Freudenstein's Monster

"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages." - Terry Pratchett Also on AO3 as freudensteins_monster

[nonameoww]

[greenapplespider]

Legolas having a bit of an existential crisis over just how fast mortals, particularly Gimli, age. Time for him to build his boat.

Made for this months art challenge for the @whumplovers-collaborate on discord, the prompt was embrace, leaf, left to die.

[freudensteins-monster]

Almost had a heart attack when I went searching for one of my favourite fics to reread and couldn't find it, thought it had been deleted - but it's okay! The author didn't use many tags and I was using too many.

[texasbama]

#REAL

[princesssarisa]

Where did your first name come from?

I was named after one of my parents

I was named after a dead relative or family friend

I was named after a living relative or family friend

I was named after a religious figure

I was named after a historical figure

I was named after a fictional character

I was named after a place

My parents just chose a name they liked

Other

Voting ended onJul 13

Having been named after a character in The Great Gatsby by my English-major dad, I thought I would ask about this.

[freudensteins-monster]

Me, every episode of TVL: I have no idea what's going on... But the music's great.

[dwarficedforti]

overnight stay

[freudensteins-monster]

The only way I think Ghosts (US) can end is if Jay has an accident inc head trauma and as it fades to black it's a whole 'is he dead/alive' question.

Jay opens his eyes and he's lying on a hospital bed with no one in sight. He walks out the open door and is immediately confronted by what he believes to be a ghost wandering the halls - oh shit I'm dead.

Total freak out, lots of overwhelming feelings - I've left Sam, but I'm still here, and I'll be stuck at this hospital forever (I wonder what my ghost power will be), Sam's going to have to leave me here...

He sees Sam coming down the hallway on the phone crying to someone - what she's saying is vague enough to be misconstrued as grief over Jay's passing - and avoiding the creepy ghost.

Jay's in the middle of a tearful apology for leaving her when Sam reaches out to him - and touches him.

"Babe, what are you doing out of bed? The doctor said you had a concussion - you shouldn't be walking around."

Oh shit. He looks up and creepy ghost is just a creepy patient now being led back to their room. And then Pete walks around the corner.

Cut to them returning the manor and Jay does a Kyle, acting like he can't see ghosts until one of them says something snarky that requires a reaction.

Surprise! Jay can see ghosts now. Because if anyone deserves to see the supernatural bullshit that goes on in that house it's our nerd king Jay.

[freudensteins-monster]

Soooo a sequel that completely ignores the first movie...

- the girls don't know/remember that their family are witches and that the curse was real

- The curse still effecting them despite literally saying at the end of the last movie that the curse was broken

- did they make the girls forget or make the whole town forget about the entire school phone tree helping exorcise an evil spirit and the Owens women's jumping off the roof on Halloween???

- Sally mourning her husband but no mention of Gary Hallitt

- the main locations being far from the house we all know and love and want to see more of.

- Jett and Frances saying the girls need to see a male expert of the craft despite being, you know, Jett and Frances, and having their own coven of presumably similarly experienced members to call on

BUT

- that male expert being a shirtless, tattooed Lee Pace, who seems to be into some sort of magical equivalent of autoerotic asphyxiation.

(jokes - it's still bullshit)

[freudensteins-monster]

[freudensteins-monster]

*walks back into room*

Me: Oh yeah, I left music playing. I wonder what song it's on now.

My phone, exhausted: It's Your Biggest Fan. It was Your Biggest Fan five minutes ago. It was Your Biggest Fan five hours ago. It was Your Bigger Fan five days ago. It's probably still going to be Your Biggest Fan fifty bloody days from now!

Me: 🎶wolf killer, wolf killer, my little wolf killer, la la la laaaa🎶

[freudensteins-monster]

[whitewolf-the-unforgiven]

you're my brave little wolf killer

[lestandevalois]

A vinyl of Long Face and Your Biggest Fan with a lyric sleeve

[apfel-saft404]

"Life Everlasting"

[apfel-saft404]

here's a version without text ^^^

[freudensteins-monster]

How would you describe The Vampire Lestat's sound? What band/singer would be a close comparison?

[freudensteins-monster]

AU where Alastor dies before he manages to speak to someone on the either side/make a deal to be the strongest sinner in Hell. He wakes up in Hell an average sinner with no special abilities and has to find a way to gain the power he so desperately craves. He quickly learns that make a soul trade with an overlord is slavery at best, a permanent death at worst, and struggles to hold his own against more established sinners.

While licking his wounds after his latest attempt at holding some territory, he stumbles across [Lucifer's location - haven't found a proper answer for where in pride ring/pentagram city he lives] and, despite all the rumours about the King of Hell, Alastor enters the building and seeks him out. After all a deal with the most powerful being in Hell might just be worth his soul.

Instead of a fearsome ruler he finds a depressed, odd, and supposedly powerful man.

Lucifer's wife has abandoned Hell (timeline? what timeline?) and the king hasn't been coping well, practically forsaking his duties and avoiding the other Sins. Lucifer mistakes him for another in a long line of assistants/attendants the Sins/Georgia try to push on him in hopes that with help he might become somewhat functional again.

Alastor refuses to be dismissed and takes to the role of the King of Hell's personal assistant like one of his new employer's favourite birds to water in the hopes that if he ingratiates himself with Lucifer, or any one of the many powerful entities in the kings orbit, one of them might grant him his greatest desire.

Includes:

- Alastor starting out pretty much human and evolving into his more demonic sinner form as time (and violence) goes on

- Lucifer eventually realising his new assistant is a sinner and 1) this sinner might just be worth getting to know 2) he's going to have to give Alastor a magical pass/some sort of power so he can come with him to other rings. Because like Heaven he's going by himself.

- Lucifer getting jealous when he sees Alastor trying to get into the good graces of other Sins/Goetia.

- Alastor getting to see Lucifer dust off his "King of Hell" persona and being completely in awe (lust)

- The pair getting into an argument that ends in fireballs from Lucifer, but when none strike him Alastor realises that Lucifer can't hurt sinners...

- Alastor offers to become Lucifer's executioner.

[freudensteins-monster]

I'm only a few chapters in, but I think someone already wrote something very similar...

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