#monster everyone technically

[chrisis-averted]

A little fanmade trailer for my TMA fic Rewind. Reset. Rewrite. with art by @fdevitart

No this won't go on youtube, it's a small thing I made for mostly myself, but I hope you enjoy it. Do you recognise all locations?

[howlonomy]

What would monster clover and kanako look like if they swap places.

Like amalgamate clover and monster kanako?

amalgamate clover: combined with a cactony and a bowll

revived monster kanako: a mix of all of her friends!

[captainha-ha]

Smells like Teen Spirit!!

Individual Doods/Dudes below💙💜❤️

(Aka just roughly how I think Dude would look to each of them.)

Lincoln - Seeing himself, a stressed soccer teen who doesn’t want to care and is grappling with his strained relationship with his father.

Scary - Seeing the “ideal teen” she used to be and the iteration of her that Terry Jr last saw.

Normal - Seeing the angry teen that has to constantly defend who he is to others at school, his friends, his crush, and his father.

Hermie - ??? (Honestly I think Hermie would see the shifting Dude since he himself is always changing.)

Taylor - “Yay, a new friend!”

[inuhodo]

He wanted Baru to betray her horror. Well, she'd vomit on him before she looked up.

baru cormorant my wretched fucking thing, woman that you are, traitor of all time

[musubiki]

fun tcwg fact but one of the hardest opponents lime has ever fought is actually corven, murdas (taller but younger) brother. because post-timeskip lime has zero magic attack capabilities and corven has a broken defense stat

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Do you think Home and Bardaby would end up- if not friends than at least allies eventually in your fantasy au? I think it would be a real shame if Wally's best friend & his patron couldn't find some common ground. Maybe they could both keep an eye on Wally for each other? I know Home is literally Always There with him, but there are some human(puppet?) issues that an elder god just wouldn't really get. idk, I just think it's a bit of a shame that they don't get along, since Barnaby's the only other person besides Wally to actually interact with home in the original ARG.

oh no yeah! they do Eventually! it just takes a while and some work. Home in this au is pretty protective of Wally for Reasons, and it takes a lot to make them go "hey, you're chill. i like you". unfortunately Barn is also protective (not nearly to Home's extent but yk) so they naturally clash where they should get along

i have the full process In My Mind but essentially: Home, if given express permission, can "possess" Wally (put in quotes bc technically Wally is already possessed by them). this happens either when Wally wants a fucking break / is overwhelmed and wants Home to take the wheel (Wally's consciousness is kinda 'turned off' - it falls into a deep sleep!), or if Home does Wally a favor - they trade the favor for a set amount of possession time. because Home would like to have a body & make the decisions from time to time <3

during one of these "Home has the wheel" periods, i imagine that some shit goes down that forces Barnaby & Home to work together w/o a mediator. and during this time they're trying to get through this while keeping Wally's body relatively unharmed - Barnaby experiences a nice disconnect of "this is Wally but its also not Wally & its also a being i don't like very much bc its a dick-". but through the power for Forced Interaction, they realize that yeah, they have common ground, but they're also not too bad :]. catch Wally taking the wheel and being perplexed at how Barnaby is all "hey say hi to Home for me!" or asking for Home's opinion on things.

[sysig]

I like him a normal amount (lying) (Patreon)

[swordsmans]

hi, swordsman! Your book is amazing. Can I ask, will you ever write zolu smut for your merman luffy au too? I saw you wrote one for luzo and was wondering if you'll try the other team too.

omg!! thank you so much!! :D im glad you think so!!! it was very fun to make!!! <3 <3

if you mean the luzo smutfic thats attached to the footnotes of the merman/mafia au, i actually did not write that!!! that was a delightful gift from @faggotzoro inspired by the au :D <3

that being said, you are actually not the first person to ask if ill be continuing the merman/mafia au!! ive been considering it but havent really been sure how to go about it, since i have some ideas but nothing substantial to tie them together. maybe some post-epilogue smut would be fun, split up the same way i did "bone-breaker ospreys". thank you for the idea!! i will think on this 👀

[stairset]

Love the idea here that the other rebels' problem with Saw is just that he blows shit up and not the whole "torturing prisoners and endangering civilians" thing

[toraestrial]

oscar....my atrocious lil asshole

[solradguy]

Being an otherkin bastard's fun actually until someone asks you a sorta deep question about it and then you're confronted with The Horrors of Introspection

[proustianlesbian]

urasawa is so real because he said what if the best man that you can rely on, the kindest man you could ever meet was an old man with a big mustache.

[cream-and-tea]

how do werewolves work in lmd (plus anything else like that)

OK SO.

(this got very very long)

(just as a warning)

(also i’m going to tag @transmasc-wizard bc i remember you asked about this a while ago and a lot of this response comes from what i had typed up to respond to YOU lol)

(okay here we go)

there are (putting it very very basically) two main kinds of magic in the Ghost Story Universe: mortem (Death Juice) and vita (Life Juice). they draw from the same source (God Juice) (which is also the source of the apocalypse but that’s another post entirely) and are kind of different aspects of one thing, but still act as opposing forces. equals and opposites, can’t have one without the other, etc etc. the point is that even though they’re two different types of magic they share the same set of rules and operate under the same basic facts. one of the most basic being that magic is physically taxing to use. no magic comes without a cost

so this is pretty straightforward. and generally it isn’t anything too debilitating, but the more powerful the magic and the more magic used, the more damaging the physical effects become (for example: early on agnes’s chitchats with the ghosts she sees don’t really wear on her because it’s a very passive form of her power, but as the plot progresses and she actively draws on it more and more she starts to develop chronic headaches). the more active magic bullshit you do in succession —> the worse you’ll be feeling the next morning. people would usually need to rest for upwards of a few days after performing a major act of magic and the reason The Library focuses so much on endurance and repetition is to prevent that from happening. it’s to the point that some majorly powerful stuff is possible but the benefit of it is almost completely outweighed by the potential damage it would cause.

rambly worbuilding aside, this is really just a preface so it makes sense when i say: vampires and werewolves are what happen when people push their magic to far.

they’re basically the most extreme end of the spectrum for either kind of magic. vamps are a result of overusing vita (blood life stuff), and wolfs are a result of overusing mortem (spooky death stuff). this happens to people when they’re drawing on so much magic that their body literally cannot support it anymore and starts canabilizing itself in order to support the magic and prevent the person from just. coming apart at the seams. a Regular Person body is just incapable of handling that amount of power, so in turn they have to draw their sustenance from a different non-human source. the comparatively small piece-of-magic-apocalypse-juice in them mutates and co-opts the functions of their body in order to save that body from collapse. both vamps and wolves have to feed CONSTANTLY or they risk their bodies giving in and all their organs straight-up failing. it’s a slow transformation process and sort of representative of how much Whatever Caused The Apocalypse has become so deeply ingrained in every part of the new world. again: it presents differently but it’s all the same stuff in the end.

the world is full of monsters and weirdness and general spooky bullshit but vampires and werewolves especially have an ENORMOUS amount of stigma surrounding them because of the fact that most people still see regular magic users as recognizably human, and view the transformation as a transition from Human Person With Emotions Who I Should View As Such Despite This One Weird Thing to Inhuman Monster. most magical creatures aren’t seen as sentient in nature and many of them are actively dangerous to humans, so if someone pushes their abilities to far and ends up undergoing the transformation then it’s seen as a shift from being one of Us (normal people just trying to survive this crazy broken down to world) to being one of Them (unnatural monsters that came about as a result of the evil forest and apocalypse and want to destroy humanity), except that obviously the people who are turned are the same people they were before, just with an extra set of challenges and probably more bloodlust (which i can see being a bit of concern but c’mon. are u really going to let a little killer instinct get in the way of a lasting and meaningful relationship. weak).

They’re also used as an excuse when it comes to hatred of people born with magic at all. bc sure it SEEMS harmless when you kid is learning from their dead grandma or healing a little bit faster than normal, but with ONE WRONG MOVE they could become A VISCOUS BEAST or a BLOODSUCKING MONSTER and do you really want to take that risk?? wouldn’t it be better to stamp that out now before someone gets hurt??? even in places like The Library, which usually serves as a safe-haven for people born w magic, vamps and wolfs are seen as somehow Lesser. The Library toutes them as cautionary tales and failures of magic, basically a warning of what not to do to their students.

to get into the more specific abilities and effects and What Being A Vampire Or Werewolf Means i’ve made some handy little lists (ft. calliope and luca macnamara, a book 2-3 character that nobody knows about lol) (please click tumblr absolutely wrecked the quality):

so. yeah.

[kariachi]

Hey look, ficlet! Who wants some Kevin-brand survivor’s quilt?

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It’s his fault.

That’s the worst part of losing Kwarrel. The part that keeps him up at night, digs itself up under his heart like the point of a blade. Knowing to the depths of his soul that he could have done something.

It had all just been- There had been so much adrenaline in the air, things had gone so wrong so quickly. And he’d trusted Kwarrel. Had all the faith in the world in him, had never seen him falter, never seen him fall. That there had been any struggle against Morgg had been more than he would have ever expected, and the idea he could actually- (he should’ve known better, he should’ve known better-)

Kwarrel had said to go. He’d trusted him, he’d listened.

He’d been a fucking coward.

For so long, too long, he’d told himself he should have picked up the blaster, but he knew better. As he got older it was easier to admit, easier to let that blow land. Taking the weapon had never been an option, he hadn’t known how to use it then, and he hadn’t been stupid enough to try. No, his instinct had been the same one that coursed through his veins whenever a fight got hard.

Shift.

Burn.

Bite.

Rend.

Crush beneath his heels because how dare he.

And he had been scared. Scared of what he could be, scared of what he could do, scared of getting stuck again, scared of the pain, and Kwarrel- Kwarrel had given him an out.

Like a coward he had taken it.

He’d run. Kwarrel had died. He’d kept running. Hadn’t turned when the shot went off. Not when Kwarrel didn’t come after him. Just. Kept. Going.

His nightmares remind him of it. Every fight that goes wrong reminds him of it. That he turned and ran instead of giving the help he knew he could. That his mentor, his family, had died from his cowardice. That people suffered beyond that because he didn’t just kill Morgg when he was right there.

The first person to see the whole of him and not find a monster was dead.

That was all the proof Kevin needed to prove he’d been wrong.

[zamalie]

I also think it’s a little misleading to claim that Rose got zero comeuppance for her actions before her passing considering her entire army consisting of her friends got corrupted. I know people overlook this (or possibly even just don’t think it’s possible given they seem to think she had no capacity to care about people) because they just want to blame her for it happening but that most definitely counts as a devastating consequence of the war she started. Not even mentioning the fact that she spent the rest of her life in hopeless pursuit of fixing it

[quietwingsinthesky]

🌹:O

:3c

Lucifer doesn't care how the labcoats say it works; he knows there's no such thing as a clean break from a drift the minute the plug is pulled. Instead, Michael goes from a second consciousness beside his own to being dragged out of Lucifer the further Lucifer gets from him, both of them gripping tight to the connection until it slips, until it snaps, with a violent recoil that knocks Lucifer's brain out of alignment and reminds his legs that they don't work. His next step falls too fast, too heavily, and refuses to take his weight. It's only Michael, now only a voice outside of Lucifer's head yelling his name, catching him from behind that allows Lucifer to collapse to the floor with his dignity intact.