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thanks so much for reading it!! more people need to do this!

Do you like putting this man in Situations? Do you need more Situations to put him in? Do you want him to be less of an exclusive chauffeur service and more of a bicycle?

Enter WILL GRAHAM BICYCLE BINGO, the fandom event you have not been waiting for but that has been waiting for you, stalking you, in the night, silently except for maybe a little bit of clanking from the chain, which could probably use some oil.

How to play (all steps optional):

Create a bingo card at https://bloodripelives.pythonanywhere.com/

Screenshot your bingo card for posterity

Post about your bingo card on social media

Sign up to the challenge on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/WillGrahamBicycleBingo/profile and create a prompt, linking back to the social media post with your bingo card in the description

Fill your prompt by writing Will Graham with as many of the pairings on your card as you can stand

Brag on social media about your bingo or blackout

#hannibal #will graham bicycle bingo

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posts that make me want to rip my heart out part 5

#bruh

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retired! jack crawford at disneyland realising the gay couple on the teacup ride look AWFULLY familiar

#please do this #hannibal fanart #favorite

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Hannibal 1.10 Buffet Froid

#hannibal #tv #will graham

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James Baldwin photographed by Carl Van Vechten on September 13, 1955.

#james baldwin #photography #one of my favorite writers ever <3

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1x11 || 2x13

#God #damn #i #hannibal #tv #im gonna jump

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#hannibal shitposts #will graham #absolutely

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no one wants to do it before me so i guess i have to

i decided to pair the bottom characters together in a serious yet very unserious scenario, and have a draft done. it's the stupidest, most chaotic thing i've ever written

here's the link to the bicycle bingo post that shows you how to create your own board: https://www.tumblr.com/milzumono/726148837045092352?source=share

if you want to watch me make a fool of myself, it'll be posted on https://archiveofourown.org/users/devilknives (i'll also make a comment on the work sharing some notes about the process because it was just as chaotic as the work itself)

#will graham bicycle bingo #hannibal #writing prompt #my post #hannibal fanfiction

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I've read most of your AO3 work and it's fascinating to read how you frame a variety of scenes, their significance to Will and his unexpected internal dialogue. They always throw me off in the best way!

For the ask meme, I gotta know what you have to say about II - What's a canon event that you have a strong interpretation of that might be different from the popular ones? 👀

II - What's a canon event that you have a strong interpretation of that might be different from the popular ones?

Sometimes you see something, and you want to turn it in your hand a few times. You've never seen something like this before. You hardly know what to do with it, but you have ideas. It's costly - you maybe don't buy it immediately, but you keep thinking about it, and make the decision somewhere along the way you'd like to go back for it anyway. You'll sort it out. You always do. Hannibal isn't instantly in love with Will Graham when he meets him in Jack Crawford's office. He's in love with the idea of him - malleable empathy, and the kind of man that makes when exposed to violence constantly. He's cognizant that it will be trouble for him. He thinks it will be worthwhile anyway, if he can just put Will in the right frame of mind. I know there's a lot of conversation by the people involved in the show and their post-mortem style considerations of what the motivations were in that first scene, but I honestly think Hannibal doesn't behave like a man who values Will's life for the majority of the first season. If he's in love, it's an aesthetic kind. I'm not even convinced he saw the potential for a friend until after the trip to Minnesota. Maybe not far off from what people thought when the show was coming out, but certainly not in line with how it's approached ten years later after a lot of fan speculation.

#hannibal meta #i agree very much!!!! #i also dont believe in love at first sight regardless lol

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girl you are so strange and offputting

#proud to say my hair isnt too different from hers #i wanna be her #i want her ??? #film

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Do you like putting this man in Situations? Do you need more Situations to put him in? Do you want him to be less of an exclusive chauffeur service and more of a bicycle?

Enter WILL GRAHAM BICYCLE BINGO, the fandom event you have not been waiting for but that has been waiting for you, stalking you, in the night, silently except for maybe a little bit of clanking from the chain, which could probably use some oil.

How to play (all steps optional):

Create a bingo card at https://bloodripelives.pythonanywhere.com/

Screenshot your bingo card for posterity

Post about your bingo card on social media

Sign up to the challenge on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/WillGrahamBicycleBingo/profile and create a prompt, linking back to the social media post with your bingo card in the description

Fill your prompt by writing Will Graham with as many of the pairings on your card as you can stand

Brag on social media about your bingo or blackout

#can someone else do this first so i dont feels so insecure #thanks

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#w.g. core

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Will is so touched starved that he leans into Hannibal even if it hurts, even if Hannibal is the one causing the pain. Even after a knife gouged through his belly and a bullet shot through his shoulder, he cling to Hannibal as long as Hannibal lets him, for as long as Hannibal holds him, too. Because even if it hurts, even if his nerves are screaming and begging, pain is still touch. Pain still livens the flesh and awakens the senses, it still invigorates the part of Will that has been aching, begging for touch for so long. Even if the pain is unbearable, it is something, because touch reminds us we’re alive. and even without words, Will knows Hannibal’s love comes with violence, and his violence comes with love, the two inseparably blurred. and to be held by loving hands means being bitten by violent ones, too. And it is still all worth it, even if only for a moment, just for the chance to be held at all.

#hannibal meta #HES SO MEEEEEE

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#will is neither a cold blooded killer #nor an innocent or 'virtuous' person #what makes him so interesting #is that he's capable of profound compassion and understanding of others #from a genuine place as we see from his rare smile #he so easily and intrisincally knows how to make others feel less alone #never insinuating that they need to change #while still being very much capable of cruelty #when he FEELS its just #whether it actually is is more questionable #and his killing style is a lot more brutal and animalistic than hannibal's #when he does kill he puts everything he has into the act itself #all of these traits make him more unpredictable and arguably more frightening than hannibal #i wish we had more scenes demonstrating his ability to comfort #and it shows that he too craves to be comforted #and not feel so other #there is not yet a name for whatever will graham is #extreme acts of cruelty require a high degree of empathy #will graham #tv #shit i have a lot to say about

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paltry is the passion that never makes us shudder. true love partakes of terror

Paradiso, Dante Alighieri // Die For Me, Luke Jennings // Hannibal 2x12, "Tome-wan" // No Tomorrow, Luke Jennings // Hannibal 2x10, "Naka-choko" // Die For Me // Hannibal 1x02, "Amuse-bouche" // Die For Me // Hannibal 3x05, "Contorno"

#all of these lines are so beautiful #i should read the ke books #killing eve #hannibal #writing #parallels

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#..... #Yeah #hannibal #will graham #tv

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i do think there exists a balance in trying to make sense of abigail in the narrative, it’s hard to neatly define her, reduce her to a set of influences, good or evil. she was the bait for the minnesota shrike, she didn’t enjoy what she was allowing her father to do but she was driven to do so out of self-preservation. so it would make sense that we see her as a victim.

but i hesitate to say that’s all she is; abigail’s conversation with will about how killing her dad made will feel powerful, or hannibal digging up garret jacob hobbs so abigail could slit his throat and indulge in her power fantasy, or even her gutting nick boyle when he hardly is threatening, all point to the fact that the “traumatized victim in need of shelter” is a mask played up for the adults in her new life, it made people lenient with her, excuse the holes in her story and defend her outright (alana), cover up her crimes and lie to the law (will).

in a way abigail’s motivations are very similar to will’s: they crave normalcy, while knowing there is absolutely no way they could possibly have it. will because of his empathy disorder and abigail because she was part of the hunt, she knows where the meat served on the dinner table came from. abigail panicked when she killed nick boyle, but never really expressed guilt over it after the fact (she is fearful of the consequences, but her sense of self-preservation and safety is more important than justice or general morality). they are resentful towards what unmasked them, what exposes the not-quite-human underneath. the more they try to conceal and hide their impulses, the more their mask slips.

#yeah this is complicated but there's definitely something about abigail that makes me feel uneasy and this may be why #v interesting #hannibal meta