raewrites98
raewrites98
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raewrites98 · 5 months ago
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the other thing that itched at my brain on upon a rewatch was ruth harker's insistence that she did everything she did so that lee be "allowed" to grow up and yet we are surrounded by evidence of stagnation. the hoarding. the fact that she keeps teeth and hair from lee's childhood. the doll, the literal eternal manifestation of lee as a child. and the fact that lee herself is so clearly stunted by this terrible thing that happened to her, BECAUSE she cannot remember it enough to confront it. ruth claims that she is protecting them both but her every action keeps them both steeped in their trauma. and it is very obvious that this movie is about parents who do damage through acts of love and intention to protect but there is something about her actively preserving the memory of her daughter pre-trauma and being unable to connect to the woman she's become that makes me nuts. if there's anyone who's not letting lee grow up, its ruth.
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raewrites98 · 5 months ago
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LONGLEGS (Directed by Osgood Perkins, 2024) x The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (Written by Jennifer Lynch, 1990)
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raewrites98 · 5 months ago
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the passenger ranson fic recs!!
these are all bookmarked so you know i love them!!!!!!!!
disclaimer!! these are non-explicit in terms of smut. there is still blood and gore. in the future i’ll do a explicit list and link it to here!
they will be in order of name, author, top tags (that i believe are the most important), and synopsis with a sprinkle of my thoughts.
please gives these fics lots of love!
just another ache by eye4eye - ghosts, angst, post-canon: benson haunting randy in his home after the incident.. (btw i recommend all of eye4eye’s fics for the passenger they’re so good omg)
exit music (for a film) by visceravalentines - songfic, whump, angst: a snippet pre-canon where randy and benson are hanging out, as well as a parallel to canon (the end part…)(i also recommend all of their works i love them)
Man of the world by greendragon19 - twenty years later, post-prison, benson lives: randy picks up benson after being released.. i know
What’s a day gonna do. by Anonymous - on the run, mental health issues, fluff: randy having a sensitive day (overstimulated???) and benson being gentle with him about it. it’s so sweet i love it
Don’t Forget the Joker by devovitsuasartes - sexy kidnapping, angst, romantic gaslighting: some extra tags i’m adding are on the run and stockholm syndrome. randy finds benson in his car after he broke out. romance ensues!
Oh, all that I long for, worship and adore by entanglement and reserves - slice of life, sad and sweet, one shot: some extra tags i’m adding are on the run and character study (?) on benson. it goes back and forth between benson’s backstory and him and randy on the run. benson’s backstory on this is super interesting and i liked the characterization of him here!!
Twenty Years On by Incy Little Spider - future fic, grief/mourning, character death: benson is dead. this follows the point of view of a child that parallels with randy who he is the piano teacher of. scenes of gossip about randy surrounding the incident in the pov of a younger outsider. sweet and sad and it made me wanna pull my hair out
mordere by Anonymous - vampires, blood and gore: heavy heavy on the gore. anon seriously wrote this so well that you can really imagine it (horrific). not classic vampires (borderline cannibalism, but we love that!). happens during canon at benson’s home
And Anyways, I feel dumb (Without you) by heavensvnt - benson’s pov, benson is paranoid, co-dependency: randy and benson on the run with benson’s pov. this is not romantic at all and mostly one sided. something about benson’s characterization really hurt me and i liked it when it hurts!
you show me understanding, patience, and pleasure by bensonschrysler - smoking, first kiss, canon divergence: spoilers, they shotgun. i know amazing. very sweet, nothing crazy just randy and benson hanging out and making out while high. some dialogue of benson being a little angsty but randy pushes through. randy stood up!!
sanguine by befallenrain - kissing, mild blood kink, alternate ending: they make out while randy’s nose bleeds. i know.. sue me!!
a new color by voidedcat - coworkers to lovers, no murders au, first dates: randy and benson being awkward soon to be boyfriends… very sweet and silly!!
If This Is My Last Night With You (Give Me a Memory I Can Use) by dontleave_a_bitchhanging - post canon, kissing, mild gore: randy goes back to the spot at the diner and sees benson (ghost, hallucination, you decide!) the author puts “some angst” as a tag like this was not the most heartbreaking, devastating thing i ever read. legitimately cried.
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raewrites98 · 5 months ago
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↠ certain decisions are bad decisions
Five times Benson considered pulling the trigger, and the one time he finally did.
“The fuck you think you’re doin’?” drawled Pa from the bedroom doorway, a six pack in one oil-stained hand, his keys in the other.
Benson leapt to his feet.
read the full fic here!
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raewrites98 · 5 months ago
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The Evolution of Will Graham’s Darkness
This meta is mostly written for new viewers who find themselves confused by Will as a character. I’ll incorporate some bits of analysis I’ve written before into it. Let’s start with a thesis of a sort: Will is a dark character who had this darkness from the very start, even before his encounter with Hannibal: he was terrified and disgusted with it, but after meeting Hannibal, slowly, he began to embrace himself, getting bolder and bolder in his violence.
Keep reading
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raewrites98 · 5 months ago
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longlegs is like when you know something terrible happened to you when you were little and you can’t reach it with your hands. its like when your mother has a horrible secret and her house is haunted and the monster is living amongst you. and every memory is dirty and stuck in a time you can’t really remember, because mom did everything to keep the monster at bay so she hid it under the floor (its for your own good)
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raewrites98 · 5 months ago
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raewrites98 · 1 year ago
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Edwin has to bite his lip to smother his laugh, shoulders shaking minutely against tanned skin. The rough sound ratchets up a tick. Purring. The Cat King is purring.
Guys I wrote 2k of toothrotting catwin fluff! Check it out on ao3 💕
tags: edwin/cat king, established relationship, Teen, no archive warnings, kissing/cuddling, purring, excessive use of the words warmth and rumbling, just generally a sweet soft little thing tbh
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raewrites98 · 1 year ago
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Wrote a Catwin fic the way I promised 🔍
Summary:
"No bodies, a missing statue, a mysterious letter with a sizable reward attached to it and the cats are getting blamed. The whole thing stinks from a mile away."
Or
The one where Edwin discovers the Cat King of Port Townsend might be more than he had bargained for.
Link:
Have fun, guys 🪷🩷
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raewrites98 · 1 year ago
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How about we stop interpreting the Cat King into something he is not and start listening to Lukas Gage about his own character instead?
Because it's genuinely concerning how some people view him, and at this point, I am starting to believe you people are so hostile towards him because he disrupts Painland, which he doesn't since Edwin can very much like two people at the same time (most people in real life do).
Lukas also sees this shit... It's obvious he loves this character and worked very hard to make him complex and three-dimensional, only for people to misunderstand him completely and start treating him horribly, which I'm sorry but it's completely bullshit.
So less "I don't like him because he makes me feel icky for no apparent reason" and more media comprehension.
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raewrites98 · 1 year ago
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cat king 😺
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raewrites98 · 1 year ago
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I know we make jokes about Edwin’s harem but it’s deeply tragic how every man who has ever desired Edwin romantically has also hurt him in profound ways. Simon is the reason Edwin was sent to hell. Monty abused his trust and nearly got him and Charles killed. The Cat King manipulated his repressed attraction and leashed him like a pet, keeping him trapped in a town with a murderous witch. All the while, the man Edwin actually loves, the man who has been nothing but kind and gentle and devoted towards him, does not love him back. Not in that way. Something Something Love is a punishment for not having been strong enough to remain alone.
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raewrites98 · 1 year ago
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drawing book one neil is like drawing an angel without wings </3
super uber quick birthday redraw of this post!
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raewrites98 · 1 year ago
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Reposting
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raewrites98 · 1 year ago
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Every time I see someone call Neil an unreliable narrator I think about how cool it could be to have AFTG from like fully unreliable Neil. Like Neil in canon is mildly unreliable in the same way all 3rd person close narrations are: he has a point of view and priorities but he's not actually that unreliable. He's telling us the truth and he's telling us the story and he's telling us basically everything (I love these books but those early chapters of TFC were some exposition heavy chapters). But like Neil as a real actual unreliable who actually lies to us? Imagine spending like the first book and a half not knowing he's not Neil Josten? Imagine us believing his story and buying into it as much as Andrew and only learning the real story of Nathaniel as and went pieces are forced out of him. Imagine the post-Columbia scene and being so mad at Andrew because Neil is just a private little guy who's a fan of Kevin, only for Neil to then go "welp actually my dad was low level mafia guy who worked for the Moriyamas actually" and we find that out at the same time as Andrew. Neil who is so deep into his cover he doesn't even tell us unless someone has dragged it out of him.
(And no, this is not a "this is how it should have been written" this is a "imagine it and I kinda want to write the fanfic")
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raewrites98 · 4 years ago
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Do you consider fanfiction legitimate writing?
I won the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for an H. P. Lovecraft /Arthur Conan Doyle mashup fiction, so fanfiction had better be legitimate, because I'm not giving the Hugo back.
Or the 20O5 Locus Award for Best Novelette. I'm not giving that back either.
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raewrites98 · 4 years ago
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It’s Hard To Breathe (Sometimes)
He hates this. Hates feeling so useless, so powerless, grasping at something that is no longer there. He hates being sick. He’s never sick. It’s gross and it hurts and why can’t he just breathe?
This can’t be it. This can’t be his life, his future. He’s become a hollow, empty shell of a person. Without his magic, he’s nothing. (Read the final chapter here!)
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