#bloodybrahms

[tinalbion]

oooo coffee for mr freddy 🥺👉👈 (and for mr adrian vigilante, if you feel so inclined??? 🥺👉👈) - bloodybrahms 💖

Bloody! Yes, anything for you, my dear! 🥰💙

coffee; do they get jealous easily? how do they show it?

Freddy

• Oh man, yes, and you'd never hear the end of it.

• He's not ashamed of being the way he is, if you didn't like it then he'd be damned sure you wouldn't be here in the first place. So he'd make sure his voice was heard, because why wouldn't he take the opportunity to annoy you relentlessly until you constantly told him to shut up.

• He does really like seeing you flustered, he thinks your face looks participates cute that way. But that's only when things are said and done, while he's freshly upset and finds out in your dreams that you've been thinking of someone else? Ooh boy, you'd wish he'd have been teasing you instead.

• Freddy wants you to understand that you're his and there's no debating that, so why did you find it okay to think of other people in the waking world? He'd marked you, claimed you, and yet you strut about as if he didn't brand you with that glove of his.

• So what's the one thing he can do to assure it wouldn't happen again? You guessed it, he'd kill the bastard who even looked at you. He'd easily search your mind and find the person who stepped too far across the line.

• Oh no, something happened to the person you spoke to, and it's on the news?! How did THAT happen? Couldn't tell ya.

• Sorry if you thought you could get away with talking about things with Freddy. I mean, you can, you just gotta pick and choose because he's not going to feel remorse about it.

Adrian

• Adrian feels jealously, absolutely, but he isn't very straightforward about it nor would he want to even bother you with something like that. It's not a big deal, right?

• You're sitting there laughing at Chris's jokes, and man they are hilarious, but you're laughing a little too hard and your hand is on his arm. Shouldn't it be on HIS arm, not his best friend's? Well, you could do whatever you want because it wasn't his business, but damn, that weird ache in his chest would gnaw at him all evening.

• You would know something was up immediately when his face looked troubled, you'd ask him about it and he'd wear that little smile and just brush it off. "Nah, everything's fantastic." You knew better than to believe that. He was weird with emotions and he had a hard time expressing them, especially in a relationship.

• It would take some coaxing, but once you two were alone and had some privacy, you'd bring it up again. That's when he'd uneasily start to open up, but he'd quickly brush it off and say it wasn't that big of a deal. Of course it was, it was eating away at him.

• You'd thank him for being honest and told him healthy communication made things much better and easier in relationships, so it would be a great learning experience for him.

• Adrian would require many kisses to make sure you still loved him, but you'd assure him that it would take a LOT more than a conversation to make you shy away from him. Even then, it wasn't possible, he was stuck with you and he had to deal with it, of course you'd follow up with a wink and kiss the tip of his nose for good measure.

#tinalbion speaks #bloodybrahms #freddy krueger x reader #adrian chase x reader #character ask game

[dumbfuck-mojave]

Bloodybrahms goes dark once more :(

#didn't see anyone else mentioning it #bloodybrahms #non-writing #horror x reader #horror

[xbhaalspawnx]

what the hell happened to bloodybrahms!?

#writer #horror fics #horror #bloodybrahms

[willowbrookesblog]

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[lady-of-glass-and-bone]

Corey Cunningham Fic Rec List

As always, if you would like to be removed from the post let me know or if you have suggestions to add also let me know. Sometimes I link a whole masterlist and sometimes just a fic or a few this doesn't mean you shouldn't check out all of these writers works (bc you totally should) it just means I'm indecisive. Happy reading!

masterlist @toxicanonymity

touch starved corey @murdrdocs

sandwiched & the first of many & domestic life & the first of many @slutforstabbings

random corey relationship scenarios @e1dritchjackal0pe

masterlist @websterss

thank you bj @clemkruckinnie

kinktober prompt & love language & boob guy corey @bloodybrahms

first date with corey @wolvesandvampires

playing house @bfictioncorner

cuddles at the radio station & not just cuddles a the radio tower & headcanons & riding w/corey @jshookthighs

sub corey @periprose

cherry remedies @therottengirl

corey tags @hall0ween-twn

#corey cunningham #halloween ends #fic recs #corey cunningham x reader

[el-writes-i-guess]

The Worm and the Bees

Candyman x Reader

AN: going through @bloodybrahms’ candyman tag and saw the ‘if i was a worm’ post. Got inspired. Take it or leave it

Word Count: 2.8k

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“Daniel?”

He glanced at you, smiling slightly at the gleam in your eye. This was a beautiful look you got whenever you were planning something, and he was curious about the result. Besides, whatever came out of your mouth made angels pale in comparison.

“Yes, my dear?”

“Would you still love me if I was a worm?”

He paused. “I’m sorry?”

You roll your eyes, smile on your lips as you lean into his shoulder. “If I was a worm. Would you still love me?”

Ah. This was clearly some modern day question. It was probably popular on whatever ‘social media’ you were on lately. Of course, there was some reason you would be asking such an odd question, and he would figure out what it was.

“And why would you be a worm, darling?”

You shrug, voice nonchalant as you reply. “I don’t know, some other urban legend turns me into one? But would you?”

Oh. He understands completely. And he took any doubt of his love, joking or otherwise, very seriously.

He moved his arm to wrap around your shoulder, pulling you further into him. “I would let you rest further inside my heart, a place you already reside. I will surround you with my body, nourish you with my soul, let you thrive in my love. I will never stop loving you, my love. Even if you were a worm.”

You let out a breathy laugh, and there’s somehow more love reflected in your eyes. “Oh? And what about the bees?”

“They are a part of me, darling. They’ll protect you from any harm the world tries to send you, keep you warm from cold nights.”

“Mm.”

He brings a hand through your hair, giving you a soft smile. “Now, why do you ask? Do you plan on turning into a worm, darling?”

You shake your head.

“No?” He lowers his arm, wrapping it around your waist. “You don’t plan some midnight ritual to try to sneak away?”

“Fine, you got me.” You lean further into him, and he can feel you holding back laughter. “I’m gonna look in the mirror, and say ‘Worm-man’ five times.”

“Really?” He replies, a gentle tease in his tone.

“Mm-hm.” You let out a giggle. “Candyman and the Worm. Don’t they sound like soulmates?”

He smiled, kissing your forehead.

“Yes, my love. They do.”

#yes it’s short and sweet take it or leave it #candyman x reader #daniel robitaille #daniel robitaille x reader #candyman #self insert #I guess? #first time tagging x reader fic so sorry if I forgot something #it’s also midnight. should I be posting at midnight? #eh let’s go for it

[the-anxious-youth]

Slasher Blog Masterlist

Hey y’all! If you’re on my page you’re probably into slashers so I figured I’d do a list of other blogs in this fandom that I visit frequently. Keep in mind that most of these are 18+ so please respect that! Also this is super fucking long but if you’re on this list I love you and your blog. <3

Writing:

@slasherhaven - one of the ogs and the most writing I’ve seen on any slasher blog so far; I check their page daily lmao

@brandnewhuman - super nice and writes awesome stuff, I’m a big fan

@pass-me-the-knife - writing and memes 10/10

@suicidalslasher - mainly writes scream but has some really good poly! Ghost face smut

@lovelyhalloween - I love their writing style so you should def check them out

@slasherlouvre - has some top tier nsfw for you horny little freaks

@etherealbimbo - their poly!ghost face nsfw makes me blush, another 10/10

@smashin-the-slashers -another awesome slasher x reader blog

@joelsgeetar - their blog is so chaotic and I fucking love it 10/10

@horrorstories123 - they make some really sweet stuff that makes my heart go awooooo

@slasherrrz - another really good blog with some angst that I re-read over and over again

@slasher-lovers-blog - this person writes and draws and they’re so talented

@mehidktbh - this one’s for you bo Sinclair lovers (aka me) v v good

@slashersins - mostly nsfw but it’s all so well written, another 10/10

@mistertiberius - tons of top notch Sinclair stuff, I’ve read every single one of their works and would def recommend

@sunkendreams - THE BEST SMUT ON THIS APP PERIOD; seriously go check them out

@ffanciulla - another stupendous slasher writer, their bo Sinclair stuff has me 🥵🤤

@f1nalboys - also does lost boys for you vampire lovers (and slashers too)

@bloodybrahms - another OG with some classic writings

@slasherwife - unfortunately inactive but their account is still up so please go read the old works, I’ve read them all more than once

@early20sfailingplenty - A+ house of wax blog, which is my favorite slasher film if you can’t tell

@angelisoffline - some real good headcanons here, once again I’ve read them all

@fernweh-writes - I love this blog v much and their headcanons make me so soft <3

@sinfulwrites - 10/10 smut, gimme them dirty slasher bois

@lebenspurpur - they write for a TON of people and I’m here for it

@multifandomwritings - this blog has a ton of content for slasher as well as other fandoms if you’re looking for a multi blog

@stay-outta-my-blood-circle - this blog has a bunch of complete stories rather than just headcanons and one shots. I’d recommend “90 days” personally!

@slasherfucker - you can probably tell by the name but this blog is full of the 18+ goods if you know what I mean ;)

@the-slasher-files - awesome writing and they commissioned the coolest art piece (it’s their icon)

@friendly-alien-fucker - this is a yautja (predator) blog but it’s also very good

@frenziedslashers - I literally discovered them cause of this post and I’m about to read the whole damn Masterlist (esp the bo stuff👀)

Art:

@masks-n-steel - so fucking talented; feeds my jason loving soul

@osirisisv - please check them out their art is so good, 10/10

@irregularsweater - I go to this page when I need to smile because they have the funniest shit on there

@roachcult - one of the best artists on here, no cap, I’ve commissioned them and it was so worth it

@the-thot-clown - another very gifted artist who’s art I adore

@cursed-buffet-29 - this one is a monsterfucker blog but if you like slashers imma assume you’re a monsterfucker too, even if you haven’t admitted it yet lmao

@vertropolis - best yautja art I’ve ever seen fr

#slashers #masterlist #I love each and every one of you <3

[slasherscream]

I am on my hands and knees begging for yandere Herbert West💀💀💀

i am so sorry i do not write for herbert. but you know who does? @bloodybrahms and @submissivekillers. both their requests are closed rn i think, but they've got some great stuff written already for him and i'm not even a herbert fan. but i gotta admit they both write the hell out of that man

#bee talks #hes a strange little man #i only like him a little more now because my beloved kate is of the same personality type in a tragic turn of events

[submissivekillers]

ANGEL!! !!!BSAFJFHKJSDGJBBDBFGDHJFWKJDEHRF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - bloodybrahms <3

!!!!!!!!!JKHGDFSADFSDCKJHGDFS BB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#HJGFDSA I MISSED U #angel talks

[mlmdarkfiction]

WORST HORROR HUSBAND BRACKET

Inspired by @bloodybrahms horror husband bracket!

Ill be using the same characters from that competition, but we'll also do more if you guys wanna send in suggestions for who would be the Worst Horror Husband

[morgue-ratt]

Inspired by the lovely @bloodybrahms Horror Husband bracket, I bring you the Horror Wife bracket! We got witches, vampires, aliens, demons and ghouls, what more could you ask for?

Remember to vote with your heart, is all I ask 🔪🫀💗

#janus' hwb

[dreamties]

WAIT HOLY SHIT IS BLOODYBRAHMS BACK???????

#THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY TO SEE #theyre my favorite creator on this god foresaken site :((

[bisexual-horror-fan]

I’m sorry if I’m prying, but would you happen to know what happened to bloodybrahms?

No clue Anon, wish I knew. I got an ask a while back about this and they were gone, then they came back for a minute and are gone again I guess? I just hope they are all good.

#I love their stuff #They inspo'd me to start writing cam au fics which is my fave slasher mini series I have going! #BHF asks

[vibrantvenus]

Bloodybrahms was talking about making their blog private a couple days before, so I think that’s why we can’t view their blog anymore, which sucks cause they’re my absolute favorite writer and a lot of their stuff used to be my comfort fics. I hope they’re doing well tho, and know we love and appreciate that they shared their work with us at all.

Thank you so much for sharing, yeah they were my favorite too I'll miss them :( I thought i had them on notifs but I guess i missed it.

#bloodybrahms

[willowbrookesblog]

I do not care if I lose friends or followers over this post. If you support Israel, get off my page. If you are "neutral" about this, get off my page.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

@oceansrose2002 @skxllz @phantomenby @valeskafics @sihtricfedaraaahvicius @skullsandswearwords @f4iryfxies @bloodybrahms @barbiedragon

#free palestine #palestine #israel #free 🇵🇸 #reblog and share

[caligobeltrao]

I for one would love 2 hear ur thoughts on the hannibal novel 👀👀 - bloodybrahms ☺

ahhh thank you BB!! <3 I’m gonna throw it under a cut bc I know people aren’t gonna want my ramblings clogging up their dash lol. 

Edit after I’ve written it: Holy shit this turned into a monster but tbf I did say I was going to rant. I think I miss writing college essays...

Also, I would like to note bc I’m about to bitch, I do still love Hannibal and Clarice and all of the franchise. Hell, I even love book Hannibal because I’m garbage and want to be special. So yeah. It’s a fond bitching. 

Okay where to fuckin begin man... This novel was a fucking Shit Show, my dudes. It was like baby’s first fanfiction. 

Let’s just jump in, shall we? 

So by now, having read both Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs, I know Harris injects of lot of sexual shit into his novels, fine whatever, but the amount of pedophilia is insane. Like, Red Dragon with the grandmother threatening to cut his dick off by holding it in between scissors????? And then we have Mason Verger, worst human on the planet. Like jfc I’ll go into him specifically more later but just. Men. Why does it always have to be sexual. 

Like that time Clarice wasn’t wearing a bra and she wanted to prove to Paul Krendler she wasn’t wearing a wire so she flashed him her tits?? Unnecessary, Harris. Bullshit on all counts. 

Next, poor Ardelia Mapp. So he clearly wrote out her accent in Silence, which frankly reads racist since to me it seemed like he did it every time a character of color was met but he didn’t for Clarice’s Southern accent except for this book when she was talking to Ardelia. Now, that’d be a cool way to show how close they are, sure, but it just... She didn’t show up enough to warrant that reaction from me, plus all the other casually racist shit he throws in. 

Ardelia’s literally there as the wise Black best friend to help Clarice along. She doesn’t feel like her own character, she’s only there in conjunction with her, or doing something for her. She was the fucking valedictorian for Christ fucking sake, she also works at the Bureau but if her department was mentioned it was only once in passing. She was not a full character which fucking blows because she could’ve been so cool. 

And real quick before I forget, I hate how she’s treated in the end. I do like she gets a reference and that brainwashed Clarice sent her an emerald ring and a note saying she was okay, but Ardelia was abandoned by her best friend (that she had lived with) with not even a phone call and they will never see each other again and I think Ardelia knows it. It sucks and I’m heartbroken for this woman. 

I’m gonna touch a little bit on the racism too. Now I’m white and not the most qualified to talk about this shit, but I do wanna mention it because it makes me mad. There’s just so many unnecessary slurs, any POC is more of a background helper character to Clarice than anything or a foil. 

For example, Evelda Drumgo. She starts us off. Badass Black woman who runs a drug cartel. She chooses to shoot at Clarice and risk her baby’s life, and we have Clarice wash the baby off and save his life. Then Evelda’s mother is written as irrational when she slaps Clarice for visiting the baby in the hospital; I get Clarice’s impulse, but that woman just lost her daughter because Clarice killed her. I would’ve slapped Clarice too, even if it was a totally justifiable shot. 

The baby himself is used as a foil throughout other parts, most notably to me when Clarice goes to visit Mason the first time. There are two Black boys from a foster home playing in a room with a camera so Mason can watch them, and it shakes Clarice up a lil bit because of the baby, but it says she’s getting more used to it.

Now this is half and half well written and shoddy to me. It’d be a cool moment, if the whole incident wasn’t nearly completely forgotten for the rest of the book shortly afterword. It could show growth, if Clarice had any growth to show. 

And then the Romani people who are literally just used and thrown away. Sickening. Also very broadly used the stereotypes we hear which Sucks; the three we meet in any sort of depth are pickpockets, one was already in jail and Pazzi used his leverage as a police officer to get her to do what he wanted and threatened to have her baby taken away from her permanently, like it was just bad. And then the man got killed. Pazzi let him bleed out. Asshole. 

The slurs. I could take out all of them and pretty much have the same damn thing. Like I get showing negative aspects of characters and just because a character’s racist doesn’t mean the author is, but with the characters already being as shitty as they are, fully didn’t need it to make them worse. Entirely unnecessary. Racism or the character being racist has no impact on the plot is the major thing, I think. And you can replace that with anything along those lines, like sexist, homophobic, transphobic. It didn’t impact the plot, they can still be shitty, you just don’t need to use them. 

This also goes in reference to Margot being a lesbian. And the transphobia holy shit, it was disgusting. Harris had Clarice think something so cruel and unnecessary it’s like my guy why was that even remotely something we needed to hear. We didn’t. I wanted to stop reading because that’s not my Clarice, first and foremost, and second, this is supposed to be the character we LIKE. And now I don’t like ANYBODY in this damn book. 

And he treats Margot like shit too, and Barney. 

Their friendship was beautiful and great and finally for once something nice was happening in Margot’s life and I was happy reading it, and then FOR SOME REASON Margot goes to shower in the same room as Barney after a workout, which makes no sense, and then Barney tries to force a kiss on her (and he was hard, Harris made that very clear) and she had been sexually assaulted by Mason her brother and ruin the whole damn thing and none of it would have changed any other piece of the novel if you removed it!!!!!!!!! Entirely unnecessary!!!!!! And Barney had the gall to say well I couldn’t help myself like none of that was realistic in the slightest, she never would have went in the same room to shower with him. 

Something you need to do is basically get some suspension of disbelief from your reader and maintain and stretch that as you go, right? Well mine was gone at that moment.

Also side note Margot is basically just there to show how shitty Mason is for the umpteenth time. Her whole thing is lesbian sexual assault victim.

Also heavily implied she was a lesbian because of the sexual assault. And we rarely see Judy, her girlfriend, so. Bad. Bad all around. 

Circling back around to Clarice and how disappointing she is in the books as compared to the movies. Well, Clarice is also a poorly written character. She’s 1000x better in the movie. Hell, she’s even better in this book than she was in Silence, but that’s not fucking hard. 

Pretty much all the characters are so flat they don’t even classify as two dimensional. 

Like sure, maybe we wanna say Clarice didn’t really solve much in the first book and was just handed everything because she was a trainee and that’s what Hannibal wanted. 

Like if you remember the John Mulaney sketch of Delta Airlines where he’s just going “Okay!” and running to the next place he’s told, that’s Clarice. 

Okay so why does she get goaded into all this shit now? She should know better. She should know how to handle herself better. Like she messes up basic fucking shit like clearing a room before untying Hannibal, which was stupid, she seems oblivious to some of the politics at work even though she’s been in the FBI for like 7 years now, she would at least have more fucking contacts than Brigham who died in the beginning and Jack Crawford who died at the end by rolling over in his bed to his dead wife’s side and Ardelia who would be near the same level as Clarice I guess but I still don’t know her damn department???? Like you fucking network. 

Plus after her final fall from grace with the FBI, we meet or are told of random side characters that go no where and do nothing just to say “hey look at my special little girl, everyone likes her and looks up to her!!” Why? Because she caught Buffalo Bill 7 years ago and then never got a promotion or even worked with the BAU? Again, it does not make sense. People may pity her? But a random girl in the lab wouldn’t be fangirling. Starling herself said her career had gone nowhere because of the politics and not sleeping with Paul. You need to show me why she’s likable in her actions not others words. 

We spend more time away from her than with her anyways but Jesus. 

AND HER IN THE ENDING. She was fucking BRAINWASHED????? Bull FUCKING SHIT. He completely ruined anything he even remotely might’ve had in this cluster fuck of a novel. 

Case in point, difference from the movie, Hannibal spends weeks (possibly? it’s left purposefully vague and I’m guessing that’s because Harris didn’t know the ins and outs and wanted his novel done) meticulously brainwashing Clarice, he had stolen her father’s bones and she’s so far gone at that point she doesn’t care, and the whole scene where Paul is getting his brain eaten? Yeah, she happily indulges and when he insults her, she asks Hannibal for more. Fuck you, Thomas Harris. 

And Hannibal’s a Gary Stu, fucking fight me. 

In the movie he either is or he’s tap dancing on that line, don’t get me wrong, but in the novels it’s insufferable because it doesn’t seem earned. The pigs didn’t attack him because they didn’t smell fear on him. No. He’s easily able to drug and brainwash Clarice and take her as his lover. No. Go away. He’s so smart and one step ahead and can manipulate anyone and everyone into doing what he wants and blah blah blah shut up! A character being perfect isn’t interesting even if he’s evil!! We all know he’s never truly in danger because of how Harris writes him and that’s boring!! 

And I personally have a pet peeve where the villain is described as a monster or unstoppable. That’s boring and I no longer care about your story. I know 9 times out of 10 your main character is going to find a bullshit way around the impossible and kill it. Or it’s just like a default personality and nothing else is added to it. And that’s Hannibal. 

I’m on Hannibal Rising now and, spoiler alert, he’s very bland as a character. (Also Harris switched some details in the novel which kinda annoys me like get your own canon right my man but whatever.) The plot itself is pretty fun? I guess? Like there’s action and stuff and I’m enjoying that. But it’s the same set up where Harris’s Gary Stu always wins, like he was 13 in the book when he killed the butcher. Let. Your. Characters. Lose. 

Also even more racist shit but what did I expect really. 

Anyways, I have no idea who I’m supposed to root for in the novel because all the characters are just kinda shitty. It really just boils down to Harris not showing any redeeming qualities or actions from any of his characters. I liked Margot for a while out of spite but she never really went anywhere and the way she killed Mason (btw she sodomized him with a cattle prod to get his semen bc side plot and then stuffed his Moray eel down his throat and somehow I still don’t think that’s the worst part of the novel) just. No thanks really. 

All the random little side plots were also pretty not great. How many time does Harris have to say Pazzi of the Pazzis? Like I fucking get what you’re going for, even if I hadn’t watched the movie I’d be like, “Oh this dude’s gonna get hung outta that window, dope,” the literal first time. Stop treating your readers like idiots. 

And then Margot’s side plot was that the will their father left said she needed a biological heir to inherit because he was pissed she’s gay and we needed the homophobia I guess, so Mason got everything, and she was helping him with the Hannibal shit because he’s pretty incapacitated duh, and in return he would give her his jizz so Judy could be artificially inseminated and they could have a child and get some of her inheritance. I don’t care. It was all very gross, and Mason kept saying shit like suck me off you’ve done it before, I won’t be able to feel it anyway, maybe Judy’ll suck me off you think she’d like that. It’s all gross. 

And I guess this is a good a time as any to finally start on Mason. So a great rule of writing to make everything work better and give your story more depth is to give everyone both positive and negative traits right, even and especially the bad guys? Like, rules can always be broken if you’re a good enough writer, but I believe I have established that Harris isn’t quite there yet, to put it nicer than I have. 

Mason is one bad trait after another. It’s like when Harris was bored of constantly writing about plain ole pedophilia, he threw a dart at a board of horrible things and landed on topics such as: pedophilia but make it incest, extreme sadism, sadism but against children now, and good old fashioned racism! Fucking Cordell was supposed to collect the children’s tears after Mason would make them cry and put them in martinis for him. Realism went out the goddamn door real fast with this novel y’all. Like a fucking Scooby Doo villain over here. 

And he loves talking about being a sadistic pedophile, he will literally not shut up about it to Clarice when she first gets there telling her about his trip to Africa and this portable guillotine he has and just. I get it was probably like trying to make her uncomfortable on purpose because he’s a Freak, but it went way too far if only because it was annoying, not even uncomfortable for me as a reader. I was bored real quick. Get to the shit I actually wanna know. 

And it sucks because of the weird, over-the-top way of how he died, I got zero satisfaction from his death. I couldn’t even be like, “Well at least Margot got her revenge,” because that’s not how she originally wanted to kill him!!! She wanted someone else to extract his semen for the insemination but couldn’t find anybody to do it for her, and then Hannibal, whilst tied up, said use a cattle prod and you won’t have to touch him and when you kill him you can blame it on me, and I’m pretty sure even if she hit his prostate right every time and he COULD cum from that alone in addition to how his body is Fucked Up now, it would’ve been a lengthy, gross, and re-traumatizing experience for her because all she wanted to do was avoid seeing and touching her brother’s private parts again, which I think is a totally fair and rational desire. 

So I have to live with the fact that she was desperate enough to not lose the house and business because of her homophobic father to go through her childhood trauma again. There’s no place in this book that has a somewhat positive conclusion. 

Even the very last bit where Barney has a girlfriend and a ton of cash from Margot, all he wants to do is see every Vermeer in the world right? Well, because Hannibal and Clarice are in Buenos Aires where one of them is on display, Barney gets spooked and has him and his girlfriend leave before he can see it and it ends that bit with he never got to see it ever so he didn’t even complete his dream!!! 

Also for good measure, Harris throws in that Hannibal and Clarice enjoy having sex regularly. For no reason. Just letting us know. 

I know this seemed like just a bitch fest, because it was, but I kinda sorta enjoyed it? It kept my attention at the very least. It’s really disappointing because like I said, I love the movies, all of them, and have since I was little. To see the original not stand up to that image in my mind is a little heartbreaking. Especially Clarice. She was a strong female role model to me, but turns out she’s... just kinda there. And her ending is that of her no longer being herself and getting that agency taken away from her. 

There is a reference to her waking up from a sleep, if she is asleep (that’s kind of how he worded it), that kinda let us draw our conclusions on whether she was just brainwashed into being good for him or if she was willingly going along with this and was in love with him I guess and it felt like a slap in the face. She turned from a hardworking, modest country girl working her way up to the FBI into a female Hannibal. Which on the surface sounds kinda cool because we love luxe serial killers, but that’s not what she wanted or who she was set up to be. And to insinuate that she would even remotely consider choosing that path for herself is at its best an insult to her and at its worst a complete erasure of her background, what little character Harris did set up. It also completely erases my own connections to her, as a girl from a small town myself who has bigger dreams than this and also... a good, strong set of morals. He just tossed that out the window. 

Obviously if you’re on this blog, you like slasher x reader shit, and this is a novel with a slasher x a person, right? So why am I so mad about it? Because the whole point of this blog and reader insert fanfiction in general is that you are taken as you are and loved wholly as yourself and that you are worthy of that love (in a fictional setting, not really loving people who are like this, which I think we understand but I want to clarify). She was not taken as she was. He is not in love with her, she is not in love with him. She was transformed into what he wanted out of her. He couldn’t get her to be Mischa, his first plan, so he made her like himself. And the fact that he was so easily able to do it makes me upset, and even more so is that it’s not written like it’s weird or wrong. It’s written like they’re in love and this is a good thing. 

He may have been going for the classic “everyone is capable of doing bad things” stuff we see a lot, but we got that from Margot already. And Barney, for stealing Lecter’s stuff and selling it. And Paul, and the entire FBI for turning on Clarice, and the kidnappers, and Pazzi, and random shitty side characters. And none of it was particularly well written or made some sort of strong statement. It just was. And that’s not a good enough basis for a novel. 

Anyways, if you made it this far holy shit you’re a saint and I love you, let’s be friends?? <3 Have a good day y’all, thank you BB for giving me permission to ramble. 

#bloodybrahms #ask #no joke i spent like 5-6 hours total writing this i had a Lot to say