SO. I am Star, but I think my sona Star is a little before many of your time here with me on this blog. The original design was done by my good friend @liliflower137 ❤️, and I recently did an updated version myself, and then I commissioned my other good friend @lairde-lampblack ❤️ to draw Star with a sword based on my tattoo! AND I'M BESIDE MYSELF WITH HOW MUCH I LOVE IT!!! ❤️❤️❤️
A few minutes passed in peace. A record was playing quietly, Tessa realized, her eyelids starting to droop. Something instrumental and slow—J’s pick, almost certainly. The whisper of the brush bristles over bone, the rustle of J’s papers. It was enough to make her yawn, body growing heavy with impending sleep.
Tessa resisted. She wanted to keep playing silent observer. It was just so lovely to see the three of them together like this. This was… this was home to her. They were her home.
(a little glimpse into the life of Tessa and her drones)
Loved it!! What a treat, gosh! I don't know the stats but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if J in those 8-ish minutes, not even counting the merch part, spoke more than in the entire actual show. Love that for her, loved seeing the trio pre-ep 1, goshhh it was just so good. I love their absolute tardis of a spaceship-pod-thing, I loved the Santa joke, their interactions, all of it! What a tasty glimpse into J's character!
Imagine the human Titans going to a zoo/petting zoo
head in my hands, i don't know why or how but my brain read this as the MINI TITANS 😭 i wrote the mini fic for them first but i couldn't leave the humans hanging, so there are two entirely unconnected mini ficlets here
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"I consider this the best possible outcome," Maddie told Mothra, valiantly keeping her phone steady. She glanced at the screen to make sure she was still centered in on the action. This was prime blackmail material; Rick would pay handsomely for the full video. "Really, this was such a good idea."
Mothra had a hand over her mouth, giving the overall effect of gentle worry, but Maddie could feel the tremors of her suppressed laughter. Further down the dirt path, Godzilla had no such qualms. His bellowing, belly-laugh had sent a flock of birds fleeing the scene.
What a shame for Ichi that it was only the wild ones who left.
This particular zoo they'd chosen for their field trip happened to have free-roaming peacocks. Maddie wasn't sure if this specific peacock had taken a shine to Ichi or wanted to peck his eyes out, but she didn't care about its motivations. She approved either way, considering it had treed him and was circling in a shark-like manner, its fan of feathers fully displayed.
The tree Ichi had leapt into—practically a sapling—didn't look strong enough to hold Maddie in its branches, much less a grown adult. It was bending in a threatening manner, and the peacock obviously sensed the collapse: it kept making a funny crooning-shriek noise. There was a distinctly taunting air about it.
"Will one of you fools do something?" Ichi wailed. "I am being threatened by this—this—this monster!"
"Maybe it wants to be your friend?" Kevin called from where he was peeking out of a porta-potty. Ni's eyes glinted in the shadows behind him.
The peacock stretched its neck up and jabbed its beak into one of Ichi's shoes. Ichi's voice cracked on a squeal as he tried to hoist himself higher.
Godzilla's knees fully buckled, and he crashed to the ground in hysterics. Maddie wasn't sure he was actually breathing with how hard he was laughing.
"Oh dear," Mothra said.
A second peacock, perhaps summoned by the cries of the first, had appeared from down the path. It shook its impressive fan of feathers up and out, then joined the fray. Ichi rained ancient Titan curses down on them; they remained fearless, circling.
Maddie zoomed in.
"Heeey, Maddie," Rodan said from behind them.
"Yeah?"
"What's Monarch's stance on us Titans keepin' pets?"
It was on the tip of her tongue to say they probably wouldn't mind, but it occurred to her that he was asking this question at a zoo. She turned around.
Rodan wiggled his eyebrows, grinning the grin of a master troublemaker—and someone who already knew the answer to his own question in this context. The pair of small penguins he had tucked in his arms honked quietly.
"Oh my god," Maddie whispered.
"Do you," Rodan, who had a "secret" tiktok account that Monarch was staunchly ignoring, said, "want to form an alliance with me?"
Mothra started to turn around too, but Maddie stopped her with a hand on her arm. "Don't," she said. "Plausible deniability. Save yourself. Rodan—hell yeah I do."
Her day went from amazing to perfect: there was a crack of wood giving out, a telling thump of body meeting dirt, and a rise in shrieking, both human and peacock. Maddie whirled around to capture Ichi's mauling on camera.
"Excellent," Rodan murmured. And then, and she really wasn't sure how, considering his arms were kinda full, he snuck a baby penguin—where had he been keeping that?—around to her front. "You're in charge of this one."
Shifting her phone to one hand, Maddie gladly accepted her fuzzy burden and slipped it inside her leather jacket.
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"God, I wish you could talk," Maddie said, watching Godzilla drag his snout and neck all over the side of a patient sheep. He was like a cat with one of those catnip roller balls. "I would pay so much money to know what's going through your head right now. The only thing better than this was your reaction to the flamingos."
She'd seen a lot in her time as a mini-Titan wrangler, but that full on jaw-dropped, wide-eyed look of shock was a first. A hilarious first, and a memory she would cherish forever.
"'Scuse me." Something tugged at Maddie's shirt.
She turned and found a little girl, maybe five years old, watching Godzilla with a look of awe.
"Hi," Maddie said.
"Hi. Can I pet, please?"
Maddie looked at Godzilla and tried to convey up to you, dude with her eyebrows. He considered the little girl, then bobbed his head once, crooning.
Maddie crouched down. "Yeah, go for it, kiddo. No pulling or poking, okay?"
"I know rules," she declared, then very bravely and confidently ran her tiny little hand down the neck of the King of Titans. Maddie puffed her cheeks out and pressed her lips into a trembling line; she didn't want the kid to think she was being laughed at.
Godzilla rumbled and tilted his head in encouragement, eyes nearly rolling back in his head when the girl found a good scratching spot.
Apparently satisfied after a minute of petting Godzilla, the girl stepped back, carefully said, "Thank you. Very nice," and wandered away before Maddie could come up with a response.
Godzilla looked like he was increasingly happy with this trip to the petting zoo.
"Mama!" Maddie heard. "Mama, I pet a croc'dile!"
A distant, harried voice croaked, "You pet what?!"
Maddie barked a laugh. "What'dya think, G? Is the truth better or worse?"
Rumbling with his own laughter, Godzilla buried his face back in the sheep's side.
hi Star I just finished reading hope is the thing with bladed feathers and I know you have been working on a lot of other MD fics but are you still planning to finish that story or is it done?
hiya! i am absolutely still planning to work on and finish hope! currently fighting a bit of imposter syndrome with my MD wips, ha, but i dare say i'm going to win this one
So sup star it’s been a while so anyway according to the monarch files all elephants descend from behemoth and all bats descend from Camazotz. So all elephants and their relatives come from behemoth while all bat species that have ever lived come from camazotz. Oh and can’t forget that all spiders are the creations of Abbadon
the animal tree of life diagrams must look so cool in the monsterverse! get all the titans in on this, i want to see people doing Rodan -> chicken theories like with dinosaurs. Ghidorah -> earthworms truthers because they share regenerative abilities
the scariest part of taking a break from writing fic is coming back to my own wips and wondering if there will be an obvious difference in style or voice from where i left off. like do i still write like this. how did i write like that and how do i do it again 🫠
I didn't, no—I actually remember holding one when I was a kid and being so freaked out by the cover that I didn't even consider giving it a try, lol. Around that age, if I'm remembering correctly, I was super into series like The Baby-Sitter's Club, A–Z Mysteries, and The Bailey School Kids.
Ok, idk if you're into Godzilla anymore, but I was rereading your story "Where The Wild Things Are". Specifically the first bit of "Birthday"/Chapter 20, the part where Maddie is underwater, and I thought:
Godzilla Avatar!Au, where the Titans are Na'Vi.
i'm so sorry, i know barely anything about Avatar. saw the first movie, like, ten years ago? and that's it 😔 but from what i remember of the premise, the Titans as Na'Vi would be pretty cool!
One of the others with her called out, pointing from the roof of a building down the block. “Bunch’a workers!” he announced loudly.
Nori peeled away from the warehouse they’d chosen for the solar project. She waved for her team to continue their work without her—she was mostly supervising from the ground anyway, as a colony leader.
“You lost?” she asked as she got closer to the strangers. Her core sunk in pity and dismay as she took them in.
heeeyyyyy 💙 thank you to all the kind and wonderful well-wishes and concern for me these last couple months, it means so much and i love all of you! sorry for going radio silent, i have just Not had the mental energy to do anything tumblr/fic/ao3 related for so long :( i started replying to comments last night, i've been feeling better mentally/emotionally lately, and i have a handful of asks that i am going to answer soon, thank y'all for your patience!
long story short, my heart shenanigans seem to be under control (more tests pending ugh), i've been diagnosed with anxiety (insert sarcastically surprised kirk meme here), the anxiety might have been making the heart issues worse, and i'm on a medication that helps with both.
besides catching up with asks and comments, i'm going to do my level best to dust off and finish up a chapter or something for my annual birthday post, and if i'm very lucky, my brain will see Words and go "oooh oooh i remember those, i miss that, let's do more!"
I'm so normal about this movie that I did this in 3 days with a total of 10 hours of sleep. If you know this song you know it s time to bring out the tissues.
Hellooooo Star. Haven't seen ya post in a bit and just wanted to ask if you're doing ok!
thank you for your concern!! 💙 to be so completely honest, i've been a lil meh. i've had more doctors appointments in the last month than in the last five years combined, haha, because my heart is up to some shenanigans that requires investigating :/ that and some other things are just making it hard to feel creative, i guess
Soft tagging @blockcat-safari, @jackdraw-spwrite, @cityofangeisislying, @audioeidolon, @venusplantt, @bardicc-inspo and @voidindite in case they would like to play along :)
(Feel free to jump in if this looks fun and I forgot to tag you!)
Since Ao3 is down indefinitely, I tried this quiz, something related to Ao3 (NEED SOMETHING TO COPE, especially, in the situation where my hyperfixations are ALSO ON INDEFINITE HIATUSES)!
Yeah I do like good Crack fic with a smidge of seriousness😆