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Life imitates art

Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1883 - 1885) - Ilya Repin

Damage (1992) - Dir. Louis Malle

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thinking about nbc hannibal taking lines from will’s son in the book and giving them to abigail

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au where will opens the letter hannibal sent him in 3x08 and it’s just this

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If Will or Hannibal smoked, no one would be able to handle the homoerotic tension of them lighting the other’s cigarette.

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Hannibal hoped that Will didn’t chose to run away with him because of Abigail, just like Hades hoped that Persephone didn’t chose to stay because of the pomegranate seeds.

#it’s just a silly idea I suddenly came up with #please forgive me if this makes nonsense #hannibal #hannibal nbc #nbc hannibal #will graham #hannibal lecter #hannigram #murder husbands #hannibal x will #hades #persephone #hades x kore #hades x persephone #mizumono #hannibal s2

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may i present you

penguin pingu classics

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okay but Will asking Bedelia if Hannibal's in love with him... at first i was like, well duh, how did it take you this long to figure out? but then i realised he's asking for confirmation of what he already knows, and having a moment of realisation; not about the fact that Hannibal is in love with him, but about what that means for Will. his response to Bedelia asking but do you ache for him? is everything- the way the question hangs in the air, the last thing we see being his face against a black background with an unchanged expression... it all speaks volumes without him having to say anything at all; yes, despite everything Hannibal has done, Will aches for him. and this is where it hits him that he is never getting out of this, he's never going to be able to go back to how things used to be, and he has an impossible choice to make- he can give in to Hannibal, fully embrace the dark side of himself, and never be able to live a normal life again, or he can kill Hannibal to get his old life back. except he can't do either of those things, because as Bedelia said, Will can't live with him, can't live without him. so in the end, he chooses to throw himself off the cliff with Hannibal; a way for them to be together and end it all at the same time. and so they are forever entwined, whether they live or die.

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thinking about abigail’s character again and I think the way point of view is handled in nbc hannibal is really interesting when you’re trying to understand her character, since a lot of what we see is filtered through either will’s misplaced attachment to her or hannibal’s projections. it’s hard to see abigail’s true self and/or nature because half of what we see is unreliable. like, will refuses to think she was the bait and so we, the audience, also believe this to be true, even though when it’s revealed she actually was the bait it makes all the sense in the world. but it’s still shocking to us because our perception of her is warped as a consequence of being in will’s pov most of the time. not only that, but the nature of this reveal is arguably softened later on when will dreams he’s teaching abigail how to fish in s2a, and literally names his bait after her because of how much he “cherishes” her

all of this is to say in a show that’s all about identity and revealing (and understanding) the self, and the grotesque connection between will and hannibal, who are understood by no one but each other, abigail’s character is super interesting as a means to explore the layers of how people falsely perceive us. she’s complex because she’s not the innocent person will (or alana for that matter) perceives her to be, but she’s also not the ruthless murderer that hannibal (or again, jack) hopes she is. she’s just a traumatised kid who was raised by a psychopathic cannibal. not only that, but she’s the unwilling victim of both her surrogate father’s projections. first will, who projects his need for comfort, family, and acceptance onto her, as well as the hope that his morality is still intact, all factors which are complicated when he confuses his sense of self with the identity of garret jacob hobbs. and evidently by murdering him, and leaving abigail orphaned, feelings of shame and guilt also influence the nature of his projections. but then you have hannibal, who projects his attachment to mischa onto her, as well as his grief. and like will, this is all complicated by his own human need for comfort, family, and acceptance

but if you peel all that away, and get to the core of it, the key similarity between will and hannibal’s projections is a want for acceptance, and then forgiveness, which, as we see in s3, is synonymous to love. essentially, these are two characters who are undoubtedly monstrous, yet retain their humanity due to that universal longing to love and be loved, in whatever twisted form they are capable

I mean, the whole concept of the murder family is so sad because I think it reveals how damaged both will and hannibal are, beyond the show’s literal gothic horror. cannibalism, bloodshed, manipulation, playing the devil, grotesque thoughts and fantasies concerning murder, etc are all obvious reasons why these characters are fucked up mentally, but that’s also a consequence of the genre. to me, the true horror of the show is very much embedded in the psychological, and how will and hannibal are so lonely and isolated that they would wish to have this family circle “in some other world” because they thought they’d found someone who also understood them, someone they could nurture and take care of. but, as we know, this is all an illusion. will repeatedly says he thinks he’d make a good father, but he’s self-destructive and so is hannibal, and so it’s no wonder abigail dies the way that she does. she never had a chance with them. if anything, if she represents the self we project onto others, a fantasy standing in the way of the truth of our natures, which is shaped by human frailty, then her death is also the death of these idealistic delusions. it’s why in s3a, when will is still desperately trying to hold onto her, she’s nothing more than a ghost. and it’s why when he finally accepts this he goes to hannibal’s childhood estate, because, as he tells him when they reunite in the gallery, “I wanted to understand you, before I laid eyes on you again. I needed it to be clear, what I was seeing”

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Lestat & Hannibal:

the fancy dressed and artistic blonde Europeans are virtuoso on piano (and never shut up)

so gay and afraid to be left alone that they tried to lure their partners into darkness by framing them for murder

tried to babytrap them with an adopted daughter with murder talents

planned to fled to Europe to start a new life with their big gay family

clowns that don’t want their partners to have anything in their life that is not themselves, thus tried to ruin everything including their own lives

glasslight gatekeep girlbosses

classy pansexual devils:)

Louis and Will:

the quiet and tolerant brunet with great potential to murder

had enough of their partners’ dramatic ass

suffered the death of their adopted daughters after betraying the blonde

disaster bi:)

#hannibal #hannibal nbc #nbc hannibal #will graham #hannibal lecter #hannigram #murder husbands #hannibal x will #interview with the vampire #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #iwtv #gay

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Will: Do you know what you and Jarslberg cheese have in common?

Hannibal, thinking to himself: European, buttery, firm, clean and rich, slightly sweet, creamy

Hannibal: What, my love? :)

Will: nice holes :)

Hannibal:

#i just 👁👄👁

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Dangerous Liaisons 1988

“You'll find the shame is like the pain, you only feel it once.”

#dangerous liaisons #movies #idk what tags to use bc this is the first time i post something like this #dangerous liaisons 1988 #the color sucks pls don’t mind #mine #cecile and madam de tourvel deserve so much better #glenn close #john malkovich #michelle pfeiffer #uma thurman #keanu reeves #movie edit

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this description of will graham

#exactly

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still waiting for the day for fannibals to use this pic.

#its nearly nine years #just three more years *sips human blood* #hannibal #hannibal nbc #nbc hannibal #save hannibal #hannibal s4 #will graham #hannibal lecter #hannigram #murder husbands #hannibal x will #mads mikkelsen

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will graham, your hair looks sexy pushed back. 

#HANNIBAL X MEANGIRLS

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cried bc i suck at time management

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Tristan being hot and elegant:

Me trying to be like him:

nearly slice my thumb offˊˇˋ

#its an avocado thaaanks #tristan #king arthur 2004 #mads mikkelsen