Hannibal and Will: *gets the other locked up*
Hannibal and Will seeing the other locked up: Get him out get hIM OUUUT!!!!
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TRY AGAIN LATER
it's like. well. its several things.
(Plutarch's Crassus, trans. Warner)
and also this
(ibid.)
that compliment sounds like an insult, baby.
anyway, there's a fun kind of eroticism in being given everything, in taking things that aren't yours without any real consequence, in climbing towards becoming a Roman Alexander, only for one man to deny you, over and over and over again, at every turn. Sulla tried, Crassus did it better. who would put a butcher in their place? who else knows you well enough to do it? who else can match you step for step like this? doesn't it feel like a kind of intimacy, a kind of—
it's also about the 'even sulla kissed my sword/so you want me on my knees too?' innuendo was too good to pass up. that was actually the first line I wrote, I figured out the rest of this to justify making a comic with it
and finally! the sword line is referencing/playing off of Lucan's Pharsalia a little bit because it fucks hard
(Lucan's Pharsalia, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce)
EDIT: oh, and that's a public domain anatomical illustration of a heart. you know how it is with love and hate.
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oop found this in my drafts! might as well post! they become quite close in this au - thats what happens when youve only got each other for a Very Long Stressful Time <3 these are just fragments of scene ideas that came from my single braincell hitting corner perfect <3
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tagged by @pinklume @anemicc-royalty and @msalexwp (this was indeed how I spent half my flight 😏) and also @tracingpatternswrites and @messrsage for a snippet game. ty for all the love 🥹💗💕
“Professor Black - did you know Professor Lupin’s patronus is a dog that looks just like you?”
Sirius’s chest clenched so hard he couldn’t breathe.
“I did not, no,” he choked out after a second.
The class was quiet, watching him oddly, except for one girl in the middle row who had a disconcertingly curious expression on her face. She nudged her friend and turned to whisper something in her ear.
“Dogs are quite common patronuses,” Sirius told the class, readjusting the papers on Remus’s desk.
“Professor Black?”
Sirius looked up to see the girl in the middle row now had her hand raised.
“Yes - Sienna, I think?”
“Mmhmm. Professor, are wolves common patronuses too?”
Her large, brown eyes fixed on Sirius’s with a knowing intensity that made him want to run from the room.
“Probably not,” he said eventually.
tagging @blitheringmcgonagall @tahtahfornow @kaymardsa @meli-mess
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