Petronia

The Weight of the World and Its Heaven (22598 words) by Petronia
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: Hannibal (TV), Hannibal Lecter Series - All Media Types, The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham & Clarice Starling, Hannibal Lecter & Clarice Starling, Alana Bloom/Hannibal Lecter, Bedelia Du Maurier & Hannibal Lecter
Characters: Clarice Starling, Will Graham, Alana Bloom, Eldon Stammets, Ardelia Mapp, Hannibal Lecter, Bedelia Du Maurier, Jack Crawford, Dr. Frederick Chilton, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Future Fic, think of it as Season 5 plus setup, Backstory, Contemporary Art, Catholic Iconography, Migratory Birds, POV Multiple, Original Dogs, canon compliant Hannigram, canon compliant pretentious dialogue, canon compliant art murder, Dream Sequences, Post-Canon, Clarice has just about had it with you crazy SOBs, Implied/Referenced Torture, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Harris/Fuller/Mann/Demme/etc. extended deep house megamix, Physarum polycephalum, Paris Catacombs, Teatro Colón, Salomé - Richard Strauss
Series: Part 1 of The Weight of the World and Its Heaven
Summary: Bedelia took a sip of wine. "We all die, Hannibal," she said, "often before we cease to breathe. I suggest only that you give full consideration to what comes afterward."


Past the Cordon of Night (830 words) by Petronia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hannibal (TV), Hannibal Lecter Series - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 02, Easter, Mind Palace
Series: Part 2 of The Weight of the World and Its Heaven
Summary: "The church across the street is filled," Will said. "Every pew."
He still hadn't turned. Hannibal made himself look away, and went to the counter to pour himself a glass of water. His hand was steady, and the muscle of his heart – he knew it was, but felt its stutter like a phantom.

Amourette (3558 words) by Petronia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hannibal (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter
Characters: Freddie Lounds, Jack Crawford
Additional Tags: Cannibalism, Accidental Sex, not even a pseudo-clinical description of Kundalini syndrome, I mean it
Summary: "I don't understand," Will said, "how a Yogi ended up in this way. You'd think the enlightened wouldn't be rude."

Don't Let Yourself Grow Hungry Now (594 words) by Petronia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hannibal (TV), Hannibal Lecter Series - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Freddie Lounds/Margot Verger
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 02, Flash Fic
Summary: “You can show me, you know,” Freddie Lounds says, from your bed. “It’s all right. I don’t judge.”

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One more (short, comedic) piece to go, then I'm closing up shop until season 3. I am supposed to be writing original fiction for the writing group, from now until July. XD

(The Weight of the World is basically a novel, scope-wise. Having written the 23k word version of the story I can see how one would write the 80k word version. Maybe that should be the modus operandi, going forward.)

Haven't posted on DW for a while! (Did make a couple of posts on LJ.)

Not holding myself to this on a weekly basis, clearly, but it's still a useful exercise when there's something to report.

Read:

* Close to finishing The Old Ways: A Journey On Foot. This was my main reading during the holiday season -- an Indigo staff pick obtained on a whim while buying presents. ("Oh, this is Glen's pick," said the cashier. "I want to read Glen's pick!" "Is Glen very outdoorsy?" I asked. "Well, he's one of our managers and a bit of a hippie.") Highly recommended, though if you're as sedentary as I am it will make you feel like pre-Adventure Bilbo Baggins. In fact it makes one realize Tolkien didn't just make up all that mysticism of the road going on and on, he was writing a value set he would have expected his original readers (adult, if not child) to be able to contexualize easily... Tezuka Kunimitsu would enjoy this book.

* Read Red Dragon, since I've never watched either of the film adaptations. ( Actually, I've never read any of the Thomas Harris novels. )

I will probably read Silence of the Lambs after? I did watch the movie, but I never felt like I got it. Like there seems to be some "holy shit" thing that people get from this story or character interaction that never struck me. Regular people treat this canon in a really fannish way, yanno?

Watched:

* Her. This is one of those movies where you will quite likely watch a different movie from the person who accompanied you into the theatre, depending on your respective attitudes toward gender relations, technology, alternate visions of LA that look more like Shanghai (+commuter trains -black people), and so forth. I will say that a full decade after Lost In Translation, one finally feels like one has both sides of the Spike Jonze-Sofia Coppola marriage story.

* Sherlock S3. ( Cut for vague spoiler. )

* Hannibal, earlier in the month, obviously. I keep thinking, maybe once they finish season 2 or whatever they'll publish a cookbook. XD;;; Someone on Douban wrote one of those insta-classic reviews that was just a massive cookery treatise on the preparation and consumption of the longpig, in traditional Chinese. (Rather, classical references are to the "two-legged goat". #themoreyoulearn)

Aeon Flux season 3, Deleuze/Guattari's Mille Plateaux. Possibly these are the same things! For extra credit I'll listen to a Knife record.

I think I may never have seen Aeon Flux season 3. I have no memory of it. I have no memory of, uh, this stuff containing dialogue or a semblance of linear narrative. Google is not doing well at coughing up pretentious cultural studies essays other ppl must have written in the 1990s. I don't mean like Freud 101, I mean like explain why you should cry tears of sadness that George Bataille didn't live to watch late-night MTV. Geocities is dead, yo, repost that shiz.

Other TV: watching Agents of SHIELD -- it has the same mystery plot as my dumb fanfiction, but less sex pollen. Watched a few eps of Elementary S1, a few eps of Attack on Titan, and a couple of eps of Adventure Time just so I know what is what.

Movies: Gravity was very good. Wanted to see Prisoners but it fell through. Going to see The Counselor tomorrow.

Also picking up Pilgrim at Tinker Creek again, since the seasons have turned.

The less said of work this week the better, but at least everything got pulled together on time, no project went careening into disaster, the right ppl were impressed and so far no major cabbages have fallen out of the basket (although if one had I wouldn't remember it, by definition XD;). I've also managed MUTEK every night since Wednesday, without collapse. It helps to get the physical activity in; and let's be honest, I stay up regularly on weeknights for far worse reasons. I subscribe to Villalobos' vision of the "club" as a sunny, 24/7, urban outdoors public utility, like a sandbox playground XD basically a fairy mushroom ring of speakers with noise cancelling technology on the perimeter. You step in, dance until you've de-stressed, then leave whenever you feel like it. (I've always thought he derived the idea from Piknic.)

It's a sexless concept of the thing, but then "the club" comme tel is a multi-use space, and for this particular purpose it's currently inefficient... there are different crowds as everyone knows and Sherlock (a total fascist-aesthete) will turn out for the stuff Schuldig is bored by. Basically. XD; It turns out he majorly digs Echospace. IDEK. But at one point I was at the barrier and turned around and there wasn't a single person with an alcoholic drink for rows. Dub techno: socially validated autistic stimming for four hours at a stretch.

Meanwhile, as I left the Plastikman show last night I overheard some bleary hipsters threaten Richie Hawtin with sexual violence. NOT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FACT. It's gotta be the hair, I refuse to believe the fanboys were creepers like that in the 90s.

And then there was ~*MODESELEKTOR NIGHT*~ XD credoimprobus would be amused to know that we've gotten to the point where we just give them a whole night to curate. I couldn't stay for their whole set, ironically, due to ummm sororial unit's convocation ceremony the next morning (good on law school, it was over in a sweet 90 minutes), but the lineup was flawless.

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readerofasaph reminds me that I had two thoughts about Glee S2 (it's not me, it's sororial unit):

1) You know that one TezuFuji doujinshika that Cfandom in particular was wild about? We used to swap the book, even. And one of her series was about Fuji quitting Seigaku and going to Hyoutei? What was her name?

2) The alternate reality in which fandom musical Harry Potter is on prime-time US TV kissing a boy... it's been said, I know.

( Finally I have watched Inception! There are two questions for ppl in this fandom after the cut. )

I also watched Merlin S03E01... I swear I've only seen scraps and minutes of this series here and there, but between osmotic fan production and mountain ranges of historical interpretation (nearly all the "new" fandoms are like that nowadays, aren't they), I just don't feel like I've missed any continuity. I've got a very short decision flow chart in my head: IS MORGAUSE STILL HOT -> YES -> KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON THEN

I haven't seen Inception yet. I don't think this would have been on my radar at all if it weren't for the cross-board raving, so I don't know anything about it other than it has something to do with Leonardo DiCaprio and lucid dreaming. Spoiler me and die. XD

I have seen the new BBC Sherlock, I just went and started a meta discussion on the value of kink memes rather than post viewing notes. XD;; I adored the first ep and thought the second one was meh, so will wait for the third before rendering judgment - tbh, since the installments seem to be written by three separate people, the already-aired bits probably mapped out the high and low extremes of the concept's potential. ( Classic, unmodernized spoiler cut. )


** I'll admit, there is a part of me that would have found this epically hilarious.

These are getting longer. Who is even surprised. XD;

( The Deadly Assassin - a show like Doctor Who would never be a ratings success on Gallifrey )

( City of Death - strategies and annotations )

( Proper S4 ending plus specials, I have been cutting this DOWN XD srsly afraid of running a wordcount on these last few posts )

In conclusion re: Eleventh Doctor, redheaded Companion = I am onboard, never claimed not to be cheap. (Also I have Theories, but not to wave about in advance; just to watch and chortle to myself. XD)

Posting incrementally so avoid scenarios of power shorting out etc.

( Doctor Who S04E07 to S04E13 )

S4 > S1 > S3 > S2, but not a fair comparison as S4 relies so much on buildup from previous seasons (and spinoffs). Also the music for S4 has been quite good as opposed to overblown and actively terrible as I thought it was for a good deal of S3, Spoiler's lulzsome taste aside. ILE turns out to be full of Moffat stans (what other discoveries lie in wait if I just type something into board search that is not the name of a band??), confirming me in my suspicion that Moffat's core contingent is analogous to the ILE sort of intelli-sausagefest rather than RTD's rabid shipper-trolling.