#divine monster !

[mechaniaa]

thread of godzilla production images where the rubber suits and puppetry are touched as if they were angels:

bonus mothra that could bring me to tears:

#rie ota cradling her baragon suit.... #'why are you crying' the divine act of creation got to me #godzilla #toho #toho monsters #kaiju #gojira #text

[kayakovicyoo]

Possession (1981)

#possession movie #possession 1981 #possession #isabelle adjani #french actress #monster lover #dark femininity #horror girls #sexy goddess #divine feminine #femalescharacters #horror movies

[a2zillustration]

I carried this thing for MONTHS with the EXPRESS PURPOSE of putting Raphael in it (knowing full well Larian wouldn't let me do that, mechanically) and I had one major miscalculation.

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#Ok I'm gonna ramble in the tags about all this get ready: #I KNEW Larian wouldn't let me actually pull this off but I PROMISE you that stupid flask sat in my inventory since the moment I grabbed it #WAITING for when I could write this little bit about putting Raphael in it #I even threw it at him in the fight with a 30% hit chance and it succeeded so I considered that Larian giving me permission to say it workd #But as I was reading up on it again when I was sketching this I saw the bit about native planes and I cried LMAO. But it's dnd- #so I rewrote is as it would've happened in a game. U kno. #Also I have been waiting to use that fox line for SO LONG bc of Croissant's dad being a fox-like fey creature #So much backstory that's slotted in PERFECTLY with the BG3 narrative #Anyway absolutely wild that we managed to take out this ancient powerful devil - and on the first try! #Lae'zel with a potion of speed did WORK. Gale came in clutch with hold monster. Astarion gave Raph stage fright. Croissant made him dance #(I'm pretty sure he just doesn't have a dance animation in ascended form lol) #Hope didn't even need to use divine intervention - this party is terrifying #Croissant hated him but in the end I loved Raphael I see why all you people like him #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #act III spoilers #house of hope #croissant adventures #tav #raphael #lae'zel #iron flask #comics #ALSO shoutouts to you if you both noticed and knew which worthikids animation I borrowed the expression in panel 5 from

[bitter69uk]

“Divine is a real man. And he’s just as charming out of character, walking down a New York street with his balding head and his favourite mechanic’s overalls or a Zandra Rhodes chiffon caftan. Like a platinum and exaggerated overweight Jayne Mansfield, he can wobble into the best parties in New York and Paris, break through glass barriers and charm everyone.”

/ André Leon Talley reflecting on Divine in the 1984 book Mega Star /

All hail! Beloved freak diva / drag monster / hog princess extraordinaire / John Waters’ 300-pound leading lady / hi-NRG disco chanteuse, the raunchy Queen Mutha of us all, the artist formerly known as Harris Glenn Milstead – Divine (19 October 1945 – 7 March 1988) was born 78 years ago today! Now sing along with me: “My car is by Ferrari and my body's Jack LaLanne / My clothes are by Armani and my hair is by Elaine / Tiffany and Cartier are telling me the time / This native love is restless and I'm just not satisfied …”

#divine #harris glenn milstead #john waters #drag monster #cult cinema #hi nrg disco #lobotomy room #drag queen #punk #queer #lgbtqia #female trouble #pink flamingos #fierce #queen mutha #most beautiful woman in the world

[amethyst-crowns]

still thinking of @azrielgreen ‘s Eddie / Little Bit

WIP

#WIP #i draw things #You’re Divine lives in my head rent fucking free #like really might reread her soon #for as much as i love this fic i have drawn a criminally low percentage of fanart dedicated to it #you’re divine eddie #Little Bit my precious little monster #i want to cradle you in my hands so gentle #eddie munson fanart #eddie munson

[illustratus]

Virgil and Dante Sitting on the Back of Geryon by Bartolomeo Pinelli

#virgil #dante #geryon #art #bartolomeo pinelli #inferno #hell #divine comedy #the divine comedy #dante alighieri #medieval #middle ages #religion #religious #christianity #christian #europe #european #italy #mythical creatures #monster #monsters #giant #giants #greek mythology #mythology #laurel wreath

[cuties-in-codices]

dante and virgil riding the "gerione"

in an illustrated copy of the "divina commedia", italy, c. 1350–1375

source: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Holkham misc. 48, p. 26

#isn't he handsome #14th century #medieval art #medieval manuscript #divine comedy #divina commedia #gerione #monsters #illuminated manuscript #dante #virgil

[3gremlins]

those "dragon age fans are mad that baldur's gate 3 fans have something/how come they get to be happy" posts are so funny to me b/c i legit thought the venn diagram of people who would be into these two games was a circle.

like real talk, instead of pining for da4/staring jealously at bg3 enjoyers, you too can pick up bg3 (available now if you have pc, in september if you're on console), you will probably enjoy the shit out of it and it will keep you warm through the long nights/weeks/months/years until da4 comes out (also check out divinity original sin 2 while you're about it! similar vibes, lots of hot npcs to romance, including a broody ancient skeleton man who is weirdly hot, fun combat to be had, plot to enjoy, corpses to eat ԅ(☉Д☉)╮)

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #dragon age #games are not mutually exclusive you can and should enjoy everything you want #you can love them both #text post #da4 #the elves eat people canonically in divinity it's so fucking weird and i love it #fane has some solas vibes but i think he's nicer #we're all monster fuckers here and as soon as we admit this to ourselves we'll all be happier #join us

[dailyadventureprompts]

Deity: Heironeous, The Vindicator

Let our hands never falter, sparing evil the sword Let our hearts never waiver, letting weakness take root Let our march never end, lest the task be left undone

Champions, zealots, fools. All these words describe the followers of Heironeous; patron god of those blinded by duty and self righteousness. From the guards who rough up vagrants for the sake of social order, to the patriotic songs sung by soldiers on the way to invade a land they've never seen, to the teacher who’s convinced they can instruct through pain, because sparing the rod really does spoil the child.

It is a terrifying thing after all to be in the wrong, to have no easy answers, to be filled with doubt, and so the Archpaladin and his clergy intercede to provide the fearful populace with direction, with easy answers, and with scapegoats when necessary.

Adventure Hooks:

The party are asked by some troubled parents to look in on the local chapterhouse of the Invincible Vanguard, who took over for the town's royal garrison some years ago. A number of youths, bored of life in their sleepy little town decided to sign up with the Vanguard a few months past and have not been seen since. The Heironeian are cagey to say the least, but through their investigation the party might stumble across the same awful secret the kids did during their initiation, as well as their ultimate fate.

A beast rampages through the countryside, sowing fear, destruction, and rumour wherever it goes. Defeating it is no easy task, but one of the local lords is willing to pay a high price should the party bring him its head as proof. Imagine their surprise when a few days later a group of Heironeian paladins are paraded through the street carrying THEIR trophy aloft, claiming all the credit and with that same lord backing their claims. It seems the party has been part of a cruel PR stunt, however will they make this right?

A series of inexplicable mishaps and borderline disasters that plague a frontier village have come to a head with one of the Vindicator's itinerant preachers convinces the locals that devilry is the source of their woes, pointing the blacksmith's tiefling apprentice. It's up to the party to prevent the kid from getting strung up, and make the villagers see reason before there's an out and out witchhunt on their hands.

Setup: From the outside, with the perspective of history, it’s easy enough to see that there’s something wrong with faith of Heironeous, how their temples and icons venerate violence, whether it be martial glory or the suffering of martyrs that needed to be avenged. How their liturgy teaches the faithful that sympathy to outsiders, questions to authority, even the smallest of doubts are weaknesses to be overcome.

But the Heironeans are the ones fighting off the monsters encroaching on your village when the baron won’t pay for garrisons or adventurers, and it’s their priests who come to hand out food to the hungry and say there’s work the town over building their new fortress, and it’s their inquisitors who stand in the market square telling the crowd that all the awful things that happened these past few years is the fault of sinful, faithless rulers, and if only they could be led by righteous men (and it is always men) and expel the social parasites then truly this realm could be one beloved by the gods. 

That’s the grift, the Heironeans seize on a crisis or a fear and offer to put your life on a better track, nevermind that it’s a permanent war footing where you and your family and neighbours are conscripted to roles based on how you’d be most useful, and disagreement amounts to insubordination.

Heironeans say they’re justified of course because evil is always out there, the one true evil, Hextor, the grotesque, six armed lord of bloodshed and suffering who wishes to make slaves or corpses of all the world and the heavens besides. He is jealous of Heironeous you see, his twin brother, who is propheciesed to be the only one who can defeat him. Hextor never rests, always spawning more evil in the world, and anyone could be his follower without even knowing it... all they’d need to do is work to subvert the will of the archpaladin and they’d be abetting the scourge.  You don’t want to be an agent of evil do you? Then tithe to the church, enlist in the vanguard, obey your betters, marry early and within your kind and have more children to carry on the fight when you are too week, raise them up right, kneel when you are told, submit. Do all these things and the Vindicator will know you are good, and worth fighting for, and will forgive your mortal failings. 

There is a deeper lore, behind even what the faithful or even most of their leaders know:  that Heironeous and Hextor are the same being. Sometimes it is the monster wearing the golden hero like a mask, sometimes it is the bright and radiant warrior casting a most wicked shadow, sometimes it is simply that the god of war and slaughter has two faces, fair and foul, both righteous, both tyrannical, both hungering for blood.

The cult of Hextor is a secret order within the faith, membership offered only to those chosen by their god or those that see the worship of the archpaladin for what it really is: Violence for the sake of power, power for the sake of violence. They are secretive, deflecting rumours of their existence onto puppets and figureheads that they manipulate, going so far as to create false-cults to the Scourge to draw the faithful’s attention and ire. Any fault in the church can be blamed on Hextorian infiltration, any opponent that challenges them is but an agent of the Scourge.

  Titles:  The invincible, the vindicator, the archpaladin / the scourge, the herald of hells

Signs:  Oddly serene visions of violence and pain, wounds or blood on the image or relics of martyrs or weapons of champions, prophetic nightmares about the victory of Hextor.

Symbols:  A white hand or clapsed around a silver lightning bolt/ a black gauntlet clutched around six red arrows

Inspiration: Cruelty cloaked in the guise of righteousness is not an original concept but after writing  about how d&d has weird habit of using a frankly childlike view of morality in order to justify its violence  the same way that IRL hategroups do, I wanted to play around with the concept. 

Likewise, I felt my campaigns needed a solid “badguy with the aesthetic of goodguy” villain and I was tired of using overzealous followers of the dawnfather or bahamut to fill out the roster.  Specifically, rather than bad people in service to an ostensibly good god (who are objectively real in the setting and thus would try to oust the bad apples), I wanted to create an evil god that used the trappings of goodness to dupe average people into doing bad, the same way that has happened over and over again historically in our own world.

 I ended up choosing Heironeous for this villain makeover because like a lot of other default d&d deities I find the base form of him painfully one note, he’s the paladin god of paladins and he has hero IN HIS NAME. That said, he has a twin brother Hextor, god of war and tyrants that serves as his dark mirror and there’s thematic meat in that... Merging the two into one god gives us this delicious setup where the theology of Heironeous creates the problem and sells the solution, benefiting no matter who wins in the supposed cosmic power struggle.

Art

#deity #divinity: war #heironeous #hextor #monsters reimagined #villain #villain cleric #Cultists #villain cult #paladin #fighter #Monk #Cleric

[monstrous-fusion]

.:Prologue; Divine Call:.

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#Creator Content #Monsterous Fusion #Legend of Zelda AU #Prologue Divine Call #Posted a buncha updates for this chapter on the discord #wink nudge nudge #More in 30 minutes

[cerberus-albian]

Everything runs its own course...

#artists on tumblr #danielamv #illustration #drawing #paint #acrylic #painting #traditional art #kitsune #fox #kyubi #white fox #magic #sakura #divine #therian #animal #monster #night #sakura tree

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

Top 10 of 2023 ✨

These were the reads that wouldn’t leave my head, that I loved the most, that I can’t stop thinking about even at the end of the year. What were yours?

#booklr #book photography #book picture #top 10 #top 10 books #the foxglove king #delicious monsters #her majesty’s royal coven #divine rivals #fourth wing #happy place #weyward #house of roots and ruin #emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries #you again #bookworm #bibliophile #fiction #fantasy #romance #book community #book aesthetic #book lover #book nerd #my photos #mine

[gaal-dornick]

doing a 180, i would just like to say bill randa is an autism powered fuck machine. hit post now, send to tag

#monarch legacy of monsters #not sorry for inflicting this onto the world but this exact sequence of words has been stuck on my mind since the season started #i just know i'm right it was a divine revelation etc #personal #he's good i just know it ok

[yugiohcardsdaily]

Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder

"2 Level 12 monsters Once per turn, if an Xyz Monster battled this turn, you can also Xyz Summon 'Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder' by using 1 Xyz Monster you control as material. (Transfer its materials to this card.) (Quick Effect): You can detach 2 materials from this card; send all other cards from the field to the GY. Once per turn, if another card(s) you control is destroyed by battle or an opponent's card effect: You can attach 1 card from your hand, Deck, or Extra Deck to this card as material."

#divine arsenal aa-zeus - sky thunder #yugioh #yu-gi-oh #yu-gi-oh cards #duel monsters

[badgerbeesblog]

I am your goddess, you will kneel for me, praise me, worship me.

And I will kneel for It alone

#goddess aesthetic #venus #queer nsft #nsft pics #wlw nsft #queer ns/fw #monster fucker #submisive and breedable #bd/sm blog #sensuality #sexy titts #curvy body #she they #divine feminine

[awwrealmonsters]

Round 2 of the Human/Monster Romance Poll is up on Twitter here: X. 

Thank you everyone who voted in the first round, I’m thrilled at the response. The voting has been shortened this time to 3 days so if you are interested please vote :)

Featured Here

R2-1: Belle and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast) Vs  Hellboy and Liz Sherman (Hellboy)

R2-2: Jonathan Sims and Martin Blackwood (The Magnus Archives) Vs  Prince Sidon and Link (Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

R2-3: Elisa Esposita and The Amphibian Man (The Shape of Water) Vs  Goliath and Elisa Maza (Gargoyles)

R2-4: Commander Shepard and Garrus Vakarian (Mass Effect) Vs  Roxanne Ritchi and Megamind (Megamind)

R2-5:  Twilight the Demon King and Princess Syalis (Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle) Vs  Miss Kobayashi and Tohru (Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid)

R2-6:  Sanga and Ashivon (Escape From Divinity Series) Vs  Catra and Adora (She-Ra)

R2-7:  Professor Kasukabe and Haru the Devil (Dorohedoro) Vs  Venom the Symbiote and Eddie Brock (Venom)

R2-8:  Orpheus and Eurydice (Hades Game) Vs  Benjamin Kirby Tennyson and Rook Blonko (Ben 10:Omniverse)

Check out the previous Round Here: X For the names of the non-winners.

#tournament #monster romance #monster #beauty and the beast #hellboy #tma #zelda #botw #The Shape of Water #gargoyles #Mass Effect #megamind #sleepy princess in the demon castle #mkdm #escape from divinity #She Ra #dorohedoro #venom #Hades game #ben 10 #it was so much easier just tagging the winners jeez #I'm sad some of my faves lost but I'm happy to get so many responses so eh