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hello! i'm a big fan of your fics, and was wondering if you had any particular inspirations for you dexter/harrison fics, specifically 'carnivore incarnate'. it's so fascinating! also, forever hoping you'll write more for this fandom ❣
anon, this is incredibly flattering, and I really hope you're still around to read this response. I'm sorry it took me a while. I wanted to really be...comprehensive in my thoughts and this ended up pretty rambly. In some ways, this is an excuse for me to write about my process for my very rare pair, which is self-indulgent, but I hope it'll be of interest to some people at least.
Stoker and Raw are, in general, two inspirations for me that I keep in mind while writing Dexter/Harrison fic. Stoker, because the way I write Harrison, it's always a coming of age story vis-a-vis serial killing. For carnivore incarnate, I specifically drew on Raw for some of the visuals and violence. Both of those films are coming of age stories with incestous vibes and murder, and that's the vibe I want for my fic.
As far as carnivore incarnate goes, well, there's the quote the title is from, which is the Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, a short story collection; the quote is specifically from The Company of Wolves in it; but I wasn't really drawing on the short story in particular, I just like the quote a lot and I kept hearing it in my head while writing it.
In terms of the vampire mythology, I made it up xD There's absolutely shades of Being Human UK (blood drinking as addiction, daywalking vampires) and The Lost Boys (half-vampirism) and even a bit of The Coldest Girl in Coldtown (not-fully transitioned vampires drinking vampire blood), but I constructed the mythology based on what I needed to make the story work. I needed Dexter to walk in daylight, or else he doesn't work as a Miami blood-spatter analysis, so I decided daylight doesn't have an effect, or it has minimal effect. I needed Dexter to age, so he looks Dad-aged to Harrison, not like Season 1 era Dexter, so I decided blood keeps him young and if he doesn't drink, he'll age at a normal rate. I needed Harrison to be in some half-vampire state where he knows he is not Normal but plausibly think his issues are all psychological, and not that he's a vampire, so I decided he doesn't get his fangs until he makes a kill.
I am writing more for this fandom! The problem is, all my ideas are huge, so it takes forever for me to finish something, and I also get distracted by other projects, because I get easily frustrated if I spend too long on one thing. I sort of can't talk about what I'm currently writing, because it's for an exchange (hopefully) and I need to stay anonymous until I post it, but it should hopefully be done...in a month? I think it needs a month's more of work. I have multiple Dexter/Harrison ideas that I've already started, and I'm writing one Harrison/Brian idea that's about...30k at the moment, but again, slowest writer alive.
I am also really deeply inspired by music; I can write without it, but it always helps. If i'm a low mood, music can help pick me up and put me in a better mood for writing. Certain songs evoke the right feelings or emotions for a scene, or a character, or a specific event, and help me with the imagery or mood. This is the most self-indulgent thing but I make a playlist for most things I write. I don't have a specific carnivore incarnate playlist, but I do have a Dexter/Harrison playlist I made for you gave me my very first gun that I've just been adding to it as I write and turned into a catch-all Dexter/Harrison mix:
you gave me my very first gun
I also have these two other writing mixes that I use for writing Dexter/Harrison, or other Dexter-related or Dexter adjacent content:
monsters are always hungry
no blood for you will ever be enough
I've been listening to that third one a lot while writing. There's a lot of overlap between mixes, and I guess if I had to pick 5 songs that inspire my Dexter/Harrison feelings for writing, I'd go with
patron saint hunter - timber timbre
evil - interpol
alligator blood - nicole dollanganger
glycerine - bush
you want it darker - leonard cohen (thank you, bones and all, for bringing this to my attention)
Thank you for asking! I'm glad you're enjoying the fics. There's such a small audience for this, so I really treasure any level of engagement I get <3
#anonymous#asks#dexter#dexter x harrison#harrison morgan#dexter morgan#born in blood; just like you#my writing#about me#and my writing process i guess
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#BABY HIEI BABY HIEI BABY HIEIS#hes the embodiment of those little vintage troll dolls just a little deadly#the one crying has a context actually so#as a strong believer of “hiei cries jewelries like koorimes do” i think at some point he wanted to know if he actually had the ability#but this thing is born emotionally constipated so its most likely that he inducted himself to tears by punching himself in the nose#rather than crying for emotions like a normal kid would#thats why he got blood on his nose there ahshsh i hope you enjoy them bc they were very fun#yu yu hakusho#yuyu hakusho#yyh#yyh hiei#hiei#hiei jaganshi#well this is before the jagan eye but whatever#yu yu hakusho hiei#幽遊白書
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If My Body Could Speak, Blythe Baird | The Godfather, Mario Puzo | My Father's House, Sylvia Fraser | To The Daughter Who Secretly Longs For Her Mother’s Affection, Lynne Shako | Storms from Jupiter, Wanda Deglane | DO NOT REPLY, @filmnoirsbian
#connie corleone#carmela corleone#the godfather#web weaving#this is...quite negative towards carmela i guess#so i just want to make it clear that i actually really love her as a character and i actually can understand how she became who she was#she was a woman born in the late 19th century raised not just in a patriarchal society but a CATHOLIC patriarchal society#who therefore grew up learning that she was primarly defined by her relationship to her husband and her capacity to be a 'good wife'#so i totally understand why she would take some type of sick pride in knowing that her husband never 'had' to hit her#but like...that entire part of the book was legit hard to read and Carmela was really not that much better than Vito there#so it's kinda hard for me not side eyed the shit out of her when she blame Connie for being a neglectful mom#like geez Carmela I wonder why your daugther might be struggling I'm sure it has nothing to do with anything you did or refused to do...#i'll say that she did end up being concerned for Connie and trying to help so she definitely deserves some points here#unlike Vito's dumbass who was just like 'it really hurts me to know that my daughter is being hit all the time but i can't do anything :('#'I'll tell her it's all her fault and that she deserves to be hit that will surely help somehow'#Vito really spent the entirety of this book being like 'nothing and I mean NOTHING matters more than blood (conditions very much applies)'#domestic violence mention
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AU where Obi-wan is Can Drallig's illegitimate son except of course everyone knows and no one cares except for qui-gon of course.
based on this post by @twinterrors29
#Star Wars#cin drallig#obi wan kenobi#my art#id in alt#its important to me that Cin is like 2.10m and obi wan 1.80m still#yoda is so happy to have another grandchild#cin's age is unknown but the actors are just 12 years apart so im thinking obi wan was probably born when cin was still in his twenties#cin steals obi-wan and feemor from qui-gon#feemor is a guard or a librarian and cin adopts him#anakin is like. who's that guy and obi wan panics bc how do you explain to your sort of child that this is#the guy who brought you to the temple but also you share a blood type and home planet and when he was a child people would call cin his dad#but you can't exactly ASK the guy Are You My Father#so he just kind of skirts around the topic for twentyfive years#cin. to anakin: Im his father but dont tell anyone?#obi wan: ...at least now that is answered#anakin: why is your dad allowed to live here but my mom has to be a slave?#obi & cin plus every jedi in the vicinity: EXCUSE ME#anakin: yeah qui-gon said-#cin: what's with qui-gon jinn hurting my kids??#feemor and obi-wan. : Your Kids??#anakin: grandpa!!!!#cin: now I know why yoda wasn't mad when I showed up with obi at 27 yrs old this kid is adorable
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I know JKR is a terrible person and you won’t catch me defending her but making Harry’s best friends mirrors of his dead parents was a galaxy brained move if ever there was one.
#Ron opening up his home and his family to his abused and ignored best friend just like James did for Sirius??#the quidditch loving pure blood falling in love with the brainiac muggle born???#the game of cat-and-mouse style romance that took the two 7 years to finally get together and fall in love???#miss Joanne I hope you rot in hell but before you do you should know you ate that one little thing#romione#jily#ron x hermione#james x lily#ron weasley x hermione granger#james potter x lily evans#ron and hermione#james and lily#ron weasley and hermione granger#james potter and lily evans#harry potter#the wizarding world of harry potter#harry really took being a third wheel to a whole other level with those two
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joel etho single dads au .........
#esp if we go w liml family#etho with scar and bdubs at the park#joel with hermes#their kids meet and become best friends and keep begging for five more minutes until theyre the last ones at the park#so joel and etho inevitably meet and start talking because theyre both hella bored waiting for their kids#and joel lowk kinda cannot stand etho#hes like “igh this guy is sooo pretentious i could sense it from a mile away. who does he think he is with that stupid white hair”#“newsflash it doesnt make you look cool it makes you look old as hell”#(but he doesnt say any of this)#(obviously)#and it works best if etho is totally oblivious#dude is just waiting 2 drop off scar n bdubs back home2 cleo so he can try2 get the Good Nights SleepTM hes been chasing since he was a bab#then they find out their kids go to the same school#and so obviously joel has decided to make it his mission in life to one up everything etho does#at this point etho is fully aware and finds it hilarious#because he is an Expert in these things okay. hes been making brownies for scar's bake sales since before hermes was Born#and joel can try as hard as he can but he just Cannot reach that level.#he can make as many cupcakes as he wants but none of them r gonna beat the gooey deliciousness of ethos chocolate chip triple layer brownie#and that is just soooo infuriating to him. his blood is boilimg at Every Single Parent Led Bake Sale Ever#and its even worse because etho looks like hes about to spontaneously combust at any possible second#his hair is a mess. deepppp eyebags. hes been running on maybe an hour of sleep every night for the past what eight years???#but hes sooo consistently perfect at everything.#joel hates him.#but like they also have to put up with each other at playdates and parties and whatnot because i repeat their kids are Best Friends#aughhh idk theres some potential there. i promise im just not getting it across very well#nya talks#trafficblr#hermitblr#joel smallishbeans
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self portrait - predatory lesbian
#cw eyestrain#not even in a /neg way because most predatory lesbian guilt is born from misogyny and lesbophobia#predatory lesbian neutrality#you like women the same way women like men the same way men like women#just because you are a girl doesnt make your attraction any less valid#we are all wolves here#dont hurt yourself for desiring the same way everyone else does#im reclaiming ‘predatory lesbian’ in a way a scrawny dog covered in blood howls at the moon#mochadoodles#god i love women and if you hate that joy thats your skill issue#nblw#nb lesbian#lesbian#HAD A FRIEND ASK IF THIS IS MEDPOC#NO#ITS ME#😭
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Day 159 | id in alt
Long overdue feast.
(Bears have absolutely no care if their prey is still alive whilst they eat, but they have a tendency to crush the lungs and bones of their prey while they're alive.)
#dailykugisaki#jjk#kugisaki nobara#jjk mahito#BEAR KUGISAKI FOR THE WINNNN#im so tired of people saying that Kugisaki dosent enjoy the shit she does. she was born into it yes shed pick another job if it paid better#but she enjoys beating the hell out of things during the fight with the brothers it almost looked like relief on her face when she killed#IT WAS SO SWAG I WAS TWEAKIN#but nah no brothers only mahito getting what he deserves#Kugisaki has a horrid tendency to multilate the things she goes up against and not gaf about it.#YES GIRL YOU ABSOLUTELY DESTROY YOUR FOES BEYOND REGOGNIZABLITY#Let the infraction of their shattered features take image of your intrest in their lives#YIPPIE YAYYY#tw for just blood and a little but of rib showing#Kugisaki just tore the hell outta him as she deserves#also a little cannibalism Bc Kugisaki deserves it :]#it needed to happen i needed to draw it at SOME POINT#i am so good at taking canon and cranking that shit i hope
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As someone said, CW stands for Continuity Whomst?
#and both lines were written by the same person!!!#bryan q miller you have some things to answer for#it just kills me that in one episode clark is like is telling a bullied kid that 'there's goodness in every bully'#and after that it's 'luthor blood is poison. they're born evil'#his entire characterization was thrown out the window so that he could learn the lesson he'd already learned multiple times#(the lesson being that no one is born evil and that abuse and cruelty are what drive a person to respond in kind)#he says that 'luthor' line in season 10! when he's already superman in all but name!#all so that he could relearn the same lesson for the 100th time!#argh#sometimes they did get clark right#but when they got him wrong - hooo boy#smallville
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being ace means i don't get giggly or horny about omegaverse aka abo but instead become painfully obsessed with details in anatomy and world building
#for one the whole abo dynamic thing in wolves is false#for another the animal kingdom is SO wild#like. female hyenas have pseudopenises and dominate males#seahorses and male birth#eating your children to avoid them being eaten by predators#males killing children to free females to mate#community child rearing!#females doing the hunting!#CLOWNFISH#omegaverse#abo#imagine if your secondary gender is determined by the social dynamics of where you grew into it#mostly female/child bearing? guess you get a penis now#do you think all alphas have piss kinks cuz of territory marking shit#anglerfish...octopodes that hand off their sperm sacks to females...#i know a strange amount of stuff about animal sexuality i just realized this#did you know some species dont have periods? they just reabsorb the uterine lining which is fucking amazing and im very mad humans dont#do that too#on the other hand. ive seen abo aus where male omegas give birth by LOSING ALL THEIR TEETH and VOMITING AN EGG#my main complaint is that abo doesnt get weird enough (plz not losing teeth and egg vomiting weird tho)#also can we PLEASE think a little more on the 'birthing from the ass' thing? please?#listen you have a right to mpreg (and trans men exist) but like. PLEASE. that baby should NOT be born thru the poop chute#ik some animals feed their babies poop (and human anatomy is like half an inch away from the birth canal being the poo canal) but COME ON#also why are all the scents like. very specific objects/concepts#flowers and idk blood?#frankly i think they would just be. animal smells but with enhanced human noses they'd be easily distinguishable#my headcanon is that they act like peacock tails do. meant to show off how cool you are#the biting thing happens in sharks (tho i think its cuz theyre kinda silly like that) but it just reminds me of people tattooing bite marks#and not cleaning the wound or yknow actually biting their partner in the tattoo parlor?#i get it. i'd love to be consumed by the void and a non recommendable amount of teeth. but can you be more sensible about it
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Viva's backstory effed me up cuz according to Clay she wasn't the one who was trapped by Bergens, she went back to save the ones that were, which is how she lost everyone she loved.
And that's why she was separated from her family, because she acted like a true leader. She was trying to save as many lives as possible and she made it but it came with a price. Like her dad always said "no troll left behind". This just makes me so sad. And she took care of the trolls and found a new home for them where they'll be safe while she didn't know if her family was still alive and she was too terrified to even try to go back and try to find them.
And seriously this makes me wanna cry but can we also appreciate how badass this girl is? She FOUGHT Bergens. She didn't just run away from them, she kicked their butts. These creatures are giants compared to her. OH MY GOD.
#i just know that when poppy was born viva was like i'm going to kill every guy who breaks you heart#now i know why poppy is so feisty and brave it's in their blood#viva literally trained her trolls to fucking kill bergens when they see them#if they had them to fight against rock trolls twt would've been over much faster#trolls band together#trolls 3#trolls viva#viva
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violet from blood world (a pretty blood fan animation series thing that i stumbled across today...) violet ily you deserved so much better
pic on the left is mine, pic on the right is just a screenshot from the vid
#pretty blood#blood world friend#pretty blood art#violet blood world#urghhh#i love that she wasnt just born a massive sadist like rinny#she actually had a normal life and you really start to care for her#but then all the stuff in friend happens#and uhh im not gonna spoil anything#but violet > rinny any day#art
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sonic media will literally go "sonic and tails ARE a real family because a family can just be you and the people you love most" and also make it extremely clear that sonic and tails view eachother as brothers and then people who could not have missed the point harder will go Umm no theyre not siblings because they're not related by blood ..... :/
#what part of ''family born of love and not genetics'' and ''a family is just people who care about eachother more than anyone else right''#do you people not UNDERSTANDDDDD#whats especially confusing to me is when people who dont see adopted siblings as ''not real siblings'' are weird about sonic and tails#like why is it only sonic and tails who cant really be siblings to you#is it because they dont Look like they could be related by blood ? if so thats a stupid reason
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Thinking thoughts about these tags at work today.
#specifically#armand knowing daniel's book has put his adult daughters directly in the line of retributive fire from other vampires#does he sit back and wait for the inevitable or does he intervene? does he use them as bait to catch vamps who would hurt daniel or louis?#we never got the blood amulet on daniel before he was turned and now he doesnt need it. armand's blood is in his veins.#what if armand gives one (or two) to daniel's daughters? but how to make them wear it without revealing himself?#daniel or kate finding the amulet in lenora's apartment after she's murdered.#armand visiting kate's home afterward incognito and opening his wrist to bleed om the bushes outside as a warning#I DONT KNOW MAN I DONT KNOW#also i am very attached to the idea of kate learning about vampires when she and her family are attacked and armand saves them#just because now armand controls the narrative#kate puts together that daniel became a vampire without telling her or her sister and then put a giant target on all their backs#and so when daniel starts arguing with armand about how he had met with lenora without telling him#and then revealed himself to kate and the grandkids#she takes ARMAND'S side because at least he was HONEST. at least he TRIED to protect them!#messy messy messy!#daniel holding up the blood amulet he found in lenora's things: and what you thought giving her this bullshit was gonna protect her?#kate: what are you talking about#kate: YOU gave her that when she was a kid.#daniel: wh--#kate: you gave ME the same necklace when I was like 8. I opened it on christmas morning.#kate: you even sent sybelle one when she was born#kate: i thought it was some kind of weird tradition from mom's side of the family in the old country...#daniel: ...#daniel: armand.#daniel: why did my daughters have vials of your blood as children.#armand: ... can we talk about this in private#(he says as they all stand in the middle of the freeway in California with Lestat's overturned tour bus on fire behind them)
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honestly my relationship with trauma is kinda funny bc i procesed what happened with my mother most of it and then i just went. Well, i guess that's it and i leaned back and i kicked my feet up and just draws palm in a semi circle i had noooothing else ever happen to me.
#luly talks#like i either forget or i forget the emotions tied to it and if i forget the emotions then i cannot recognize it WAS that bad#and its scary too when you think of it bc i can remember the ending point but i dont know where it started#and it does bring questions like was i just Born like this?#or did someone push me to this? or merely something?#which is probably why i dont remember. it.#i struggle like a motherfucker to understand . how a trauma based disorder works KJGNGJHBGN#but ill be damned before i have a conversation about sexuality with a therapist so coming to the grave with me#only one who can know is#well that weird racist finnish person that haunts me and blood and neither is an upstanding member of society so
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i keep seeing news about a potential gravity falls reboot. as someone who very much despises reboots and who thinks gravity falls ended very well (it's something gf has been REPEATEDLY praised for,) do you think there's actually a chance they'd legitimately reboot it?
I watched a bit of hana's interview with alex hirsch out of (somewhat morbid) curiosity and from what I could glean there, it seems less likely gravity falls is going to get a legitimate "reboot" any time soon and more that there's potential for spinoffs when alex's contract with netflix expires. my honest prediction is that the book of bill is a prelude to more if it sells well, as it's very possible they're testing the waters to see if gravity falls nostalgia-hype is alive and well.
as much as I dislike reboots- and I have some strong feelings about the book of bill as a concept- I actually wouldn't be mad about some of the concepts alex has in his back pocket, such as a miniseries set on the stan o' war, or potentially more comics. I criticize elements of writing and what's being done with the story now because, obviously, I love gravity falls dearly, and I do think it could be adapted or continued faithfully... in the right hands, under the right circumstances. reboots exceeding the production of new, director-driven stories is symptomatic of a larger problem in the entertainment industry, but I don't think they're the disease themselves. people love strong stories, y'know? I would be a massive hypocrite if I acted like there was something wrong with wanting more, I've been actively making art for this show since I was 12.
so, do I think they're going to fully reboot the show, take us back to the mystery shack for "summer 2013" or potentially something further ahead in the future? ...mm, probably not. the series ended at two seasons for a reason, and in the age of, yes, pointless cash-grab reboots in a time where the entertainment industry is hopelessly dependent on selling established IPs, I respect that decision a lot. but I feel like it's inevitable there will be more gravity falls in some form or another in the future, which I honestly wouldn't have guessed if not for alex's words himself and the release of a new book this july.
whether or not it's any good... I guess we'll have to wait and see?
#lab notes#lab discussion#sometimes I worry I come across like I just hate anything new that gets put out and I genuinely don't#as much as I bristle at the idea because I know it means attracting a lot of attention to something I care about a Lot#and I think the ideas presented originally do get distorted as time goes on...#but I can't tell you what my solution to that would be realistically. I'm not even involved in animation#I think what I would want for the future of any beloved 'IP' would be a collaborative effort between old and new blood#experienced writers alongside fresh minds and artists who may already be long-time fans who understand the characters#that seems like a no-brainer to me. but unfortunately the entertainment industry is spiraling down the capitalism drain hard and fast#and I think- like most things- we would need some serious restructuring before art can be made with a basis of freedom and passion#rather than struggling to be born in the first place and crawling forward with a boot on its neck#coughs. but yeah I don't think about it too much !
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