SheOfBadIdeas
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in the graveyard that is his body by SheOfBadIdeas
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
15 Dec 2024
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“What do you need, baby?” Daniel asks, his voice delicate as a soap bubble. Armand can just barely feel the puff of air on his neck as he speaks. He can feel, too, where Daniel’s hand rubs at his arm lightly, where his caress brings goosebumps to the surface. The parts of him that Daniel touches light up like a switchboard, like isolated stars in a constellation that hasn’t been drawn yet. Each point of contact something sharp and alive in the graveyard that is his body.
“Touch me,” Armand begs, turning his face into Daniel’s chest. Listening to the soft thud of his heartbeat, the same heartbeat that flutters beneath Armand’s rib cage. Their heart, their heart, their heart. “Everywhere, please.”
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Armand dissociates. Daniel helps ground him.
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Armand feeds him from the wrist and Daniel is unmade, pulled like the end of a slipknot until he once more is a thing unformed. A blank slate, tabula rasa, wiped clean. A sand castle at high tide. A snake eating its own tail.
Everything eats itself in the end, comes back to where it started, and Daniel is no different. His blood is Armand’s blood is his blood, and when he gulps down mouthful after mouthful, Armand’s hand feverishly massaging his throat to aid the weak, dying muscles in forcing it down, it is himself he is drinking from.
He is at the bottom of it all. He is at the place from before the bottom even existed, the place that always was. He is woven into nothing and back again. He is woven into nothing and it is woven into him. He is woven, and unwoven, and hungry, and woven, and starving, and woven.
Starving, starving, starving. Like the ringing of an alarm clock. Eat, you stupid motherfucker. Feed.
He thought he knew before, when he was just a dumb addict. What it means to be hungry.
He had no fucking idea.
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Armand, Daniel, and a lesson in taking the long way home.
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- Part 2 of rewind & play it back
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i’ll keep your pillow warm by SheOfBadIdeas
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
07 Dec 2024
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It’s starting to feel like this is not just about him feeling sorry for what happened earlier. Daniel says as much aloud, unable to help it even if it might mean shooting himself in the foot. Even if he might risk putting an end to this by giving it name.
“Hmm,” Rashid hums in feigned contemplation as he settles one knee on the bed beside Daniel’s hip. The index finger of his left hand dips underneath the sleeve of the older man’s cardigan. Runs along his pulse point, his veins. “What do you think it’s about, then?”
“No fucking clue,” he replies, his stare dragging up the line of Rashid’s throat, over the curve of his jaw, past his mouth and up to his eyes. The boy isn’t meeting his gaze, his lashes fluttering in the direction of Daniel’s wrist. His lips are parted slightly. He looks—he looks.
He looks horny. Wrecked. Devastatingly pretty.
Rashid huffs an airy laugh. “Liar.”
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Daniel has been good today.
He’s always good, of course. Even when he isn’t.
(Especially when he isn’t.)
But today he’s been perfectly behaved, kneeling at Armand’s feet like a well-trained puppy while Armand watches the nightly news and absentmindedly strokes his hair. Daniel’s hands are folded behind his back, his spine straight as a steel beam even as his muscles shake with the effort of keeping still.
Armand looks down at him. At his flustered, pretty face, at his slightly parted lips. He wants to put the tip of his thumb in Daniel’s mouth, so he does, Daniel immediately opening up wider to allow the digit to slide over his tongue.
So good, Armand thinks, his eyes darkening as he watches Daniel hollow his cheeks and suck. So perfect, and so very mine.
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- Part 2 of as soft as leather, as plush as lace
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before you shake my tomb by SheOfBadIdeas for nordax, Montiebon
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
18 Nov 2024
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Daniel has grown reckless.
He can sense the phantom press of Armand at the fringes of his consciousness, just barely there like the whistle of wind through rustling leaves. Holds snippets of the vampire in his fractured mind and longs to understand the full picture of him—his form, his contours, the shades and hues that fill the lines of him. He knows Armand is there, but he doesn’t know what he is. Doesn’t know if he tastes like redemption or reckoning, if he tastes like both wrapped together like the threads in a braid.
It’s Armand’s fault, really; he should’ve expected it after what happened two weeks ago. Daniel, convulsing on the floor of a dirty motel bathroom in Brooklyn. His breathing slowing, almost stopping, his respiratory rate crashing nearly to a halt and then plummeting further. Heroin like the hand of a lover around his throat, squeezing the air from his lungs. The threat of suffocation beckoning at the horizon.
Armand wants to see him choke, of course, but the privilege of the act belongs to him and him alone. The fingers at Daniel’s windpipe are to be his.
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as soft as leather, as plush as lace by SheOfBadIdeas
Fandom: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
19 Nov 2024
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And Strive to Taste of All Things Holy by SheOfBadIdeas
Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
12 Aug 2024
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Three Selûnites on the journey of unbecoming and becoming.
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It’s just - anticlimactic. New York Times Bestselling Blue Balls of a conclusion to the Armand of it all. He can picture the pierced graduate students at his indie bookstore readings now; their dubious, unsatisfied frowns of so, what, he just sat there? And you just left?
Bookmarked by SheOfBadIdeas
15 Dec 2024
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dope as hell if we're being perfectly fucking honest about it
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every few centuries, somebody reinvents the coven by katplanet
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
21 Sep 2024
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Daniel asks Louis if he's sure when he first suggests it. He asks him again a few days later, to see if he's changed his mind. He makes a psychic collect call to Lestat, of all people, and asks if he's sure. Asks Armand if he's sure when he accepts the invitation, when they're packing, when they're on the way to the airport. When they're walking up to arrivals, Armand’s grip crushing Daniel's fingers, Louis smiling at the back of the crowd with his hands in his pockets, casual as anything, like they do this every day.
They're all sure and sure and sure, so Daniel lets Louis pull him in with one arm, Armand with the other, and hug them both while a planeful of tired New Yorkers filters out around them into the muggy bayou dark.
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- Part 4 of the polycule has a max occupancy
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“You doing all right?” Daniel asks him.
Armand blinks. “No,” he says.
“Most honest you've been with me since I got here,” Daniel says. And then, because it seems like the thing to do, “I can clear out, if you need the place to yourself.”
“Whatever you prefer.” Armand's lips look chapped. Dehydration? He ate the kid with the sunglasses, but the smear he left took a lot of bleach to scrub away. Maybe Daniel should - “You won't be harmed,” Armand says, “regardless of your decision.”
“You got served divorce papers so hard it left a crater,” Daniel says, “and you're still poking around in people's heads.”
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- Part 1 of the polycule has a max occupancy
Bookmarked by SheOfBadIdeas
26 Nov 2024
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absolutely stunning, experimental, and creative. no words other than breathtaking
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in the deafening polar province called You by shineforthee
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
23 Sep 2024
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Daniel is sprawled out across the bed, loose-limbed and lazy, somehow filling all the open space it has to offer and leaving Armand to nestle into the gaps. His cheeks are flushed, blood pooling like it knows what comes next. Maybe it does. Armand was reading about classical conditioning the other day. About dogs who become accustomed to getting food when their handler rings a bell.
Perhaps Daniel is the dog, Armand’s teeth sharp bells reverberating in his veins. Or perhaps Armand is the dog, Daniel’s blood a song rattling in his ears. He has been a dog before. He runs his tongue along the bow of Daniel’s collarbone, gathers the salt-sweat there and imagines what it tastes like because Daniel does.
Armand remembers he loved Daniel, once, and that Daniel loved him. Or a version of them did, at least. It isn't his intention to go back to that, but it's not not his intention, either. Such is the prerogative of an immortal: to hold two contradicting desires simultaneously. If nothing else, it passes the time while he waits for this miserable interview to end.
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When you first see her, even withered and rotted as she is, you are so relieved your blood aches with it.
Or: the spawn of murder is haunted by one person she didn't want dead.