Death in the Afternoon: A Malevolent Fic for the Malevolent Big Bang 2025 (Masterpost)
Name’s Parker Yang, and I hunt monsters.
How’s not important. What matters is there’s one who I can’t beat: the Butcher, Dennis Collins, serial killer. Well, I figured out one way to get close. I hired his partner, Arthur Lester, private eye, to find my missing younger brother.
The plan seems like it’s working great, but it’s got some snags. Luke wasn’t kidnapped this morning, but two years ago by the King in Yellow, and Arthur’s too smart to miss the discrepancy. It don’t help that Arthur’s got some damage from the King over tragedy with his kid. In fact, the King’s all over hell, because my vigilante partner, Charlie, is real fucked up from his time with the King, too.
Look, I just want to save my city. But now there’s a researcher digging in old cult ruins and waking monsters, some goddess named Lilith and her priest Oscar who know way too damn much, and to top it off, I’m falling for Arthur. Hard.
That ain’t a safe thing to do.
We’re all lying. We’re all keeping secrets. And I got a bad feeling that one stray spark’s all it’ll take to light it all on fire.
. . . Read On AO3 . . .
Notes:
Warnings for major character death, sexual situations, gore, psychological horror, child death mention, suicide mention. Featuring just a bit of Butcher/Arthur and Parker/Arthur, both of which are Severely Messed Up.
Story name from this drink, invented by Hemingway and named after one of his books.
I have shamelessly borrowed (some might say. mutated) Robert Blake, the chapel on Federal Hill, and the Church of Starry Wisdom from The Haunter of the Dark by H.P. Lovecraft, in which Nyarlathotep enters the world through the Shining Trapezohedron. Because you see, that was the actual plot of this story. Parker and co. just happened to stumble in. Oops!
Written for the Malevolent Big Bang 2025 event! Huge thanks to @flamdoodles and @iconiccookie for creating absolutely amazing artworks to go with this. I am blown away, and I know you will be, too.
Death in the Afternoon: A Malevolent Fic for the Malevolent Big Bang 2025 (Masterpost)
Name’s Parker Yang, and I hunt monsters.
How’s not important. What matters is there’s one who I can’t beat: the Butcher, Dennis Collins, serial killer. Well, I figured out one way to get close. I hired his partner, Arthur Lester, private eye, to find my missing younger brother.
The plan seems like it’s working great, but it’s got some snags. Luke wasn’t kidnapped this morning, but two years ago by the King in Yellow, and Arthur’s too smart to miss the discrepancy. It don’t help that Arthur’s got some damage from the King over tragedy with his kid. In fact, the King’s all over hell, because my vigilante partner, Charlie, is real fucked up from his time with the King, too.
Look, I just want to save my city. But now there’s a researcher digging in old cult ruins and waking monsters, some goddess named Lilith and her priest Oscar who know way too damn much, and to top it off, I’m falling for Arthur. Hard.
That ain’t a safe thing to do.
We’re all lying. We’re all keeping secrets. And I got a bad feeling that one stray spark’s all it’ll take to light it all on fire.
. . . Read On AO3 . . .
Notes:
Warnings for major character death, sexual situations, gore, psychological horror, child death mention, suicide mention. Featuring just a bit of Butcher/Arthur and Parker/Arthur, both of which are Severely Messed Up.
Story name from this drink, invented by Hemingway and named after one of his books.
I have shamelessly borrowed (some might say. mutated) Robert Blake, the chapel on Federal Hill, and the Church of Starry Wisdom from The Haunter of the Dark by H.P. Lovecraft, in which Nyarlathotep enters the world through the Shining Trapezohedron. Because you see, that was the actual plot of this story. Parker and co. just happened to stumble in. Oops!
Written for the Malevolent Big Bang 2025 event! Huge thanks to @flamdoodles and @iconiccookie for creating absolutely amazing artworks to go with this. I am blown away, and I know you will be, too.
Fifth and last illustration for the 2025 @malevolentbigbang's event! I made this for the amazingly talented @once-upon-a-reblog's fanfic, "Death in the Afternoon"
Ironically, the first I finished and my favorite. What a friendly smile :)
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Title: "You, of All People"
[ID: A possessed Robert Blake stands in the ruined attic of the Federal Hill church, the wrecked beams and boards creating a sort of dark halo around his head. Moonlight shines upon him, and so does the glow from the raging inferno below. Blake's smile reflects the nightmarish madness of the god inside him.]
Fourth illustration for the 2025 @malevolentbigbang's event! I made this for the amazingly talented @once-upon-a-reblog's fanfic, "Death in the Afternoon"
...no. stop staring at me like that. Sir. Cease & desist.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Title: "A Finger or Two?"
[ID: Dennis "The Butcher" Collins is leaning against the desk of his and Arthur's office, framed by the golden light coming in through the blinds of the window behind him. In his right hand, he's holding up a glass of whiskey that catches the light and glints. Collin's expression is relaxed, mischievous, and observant at the same time.]
Third illustration for the 2025 @malevolentbigbang's event! I made this for the amazingly talented @once-upon-a-reblog's fanfic, "Death in the Afternoon"
Can you spot the Lilith? :3c
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Title: So Damn Wrong
[ID: An incredibly dark corridor, covered in framed portraits; the people in the portraits have weirdly animal-like luminescent eyes. Three people walk the corridor: Parker in the foreground, looking back at the audience with grim wariness; Arthur slightly ahead of him, walking towards Oscar; and the latter, opening a door in the middle of the hallway, from which the light of late afternoon pours in. Oscar's expression is unreadable as he stares at Arthur.]
Second illustration for the 2025 @malevolentbigbang's event! I made this for the amazingly talented @once-upon-a-reblog's fanfic, "Death in the Afternoon"
Sheesh, Parker just can't stop being a babysitter, can he?
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Title: Gold in my Mouth
[ID: A chaotic scene; Arthur on the left, possessed by the very spirit of the King in Yellow, and glows with golden magic. Charlie on the right, covered in blood from his wounds and looking crazed, is trying his best to reach Arthur to give him the punch of his life. Parker is coming between them, trying his best to keep them apart, while ribbons of sparkling golden magic curl gently around all of them.]
First illustration for the 2025 @malevolentbigbang's event! I made this for the amazingly talented @once-upon-a-reblog's fanfic, "Death in the Afternoon"
(and yes, this is heavily based off a Batman's comic panel, several in fact lol)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Title: The Phantom
[Picture ID: A view from a slightly lower angle of Parker squatting on a rooftop in his Phantom attire. Dusk is draining away at the horizon, clear smoke rises from the chimneys behind him. The stark light from below casts his shadow and makes the billowing cape glint of a subtle gold.]
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Come watch me draw eldritch monstrosities for Pride month! If you subscribe to my channel or use at least 100 channel points, you can request a sketch from me!
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