Just a Dash of Monsters

31/She/Her-Side blog where I post monster love stories and monster love story accessories.

[dashofmonsters]

Project List

This is a NSFW blog so 18+ only

Current Schedule:

Dreamers & Delusions

Neon Palace

Masks

Novel (see main blog @dashofmonsterspublishing )

Ebook edit for The Long Road & Just Business

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1.1 The Long Road: Male Naga (Silas) x F!Reader- pt.1 pt.2 pt.3 pt.4 pt.5 pt.6 pt.7 pt.8 pt.9 pt.10 pt.11 pt.12 pt.13 (UNDER EDIT)

1.2 The Long Road S2: 2023

1.A The Long Road: Art- Silas Silas Sticker

2.1 Just Business: Male Drider (Cavan) x F!Reader- pt.1 pt.2 pt.3 pt.4 pt.5 FINAL (UNDER EDIT)

2.2 Ten Years: Male Drider (Cavan) x F!Reader- WIP

3. The Empire's Bastards- Male Werewolf (Cyril) x Female Mage (Shanna)**tbp

4. 5 Wishes: Male Orc (Singred) x F!Reader-

5.1 Masks: 2 Male Fae (Oisín & Darragh) x F!Reader- pt.1.1 pt.1.2 pt.2 pt.3 pt.4 pt.5 pt.6 (pt.7 WIP)(pt.8 WIP) (pt.9 WIP) (pt.10 WIP) (pt.11 WIP) (pt.12 WIP) (pt. 13 WIP) (UNDER EDIT)

5.2 Masks S2: 2023

5.A. Masks: Art- Oisín Ixora

6. One Hundred Dreams: Male Demon (Duane) x F!Reader

7. A Silver a Night: Male Tiefling (Luctux) x F!Reader

8. The Princess Bounty: Male Werewolf (Garren) x Female Protagonist (Kandra) **tbp

9. Lost Dragon- Female Dragon Shifter x Male Protagonist **tbp

10. To the Beat of his Drum- Male Orc (Bralgar) x F!Reader

11. Unprophesied: The living embodiment of darkness (Itzal) x F!Reader

12. The Fairy Godfather Dilemma: Male Fae (Sorley) x F!Reader

13. Bonds of Blood & Delight: Male Fae (Trahern) x F!Reader- Prologue pt.1 pt.2 pt.3 pt.4 pt.5 pt.6 pt.7 pt.8 pt.9 pt.10

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A. Deep in the Dark: Male Orc (Sloan) x F!Reader- pt. 1 pt.2 pt.3 pt.4 pt.5 pt.6.1 pt.6.2 FINAL (UNDER EDIT)

A1. Snowfall: Male Orc (Sloan) x F!Reader- pt.1 pt.2 (pt.3 WIP)

B. The Lesser of two evils: Male Demon (Seth) x F!Reader

C. Roommates & Renovations: Freshwater Merman (Yen) x F!Reader- pt.1 pt.2 pt.3 pt.4 pt.5 pt.6 pt.7 pt.8 pt.9 pt.10 FINAL (UNDER EDIT)

C.1. Roommates & Renovations: Art- Yen by @solarchaotica Yen sticker by jays-draw Varen Yen

D. Greenhill Lane: Male Satyr (Ilya) x F!Reader

E. Night classes: Male Werewolf (Bernard) x F!Reader- pt.1 pt.2 pt.3 pt.4 pt.5 pt.6 (pt.7 WIP) (pt.8 WIP) (pt.9 WIP) (pt.10 WIP) (pt. 11 WIP) (pt. 12 Final WIP) !!!(UNDER EDIT)!!!

F. Neon Palace: Male Naga (Nicu) x F!Reader

G. Hot Apple Pie: Incubus (Keller) x F!Reader

H. Part-Time: Male Naga (Cemil) x F!Reader

I. Strawberries & Roses: Male Tiefling (Dante) x F!Reader

J. Cream Tea: Male Werewolf (Thomas) x F!Reader: pt. 1 pt. 2

K. Redwood & Wisteria: Male Werewolf (Logan) x F!Reader

L. The Unwanted: Male Fae (Varen) x F!Reader

L.1.: The Unwanted: Art- Varen

M. The Librarian's Assistant: Male Orc (Monroe) x Female Protag. (Sofie)

N. Bound to Protect- Male Orc (Kirill) x F!Reader

O. Dreamers & Delusions: Saltwater Merman (Tao) x F!Reader pt.1 pt.2 pt.3 pt.4 pt.5 pt.6 pt.7 pt.8 pt.9 pt.10 (pt. 11 WIP) (pt. 12 WIP) (pt. 13 WIP) (pt. 14 WIP) (pt. 15 WIP) (pt. 16 Finale WIP ) (pt. 17 Epilogue WIP)

O.1. Dreamers & Delusions: Tao by @rcehb-art

P. Open Window Rhapsody: Axolotl Merman (Bekkr) x F!Reader

Q. Runway Runaways: Male Chimera (Adrik) x F!Reader

R. Between Hunger & Pain: Male Vampire (Cethin) x F!Reader

S. The Rift: Male Fae: Male Fae (Idris) x F!Reader

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Side Character Stories: This section is under construction!!!

I've got quite a few background side characters that will be getting their own stories but these are character x character stories and most likely will be super short. I just want to give these guys their happily ever afters because they deserve it. These will include background stories for existing couples (like the uncles from The Long Road) or soon to be couples (hehehe you'll see). These will most likely be sfw fluffy feel good dorky stories because that's what I have planned. There might be a couple spicy ones but no idea which couple plans on taking that role.

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1A. Proxima Fallen- Male Alien x Female Protagonist **tbp

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Pr1. Midnight Oceans-- Male Tiefling (Arthok) x F!Reader pt.1 pt.2

Pr2. Alien HR-- Post

Pr3. There's a Villain in my apartment-- Post

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*Based on Prompts- Pr1. -

*Stories 1-5 Take place in a fantasy setting

*Stories A-Z take place in a modern setting

*Story 1A - 1Z sci-fi stories

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**tbp- To be published

pt..?- uncertain if this will be a series or not, mostly with the prompt inspired stories

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EDIT LIST

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Story Universes:

The Realms: Deep in the Dark, The Lesser of Two Evils, Roommates & Renovations, Greenhill Lane, Neon Palace, Hot Apple Pie, Part-Time, Strawberries & Roses, The Unwanted, The Librarian's Assistant*, Bound to Protect, Dreamers & Delusions, Open Window Rhapsody, Runway Runaways, From Veil to Vegas*, ....

Of Orders, Courts & Kingdoms: Masks, One Hundred Dreams, Unprophesied*, The Fairy Godfather Dilemma*, As luck wouldn't have it, To Dance with Fire, Bonds of Blood & Delight

Fates & Fallen: The Long Road, Just Business, 5 Wishes, A Silver a Night, Midnight Oceans, ....

A World Forgotten: Night Classes, Cream Tea, Redwood & Wisteria, Between Huger & Pain, ....

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[prophecydungeon]

that’s not………. how child speech works…………………………………………..

[prophecydungeon]

god okay in an attempt to be less of an asshole, here’s how child speech DOES work (or tend to work, at least)

kids tend to hypercorrect — this means that they tend to say things like “sleeped” instead of “slept,” “writed” instead of “wrote,” “goed” instead of “went,” etc

kids tend not to make errors such as omitting verbs (“i hungry”)

kids also tend not to make errors in the i/me, she/her department (“me am hungry”)

simplification of difficult sounds — consonant clusters especially, so things like st, sp, ps, etc., as well as f, v, th-sounds, ch-sounds, etc.

“babbling”-type utterances (“apwen” for “airplane,” using one babbly word for multiple objects, things like that) generally occur in children under the age of three and a half

say it with me: an eight-year-old child is not going to be saying “me hungwy”

do not confuse child speech with stereotypical learner english mistakes, that’s not only incorrect but also gross on the stereotypical learner english front (“me love you long time,” anybody?)

if you’re going to write kidfic please do some goddamn research

[prokopetz]

Totally. It can be helpful to remind yourself that young children tend to speak as though the English language actually made sense. Our brains are pattern-recognising machines: children are really, really good at puzzling out the implicit rules of the English language, but they don’t necessarily know all the silly exceptions and bizarre edge cases that break those rules yet - those can only be learned through experience and rote memorisation.

Basically, when children who speak English as a first language make mistakes, it typically reflects a tendency to treat English as more grammatically, syntactically, and/or orthographically consistent than it really is. In some cases, this can be compounded by the fact that some kids will get offended at how little sense “proper” English makes, and insist upon using the more consistent forms even though they know very well that they’re technically “wrong”.

[idiagroena-deactivated20160720]

for a long young portion of my life I insisted on pronouncing Sean “SEEN” because that’s how it’s spelled.

[pftones3482]

As someone who spends a good majority of her time working with kids, it irks me to no end when I see children written as if they’re babies.

Past the age of about five or six years old, children can have deep, intellectual conversations about the most bizarre of things. I HAD A CONVERSATION LAST WEEK WITH FOUR THIRD GRADERS ABOUT THE GAS PRICES AND TAXES IN HAWAII.

Were they entirely correct in the facts they were giving? No, because it was all from what they had heard from parents or on the news. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that I was having a genuine conversation with four eight and nine year olds about taxes.

Just about the only speech problems most kids have, unless they have a speech impediment, is not being able to pronounce certain consonants (replacing ‘th’ with ‘fw,’ for example, and some letters are harder to form with your mouth than others) and doing exactly what the person above said: using the English language the way they know how, which isn’t always the way English works.

Kids aren’t stupid. Stop writing them like they are.

[dashofmonsters]

Like littles 3 and under might not be about to pronounce a certain sound, like mine replaced the S sound with a D sound.

Random letters might slip into a word causing cucumber to be cuncumber instead.

They might not remember a big word like "Excavate" so they might replace it with something similar like "Discovering dirt"

And some might just say things differently like instead of "hey how fast am I going" you might get "how many miles am I going"

Toddlers are at that cool age where their personalities are coming out into play and so is their vocabulary. They're sponges with access to a DJ's turntable. Words might get mixed up, things might get added in but they see, hear and understand the context of the words after hearing them over and over so many times.

Little ones can be ultra quick witted too with little jokes you least expect or will break the silence with something you wouldn't see coming

Awkward silence?

"WELL ANYWAYS" Yells the two year old because he's heard you say it in those sorts of situations.

You laugh and smile because what the heck that was so cute but to them that was positive affirmation on something they learned and applied.

They say it again and again until the novelty wears out but they haven't forgotten because when that situation comes up again they remember. They might say something else, do something else, but they knew what to do or what sort of thing was ok to say.

They'll test language, good words, bad words, words you can only say at home, sentences that are a bit jumbled, sentences that seem almost right, unhinged things a grown ass man would say, something silly they picked up, a very big word that makes you grin because that's a more than five letter oh wow, and sometimes they'll say the cutest thing that tugs on your heart.

A toddler's speech represents how they're experiencing the world through words. Their needs and wants. Their play and learning. Their likes and dislikes.

Speech to them is like a key and although it doesn't always open a good door, they learn over time which doors not to fuck with XD

Also they have a little bit of attitude.

[dashofmonsters]

Dumb question/ request but anyone on here that speaks Spanish, is from Mexico and knows a song about potatoes and the mom getting the cold potato because I cannot find this fucking song anywhere and it's been passed down and I've yet to learn it and I'm trying to but I cannot find this song.

Please help me out because it is eating me up not knowing what this is.

[tinylobelia-deactivated20200702]

[wisteriafield]

i’ll kick anyone’s ass. i’ll kick your ass. i’ll kick your dog’s ass. i’ll kick my own ass

[dashofmonsters]

Sounds like my kid when he's mad at all the flies that get in our house, except he says he'll whoop their asses XD

[dashathome]

Mini garden harvest + salad my three year old made before he covered it in cheese (he's very proud of himself). I wasn't expecting the carrots to get this big to be honest since the weather has been all over the place.

[00000000000000z-deactivated2022]

Fuck your dream job what’s your dream hobby that you don’t have the means to take up yet. Mine are falconry and aerial acrobatics

[dashathome]

POTATOES

My successful small harvest of potatoes. I was experimenting with a few methods I learned and now that I know they work, I'm going to grow them on a larger scale next grow season.

[dashofmonsters]

Cussing seems very unavoidable with my toddler when his favorite song is literally called "Good fucking music" by Solence, everything is fucking impossible, and all dogs are punk asses

He has like this strange ability to point out every single cuss word in any song somehow

[bebx]

Reblog if you have contributed to the 17 million fanworks posted on Archive of Our Own ♡

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

the item you held last {phone doesn't count} just disappeared, just poof stopped existing are you mad about it?

yes

no

happy actually?

NOOOOOOOOO

neutral

results

Voting ended onApr 9

[mudwerks]

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

well…darn

[flippyspoon]

like to charge reblog to cast financial ruin of the AI industry 🔮

[novella-november]

originally posted August 8th, 2025.

Authors have until March 30th, 2026 (That is just 9 days as of this reblog, which I am posting on March 21st, 2026) to file their claim against Anthropic to be reimbursed up to $3,000 per work found in the list.

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement

Updated February 18, 2026 IMPORTANT: The Claims Deadline Is March 30 Background  Bartz v. Anthropic is one of the major copyright lawsuits b

Please click the above link for all of the exact details of how to file a claim and to check for your works, and share this post as far and wide as you can before March 30th, 2026!

[shi1498912]

!!!SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST!!!

[dashofmonsters]

So I got the job at my old job with pay match

Now for the hard part, putting in my notice.

Today sort of solidified my decision with how unorganized everything is and when I ask a legitimate question I get punished for doing what I'm told to do.

I'm going to leave with dignity though, I'm going to clean up as many accounts as possible, leave obnoxiously long notes, be super nice and friendly, and have zero tasks left when I leave.

When I check out, I check out.

I've already left mentally but now I'm checking out physically.

[dashofmonsters]

Just got home from watching the Project Hail Mary movie and OH MY GOD

I CANT SAY ANYTHING SINCE IM NOT GOING TO SPOIL IT

But

HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT WAS AMAZE AMAZE AMAZE

[dashofmonsters]

So wish me luck I'm about to try my attempt at saying FUCK YOU to my corporate job and try and get my old job back at a mom and pop place for my current pay rate. It's hourly and not salary so I can make overtime if I need to.

I'm so done with my current job, it's so miserable there and I know my old job needs people and I was damn good at it and it was properly structured for my ADHD ARSE

[dashofmonsters]

So my kid is afraid of dogs because they're too hyper but he LOVES birds because they're silly and chill. He absolutely adores our chickens, especially our hen Sadie. Both him and my partner are trying to convince me to let her keep a couple eggs to hatch -_-

I'd love more chickens but I'm not sure... Our rooster is kind of aggressive so I'm worried he'd beat up his own chicks...

Should I take the risk...?

[animentality]

[ober-affen-geil]

Ok extra context from your friendly neighborhood Master's Degree holding archivist:

Archives are "curated" according to what's called a "collection policy". That means a policy that dictates what you collect; usually along a theme. For example at the university I used to work at the collection policy was to collect archival material pertaining to the local area and its history/important figures. At the historic home I currently work at, the collection policy covers materials pertaining to the person who lived at the house.

AO3 collects fan works and original writing. That's it. That's how they "curate". They don't allow a copy paste of published works (for legal reasons) and they don't allow commissioned works (for legal reasons) . Everything else that falls under fan works and original writing is part of their collection policy. Everything. That's how archives work.

[dashofmonsters]

So I went up to my neighbor's house who I guess her husband leaves the gate open when he leaves for work and told her that when he does that, that their dogs chase after me during my walks and try to bite me.

Wellllllllllllllllll, when I went up to tell her that, the gate was open just enough for her jack ass German shepherd to get out and quickly try and chomp my arse.

He didn't break the skin but damn it fucking hurts still.

Needless to say I think I made my point before I had to say anything