This movie was my first by Tim Burton I’ve seen, so I decided to start with Edward my tribute series to that Director.
This pic started as a quick sketch in pencil, than I add pastel and watercolor. And, after the scanner, I adjusted it in PhotoShop adding two textures (from CG textures) in the background.
Blackthorn and Grim series by Juliet Marillier.
Took me five days to read them. The author was recommended to me by @fuck-yeah-monsters-and-villains who’s read her Sevenwaters Series (which I also intend to read because Jfc her writing is amazing).
I loved just everything about the story, the characters are written so well and each is given their own POV. Every book has a different adventure in it as well as a mystery that Blackthorn and Grim are trying to solve. If you like smart, brave and interesting female leads, and kind, hulky cinnamon rolls that Grim is, you’ll love these books!
Highly recommended author.
She’s usally writing (high quality) YA but this book features a mature heroine. And by mature I mean older than 29 which usually prevents female characters from being the main protagonist within the science fiction and fantasy genre.
Nonnie you better sit down, major spoilers under the line so if you don’t want to read them, just don’t but to answer your first question, yes, there is romance ;]
This book was made for me, I s2g. It’s cover is the worst I’ve ever seen outside of an MS paint doodle, but the prose is phenomenal and its like the Marquis de Sade on crack. Honest-to-god-monster angel meets Giger fever dream meets zombie apocalypse meets death and the maiden. Its the darkest, goriest, most existential erotica I’ve read in ages.
Spoiler alert: the protag, Lan, shacks up with Azrael, literal Biblical Angel of Death. He’s this 10ft foot tall grey-skinned motherfucker walking around like a strung-out Pyramid Head, complete with claws and eyes so bright they basically burn and a voice that makes your ears bleed. He wears a ram helmet–or has ram horns???–and wears a golden mask because his face makes people freak the fuck out, like actual angels do.
In between fucking Lan with a cock the size a horse, he opines about existentialism and the nature of pain and how he wishes he had a mother, so its oedipal too. Did I mention there are zombies???
10/10 recommend and I’m only 20% through this book.
I mean its so oedipal he’s literally creating “children” out of corpses because he’s lonely af. He makes them call him Father. He’s a goddamn tsundere with image issues that just wants to be loved, but he also has no earthly inkling of how do this because he’s going around impaling people and flaying them alive and creating torture rooms that put the cenobites to shame. So far he’s landed on earth–cast out, maybe?–and he’s set up some sort of sadomasochistic garden of Eden and started a zombie apocalypse in the interim. The dead rise because he controls the dead, and they cannot die unless he reaps their souls, so no one is escaping this pain anytime soon.
The motherfucking protag entered this underworld via literal ferryman in a pseudo-coffin. She paid the ferryman–who is dead–by sucking him off. So I guess there’s necrophilia too???
Fuck. This is going to turn into a liveblog. Spoilers, fuk. sPOILERS-
THERE IS A SCAR TOUCH. I REPEAT, A FACIAL SCAR TOUCH STRAIGHT FROM THE MOST HEATHEN REYLO DREAMS-
Add incest to the list of taboos this fic ticks off. I’ve got to the part where the brother and sister fuck like rabbits while they complain bitterly about their “Father’s” concubines.
oh my god. oh my gOD
This is the most sinful shit I’ve ever read. It is me. I am the new vanilla. My own words are dempster’s white bread compared to this cornucopia of eldritch horror erotica. I have found God and dug too deep in my quest for kink. I am undone and made raw
Day 2 of Liveblog:
This is either gonna end in redemption or tragedy cuz this cenobite-cum-angel just wants to be loved and has it bad for Lan, and she doesn’t get it at all. gOD MY SHIPPER HEART
Fun quirky linguistic fact about this book: zombies are called eaters and concubines are called dollies and Azrael has had exactly 483 dollies and is trying to work his way to 484. There’s a new dolly in this city of the dead he’s set up–this post-apocalyptic garden of eden–and her name is Cassius. Considering the historical significance of the name Cassius I’m pretty sure she’s here to kill Azrael and is gonna try to kill Lan in the process, because Lan is loyal to him.
The book has been making a big deal about how he rises up the dead like vampires to keep them preserved forever, but refuses to do it with Lan and gets straight up triggered by the notion. $10 says Cassius gonna poke Lan with the sharp end of a needle and he’s gonna be forced to rise her up, or something similar, and it’s gonna wreck him.
Seriously though, this book cover is a fucking crime to grace a goddamn masterpiece like this. Look at it. Not even a mother could love it:
It’s a combination of the worst typography impulses known to man, the sort of graphic design my first year professors would fail me for, and that bargain-bin Rey from the TLJ porno parody. Who the hell signed off on this. My soul is cringing into oblivion and crab-walking backwards out of my body
Ah yes, great book! The author is the queen of monster romance/erotica (complete with good plot and characterization).
I’ve put two of her other works on my list of books with monsters as love interests. I only didn’t include this one because I liked the other two on the list even better and I wanted variety.
Thank you for
asking! Really, your ask was exactly what I needed. You see, I was thinking
of writing this list for some time now but I was too lazy.
I have stuff to
recommend because I‘ve been actively looking for books that
feature inter-species/monster romances for a long time. Fun fact: Up
until recently I didn‘t know that this kink was called
teratophilia. 🙂 Thanks, tumblr for educating me. Also, since I found
out how to navigate the relevant tags my life has improved
immeasurably.
The
male protagonist is terrifying by human standards. He finds the human
heroine appalling and he’s just as ugly to her. The like each other
from the start.
Alien-lizard-man,
monk and fighter… Need I say more? Ok: The heroine is fat. She does
lose weight while trying to survive on a hostile alien planet though.
The lizard man protagonist is interested in her either way. All kinds
of trigger warnings for this book: violence, rape, gore, death. It’s
also over 900 pages long. Crazy.
Alien-Insect
man, single dad and adorable. The human social worker really tries to
help him and she does… Reads like District 9 fan fiction which is a
good thing! This book is a bit tamer than The Last Hour of Gann but
the sex is still graphic. 🙂
Check
out this author’s other books as she seems to specialize in
monsters of all kinds.
Girl
is abducted by the King of the Goblins. This is not a David Bowie
Goblin King, this one looks really monstrous. It’s a YA book but
the good kind. The heroine is not an insufferable brat and there is
no love triangle (note: love triangles are only acceptable for me if
they end in a three-way).
Really
beautiful and magical book, sex happens but off-screen.
The
heroine is almost a cyborg. Her extremities were replaced by
completely overpowered prosthetics after a horrific assault while
working as a government agent. She’s traumatized, in pain, doesn’t
have full control of her new body and hasn’t come to terms with her
new menacing look. The rock star demon elf protagonist is very much
into her. Yes, really.
Add
a really inhuman demon to the mix with whom the heroine also has an
intense relationship. Don’t worry it’s not a fucking love
triangle (the bane of my existence). You’ll see… Actually the
description of the whole demon society is very cool and unique and
probably my favorite part of the book.
Still,
give this book a chance! Fluffy and sweet romance between a human
woman and an alien-lizard man. Enough plot to be still considered a
science fiction romance rather than just erotica in space.
This
is an actual furry novel. I did not know such a thing existed.
Thankfully the main couple is a WOC and a space elf but there are so
many furries in this book. For example there is a furry (tiger-like ?) couple. They are siblings (twins actually)… But don’t
worry that’s perfectly normal on their planet.
Now
one might think by this description that this book is completely
depraved erotica. Unfortunately it’s not. The tone of this book is
so sweet and cute it could be directed at children. Spoilers: It’s
not because, you know, incest…
So
yeah, strange experience but if your are into this stuff this might
be the book for you.
Books
with dragons: They are really easy to find. Just type ‘dragon’
in the search bars of Goodreads or Amazon. From children’s books to
erotica – there are many titles to choose from. I can’t really
recommend a specific book because they are not my preferred kind of
monster. I have read a few books with dragons but nothing that was
memorable enough to recommend it. I’ve yet to find an interesting
dragon. 😉
Do you know a book with a monstrous love interest? Please, contact me or reblog with your recommendation! Thanks 🙂
Reblogging
to add some books I forgot in my initial post:
It’s
the end of the world but in a remote valley a small group of people
survived. A woman strikes a deal with a magical creature, the Hob to
keep them safe.The
Hob is monstrous, magical and mischievous and also the last of his
kind. The poor monster boy just wants a girlfriend. 😉
Human
blogger tries to raise awareness for the amphibious hero’s people
who suffer on their occupied home world. The first book seems to set
up a polyamorous relationship.
This movie might be one of the earliest attempts to consciously depict Dracula as sexy, seductive and desirable. Almost all men in this film are more or less bumbling idiots whereas the count is suave, worldly and attractive.
The blood sucking (sex) is highly erotic and consensual. This movie was actively catering to the female gaze in 1979 (!).
Hello! It is true, the heroine of The Lady and the Bandit is overweight. But, to be honest, it wasn’t my intention to convey a message about body-positivity –not explicitly, at least.
It came out naturally. I only wanted a protagonist that didn’t look exactly like the hundreds I’ve found in the romance novels I’ve read; one with a different kind of beauty, but who wasn’t conventionally attractive. (I’d disagree, for her facial features are, to me, timeless and pretty. But that’s the mystery of beauty; everyone has their own tastes).
So I turned to classical statues from Ancient Greece and Rome and got her facial features from there. Old paintings from 2-3 centuries ago –specifically Ruben’s– were a great source of inspiration, if not for the period the novel’s set in, at least for Pepita’s aesthetics. She has black, curly hair, though, inherited from her Spanish mother, unlike Ruben’s golden-haired ladies.
I mean, these women must have been deemed desirable enough to be immortalized in works of art! 😀
(I think Pepita is a bit chubbier than these ladies, though)
Does this have effect on her personality? Well, she doesn’t consider herself very pretty. She knows that she’s overweight, perhaps a bit more than she’d like, but that doesn’t make her lose sleep. She has a group of close friends who support each other and tell her that her extra pounds make her look “healthy and classical”, so that’s fine by her.
Now, Rafael, the dashing hero of the story, finds her attractive for many reasons, and one of them is her body type. He doesn’t care much for girls’ sizes, but something about Pepita’s chubbyness just “clicks” with her overall look, and he likes her whole: the combination of her eyes, her hair, her skin, body and personality; and the sudden changes she brings into his life.
Some nasty people, of course, make jokes about her fatness, and that hurts her. Not because of the content of their words, but because they’re aimed to hurt and undermine her self-esteem, and Pepita can’t stand such vileness.
So, Pepita is overweight, indeed, but it’s not really a problem for her. She gets tired faster when running up a hill (who doesn’t?), feels the weather’s heat a wee bit more, and doesn’t really believe people when they tell her she’s beautiful, though she appreciates their well-meaning intentions.
I don’t know if this is the answer you were looking for, but thank you
so much for asking! If you have any more questions, feel free to ask 😀
Thank you for this great and detailed answer! That was exactly what I wanted to know. 😀 She sounds like a great character. Can’t wait to read the book!
that moment when you and your hot fated sworn nemesis meet on the grand last battlefield that has turned all you both know to corpses and ash, and you think for a moment, swords drawn, that you’ll finally have to end the long dance and kill each other — but no, you can just see your sacred enemy’s eyes are mirrors of your own, your true and only equal, their pain is your pain, and so you finally lay down your weapons, relent and bend and kiss at the end of the world
Monsters and Villains 