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‘Hello, Daniel,’ Armand said, eyes glowing with undeniable warmth. How casual he seemed on the outside, the shaking of his pupils the single outward sign of distress. ‘That performance was very late seventies of you.’
A grin threatened to split Daniel’s face in two as he slid his his right hand next to where Armand’s was resting on the countertop. ‘Yeah? I felt particularly inspired by the era tonight.’
OR: Daniel and Armand find their way back to each other.
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- Part 41 of Restless (Chronological Order)
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27 Jul 2025
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ISO: Carer to look after my father for 8 weeks this summer.
Dad is 71, early stage Parkinson’s disease, broke his hip 6 weeks ago. No signs of cognitive decline; mostly needs help with household tasks (cooking, light cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping), getting dressed, showering, changing cat litter/general cat care, getting to and from appointments.
Please know what you are getting into; Dad is physically more or less in good health but awful at accepting his limitations, unnecessarily mean, generally uncooperative, and largely nocturnal. Imagine yourself caring for a feral raccoon that is convinced it’s going to write another book, then subtract everything that is cute about raccoons.
$20/hour, roughly 4 hours a day. Must be able to pass a background check and lift 50 lbs. Patience of a saint not required but preferred.- Language:
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05 May 2025
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Daniel sees life like a river. Thinks he is caught up in a current that only goes one way, that will eventually sweep him out to sea. It’s easier for him to think so. It keeps him alive to think so.
He doesn’t know that he could stand up and reach the bottom. He doesn’t know he has a choice.
Drugs don’t work, sex doesn’t work, New York hasn’t worked. Somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains, an improbable number of suicides have taken place. Somewhere in a bar in New York, Daniel hears about them. He wants to fill a void. The difference between what is real and what isn’t matters as little to him as the things he’ll find to throw into the darkness. Which, as it turns out, is quite a lot.
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25 Apr 2025
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in the deafening polar province called You by shineforthee
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
24 Sep 2024
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Daniel is sprawled out across the bed, loose-limbed and lazy, somehow filling all the open space it has to offer and leaving Armand to nestle into the gaps. His cheeks are flushed, blood pooling like it knows what comes next. Maybe it does. Armand was reading about classical conditioning the other day. About dogs who become accustomed to getting food when their handler rings a bell.
Perhaps Daniel is the dog, Armand’s teeth sharp bells reverberating in his veins. Or perhaps Armand is the dog, Daniel’s blood a song rattling in his ears. He has been a dog before. He runs his tongue along the bow of Daniel’s collarbone, gathers the salt-sweat there and imagines what it tastes like because Daniel does.
Armand remembers he loved Daniel, once, and that Daniel loved him. Or a version of them did, at least. It isn't his intention to go back to that, but it's not not his intention, either. Such is the prerogative of an immortal: to hold two contradicting desires simultaneously. If nothing else, it passes the time while he waits for this miserable interview to end.
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18 Mar 2025
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"I know what a breakup looks like," Daniel says. "The better question is, why are you coming to me about it? I'm the one who broke up your little sham."
"This is what humans do, don't they?" Armand asks, letting his voice drop. "Crashing on their friends' couches when there's a blip in their romances?"
"Except we're not friends. We're actually very much not friends." Daniel shrugs, as if it's all the same to him. "And I can't imagine the great vampire Armand deigning himself to sleep on my fucked-up sofa. That thing's been here since the nineties."
"Well," Armand only says. "I saw you have a guest bedroom."
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01 Feb 2025
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After the fall, Will drags Hannibal out of the Atlantic and they find their way north to a remote part of Labrador, where they try to make a life together.
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11 Jul 2023
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The One in Which Crowley Cannot Flirt With Cute Cashiers by Clarices_wife
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
10 Jul 2023
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“Ana, you'd never believe what I saw walking down the street today, nearly pissed myself.” Crowley starts as he makes his way to the back of the dark store, where the till sits.
“Well, I’d be quite interested to hear.” Says someone who's decidedly not Anathema.
No, instead of Anathema, a man with the blondest hair, and stupidest bowtie- which was definitely not for a uniform, Anathema would burn the place down before trying to make anyone working for her wear a uniform- sat in her place. And when the man smiled at him with a nervous crease in his brows, Crowley thought he felt faint.
“You're not Anathema.” Is all Crowley manages to say.
Or: Crowley walks into a beauty supply store for hairdye, and walks out with a crush.
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10 Jul 2023
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While out fishing one day, Will comes across an unusual creature who seems to adore him immediately.
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15 Dec 2022
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It’s not like Hannibal didn’t know that Will was hiding something. It was after the third body drop a week ago that it became clear that Will had a secret that somehow involved the case, one he wasn’t willing to share yet, not even with Hannibal.
At 6:43 AM, Will had texted Hannibal that a fourth body had been found and that he was on his way to the scene with Jack.
At 8:06 PM, Will had stepped into Hannibal’s office, thirty-six minutes past his appointment time, and practically shouted “I used to be a stripper!” as loudly as his hoarse voice would allow him to.
Hannibal Lecter, though not phased by much in life, has never been entirely able to predict Will Graham, but this is just… getting out of control.
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Alternatively, the FBI is hunting a serial killer targeting male strippers, and Will decides to throw himself into the fray. Hannibal is beyond pleased.- Language:
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16 Nov 2022
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cross your heart and make it mine by second_hand_heaven
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
08 Apr 2022
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"“I’ve just been admiring your tattoos,” Bonnet admits, “especially this one. X marks the spot," he jokes, his thumb brushing the small tattoo just beneath his eye. Bonnet leans in, then, presses a chaste kiss to the same spot.
Izzy stops breathing, if only for a second."
In which Izzy enjoys a soft morning with Stede.
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- Part 1 of x marks the spot
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07 Jun 2022
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After Izzy manages to make himself sick, he's unwillingly subjected to Stede Bonnet's particular brand of posh hospitality. And Stede, for his part, is determined to be liked.
Naturally, Izzy isn't going down without a fight.
Edit: I was going to continue this, but decided I was content with the place I left it. I believe I achieved what I wished to with the narrative. :) I hope you enjoy!
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31 May 2022
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“Tell me if anything is particularly sensitive.”
Will goes very still.
There’s a subtle, hair-fine moment when the human hindbrain remembers what it’s like to be prey. Hannibal has gotten good at recognizing it. But Will’s tension is a coiled thing, the imperceptible shift of muscles under skin, a push off the back foot.
He doesn’t react like prey. He reacts like a young predator before it remembers its finally grown teeth.
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Will Graham bears the mark of a heretical god, a mark said to condemn the bearer to a life of madness. Dr. Hannibal Lecter knows otherwise. When Will shuts himself away from the world, Hannibal coaxes him toward a new understanding of himself. But in the end, who is he? And what is Hannibal?
(A cowritten pseudo-Victorian/Dishonored-inspired AU.)
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09 Mar 2022
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My Body is a Cage (That Keeps Me from Dancing with the One I Love) by everyday_forever
Fandoms: Hannibal (TV)
29 May 2021
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Picking up after Season3Episode7: Digestivo, Hannibal has turned himself in and Will struggles with the conflicting emotions of hating Hannibal while also aching for him. Will is forced to testify as Hannibal is tried and sentenced before the court for his crimes.
But what if, instead of winning his insanity defense and getting the protection of the BSHCI, Hannibal was found both sane and ultimately guilty, thereby subjecting him to the death penalty?
Can Will survive an outcome such as this? Or will he take matters into his own hands to ensure Hannibal's escape?A fic centering on Hannibal's Trial, Will's angst, and an AU for the second half of s3.
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18 Dec 2021
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like a promise by literatureonhowtolose
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
05 Jan 2022
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Love is late nights spent ranting and raving about the future, a shared one, hopefully, cracking jokes high on lack of sleep. It is a hand on his back, on his shoulder, shielding his frail body or asking him not to get up, please, “don’t tire yourself”. Love is curious eyes following his every move, trying to determine what he will say next so another voice can finish his sentences for him. Love is something Viktor had never put much thought into until he’d seen its name written across multiple pages, impossible not to notice, more impossible yet to forget.
(Reviewed and edited: December 2024)
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29 Nov 2021
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“I am uncertain why it is that you are all of the sudden so hesitant, Master," Nandor coaxed in a husky voice, deep and rasping in a way Guillermo had no defense against. The vampire’s eyes were dark and half-lidded, his fingertips skating up the length of his thigh. “You know I am forever at your disposal, and I was so far under the impression that you found my services quite enjoyable indeed,” he cocked his head to the side, sent a brief but meaningful glance downwards. “Perhaps, though, you are waiting for me to beg for the privilege of proving my devotion to you?”
About two months after Guillermo begins his mission to infiltrate a covert organization of Vampire Slayers, several of its members walk in on him meeting with-- and conspicuously not attempting to slay-- Nandor. Guillermo has only seconds to think of an explanation for this that won't completely blow his cover and get the both of them killed.
The one he settles on may end up raising more questions than it answers.
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- Part 1 of Slayers Made Them Do It
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13 Nov 2021
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something here will eventually have to explode by returnsandreturns
Fandoms: What We Do in the Shadows (TV)
08 Nov 2021
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“Sometimes I think about opening your curtains,” Guillermo says, softly, “and waking you up at noon.”
He learned years ago that he can say anything he wants to unless Nandor is choosing to pay attention to him—and he typically isn’t. He can say things like I’m going to lock you in your coffin until you agree to turn me and I want you to do things to my body that I don’t even understand yet and I’ve never been in love before and it’s weird that it’s like this and Nandor won’t even flinch, won’t do more than say, “Hush with the muttering, Guillermo, I’m thinking about things that are far more important than you,” which has always felt like he took a page directly from what Guillermo assumes everyone thinks about him.
“. . .rude, Guillermo,” Nandor says, this time, turning to aim a sad look at him.
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10 Nov 2021
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Every so often, the vampires remind Guillermo that they are not human—or too human, pushed to the edge by a greedy hunger deep in their souls. Like a pack of wild, starving dogs. Guillermo felt a perverted ache in his bones at the constant possibility of being ravaged. Being drained by wandering hands.
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02 Nov 2021
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Nandor sleeps in his seat in the train to the next leg of his journey but in his dreams he can never forget the curls of a certain familiar.
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01 Nov 2021
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When Father John Pruitt arrives on Crockett Island for the first time, Mildred Gunning has just been abandoned, first by her husband who has gone to war, then by the priest who has been stationed in her church all her life. She is not ready to trust him at once, and in his attempts to show himself worthy of her trust, maybe he ends up overachieving a little.
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29 Oct 2021
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Bread and Lighthouses by Ayla221bee for sandwastesinthevoidofmychest
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV)
20 Jun 2021
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'He believed that it was only with nature and his isolation from the rest of the world that he would be able to create something beautiful. It was after reading Walden that he had felt inspired to accept the post. He wondered if being in the Scottish highlands in order to look after a lighthouse would allow him to live deliberately and see the essential facts of life, and would perhaps learn what it meant to live. He hoped that he would be able to discover how sublime the world could be once more, he had only experienced the meanness of it over the years. '
Mycroft ends up taking an opportunity as a lighthouse keeper in Scotland to take comfort in the isolation to avoid his past. Greg has been running the local bakery for the last three years after a life in London.
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- Part 1 of The Lighthouse
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16 Apr 2021