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HANNIBAL ANTHOLOGY “RAVAGE”: PRESENTING OUR CONTRIBUTORS!!!!!!
With a lot of joy we present our contributors for RAVAGE, coming in spring 2019.
Traverse Dante’s Inferno with us and explore Hannibal Lecter within the circles of HELL. Explore the man behind the mask and the demon behind the veil. Follow the beating of wings and the screams of the sinners!
114 artists and writers will illuminate the Inferno & HELL for us.
We have assigned an equal amount of artists and writers to the circles - as many as we possibly could, having to let go many an incredibly talented signed up artist or writer in the process (with a very heavy heart). RL being what it is we might see some of these signed up again, as pinch hitters, who knows. We will see.
We have prepared a small collage with previous works from the featured artists for you - please flail with us and scream and anticipate the sheer beauty they will create, side by side with the vivid stories and brilliant tales of our writers!!!
(big version)
(Please not that the size differences only happen due to the uneven number of artists (57) - they do not in fact have any other significance!)
Please - if you will, give this a boost, spread the word - we cannot wait to see what RAVAGE will become!!!
And now (in no particular order) - here are the artists and writers with their tags - go check them out!
@prettypurpleflower @jainasherself @bamboocanoe @brokendeathangel @beatricenius @nonexistenz @mizuvera @schnellertod @weconqueratdawn @fancybedelia @desperatelyseekingcannibals Lunggwai /@radioxsilence @bonearenaofmyskull @letsprufrockandroll @thecountessolivia @fragile-teacup @hannahfannibal @thisismydesignhannibal @BlueBloodBruise @tiersein @k-s-morgan @littlethingwithfeathers @badbrooklynbitch @victorineb @moonstruckidiot @frankenberger @llewcie @lukkalee @Icouldbereadingnow @wraithsonwingsposts @thesilverqueenlady @phosos @cinnamaldeide @sugarmaus @niakantorka @purplesocrates Laribernstein @zacharybosch @fhimechan @enedda-blog @isevilsomethingyouare @kquinn1712 @fluegelschatten @cxstielxngleofthelord @tiggymalvern @writingvee @superfannibalpotterhead @pragnificent @redfivewritingby @genufa @hannibalsimago @clockhearted-crocodile @rawviridianink @idfyti @katherinekrawl @maydei @teacupsmasher-blog AvenidaMK @stormygalahad @electrarhodes @moku-youbi Thaisameyka @dancey94 @magicaldestiny @mischallany @shoegazerx @mferret9 @krey9art @Rivaqah @granpappy-winchester @bamfinacuddlyjumper @red-earth-rising @barbariandiplomacy @flyingrotten @maelipie @nephila-clavipes @shootmesenpai @theseavoices @thenecronon @hanni-bunny-lecter @SophieaScruggs @sheep-in-clouds @cinabre @muffichka-art @manhandlaa @eienflower Hellsbell @hannigrammi @made-in-rivendell @reapersun @pangaeastarseed @rrimu @vampireinvitations @sparkyhero @coloredink/@mxpopsiclestix @litzibitz @softwonderbum @transylvanianshipper @mittland @trashbambi @quinnhpm @amngell @funkyracoon Celhansen @curiouscanvas @odinsssons @wisesnail @kleinefussel @miasmatik @felidfannibal @haedraulics @bibskiddo @elfarock-art @raynwater
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We will highlight the artists and writers for you in more detail in the upcoming months because we KNOW that this is a LOT of input at once. 😄
We cannot wait!!!!! We have seen some of the ideas, and we can tell you… It will be beautiful! We hope you will join us on this journey!
Tom Holland does Rihanna’s “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Battle
“Okay, do you want this amazingly trained dog that will follow your every command?
Orrrrr… that one.”
“THAT ONE!”
I love this game! :D

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Aquamarine (2006)
WATCH: Terry Crews Isn’t Afraid To Rock The Man-Purse
I fucking love Terry Crews.
He’s been so outspoken about toxic masculinity and it just gives me so much hope
Terry Crews is everything good and right with our world.
This was the moment I knew I would always love Terry Crews. Because he is shown a picture of himself with his clutch, and he says, “Women have the best ideas.” He does not go into a sloppy explanation about he’s “manly enough” to carry a purse. There’s no “I am a real man” horseshit dropped here. What he says is “Women have the best ideas.” And the rest of the story is basically, “I want to carry my own shit, and my wife always carries a purse with her own shit, so I got a purse for mine.”
Like, this is equality 101. You want to carry your own shit, grab a purse. There should be no judgement for carrying your own shit.
Terry Crews does not need our protection, but we must protect Terry Crews at all costs.
Bob Ross gets it.
You declared to the heavens that you would never fall in love. Aphrodite hereslf took it as a challenge.
it was all a trick and now Aphrodite is my gay wife
Actually, that did sort of happen.... I threw down the gauntlet and told the ‘Universe’ to find me someone. Two months later I’m engaged, and I’m still wondering... ‘how did that happen?’

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Once the children were asleep, Sajjad headed out on an urgent shopping mission. “We are Muslims and we’d never had a Christmas tree in our home. But these children were Christian and we wanted them to feel connected to their culture.”
The couple worked until the early hours putting the tree up and wrapping presents. The first thing the children saw the next morning was the tree.
“I had never seen that kind of extra happiness and excitement on a child’s face.“ The children were meant to stay for two weeks – seven years later two of the three siblings are still living with them.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/03/muslim-foster-parents-it-has-been-such-a-blessing?CMP=fb_gu
this is a beautiful article and i just want to include a few other highlights from the above family as well as another profiled:
…she focuses on the positives – in particular how fostering has given her and Sajjad an insight into a world that had been so unfamiliar. “We have learned so much about English culture and religion,” Sajjad says. Riffat would read Bible stories to the children at night and took the girls to church on Sundays. “When I read about Christianity, I don’t think there is much difference,” she says. “It all comes from God.”
The girls, 15 and 12, have also introduced Riffat and Sajjad to the world of after-school ballet, theatre classes and going to pop concerts. “I wouldn’t see many Asian parents at those places,” she says. “But I now tell my extended family you should involve your children in these activities because it is good for their confidence.” Having the girls in her life has also made Riffat reflect on her own childhood. “I had never spent even an hour outside my home without my siblings or parents until my wedding day,” she says.
Just as Riffat and Sajjad have learned about Christianity, the girls have come to look forward to Eid and the traditions of henna. “I’ve taught them how to make potato curry, pakoras and samosas,” Riffat says. “But their spice levels are not quite the same as ours yet.” The girls can also sing Bollywood songs and speak Urdu.
“I now look forward to going home. I have two girls and my wife waiting,” says Sajjad. “It’s been such a blessing for me,” adds Riffat. “It fulfilled the maternal gap.”
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Shareen’s longest foster placement arrived three years ago: a boy from Syria. “He was 14 and had hidden inside a lorry all the way from Syria,” she says. The boy was deeply traumatised. They had to communicate via Google Translate; Shareen later learned Arabic and he picked up English within six months. She read up on Syria and the political situation there to get an insight into the conditions he had left.
“It took ages to gain his trust,” she says. “I got a picture dictionary that showed English and Arabic words and I remember one time when I pronounced an Arabic word wrong and he burst out laughing and told me I was saying it wrong – that was the breakthrough.”
The boy would run home from school and whenever they went shopping in town, he kept asking Shareen when they were going back home. She found out why: “He told me that one day he left his house in Syria and when he had come back, there was no house.” Now he’s 18, speaks English fluently and is applying for apprenticeships. He could move out of Shareen’s home, but has decided to stay. “He is a very different person to the boy who first came here,” she says, “and my relationship with him is that of a mother to her son.”
What a beautifully loving family.
This makes my heart happy
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…I almost killed myself
I put on my sunglasses, to hide my swollen eyes, over my tears. I cried all my makeup off. Went inside to have a milkshake. I don’t know why. I wanted something to drink as I figured out what I would do. I got a soda and a milkshake. Medium. The cashier looked at me and with a line around the corner of the counter he rushed away from the counter “Hold on “ he yelled to a coworker.
I filled my soda and went back and saw him looking all over. I go up and he gets close and says “I made it a large”.
That was seriously enough for me not to do it. His kindness. Someone went out of their way and as I went back in my car to cry I realized I could muster through a few other days. A few more weeks. Then I came down from that panicky high of anxiety, depression, and pain. I finished my shake. And it was enough time to let me feel better. I… I’m alive. I’ll make it through.
Try and be nice today. Tomorrow. Something as much as a smile. It helped so much.
Thank you man at McDonalds.
The milkshake saved my life
I hope you all can read this and remember to be kind
The smallest of gestures can save a life. My Mum answered her phone when I called and I am alive today because of that.
I’m glad you’re here.
It’s a phone call, a milkshake, a friend.
I feel like I shouldn’t keep reblogging this but when I do more people see what kindness can do…. I don’t know. Love everyone as yourself.
Nah, keep rebloging it. It gives hope.
walked sobbing around a city once wearing a summer dress in mid-september thunder and rain. basically dragged myself into LUSH as the smell of the store always made me smile. the shop was empty and dead due to the weather, just this blonde short woman behind the counter who smiled at me. i stared at her feet and asked ‘do you have anything for people who are scared a lot?’ (i was so out of it i had no clue). she showed me two bath bombs, one pink and one blue, and said both were good - i chose the pink, paid for it and left. i then sat at a bus stop clutching the LUSH bag in one arm and my prescription meds in the other - i’d lied and ordered a refill so i could just drift away with sleeping pills. when the bus arrived and i was out of the rain, i decided to have another look at my bath bomb, smell it and what not. opened my bag and saw she’d put the blue one in there for me as well and written on the receipt ‘feel better soon :) hope you like x’.
no one had ever been so selflessly kind to me before, i didn’t know what to do with it except hang around long enough to use the other bath bomb.
Actually I’m going to reblog this again because of the truth of the inverse: think of any time you have been casually cruel or petty to someone for humor or because you weren’t in a great mood.
The power of small gestures goes both ways.
“The Favorite” by Omar Rayyan
Favorite what? Demon?!
Loving the fact that whatever it is is wearing a matching flower.
18th century Lilo and Stitch
so i looked up some of this guys other stuff and I
uh
what the fuck
sexy parrot girls yeah ok
oh look the demon has little babies
HOLY WOW IT GOT EVEN BETTER.
…Goodness.
Dearie me, what is this that just popped up on my dash.
What is that orange dragon doing? Yoga or ballet? 😱
his best!
I went to his website and he has a photo of himself:
I love??? so much???
The orange dragon thing is obviously having a spa day, damn.
We all deserve a little pampering.
I love this guy’s work :D

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How to Hook a Reader: Ten Examples of Great Opening Lines in Literature, and What They Do Right.
1. “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.”
- “Everything I Never Told You,” by Celeste Ng.
Ng’s masterpiece (which you all need to read, like, yesterday by the way) seamlessly pulls the reader under with this captivatingly cryptic opening line.
She poses several questions right off the bat (who is Lydia? Why is she dead? Who killed her?) that keep the reader captivated for the entirety of the novel.
Of course, Ng is aided in keeping the reader hooked with her immaculately crafted, three-dimensional characters, with all of whom the reader can’t help but empathize by the story’s end, but this doesn’t make her opening line any less masterful. She is, in all ways, an amazing writer.
2. “There was a boy called Eustace Clarance Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
- “Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” by C.S. Lewis.
Okay, first of all, I’d like to point out the substantial irony in a person named Clive Staples Lewis critiquing anyone else’s name. But that by no regard diminishes the comedic brilliance of this line.
Even if I hadn’t been such a Narnia fanatic as a child, this line alone would have made me want to become one. Sometimes, all you really need to do is make the audience laugh with a well-crafted joke.
3. “All this happened, more or less.”
- “Slaughterhouse-Five,” Kurt Vonnegut.
Who doesn’t love Vonnegut? Well, I might not be the most impartial person to ask about this. His absurdist sense of humor taps into something visceral in me.
Nevertheless, there’s something about this line that has a near universal appeal: it shows that the author is self aware enough not to take his work too seriously, and also shows that the work should be a lot of fun. There’s also a familial quality about it, like listening to a tall tail from a favorite relative, and creates a sense of personability that remains prevalent throughout the novel.
4. “Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.“
- “Moby Dick,” by Herman Melville.
I wanted to skip this one, I really did, if only because it’s so unanimously acknowledged as one of the best opening lines in literature. But it really is amazing.
It creates an immediate sense of conversation between narrator and reader, without being overly personable. Ishmael cuts right to the chase, and plunges us immediately in to the story at hand, like a harpoon into the blubbery flank of a wale.
Also, in context of the dramatic events of the story, I can’t help but find his casual attitude about the ordeal very amusing.
5. “If you’re reading this on a screen, fuck off. I’ll only talk if I’m gripped with both hands.”
- “Book of Numbers,” by Joshua Cohen.
This is a book that knows what it wants and is not afraid to ask for it. Cohen’s book is meta fiction at its finest, and its opening line is unabashedly reflective of its own self-awareness.
Book of Numbers isn’t for everybody, but it’s hard not to love this opening line.
6. “It was a nice day. All the days had been nice. There had been rather more than seven of them so far, and rain hadn’t been invented yet. But clouds massing east of Eden suggested that the first thunderstorm was on its way, and it was going to be a big one.”
- “Good Omens,” by Neil Gaiman and Terri Pratchett.
I’m not going to lie: Good Omens is one of my all-time favorite books. This opening line is a promise for the themes that are prevalent throughout the book: hidden depth, wit, and existential questions beneath a thick layer of upbeat, cheerful irreverence and satire.
Like the book itself, it asks serious questions without ever taking itself too seriously, and makes for an enormously fun read that will make you laugh and make you think. I highly recommend it.
7. “I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination—indeed, everything and anything except me.”
- “Invisible Man,” by Ralph Ellison.
This one is both an objectively intriguing opening line, and a potent one, when viewed in the context that Ellison himself was a Black man. Published in 1952, the line resonates with marginalized groups to this very day, and is evocative of a very real struggle – the “invisibility” – of Black Americans, then and now.
It is timelessly pertinent and powerful.
8. “The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
- “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe,” by Douglas Adams.
Oh, Douglas Adams. One of my greatest sources of literary inspiration, who taps into my sense of dry, somewhat absurdist humor like no other. I might have to make another post devoted to all of my favorite of his lines, but that’s not the point here.
This line is magnificent, because it immediately sets the tone for the novel and gives the reader a clear image of what to expect (predominantly, razor-sharp wit and satire.) It’s also short and simplistic, and very clearly doesn’t take itself too seriously, just like the novel itself.
9. “Shadow had done three years in prison. He was big enough and looked don’t-fuck-with-me enough that his biggest problem was killing time. So he kept himself in shape, and taught himself coin tricks, and thought a lot about how much he loved his wife.”
- “American Gods,” by Neil Gaiman.
This line is, in my opinion, almost perfect. It gives us an immediate image of Shadow, his personality, his values, and the challenges he’s facing, while at the same time jumping right into the action of the story without wasting the readers’ time with needless exhibitionism.
It also creates immediate interest in the story, and asks many questions that can only be answered if by continuing to read it. It’s almost as amazing as the book itself.
10. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
- “Pride and Prejudice,” by Jane Austen.
This is another one that I, for the sheer purpose of originality, wanted to avoid getting around for the purpose of this list, but there’s simply no avoiding it: this line is amazing. It’s a crime of our era that people consider Austen such a “serious” writer, when she was, in fact, possibly the greatest satirist of her time.
This line encapsulates the irreverence of this novel, as well as Austen’s razor-sharp wit and intelligence. Like most of Austen’s works, it remains a classic.
I am dying