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  1. Public Bookmark 63

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    They’ll go days without speaking more than necessary. And then one of them relents. Sometimes it’s Will, exhausted by the silence, worn down by the constant awareness of Hannibal’s absence. Sometimes it’s Hannibal, unable to maintain the distance any longer. One of them breathes out and says it. The words.
    I’m sorry.
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    Will likes fighting with Hannibal a little more than he should. <3

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    28 Mar 2026

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    “You are not well,” Salvador returns. “You are overflowing with…” he pauses to search for the word and he finds it, “grief. You’re grieving. It has hollowed you out.”

     

    “I have nothing to grieve for.”

     

    “You’re lying, Thomas.”

     

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    Vincent Benítez becomes Pope Innocent XIV. Thomas Lawrence stays behind.

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    09 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 23

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    “Scholars have long assumed that Lord Henry Warren was the prototype of Oscar Wilde’s ‘Lord Henry Wotton’ in The Picture of Dorian Gray, and that he may have known more about the mysterious disappearance of his friend, painter Basil Holland (the known antecedent of Wilde’s ‘Basil Hallward’), than he ever admitted in his life.” A bit of metafictional fun with The Picture of Dorian Gray, imagining that its characters were based on Wilde's own contemporaries, and that one of them wrote a secret tell-all.

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    23 Apr 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 33

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    “Perhaps if you cared for spending more time in her presence, your mind would change,” Basil suggested.
    Lord Henry laughed, his head moving against the painter’s arm. “You know I dislike dull people, Basil, present company excepted.”

    A story focused on the complicated ties between Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton, in which Harry’s curiosity always prevails over his reason.

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    29 Mar 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 6

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    He would get his Bible from the drawer he kept it in; given to him for his first Communion. It was the same copy he had anxiously flipped the pages of as a boy, after that day at the lake with his schoolmates when his thoughts began to wander.

    Abomination, it had said then as it said now. That’s what I am.

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    Basil spirals. Henry makes it better - or is it worse?

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    30 Dec 2024