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My favorite part of Hannibal calling will a Mongoose right in the very beginning is that a mongoose isn't a pet trained to protect ppl from snakes.
The show has reoccurring themes around the difference between a wild predator like wolves that chooses their own meals, and the domesticated hunter like a dog, who's told when, where, and how to hunt. The hound that knows how to find and track the prey, does all the work of the hunt, then has their meal taken from them to be fed kibble and scraps instead.
Hannibal finds the latter an insult to the hunter who's skills the people need to feed themselves.
But a mongoose isn't a hound, a barn cat, or even a trained hawk. They're wild animals that eat snakes of their own volition, because they want to, because they need to, because that's their natural diet. If you live in venomous snake territory and happen to share living space w/ a mongoose, you're lucky enough to be benefiting from their natural appetites
Hannibal lives in metaphorical venomous snake territory and considers himself lucky...
Because Will is the mongoose that eats all the snakes that try to slither into their backyard
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the-dread-hand · 1 year
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The Oracle Murders, A Dread Hand Above Me
The Fairy Tale so far, in order.
A Hannibal SMAU, season 1:
They have an exit plan & each other
That's all they need...
But this is gonna be a rough ride
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Apéritif
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Amuse-bouche
Day 4
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s-aint-elmo · 4 months
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part 2 of my pining falin agenda aka I STAND WITH MARCILLE THAT DRESS WAS CUNT
part 1
(ID in alt text)
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akanemnon · 2 months
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Sorry, Noelle... They're a little slow on the uptake.
FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT
MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)
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visenyaism · 4 months
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an OUNCE of fucking decorum wyll?????
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tagerrkix · 4 months
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Eden was their ✨disney princess era✨
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frickerdoodle · 3 months
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Mild act 2 Durge spoilies
My Dark Urge has been vehemently denying any thoughts of bloodlust to their companions and has hiddentheir evil deeds whenever possible (threw a certain body in the river and played dumb about where they went, for example) so imagine my shock when everyone knew about his deep dark secret after the most harrowing night of his life.
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nonotnow-photography · 8 months
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©️nonotnow photography.
📷Canon EOS 1100D
🔭Helios 44-2 58mm, f/2
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muwitch · 6 months
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right in front of his dead daughter salad
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jalopeura · 8 months
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these might be the most important lines of dialogue in all of video game history actually.
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the-song-of-avernus · 2 months
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I feel sorry for Orin
repurposed from an old Reddit post of mine
Raised from birth in the Bhaal cult and has never known ANYTHING else. Literally the result of incest between her mom and Sarevok (her father AND grandfather) - and for her entire life is actively manipulated and groomed to worship her "Grandfather" second only to Bhaal (leaving a disgusting implication that Sarevok might eventually try again). Literally every single day of her life spent in a murder cult, never knowing anything else.
Her mother is actively manipulated when Orin is seven to try to kill her daughter, only for Orin to reflexively kill her first, at which point Orin was briefly possessed by Bhaal himself (per some Sarevok dialogue). AT AGE SEVEN. And even from a young age, Orin's true gift is her artistry, a talent that outside the Bhaal cult probably could have been nurtured into something phenominal, but inside the cult is twisted into a sinisterness in the kill that, when she's out of earshot is decried as wasteful.
She eventually rises through the ranks (never have had any choice), having never felt a meaningful moment of compassion or kindness and, desperate to be cared about, sees the power and fear and respect her bloodkin (The Dark Urge) has gained and uses their hubris to take them out.
Ironically, in the timeline where Durge lives, they get a gift Orin couldn't even dream of - a 2nd chance. With their brain scrambled and the tadpole present but being interfered with, the Dark Urge got a chance to be someone new. (Whether they accept or reject that 2nd chance, they at least got a choice this time).
What did Orin get for her troubles? Her (grand)father openly coveted to either take her out, or worse, take her out - when the time was right, her own allies both detested her (Gortash openly revels at the idea of working with the Dark Urge again)
and most brutally, if you manage to confront her with the truth, any of it? About Sarevok, about her mother, etc? She immediately believes you. And for one (1) moment, maybe there's hope for her.
Hope that Bhaal immediately rips away; an Orin confronted with the truth and showing even the slightest hesitation is immediately forcibly transformed into the Slayer by Bhaal himself, with a strong implication that the core of the old Orin is gone forever win, lose, or draw. "No more doubts, no more fears, no more Orin. Become murder.". Seeing what Bhaal's reaction was the moment Orin had one (1) instant of hesitation also confirms that she'd likely have never had the chance to choose differently, either Bhaal would always step in or else she'd eventually meet her end.
Imagine the AU where Orin takes her CLEAR flair and artistic talent to become a truly great artist. Where she gets the same second chance that Durge got - If she'd been able to use her talent for impersonation and desire to great to do something powerful instead of being forced by her family from childhood into the family business of murder.
She literally never had a chance. Even Bane and Myrkul and their respective cults were never so unfathomably cruel, and she never knew anything else.
At least for my own first game, though, my Durge recognized that without her "sister," she'd have never gotten the chance to save the world, never met Shadowheart, never stopped a century worth of Ketheric's torture on Dame Aylin, never set in motion the liberation of the Githyanki...In the right world states, Orin unwittingly saved the world, but it's a world she'll never get to see or know, and probably never could have.
That's tragic as hell.
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I really love the level of gay, extra, and petty Will Graham is.
Hannibal spends the whole show being like, I don't like how hard this is being on you, we could just bail.
But Will is POSSESSIVE & JEALOUS & HATES BEING DISMISSED
This man created a truly unhinged 5 year romantic murder spree joint hunt so the whole goddamn world would know that the man they thought was a useless dink w/ a cool party trick, a broken pony, the broken tea cup, tamed their unimaginably horrific smoke & shadows monster, the devil himself.
He needed everyone who'd ever underestimated him because he's autistic and/or queer in ways they don't understand, to see with their own eyes that their lamb tamed their lion, taught him to only eat out of the palm of his hand...and to be happy about it.
He needed them to grok in their bones and sinews that maybe this once, if it looks like a lamb, talks like a lamb, walks like a lamb but has the lion on a willing cautious leash... Maybe, the lion isn't the one you should be worried about. Maybe, just maybe that Lamb isn't a lamb at all. Maybe it's a chimera or a manticore.
Maybe the problem isn't the lamb, maybe the problem is their inability to see.
And Honestly I respect that
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lucidpeech · 2 months
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something wicked this way comes
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metal-junk · 1 month
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Scary dog privilege
ignore that his gauntlets look like complete ass i genuinely could not be fucked with them
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brushstrokes-art · 1 year
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au where pit’s a trans girl who hasn’t figured it out yet and then the mirror of truth speedruns dp’s transition. and nothing else changes.
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burnt-cookii · 4 months
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their so silly
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