#she isn't a monster

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

#dungeon meshi #kabru #laios touden #falin touden #Happy Thistle Thursday once again. Have I been holding on to this comic for several weeks? Sure have! #I forgot how long it takes for Chimera Falin to come into play. #I still really love my 'better drawn' art of her - unfortunately it was several weeks too early for the anime only folks. #Slowly getting the hang of drawing Laios. I don't know why I struggle so much but I am getting...somewhere. #Meta time: God damn I love how the chimera shows off the expertise and gap between Kabru and Laios. #The truth is: they are both *right* and they are both *wrong*. #This creature is a combination of monster and human and they only have the skillset to deal with one of those. #Kabru goes for all the human vitals - but she isn't human. #Laios tries to approach her as a monster and is struck down by the humanity he sees in her. #She is something new that defies what they *both* understand about the world. And that makes her such a perfect antagonist. #The damsel was the dragon all along! #...She is really so cute though. Terrifying! But adorable. I am so excited to see the boom of fanart for her.

[orionshounds]

Just frame the halves, and call them brothers find your fathers, and your mothers, if you remember, who they are

I can't stop thinking about the moment Clay found out he was a Bigwings. He spent his whole life thinking there was some sort of monster inside him, that one day he would snap and hurt even those closest to him, but it was never true. Pure love has been in his bones since the moment he hatched, only now can he believe it

#the others are reassuring him #they knew he was never a monster #Glory loves him as much as the others she just isn't the hugging type :) #orion's art #lyrics #digital art #dragons #dragon art #wings of fire #wings of fire art #wof fanart #wof clay #wof tsunami #wof sunny #wof glory #wof starflight

[yashley]

#critical role #cr lb #ygifs #imogen #and now I'm like did imogen have her own reason for not even going near the raven queen did she pray to her for her mother #thinking her mother was dead was gone and the goddess of death had her and it was just a little girl praying at her bedside #take care of her mother. tell her how much she misses her. she misses her so much. and the raven queen never answered #and she could find no comfort not even in a deity who brought eternal rest there was no solace. and there was no correction #did she pick a god and pray? for her mother to come back. for her father not to hate her. for someone to look at her like shes not a monste #that all this time this certified atheist to have zero interest in the gods or helping them not because she genuinely didn't care #but because once upon a time the little girl she used to be cared so much. and prayed so hard. never seeing the red veil around her #damning her from the grace of the gods #and isn't that just what a monster deserves #not even a gracious god will find you special enough you feel like nothing to them because you are nothing to them #and it's like is that true or is such an evil force preventing their light and it's like I'm chewing but I'm choking #I had to stop looking at laura's face because it was making me too craaazzzyy she'd just be like (bafta) and I'd be like (SCREAMING) #hey matt if this is a birdcall to make imogen a paladin tweet tweet beautiful man

[zooophagous]

Roadkill pose

#she's still not convinced the kitten isn't a dangerous monster #she's at least more curious than afraid by now

[spookberry]

Ellie( dani) going to monster kindergarden and Danny meeting someone from monster School (clawdeen probs?)

well there isn't a monster elementary or middle school in any of the monster high generations. However this did make me want to draw Ellie interacting with some of the other younger monster high younger sisters of Gen 2. So I drew that actually

(controversial monster high opinion, but I actually really like gen 2)

#monster high #danny phantom #half normie au #my art #ask #ngl I read this ask and got caught on the idea of a 'monster kindergarten' #but Ellie isn't really a kindergartener shes more likely to be a 4th grader at the lowest or 6th grader at the most #monster middle

[spacedace]

Fuck whatever DC is doing with the al Ghul's characterizations and story lines, I've decided that from now on the al Ghul's are gonna be DC's version of the Addams Family instead.

Now I don't mean just give the various al Ghul's the exact personalities of the various Addams and call it a day. That's boring, that erases all the interesting parts of the al Ghuls, that's just using "find & replace" and not actually adding anything. I mean give them the vibes of the Addams Family.

Keep the al Ghul's as the al Ghul's with all their scheming and machinations and world domination attempts but give them all the unhinged energy, the casually insane view of the world, the deranged levels of love and devotion for family. Make them that group where objectively they are batshit insane but also you cannot argue with the fact that they are indisputably the most stable and functional family in the entire universe.

They're creepy, they're kooky, they're mysterious and spooky. Ra's many opulent homes and impenetrable fortresses are a museum and the al Ghul's really are a screa-um whenever people come to see-um (or when they lay waste upon their enemies in a surprise attack that has been planned for months and is just the first domino in a series that will ultimately lead to achieving a far greater goal).

They all love each other and want each other to be happy, they express this primarily with stabbing and murder attempts (its fine, death is a thing that happens to other people).

And forget the League of Assassins being a cult. Just make the whole vast globe spanning organization a collection of cousins/aunts/uncles/dear old friends ect. No one (not even the al Ghuls, if they cared to keep track of such things) is sure who is actually related to them and who just got absorbed into the ever expanding family tree based on their vibes being right.

(Is Sensei Ra's father you ask? Well he's certainly someone's father - probably.

Anyway have you heard about Cousin Cheshire? Despicable poisoner of a young woman, capable of the most horrific things imaginable - yes she is the sweetest dear. Like I was saying though, she just had a baby!

Everyone in the family is just so excited to throw a baby shower to celebrate! Ubu has really gone all out with the spike traps, he does so love getting to welcome a new addition to the family.

Talia of course has cultivated a brand new strain of the most toxic plants imaginable to make a brand new kind of necrotizing poison. You know, as a nice little romantic gift for Cousin Cheshire and that young man of hers. It really is so important to make sure you take time for you and your partner to go on dates and have a few pitched battles to the death on dark rooftops in the pounding rain when you have children.

Now there is some to-do about it all of course, you know how family get together can be. Everyone is arguing over who should get to give little Lian her first weapon and what it should be. Nyssa is pushing for grenades but Ra's is insisting on a sword - he's traditional like that you know - but Dusan has the vote so far on throwing knives. You know the kind that have the little divots along the edges of the blades them to make it easier to get the poison you dip them in to stick.)

I'm just saying that the al Ghuls should be a delightful cross between the Bond Villains they were originally conceived as and the lovingly unhinged Addams Family. It just feels correct in my heart.

(Again keep the interesting aspects of the characters and the nuances of who each of them are like their drive to save the world through destroying humanity and their strong environmentalist leanings and their constantly playing 5D chess and everything, but like, take away the racism and the cartoonishly evil for no reason bullshit and give them some fun feral energy to go along with it).

#batman #ra's al ghul #al ghul family #talia al ghul #nyssa raatko #cheshire dc #sensei dc #no more racism and fucked up dark family dynamics #the al ghuls aggressively adore each other #violence and schemes is their love language #in the full au version of all of this i'd like to imagine how canon plot points change with the al ghuls having these vibes #Just imagine Damian still trying to kill Tim when he first ends up in Bruce's care #but instead of it being a ploy to get rid of a threat its because he's just so excited to meet one of his big brothers #and attempted murder is just how you tell someone in your family that you love them #Tim just SO CONFUSED because Damian is talking so animatedly about how happy he is to get to have some brotherly bonding with Tim #while ACTIVELY trying to run him through with a sword #idk how things change with Cass exactly but i feel like they would in this #like either David Cain isn't an absolute monster or the al ghuls catch wind of what he's doing & are like #This is NOT how al ghuls treat family! what is this shameful behavior! She can't even insult you while you fight! #fighting and violence is a perfectly healthy way to express your love but only if there's actually LOVE involved! #The Heretic & other Damian clones still get made but only because Talia just misses her son so much that she makes more of him #Nyssa has just been bopping around the world for a few centuries & pops up every now and then to have a death match with her baby sister #i just have a lot of strong feelings about the al ghuls deserving better and combined that with the vibes of my favorite unhinged family #Dick still hates Talia but Talia takes all his insults as her darling step son telling her how much he loves her #which only drives Dick even crazier #Tim rocks up to the League of Assassins during his whole trying to prove Bruce is alive thing already seen as an al ghul #Oh yeah that's Cousin Timothy he's one of Talia's kids - never met a truer al ghul in your life #You see how he blew up all those bases? Ra's cried he was so proud #Ra's spoils his grandkids absolutely rotten which is giving Bruce SO MANY gray hairs

[booasaur]

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - 1x04

#mlomedit #monarchlegacyofmonstersedit #monarch: legacy of monsters #monarch legacy of monsters #cate randa #may olowe-hewitt #kentaro randa #anna sawai #kiersey clemons #ren watabe #monarch legacy of monsters 1x04 #cate x may #femslash related stuff #but subtext #okay so again isn't this quite blatant #and to clearly frame kentaro as sad about it #I mean of course it could just be that she hasn't forgiven him yet #still! #cate getting in that thumb rub here and the earlier scene #and lol at kentaro and may being all chapped and icy through the ep #while cate looks like she's in a catalogue #she and her grandma are SO stunning it's crazy

[ratstuckinamarble]

How dare you use the creature as a shield she is going to maim you.

#and it would be deserved #Lagoona was so fun in that ep #she always is but I like how she was just tagging along and eventually went all “oh damn this guy is kinda shitty isn't he” #let's appreciate her before she gets booted off to straight camp... #I'll be fine #some day #maybe #:| #monster high #monster high g3 #lagoona blue #rätposting

[maclanahan--mermaid-comics]

Finished 'Metroid: Samus Returns' and really liked the little underwater egg creatures.

Pose reference by @theposearchives mermaid pack!

#art #mermaid #mermaids #digital art #underwater #monstergirl #metroid #metroid samus returns #egg things #they are called meboids but they are egg-jellyfish to me #samus isn't a nature enjoyer #she is a nature destroyer #sci fi #mermaid samus #samus aran #samus #fan art #monster girl

[demeterdefence]

i have a lot of bones to pick this chapter and i will get to that but i'm still really pressed by how rachel depicts kronos apparently grieving having to kill hera in her vision

rachel does this really gross thing where at some point in the narrative, she'll have the male abuser depict some kind of sadness in regards to his female victim, but it is not remorse. it really reads like whitewashing the abuse itself because "can't you see how upset the abuser is that he has to do this :("

apollo got that really disgusting pov chapter talking about his perspective on persephone after raping her and that was bad enough, but then you also see kronos and his relationship with hera being sanitized or even shipped, when hera said verbatim that he abused her and she did not want to sleep with him, she had hoped she could just charm him. the narrative explicitly points out that kronos is a chronic abuser - he kills or severely injures rhea in a fit of rage after using all her powers, he frequently drives away any nymph or consort who approaches him, and he spends who knows how long mentally torturing hera.

there's another essay tucked into that but i just find it so fucking egregious that rachel wants to portray kronos as being upset he has to kill hera because of his own feelings for her, when the fact of the matter is he is choosing to kill her, just like he chose to kill rhea, and swallow his sons, and tear hera in half. depicting an abuser (a serial abuser, in this case) as being upset over an action he's choosing to do for his own benefit is ... a choice, and a disturbing one. why are we centering the abuser in a sympathetic light when he is still ultimately abusing someone???

#anti lo #anti lore olympus #abuse ment / #just to be safe #it just strikes me as so ... backwards isn't strong enough it really disturbs me #esp considering the random ass sex scene in the next chapter and THOSE implications #but lo constantly just ... focuses time and energy on the male perpetuators of violence #and not on like ... their female victims lol #and if focus IS given to them it's handwaved away #demeter being tricked into having sex with zeus??? her frequent abuse from hades? nada #also hera saying ''i love you'' to a monster who is capable of killing her and everyone she loves #whom she is sleeping with in order to stop him from destroying everything #and people saying ''yeah that's a ship right there'' #nothing in this rant is coherent these tags are a mess lmao

[silverskye13]

In which there is a spar.

#the barking writer #redstone and skulk #helsknight #tanguish #evil beezuma #hels!martyn #The Hand #Made a lot of wolf analogies in this one #i'm going to blame playing with my dog #there's something about a big sharp-toothed animal grin that screams primal joy #unfortunately that big toothy grin also means my hands are covered in cuts #she is a monster of a german shepherd she hasn't learned she has the bite force of a vice yet #thankfully Tanguish isn't going to be sticking his hand in Helsknight's mouth for enrichment so I don't see him having the same issues #stop looking at me like that if you didn't want me to say weird shit in the tags you wouldn't read them come on now

[anti-solidcoffee]

I know a lot of people have issues with the Neon Frights line, but I still really adore my Frankie so much

#still waiting on a clawdeen that really wows me #the refresh isn't bad but i'm still kind of eh #esp bc i don't know if i'll be able to see her in person since idk if she's coming to target #frankie stein #monster high #dolls #all art #fanart

[kaseyskat]

since ive already been pretty open about this and im not afraid to whack a hornets nest i'll go ahead and say it: if you were raising a kid in a pseudo-apocalyptic setting and then you found out that said kid was going to be the one to defeat the eldritch god that you have tried to defeat for half your lifetime and could never manage. that she was going to FACE that eldritch god it was prophesied. you would teach her how to defend herself and how to fight. like god i am not saying hero's trauma from it wasn't justified because i do think the twins took it too far but the initial process of training her makes so much more sense if you approach it at the angle of "this kid is going to do something we've been trying to do since we were twelve and couldn't manage and we might not even be there to help her so we have to make sure she doesn't die in the process" and not "we're going to make her fix our mistakes" it makes sense. goes along with lark's running theme of not being strong enough in the moments that matter and wanting to make sure nobody else ever feels as helpless as he did when walter was injured. goes along with sparrow desperately tempting fate with normal's name- not because normal was an accident, but because sparrow never wanted to lose even one kid to the doodler and it was a fervent, desperate wish to let normal get to be normal

#dndads #kasey rambles #sorry im feeling especially spiteful today #cause again i do think. the twins get the least amount of nuance from the fandom #tell me how yall were just fighting for glenn so hard and then you turn around and tell me that the twins are evil monsters skahsdkfhkdhsf #like idk. it makes sense to me! #if hero was supposed to fight the doodler but they dont know WHEN it would happen. theyd train her early #make sure it was a fight she could win #and thats also why shes NOT in the chosen one position anymore #she wanted to leave and now that she could reasonably defend herself should she be threatened. its fine! #if they really only wanted her to fix their mistakes she would not have been allowed to leave. lmao #again this isn't to say that she wasn't traumatized from the experience like. #i think the twins shouldve been honest with her and there shouldnt have been so much pressure #but i get why they felt the need to make sure she could handle herself in a fight so early on #also like. this kind of thing happens in so many post apocalyptic settings its not even uncommon #yall just dont see this world as being post apocalyptic and it shows LMAO

[freaky-flawless]

Well...damn.

I finally watched The Phantom of the Opera, and now I have to grapple with how much Operetta makes absolutely no sense.

Like I'm wracking my brain, and the only conclusion I've come to is that she'd make sense if she wasn't a ghost at all, but a siren.

Maybe after years of being cast out by his fellow humans, Erik finds refuge in the monster world which welcomes him with open arms, and also gives him the chance for a new start.

And given his love of opera, he falls in love with a siren and they have a child together. Thusly making Operetta half human, half siren.

This way, she can keep her hypnotizing voice, since she sure as hell wouldn't have gotten it from Erik.

#monster high #operetta #before i had the deniability of not being familiar with the source material but thats just gone #now im grasping at straws trying to make her work #i do appreciate certain details of her character tho #like i always thought she knew her way around the catacombs because she was down there a lot but no #thats something very much inspired by the phantom which is cool #and im not sure if this is a detail thats in all the adaptations but the movie at least suggests that he's of romani heritage which is neat #were they tactful and respectful about it? hell no #her design wouldn't even have to change that much #just add some fishy or bird-like features and bam! #couldnt even tell she was a ghost anyway #its funny that she's a ghost and invisibilly isn't lol #text post #this feels like a stretch tho #“that phantom of the opera's daughter who isn't a phantom at all because neither is he”

[grapecaseschoices]

stop being a hater sceleritas.

he's just jelly someone's more devoted to his milady than he.

#sceleritas fel #wyll x durge #HE ADORES YOU BLINDLY #but who could ever love a beast? #when is a monster not a monster? oh but when you love it #crying. rocking. bubbling up snot #kaeliana x wyll #bg3 #bg3 durge #i was waiting for this WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT #ugh clawing my face #that first line is why he fascinates her scelly. why she trusts she can do this #suck it #whew #wyll really is her favorite person tho and i cry about it #t: devotion #bc isn't it just? #bg3 spoilers #top ten christmas eve gifts

[waivyjellyfish]

I'M HERE AGAIN! MILGRAM+HSR-AU (part 4)

Kusonoki Muu

Prisoner No. 4

Follows the Path of "Preservation"

Elemental damage type "Imaginary"

Mu is a representative of an insect-like creatures race. So she doesn't look like human at all. But she has enough abilities to disguise herself. It is quite amazing how such a huge creature can turn into a pretty human girl half her original size. On the ship she's usually in a half-transformed state because the ship wasn't designed for her size and at the beginning she often hit her head on the ceilings or stairs.

A girl of royal blood. Lost in the struggle for the throne and was expelled from the planet. Officially for murder. Unofficially, they tried to kill her like the others so that she wouldn't get in the way, but, unlike Rey, she was able to escape. Sadly she couldn't run far enough, and in the end was caught by MILGRAM.

Enters the battle in her real form.

Muu's AI Es-04

differences between human form and original form

#milgram #honkai star rail #hsr #MG.HSR-AU #muu kusunoki #kusonoki muu #milgram muu #milgram es #es milgram #love half-human-monster desighns so much #she isn't attacking type so me & my friend decided that she would follow preservation path