the majesty of your becoming.

private, highly selective will graham of nbc's hannibal. canon divergent. 18+. written by darcy. est. february 2014, rebooted september 2018.

[balzabul]

ive certainly been guilty in the past, we all have, but.. please take some time to research whatever “monster” youre gonna draw or write into your story…? so many “cryptids” and “generic monsters” are actually specifically cultural stories, spirits etc. ya know. there’re absolutely more than this but off the top of my head:

wendigoag (algonquin spirits, not a cryptid)

golem are jewish, not random creatures

etc etc. just be mindful and aware yall

[normal-horoscopes]

MANA IS A COMPLICATED INTEGRAL PART OF POLYNESIAN, MELANESIAN, AND MAORI CULTURE NOT JUST “MAGICAL ENERGY”

SKINWALKERS ARE NAVAJO AND SHOULDNT BE USED IN FICTION OR EVEN REALLY DISCUSSED

[benbarnxs]

A gifset for episode • Dinah Madani

2x07 - One Bad Day

[willinterrupted]

[eidetective]

i’ve been hardcore hyperfixating on the nmcu but lou always knows how to drag me back

[nastasyafilippovnas]

You wanna tell me why you and Russo were pointing guns at each other instead of Castle? Difference of opinion.

[eidetective]

sorry for the lack of activity here, i finally watched daredevil and matt murdock is consuming all my muse over on my multi @perfectsonnets

[eidetective]

stop calling will “sassy” he’s not a kid with Attitude he’s a grown man who’s caustic and aggressive and frequently somewhere between tactless and cruel and his ~sassy comebacks are usually just straight up mean if not outright threatening

and even when he’s sarcastic it’s not “sassy”

[eidetective]

i want to write sh*rlock h*lmes but i don’t want to come across as even remotely associated with. You Know

[waller-bridge]

She did it to show me how much she cared about me

[eidetective]

the next time i see someone call s3 alana’s fashion “butch” or “masculine” i’m going to break down screaming

[luna-lina]

“I thought there was something wrong with me because I didn’t feel ugly when I killed Nick Boyle. I felt good. That’s why it was so easy to lie about it.”

“Like you didn’t do anything wrong?”

[niceaf]

A burning hill // Mitski

[unfollowfriday]

if you ever feel stupid or weak or powerless, just remember that I, am not. And I am out there, very dangerous and I am looking for you. Good luck

[eidetective]

it’s spooky month and i’m not writing spooky things and that’s tragic

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

There is a specific and terrifying difference between “never were” monsters and “are not anymore” monsters

“The thing that was not a deer” implies a creature which mimics a deer but imperfectly and the details which are wrong are what makes it terrifying

“The thing that was not a deer anymore” on the other hand implies a thing that USED to be a deer before it was somehow mutated, possessed, parasitically controlled or reanimated improperly and what makes THAT terrifying is the details that are still right and recognizable poking out of all the wrong and horrible malformations.

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

hey I totally fucked up and forgot the 3rd type, which is “Is Not Anymore And Maybe Never Was” monsters “The thing which was no longer a deer and maybe never was” implies a creature that, at first glance, completely appears to be a deer, but over time degrades very slowly until you realize (probably too late) that it is not a deer anymore, and had you seen it in this state first, you wouldn’t have recognized it as a deer at all, and there’s a decent chance that it was never actually a deer to begin with but only a very good mimic, and what makes this one scary is the slow change from everything being right to everything being wrong, happening slowly enough that you don’t even notice it until its too late, as well as the fact that something now so clearly not a deer could have fooled you to begin with.

[endreal]

No idea if this commentary adds anything or not but since monsters are generally couched in terms of danger and threat, and therefore fear, in my mind these posts broke themselves down kinda like this:

The “was not a deer” monster speaks to fear born of deception, dangers that approach under the guise of familiarity, with varying levels of success to infiltrate the familiar before lashing out

The “not a deer anymore” monster speaks to fear born of coercion. Whatever it is was once familiar and perhaps even comforting but through the action of another agent the familiar has become grotesque and dangerous.

The “…and maybe never was a deer” monster speaks to fear born of self-doubt. Most people spend most of the time in a sense of vague assurance that they’re doing the right thing, or at least a right thing, in the situation they find themselves in. This fear lies in the danger of *thinking* you understood, only to be eviscerated by the cruelty of “no…you were never correct, and this is your consequence.”

[hamenthotep]

[tlbodine]

Yes this. Good analysis. 

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Actually, in light of this I’d like to propose yet one more type of monster to this list. The monster is a deer. But you realize you were very, very wrong about what deer are like.

The deer itself has not changed, you were just wrong about deer from the very start.

[darksaphire2002]

This was horrifying to read while high and now I have an unhealthy fear of deer in general so thanks for that.

[zorri]

Another one: The thing that was not like a deer.

[tainbocuailnge]

is there a single more in-depth characterisation question than “would this character say fuck”? is there anything that gets the core aspects of a character down as well as the question of if and how they say fuck?

[eidetective]

i’m still not finished brba and at this rate it will take me ten years so of course i have not watched el camino but i CAN say that practically all of my muses would kill w*lter wh*te and that’s what really matters