#soyonscruels

[redbellesrecs]

Беда́ не прихо́дит одна́ (trouble never comes alone)

by: @soyonscruels fandom: marvel; gen rating: mature warnings: graphic depictions of violence, major character death, rape/non-con status: complete

rec notes: holy fuck. brutal but compulsively readable, this is a sharp, incisive, well-researched look at the winter soldier’s operational history. mind the tags.

summary: There’s a tracking device beneath his skin, wrapped around his carotid artery, and if he pulls it out, he’ll die in seconds. They’ve got a wolf on a leash and he’s never heard them so pleased with themselves, so sure that this is the only weapon they’re ever going to need. They did not win the first war in Chechnya, but a second time and the story is rewritten. (He knows that this is a thing they truly believe. He’s lived more history than they have. He knows better.) He rides on tanks, jumps from helicopters onto ground solid with snow. He stands, ringed by ruins, in a capital that burns. He lost his last war in Grozny. This time, he slings his rifle on his back, breathes smoke, knows what it is to watch history being made.

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[cinnamaldeide]

Fannibal Appreciation Day #FannibalFicRecs: Supernatural Elements Edition

After the success of this post for @hannibalficwriters and because there’s never enough fic rec posts, I decided to provide another list of stories I personally recommend, this time around focusing my attention on stories which contains supernatural elements. I know anyone can see my bookmarks whenever they want and I know it’s been a while since the last time I did something like this, but the Fannibal Appreciation Day seemed a perfect occasion to remember everybody how much of a beautiful, creative group of writers we are. This is a day to show our love, to send some good vibes, to share our appreciation to those who make this fandom a better place, who dedicate their time to have a good time and improve my own, along with that of many, many other fannibals like me :) This is my humble offering to your talent and to your presence, you gave me something I wouldn’t find anywhere else in the world.

Altered perceptions » Colourless by @mazephoenix

Summary: Since Hannibal vanished Will has lost his ability to see color.

Mature

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter

This brief post-WoTL story portrays the intense ache Will would experience, were he to lose Hannibal after their experience with the Red Dragon. Will could come back home, to his house, to his dogs, eventually to his work, but the world would never be the same. Not without that unique soul that depicted every else in his life in bright light.

Biological Abnormalities » Nature and Nurture (ongoing serie) by @thenecronon

Summary: In which Will’s empathy is more than a quirk of his biology, and his biology is more than human.

Explicit

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Franklyn Froideveaux, Donald Sutcliffe

I learned to love this writer with this amazing, fucked up story, and here I am, coming back at it full force to recommend anyone with a stomach for oviposition to read it and its sequel. Neither Will nor Hannibal know what happens in Will’s body, which regularly sends Will into heat and produces unidentified substances, they just know they’ll see where their close encounter will lead.

Cursed objects » The Feast is Life by @rubybakeneko

Summary: Following an impulsive purchase, Will begins to dream of a man who makes him feel less alone. In time, he realizes that these aren’t just dreams—they’re interactions with someone (or something) real. Hannibal offers Will the possibility of a life together, but it will come at a price.

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Alana Bloom, Abigail Hobbs, Will Graham’s Dogs

Will knows loneliness intimately, it has been with him all his life. Presented with the chance to depart from its vicious grip, Will doesn’t realize his desire for companionship is so strong as to make him a vulnerable target for manipulative individuals like Hannibal. He’ll learn that trusting someone that makes you feel right might eventually make you realise how wicked you’ve been all along. 

Devil » Unveiled by @beatricenius

Summary: Hannibal meets a stranger in a bar who claims to be the devil. He just might believe it.

Explicit

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter

This delightful story features two non-human creatures exploring intimacy in their human bodies and feelings. The author pictures with clarity the way they study the way the other handles his drink, their lazy chat around something more than a simple rendezvous in an insignificant bar, their dismissive gesture to show it’s not important if, by the end of the night, there’ll be sex at all.

Dragons » Headwaters by @whreflections

Summary: Years ago, Mischa Lecter fled the Nazis with the rest of her family, leaving behind their home, Castle Lecter, and the lesser god that inhabited it- Hannibal, a dark but immensely loyal creature who had served their family for generations. He adored her, more than all the others, and would have kept her with him forever. Instead, he lost her, and has admitted no one to the house since. After his grandmother's death, though, Will Graham doesn't really have anywhere to call home. With all the stories she told him about growing up in Castle Lecter (and about Hannibal, most of all), he can't pass up the chance that he just might belong somewhere after all.

Teen and Up Audience

Graphic Depictions Of Violence 

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Mischa Lecter

I already promoted this beautiful work, but I’ll repeat myself if necessary. This delicate story portrays Hannibal and his painful ties with the Lecter castle he can’t abandon. His loyalty compels him to remain in its domain, where Will is going to find him, so that he’ll be able to put an end to their solitude. Mischa couldn’t remain with him forever, but maybe he’ll not be lonely anymore.

Faeries » My crown on the head of a creature (ongoing) by Mx_Carter

Summary: The faery that calls itself Hannibal Lecter happens across a homeless Will Graham on a cold evening and offers him a bed for the night. Things... escalate.

Mature

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter

In this beautiful, promissing Universe, supernatural elements and suspance mingle in a captivating combination. Will is wary of accepting Hannibal’s ospitality, despite the cold winder freezing his bones. He just doens’t suspect Hannibal’s true nature, which Will knows intimately. If he learned something from his previous experience with faes, it’s that they cannot be trusted.

Familiars » Dodging the dog by @fhimechan

Summary: AU where Will and Hannibal try to kill each other by proxy, but “proxy” means “deadly animals.”

General Audience

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham’s Dogs, Beverly Katz

This certainly isn’t the classic way to murder, for either of our beloved murderers, but I can grant you it would have been a much funnier show if Will started trying to murder Hannibal through unconventional means, like he does in this story. The animals aren’t actual familiars, but their role is quite similiar. Will’s reckoning has never been furrier.

Ghosts » Let us pray that hell may not separate us by @soyonscruels

Summary: “Pure empathy,” says Hannibal Lecter, and it will be some time before he realises his mistake. “Pure empathy,” lies Will Graham, in careful agreement, and knows that it’s only a matter of time before he’s found out. “That must be quite a burden to bear,” says Hannibal, and Will meets his eyes, sips his tea, and knows, for once in his life, that he is not the only liar in the room.

Explicit

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Abigail Hobbs, Freddie Lounds, Beverly Katz, Jack Crawford

This delicate rendition of Will’s surreal existence, made up of lies and isolation, shows his deep, twisted desire to stop hiding himself. He’s always been the way he is, able to see without withdrawing, he just needs to find someone to understand him as clearly. Will’s life has been a ghost story, with himself as protagonist, until Hannibal came around.

Kitsunes » Breath and Blood and Burning by @thesilverqueenlady

Summary: It’s true that originally Hannibal had had no intention of interacting with Will Graham besides toying with him for the small pleasure it would bring him before Hannibal moves on to the next skin, the next name, the next tail. And then Will stomps away shouting about field kabuki, and, really, that was too great an opportunity for Hannibal to pass up. So Hannibal does the reasonable thing and starts the arduous process of turning Will into a fellow kitsune.

Teen and Up Audience

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter

Will’s becoming has always been matter of great interest. Hannibal has tried to show him his great potential with his means. In this story, Hannibal sees in Will the potential to become a secular creature capable of surviving time and changes, if only Will abandons his human nature. Hannibal is eager to bend it, to gain a worthy companion.

Mutants » Lot 166 by @highermagic

Summary:  Mutant trade is a legal activity. Hannibal has never been inclined to buy one for himself, but then Jack asks him to attend a Verger auction to acquire a special asset for the FBI. What he gets is Will, one of Mason’s “Special Projects.” Whether Will can be useful to the FBI remains to be seen, but now Hannibal legally owns a mutant slave, and things promise to get very... messy.

Explicit

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Jack Crawford, Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Margot Verger, Mason Verger, Alana Bloom, Beverly Katz, Jimmy Price, Brian Zeller, Eva, Bedelia Du Maurier, Anthony Dimmond, Doctor Sutcliffe, Francis Dolarhyde, Dr. Cordell Doemling

Hannibal cannot resist his curiosity, when he’s presented with a mysterious individual with no warnings on his label. Hannibal doesn’t know exactly in what’s he’s getting involved, but unraveling Will’s abilities is not as immediate as it would be with other mutants and Hannibal is nothing if not patient, especially if Will proves himself as interesting as he seems.

Powers » To Welcome in the Year by @coloredink

Summary: Dr. Hannibal Lecter can control time in small, localized ways, but he no longer uses it in surgery; Will Graham can repair small objects, but he works for the FBI. It has been winter for as long as anyone can remember. That's how the story begins.

Teen And Up Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Abigail Hobbs

In this beautiful retelling of the first two seasons, where the use one has for his own ability is more telling than the ability itself, Hannibal is surprised that Will never considered not to use his gift, wasting what good would be lost. A metaphorical scenario where forgiveness comes with the weight of a physical touch and the cold engulfing them both is not merely a figure of speech.

Serendipity » Astronomical Odds by @xzombiexkittenx

Summary: Based on the joke: Picked up a hitchhiker last night. He said, “Thanks! how do you know I’m not a serial killer though?” I replied, “The chances of two serial killers being in the same car are astronomical.”

Mature

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter

Considering the little chances of such a meeting ever occurring, I deliberately decided that fate has something to do with this fortunate encounter. How else would Will find Hannibal so interesting so soon? Will has never been a fortunate man in his life, if one watches the serie, but in this story he might have the chance to obtain some happines without compromissing his already dark moral.

Time rewind » At First Meeting by @emungere

Summary: Will relives the day he met Hannibal.

Teen And Up Audiences

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter

Despite the pain, the suffering and the anger that paved Will and Hannibal’s friendship, which Hannibal embraced and fostered much sooner than Will did, there’s not a different world or reality as fulfilling as that where Will ends up in Hannibal’s arms, bloody and victorious. No matter how many opportunities Will had at his disposal. He couldn’t be satisfied with anything less than his version. 

Transformations » Velvet by @avegetariancannibal

Summary: After the fall, a transformation takes place.

Not Rated

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter

Assisting Hannibal in his time of need, bloody and bedridden, Will realizes their survival is real, as are the changings happening to themy. Some manifest themselves more physically cumbersome than others. Will needs more pillows than he expected in his new existence, but it’s ok. Neither Hannibal nor himself are to experience alone whatever the future holds for the both of them.

Vampires » Mythics - Prelude by @bokuno-jinsei

Summary: Will is a hunter of mythical creatures, employed to bring mythics who fail to adhere to the new laws and order of society in to justice. When a falsified contract leads him to Hannibal’s doorstep, however, things become rather complicated. But honestly, when it’s a world of demons and monsters and magic, when are things not complicated?

Mature

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Abigail Hobbs, Alana Bloom, Jack Crawford

In a darkish steampunk scenario, where Hannibal is a vampire and Will hunts those of his kind, where mythical creature and humans are still to find their balance in a civil society, chaos seems to engulf everyone in its thick fog of confusion. This writer beautifully captures Will’s attempts at navigating his way between subtle lies and unstable suppositions.

Werewolves » Beasts (ongoing) by @aametis

Summary: Hannibal tells a lie about his sex life and has to live with the consequences. Will doesn’t lie but he doesn’t tell the truth either.

Explicit

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Original Male Character

Trusting Hannibal even outside of his psychiatric office, Will decides to show hims something incredible, something rather personal and disturbing to witness. To his luck, Hannibal hardly shies away from what he doesn’t understand. His ability to observe with interest, without judging Will for his choices, is probably everything Will has ever wanted from another human being.

Wishbabies » With a Crown of Stars by @thehoyden

Summary: When the call connects, Will says, “I know what kind of crazy I am, but I’m not this kind of crazy.” “Will?” Dr. Lecter says. “Yes, hi, sorry,” Will says. “It’s me. There’s a baby on my porch.”

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Abigail Hobbs, Jack Crawford, Alana Bloom, Beverly Katz, Freddie Lounds, Abel Gideon

When two people want to make a baby and it's not happening biologically, if they wish very, very hard-- well, Will and Hannibal didn’t know, but apparently they wanted one, so here they are and Hannibal suddenly feel like treating that encephalitis. There are in fact means of influence other than violence, family is a concept the both of them need to explore together.

Witches » A Soft Hoodwink of Shadows (serie) by @zigzag-wanderer

Summary: Something a little creepy...

Mature

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Will Graham, Will Graham’s Dogs, Hannibal Lecter, Abigail Hobbs, Jack Crawford, Original Female Character(s)

The real magic elements in this work are the wonderful descriptions of this impressive, poetic author, whom conjures entire landscapes of green and grim, of silence and mist, the kind where one gets lost and is never to be found again. Will escapes with his daughter somewhere far away, somewhere where strange is normal, but he discovers something stranger waits for him right next door.

This is kind of personal, I included writers with whom I daily interacted, whose beautiful souls I saw, among those who have been in this fandom from the beginning and never left it. I’m just sorry I mostly read Hannigraham and I don’t have more names to offer.

I cannot thank enough all those rebloggers who allowed my followers to know I existed, like @h4nnibalism or @crisisoninfintefandoms, all those gifted authors who help @fhimechan and me with the Accidental Sex initiative, all those artists and groups that provide new material despite our interrupted situation, all those patient readers who comment and like my own works, as well as those considerate souls that actually rec my stories or calling me out on their Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day, like @hannibalsimago and @littlethingwithfeathers, so that I feel appreciated in turn.

As @the-winnowing-wind said, this is a beautiful day to flail about our incredible fandom. To whomever still has to come, You’re welcome. To whomever is still here after all this time, Thank you. You made so many of my days.

[freshmeatfriday]

Fresh Meat Friday ROUND UP

Hello dear Fannibals, and welcome to Fresh Meat Friday’s Roundup post for the end of June 2018! Or in this case... early July ;) Thank you for your patience with us this month Fannibals, sometimes RL stuff hits the FMF mods too! We appreciate each and every entry. Thanks again for your understanding.

This post gathers all the recs posted on Tumblr this month under the #Fresh Meat Friday tag so they’re in one easy-to-find place.Many thanks to all who took part and congratulations to our rec’d creators! Until next time, stay hungry!

Just a quick reminder: Tumblr is often rude and doesn’t show us every rec, no matter how hard we look. If we missed yours, just send us an ask with the information with a link to the post, and we’ll get it on next month’s round up. :)

Art:

@eggnutart rec’ed by @tiggymalvern “...not only do they do wonderful Will and Hannibal, as so many artists in the fandom do, Eggnut also does amazing work of more minor characters too. Look at that expression on Gideon’s face and tell me you don’t smile 😊

@matildaparacosm rec’ed by @fannibalgrowingcircle “@matildaparacosm has been making some terrific fannibal felt works this month! They are so cool!”

Fic:

BlackKnightSatellite rec’ed by @victorineb for Weary Hour “It’s sexy, intense and completely compelling, with gorgeous prose and amazing insight into both characters.”

@soyonscruels, rec’ed by @victorineb for and primal love “I must admit, I have a love of non-linear narratives, so I may be biased, but the structure is used to such brilliant effect here. It demonstrates so clearly how much Will changes over the course of his story (and how much he doesn’t)...”

@soyonscruels was also rec’ed by @copperore for and primal love “It’s a dark, beautifully written collection of Hannigram vignettes that cross the whole show and go into a future season.”

@zigzag-wanderer rec’ed by @victorineb for O I Long To Feel Your Arms Around Me “Their writing is astonishingly good, the kind of writing that steals my breath every time I read it and makes me want to shout from the rooftops about what a privilege it is to experience. And this new fic is one of my favourites so far…”

@zigzag-wanderer was also rec’ed by @fragile-teacup for O I Long To Feel Your Arms Around Me “Seriously, fannibals, read this! It’s clever and sweet and VERY HOT!!!”

@zacharybosch rec’ed by @thenecronon for Le Plaisir “It’s a testament to ZacharyBosch’s skill as a writer that they’ve managed to pull off such an unusual adaptation of canon, while expertly preserving the integrity of the characters. More than that, the fic is laden with the writer’s signature decadence and imagery.”

@krey-9-jorce rec’ed by @brokenfannibal for Call for Soothes

@brokenfannibal rec’ed by @shukkhy for A Time for Love and A Time for Love podfic “ If you’re a lazy reader like me or like to clean the kitchen while listening to fic, you will know that podfics combine the best of both worlds. That’s why I am especially happy that @brokenfannibal started to record podfics for Hannigram, please give the”

@thenecronon rec’ed by @shukkhy for Dolce Vignette and Untitled “I generally stay on the fluffy side of fic and far away from angst (I’m a coward), but every now and then a fic grabs me before I can run away and here I am again Personally Victimized by this painful piece of perfection.”

@menstrualclot  rec’ed by @shukkhy for Ouroboros “Don’t you just love when Will gets all jealous and possessive of his cannibae? if so this is the fic for you!”

@constructfairytales rec’ed by @amidalaskysnape for Dark of the Moon

@kishafisha rec’ed by @matildaparacosm for A L’Envers “I love this hannigam role reversal not only for this pair but for all the other swappings too.Gideon as Will’s therapist is soooooooo satisfying!”

[callmearcturus]

Okay so this is both a weird question and kind of a longshot, but I swear I remember YEARS ago there being version of You Are Jeff by Siken except from the point of view of Jeff from Community, and I /think/ I saw it on your blog and I have never ever been able to find it again. Do you know what I'm talking about?? Does it exist thank you archie

SO I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN. It was one of my favorite fics. It was written by Postcard, but I don’t know their current moniker on Tumblr. The link was here at LJ, it was called “do not choose sides yet”. The sequel was “it’s time to choose sides now” IIRC.

I THINK. I THINK the writer goes by @soyonscruels, but I’m not certain.

Def an all time fave.

[cakesandfail]

sassysnowperson replied to your post: soyonscruels: i. Sam Vimes dies at nineteen, and...

#anyway i’m sad and i’m going to go and live on the moon bye - You make the best life choices. I am also sad. May I join you on the moon?

yes. SAD MOON PARTY.

[sonnywortzik]

on developing his character for law and order: criminal intent:

I didn’t know better, I thought you can act for television just like you could film. So I started a speech pattern for Goren that was, unbeknownst to me, unlike what they were used to doing on television. Because I had gotten complaints from the studio about pausing too much, that dead air on television is not something that’s done, that you don’t stop talking. And I was told this stuff and I just ignored them. The enunciation of words, the movement of the character, ‘would somebody actually bend all the way over’ [does Det. Goren’s lean] ‘does that really happen?’ [the studio executives] start to talk to you like they’re artists. It’s such a joke.”

lowkey aggressive character actor vincent d’onofrio giving me life rn

[thecoppercow]

i have nothing intelligent to say other than as every day passes i become convinced i cam down with a fever on election night and none of this is real. also i can't wait for jezza belongs-in-the-bin to try and force the parliamentary whip on trident and fail, if he's even going to do that, i don't think i've heard a single coherent plan in almost six weeks

See, I was going to reply to this with something soothing, about how the moderates would at least persuade him to be sensible considering that he’s in bloody charge?? (Seriously, as someone on twitter pointed out, if the tories said they opposed capital punishment, and then Hamface joined the bring back hanging Campaign, would that be seen as a random rebellion or a dangerous direction of travel by the public? would the general public say ‘it’s ok, it’s only cameron that holds that view, the tories are still opposed?’ No.)

But then I opened twitter and I heard the Seumas Milne thing. Seumas Milne. Not just in charge of comms, but STRATEGY, too. Seumas fucking Milne. Genocide denying, fascist apologist, historical revisionist, moral relativist Milne. And now I’m going to join you in the fever corner. This. Cannot. Be Happening.

I’m going to wake up soon, a 115-year old party cannot just eat itself like this on the whims of one bearded racist fluffer. We’ll all wake up and find it was a shared delusion, and it’s back to the days of Ed Miliband in opposition again when the worst nightmare we faced was pork-based sandwich options.

[wehaveallgotknives]

deeply niche and specific stories: apparently my jam

[catwitching]

U GOT STEWART LEE HAIR IM GONNA DIE OMFG

I DID SORT OF it's still long so it might be more like fist of fun series two stewart lee??? BUT STILL

[thecoppercow]

have you read john o'farrell's 'things can only get better' because it's making me feel so much better rn? (i feel like i got this from a tumblr labour blog and if it was yours i apologise lol) it's about how useless the party was in the 80s and wouldn't deal with reality and was obsessed with fighting itself and ideological purity and it's pretty much a blueprint of what's happening now, and he's really scathing about it and it makes me feel less like i'm going slowly insane

Ooh no, I haven’t, thanks for the rec - I actually picked up his ‘Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain: or Sixty Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Always’  in a sale, and I absolutely love how sardonic that is (with some really poignant bits), 10/10 would recommend. So I’m definitely going to check it out because I think I’d cling to anything right now, politics is just so depressing. And well, tiring. (I don’t know if you saw Daily Politics today but I just…zoned out. I couldn’t even muster up the energy to actually get properly mad? Both sides are being stupid and/or selfish, and all I could do was roll my eyes out of fatigue. I’m just so tired of all the ridiculousness. And there’s still five years to go of this, it doesn’t bode well?)

Actually on that note - since we do seem to be repeating the 80s over again, down to the politics and even the appropriate royal weddings - how do you think the advent of social media and the 24hr news cycle is going to change things? Will we go through the old blueprint a lot quicker and renew earlier? Or will the damage be more devastating, because social media never lets attacks die? If I was an unaffected third person, it would be fascinating to observe the next five years from a historian’s perspective. Unfortunately, I live here -_-

[starred-fics]

Author: soyonscruels

Fandom(s): Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Elementary

Rating: Mature

Pairings: Gen

Summary: She is not the Slayer and he is not the Slayer’s Watcher, but their roles are almost as old as human civilisation and they fall into them without even truly having to try. She kills twenty or thirty vamps a night, and he stands at her shoulder, twisting cheesewire between his fingers that he’s cursed with a spell five centuries old, a stake in his belt and blood between his teeth.

Joan Watson is a Slayer, and Sherlock Holmes is her Watcher.

Words: 2,969

[catwitching]

stewart lee with his least tragic hair in the 90's/in his suit that the bbc forced him to wear and he totally destroyed and wore with doc martens in the first season of comedy vehicle are my Ideal Looks. also first season comedy vehicle might be Peak Stewart Lee Hair but that's hard to judge really isn't it

your Ideal Looks are amazing Ideal Looks and also my Ideal Looks. i haven’t watched comedy vehicle yet (i’m making my way through chronologically) but i looked up his hair in s1 and wow yes amazing, definitely in the top stewart lee hairs of all time. tough competition from this look though which might be my Most Ideal Look Ever