#about to drop out for real

[love-songs-for-emma]

will graham's aftershave (deragatory)? or (affectionate)?

so many fics mention hannibal ""hating"" will's aftershave, especially when writing from hannibal's POV & showing his inner monologue (which props to yall for having the guts to even Attempt his POV), but tbh?? i don't think hannibal cares abt will's aftershave, let alone hates it

in coquilles (01x05), hannibal does his infamous will graham Sniff and the following convo ensues:

"Did you just smell me?"

"Difficult to avoid... I really must introduce you to a finer aftershave. That smells like something with a ship on the bottle."

"Well, I keep getting it for Christmas."

which, upon a first watch-through is surely meant to be overlooked as a silly mundane lil interaction. however,, we shouldn't be so quick to gloss over this interaction given what we already know about hannibal's sense of smell (*a major plot point of this episode AND season one in its entirety*) at this point in the ep

earlier in the episode, hannibal has jack and bella over for dinner and hannibal is able to name bella's exact perfume just by being in her immediate vicinity. this prompts hannibal to recollect a memory from childhood where he "was aware one of [his] teachers had stomach cancer even before he was."

it's extremely significant that hannibal brings up being able to smell illnesses. he does it on purpose. he knows bella is an intelligent woman and that just from sharing this childhood story alone, she knows he can smell her lung cancer and he knows that she will come to him to talk about it (because who else could she turn to? certainly not jack, she makes that clear). bella plays exactly into hannibal's hand; another pawn for the taking in his funky lil games, especially his favorite one at the time: torturing the head of the FBI in whatever ways possible.

but we don't know why she goes to hannibal when we first see her with him and we don't know what's up with her either (in fact, we're mislead into believing she's having an affair, which is an extremely interesting choice of parallel for her terminal illness, but that's a post for another time). when we do find out she has cancer, the scene that follows is The Sniff Scene!!

so let's take a moment to collect what we know going into The Sniff Scene: we're told "hannibal can smell diseases." then, "bella crawford has come to him for psychiatric help." soon after, we discover she has cancer. and then? we cut to hannibal visibly smelling will. visibly enough that Will notices the action and calls him on it!

and i'd like to argue that This is the moment hannibal first smells the "fevered sweetness" of Encephalitis on will that he later mentions in buffet froid (01x10) to dr. sutcliffe. it took one Big Whiff and hannibal knew will was seriously ill. and he was delighted

meaning that hannibal's follow up of "I really must introduce you to a finer aftershave. That smells like something with a ship on the bottle" isn't just hannibal being a rich uptight weirdo, making fun of will for wearing old spice. but rather it's his attempt to divert will's attention away from The Sniff itself and normalize his strange behavior ("Difficult to avoid [smelling you]... [when you smell like that]") he turns the action back on will, makes him think about his own scent, almost self-consciously. hannibal wants to distract will in whatever way possible, whether it be by making will reflect on his choice of aftershave or by leading him to believe hannibal is a stuffy puffy fancy human who only wears thousand dollar cologne. but *we know* it's not remotely about that!

and when you consider that this was more about hannibal scenting will for illness than anything else, his "sudden" change of topic to will's well-being no longer appears strange or like it's just the set up to a joke:

"Have your headaches been any worse lately? More frequent?"

"Yes, actually."

"I'd change the aftershave."

hannibal *is* a comedy, yes, and the viewer/will are meant to see this as a funny little exchange of banter. but a second watch-through of the show allows us to look through hannibal's eyes and see all the pieces being set on the board. he's checking in on will's headaches to confirm he's still ill and worsening after scenting what he did on him

tldr; hannibal's aftershave comment was purely a diversion meant to prevent will from inquiring further about why he was smelling him. no way in hell was he going to reveal his cards about scenting him for illness. and once we've established this, i'd say hannibal's response was mostly him grasping at straws for an answer will would accept or move on from. i don't think he even remotely cares abt will's aftershave. or if he does, i'd argue that he actually likes how will smells (considering he cant seem to get tf out of will's personal space🥰🥰)

#i bet this lovesick idiot secretly ordered a bottle to sniff when will was in prison #smhh #real simp hours for #hannibal lecter #can't get enough of his #will graham #like if he rlly h8d how he smelled why tf would be breathing down will's neck 24/7 #tldr; this comment the fandom focuses on is ~meaningless~ #its something some fic writers cling to as a Fact of the show without thinking twice #bc hey! there it is! in the text! #which is completely fine & understandable but i just think this is a common misconception that i'd like to open the convo about #plus fic writing is hard. understanding a character is hard. of course some ppl will parrot mostly what's been said ''in canon'' whether or #not its In Character of the character. who has time to unpack shish like this! me. thats it. im dropping out & this is all i do #hannibal meta #nbc hannibal #hannibal #hannibal s1 #mads mikkelsen #hugh dancy #that smells like something with a ship on the bottle #hannigram #hannibal fic #hannibal fanfic #fanfiction #jack crawford #coquilles #buffet froid #maria is literally just rambling. hi #.txt #hannibal.txt

[mushroom-winners-proof]

“sora’s a little...”

#kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts dream drop distance #kh #kh ddd #riku #snap sketches #me really sittin here like 'naw go on are you gonna roast him or say somethin sweet' it's always either/or and i genuinely love it so much #i dont mean to draw riku Most Of The Time it just happens to be like that #anyways im just about finished with DDD but i thought This Lil Moment was sweet #'lil moment' is Actually an overstatement it's like half a second long LMAO #still what i really like about riku actually like. Being There is that we get to see him as himself- like Obviously Right #but it's also sweet just seeing how he thinks of sora (and how he reflects on himself but thats a diff post) #like i could prob make a post about it in whole but yeah they're just real sweet and i love how they always talk highly of each other #anyway im off to finish ddd i just needed to do schoolwork but figured id scribble this out while i was at my computer

[watermelonsverything]

Some Visorless Ninja Boyfriends for myself

They are SO PERFECT for each other it HURTS

#new job tomorrow and im nervous as hell #and i am THIS CLOSE to dropping nearly eveyone i know in real life out of hatred so i needed to stall #im isolated and angry as fuck at the world so i NEED fluff or ill rip someone i care about apart #heres to a NEW YEAR #jazz #prowl #jazz/prowl #transformers #tfa #transformers animated #maccadam #i just want tired jazz and prowl to curl up on the livingroom couch in an empty base and maybe watch movies is that is that to much to ask #jazzprowl #night ninjas

[argiopi]

effective immediately I will be living with the manhole spiders.

Big skyrim cistern vibes down here does anyone wanna establish an underground society.

#personal #urbex #photography #(?? i am putting it with the 1 beetle pic on my blog.) #spiders #tw claustrophobia #tw unsanitary #<-NOT A SEWER just a storm drain pipe. just rainwater & street runoff but you don't know what the street washed in. #Regardless I will be claiming my title as sewer rat. I unlocked it; MMO-style. #it rained yesterday so it was real damp! got soaked crawling through the pipe to get to that manhole! #i showered & put on clean clothes & washed my phone case. i am now cw sanitary. #...a rove beetle fell out of my hair when i got home. #Oh the spiders (not that you can see them well) are-> #Larinioides carnutus #fucking huge motherfuckers i looked up and realized I Am Not Alone (i'm with friends!) #I entered through the first pipe in the vid; didn't go into the second one because it looked too narrow #(you may notice they are nearly the same diameter. tight in there!) Second pipe was about 5ft off the floor for reference #second one went out to a storm drain grate; i could see daylight coming in; would have been fun to see what people dropped in there haha #posting live from the royal waterways. thanks Fly that was a good one #SOME OF YOU HAVE ASKED WHY. WHAT ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO DO FOR FUN? PLAY VIDEO GAMES? #..also thanks to folks who expressed concern on that post a couple(?) weeks ago that meant a lot 👉👈 #I am okay & back on my bullshit <3 #i'm rating drain pipes as safer than half-frozen swamps. who knew! #i'm putting this in the urbex tag because I peeked at it last night when I was contemplating doing this and it's all reposted shit. #where are the tumblr users who see a hole in the ground and crawl in. i know you're in here. #Wanted to add this as reblog on post from the pipes but tumblr haates putting videos in reblogs. couldn't get it to show. tragic u_u #sorry for being a freak on main do you still think i'm hot <3

[prettyboykatsuki]

one thing ive learned about myself is as soon as i have an idea i have to shut up about it or it’s not gonna get written. it’s some weird reverse psychology shit so i just have a thought and go !!!!!!!!!!!!! and no one can know until it’s complete

#aristotle.txt #heres al life update #i gotta apply to summer classes soon since ive oficially decided to go to college after much misery #ive applied for so many scholarships i think my hands are going numb #I MADE A SILLY PROGRAM IN PYTHON THE OTHER DAY AND IT RAN SUPER SMOOTHLY AFTER STARING AT IT FOR HOURS AND HOURS #im taking life very slowly and i think it feels like im behind my peers but it's necessary to do things at a pace i can maintain #there's a job i might apply to but im lowk being delusional about it so we'll see.. if not w/e #OH i realize ive been in a depressive episode for like deadass 3 years the other. that was tough #BTW when i say college i am in college but i like decided to not drop out after some time #gonna be real i think you'll see more of me during summer than ever before #i hope life improves iA and i would appreciate everyones good faith #one day at a time

[k3nm4luv]

loona debuted 16 times in bankrupt with top tier songs

#and rich agency groups can't debut ONCE with a decent song #sorry i just can't get over nmixx debut #it can't be real #jyp thought they ate that 💀 #their ass thought they were the next level worthy opponent #they just want to make some world stopping duality concept but mess up everything #what about sitting yo ass in front of the computer and compose a whole song structure with actual words ????? #im just using loona as an exemple tho not trying to use this as an excuse to praise them #bc is not like jyp producers are trying to make a good and enjoyable song bc they actually can if they try #the producers are trying to smash whatever they have on sight in hope to make the new great thing #i have a deep knowledge in music and is easy to point it out #all loona debuts were deeply organized from instrumental to lyrics #even hi high and one and only that are often called the worst of them were well done #you don't see filling layers and words like a whole verse or chorus like zoom zoom boink #sticker was more organized than whatever o.o is #i feel bad for the girls because it's obvius they didn't train for this #it was so bad that the members didn't stand out #they seem to sing anti-drop songs with mid tones other than just shouting a catch-phrase with an onomatopoeia in the end #god bless their little hearts

[harvestmoth]

yo, does anyone wanna hear about my sanarella au that ive had sitting in my brain for months now

#its just been collecting dust like all of my other au things but #here you go #magia record #magireco #iroha tamaki #sana futaba #irosana #basically sana runs away from the castle and runs into iroha in the market in the nearby village #and something something they spend most of the day together #when it starts to get dark sana remembers ‘oh yeah im not supposed to be here’ and quickly runs back to the castle after saying bye to iroha #who then finds something on the ground that sana drops and hopes she’ll see her again #then uhh something something they keep meeting up frequently for a few months #then the kings hosts a ball and invites the local villagers to it with iroha’s family convincing her to go #(‘come on iroha! maybe that mystery girl you keep talking about will be there!’ ‘i dont talk about her that much.. do i?’) #and she goes and finds out sana is actually the princess and asks her why she never told her #and something something sana tells her she was worried something something iroha realizes why sana kept trying to run way something #something iroha asks her to come with her to her family’s cottage in the woods and they’ll keep her safe something something #sana agrees and they sneak away from the ball and sana meets iroha’s family (the villa) and finds her real home there #and they live happily ever after the end ( its still an irosana au i swear they have many moments im just bad at the romance thing) #also uh #sanarella au #in case i wanna add more at some point #(or if this does okay-ish i might finally get around to the au list thing and go a little(?) more into detail about these dumb aus of mine #)

[capisback]

I kinda really wish people wouldn't call Ace "Gol D", especially if it's framed as his "real name". Yeah, that's the name he was born with, that's the name he would've carried had either of his parents lived, but those things don't matter, because it's not a name Ace wants to carry. His real name is Portgas D. Ace, because that's what he wants to be called, that's what he feels comfortable with. Lineage and birthnames don't matter. "Gol D." is no more Ace's surname than it is his brothers', and it's certainly not his "actual name" or his "real name", nor is the one he carries "false" or "fabricated"

#i was gonna say smth about sanji being called vinsmoke #but then I saw it's on his wanted poster and I realised I don't know enough about that arc #so I dropped it and made it all about ace instead #which is what has bothered me the longest #Portgas D is Rouge's name!!! #are we all really so obsessed with paternal lineage we cant fathom a child carrying their mother's name?? #there's been plenty of fics who say this stuff and it bothers me every time #luckily a minority #but I still had to get this out #one piece #op #portgas d ace #ace #cap talks #og cap #obvs im ok with it being done in fics #as long as its not framed as being his real name despite him not wanting it

[ryugucci]

da kid is moving blogs -> @souyawn

#new psuedo too #tumblr staff messed w my tags n plus this blog just feel ugly idk idfc #i just gotta get out no 5sos #idk if i’ll ever repost my fics but i do now i plan on writing new shit on the new one #know * #so thanks all 365 for hanging out with me that was so fuckin rad #i didnt do anything groundbreaking and 300+ of y’all follow me to see me talk about cock n balls 25/8 that’s insane to me so thank u sm #seriously #that’s really rad #i’m tearing up like a bitch you’d swear i won a nobel prize this shit is ridiculous #but yeah moral of the story is i love y’all and that’s real talk. #thanks for making this blog a safe space for me to talk shit #LMFAOOOO yo this sound like an award winning speech i make me SICK LMFAOOOOOO #if ur ageless n a blank blog pls don’t make me do that extra work and reblock y’all all over #unless y’all got good shit in yall avatars n headers #i snatch them bitches up so leave a lil sumn when u drop off yk

[worstloki]

i’m very happy that while people appreciate Loki being shirtless they’re not missing it as a very clear red flag about the TVA :D

#I'm still vying for the TVA being antagonists here #all Loki did was take the Tesseract without knowing that wasn't meant to happen #if they list off 'breaking reality' as a crime smh :/ #meanwhile Mobius is acting as if he knows the real Loki and the TVA deleted someone for saying no and has ugly beige-brown uniforms #they also keep dropping him floors which is funny but Not Good if they know everything about Loki PLUS taking people's clothes off #without warning too #like?????? OK???? Rude??? #anyway #shirtless loki go brrr #but TVA also bad for it #the Loki show #loki spoilers #loki show spoilers #im really interested to know why the TVA spares loki specifically #surely mobius going 'no dont kill him' isn't a good enough argument #plus the other person in the room with him says no and gets melted so how does he wind up out and about #mystery

[tubbito]

with the september viewer drop approaching / beginning, i rly hope the grip views have on george relaxes because unless he plans and announces big streams days in advance his views WILL be going down and i just want him to stream and keep a devoted core audience rather than worrying if he's above 100k all the time. b/c i miss him and also am his manager in my mind palace

#i remember when he streamed w tommy and was like wowwww.. not even this number views... and kept checking his analytics #and i'm like this simply won't work out long term! everyone's views are dropping! #spnap sat at 80k for a while despite having face cam snd karl and george and dream Like: it's just how it is rn #and it's better to stream more often and have people engaged with you and your content than putting it off til views feel high or like #they'll be high. i'm like its Oka.. let it go #let it goooooooooooiiooiio #i like the tbbo approach where he like. is just streaming what he'd stream on his alt on his main and retiring the alt #because ultimately alts just make streamers more concerned about falling views on their main so they just stream on their ales #so i'm like. the alt curse is real #some people can use it properly but i don't think gnf is one of those people. 😢 #untagged #Just my brain thought s #// negative

[dreamatorium]

britta went on a lesbian date and kissed almost two women and that still wasnt as gay as whatever troy and abed were doing in early 21st century romanticism

#how is that episode real like......... #troy dropping mariah the second abed was out of the picture..... WHAT was the reason!!!!! #idk why im thinking about this episode so much tonight its just hitting me how insane it was. and how insane troy n abed were in general #my post #trobed #community #early 21st century romanticism

[white-tulips]

usually, misdirects in storytelling are great tools to make things better and more interesting; so it really is a shame that in OMORI they’re so badly written they make everything worse 

#text #omori spoilers #I've had this opinion for a long time but I only bring it up now bc I've seen yet another influx of people praising OMORI for it's writing #like; OMORI really pulls 3 plot switches in the span of an hour and a half and people think that's good I guess #I do like the overall plot twist a lot but maaaan if the build up isn't so poorly paced #don't get me wrong; the truth album sequence is one of the best and most well directed moments of the game; however #I think having Mari's cause of death be so wishy-washy for 20+ hours of the game was the worst thing they could have done #I want to make an actual fleshed out post about this at some point but #tldr; Mari committing suicide should have been established Clearly much earlier instead of dropping the bombshell only to- #-pull the real plot twist directly after it

[mushroom-winners-proof]

I know KH1 was essentially retconned and everything Ansem did "was for MX". But I think a cool way around that would be if MX was actually upset with Ansem for giving into his heartless nature and losing sight of the overall plan. Like going off on him about how it was a good thing Sora, a 14 year old child, defeated him or all his hard work would be undone.

Imagine the huge blow to Ansem's pride. The temptation to turn against MX but realizing he really has no where else to go. Especially since his body is technically no longer a heartless. It's a replica. So he'd bitterly have to swallow his pride but maybe slips clues to the Guardians.

tbh ansem really is an interesting link in the whole Real Org 13 group

like out of the norts bruv's the only one to even vaguely talk about the idea of going against or acting out against them but ultimately deciding not to seeing it as pointless by then

really makes me wonder how the dynamic between all of them was, or at least if ansem had any other motives or just what his personal thoughts were during the whole thing. if only seeing vexen's betrayal was the thing to push him even just a bit then Man(TM) yk

#snap chats #everyday i wish we got to see more personal scenes of ansem and everyday i wish his ending speech was elaborated more #yk what i mean. like dawg you cant just drop that and NOT expect me to go Excuse Me #like xemnas talks about how he just took the people around him for granted and the pain he feels which. ALSO Excuse Me #i miss xemnas and him on the lowest of keys being a sad antagonist i do but this aint bout him today #i dont think he ever had any serious intentions to leave but just the concept that there was that small thought #VERY interesting especially considering at this point he's more of a puppet than his own person yk #like he was brought back specifically to help MX so he should be honed on THAT not what he wants #the concept of ansem communicating with terranort's guardian did remind me that like- bro hardly uses his own yk #which begs the question Yall Got Joint Custody On That Or Yall Got Your Own #fuckin Master Xehanort Said It's MY Turn With The Guardian #im sorry this is a Real Talk discussion but ive always wondered how that played out with them #regardless im always down to discuss ansem because he just lives in my brain rent free at this point #i dont want to regard him as a character perfectly in the gray because he does do twatish things for his own benefit #but with that in mind it does make his goodbye more interesting since it shows Just The Smallest Bit that ounce of selfishness #again i dont think he would ever ACTUALLY leave or do anything to jeopardize everything but Say It With Me Now: It's Interesting

[heffrondriving]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!;!!!?!;;!!

#i'm not actually gonna listen to it rn i just woke up and might cause a supernova if i do #i just had to post bc i got hit with adrenaline so hard my fight or flight saw stars when i saw this #IT'S FINALLY OUT LADS AFTER ALL THE YEARS OF WAITING IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING WE HAVE NEW BTR MUSIC DON'T WAKE ME UP INSIDE 😭😭😭 #THE LEGENDS HAVE FINALLY RETURNED TO REDEEM THEIR THRONE AND THEY DESERVE IT ALL OF IT KINGS U DROPPED THIS: 👑👑👑👑!!!!! #DAMNIT ITS ONLY 10 AM AND I'VE HAD A DAY SOMEONE PUT THIS GRAMPA TO BED BEFORE THEY GET AN INFARCTION- #i'll wait until they announce the official release so i could celebrate with everyone but for now #i'm just thankful to be in a timezone that's about a day ahead lmao #13th truly is the blessed of days;;;; rusher jubilation era be upon us!!!!!!!!! #i still can't believe this is actually real nfbajhsfnjkfan crying shaking vomiting throwing myself into the sun etc etc #and they're gonna be doing their first performance in years too frifkc a man can only get so emotional yk?????? #now if u'll excuse me i have a spotify app to entirely ruin >:D #btr #big time rush #call it like i see it #song #do pretty girl don't speak #will delete? #ignore this post i'm going insane :^0