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Hey I know this is the time of month when everyone is ebegging but my husband just had surgery and hasn’t been able to work since February and we are literally $20 short on our phone bill. Things should be sorted out next month when he gets back to work but our account is overdrafted and I don’t want to have to pay a bajillion fees on literally $19.46 until I get paid on the first

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This is the actual plot of Hannibal

#literally

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#help me and my friends decide #hannibal #hannibal lecter #nbc hannibal #hannibal nbc

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“i don’t get hannibal lecter” it’s about being the worst person in the world and yet someone still loves you despite it and it’s about convincing yourself you’re fine living your life alone and never truly connecting with anyone until someone comes along and you realize you could never live without them now and it’s about caring about someone so deeply that all you want now is for them to truly see you and it’s about how your devotion is so crushing and deep that you’d go to lengths of even self-destruction just to keep them around so you can keep loving them. “but he’s a cannibal” lol yeah

#exactly

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valentines art for the least romantic men ever

#oof I love this #Hannibal on a leash!!! #hannibal

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Guess who’s watching the gay cannibals in the year of our lord 2024

#it’s true this is the show #hannibal

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Saw @techutones redrew this and I just had too that meme is too funny.

#beautiful #hannibal

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the funniest thing abt hannibal fans on this site is the way ppl will post screenshots from the show and be like "HIS SLIME 😍😍😍" and the picture is mads mikkelsen looking like this

#reblog if you love his slime <3 #hannibal

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Will Graham's batshit leaps in deduction are so much more valid and interesting than BBC Sherlock's so called reasoning. Sherlock would go on some pouty big brain tirade about how the killer is clearly the cousin based off the imprint of the dust layer and the way he turns on lamps meaning he has a meth habit and a need to kill or smth whilst our boy Will Graham just stares off into space, starts vibrating and perspiring like a wet excitable dog and then simply announces terrifying shit like "had to cut you open to get a decent sound out of you... anyway the killer is a violin stringer"

#will graham superiority

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brb gotta to go splash water on my face in the mens bathroom and look haggardly at myself in the mirror

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love myself a cockroach of a character. i look at them and go ”how is that fucker not dead? they should be dead. they should be dead ten times over. how are they not?” and 90% of the time the answer is a combo of sheer stubborness and homosexuality

#frederick chilton

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a secret chord

4k | pwp | queeshmael

a little interlude in the inn the night after our boys agree to be each other’s one and only

These two have been rattling around in my brain for ages but seeing you guys posting your whale weekly stuff made me inspired to write a little thing about them for the first time!

#idk if any of y’all are into Moby dick but I have a bigger reach here and I’m a needy bitch #read my gay whaler porn lmao

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Will Graham's whole thing with Alana is so fucking autistic at every turn. She has to lay out exactly what's going on for him because he can't not know, but he also just can't tell (which like... fair! She's being really confusing! Even she doesn't know what she wants!)

Of course he's going to feel more at ease with Hannibal - the man is so fucking consistent because he's trained himself to be placid.

Then there's also this autistic slant to Hannibal, because he's made his set of rules and he fucking sticks to it (and plainly insists that others stick to it as well, or else). He's great at social situations, but mainly those in highly structured settings like concerts or therapy sessions. He rarely shows facial emotions unless he's actively projecting something, and you can't tell me that the food thing isn't some kind of sensation seeking. Killing people is basically just a special interest. He dresses the same no matter the situation. He's got a vinyl murder onesie to keep himself clean.

Does Hannibal meet the diagnostic criteria for ASD? Absolutely not. But have you ever seen two autistic people who've known each other for long enough that all of their conversations are unintelligible to outsiders? That talk in collaborative run-on sentences and beat metaphors to death? Yeah, Will and Hannibal are sure as shit autistic with each other, even if Hannibal doesn't meet the criteria alone.

And like, we can all agree that they're both masking, yes? Will in the standard autistic way, and Hannibal in the person-suit way, but both definitely constructing their person-ness based on what they see as normal-enough-to-get-away-with. They use the people around them as their reference points for how to react to things. So shove Will and Hannibal in a room together and wait a week, and they'll both come out with the same mask. That's just season 2, honestly. Let these two get under each others' skin and they'll try to wear it. It's like flirting to them.

#it’s definitely flirting to them!!! #and yeah whether Hannibal is Autistic™ or not he’s definitely not…. neurotypical #and a lot of his behaviors are autism-adjacent particularly with how he relates to others and Will especially #as a certified autistic I endorse this post wholeheartedly #hannibal #meta

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I tend to lose a bit of focus in Fromage, because Hannibal and Will are each playing their long games, and I don't find Tobias Budge interesting. Maybe I would if he wasn't just another mirror for Hannibal. Maybe even as a mirror, I'd like him more if we hadn't just finished 2 other episodes with Ripper copycats.

Tobias is just... too esoteric in his aims. He kills for art, sure, but doesn't care about the performance. He's an artist who keeps all of his masterpieces hidden in his basement. I generally detest people who think that only they can properly appreciate a piece of art, and Tobias seems like one of those people. At least Hannibal has that line about "it's not what you enjoy, but how". But Tobias? He bores me. He's just an elitist asshole who stays friends with Franklyn to make himself feel superior. It's bland narcissistic behaviour.

Even Will's trial-by-fire isn't super interesting until we get to see Hannibal's reaction to it. We know that he just - impulsively - pointed Will towards the serial killer who had a plan to kill every agent he encountered. But Will had just kissed Alana, and Tobias had just got away, and Franklyn had been pissing him off for weeks, and Hannibal pulls a move while he's in emotional shambles.

We know that Will must survive Tobias (this was well before the "kill your leads" trope became common in shows), but Hannibal has no sweet clue what he's done. You can see it as he looks around his office after the fight. Hannibal is a predator, and very used to killing people, but Tobias' death was a hard-won victory. And Hannibal knows that Will is sick, hallucinating, and unused to fighting someone who has nothing to lose.

For a few seconds, he honestly thinks he might have killed Will. I don't believe for a second that Hannibal wouldn't have rationalized his way out of guilt and grief. But killing Will wasn't something he actually wanted to do. I think he sent Will to the den of a snake, knowing that his mongoose would be able to handle himself. It's only when Will actually walks through the door - and Hannibal feels the relief of knowing he's survived - that he really understands just how much he nearly fucked up.

No Will means no friend means no possible future where he gets to prove that he's different from someone like Franklyn. Hannibal's whole self-image is tied up so tightly with his expectations for Will that he can't separate Will's fate from his own anymore.

(And I honestly think this is the moment that Hannibal realizes that he's in love. It's not even their most meaningful conversation, but it's the moment that Hannibal has to face a world without Will - and decides he doesn't want it. That he's going to keep Will alive.

Not necessarily healthy or free of suffering, but definitely alive.)

#god that moment where Will sits on his desk and Hannibal looks up at him with tears in his eyes #if they’d included the bit in the script where Will touches his face there I think we’d all have died #but yeah. when Will walks in #that’s when Hannibal gets punched in the gut by being In Love #idk if he put the name to it then but he understood it was more than he’d been thinking #hannibal #meta

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Franklyn makes Hannibal so uncomfortable and he hates this little cheese man so much.

Dan Fogler is a master for acting this character in such a smarmy and unsympathetic way - and he does it without making Franklyn actively evil or mean. There's just this undercurrent of piteous desperation in everything he does, and he's so obviously dysfunctional in a way that is deeply repellent to viewers.

For Hannibal, it's worse. Hannibal is canny enough to recognize another human who constantly wears a 'person suit'. He watches Franklyn craft himself a persona from their conversations, from his own preferences, moulding himself into a perfect friend for Hannibal. Franklyn has such an ego, and thinks that where the world failed a famous man, he - in his infinite capacity for support and friendship - could succeed. But in crafting his person suit to perfectly fit his therapist's tastes, he makes himself repugnant to Hannibal.

Franklyn is doing to Hannibal what Hannibal is trying to do for Will - he wants to make himself into Will's anchor, to get behind his walls and touch greatness, to be his saviour (in a way) and show Will his true potential.

And yet Franklyn is objectively pitiable.

Which means Hannibal, seeing his actions played out by this small man, has to grapple with the fact that he is also a small and desperate creature. He is also pitiable.

This is the same episode where Will talks about the Chesapeake Ripper as an insignificant thing that should not have been born and can never really be a person - no matter how hard it tries. He talks about the Ripper's person suit as an extrapolation - something that must exist because how else would he have evaded capture - but what Will sees in that moment is the Ripper.

Will takes so much longer to figure out Hannibal because he gives Hannibal his trust so early on in the series. He isn't looking too deeply below Hannibal's facade (which I firmly think he sees) because he trusts that there is something behind it that vaguely resembles a person. Hannibal gets all the credit for seeing that Will has a cruel streak, but Will also sees parts of Hannibal that (almost) no one else has spotted - mainly, that he holds himself firmly apart from people, even as he charms them.

And Will is completely right. Hannibal is so lonely that he goes to find Will when he doesn't show up to an appointment. He has been confronted with his own loneliness through Franklyn, while at the same time needing to shore up his identity as the Chesapeake Ripper after two copycat kills. Sorbet is all about Hannibal's identity crisis working in opposition to his desire to make Will Graham his friend.

That's also what Bedelia sees when she calls out Hannibal's person suit/human veil. Like yeah, she'll have a glass of rose and a nice conversation with him, because she honestly does like the character Hannibal's been puppeting for years. But she knows it's a shadow play. She knows that they may be friendly, but friendship requires knowing Hannibal. Bedelia peeked beneath that veil - once, at her most vulnerable moment - and she never forgets that the person suit is tailored for a lonely predator. She never forgets that the only way he was able to truly connect with her was to manipulate her into killing.

Bedelia's place in all this is so interesting to me, because for a little while she is the audience surrogate. She has the same knowledge of Hannibal's character as any viewer who grew up with The Silence of the Lambs. Later she becomes a participatory character (until Hannibal makes her a surrogate for Will), but in the beginning she exists to help show the watcher what they already know. She reaffirms - in a time when Will and Jack are becoming untethered from their realities - that what the viewer knows about Hannibal is true. Bedelia is the viewer's anchor in this narrative, up until the point she chooses to disappear from it.

Though she knows better than to clearly say as much, I think she hears about Franklyn and knows exactly why Hannibal wants nothing to do with him.

#very true very true #hannibal #franklyn froideveaux #meta

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you can love someone and still murder them in cold blood without remorse btw!!! the two are not mutually exclusive and to suggest otherwise is a very heteronormative point of view!!!!

#too true

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I know I said I was done doing this and I really really thought I was but of course debt builds more debt (shakes fist at el capitalismo) and to get through this month it looks like we ended up $233.99 short to fully catch up on our internet and electric bills, which we had been granted quite a bit of grace on due to everything else that’s been going on.

It would probably not have been the end of the world if we hadn’t been able to make that up but unfortunately the electric bill payment went through after I thought it wasn’t going to and now I’m overdrafted by $51.21

So: low goal is $60 to cover the overdraft so I don’t get charged Mega Fees before I get paid again on the first and high goal is $250 so we can get out of the hole altogether!!

short version: my roommate, my husband and I are all queer and disabled and we were mostly out of work from June to September and getting back on our feet has been rough

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#sorry ://