
so Jafar is not only the advisor he is also a man obsessed with arcane magic and bringing men back to life so that they can go into the cave of dreams for him and get the lamp.
He ends up killing Aladdin, a very poor man who get put in prison for stealing bread.
Jafar loves prisoners. Homoerotic
Jafar is able to bring back the man back to life, this time his incantations and embalming ritual work, but it turns him in to an eldritch horror of a bare skull, eyes of red black fire, various visible ligaments and muscles from areas where skin has sloughed off. He's only alive for a few moments, stumbling around and screaming in agony before he slumps to the floor, seeming dead again. 
So they throw out his body but he revives and returns to his life somewhat, hiding under many clothes and a cloak that shields his head while he tries out some of the powers he's compelled to use. He kills, he torments, he's a bad immoral hottie who's testing the limits of his power. He roams the streets until the deaths and rumors of his form haunting dark alleys start to raise alarms in the city.
He's surviving tho.
Enter Princess Jamsin who decides to roam the streets to calm the citizens. Stalked by Yandere Aladdin.
He's captured again for some reason and then Jafar becomes even more unhinged and violent at the discovery. With out hesitation he ends up forcing Aladdin to go to the cave for his chance at freedom.
Aladdin doesn't immediately kill Jafar because he's seeking more power as well. There's a gnawing urge to devour everything arcane and then destroy the universe inside him.
Because of some complications Jafar and his minions think he dies inside. Aladdin is trapped and finding it hard to control his eldritch nature. In fact bloodlust, fury, and cunning overpower his flesh. He can also change to have his skin normal but doesn't gain that power until he leaves the cave.
So in the cave he actually find that it's not filled to the brim with precious metals and goods, it's filled with scrolls of knowledge. He basically cums so hard when he realizes this and he stays there for days. He finds the lamp and the djinn. 
The Djinn can sense the horrors of Aladdin and is honestly afraid of him, yet he still tries to trick his way out of the deal by doing some Calcifer bull shit (? steal his heart?). Idk there's something there. I need to come up with something tricky.
Anyway he makes a wish/they leave the cave and ensconce themselves in a nice apartment in the merchant side of town as high class tourists. While he's been gone (weeks?) Jafar's creations have been causing out right panic and a curfew.
Children, grandfathers, guards, all disappear and no one ever sees the creature. Lots of iron starts going up around the city causing an issue for both Aladdin and the djinn.
Aladdin has def dom/sub issues with Jafar and plans to seek him out by getting an invitation to the palace, when the royalty decides it's still going to host a traditional fete to keep the citizens happy. Obvs a masked affair where he can stalk Jasmin again.
Jasmin has been studying how to defeat monsters ever since Aladdin started haunting the fucking place. She spends her time sparring and going out with the guards, becoming a real hard ass, and suspicious of Jafar. She's at the ball to spy  and to test her new acid on any creature that may try to ruin the ball.
Immediately when Aladdin and her meet she' suspicious. Of course on of Jafar's horrors does crash the ball and she melts him. Kick ass fighting scene (needs research), then melt his ass.
Aladdin is alarmed by her, and the iron bb's she has embedded under her skin, and her quick mind, so he flees in the panic. Regroups and gets an invitation to court to help them deal with the issue threatening the kingdom's peace. He's fully human seeming, but still hiding under the cloaks and a face veil. V. sexy.
Ends up getting paired with Jasmin's task group, duh. They patrol but it's quiet for a week or two while Jafar lays low. Maybe he's moving his operation to avoid Jasmin? This gives Aladdin time to get under her skin. They are bratty to each other because neither wants to back down. But she def initiates things with him. They fuck for days, pretending to be locked away and working on a solution. She mounts him like...all the time I mean she is doming him like nobody's business. Bu in the end it's to get him off guard and trap him.
She suspects it's him because he showed up out of nowhere and because she can sense something off. Maybe it's the way he avoids her iron studded skin. Maybe its the fact that he doesn't breathe when he sleeps (she has a dream that he's dead next to her, kind of golem/jinni)and wakes up to find him like the dead.
Annnnnnywayyy.
The attacks start up again and this time they are in the palace. One attempt on the king which causes an argument with the lovers?
Jafar is angling for power and he breaks into the fancy place Aladdin and the Djinn are renting to steal the Djinn. He plans to raise an undead prisoner army to overthrow the king and then invade the neighboring country. So he has the djinn create the correct formula but he forgets to ask for a way to control them?
Anyway some sort of race against time, Aladdin shows his real self , very horrific and no longer able to control his morality. He just kills whatever and attempts to yandere kidnap Jasmin
Idk exactly how this will end because obv Aladdin can't go back to being a good guy. The Djinn and him become friends and are still very much deviants. But how will Jasmin fit in (homg threesome? two unholy spirit cocks? tentacles!). Eh maybe they decide to become monster hunters and travel the continent after the kingdom is basically destroyed in a a wizard fight. That way Aladdin can still amass power and keep Jasmin for his pervy possessive tendencies.
Eventually he will destroy that realm and seek out others. 
But yeah. That's a good one. Thanks brain. 
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ruleofrosethorns · 1 year ago
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notes for kuwtm!! (since some of yall seem to really enjoy this au)
the main au takes place a few months after SH3
james is here because harry kinda just felt like visiting sh after a couple of years and lo n behold
CAR IN TOLUCA LAKE FEAT. DEPRESSED WET CAT!!
he saved wittle old james and the rest is history
Harry DID NOT DIE because his protective bf (james) saved his sleepy ass
they decided to go on a road trip to Silent Hill and fuck around for a bit
(i might start writing a separate thing for that hehe)
anyway at some point harry got separated from the gang(tm) and went to alchemilla hospital
AND HOLY SHIT LISA IS HERE SHE IS VIBING
(oh and Maria was out and about terrorizing James like old times <3)
pretty much there's just a group of monsters who are kinda just hanging out and smoking weed
they're cool w/ the gang and through undisclosed plot developments i'm still tryna work out in my brain-
the weed-smoking sh group survives the purge of Harold Mason and move into the human world
not directly next to but in the same area as the Masons (much to their concern (except for Heather))
and thus, the mlm wlw rivalry begins /j
Heather enjoys hanging out w/ them but Harry and James are UNDERSTANDABLY conflicted
like idk bro letting our adopted daughter hang out with the manifestations of my guilt seems kinda wack...
but regardless they all love Lisa because she has never done anything wrong ever
Harry's alright(???) w/ Maria and PH?? James is mostly just annoyed by Maria and PANICKED BY PH
Harry and Lisa are honorary siblings <3 they didn't really get to know each other during SH but that all changed when Lisa moved in
Maria and Lisa are in love and sort of formed a found family with the monsters. co-workers of the otherworld ig
the monsters sort of look up to Maria and Lisa as mother figures, PH being the weird uncle that they all love bc he supplies them weed
James & Harry tend to COINCIDENCELY run into Maria & Lisa whenever they go on a date its an ongoing issue
Most of the monsters can't really go outside?? (y'know because grotesque eldritch horrors aren't "allowed" in public SMH)
So Maria, Lisa & Heather usually go on shopping sprees to get their demonic buddies things that they want
Unfortunately Lisa sometimes starts leaking blood so that's sometimes an issue
(she has to inhale & hold her breath to keep it at bay for long periods of time)
She is like a balloon
ALSO Harry is still an author!! He's moved away from murder mystery's and works on supernatural horror & non-fiction novels about certain cults...
NOT BECAUSE OF SH OR ANYTHING HAHA
James doesn't really have a job.
he just sort of fucks around and gets a new part time job every time the last one realizes he has been legally declared missing for 12-13 years
Heather's still in school (doing her last year), had to repeat once because of SH3 kinda resulting in her family needing a REAL vacation
Maria and Lisa don't have jobs. No one knows how they managed to rent a house. James thinks they probably killed the landlord.
Like seriously, where does their money keep coming from.
Heather asked one day and Lisa spoiled the mystery by admitting they sell random demonic items they find in the Otherworld.
SPEAKING OF HEATHER. she is a girl liker. i don't make the rules (i do)
Harry is also teaching her piano (yknow for puzzle related purposes), James "trys" to help her maths homework to various degrees of success.
James does most of the cooking, but can and will resort to eating dirt if needed.
(He doesn't cook because he's good at it or enjoys it tho. it's not like he is better than Harry at cooking-he just REALLY wants to help out around the house)
Oh also James &  Harry got married a few years before the events of SH3. It was a tough decision for them at first but Heather helped them work things out
(She also hijacked the music at the reception and played My Chemical Romance)
Maria n Lisa had thought about marriage but they're sort of stuck with each other for eternity sooOo
LEMME TALK ABOUT HARRIA REAL QUICK (yes harv i have coined that name it is TOO GOOD)
So Maria is directly, y'know, connected to James' subconscious, so she can go back and forth between the forms
Again, James fell in luv w/ Harry and SH panicked and said "FUCK MARIA CHANGE UR PFP"
At first she didn't have much control over it?? So like a year after SH2, Maria's just chilling w/ Lisa and then POOF
HARRIA. And Lisa's like "AYO :O I KNOW THAT GUY?!" So they found out about the boyfriends PRETTY early on
It took a few months, but she managed to figure out how to shapeshift at will. Turns out shes genderfluid!
But after SH3 she doesn't use it that much (yknow considering harry is RIGHT THERE) but she will shapeshift just to fuck w/ people
James is ashamed to admit he actually fell for it once (he was SLEEPY and half-awake, okay?!)
Harry was a lil bit freaked out at first but now he just thinks it's kinda cool
Heather just thinks it funny that this eldritch demonic horror from another world is basically just a yassified vers of her dad and James' ex-wife
>:3
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Taylor Hebert (Worm (webserial by Wildbow))
Human girl who has superpowers that let her control bugs. She shunts all emotions off into her swarm of bugs, leaving her totally blank and stoic. She outsources sensory-input to her bugs, so she never looks or reacts to anything. In a fight, she reacts to opponents there is no possible way she could see, because she sensed them with her bugs. Overall has virtually no facial tells and moves in a way that makes her seem like she isn't a person. very creature <3 she is just a bug girl
shes such a FREAK. shes completely human (tho with an eldritch alien creature extradimensionally attached to her mind) but God does she not act like it sometimes. she has the superpower to control bugs and uses it to become the worlds most terrifying hero slash villain slash warlord slash apocalyptic threat. she has her bugs crawling all over her all the time. she uses a swarm of flies to scout out areas and then leaves flies in everybodys hair so she can keep track of where they are. she practiced having her bugs make noises until she figured out how to combine their noises into human speech so now she can talk through her swarm. she makes decoys of herself out of large pillars of bugs. once she was concussed and in the hospital and subconsciously calling her bugs to her so she was just covered in insects while the doctor tried to help her. then there was ANOTHER time she was hospitalized and got bored so she made a bunch of bugs so a little dance on her chest. whenever she's in costume and talking she has her bugs make noises to distort her voice and make her sound more scary and she doesnt even realize shes doing it anymore. she surrounds herself in a swarm to disorient her enemies. she doesn't even notice when her hair covers her eyes or anything like that because shes scouting out the area using her bugs so she doesnt have to see. she once used a tide of bugs to clean herself off and dust off her dress after having sex.
#she views herself as more of a swarm of bugs with a girl-shaped computer to control them than a girl herself#her body is just an extension of her bugs which is large and inconvenient but ultimately part of the weapon
#taylor “dissociates into bugs” hebert#taylor “keeps bugs in her hair” hebert#taylor “choke them with bugs” hebert#taylor “no one could ever love me” hebert#taylor “violence is always the answer” hebert
#normally i would want a worm character to win#but#bdubs is a strange little man. he's unusual.#Taylor's just got the 'tism.
she literally is a walking superorganism comprised of one human and a lot more bugs to the point where she frequently moves her head as if she can see through walls (with her bugs, she can), talks through her bugs, has been described like a corpse whose ghost is living on in her swarm, keeps functioning thru her bugs even when her human body is out for the count, et cetera. no disrespect intended but genuinely what in the world are you talking about. She cleans her pussy off with bugs after fucking. Her pussy. With bugs. And she thinks it's normal. Because the bugs are part of her. Is this thing on. I reiterate that she literally requires an emotional support cloak of bugs. She is so dissociated from being an actual person that she treats her human body like an inconvenience and her bugs like the primary operators. Is This Thing On.
#now i told myself i wouldnt comment anything on the rb... but#“She cleans her pussy off with bugs after fucking. Her pussy. With bugs.” CHAT IS THAT FUCKIN REAL??? IS THAT CANON???#cause if thats just a hc thats wild and i dont know if its better or worse if its canon#propaganda
this is indeed canon! there is a scene where, after fucking her boyfriend in an abandoned building, she stands up and cleans dust/etc off her naked ass body by having her bugs run across her and clean her, which presumably translates to "they are eating the dirt/sweat/etc off her." her boyfriend smiles affectionately at this, because he also has something wrong with him. she also does things like use bugs and spider silk to deliver her toothbrush straight to her hand in the morning while monologuing about "checking in on her hive" (her hive is the people in her villain territory.) she is a walking panopticon. her friends sometimes talk to bugs under the assumption it's taylor watching them and they're always right. at one point she confusedly asks someone if he's arachnophobic because he doesn't want her 10k black widow spiders to live in his apartment with him. she is basically like if a cockroach was a girl. I would never lie to you about Taylor Hebert, Unsung Champion of Polls About Weird Characters.
#taylor ofc#wait hey those are my tags as propaganda!! cool!#i stand by it#anyways yeah one of her main character traits when looked at by an outside perspective is just how WEIRD she is#everyone thinks she's a freak#even when you're reading her POV you sometimes have to stop and be like 'hey girl what the fuck'#one time she put bugs on her boyfriend's dick
She also turns into a bug monster at one point. Not all on her own, but she very much turns into a bug monster. Literally And Physically.
• And she uses this to survive like a cockroach, she had Just Been Ripped In Fucking Half and thrown in the ocean to die and BOOM. bug monster transformation (with a little help) climb out and keep fighting, against an opponent so vast and powerful a human couldn't even comprehend his true form (not eldritch cognitohazard, just planet-sized + multidimensional), who could kill her in an instant. She's always surviving against the odds she's so cockroach coded (affectionate!) #@ pollrunner if you're still accepting propaganda please take the 'turns into a bug monster' as propaganda#the rest can be ignored or trimmed to 'she's always surviving she's so cockroach coded' but pleamse. the Time she Became A Bug • #she's such a freak!!!#she kills like it's the only thing she was built how to do#she kills people and things like it's chess and she's a grandmaster#as soon as the violence is off she's just a fucked up offputting little one woman panopticon • One of my favourite descriptions of Taylor from someone else's POV, from Interlude 14.
“A figure stood behind Yan. Her costume was barely recognizable—She wore a short cape of tattered black cloth over her body armor, a skintight black suit beneath that, and there were folds of black cloth draped around her legs like a dress or a robe. The entire fabric seemed to ripple and move. It took Sierra a second to realize it was crawling with a carpet of insects.” “The disconcerting part was the girl’s face, or lack thereof. Her expression was masked behind a shifting mass of bugs that moved in and out of her hairline. Sierra couldn’t even tell where the bugs ended and the scalp began, as the small black bodies crawled into and onto the black curls. There was a hint of something like glass where Skitter’s eyes were, but the bugs ventured far enough over her eyelids and around the frames that nothing was visible in the way of goggles, glasses or skin.” “Skitter hadn’t made a sound as she entered. She hadn’t spoken, and her footsteps had been quiet.”
Goodtimeswithscar (Hermitcraft / life series)
Scared for life
I must say that scar, who is a vex and an elf, wins this one.
He was also a witch, but was so busy building an airplane he didn't even notice it. Probably because he is so used to shape changing, having also been a pirate, wizard, trader, superhero, and imagineer.
There were also some rumors about him being a mattress store but those have been debunked.
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reinemichele · 10 months ago
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I wrote a bunch of tags on that and then realized the post would show up in the tag unless I censored the ship name (& tbh I would love more mutuals for them <3) so I rewrote them here to not annoy anyone who's not following me:
I haven't had the editing bug in months but I'd love to use that song for an edit, but tbqh I'm undecided bc almost all of my ships have that "I'm hunting you and I'm not gonna give up so you should just give up hiding from me bc it's useless and I'll always find you and your life will be so much better and all of this was predetermined fate destiny we were made for each other and you're hurting my feelings but I'm being the bigger person :/" vibe
(well no the Master is not being the bigger person . Sometimes he deludes himself into acting like he is tho . He picks between acting like he's being a good sport about things and throwing a tantrum, whichever would be the most fun thing to do in the moment . Anyway . )
But if anyone wanted to do an edit to it, I wouldn't mind or claim that it was *~stealing~*
And how hard is it to get a lyric video for my album track from 7 yrs ago that isn't using stolen art or flashing lights or 10 pt font? 🤨 Do I have to do it myself? Slash lighthearted but like I might just fuck around and do it
I wasn't super into this track when the album came out but I was a different person back then . more restrained, living more by the status quo . more easily put-off by dark things . So like, a teenager . It's amazing what things will change about you/your mind when you're not in high school anymore
I do find sam/ifer to be hashtag romantic, I & overall ignore canon & believe it's reciprocated (tho ofc sometimes it's fun and sexy to read the most horrifyingly dark fic you've ever seen that's like 40 chapters of torture <3) but I also love that it's a horror story and there's no happy endings and it's an eldritch being hunting a person it was promised by god, in this patronizing tone: you don't see yet? Our joining was predetermined; you'll see eventually.
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elvesofnoldor · 5 years ago
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honestly i dont even like inquisitor as a dragon age protagonist (i can’t give a shit abt inquisition as an organization and the more i play the game the less exciting the actual story is), i just happen to get inspired enough to come up with two gay ass elf ocs whom i love with all my heart. Also later i sort of wanna use them as stand-ins for some first age elven lords from tolkien’s story universe and use my lavellans to unleash some first age elves’ unhinged feral energy. 
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sharkface-daydreams · 3 years ago
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Donut for the character meme?
Donut my beloved <3
Why I like them: Donut is the whole package. Opinionated, confident, incredible throwing arm, fabulous, clever, sassy, and still manages to remain upbeat when things have gone to shit. He also has no sense of direction and I love him for that because if you’ve ever played any game ever with me you’ll know I can’t read a fucking map. (I just get turned around, that’s all.)
Why I don’t: I don’t know why but like between seasons 13 and 17 his voice just sort of … I don’t know. It got really grating somehow? I think somewhere in there the original voice actor had to take a season off or something. It was just really hard to get used to at first I guess. It didn’t really sound like ‘him’.
Favorite episode (scene if movie): Ok the whole Doc vs Donut fight was incredible first of all. Season 17 was Donut Wins Everything Forever. I’m so extremely proud of him for standing up for himself to his friends. Comedy wise, the whole shtick with him not understanding Meta was there to harm them was golden. “And personally I found the whole thing quite rude.” “WHAAAAAAAAT?” “Rude.” 👌 fantastic. showstopping. incredible.
Favorite season/movie: Season 17: It’s PINK!
Favorite line: *tearfully* I was petting the bunny and then it went into the soup can… and part of my hand went with it.
Favorite outfit: RE:SEASONS LAVENDER STRIPES DONUT MY BELOVED!!!!!
OTP: Gosh I got a lot of these, he’s so shippable. So full of love and flirty mischief. I could probably do a tier list with Donut ships. Hmm. Top shelf tho? Locnut, RobotNuts, Washnut, Docnut, and to top it all off with a self indulgent cherry: MaineNut. I might elaborate if you ask very nicely lol
Brotp: I love his friendship with Caboose. It’s extremely wholesome but also at the same time on the inside they’re both petty bitches and you know they spend wine and cheese hour talking shit about people.
Head Canon: I think this is semi-canon but he’s hard of hearing from that grenade blast back in season 1. Also missing some fingers from the bunny-hand soup incident. Also he gets worse at understanding Lopez simply because he just can’t fuckin hear. He probably has hearing aid(s) but considering the amount of times he’s left behind or gone off on his own, I have to wonder if maybe he doesn’t get the proper maintenance he needs on them so they don’t work as well as they ought to.
Unpopular opinion: I don’t know if this is unpopular or not, but I very much vibe with ace genderfluid Donut.
A wish: That only good things continue to happen for Donut <3 boy’s been through so fucking much please give him a break. Also, wibbly wobbly timey wimey eldritch horror powers bc of Chrovos having to resurrect him. Also if RT could stop being cowards and make him definitely gay in canon but we know they’re cowards and no one there gives af about anything RVB anymore so whatever. We know. They can’t take that from us.
An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: I do not like to think about bad things happening to Donut. :(
5 words to best describe them: snarky, fabulous, confident, chipper, dramatique
My nickname for them: Delano! and also I think ‘Frankie’ is cute
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