#ivekilledmonsters

[straighttpp]

rita is constantly like "im so smart but all anyone cares about is my enormous badonkers. my really big dobonhonkeros." and juno, because they have a weird romantic tension is like "i appreciate your brain" but the narraration is only talking about her dohoonkabhankoloos. her big ole tonhongerekoogers. this is a callout

PLEASE OP WHAT ARE YOU CALLING OUT I’M CRYING

[acadieum]

my family has a christmas tradition of watching barbie life in the dreamhouse while wrapping presents

HGJKDFGH LMAO THATS SO VALID

isnt life in the dreamhouse like a series or smth?? a vlog?? idk

[ernmark]

my partner i love your space vegas au so much its hilarious. they dont have a tumblr so i send them the link every time you put out a new update

Thank you so much!

It’s been a little while since I’ve updated that one, so let’s ease into it with a short one for you to pass on to your partner.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3  | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | NSFW Part 9 | Part 10

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Peter stares at the digital copy of his marriage certificate.

It can’t be right. There must be some mistake. Maybe it was a record of a previous marriage-- but no, the date is correct. The name of the officiant matches the one on the paper copy. The first partner on the signature is Juno Steel. But the second...

The second is Perseus Shah.

The name isn’t unfamiliar-- it’s one of his aliases.

But he didn’t put down that name. He hasn’t even used Perseus in months. And it isn’t close enough to his real name to be some bizarre typo.

Somebody must have put it there. Somebody who knows who he is, who knows his aliases, who knows that he’s still on Venus and sharing a hotel room with Juno Steel.

Terror strikes him so fast that it leaves him numb, frozen in an icy calm.

He’ll need to disappear. Not off Venus altogether-- the spaceports will be watched-- an obvious change like this is likely meant to frighten him into making a mistake-- no, better to hide in back alleys and dark corners until his pursuers lose his scent. And then he’ll go back to Brahma, make an appearance just to remind them that he’s still out there, still watching, still capable of anything.

But first he needs to send a message.

Fear crystallizes into fury as he makes his way out of the government office and back into the hotel.

They thought they could bait him with a pretty face, snare him with a wedding ring. They thought he’d be too distracted by Juno Steel to see their trap.

They were wrong. Dead wrong. And he’ll prove that. He’ll do what he should have done on that first groggy morning.

He pads soundlessly into the hotel room, his knife already in hand. The bed stretches out before him. Juno is still sprawled across it, his mouth open just slightly as he sleeps, his hair flattened on one side, one arm thrown haphazardly over his head.

Savagely Peter wonders if this was part of the plot-- if they chose Juno specifically because he looks so innocent in his sleep, so beautiful, so forgivable. Did they pick him because they knew Peter would fall in love with him? The thought catches in his ribs and threatens to rip them apart.

How dare they do this to him? How dare Juno hurt him this way?

Peter’s hand grips the knife so hard that his fingers ache. He should kill him. Peter’s killed people for less. He planned to do it right from the beginning, after all, to protect his name. A mote of sentimentality stayed his hand then, but now he has all the reason in the galaxy to finish the job.

The knife glides through the dark and rests just above Juno’s throat, the silvery blade reflecting his carotid.

It’ll be quick. Close to painless. It’s better than Juno deserves.

The reflection starts to tremble, and silently Peter curses himself-- is Juno awake?

No. No, he isn’t. It’s the knife that’s shaking. It’s Peter’s hand. Damn it all-- if he jostles Juno, he might wake him up. He’ll call for help. And then it’ll all be over. He needs to finish it now, before Juno has the chance to rouse.

He needs to kill him now.

But he can’t.

The realization crashes down on him in a wave of despair. 

He can’t kill Juno. Even if he deserves it. Even if Peter’s anonymity depends on it. Even if all of Brahma depends on it. 

He can’t do it. 

He staggers back one step, then another. The base of the armchair hits the back of his knees, and he all but collapses into the seat.

It’s over. There’s no point in running anymore.

In the bed, Juno begins to stir.

[creatrixanimi]

i cannot get over how good your kai art for the new episode is. like what the fuck. what the fuck. what the fu

Thanks!!! I feverishly drew it last night at like midnight because I can't NOT draw canon Kai angst!! I'm an angst monster who also happens to be a Kai stan so it had to be done. Im just soooo excited about Grif sibs backstory I could cry. Anyway thanks!! Im glad you like it!! It was super fun XD

[feeshies]

your last two fun facts were a rollercoaster that went from "oh holy shit thats hilarious" to "oh holy shit im crying" how could you do this to my fragile heart

lol thank you 😊

i’m not saying that’s how the rest of circle up is going to go, but......

[kravkalackin]

(1/2) feel free to ignore me if you arent interested, but i saw your post about never learning to outline just figured out how to outline for fics in a way that helps me, so i thought id share in case it helps you too. i usually have a bulletpoint for the climax, one for the inciting incident, and one for the ending and then ask myself what needs to happen to get from point a to point b and fill them in accordingly. then i repeat for how i want each event to go going from overview > arc >

(2/2) scene. ive found that its easier to keep track of what i need to write next if i do it that way. that said, writing is inscrutable and if you dont like outlining then theres no reason to pick it up now

that does sound like a good method, although it wouldn’t help me too much because up until now that’s basically what i was doing, but just keeping all of that information in my head. it still leaves it hard for me to gauge how long a story is going to be or how much downtime will be between important events, and things like that. the reason i made that post is because i finally found a way to outline that actually works for me.

which if anyone is interested in my new method, it’s literally going chapter by chapter and writing a small summary of what happens in that chapter. it basically looks like 

Chapter 1: Taako and Barry meet at Glamour Springs. Barry decides to keep visiting Taako, makes taako promise not to tell anyone about him. 

Chapter 2: Barry tells Taako about body cloning. Him and Kravitz briefly fight. Comes back and talks to Taako after dying again. 

Chapter 3: taako and barry bonding, asks about taako’s past. Barry tells Taako where he’s going to explore next time he gets in a body.

little two to six sentence bullets of what happens in the chapter, short enough that i still feel like i have a lot of room to play and explore the characters, but still making sure it’s a constant drum forward. 

like you said, writing is inscrutable and the amount someone uses an outline and what that outline looks like for them is always going to be different, but it’s nice hearing other people’s methods and incorporating what you can into your own work

[andisupreme]

buster looks almost *exactly* like my cat i love him. is he made Entirely of fur too?

oh you know he is. Except the 10% of him that’s not fluff is PURE CONDENSED MUSCLE. I had to give him a bath recently and I could not hold him down with two hands. I literally had to pin him to the side of the tub with one arm while I washed him with my free hand. 

He’s the softest cat ever though it’s an absolute dream to pet him

[secretlystephaniebrown]

i was rereading the donut and wash as brothers fic for the billionth time and have a very important question: is the family hawkeyes or cardinals fans?

Martha and Donut are the only sports fans in the family. Donut roots for the Hawkeyes like a good Iowa kid. Martha just roots whoever is facing the Patriots, who she has a strange grudge against going back to age 5. Mitch will watch a baseball game if Niner asks nicely. Wash watches Grifball, and Junior’s basketball games. Jackie is very polite about her lack of sports knowledge, although Tucker is pretty sure she was screwing with them the last time she asked how you score goals in basketball.