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Fresh Meat Friday is about celebrating our love of all things Hannibal. All you have to to do is rec a new or little-known author/artist/creator.

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We’re rounding up all the recs and posting them to our dedicated blog. And, so that everyone rec’d gets a chance to be fully appreciated, we’d like to ask you to REC ONLY ONE PERSON PER FRESH MEAT FRIDAY.

When you’re thinking about who to rec, try to aim for someone you don’t see talked about a lot or someone who you think deserves more chatter. More love! Every time you post, focus on someone new!

I am so excited for the return of @freshmeatfriday. It is such a wonderful resource for the fandom that I am constantly referring to for those hidden gems.

This month I am honored to rec a Spacedogs story by @stratumgermanitivum I dare you to read this story and not smile. I triple dog dare you! 

In this story Nigel decides that the best way to win Adam’s affections is to bestow on him beautiful and thematic (Space!) gifts...or so he thinks. The only problem is, Nigel is really bad at this. Really, really bad. As the story progresses you can’t help but marvel at Nigel’s horrible taste. This story is such a Nigel showcase. We all know that he’s violent and foul mouthed but he’s also hopelessly smitten with Adam. It’s that contrast that makes him so appealing when paired with Adam. Spacedogs is the pairing I always turn to when I need a pick me up and this story a prime example of what gifted writers can craft they decide to play in the Spacedogs sandbox. 

This month I am reccing Proximity by @victorineb. 

I meant to rec this a couple months ago, but I am so bad at remembering when FMF has rolled around. 

This Dazed Korea spread (featuring a fannibal flower crown worn in an iconoclastic manner) goes out to @avegetariancannibal in thanks for the fanfic: 

Hot Plastic 

–a hot and spunky Hannigram combining the fetish potential of plastic murder suits and onomatopoeia sex. Definitely on the menu in my kink bistro. Can we get another round?

Photo: Peter Ash Lee, Dazed Korea, August 2016

She Lives on Love Street

There follows a proud, perfect beat. “I can’t sleep,” Abigail offers in time, “my bed’s on fire.” To his credit, Will tries to keep the smile in, but he just ends up looking like a man with a mouthful of pliers trying to stop his teeth from coming out.

And going with the fics with less than 100 kudos, I’ve chosen -

Pastel by pinksunset Explicit // M/M // Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter / Will Graham/Molly Hooper // Tags: Adultery, Pastel Hannibal, Hannibal is a Cannibal, Based on a Tumblr Post, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Heterosexual Sex, Character Death - Molly eventually, Stalking, Manipulation, Car Sex Summary: flyingrotten’s pastel Hannigram with a darker twist. Words: 2,337 Chapters: 2/? 

This has a lot of things I’d normally not go for. I don’t read that many WIPs these days as I just already have a few I’m trying to balance and not a lot of time to read. I wouldn’t ever normally read adultery, in fact from the tags I’m not sure this would be my thing at all. But I was intrigued by the mention of pastel Hanni (which I love) and decided to give it a shot. 

And woah boy, I’m hooked. I am on the edge of my seat having no idea where this is going to go. And it’s just so compelling. I love the way they write Molly, and even more so the relationship between her and Will that I’m seriously worried about having my heart broken even though I don’t ship them. But I just have to see how this all plays out. Especially now the Molly dies tag has been added! Oh my. 

I have my own ideas on where I hope this will go, which are probably about 150% fluffier than they actually will, lol. And I’m not sure I’m even going to be able to handle where this goes and yet... I’m hooked and loving it. If that doesn’t make a fic worth reccing, I don’t know what does! 

I have always been particularly enamored by stories that would never ever occur to me, rooted in the real as I am- Hannibal as actual octopus, as cecaelian, as wolf, as mushroom king. Will as steampunk android, as selkie, as hungry ghost, as xenomorph. Gruesome and rotting zombie!Abigail leading Will and his revenant dogs through a secret dystopian landscape to find the king of hell… I am 1000% here for all such magical monstrosity, such monster husbands, as @wellntruly might say.

Accordingly… I highly recommend boycoffin http://archiveofourown.org/users/boycoffin/pseuds/boycoffin (Tumblr name unknown)- not a new writer, but completely new to me- found through @bayareafannibals on Twitter. (Thank you!)

Read if i tell you i love you for its exquisitely textured backstory about the Beau Morgue nightclub and gorgeous prose- “the dark water looked like a thousand fists, swinging and punching at the sides of their little boat” - and eggs, for its prose- “carve away the uncut quartz of the afternoon “- and its truly bizarre beauty. In eggs, the writer went all in on a “weird Lithuanian mushroom fairies” mythology and it is tremendously interesting.