#monsters in love

[netherworldpost]

Monster Kiss Simulator (RPG)

>You kiss the monster. Kiss again?

Y / Y

>You kiss the monster. Kiss again?

Y / Y

>You kiss the monster. Kiss again?

Y / Y

>You kiss the monster. Kiss again?

Y / Y

>You kiss the monster. Kiss again?

[wrongfourtytwo]

M-meow sobs

[dobodleaday]

10.25.23 Drawtober Day 25: Werewolf ❤️ Vampire 🐺🦇

[cursed-iris]

"monsters in love." 🕰🥀

based off j.c. leyendecker's "the butterfly couple" (1923) for the 10th anniversary of jack and the cuckoo clock heart's theatrical release.

like two years ago, i made designs of older versions of the characters based off the book ending and the extended lore from the 2005 album. ask me about the extended jatcch lore from the 2005 album. go on, ask me. ask me about the exte-

[wingedog]

Oh can’t you see I was made for you and you for me

[royal-color]

I’ve always loved stories like Beauty and the Beast, Phantom of the Opera and Hunchback of Notre Dame. I’m drawn to them though not because I see myself as the beautiful damsel everyone loves but because I see my soul in the Beast, the Phantom, the Hunchback. I see myself and hope one day someone will see past my darkness and love my monsters.

-Royal

[verdantvulpus]

Harpy picture is (finally) done and up on Patreon. Here's a little teaser to tide you over until the exclusivity is up (assuming I remember) or you can can see it today by throwing yer doubloons up on my Patreon!

[blueangelflights]

Sneak peak at a little something I’m working on

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[nmzuka]

whatever I'll post my addendum to it anyway

[eclipseshotel]

[dobodleaday]

12.16.23 Intrusion

[cursed-iris]

please infodump about jatcch i beg i beg i beg 🙏🙏

👀 omg, omg ok SO i'm sorry in advance for my ravings because they are not going to make any sense,,

most people know about the jatcch movie ending, which is my favorite interpretation, but there's also the 2007 novel that the movie is based on and a lot of fans don't know about the 2005 dionysos album "monsters in love."

spoiler warning for the book below the cut because i be rambling-

basically, in the book jack doesn't die after kissing miss acacia. in fact, it's confirmed that there was actually nothing necessarily wrong with his heart and the three rules were just nonsense madeleine came up with to keep him dependent on her,,, which is... Not Great obviously. if i recall correctly, it's been a while since i've read it, he gets into this argument with miss acacia over joe and jack, like a total dumbass (with all due respect), starts ripping his heart out of his chest. this sends him into a coma for about three years. when he wakes up, he learns a few things:

a) méliès wrote a book about him and his heart (not important to this post per say, but that is where he learns he never needed a cuckoo clock heart in the first place, so yikes amiright?)

b) he looks different

c) everyone thinks he's dead and miss acacia is married to joe now

so, like, he's shit out if luck, but he tries to reacquaint himself with miss acacia anyway, who goes on about how she's unhappily married and how she's actually in love with this dude who died three years ago. jack's like, "omg girlie, that's me" and he gives her his old cuckoo clock heart.

instead of being happy that he's alive, miss acacia is PISSED. she's like, "dude, i thought you were dead, i'm in a loveless marriage, and i put flowers on your grave every day for the past few days. fuck you actually." she leaves and never speaks to him again, so jack returns to edinburgh as a phantom of his former self. really great stuff.

anyway, if monsters in love is canon to the jatcch storyline, it takes place directly after the end of the novel and technically makes the novel a prequel considering the album came first. anyway, i don't know exactly how much time has passed between the end of the book and the first song in the tracklist "giant jack" (banger song btw), but my guy's been through some things. he's godzilla-sized now and he's terrorizing scotland because,,,

reasons.

also, the song tes lacets sont des fées has a music video featuring jack, acacia, and what i assume is the "broken bird" (another song from the tracklist). it's weird as hell, but it does allude to the fact that maybe miss acacia returned to edinburgh at one point to perform and encountered jack, who is not doing it great let's be real. and she does not care about him tbh, which,, given whatever is going on in the music video, is valid.

we're not gonna ask questions, it's dionysos we're talking about. like i could rant all about my headcanons on what all the other songs mean and the fact that joe is probably mister chat, but this post is already long enough 😭

[celestialkiri]

I rest my case here 😌

[indoraptorgirlwind]