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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.
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14 Apr 2026
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Armand was aware that he often lost time.
It was better now than it had once been.
On the slave ship, in the brothel, when he was in Marius’ care.
He had never questioned why it happened or what caused it. He knew enough of the modern era to know that an answer was likely out there somewhere, but what good would such a thing do him?
Waking up in an unfamiliar bed in an apartment that seemed only vaguely familiar was all the more disconcerting for how long it had been since it had happened to Armand.
He tried to orient himself. He needed to put just enough of the pieces together to know enough to fake his way through his next few interactions and then it would be as if it never happened.
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30 Mar 2026
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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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20 Mar 2026
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Louis suspects that Daniel might be bi. To prove him wrong, Daniel asks his new acquaintance, Armand, to play a little game of pretend.
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19 Mar 2026
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Intricate Houses by aleonine
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice
18 Oct 2025
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“You have to make your own fun in Modesto,” Armand said, giving the name a slight elongated and ironic flourish. Smoke curled from his lips.
Daniel bristled at the tone. But Louis just laughed, easily. “Yeah, I bet. What other kinds of fun you get up to?”
Armand and Daniel were raised as brothers. It gets worse.
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17 Mar 2026