#good monsters

[liminal-librarian]

So yeah, I just binged this over the last ~week.

#puns #fantacy #philosophy #epic #isekai anime #good monsters

[that-butch-archivist]

"Dyke March 1994" by Morgan Gwenwald

source: The Wild Good: Lesbian Photographs & Writings on Love, edited by Beatrix Gates

#lesbian #lesbian literature #dyke #dyke literature #archived #thatbutcharchivist #dyke march #dyke march 1994 #lesbian history #lesbian photography #author: beatrix gates #photographer: morgan gwenwald #the wild good #year: 1996 #publisher: anchor books #publisher: doubleday dell publishing group inc. #butch #butch dyke #butch lesbian #why does it look alright while i'm editing and then hitting the finished button is like unleashing an entirely different monster #ai yai yai #i'll figure it out #asian lesbian

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike meets Jeremy Fitzgerald

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #jeremy fitzgerald #michael afton #mike schmidt #fnaf #fnaf 2 #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #FINALLY more of Jeremy!! #sorry it’s taken so long for more of this boy but he returns 🩵 #Mike doing a self burn here too #HE knows very well he doesn’t have friends so how Michael got one #(​Mike has one friend too and that’s Jeremiah) #Least Mike made Jeremy laugh- #Jeremy just got here and his homie already being out on blast #I love the idea of Jeremy and Michael actually being friends #like Michael is awful anti social monster and he’s buddies with the most chipper guy ever #it’s good bit I think it’ll be fun to explore that more! #I gotta draw Jeremy more after this #there’s sm to draw with him 💜💜 #I hope yall like him and his design!!

[gender-luster]

venom is such a good movie. not because it's well written or anything, but because the villain is basically a slightly less evil elon musk and the hero is the saddest, grossest, most pathetic man you've ever seen in your life, and his freakish alien boyfriend, who kill a bunch of cops and have weird makeout sessions

#does a monster movie have to have a good plot? is it not enough to be gay and silly? #venom #venom 2018 #eddie brock #carlton drake #symbrock #anne weying

[semisolidmind]

Does Dogday like pets?

(meanwhile me who wants to pet him so bad-)

i'd say he's the kind of fella to enjoy a good pet from someone he trusts.

#click for quality cause mobile is stupid #poppy playtime #poppy playtime chapter 3 #dogday #dogday x reader #hes a good lad #but i think i need to make him more defensive and murdery #i love him being soft but i need to show him being a violently protective monster #sunnyangel

[agentravensong]

thinking about how the extra area added on to a pacifist run of undertale, the true lab, is about alphys's past mistakes. how it ends with the story reaffirming that, despite the pain she's caused, the thing that matters is that she has now made the choice to do the right thing. she's still worthy of her friends' love.

thinking about how undertale doesn't expect the player to get a pacifist ending for the first time. how it's more likely than not that the player will kill toriel the first time they battle her, how lots of players don't initially figure out how to end undyne's fight without killing her, etc. what it expects — not even expects, really, but hopes — is that the player, if they care enough, will use their canonically acknowledged power over time to make up for those mistakes.

no matter how many neutral runs a player has done before committing to the pacifist run, the thing that matters to the characters, to the story, is that you've chosen, now, to do the right thing.

compared to alphys, the player honestly gets off lightly, in that you're the only one (other than flowey) who really remembers any harm you might have caused. and any direct guilting the game could have done about it is long past at this point. instead, as undertale often does, it makes its point via parallels: alphys caused harm, and she knows it. she has committed to being better. in doing so, she has unlocked for herself a better ending to her story. and she deserves it. she's forgiven.

those structural narrative parallels are all over undertale, if you know where to look. and that's one of the things that makes it so fuckin' good.

#undertale #alphys #true lab #this inspired by a mutual's alphys posting #and a discord convo i had a couple weeks back about ut's stance on ''punishing'' the player vs the monsters for their actions #and thoughts i've had generally post a certain fangame with a color in its name about just how well ut is structured as a narrative #everyone rightfully praises toby fox's character writing but stuff like this i think flies under the radar a bit by comparison #and it deserves to be appreciated #there's obvious Lore reasons why the true lab is only visited in a pacifist run (what's revealed about chara and flowey) #but this is the other half of it: the message of alphys's story hits hardest on a paci route post neutral runs #toby fox is a good writer more often than not

[panthermouthh]

“How can I move thee? Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favourable eye upon thy creature, who implores thy goodness and compassion? Believe me, Frankenstein, I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserably alone? You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow creatures, who owe me nothing?”

#Frankenstein #Victor Frankenstein #the creature #frankensteins monster #Mary Shelley #gothic art #this one hurt my brain to figure out #I worked on this for like six hours straight today good god #I used a different quote over on instagram because I couldn’t choose one lol #it is very late and I must sleep GNIGHT <33 #my art

[moldspace]

today, something a little out of the ordinary: puppets!

i'd posted these dudes to patreon ages ago, but i think it's time they see the light of day over here as well. i'm a big fan of puppets and i enjoy crochet, so when i finally realized i could combine these things it was a game changer. i've made a small handful of these fellows now, but unfortunately they're hard to display and harder to photograph, so they rarely see the light of day. however i often need something to keep my hands busy while i'm in meetings or class, so i keep on crocheting them. these two are a dragon and some kind of floppy-eared monster.

i work without a pattern and with absolutely horrendous form, so they're not the prettiest pieces of crochet work out there, but that adds character

#art #my art #crochet #puppet #monster #dragon #they are unnamed because i'm not good at naming my creations.... but i feel like they deserve names. leave your name suggestions below?

[corsolanite]

Literally an end of an era

#😭 #I JUST WOKE UP #IMMA MISS ASH #EVENTHOUGH ITS FOR THE BEST #ITS BEEN A GOOD RUN #pokeani #anipoke #ash ketchum #pikachu #pokemon #nintendo #gaming #pocket monsters anime #pocket monsters #Pokémon

[scurviesdisneyblog]

𝙿𝚒𝚡𝚊𝚛 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚝Ｉ(2010 - 2018)

#lots of sequels here #they sacrificed quality to start releasing more movies #disney #pixar #pixar animation #pixar animation studios #pixar concept art #toy story 3 #cars 2 #brave #monsters university #inside out #the good dinosaur #finding dory #cars 3 #coco #incredibles 2 #art #concept art #artwork #illustration #animation #animation art #disney concept art #mine

[owlyjules]

Second doodle from yesterday! A Jester Vampire! They will at least make you laugh a lot before meal time!;)

#They just want you to have a good time #jester #clown #vampire #watercolor #colored pencils #mixed media #a bit of digital for the details and correcting my scanner work #halloween #monster

[bluegiragi]

cockatrice (part 2)

early access + nsfw on patreon

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werewolf lore drop ahead!!

although werewolves are classified as a shifter-type monster (same as Horangi or the cockatrice) they're actually unique in a hidden way. Horangi is a hybrid whose lineology originates from the first pureblood haetaes, which had zero human in them. In comparison, werewolves originated AS a human-wolf monster, which results in an interesting relationship between the human and shifted 'full-wolf' form.

While Horangi is the same in his human and haetae form, Soap juggles two souls in one body - one belonging to human side, and the other to his wolf. They are both still implicitly him - the souls run parallel with one another throughout his life - but being a werewolf is very much like maintaining a life-long partnership. Soap and his wolf are a great example of a success story, but some werewolves have difficult relationships with their wolf, resulting in only transforming during full moons when they have to.

In some ways, Soap is perfect in the military's eyes as he has a strong connection with his wolf, and happens to come from a long line of larger-than-average specimens (even though he doesn't care too much about his genealogy, preferring to call himself a mongrel breed). In other ways, he's also a nightmare, because his wolf exemplifies the worst in his rebellious streak, featuring recklessness, fickleness towards authority and an extremely low tolerance for boredom.

#hehehehe pubby #i was so excited to draw this comic guys i actually looove drawing soap go full wolf #satisfying somehow. after going for a very long time only drawing Dudes TM #he's stuck like this until the end of the full moon so youre gonna be seeing more of this good boy #john soap mactavish #simon ghost riley #kyle gaz garrick #cod mw2 #monster 141 au #ghostsoap #giragi art

[ionomycin]

Swim free

#artists on tumblr #character focused pieces are harder for me than backgrounds #been trying to practice it more this year #i think there's some progress? maybe? #what's with this undersea phase i'm having #the next piece i'm already working on is staying on theme #although i'm going back to my comfort zone #in the good old eldritch monsters section #on your left you will see some soft lesbians kissing #on your right an ancient undersea horse monster older than time #i think i need to combine these two somehow........

[smallerdelusions]

what if... they got to play as monsters...

#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #it is so sad they never got to hang out as monsters #i know it goes against the entirety of the core thesis but consider... touden sibling wrastling #poses stolen from my friend's dogs #falin touden #laios touden #monsters #also a good excuse to mess around with my tablet #these are bad but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[flickerintwilights]

okay yes you’re being very normal BUT. “what makes you think he was a hero?” “because he kills monsters.” “what makes you think that she was a monster?”

“not everyone who looks like a hero is a hero, and not everyone who looks like a monster is a monster”

“…and against all odds, he managed to find his way to a happy ending”

#pjo #i was mouthing the words in absolute glee #like YES thats the good shit i am Eating #the luke foreshadowing. the everything #the THEMES #because a hero isn’t just someone who kills monsters!! #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians

[lordsovorn]

dunmeshi inner voices but it's all actual strengths of the characters

Senshi: maintain a balanced diet, listen to your body and be mindful of where your food is coming from. Don't take more than you need from the ecosystem, but remember that to live means to take.

Chilchuck: get paid upfront, get a contract, always have ways to protect your interests in a job, unionize.

Marcille: maintain good hygiene, and take care of your hair and clothes - it's nice and it's worth it. Things in the handbook are there for a reason, but tools aren't moral.

Laios: know your weaknesses and your strengths, and those of your friends. Rely on them and make sure they can always rely on you.

Falin: it's always worth to try kindness first, and to keep a heavy blunt object on hand if that doesn't work out.

Izutsumi: search for your own goals. Be open to change.

Kabru: make your own judgments, and then update them, rather than fit everything you see to your expectations. Act on your beliefs and judgements.

Shuro: always keep the cops in mind, never trust the cops. Know how to balance pressure and politeness in diplomacy.

Namari: maintain a balance between your personal and group interests. Act on your strengths.

Hien: you're staggeringly pretty as is

#I love this type of post but I can't bear that none of them name Laios' actual strengths #like... dude got his group to the deepest levels of the dungeon not on his monster enthusiasm alone #his genuinely good strategic eye and his constant self-reflection are *vital* to each encounter and to the macro-plot in general #look no further than the shapeshifter episode #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi anime #laios touden #falin touden #senshi of izganda #kabru of utaya #chilchuck #izutsumi #toshiro nakamoto #namari