monsters under your bed (heart hits like a drum) [creature week 2025]
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too busy being yours to fall by aletterinthenameofsanity for thewritingotter
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
17 Nov 2025
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Greed and Lust, they are said to be. The goddess of hunger and the god of desire, said to have once devoured nations and toppled dynasties. She of the hollow, of the unending hunger, him of desire, unending, unslaking.
It’s been at least a few centuries since they were worshipped at the altar, but while their true names are lost to time, they say that legends never truly die.
And as they walk the streets of one of the largest cities in the world, that grand shrine to consumption and consumerism and lust and glitter, it’s not like their cause to exist ever really went away, did it?
He wears a kilt and a shirt of glimmering mesh and a robe of flowers; she wears flower-painted boots and a pair of overalls above a white t-shirt and a long purple coat. Long ago, they wore their flowers as crowns dripping with blood above their brows; now they are merely a decoration, a stain from a life long ago.
(Crystal and Thomas are forgotten gods. They still have fun with it.)
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hope the taste in your mouth (is still as sweet as I wish it could be) by aletterinthenameofsanity for anything_thats_rock_and_roll
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), iZombie (TV)
18 Nov 2025
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Now, just because Crystal is dead doesn’t mean that she doesn’t have eyes.
Newbie is the kind of gorgeous that defies all gender norms, the sort of pretty that girls and boys would both kill to be and to kiss.
And yeah, he looks vaguely familiar, but most pretty boys do.
And Newbie beelines straight for Niko, where Niko has a fucking doggie bag ready for him, which can only contain-
“Niko!” Crystal hisses.
She can smell what's in the bag.
That's her food.
But newbie just winks at her.
“Don't worry, sweetheart,” he says, “I’m just here for a snack.”
(Crystal is a zombie mortician who eats the brains of victims to see their memories and solve their murders. She had to break up with her human boyfriend, Detective Charles Rowland, a year ago in order to keep him safe from turning.
But when a new man- a new zombie- enters the morgue, Crystal finds that she might have had more reasons than just life and death that her relationship with Charles didn’t work out. And maybe, just maybe, the new zombie might fill some of the hunger she’s been unable to quench since she died.)
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said a prayer to a dashboard jesus (death valley and worn out shoes) by aletterinthenameofsanity for fear0phobia
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
19 Nov 2025
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He sees her like a mirage in the endless desert he’s currently driving through- the hitchhiker holding up her thumb to be picked up on the side of the road.
She doesn’t look like that much of a stranger- red curls half-pulled back, a purple crushed velvet jacket over a pair of jean shorts, tights, and a faded men’s shirt, earbuds in her ears. She looks the picture of studied nonchalance, as if she wouldn’t care one way or another if she got picked up by a passing car.
And yet there is something in her stance that betrays her hunger.
No- her need.
They’re in the middle of nowhere. She’s at least a couple of miles away from the nearest gas station, and all she has is her messenger bag. She might have a water bottle inside of that thing, but that’s not gonna get her too far.
And while Thomas is built a bit more impervious than most, humans very much are not.
Hitchhikers are a gold mine for what he hungers for- unending desire, a hunger for dreams and the road and getting out of town. Not just want, delicious as that is, but need.
(A siren picks up a hitchhiker on the road side, except, well- any liar can tell you that there's always more than meets the eye.)
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if I could paint the sky (all the stars would shine a bloody red) by aletterinthenameofsanity for Atariakana (Anakairata)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
20 Nov 2025
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Crystal is willing to do much to defend herself and her line and even gain a bit of power, but she would not commit the cruelties that David has.
Now, though-
Crystal needs to end those cruelties. She needs to stop David from destroying this place.
She needs to make it out of here.
She needs to escape.
But not just escape- she needs to win.
She needs to not just save herself and her own skin, but those of the little girls who David might take advantage of, the subjects that she agreed to foster as her own when she proposed marriage to this demon of a man.
She doesn’t give a shit what she has to do in order to get out of this place. To fight on her own.
Crystal is not of the Palace anymore. She is not of any sort of noble line, with a civil war destroying the realm.
But what she is still is the descendant of dragon riders.
Once upon a time, her aunts and grandmothers rode dragons. They carried the fire of the world in their veins.
And Crystal will not let the end of the world and the hand of a man with more power than her stop her from claiming her legacy and protecting her people.
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out there on the high dive (flashbacks get me close) by aletterinthenameofsanity for artemisadore
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
21 Nov 2025
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“I’m the Cat Queen of Port Townsend,” the woman says, and it’s somehow both a casual thing and a declaration heavy with magical significance. Thomas can taste it on her words.
"And one of you is very much going to need to face a punishment," she says, but she seems rather bored by the whole endeavor, truly.
And Thomas wants to get her to react. He wants to earn something from her.
Thomas is lonely. He has something itching beneath his skin, carving a hollow out from within him.
Edwin is so stiff and uptight and clearly not onboard with the living. Charles is even more repressed than Edwin, whether he'd like to admit it or not.
And being lonely and empty and amnesiac and itching doesn't exactly improve a person's already tenuous self-control.
And so he blurts, like a reckless idiot with as much self-preservation as a bird landing right in front of a cat: “Why the fuck do you have a table of skeletons growing out of your floor?”
In an instant, the Queen’s gaze snaps to him.
“Y’know what?” the Queen asks, “I’m bored. Things around here get so incredibly mundane. But you? You’re fucking interesting. You’re going to come with me.”
(Role reversal time!)
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look who’s homewrecked now by aletterinthenameofsanity for dear_monday
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
22 Nov 2025
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“Come the fuck on,” Crystal swears, “Are you fucking with me? The woods are actually sacred? Don't tell me that burying David is the thing that fucked me, because I cannot go back to that life if I can't get rid of his body-”
The Cat King scoffs. “Oh fuck no, these woods aren't sacred.” He shudders. “Honestly, I hate them.” But then he fixes her with the curl of a smirk, eyes gleaming with curiosity. “But you, Crystal Palace? You fascinate me.”
Crystal bites her lip, tasting blood, but she doesn't wince. She doesn't flinch. She has done far worse on this eve, and she has a feeling that she'll bargain for far worse if she wants to get out of this in time to escape-
“Can you help me?” She asks, and she's not one to ask for help, but she needs to get out of this town in time. She needs to run, and run far, and never fucking look back.
“Not unless you make a deal with me, sweetheart,” the Cat King says.
(After hitting the end of the line on her relationship with David, Crystal is burying his body in the forest when she finds out that the local legends about the spirit that haunts the forest are real. What she's not expecting, though, is that spirit offering to help her out.)
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