Meowlevolent Week is a weeklong fandom event for the Malevolent podcast. It will focus on pets and animal friends. We want to celebrate this awesome show and give these characters something nice. For once. They've earned it.
During Meowlevolent Week, this account will reblog fan-created Malevolent content based off the daily prompts. Posts unrelated to the prompts will be reblogged on Catboy Day (Saturday).
To participate, tag us @meowlevolentweek and use the tags #meowlevolent and #meowlevolent week 2023 in your post.
PLEASE do not tag or send asks to the official Malevolent account about this event! They have indicated that they’ve already gotten way too many message about pets, and we want to keep this fan-run event focused on the fandom, not on the creators.
Questions? Check out our FAQ page!
Prompt list in our header!
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Thank you @xenolinn for the header and @nauti-ca for the icon <3
Arthur's birthday is March 30th. I debated on making that the prompt for Thursday but wanted to stick with the setup I had already. So I made it alternate prompt because he deserves a nice birthday.
I can't wait to see what everyone creates!!! This fandom is so talented!
Event dates: Sunday March 26th - Saturday April 1st
Rules
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Sunday 26th Season 1 ▪︎ Parker Yang ▪︎ Don’t You Remember?
Monday 27th Season 2 ▪︎ Faroe ▪︎ This Too Shall Pass.
Tuesday 28th CODA ▪︎ Kayne ▪︎ You Only Have Eyes For Him.
Wednesday 29th Season 3 ▪︎ Yellow ▪︎ Miles To Go.
Thursday 30th Prelude ▪︎ Collins/The Butcher ▪︎ Are You Innocent?
Friday 31st Season 4 ▪︎ The Larsons ▪︎ My Wrath Did Grow.
Saturday 1st Free Day ▪︎ Arthur & John ▪︎ We Fucking Did It!
Alternate prompt Happy Birthday Arthur
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A HUGE thank you to everyone who joined for Meowlevolent Week! Your art and fics have all been spectacular. Most of you were even nice to Arthur and John! Most of you.
Finale art by the multi-talented @shadow0haven <3 Check out more of their art & fic on their profile (seriously take a look, they're very good)!
Title: A Light in the Dark
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Malevolent (Podcast)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: John (Malevolent)
Additional Tags: Set Pre-Part 5 (Coma Period), Hospitals, Hurt/Comfort, Friendship, Pets, John Adopts an Emotional Support Animal (a firefly in the corner of his hospital room)
Summary:
Everything about Arthur’s hospital stay is terrible, but John holds a certain fear at night. When all the lights go out, it is only John with his thoughts and what he can see in the dark. One night, however, he sees a strange creature: one that lights up all on its own, providing some meager comfort to what John fears most.
It’s not weird to talk to a bug.
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for @meowlevolentweek , Free Day! Writing about our favorite little guy and his bug adoption.
Magical (Girl) Arthur, Mentor Mascot John, and Kayne fitting in with his wand knife :3
so someone said something and my dress-up game trained brain took over. quite proud tbh. also i believe this here John counts as a catboy, doesn't he, @meowlevolentweek ?
@meowlevolentweek a belated day 3: service animal. 480 words.
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John was objectively having… well, he was having a day. Maybe A Day. Capitalized.
And Arthur. Arthur was delighted.
“Isn’t she sweet?” he asked, smiling blindly towards him with such pure joy on his face that John’s words died in his throat as he watched Arthur bury his fingers in the goat’s black fur. Its eyes were green and lurid, its horns far too long - all six of them - and he knew under its long, coal-dark coat, its extra legs must be hidden, tucked up close to its belly.
… Her belly.
Arthur had named her on the way home.
Lady.
And she looked up at John with such a knowing look in her eyes that John had no doubts this was some cosmic joke.
They’d gotten out. They’d managed to slip away from the King, slip away from his own past and all the fucking games, and now. Now he leaves Arthur alone for one morning, lets him head off to the godsdamned farmer’s market alone because he didn’t need to be coddled, John and waved his cane like his pride and joy and of course Arthur comes back with a piece of The Black Goat hooked up in a little guide harness.
A piece of The Black Goat with her eyes narrowed in… delight?? As Arthur’s fingers scratched affectionately at the bases of her horns and cooed at her.
John was going to die. Not of any foreseen horror from their past, but from the sheer effort required to bite back his words as Arthur praised his good sweet Lady for being so smart, so clever, so helpful!
He could see the extra eyes on the thing wink shut before Arthur’s fingers could find them. See her lean into his touch like a tamed hound as Arthur buried his hands in her fur and remarked with such delight at how lovely the texture was.
Of course it was lovely. Of course she was helpful and clever, though John couldn’t begin to fathom what game exactly was being played here, or why she seemed perfectly content in the harness as Arthur gave her a pat and fondly listened to her trot away to the front door where - ah, yes. Where she used a tentacle to open the doorknob, not even bothering to hide it from him as she closed it behind herself and went to gnaw on the lush clover and a sparrow that was too slow to dodge, but of course Arthur just smiled and sighed and looked towards John, absolutely oblivious to the faint crunching sounds from outside as Lady made herself at home.
What he wouldn’t give to give Arthur back his eyes.
“Isn’t she just wonderful? Smartest service animal I’ve ever, haha, well. Not seen I suppose, but she was just perfect helping me home!”
[ID copied from alt text: Sketch of John Doe’s hand (the left one, with its wooden pinkie) palm up holding a ball python snake. In the background, in yellow text, is an open-mouthed emoji and a brick of text partially obscured by the drawing: “Arthur she’s coiling her tail around our wrist! Her body is smooth and surprisingly dense with muscle. Her scales are dry but soft. She is stretching her head out. She just sniffed the air with her tongue. I think she likes the heat of our arm, she is settling into a dense coil in the palm of…”. End ID]
Getting a @meowlevolentweek sketch in at the last minute. John gets to hold a snake!
This is departure from my nice little fluff pieces I’ve been doing all week but this one has been in my drafts for a bit so I’ll go ahead and release it to the public. Love a little game of cat and mouse.
