Hope_thingwithfeathers



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  1. Public Bookmark 18

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    “Amadeo’s eyes shine red in the lapping water. He looks so confused, so young. His eyes are glazed over and wanting. For a moment, you can believe that there is a life there, enduring behind those red eyes, managing to persevere against all reason within what is little more than an animated corpse.

    “I don’t want to be beautiful.” Some petulant, anxious part of you snivels in the recesses of your mind. The child that recalls another bath, another pair of large white hands, another European God coming to remake him in His image, cries for the sweltering Delhi sun, and the face of a woman that you can no longer remember. “I never asked to be beautiful. I don't want this.”

    (Or: After freeing him from the hold of his fanaticism, Lestat bathes Armand for the first time in 240 years)

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  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    Throughout the meeting, Amadeo would paw at Marius’ pant leg under the table, playfully knock their feet together. To be next to Marius but not feel him felt disrespectful: to his yearning, to his Master that had trained him for it. He wasn’t prepared for when Marius directly grabbed between his legs. Against all vampiric biology, warmth rushed to his face. He was so shocked by the touch he probably projected it to everyone in the room. But he should have expected that, with his incessant touching. He felt stupid for not expecting it.

    If anyone in the congregation noticed, they did not draw attention to it. They carried on as Amadeo squirmed, powerless under his Master’s hold.

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    Marimand reunion.

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  3. Public Bookmark 30

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    Three authors, three imaginings of Armand’s much-belated reunion with his maker.

    Fight: This is a song about the liberational aspects of grammar. By graiai.
    Flight: Not so much an anatomy of a fall as a carefully categorized dismemberment. By This_world_of_beautiful_monsters.
    Freeze: Armand, in the bed he made. By exsanguinate (transjon).

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  4. Public Bookmark 25

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    If he could crack open the shell of his own skull and rummage around in all the lost, forgotten corners, he might find the memories hiding there, among the dust and the desiccated corpses of spiders. He could unspool them like ribbons of nitrocellulose film; hold them up to the light and finally, finally see.

    A series of things Armand has forgotten.

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    26 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    "Or is it the sleep of an infant? Tabula rasa."

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