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    The room is small, but it feels vast compared to the cramped quarters of the car. It’s dingy on a good day, likely grimier in the light, yet it soothes with an indescribable coziness. Abigail assumes Hannibal chose it for its porousness—the way things well-used and run-down can absorb the undesirable. Its ability to swallow blood, mud, rain-soaked clothes, crumpled bandage wrappers, and discarded bottles of topical iodine, and leave no trace behind.
    The beauty of an eternal reset, with nothing left but a mint on the pillow for the next day.

    She can see them– families on vacation, young couples high on the thrill of shotgun weddings, lonely bachelors– sinking into the bed, blissfully unaware of how deep loneliness goes.

    However deep the bottom of that pit is, Abigail, lately, is willing to concede she feels exactly that lonely.
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    A post-fall murder family road trip wherein, through flashbacks to his last sessions with Bedelia Du Maurier, Will attempts to understand his intimate relationship with Hannibal and the life they begin to create post-fall.

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    04 Nov 2024

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    No one really notices Marcel Styles. In fact, Marcel’s so invisible that if his teachers don’t call on him in lessons - and they rarely do - Marcel can go whole days without speaking to anyone other than his mum, his sister, Gemma, his cat, Dusty and the school librarian, Alma. And if he just so happens to have a tiny, miniscule crush on the footie captain, Louis Tomlinson, well, that’s no one’s business but his own. Until Louis notices him back...

    Special thanks to Ellie for the Russian translation.
    And many thanks to Nika for the: Polish translation

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    16 Sep 2024

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    In the year 1942, Louis de Pointe du Lac is a newly popular portrait painter in New Orleans, having worked tirelessly to establish his reputation. He has taken in a 14-year-old orphan named Claudia, offering her a semblance of family and stability.

    Louis crosses paths with Lestat de Lioncourt, a charismatic and manipulative, creole man who recently moved from Paris. Lestat, a famous theater performer and talented musician, quickly makes a name for himself in the vibrant cultural scene of New Orleans. He becomes intrigued by Louis art and the young Claudia’s presence.

    Seeing both Louis and Claudia as his own family, Lestat becomes increasingly desperate to turn Louis into a vampire, wanting him as a companion for eternity. He envisions a shared future, filled with artistic and emotional adventures, where they can navigate the issues of their existence together. Lestat’s desire to bind Louis to him grows, underlying the interactions between them as he tries to convince Louis of the allure and immortality he can offer.

    (This is still heavily inspired by iwtv series, most of S1 and maybe S2 plot will still be happening but will be different.)

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    10 Jul 2024

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    In the aftermath of the novel, the Lan elders cite an old Confucian rule in refusing to acknowledge the unwitnessed marriage between Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji: it is inappropriate, they say, for a younger brother to marry before the elder.

    In the face of mounting attempts to drive Wei Wuxian from the Cloud Recesses, and rampant infighting for the position of Jin sect leadership, Jiang Cheng proposes marriage to Lan Xichen. The marriage, he says, will cement their allyship and bring stability to the crumbling coalition of the Great Sects.

    Unfortunately, the new couple just do not get along.

    Xicheng enter a marriage of convenience. After much strife, they agree to try anew. Eight years pass in peaceful co-existence, but they eventually capitulate to requests from elders to annul the marriage and beget heirs. However, they soon realize that it's not so easy to put eight years of marriage behind them. Falling repeatedly into bed together, they begin to navigate a shameful, secret relationship.

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    28 Jun 2024

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    When he’s six years old, Lan Wangji loses his mother, and from that point on random objects begin to disappear around him. When he’s nineteen, he meets Wei Ying and falls in love. When he’s twenty-one, he—


    Wei Ying’s fingers curl, and without thought Lan Wangji curls his as well, their hands held in the middle of the table. He can already tell this will be a moment that will change the course of their lives.

    “If you’re interested in any anomaly—time, space, both, neither—then you should be interested in the Burial Mounds.”

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    30 Mar 2024