#fuller fiction

[keepcalmandwritefiction]

I don’t know what [writer] needs to hear this, but your stories matter. There is someone out there who will love your book and read it over again. You made something from nothing and that is absolutely amazing. This is also what I will tell myself. 😊

– Gabriella Fuller

[alovelywaytospendanevening]

More Penguin Classics covers for old gay novels.

(Part 1)

[jacksmusesdrv3]

Someone asked me a bit ago about what I was trying to ask when flailing about the conspiracy-themes issues, so I'll say it here:

Ultimately? Before I can address that, I think this fandom is very, very badly in need of frank, nuanced discussion about DRV3's ending, themes and of Shuichi and Kokichi, so that the whole situation is better understood rather than constantly swept under the rug.

See, a lot of people assume the 'Fiction' end means that, even if HPA history is real, that has no bearing on what happened in the game, that Shuichi's judgement on the matter has no significant issues, that there's no chance of any Flashback Lights being real because of post-Chapter 5, etc. That is fine if you just want to make your outside world story based on that premise, or just don't see any other sides.

However, to assert that that has to be the case is going against the stated structure of the game itself, by the developers themselves, for its story have multiple sides and no clear answer. And by the game itself, that includes characters, relationships and events.

Yes, that includes the possibility of a different Kokichi from the one you know. That includes takes that make him into the group's martyr. That includes takes that give him prior knowledge of others and supernatural gift but a deficit of the power and freedom to use it well. Yes, it does in fact mean takes that you consider 'missing the point of him and what makes him so compelling and good'.

But more importantly, it includes allowing critical analysis of the cast dynamics, how they come to be biased against Kokichi even before the killing game starts and how this group mentality and tendency to scapegoat can affect our perception of who he is, regardless of where your interpretation leads.

This is so exhausting to go into, so the long and short of it:

We need 'Fiction' and 'Non-fiction' readings to coexist. We also need to allow the darkness hiding in the game's themes to be bled out. And we can't do either if we're constantly denying the possibility.

[rocococoa]

that one tidbit from the fellow travelers novel where tim is fantasizing about him and hawk in the future - sitting with hawk while listening to the radio after dinner lives in my mind rent free

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[a-bright-young-reporter]

Hannibal’s Murder Family (Hannibal, Will Graham, their ‘adopted daughter’ Abigail Hobbs) echoes Interview with the Vampire’s Unholy Family (Lestat, Louis, their daughter Claudia).

Abigail and Claudia are both survivors of horrific trauma. They are both adopted by a father who encourages them towards murder and a father who tries to steer them away from it.

Abigail and Claudia are loved but ultimately abandoned and betrayed by their fathers, whose inability to end their commitment to each other results in their daughter’s murder. Will Graham’s last-minute reluctance to completely betray Hannibal (instead calling him to warn him about Jack and the FBI being on his trail) leads to Abigail’s murder. Louis’s last-minute reluctance to completely betray Lestat (instead refusing to burn Lestat’s body, and dump it somewhere where he’s likely to eventually recover) leads to Lestat’s return and Claudia’s murder by Armand and the coven.

Knowing that Bryan Fuller is a huge Interview with the Vampire fan (and was even due to be the TV adaptation’s original showrunner, back in 2018), the huge influence that Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles had on the Hannibal TV series (and particularly on Mizumono, that incredible season 2 finale) now seems clear. But I’d be fascinated to know if that was something that viewers, TV critics and Vampire Chronicles fans picked up on back in 2014. Also, were any other Hannibal characters inspired by Anne Rice’s vampires?

[blujayonthewing]

DM, on getting together to talk about backstory stuff I have to have him build with me: I might need to ask a few more questions about Felix and also what drives him besides curiosity

me: is curiosity not enough??

also me: well the other major thing was supposed to be solving this mystery that I asked for your cooperation with six months ago and have never gotten any input on

[likerealpeopledo-on-ao3]

A Patchwork Life, a fic by Likerealpeopledo

[pushing-daisies-renaissance]

I can and WILL write a pushing daisies AU and/or crossover about every single movie and tv show I’m obsessed with and none of you can stop me

[partialresonance]

I don't know how people deal with watching Fellow Travelers without writing fanfiction about it, I think it's the only thing keeping me alive

[palfriendpatine66]

New Fic Alert - Fellow Travelers

aka: what did pal just put in my inbox???

It’s a Fellow Traveler’s smutty one shot! Read it here or get your questions answered below the break

Hi friends and maybe subscribers on Ao3. I tried something new and wrote a smutty one shot for the Fellow Travelers fandom to clear out some of the thoughts in my head after watching the show and becoming mildly obsessed. Don’t tell me you haven’t seen the gifs. Don’t worry, I’ll be promptly returning to my obikin bullshit. In fact this probably cleared up a lot of brain space for my wips.

If you have any interest in Fellow Travelers, or are feeling game for a smutty one shot featuring a different M/M pairing in a secret relationship that honestly you don’t need to know anything about the plot of the show to enjoy…feel free to check it out!

💕 your Pal

[feelingpure]

WHat I am most interested in though is what will happen to Hawk post series? Like how will he cope post Skippy? Also what are your theories on what will happen to Tim in ep 8?

‘Post Skippy’ ✋😭 omgnoisdiwfdtpls.

I don't even know what to think tbh. From what we've seen so far from 80s Hawk, he's still stuck in a lot of his old ways. i.e. using denial and alcohol as a coping mechanism, like in ep 4 when he simply stated that Tim wasn't dying and went for a drink immediately after it was mentioned. And of course we got to see how he previously spiralled with both of those things when grieving Jackson in the 70s in ep 7. But I do think 80s Hawk has definitely evolved, even in the short period that he's been in San Fran with Tim.

My biggest hope is that he starts to live true to himself, instead of going back to a life of pretending and suppressing his feelings. Maybe he could find some post Skippy happiness that way? It'd be really sweet if he did something for the communities most affected by HIV/Aids too, in Tim's honour (and also as a way of preserving Tim somehow). Like raising awareness in a meaningful way, which we saw a touch of when he was in that gay bar; I think that was in ep 2.

I also need him to be completely honest to Lucy about everything (like are they ever gonna talk about Leonard again 👀). And Lucy deserves to be ‘set free’ too, that could be living her best single life free of lies, or getting her groove back and finding someone who can actually fully love her.

As for Tim in ep 8; it really hurts to even think about it too much, if you mean how he... goes. But I really hope that they get a chance to have a long and frank conversation beforehand. I don't really have any fleshed out theories, but I think it'd be nice to hear Hawk tell Tim (with actual words) that he loves him. 🥺 I really wish we got to spend more time with them in the 60s and 70s. But I'm assuming there might be some flashbacks to fill in any gaps.

Whatever happens, we know there'll be lots and lots of tears (and hopefully some goodbye kisses). And I'm simultaneously very ready and not ready at all! 😩🫶 Ty for the ask. ❤️

[deputy-buck]

Need a Catholic school Hawk/Tim AU set in 1948.

Keep it where Hawk still served in '44 but Tim is younger (Sophmore-Junior year maybe). Since when Tim was 14, Hawk would have been 24-25 in Velletri, Hawk would have to get the teaching gig a year after that at 26. Which doesn't really make sense at all so maybe Tim is just aged down to where he's 2-3 years younger, and it gives Hawk time to get out at 27 and then establish himself as a teacher at 29 by the time Tim reaches his Sophomore year. I'll never write this, why am I doing all the work to make a workaround for age. Going off the suspected age-range given the tennis trophy Hawk got is dated 1936, him being born 1919 or 1920, I prefer 1919 so that's the year I use. And per Tim's enlistment paper, he was born 06/06/30, making him 13-14 in 44' in canon, but in the AU he'd be born 1933 or 1932.

I would love to write it but I don't know how Catholic schools work-

Anyway, history teacher Hawk x student Tim. Tim is a great student already but he goes the extra mile in Hawk's class, he's usually always the first to finish assignments and does extra research on time periods and events that Hawk shows more interest in (maybe he gifts a book to Hawk that way.) Hawk acknowledges it but never makes a show of favoritism like giving extra attention or praise to Tim, no after-class meetings alone in Hawk's classroom or office, NOTHING. But ofc Tim knows the feelings are at least somewhat mutual bc Hawk does look at him throughout the class period. He never makes a big show of that either, no winks or lip-licks or once-overs, he'll take a deep breath though, and blink real slow, maybe the slightest little smile but never enough to notice unless you look as closely as Tim does.

Maybe there's a time that he and Tim are outside, standing side by side in some sort of secluded portion of the courtyard, when Hawk touches him for the first time. Nothing that couldn't be written off as innocent if someone were to see the action. They'd been talking about the project Hawk had assigned that morning. Tim, always eager for more direction from Hawk so that his submitted work will be the best of the bunch, keeps inching closer and closer by """accident"". Hawk places his hand on the boy's shoulder and gently holds him still, and when Tim stops and his breath catches, Hawk slides his hand up Tim's trap to the nape of his neck, squeezing just a little to make Tim shudder and let out a whine. At the involuntary noise, Hawk smirks and runs his nails down Tim's spine, scratching the pristinely ironed white button-up of Tim's uniform, sending goosebumps all along Tim's skin, his legs a little shaky from the smallest touch and Hawk grabs his waist/hip to stablize the boy. Hawk leans down the slightest bit to speak lowly in his star student's ear.

"It's a rather large assignment, but I have no doubt in your ability to blow it out of the water," Hawk digs his fingers into the slight give of Tim's waist, indulging and giving himself something to fantasize about later. "I'll spend the weekend picturing you kneeling on the floor as you work on my project." His project, like this assinment isn't for a grade but for Hawk personally.

Tim thinks about it that night and can't help but touch himself. He'll never look at the Battles of Ypres the same after that day.

That's all I've got-

[ourdramaqueen]

I recently go the Hannibal Blu-rays and am slowly going through the special features. In the "Avid Fannibals" featurette on the S3 set, Bryan Fuller says (he was rambling a bit, so excuse the run-on sentence):

"What is wonderful about this show for me is that it is fan fiction. And I've been a fan of Thomas Harris's literature for decades, and so the opportunity to tell my version of the story that was rooted in my own selfish interest of what I wanted to see, yet was eclipsed by sharing that fan fiction with others who have created their own fan fiction, were taking my interpretation of characters and then expanding on them for their own purposes, and sharing that online was the first time I had experienced a Twitterverse reality of television short storytelling."

Any adaptation or continuation of a pre-existing work by someone other than the original author (and, you could argue, in some cases even if the original author is involved) is fan fiction!

MCU - fan fiction. All those new Star Trek and Star Wars projects - fan fiction. Any Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Frankenstein etc. adaptation, the gazillion A Christmas Carol versions that exist - fan fiction. New Who and Torchwood - fan fiction. Any TV or movie or graphic novel adaptation of a novel or biography - fan fiction.

FINALLY a creator of an adaptation acknowledges this! (If anyone else has, I don't recall hearing of it.)

So many people like to look down on fan fiction, but the only difference between us and them is that they get paid to do it, and we do it for free.

[charliejaneanders]

https://wapo.st/3OEXuxF

Some fascinating new books blur the lines between utopia and dystopia right now. I reviewed five of them for the @washingtonpost!

If you're wondering why we have so many dystopias and so few utopias, this is for you. Paywall-free link: wapo.st/3OEXuxF

I reviewed books by Kiersten White, @temioh, Nick Fuller Googins, SL Huang and @tkingfisher. I really wanted to include the pun, "people ask why there aren't more utopias," but apparently they thought nobody would get that joke!

[haveyoureadthispoll]

From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees them—Cara first: dark and beautiful, then Peter: striking and serious. The couple is spending the summer of 1969 in the rooms below hers while Frances is researching the architecture in the surrounding gardens. But she's distracted. Beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, she finds a peephole that gives her access to her neighbors’ private lives. To Frances' surprise, Cara and Peter are keen to get to know her. It is the first occasion she has had anybody to call a friend, and before long they are spending every day together: eating lavish dinners, drinking bottle after bottle of wine, and smoking cigarettes until the ash piles up on the crumbling furniture. Frances is dazzled. But as the hot summer rolls lazily on, it becomes clear that not everything is right between Cara and Peter. The stories that Cara tells don’t quite add up, and as Frances becomes increasingly entangled in the lives of the glamorous, hedonistic couple, the boundaries between truth and lies, right and wrong, begin to blur. Amid the decadence, a small crime brings on a bigger one: a crime so terrible that it will brand their lives forever.