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The Feast is Life - Eat It and Live
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happy 11th mizumono anniversary to those who celebrate! 🥳🎉
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“Happy” isn’t the word but yes 💔❤️🩹
Look at @ondust's beautiful Chapter 15 artwork for Only Monsters Play God! I love it! I miss watercolor... I need to get back into painting!
Hello! I have recently recommended Bram Stokers Hannibal to people and I think it’s become my most talked about fanfic, just wanted to say how much I love it and I’m so excited to read Only Monsters Play God. Your writing is soooo good!
Thank you a thousand times thank you!! I’m tickled pink (well, bloody red is more appropriate 😂). It never fails to delight me when I hear from people who enjoyed that story. It was a labor of love, and I appreciate the message more than you know. Only Monsters Play God has more emotional foundation to lay down before we get to the horror stuff so just know it is coming!! Thank you!!
Only Monsters Play God
Ch. 14!
Art by @ondust !
Posting soon
Something about thinking of Will topping Hannibal and then getting little spooned feels so sweet to me. Little forehead kisses maybe
This is it 🥰
The H-Files
I'm almost finished with my Hannibal/X-Files crossover fic, The H-Files! This story began as a Patreon request and has been sitting in the WIPs for a looooonnnngggg time. I'm going to edit and re-release the existing chapters and then post the new ones that will, at last, bring this "out-of-this-world" story to an end... of episode 1, that is! My god, could you imagine re-writing the ENTIRE X-Files season 1 as Hannigram? Remember, children, this was back when television series aired weekly on TV, you couldn't record it or pause it, you had to race to the bathroom during the commercials, and TV series had something like 22 TO 24 EPISODES A SEASON!
Suffice to say, I will not be undertaking such an endeavor, but it's tempting to flash the narrative forward and perhaps revisit this universe, incorporating some of my favorite episodes and moments vs. trying to include everything. Yes, I'm thinking what you're thinking. A version of "Home", the all-time greatest episode of this long-running series.
Anyway, since I've been working with @ondust I've learned how to incorporate pictures into fics, so here are some images I might use as I edit The H-Files!
Only Monsters Play God: Chapter 13
While Thomas Harris didn't do enough research to realize that Lithuanian girls are pretty much almost never named/called Mischa, he did drop a fun little reference in Hannibal Rising that is culturally and historically accurate.
Before the area's conversion to Christianity, pagans worshipped Saulė, a sun goddess whose favored animal was a grass snake. Harris references this briefly in Hannibal Rising when describing the hunting lodge where Hannibal's family would meet their tragic fate. There is a stone in the foundations repurposed from a temple used by "people who worshipped the grass snake." While they didn't worship the snake so much as the goddess, folk traditions state it is bad luck to kill a grass snake, and sometimes people kept them as pets for good luck.
See, Tommy, that's the difference between you and me. I can't do elegant little mentions here and there. I gotta deep dive and work it in! Honestly, though, research is one of the greatest joys of writing fic. I've learned about Ivan Mazepa, train travel in the 1940s and 50s in the US, a metric shit-ton about Renaissance art, and don't even get me started on the Victorian era!
Anyway, here is @ondust's illustration for chapter 13 featuring Saulė and her snek friends!
Link to the new chapter coming!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/74538616/chapters/220196026
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and a Mongoose (re-release)
When the prequel film to The Hunger Games trilogy came out in 2023 (which somehow seems like a MILLION FUCKING YEARS AGO), I hadn't planned to see it, but a friend wanted someone to go with. I had seen the other movies and read the original books when they first came out, so I was familiar with the franchise, but had not (and still haven't) read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
I LOVED the movie, and, because my mind has been nothing but Hannigram brainrot for as long as I can remember, I could not help but interpret the movie through that lens, along with more conventional ones.
I simply had to write a one-shot about Will and Hannibal seeing the movie, and seeing themselves in the movie. And it was truly a one-shot for once! It did not turn into a half-million-word novel.
Every so often, I like to go back to a fic and edit it for clarity and word choice and make sure it hits the way I meant it to. And I like to include a piece of original art as well -- I am a long way from mastery, but I believe it's never too late, so at age 42 I've (very casually) taken up drawing again.
Here is the updated Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and a Mongoose! Enjoy it, and Will as Lucy Graham Baird (get it, instead of Lucy Gray? I'm so clever I can't stand it sometimes)
(link incoming!)
Only Monsters Play God - Chapter 12
@ondust has so beautifully captured the moment young Hannibal sees Will for the first time. Their connection has, at last, germinated from the seeds planted during Hannibal's illness.
Of course, Hannibal being Hannibal, he had to perfectly coordinate their first face-to-face meeting and plan their first meal.
This is his design!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/74538616/chapters/218125301
Hannibal is basically the Hannah Montana horror/thriller version if you think about it. Living two lives, no one putting two plus two together, he is so "best of both worlds" coded
You get the best of both worlds
Without the shades and the hair
You can go anywhere
Hannibal Montannibal
Only Monsters Play God
Story by DB Mars, but more importantly,
Art by the fabulous @ondust(Happy Birthday!)
Chapter 11: The Ice Was All Between
As Hannibal had promised, the room was sparse, featuring a bed, desk, bookshelves, a wardrobe, and a wash-stand. There were no personal effects. The room had a wet, smoky smell that sent Will careening back through memory into his earliest days living in the hovel with his ailing mother at the edge of the forest, when the rains came and lashed down the chimney or soaked the woodpile despite his father’s efforts to keep it dry under an oilcloth. All was quiet save the patter of rain on the glass that glowed simply before him.
Drawn by it, he edged closer, examining the casement: new wood, newer mechanisms for opening the two side windows. The middle was an uninterrupted pane of glass, wavy in places. But in the center, at the very bottom, Will spotted something. He knelt, resting his hands on the windowsill, leaning forward until his forehead touched the glass. There were numbers scratched into the pane.
2061807
Will closed his eyes again, tracing the scratches with his fingertips. The pad of his index finger caught a razor edge of the etched glass, and he gasped, eyes flying open, lifting the finger to his mouth to instinctively soothe the sting. The cut was small, but it beaded up a ruby. Ruby. Diamond. Whoever etched the numbers into the window must have used a cut diamond with a pointed edge. He looked out the window, sucking on his finger until the bleeding stopped, tasting copper. The northeastern tower overlooked the slope descending away from the protective wall that circled the castle compound. The grass eased into a field, a dirt track leading to a grove of gnarled trees – an apple orchard flanked by a tangled mass of black raspberry bushes. Beyond was nothing but forest. From this angle, it felt like the castle was a ship alone at sea; if one were to stand in the field before the orchard and look back at Castle Lecter, it would appear as a stone galleon alone in the velvet black Caribbean waters, entirely alone and without a pharos to guide it away from the rocks.
He closed his eyes again and listened to his own heartbeat as it syncopated with the rain. A sweeping sound. Fwum. Fwum. Fwum. Each beat muffled, as if a metronome lived in his chest, the pendulum cutting through blood and viscera.
I have been imprisoned in this room for years. I have learned its every nook and inch. There is no escape – they have barred the window and the door. Even the light is limited, rationed – I live in the shadow of my ancestral home. But there is a way. I will capture the light and I will be baptised by it.
This is my design.
Hannibal (2013-2015)
1x10 - “Buffet Froid”
#daylight savings time
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Only Monsters Play God
Chapter 10
Artwork by @ondust !
Will has his first vision of Hannibal as the stag, and forges a bond with his dark guardian angel…
Only Monsters Play God
Chapter 9 will be up shortly!
Did you love Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein? Big fan of the original book? Adore @ondust? Come check out ONLY MONSTERS PLAY GOD.
I'm obsessed with weird old Victorian literature and pulling from the primary sources, mixing Hannigram and my own writing as seamlessly as possible with authors like Shelley and Stoker. I wrote a half-million-word version of Hannigram Dracula, also pulling in references from the Coppola film.
When @ondust approached me about doing a collaborative Frankenstein fic, I was elated. I've never worked exclusively with an artist before and the work they've done is so gorgeous. I'd like to see more traffic and comments about the art, because of all the hard work they've done.
It's not an instant gratification story where Hannigram is going to rail eachother every chapter. If that's your jam, check out my kinktober series LOL. This work is more about worldbuilding and character arcs so that recasting Will and Hannibal as Victor and The Creature makes sense instead of just jamming them into the roles.
I write this way because it gives me a goal with my own reading and research, which brings me a lot of joy. I have a hard time carving out time to read and it's so much easier at the end of a busy day with your kids hanging all over you to just zone out on your phone. But having a collaborator and a readership made me prioritize re-reading Shelley's original novel and then some of the referenced literature in the book and in Shelley's life, like "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." It's like I'm in a literature class of one person where I am both the teacher and the student!
Anyway, I hope you'll stop by and catch up on the story. Right now, Will is trapped on the ship stuck in the ice, telling his story to Freddie Lounds. In his recollection, he and Hannibal are 12 and 14, forming an unbreakable bond as children that will be both deepened and sorely tested in the coming story arc.
Come for the literature, stay for the smut!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/74538616/chapters/210087416
Bet this was the sign for the neurology clinic run by Dr Sutcliffe that Hannibal took Will to to make sure his encephalitis kept progressing
I AM FUCKING DECOMPOSING
Only Monsters Play God
Chapter 8
Art by @ondust!
Mischa delivers a letter to Will. The message is from her big brother, Hannibal, who has been quarantined in his room at Lecter Castle with a fever. All he can do is watch from the window...
Author's Note: This chapter mentions two Renaissance-era paintings. I'll post them here!
