im so aware that im about to sound exactly like this xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/2390/
but i noticed in your writing that you sometimes drop the "to be" in your passive infinitive conjugations after the word "needed" (eg "needed punished" instead of "needed to be punished" in drink my pain, or "needed pricked" in the type 1 shane writing preview you shared which is what reminded me). that's not something i have heard in the english spoken where I live, so it caught my attention! and I'm curious about it 👀 is this something that feels natural to you to do exclusively with the word "needed" or can you think of any other words you'd do this with?
Okay I had so much fun with this ask and it led to me doing a lot of research. I didn't realize that I did this in my verbal speech much less in my writing but now I keep noticing it throughout the day!
So yes, the short of it is that it's a regional grammatical phenomenon. Without doxxing myself on main, this is most common in the American Midwest and Appalachia. SPECIFICALLY, according to research at Yale the "core location" where the grammatical change originated from is Ohio and Western Pennsylvania but it spread out from there. I've included a map from Yale University on the subject
I needed a little help with the second part of your question on if I do it with any other verbs. Again, I took to the Yale study. They noted specifically the verbs need, want, like, deserve, require, love, hate, prefer, and expect. I've noticed just this morning that I do in fact do with some of these verbs.
But this makes sense why I never noticed it, because I'm from the state of Ohio where this is at its core a part of the dialect. It's so normal that I never caught it, but super interesting to hear that it's not done everywhere! And, I guess something for me to watch out for when I write dialogue because absolutely no one in Heated Rivalry (except maybe Rose) would speak with that kind of grammar change.
Basically, thank you for asking this, it was really interesting!