the grunts and poetry of love

Sam / Sara • @valentinemichaelsmith & @iremembertherewasmist on AO3. Trans-masculine, Jewish, non-Binary, and proud. (they/them)

[janewaystarling]

My Fanfics

Most things are smutty - all are driven by a "ship"

Lecterverse

If Indeed She Even Sleeps (Series) - Clannibal

Begins immediately after Chapter 101 of Hannibal by Thomas Harris.

• Chapter 1: "The Rule of Disorder" - The immediate aftermath of Chapter 101 (explicit) • Chapter 2: "If Indeed She Even Sleeps" - Three years after chapter 101 (explicit) • Chapter 3: “Don’t Look For Me.” - Twenty Years after chapter 101 (+Clarice / Ardelia Mapp) At least one more chapter planned.

Now That I Know You Exist (Series) - Clannibal

Begins a few months after Lecter's escape from Memphis in "The Silence of the Lambs" film.

• Chapter 1: "Now That I Know You Exist" (1983-1984) (explicit) • Chapter 2: "Uncharted Territory" (1984) (explicit) • Chapter 3: "Bring Me a Higher Love" (1986) (+Clarice / OC) (explicit) • Chapter 4: "Please" (1995) (explicit) • Chapter 5: "Not the Same Thing" (2000) • Chapter 6: "Until Death" (1983-2037) (in progress) At least two more chapters planned.

One Offs

• "Free" - Begins five years after "The Silence of the Lambs." Hannibal's point of view on KristenRoth's iconic "Bound." (explicit) • "Written in Flesh" - Fix it fic post-"Hannibal" movie. (explicit) • "A Twisted Sense of Light" - A Clannigram epic set in an AU where Lecter's escape from Memphis is foiled before it begins. (explicit) • "Good Morning" - the moment before Clarice and Hannibal meet for the first time in "The Silence of the Lambs" film. (mature)

• “The Humming is Only Her Blood” - a re-imagining of each of Lecter and Starling’s meetings as a combination of Harris’ book, Tally’s screenplay, and my own filthy imagination. (explicit)

Phantom of the Opera & Love Never Dies - Lloyd Webber (All Christine / Phantom)

Her Own Instrument (set after Love Never Dies)

• "Give me a place to stand and I will move the world" - Gustave, Erik, and Raoul cope, and move mountains, after Christine's death • "Her Own Instrument" [Paused] - In an alternate timeline, Christine makes her way in the world.

We Said Things in the Dark (set between Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies)

ª "We said things in the dark" - "I stole to your side, tormented by my choice. I could not see your face, but trembled at your voice." (explicit) • "Between the Shores" - Alternate ending to "we said things in the dark."

Standalone:

• "I am yours and always will be" - the Phantom experiments with mind control and learns he's found more than he bargained for. (explicit)

Star Trek: Voyager (mostly J/C)

And There Our Paths Diverged

• "And there our paths diverged" - When Icheb's experiment goes wrong, Captain Janeway is confronted with a version of her life she never thought possible. Takes place between the events of "Natural Law" and "Homestead," approximately Stardate 54847.7. • "All the Stars we Saw" - When Chakotay is kidnapped by Adrixan separatists, Kathryn makes a decision that changes the course of both their lives forever. (explicit)

Standalones:

• "Barriers" - There are some barriers Janeway and Chakotay never cross, until they do. (explicit) • "Yaala" - When Voyager stops at the Ya'kai homeworld for some R&R, the beautiful Minister of Arts and Culture takes an interest in Captain Janeway, and the feeling is mutual. (F/F, Janeway/OC) (explicit) • "After the Void Comes Daybreak" - The Doctor, Tuvok, and Chakotay finally stage an intervention about Kathryn's depression and a full spectrum of treatment approaches are brought to bear. (explicit) • "Head Over Feet" - B'Elanna delights in the past sixteen days. (Janeway/Torres) • "The Nature of the Conscious Q-niverse" - Q brings Kathryn to a very strange new reality. Is he just playing games, or is there something important to be learned here? (F/F)

Other Fandoms:

V for Vendetta

• "Just How Much" - Evey's dreams are full of missed opportunities.

Entries in a Hot Pink Notebook

• "I really thought you were coming back" - I sometimes wonder what happened to Aaron Silver.

[hannibalxhopskins]

My favorite ‘Hannibal’ lines from the original script that didn’t make it in the film

1: Crawford: (to Clarice) “He likes you, Starling. Seven years gone, not a trace, and he writes to you. You know what that means.” (2000 Draft Revision, pg. 81)

2: Crawford: (to Clarice) “The stalker who says he likes you is far more dangerous than the one who says he wants to kill you.” (2000 Draft Revision, pg. 81)

3: Lecter: (to Clarice) “Will you stay with me in my prison cell? Hmmm? I suppose it wouldn’t be that much worse than yours.” (2000 Draft Revision, pg. 98)

4: Lecter (to Clarice): “Don’t you want to harm those who have forced you to consider it? I know you never would, but wouldn’t you like to? Wouldn’t it feel good? It’s all right to admit it. It’s perfectly natural. To want to taste the enemy.” (2000 Draft Revision, Pg. 99)

5: Lecter: (to Paul Krendler) “I assure you, though, you’ll love the second course, that is if I can serve it before Clarice bashes my head in.” (2000 Draft Revision, pg. 115)

6: Lecter: (to Clarice) “No. I think a new life lies before you. A better life. With me? Hmmm, there’s a thought.” (2000 Draft Revision, pg. 117)

7: Lecter: (to Clarice) “I came halfway around the world just to watch you run in the woods. Run with me, Clarice.” (2000 Draft Revision, pg. 117)

8: Lecter: (to Clarice) “That’s my girl. If you hadn’t tried, I would have killed you… But don’t try again…I mean it.” (2000 Draft Revision, pg. 119)

9: Lecter: (to Clarice) “Oh, Clarice, you are the honey in the lion. In times to come, whenever you see yourself naked, whenever you see the scar- the quality of the stitching - you’ll remember this moment - and your lips will burn.” (2000 Draft Revision, pg. 119)

10: Crawford: (to Clarice regarding her scar) “You don’t need to hide it. Your doctor did a nice job. You can hardly see it-.” (2000 Draft Revision, pg. 120)

[janewaystarling]

Wedding Night

Clarice still thanks God sometimes, even if she no longer believes. She sometimes still calls His name, too, when she comes.

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Sorry for the delay. School is bananas. Enjoy.

[janewaystarling]

Thanks for the crabs!

[janewaystarling]

Pathetic (pə-thĕt′ĭk)

Adj. So desperately obsessed with a fanfiction author that you harass them anonymously on AO3.

It took me less than ten minutes to change my settings. You have to be logged in to leave a comment now and the AO3 mods are eagerly awaiting your next missive so they can ban you from the site.

Please feel free to attach your next nastygram to your username so we can take out the garbage.

[janewaystarling]

I'm still here, y'all.

I decided to do a really intense summer session at school because... why not?

It hasn't left me with very much time to do any writing though. Trust that there's more interesting stuff coming, possibly at a scale I didn't think was possible before. (If you know, you know.)

I'd also like to take this quick opportunity to remind folks that there's a special section of the bad place reserved for people who intentionally misgender others.

Thankfully, I'm pretty resilient to that stuff, but it can and does lead to suicides so just bear that in mind.

[weevilwater]

hello I have returned

[milaeryn]

Incorrect Silence of the lambs quotes 😂 / Part 2

Part 1

[breeeliss]

“don’t reduce this female character down to a love interest” does not translate into “this female character shouldn’t have a love interest.”

preventing female characters with strong, compelling narratives from experiencing love, intimacy, and affection is just as regressive as reducing them down to sexual accessories for male characters. it assumes that women must choose between a romantic interest and depth of character and ignores a far more productive message: that women are capable of possessing both. 

[janewaystarling]

Agrees in Janeway / Chakotay.

Kate Mulgrew famously fought against the writers developing them as a couple because she didn’t want to run afoul of that exact regressive attitude and undermine the audience’s respect for her character.

[janewaystarling]

Oh how I love the way that Sir Anthony Hopkins growled the last word of, "Jack Crawford sent a trainee to me?"

My question is, what does it mean?

I see three options. What do you think?

"Jack Crawford sent a trainee to me? ...

A) ... How rude."

B) ... What a lovely gift. I'm touched."

C) ... He's such an idiot."

All of the above

A & C

B & C

Results

Voting ended onMay 29, 2023

[hxcfairyhasmoved]

“Hannibal” series trivia: Veteran character actor Frankie Faison has appeared in all of the first four “Hannibal” movies. He played Lieutenant Fisk in Manhunter and played Barney the asylum orderly in The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and Red Dragon.

[janewaystarling]

Unpopular Opinion

If you spin off an AU with your film adaptation of a book, you're doing it wrong.

[janewaystarling]

Guide to My Lecter Fics

The first Lecter story I wrote was called "Now That I Know You Exist." In it, Hannibal calls Clarice several months after the end of SOTL and confesses that he's in love with her. That spawned an entire AU devoted to their life together in Switzerland.

Some time later, I tackled the issue of what exactly Hannibal did to Clarice's mind in the last chapters of the Hannibal novel in "If Indeed She Even Sleeps." The story spawned another AU set in Buenos Aires.

I've also written a number of stand alone stories.

Now that I'm back writing in the "Now That I Know You Exist" universe with "Until Death," I figured it was a good time to give y'all an overview of what I've written, when it takes place, and what AU it takes place in.

You can also refer to this post that has a bit more information about all of it.

Hope this is useful!

[janewaystarling]

New Story: Until Death

In 2037, a young reporter at The Washington Post receives a mysterious package that challenges everything the world believed about "Hannibal the Cannibal" Lecter.

Chapter 1

My name is Clarice M. Starling.

I have long since faded from any public awareness, but those who paid attention to law enforcement or true crime in the early 1980’s may know me as the former Federal agent who shot and killed two high profile serial killers within the space of a year and published a book about it.

In this open letter to be published upon my death, I wish to share certain facts that may be of interest to scholars, law enforcement, and the public.

This is not an attempt to absolve myself or anyone else of any crimes or harmful acts. I am writing simply to tell the truth at long last, and to explain what I have learned in the hopes that this information may help others.

I left the Bureau in 1984 and wrote a memoir about my experiences in my short time there. In that book, I claimed to have shot and killed the serial murderer Hannibal Lecter in Bellingham, Washington on May 16 of that year.

That was a deliberate fabrication…

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Jackson Mei reads through the rest of the letter, once quickly and then twice very slowly. She glances over to the managing editor’s desk and finds it empty. “Where is Jay Rosenfeld?”

“Jay Rosenfeld is not in the building and has do not disturb turned on.”

Of course. It’s Friday night.

She twists her fingers through her long locs before deciding. “Override.”

“On what grounds?”

“Breaking news.”

After several minutes, a holo of Jay’s face appears.

“I’m sorry to bother you on Shabbos, but I knew you would want to hear about this right away.”

“What do you have?”

“Have you ever heard of the serial killer Hannibal Lecter?”

“Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in awhile. I was just starting J-School when he escaped from police custody in Memphis. It was a massive story.”

“Well I have a letter here from someone claiming to be his wife.”

“Probably some kook.”

“That’s what I thought at first, but I read the letter very carefully and my news sense tells me this is a real story. She says she’s included evidence. Fingerprints, photographs, locks of hair, all sealed inside of postmarked, unopened envelopes.”

“Well that is interesting. I’ll tell you what, boot up a forensic analyst and get Rogers back in the building on my authority. Tell them to meet you in the lab.”

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The newspaper writers of the future, apparently, have state of the art forensics labs.

This one will hopefully make you cry and come and then cry some more. Enjoy!

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[fieberwahn]

NBC Hannibal was romantic because Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham saw each other and silently agreed that "You are sick, yet I will love you. You are sick but I will ingest you into my system and it will cause me a great deal of pain but I will not care. Loving you is never dirty work."

[janewaystarling]

Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling are romantic because they heal each other.

[darknessalwayscometous]

I like the clannibal one, it's so sad in the film they don't get their happy ending together :'

[janewaystarling]

They will. I’m working on it.

[rcntlydcccased]

Based off of that one sculpture……. Yeah <3

[brightlotusmoon]

[marnanel]

Also Diane Duane. Also Diana Wynne Jones.

[brightlotusmoon]

Diane Duane lives here on Tumblr, for those who didn't know!

[athingofvikings]

#I still need to read Discworld#I've heard SO many good things about it#And I love the snippets that I have read#I just need to figure out where to start

@crazyemeralddragons, you have basically just rung the bell to summon the Discworld fandom.

We have flowcharts for possible reading orders.