#monsterology

[what-is-my-aesthetic]

The Ology series was my childhood and IT'S STILL GOING (dragonology, wizardology and MORE)

[deadasursleepschedule]

Bitches who wanted to collect all of the -ology books as a kid are queer now, and also still want the entire set. (It's me I'm bitches)

[walimatu-library]

Monsterology

Faerieology

Greater faeries

Lesser faeries

Revenantology

Necromancy (a discipline of thaumatology)

Phantasmology

Vampirology

Zombology

Therianthropy

Bovanthropy

Chiropteranthropy

Hyenanthropy

Leonanthropy

Lupanthropy

Pardanthropy

Phocanthropy

Simianthropy

Tigranthropy

Ursanthropy

[drreadnought]

How did you learn to draw dragons?! They look so good!!! ✨✨💕

I'm completely self-taught! Dragons have been a special interest of mine ever since I learned what they were when I was a kid, so I've been drawing them for years and years, which gave me a lot of practice.

[beetle-goth]

The age of cringe is over. I will write the Bertie/Madeline/Jeeves fic that’s been living in my head rent free for months

[comfymoth]

hiiiii moth hii. ur my resident vampire wereworlf mutual ur like my ta in these studies in a way so with this in mind i have a quastion for you. a query even. what happens when a werewolf bites a vampire or vice versa. can u get half vampire half werewolves. what is your wisdom

SOAP hi hello oh this is a good one okay. so. if vampirism and lycanthropy can be transmitted through bite, then we can use fake-fantasy-science to assume that they have some function similar to a virus, injecting new information into a cell and multiplying that way. using That, we can assume that if someone who already has one ‘virus’ were exposed to the other one, there would be some sort of viral interference. i believe this would take place in the form of superinfection suppression, where, quote: “persistently infected cells hold off infections by unrelated viruses” (thank u wikipedia). so basically (according to fake fantasy science that i can bs however i want because this is fake fantasy), if you have all this werewolf juice in you already and someone introduces a new smaller amount of vampire juice, the werewolf juice is gonna fuckin beat up the vampire juice and it won’t be able to get a foothold and survive.

so if a vampire got bit by a werewolf or vise versa, i think they’d just get sick for a week or two while their body fights off the ‘infection.’ maybe in some rare once-in-a-blue-moon case you could find them coinfecting! but 99.9% of the time. probably just results in a bad fever

[drawbudd]

Glad to see that the autism is still the same

[what-is-my-aesthetic]

BASIC vs. BASED

[lycorogue]

I'm talking with a friend about Dracula Daily and how neat it is to revive a literary classic like that. How it was able to get published with its new chronological narrative as opposed to the original overlapping timelines.

But we both thought it would be cool if we somehow had a Dracula that included Jonathan's entries in shorthand with Mina's translation next to it.

Then I remembered the -ology books I read in the early 00s (I think... may have been late 90s).

For those who don't know, these were a series of childrens books that presented the fantastical or mythological as "factual" by designing the books like field guides or lost journals.

Their prominent series was Dragonology which had its own spin-offs. There was also Wizardology and Egyptology (which focused on the Egyptian pantheon being real) and Mythology (which was the same thing, but for Greek gods) and Monsterology, etc. Apparently there's 17 books in total in the series! I fell off at about 7!

Point being, these were awesome, interactive, fun books.

And I kind of want a Dracula stylized like them.

I want pages where it looks like Jonathan's original journal entries - written in the shorthand - are secured to scrapbook pages, with Mina's typed up translation nestled next to them. Similar to how Shakespearean plays have the original text to the left and then a modern translation on the right.

I want pages that look like Mina's and Lucy's letters back and forth to each other - printed with different handwriting fonts - are on corresponding pages. Maybe with the torn open envelopes tucked behind the letters.

I want Mina's transcriptions of John's audio recordings.

I want the telegrams being sent by Quincey or Helsing.

I want the actual newspaper clipping about the Demeter.

I want the receipts from the shipping company moving Dracula to Carfax.

I want the visual storytelling of all of these different bits of media compiled like a giant tome of a scrapbook.

I'd also love maps! Maps showcasing the route Jonathan took to and from Transylvania as well as the doomed route of the Demeter. I want a map of England with the various named locations showcased. I want a map of Whitby. I want a map of the interior of Dracula's castle.

So on and so forth.

Anyone know if this is already a thing now that Dracula is in the public domain? Anyone know of an existing shorthand translation of Jonathan's journal entries? Any graphic designers out there feeling where I'm going with this and want to team up to manifest it????

[mousefluff]

[boilingdreamland]

Laius is a Bleeding Edge Monsterology Researcher and Marcille is Jealous of his many generous research grant offers

[randomencounters]

Encounter: False Professor Agumon, a small evil dinosaur that presents itself as an expert in monsterology despite having no actual qualifications.

[zoobus]

Reread DM over the last couple days

There's more yuribait between Namari and Kiki than [redacted].

there's a lot more (not a lot, just a lot more) romantic bait between a touden sibling and marcille than I remembered. Just not that one.

Falin is cute but she's barely around enough to haunt the narrative, let alone leave me with substantial feelings about her or her relationships.

this has no bearing on the story's quality, but I kept wishing DM was one of those fat Monsterology books or, even better, a nice thick TTRPG hardcover. It's a genuine shame to publish the World Guide as a tiny little paperback, give those monsters room to breathe!

I love the world building significantly more than I care about the story though.

DM is at its absolute horniest when there's a beast with zero human features doing things to a human or vice versa. "I just ate your desire to resist" holy shit

Dunno how I feel about the ending. I do like that despite spoilers, I didn't guess where it was going or how it would conclude. I liked the motivations (love entities that aren't acting out of malice and I love when humanity perceives something as a monkey's paw when it's really a skill issue) and I enjoy that it's not a clean, tidy ending, but. Idk. It felt like they kept getting distracted and trying to juggle a little too much all at once, maybe? Can't put my finger on it

I can't find the person I was beefing with in st just's notes but I was so right when I said DM gets so much better when it stops being a mid-tier recipe of the week manga. The people who disagree have never read a cooking manga or cooking isekai in their life.

@ that ending: okay and? Let him get fat.

Thistle is a better name than Sissel but "the Lunatic Magician" is a thousand times cooler than "the Mad Sorcerer."

[jurakan]

It’s still Thursday but I’m getting in line now for my Friday Fun Fact!

GET IN LINE AND YE SHALL BE REWARDED! Today You Learned about the Roc/Rukh!

Rene Bull's illustration.

In Middle-Eastern mythology, the roc is a big, massive, so-big-it-eats-elephants-what-the-fudge bird. It appears in 1001 Nights, notably in the story of Sinbad, and other folklore stories.

Marco Polo mentions it in his book chronicling his travels. He doesn't claim to have seen one, but he describes it as a giant bird from the south that hunts elephants by picking them up and dropping them to smash them to pieces, and ensures you know that it's something different from a griffin. According to him, the Mongol Emperor sent people to Madagascar to investigate, and they returned with a giant feather (Wikipedia claims that it was likely the branch of a Raffia palm tree).

An 1865 illustration of a hatching roc egg.

In the years since, people have tried to come up with a rational explanation for the roc, like that it was inspired by a prehistoric bird, or the ostrich, or something or another. I don't know; strikes me as a bit silly, if you ask me. To me, it's just a cool mythological bird that shows up in literature sometimes.

You may notice that one shows up in Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke, or in Baudelino by Umberto Eco. In Dragonology, I think it's specifically mentioned that the wyvern inspired stories of the roc, though Monsterology I think canonizes rocs as actually existing?

Anyway! I hope you didn't know this Fun Fact!