#funny little thing is that the first quote i use from hannibal is not an exchange that happends between hannibal and will

[saewokhrisz]

savoureux

#persona 5 #shuake #akeshu #ren amamiya #akechi goro #akira kurusu #persona #fanart #comic #my art #funny little thing is that the first quote i use from hannibal is not an exchange that happends between hannibal and will #ive been rewatching <3

[shinelikethunder]

Rewatching Hannibal 1x07 Sorbet, and noticing how much of it is about what happens when you don’t become the mask you wear for the rest of the world. What happens to the part of you that’s stubbornly distinct from your façade, when it’s been trapped behind it for so long that even you aren’t sure what it might look like when viewed (...seen). The fear that it’s malformed and pitiable, followed by the slim, terrifying hope that the person who glimpses it might care more about it than about your meticulously-ornamented shell. (Which, among other things, hoo boy if that ain’t a Big Queer Mood... fitting, really, that this is the episode with a gratifying little revenge fantasy about medical homophobia, serophobia, and hostile assumptions about what “ugly little secret” you must be hiding.)

And in that context, one of the Thomas Harris quotes remixed into this episode makes a lot more sense to me than it did on previous viewings: “I see [the Ripper] as one of those pitiful things sometimes born in hospitals [...] They let it die. But he doesn’t die. He looks normal. Nobody can tell what he is.” It’s a demonstration of the thing Hannibal finds most terrifying and alluring about Will: he keeps seeing through all the personae and person suits. At this point it’s through a glass darkly, but still with shocking clarity, considering he doesn’t even know what--who--he’s seeing. Hannibal spends the episode coming up with new misdirections on the spot to test him: the “Chesapeake Ripper or organ harvesters?” red herring, the little game of “two lies and a truth” with the Ripper photos in Quantico. And every time, Will demolishes the misdirections and acknowledges the tiny scraps of truth, almost effortlessly, without even realizing what he’s doing. The episode ends with Will skipping out on the Extremely Person Suit dinner party to go examine its ugly underbelly: the Ripper cases that put the food on the table. Of course Hannibal is secretly delighted at the snub.

It’s the prospect of being seen that forces Hannibal to reckon with what the thing under his many masks might look like. The thing that so stubbornly refuses to die, even when starved of connection or recognition. And the unpleasant truth is that that thing looks a lot more like Franklyn than he’d ever want to admit.

Franklyn is so cringe-inducing to watch as a character--and no doubt even more unpleasant to interact with--that, as with Freddie Lounds, the audience kinda has to wonder why Hannibal hasn’t killed him already. I suspect the answer is that he has a weird soft spot for Franklyn as a form of painful self-recognition. Trying to help Mr. Secondhand Embarrassment Personified is like watching a well-hidden, well-guarded part of himself walk around naked, no manners or charm or cultivation, none of the protections that make his person suit so well-tailored. The part that craves connection but has no idea how to go about it, the part that’s fascinated with (curious about) other people but avoids looking at the stunted void it fears is where its sense of self should be. Or, to get all purple about it: Franklyn is a man who flinches at the threshold of his innermost self, but shorn of all the exquisite mental architecture Hannibal's built himself to live in, reduced to begging anyone nearby for shelter.

Even in the next episode, Hannibal goes out of his way to encourage Tobias not to murder Franklyn, which is about as much mercy as he ever shows to people he has personal affection for but wouldn’t hesitate to kill for pragmatic reasons. Of course, because he’s Hannibal, he ends up murdering the poor bastard himself with no hesitation or remorse--but it’s not because of some line of unbearableness that Franklyn finally crossed. It’s because his desire to spite Tobias was stronger than any hope of sparing Franklyn, who by that point had probably seen too much anyway. In his next session with Bedelia he tells her one of his little sideways truths--yes, it’s funny on its face to see him go “I feel responsible for what happened to him” about the man whose neck he snapped with his own hands, but I do think he feels regret if not remorse, for not managing to engineer a situation that kept his cringey shadow self out of the line of fire.

(Side note: I suspect the reason Freddie Lounds didn’t get eaten in the very second episode is that she was the only other person to see through Will’s protective suit of “socially inept smol bean who is very distressed by the insights he gets from his Unspecified Problems Disorder.” Sure, she’s an absolute bitch about it, but she’s an absolute bitch who can pull off outfits even more outrageous than Hannibal’s--she appeals to his sense of fun. As soon as he realized she’d clocked Will as absolutely fucking seething with all kinds of dark potential 24/7, he decided her rudeness and vulgarity were far outweighed by the entertainment value of having her around to cause problems on purpose.)

(Side note #2: All of this neglects the main casefic plot, which does connect to the same themes, but somewhat less directly. The other person going around without a mask in 1x07 is Devon Silvestri, who’s also kind of an inept schlub when viewed for what he really is. He didn’t arrange that crime scene to look like a Ripper murder, he just panicked and GTFO’d--all the conflation comes from Jack Crawford’s desire to find the Ripper and from Hannibal seizing on it as an opportunity for misdirection. It does lead to some fun playing with “are the mutilations for Art (artifice, performance) or for more prosaic uses of the organs?” when the answer, of course, is that the difference between the Ripper murders and the botched organ theft is “why not both?” Silvestri’s one real deception is to pass himself off as an emergency first responder (his day job) while he’s working his less altruistic sideline, and we also get some fun triangulation when Hannibal has to take on that role for real. Will sees him, gets his first good look at Hannibal’s mastery of this skillset that he once cultivated as part of his person suit, but also sees him looking absolutely in his element as he uses his power over life and death to preserve life. He sees it even more clearly against the backdrop of Silvestri’s dubious competence and furtive discomfort with what he’s doing. In his conscious mind he accepts the best possible interpretation of that glimpse, even as he feels a bunch of less-conscious connections snap into place at the sight--ones he isn’t ready to face yet, but boy is he having Big Feelings about it. Some of which may or may not be diverting blood from his brain, and/or setting him up for uncomfortable wet dreams about Hannibal’s hands in his viscera, but thaaat’s probably a topic for another post.)

Anyway. Sorbet as an episode is about the exact opposite of “fake it ‘til you make it”--it’s about the self that doesn’t become what it performs, the wonder of having someone glimpse it no matter how well-hidden it is, and, crucially, the terror of finally examining what someone else may have glimpsed and finding it stunted, ugly, even pitiable in its isolation. Neither the “thing that doesn’t die” quote nor any of the stuff with Franklyn makes sense, IMO, without the realization that Franklyn is an uncomfortable mirror of what’s under Hannibal’s human veil--and that Hannibal is equal parts intrigued and freaked the fuck out that Will keeps catching glimpses of him through the veil.

#hannibal #meta #sorbet #hannibal lecter #will graham #franklyn froideveaux #freddie lounds #sure is a bunch of tasty Mortifying Ordeal bullshit in this episode #here have some tl;dr about it

[lovelornwriter]

titles ideas (supernatural)

10 reasons why I hate my job: number one, I don't get paid.

Do we need vodka for the spell?

I screwed up again, but at least I pissed off the douchebag.

How do I tell my guardian angel he's losing a bet?

Once upon a time, a demon tried to buy my soul.

I won a solo trip to Hell.

Uhm so, this was absolutely not my fault.

Keep your wings hid if you want to live.

Back when I was a ghost.

Now we know it was just a gay vampire.

Snitches get stitches.

Please don't tell the demon I have his bones.

My traumas keep me out late.

Can you shut your mouth for 5 minutes, Satan?

I don't care that I don't care.

I might have broken my brother.

Wait, it had to be just a one-time thing!

Of course it stinks, it used to be a loo.

What doesn't kill you will try later if you don't run fast.

I'm stuck inside a big arse dude's head.

No, for fuck's sake, don't knock him out.

Sorry, I'm late, I was having a hard time with my brother's fear.

Funny story: somebody locked me up in purgatory.

A deal's a deal, even if it's demoniac.

We'll never know what the prophet said last.

What said in purgatory stays in purgatory.

Taylor Swift, fuck you.

Great, you've hurt the angel's feelings.

I should have stayed in hell, it was nicely hot there.

Don't ever try to eat ectoplasm, it sucks.

Cupid screwed up.

Never go on a hunting trip with your brother and an angel.

Quiet, evil one.

As the prophecy foretold.

I'm not your bitch, bitch.

I need a holiday from humanity.

No, but seriously, stop trying to eat me.

A leviathan said "eat the rude", it was quoting Hannibal Lecter.

A child stole my blood.

Ha, my arse, stop killing motherfuckers.

No, do not "good morning" me, you bitch.

You hoard toilet paper. You hoard it.

We once were teddy bear doctors.

A fake FBI agent stole my doughnut.

Don't you ever insult animes again or you'll hear from my knife.

Singing Eye Of The Tiger won't make you brave, okay, maybe just a little.

I didn't know batman wore flannel.

I swear, cats can be really scary.

Do not panic, but you have a fairy on your shoulder.

Scoobydoo is my spirit animal.

Bacon cheers up sad snakes.

You're not the king of hell you're just a drama queen, get along with it.

Shapeshifters are douchebags.

You will die, but first I need some pie.

A burger a day keeps fuckers away.

The fine art of faking.

There's no human league, mate.

My old friend, Death, wants to kill me.

That is rude to start.

Thank dad for being paranoid.

#thank you supernatural #yes #i am actually a huge fan of supernatural #supernatural #titles ideas #writing prompt #fic writing

[reversecreek]

clicks onto the dash wearing kitten heels n coyly holding my bang....... hi. me again. it took me so long to select a gif to use on cricket’s intro n i settled on this one bc he looks so unsure abt his smile n it’s rly his essence <3 u can find his pinterest board here n his (work in progress) spotify playlist here. hmu to plot!!! 

* alex wolff, cis male + he/him | you know cricket donahue, right? they’re twenty-two, and they’ve lived in irving for, like, all of their life, on and off? well, their spotify wrapped says they listened to should have known better by sufjan stevens like, a million times this year, which slipping on wet leaves to photograph a tree struck alight by lightning, delivering a tedtalk to your own reflection to hype yourself up to buy groceries, hiding your hands inside of your sleeves in case you grew an impromptu megan fox thumb overnight thing going on. i just checked and their birthday is october 1st, so they’re a libra, which is unsurprising, all things considered. ( nai, 24, gmt, she/her )

HISTORY:

cricket ws born to a couple tht lived in lilac ridge. their trailer was tucked closest to the woods n always fell under the shade. it was like the leaves wanted to pretend they were a perpetual hanging cloud on the family n that was kind of fitting. their only reason fr having him in the first place was a kind of shrugged like........... we’re under the income bracket we’d get child benefits so why not! may as well try it to rake in some extra cash! needless to say they didn’t rly think it thru or anticipate all of the responsibilities tht came w children n wound up seeing him as an extremely large burden n boy didn’t he know it!

(child neglect & abuse tw) i’ll try to keep this part vague n brief but things were Not Good for cricket growing up. people in lilac ridge didn’t like his parents n it was for a gd reason. he remembers foggy things. being little n wandering around combing the grass with a stick to search for wrappers to suck on bc he was hungry. feeling uneasy when the front door opened. finding out his name was cricket bc the insects used to crawl into their trailer thru the vents n his parents liked to squish them into the carpet -- his mum told him as much once. i think this says a lot. to excessively trim the fat of the story he wound up entering the system at around 8 after his latest and most serious hospital visit. his parents hd to deal w the authorities n last he heard they bounced to evade charges.

(anxiety & violence & trauma tw) cricket sustained a few lifelong injuries from his time in lilac ridge. his knee didn’t heal right which meant he had (n still has to this day) a limp n he’s partially deaf in one ear. he’s always been an incredibly insecure n anxious person so this mde him rly self conscious going into a strange n new environment tht wld b difficult fr any kid to adjust to, nvm w these added worries. he jst felt like something weird to ogle at honestly. he probably wld have felt like that no matter where he was or what he looked like. he cld be in a huge hall of 200 people all wearing the same uniform n he’d still feel like the odd one out. needless to say this didn’t rly help him make friends

cricket’s coping mechanisms were romanticising the things tht other people found ugly or embarrassing or painfully ordinary. he liked it when the rain hit clunky drops against school windows n forbid everyone from playing outside bc he could feel the vibrations through the rubber soles of his shoes n it was a little bit like hearing all of the world at once fr just a moment. he liked medieval fantasy lore about stout gnomes w crumbs in their beards n cheeks red from ale. he liked fallen nests with the remnants of hatched eggs still dirty from the branches n soil they’d hit on the way down. he liked the way the sunlight leaked thru the leaves of the trees in the woods and how, when he sat very still, he could tune into the ringing that was always in his ear n pretend it was coming from the same place, that light thru the leaves, that the angels were trying to talk to him.

he spent a lot of time in the red room at his high skl (i’m begging u this is not a 50 shades reference) (after googling i jst realised it’s called a darkroom bt i’m leaving this fr the sake of sexy bimbo authenticity) n felt quite at home in there. he borrowed a camera whenever he cld (maybe he did yearbook) n photography became his way of immortalising the world as the romanticised version he wanted it to be. his memories were bad bt his photos were beautiful. maybe if he took enough they’d paste over n bleed into each other. maybe bad cld be replaced w beautiful if he tried his very best.

he got placed into fostering w a family once bt apparently didn’t meet the vibe check of their tastes so he wound up returning to the group home he’d initially been placed in. overall this is where he grew up n he aged out the system rather than getting adopted. there was a sense of floundering/isolation/not feeling gd enough in tht bt cricket made do the best he knew how. 

that said there were some gd points! (shocking i kno bc his life hs been so fking bleak so far bt please it’s ok........) (is it?) (🤔). basically he interned as an assistant at this local photography studio during high skl working under this kind of whimsical yet endearing old man. suspected wizard possibly in cricket’s eyes, as an avid fantasy genre reader. for one of his bdays said old man / his boss bought him his very own film camera n cricket cried bc he’d never been bought a bday gift. this ws rly embarrassing bc this old man didn’t know how to emote n neither did cricket so he ws jst sort of sat wiping his eyes n sniffling saying he wasn’t crying as the old man pretended to suddenly clean his lenses. when cricket graduated he offered him a full time position there. they do like. wedding photographs n family portraits n all kinds of things...... pay isn’t huge bt it’s something n he Loves taking photos so it’s sexy <3

PERSONALITY:

SUCH an anxious person it’s actually unreal. overthinks absolutely everything he’s ever said. one morning he might hv put green socks on n for the rest of the day he’s nervously looking around like omggggggg they’re all looking at my socks probably thinking im a little green sock boy thinking i’m a fool n a jester this is all everyone’s probably thinking about i hv to hide my green socks..... even tho literally no-one cares

once saw a girl eating a chicken wing n in his head was like ok she likes chicken good future gift idea..... n turned up at her house with an entire rotisserie chicken

probably thinks WAY too hard abt what to write in bday cards n googles like generic ideas that he can use.... u open a card from cricket n it always says smthn weird like “Warmest wishes and love on your birthday and always!” or “You deserve everything happy. Wishing you that all year long!” tht he got off google

nervously fiddles w things a lot. literally anything. his hair. the cuffs of his sleeves. a thread on his bag. u name it

struggles w eye contact sometimes............ it’s like. he wants to talk to ppl n make friends bt he’s honestly so bad at it. he’s fumbling thru life like a nervous headless chicken

ALWAYS has his camera on him. like always. will tke a photo of u bc he thinks u look nice then be like im so sorry im so sorry...... bowing his head shakily holding his camera bc he doesn’t even kno what possessed him he jst thought it’d be a nice photograph bt boundaries exist. probably breathes very heavily over this later in his room panicking thinking he nw seems like hannibal lecter

probably more confident online bc he has time to think abt what he says more.......... i can see him hving a group of online friends tht he’s more confident w. honestly he’s pretty witty at heart he jst has a hard time verbalising things so ppl overlook him sometimes bt once u get to know him more / he’s more comfy he can b a funny little man.....

loves photographs where he cuts something out of them. loves missing spaces n voids. thinks it’s a rly interesting concept when something that isn’t there becomes the focus of a photograph where everything else is. probably loses his mind fr a collage like a front row 1d stan. likes experimenting w light n perception. pretty artistic honestly hs probably made a stop motion film in the past bc that’s just an extended form of photography in his mind bt i doubt he showed anyone

ummm...... very sweet bt like. he reminds me a lot of this quote. “he had the awkward tenderness of someone who has never been loved and is forced to improvise.” feel like tht sums him up quite nicely

WANTED CONNECTIONS

someone he met at a wedding: cricket probably ws forced to photograph a wedding fr his boss one time n it cld b interesting as a place to meet from that....... like. i can imagine either it being rly awkward maybe he accidentally spilled a drink on ur muse n was stuttering rly apologetic n it ws just a train wreck. or mayb they took pity on him or even (in a shocking turn of events) a shine to him n invited him to drink n dance. omgggg the thought of cricket trying to dance makes me wna die n probably mkes cricket wna hyperventilate bt idk maybe he went wild n let loose. mayb they wound up damaging the camera somehow. mayb they had to scramble to get another one n ur muse covered the cost n it was a strange late night excursion tht cricket thought about a lot since. cricket probably vowed to pay them bk somehow no matter what. idk. we can work things out. lots of diff options here. doesn’t have to b a wedding either can b any event tht required a photographer

ppl he went to school w: pretty self explanatory i suppose...... maybe they were frm completely different worlds..... mayb ur muse was popular n cricket was definitely not but they got paired fr an assignment n had to work on a project together....... mayb cricket asked ur muse on a date one time n it was completely embarrassing bc he didn’t realise they had a bf n it haunts cricket at night still bc he’s rly dramatic.... mayb ur muse felt sry fr him n ate lunch w him n inducted him into their group like a lost puppy finding a home.... world’s our oyster

neighbours from his brief time at lilac ridge: not to reference taylor swift but i’m gna reference taylor swift n say we cld do a seven inspired plot here. sighs a little..... then sighs a lot. he was here ages 0-8 so idk. we cld work out childhood plots perhaps....

sickening simp: i mean.............. cricket probably gets crushes on ppl so easily like just. anyone who’s the slightest bit nice to him.................. he’s a disgrace. ok i take it back. bt also please get it together freak............... i didn’t say that. he’d probably b extra nice to this person n try n pay close attention to things they liked so he cld get them little gifts. just a bit embarrassing n lovestruck bless his heart. wldn’t expect anything back tho honestly that just isn’t something he tends to do.

let’s go gays: cricket’s bi but he probably was rly in his head abt liking boys n tried to sort of squash it internally during his younger yrs...... i think he’s more comfy w it now MAYBE idk bt back then i picture him having a friend tht ws kind of like. similarly loserish as him perhaps (no offence to ur muse potentially filling this plot or cricket bt let’s face the facts) n they’d hang out n play games a lot n one time it jst kind of happened n he was like............. *struts in looking around sharply* What going on here? except not. bc it’s cricket. more like *shambles in looking around anxiously* What’s, uh... What’s... the happenings? S--... I’m sorry. (immediate apology for saying what’s the happenings bc nobody talks like that n it was an impulsive panic bc he didn’t know what else to say)

those who grew up in the system w him: maybe at the group home or i’d also like the family that fostered him n said sayonara. honestly i imagine the parents just thought he ws a bit too much of a handful / had too much baggage which is rly quite merciless n terrible but. if u think that aligns w ur muses home situation hmu......

um. can’t think of more bt just anything honestly. jst go wild.......

#irvingintro #abuse tw #neglect tw #trauma tw #anxiety tw #violence tw #DOES A LITTLE JIG #admittedly i didnt include a formative moments section like my other intros bc idk what kind of superpowers i was inhaling the fumes of #for those intros but #i'm a mere mortal now.

[stingchronicity]

💖 💕 😂 ? from the special interest asks! :)

thank you!!!!!

💖 Current special interest?

justin hayward!!! and hannibal nbc but if i had to choose just one it would be justin. actually not to derail this but i’ve often gotten anxious to have more than one SI bc then i can’t say “(si) is number one!!” bc yknow, there’s still the other SI who feels like number one too. so even tho i know hannibal is an SI rn, i’m letting myself say justin is the Head Honcho

💕 What’s your fav thing about your special interest?

oh my godddd where do i start! now obviously i don’t know justin personally and therefore it’s impossible for me to know his personality truly, but using the personality i’ve gathered by the things i’ve heard him say:

i love his emotions. i cannot stand people who are unemotional and rigid. i just can’t relate to that. i’m someone who cries over little things and holds onto sentimental items and memories for life. i’m someone who never forgets someone they’ve met in their life. i love justin because he’s made a career of showing that side of his personality. my dad is extremely unemotional and has always told me how stupid i am when i start to cry. i’m always told how overemotional i am. justin’s music makes me feel like maybe that’s not a bad thing yknow? maybe it’s okay to have and express honest emotions

this is an easy answer but i love his voice and i love his lyrics. i dunno, maybe everyone has a “soulmate” band that just hits them in a certain way, right there in the chest. that sounds silly but that’s how it feels for me when i listen to justin and the moodies. also i think justin’s lyrics are the first i’ve ever appreciated as poetry. like, stripping them away from the music and just focusing on the words. not anything silly and deep like 45 year old dads seem to think. just emotions. justin’s said multiple times that every single song of his is based on a real emotion or something that he went through or that happened to him. you can feel that.

again i can’t know really, but based on observation and on what he’s said or written, i appreciate his love of trust and honesty. trust is so important to me. in any relationship—platonic or otherwise—i would prefer to have everything on the table. nothing hidden, no secrets. i want to be trusted completely and that’s how i would like to feel about a friend or partner.

from what i know, he and marie went through some rocky times and “this” or “that” may have happened, but he didnt pull the “rockstar” card and make it worse. this quote makes my heart warm:

“Whatever happened on tour, I always wanted to go home. Apart from anything else, Marie’s the sexiest woman I’ve ever known and I can honestly say our marriage has gotten consistently better. I understand all the temptations—some pop stars make a career out of arriving with a new girl at Heathrow—but I couldn’t even contemplate it.”

anyway i’d adopt justin and marie as my parents if they’d let me

😂 Something funny about your special interest?

him saying this:

#special interest #i’m always like yeah! those ask games will be quick ! and then i rb the special interest one and write a novel

[thespookysquid]

Okay, I just finished Red Dragon (the book that Hannibal first appeared in) and yeah, I know I’ve been doing a lot of Hannibal stuff recently, but I’m watching Trick r’ Treat tonight so that should make up for it.

it got a little long so uhhh under the cut.

Firstly, I am stunned at how well season 3 of Hannibal nbc adapted this story to fit with theirs. I almost always hate the film/television adaptations of books but this was a shining exception. They of course, had to change some parts of the story, and move some characters around (honestly though? I prefer the film version of Dr. Bloom, just because she was allowed to be a more dynamic character. Book Bloom was good, but just not sparky enough for me.)

Nbc managed to quote the book numerous times, and obviously that’s to be expected of an adaptation, but in particular when Will returned to his home when they thought Dolarhyde was dead for the first time, it says: “Graham and Molly wanted very much for it to be the same between them, to go on as they had before ...The mutual assurances they tried to exchange in the dark and in the day passed through some refraction and made them miss the mark...Willy felt it and was cool to Graham, maddeningly polite.”

This passage is remarkably similar to the conversation Hannibal and Will have when talking about Will returning home after they capture the Red Dragon. If I’m correct Hannibal uses the exact phrase “Maddeningly Polite”. Details like that just really prove that the writers for the show really care about the story.

all of the characters felt like they were pulled straight from the book and just handed a new situation, you know? Book Will has the same mannerisms as Show Will, and although there was less of Hannibal in Red Dragon, he’s still a fair match to the Hannibal in the show. I will say there was a scene in the book where Will is watching footage and Jack goes to tell him something, and Will just goes “Don’t talk to me!” and I would have loved to have seen that in the show, it was really funny. 

A difference I noticed between the series and the book, (and this isn’t even a bad thing, it’s just interesting.) is that Will spends a lot more time getting to know the victims (posthumously) than he does working to empathize with the killer. It’s interesting because while the original Will is distressed by the cases, he’s much less so than series Will, who also has to struggle with primarily empathizing with killers. It seems like series Will is just a version of Will that ended up on a very different path than Book Will. 

Red Dragon also did an incredible job writing the antagonist, because most books don’t bother so much giving us the villain’s pov and it was so cool to see that.

And I will say, Book Freddy is vile, and I hate him, but I do like him more than series Freddy, most likely because it gave the reader more opportunities to empathize with him than the series did, save a couple one off lines and a heartfelt moment or two. I just. Don’t like her.

The book did relatively okay with not being to overly sexual, but I may be biased because I’ve read a lot of Stephen King recently and every two sentences he’s being weird (/j). It did have some FAIRLY uncomfortable moments, particularly during Dolarhyde’s povs, but honestly it was bearable enough, and it didn’t take over the story.

I might talk more about this later? I’m gonna watch Trick r Treat now

#red dragon #hannibal #hannibal netflix #hannibal lecter #hannibal posting #hannibal book series #will graham #francis dolarhyde #horror blog #horror shows #pucks horror tag #horror books #book talk

[gracie-p8-officialblog]

Spilling Tea On Phantom of the Opera 2004

DISCLAIMER: I just want to say from the start that it is not my intention to offendanyone, you're entitled to your opinions and I'm allowed to have mine...

Ok, so, I just watched this movie a few days ago on my laptop and it was pretty much my first time sitting through the movie. I watched a few clips of the movie on YouTube but... Then, I decided to watch the whole movie. And this was my reaction.

Don't get me wrong! There WERE parts I liked but... That was just half of the movie... But overall... Um... It was meh. Ahem. Down to business!

My opinion on Gerard Butler as the Phantom? Um, wow. And not in a good way. I feel like this was a case of a talented performer being grossly miscast as the Phantom. I think this Tumblr post best describes on what I thought of his singing.

"He's supposed to have the voice of an angel, but it sounds like he's been gargling vinegar" ~Quoted by @faded-florals

Don't get me wrong. His voice is quite good for an untrained singer but... The Phantom is one of the biggest musical theatre roles of all time! It's right up there with Jean Valjean. It's really not a role that could go a competent singer, someone who's never sang professionally before but could be good once they've been trained up a bit. The role demands a truly great singer... And he wasn't right for the part.

His voice felt too strainy, growly and rock-ish for the Phantom. I didn't like how Joel Schumacher bought into the whole "sexy Phantom" thing and cast a hunky heart-throb, who was nowhere near disfigured enough. It's meant to be a gothic thriller novel with a small romantic subplot, not a B-grade vampire romance movie!

As for Emmy Rossum as Miss Christine Daae... it's true, her voice is good. She should know though, should she wish to excel, she has MUCH still to learn (Heeeeehee. Sorry. Couldn't resist.)

Emmy's Christine had little-to-no character growth and personality but I don't think it reflects her as an actress, but reflects more on the director and casting director because of how young she was (but more on that later)

Not only that, her Christine was SIGNIFICANTLY dumbed down and oversexualized. I mean, the entire point of the story is that Christine grows strong enough to overcome the trauma of an abusive relationship and make sure that her abuser never hurts anyone ever again but still shows the Phantom compassion and sympathy. I mean, her story arc is her becoming strong-willed enough to overcome the Phantom's pull/spell/enchantment/hypnosis or whatever you percieve it as on her! And don't get me started on her costumes because of the SEVERE lack of modesty.

The chemistry was a little flat because she was underage and her two male love interests were both in their 30s (which totally isn't HER fault, of course, but the directors could easily have cast someone else older)

Her voice, too, strikes me as being much too young and undeveloped. She has a very pretty, sweet-sounding quality to her singing but she doesn't sound rich and operatic enough to be a convincing Christine. Rebecca Caine and Amy Manford do the best job of singing the way I think Christine ought to sound- a maturing opera voice! Though POTO is NOT an opera (you wouldn't believe how many people actually think it is...), it does revolve around opera, and Christine is an opera singer, not a pop star.

And now onto... Everyone's favourite vicomte!!!!!!

C'mon people, put your bottles down. It is a truth universally acknowledged (or at least in the wee Raoul Defense Squad Circle) that Raoul is one of the greatest and most underrated boyfriends to ever exist in musical theatre and it's almost impossible to hate him because of how relatable he is.

Ladies, puh-leeze. He's much more relatable than you admit and face it, we all have a little bit of Raoul in us. Failure to see things staring us in the face, saying or doing the wrong thing at the wrong time, having a 'see it to believe it' attitude when we have little-to-no evidence on something... yeah, don't pretend you don't see a trend. Raoul is relatable whether we want him to be or not.

My thoughts on Patrick Wilson as Raoul, he was one of the few redeeming qualities of this not so great movie. Yeah, the swordfight and Tarzan leaps were a little too much but can you blame him?! And though I feel like that foppish wig made him look more like a magic elf prince than a vicomte, he couldn't control that!

His Raoul was so gentle and caring! Yeah, his acting was a bit stiff but at least his voice wasn't a chore to listen to, it has this warm, tender, comforting quality to it which suits Raoul. I really loved the way he sang "Don't throw away your life for my sake" and "I fought so hard to free you" in the Final Lair (😭😭😭) It feels like Raoul is genuinely apologising to Christine.

I know, I know... The Hadley Fraser fans are approaching with menacing expressions as we speak but let me clarify. I still think Hadley is amazing but... His Raoul kinda felt a little too shouty for me and his Raoul was closer to the LND-canon than POTO-canon (not his fault though).

Miranda Richardson (aka. Rita Skeeter) as Madame Giry is kind of weird. I mean, I know Madame Giry's supposed to be a little Strange and Mysterious. But this Mme. wasn't really Strange or Mysterious at all, or even slightly Spooky at all. She was just kind of an oddball. Popping up in random places to give warnings about the Phantom and looking at people as if she were questioning their life choices or something. As for her daughter... well, Jennifer Ellison's Meg was so-so. She's got a sweet-sounding voice and that added scene where she looked for Christine in the lair was a nice touch... But... Her Meg was kinda forgettable and uninteresting. Meg is supposed to prance around shrieking that the Phantom of the Opera is here, not whisper it in a blase manner that you half expect to be followed up with, "by the way, what's for lunch?" Not to mention, she rivaled Christine as far as low-necked costumes went.

Minnie Driver as Carlotta was spot on! Yes, I know she didn't sing the score but her acting was alright. She was very over-the-top and self-centered, which is great for Carlotta, but I felt her portrayal was a little too childish to be accurate. Carlotta is a successful middle-aged diva who's willing to scream and storm when she doesn't get her way, but she isn't a two-year-old pouting and throwing tantrums. (Yes, there's a difference.)

Ciaran Hinds and Simon Callow played Firmin and Andre, respectively. Their managers kinda felt like twits and nothing more. Also, Firmin's masquerade costume was ridiculous. The stupid kind, not the funny kind. ...Well, okay, it was a little funny.

I'm not going to touch on every song here, but I will say that "Hannibal" was beyond awful (if you thought the costumes in the stage version were a bit risque, you should see the movie ones- no, actually you shouldn't) and that "Think of Me," while very nice, was not particularly memorable. Christine's dress, however (despite its less-than-ideal neckline) was GORGEOUS, even though it looks completely out of place in a musical that supposedly takes place in ancient Alexandria.

"Little Lotte" kinda lost its charm by being spoken instead of sung. And Gerard Butler's voice in "The Mirror" was too rough and raspy for my ears and made me cringe in sympathetic shame. The title song was like a cheesy, campy B-grade horror movie tbh, trying way too hard to be spooky and chilling ("ooh, look, Phantom's Lair! It's DARK and SCARY down here!") and succeeding only in being cringeworthy. Not that I've actually ever seen a bad horror movie- or any horror movie at all, for that matter. Unless you count this one.

Christine's costume, too, annoyed me no end. She was basically wearing a corset and drawers under the dressing gown. *facepalm* The dressing gown is supposed to go OVER your COSTUME to keep it CLEAN, peeps. It's not a BATHROBE. And the amount of eye makeup she had on would terrify a raccoon. Yikes.

Though I liked the random horse because of its nod to the Leroux novel.

"Music of the Night" was so blah-slash-touchy-feely that it made me summarily uncomfortable.

I'd like to be able to say something nice about "I remember/Stranger than you dreamt it" but I have none. One thing that bugged me to no end was how Christine is no longer wearing stockings, like dude, that gives some GROSS implications. Anyways, let's skip to Il Muto!

Oh, but first I should say that "Notes" was rather a flop and that "Prima Donna" is unmemorable and indeed should probably be fast-forwarded as there's a rather unsavory bit involving a crew member showing the audience what he thinks of Carlotta's behaviour.

"Il Muto," I must say, was pretty doggone funny. Carlotta's "Your part is silent. Leetle toad," cracked me up into a bunch of giggling little pieces, and the little vignette of the Phantom tinkering with Carlotta's throat spray made her croaking later on a lot more believable.

Now for "All I Ask Of You", SQUEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! I honestly can't understand how anyone could listen to this song and still maintain that Christine and Raoul don't belong together. He represents everything she needs- stability, protection, a guiding hand and affirmed affection. She represents everything he needs, in turn- someone to show affection to and his childhood friend.

One thing I definitely think could have been left out was the scene in which Erik kills Buquet- we totally did not need to see him being chased, terrified, through the rafters and finally strangled. Gross.

And the Phantom and his rose crouching behind that statue... I think this was supposed to be sad, but there was too much snot mixed with tears for it to be sad. It was, again, gross. So was Gerard Butler's pathetic attempt at the "all that the Phantom asked of you" line. And the lack of a chandelier crash in that scene made the song anticlimactic.

And "Masquerade" was so-so but... The Phantom's entrance is anticlimactic somehow, and his Red Death costume (if indeed it's supposed to even BE the Red Death) is unimpressive. I don't like how Raoul just runs off to desert Christine as soon as things start looking ugly (yes, I realize he was going to get his sword, but still... something could have happened to her while he was gone. Duh, did this guy learn anything from "Little Lotte/The Mirror"? Just sayin)

As for Madame Giry's flashback immediately following, I like how it gives us some of the Phantom's backstory, but it seems really abrupt. You don't even realize until she's done that she was talking to Raoul the whole time- it sounds like she's just randomly reminiscing about Stuff, and if you didn't know the story you might be sitting there thinking, "who is this strange woman again?"

Also, Christine leaving wherever-it-is at, like, five in the morning to go to who-knows-where, completely oblivious to the fact that the Phantom is driving her. Whaaaaaaaaa? How'd he know she was planning to go for a graveyard stroll? Was he watching her through the mirror again? THAT'S JUST CREEPY.

"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" was rather mediocre and dulled down the fact that it is a Christine Empowerment™ song. Why, exactly, does Christine's father have the biggest monument in the cemetery? If he were a rich and famous violinist as his crypt seems to suggest, why on earth was his daughter struggling along as a chorus girl taking free music lessons?

The swordfight... Well... I had mixed feelings about it. Sword fights are all well and good, but... The swordfight takes away the element of mysterious danger to the Phantom. Okay, fine, Christine getting Raoul to spare the Phantom's life is a nice touch, I guess, but did it strike no one else that his "now let it be war upon you BOTH" makes absolutely NO sense after that? If she just saved his life, why would he suddenly be all, "thanks, but no thanks, I'M GOING TO MURDER YOUUUUUUUUUU"?

And "Twisted Every Way" was after "Wishing" which made ZERO sense. Plus, I didn't like how they cut most of it because in the musical, it gave Christine a spine!

"Point of No Return"? Hooooooo boy....... There are so many things wrong with this number. Let's just a list a few.

*HOW did no one recognise the Phantom through his "disguise"?! At least in the stage play, it made more sense because of how he was wearing a cloak that obscured most of his body.

*Christine's sleeves falling down over and over again were REALLY annoying.

*It was just too touchy-feely for my taste.

*The fact that Emmy Rossum was a teenager during filming made this scene gross because of the way they oversexualized Christine in this scene.

*Gerard Butler's voice in that scene made me cringe and shake my head in sympathetic shame.

*In the stage play, Christine ran from him, showing her own agenda and resistance to his pull! While in the movie, she didn't resist him!

*Now for the one that took the cake... The disfigurement! Or it would be a disfigurement if it actually made him look, y'know, deformed. Instead, as several people have put it, he looks like he got a bad sunburn or something. It's really rather pathetic. It makes him look more like a drama queen than he already is! Yeah.... I really don't like this movie.

On to... Final Lair!!!!!!!! It was a flop. From Raoul's whining and flailing around and his stringy hair flopping about (shallow complaint, I know, but it's so ugly) to Christine's sappy melodramatic "don't make me choooooooose" faces to the Phantom's prancing around with his ropes and maniacal laughter that somehow wasn't really scary at all... yeah, it was a flop. A major, major flop. And though The Kiss wasn't all that bad, all I could think of was, "She's SIXTEEN! SIX! TEEN! THIS IS CREEPY, DISTURBING AND GROSS!"

Which is why it's so difficult for me to admit that, um, I... cried at the end.

I COULDN'T HELP IT GUYS HE WAS ALL ALONE THERE IN HIS LAKE WITH HIS MONKEY AND HIS SMASHED MIRRORS AND HE WAS CRYING AND IT WAS SAD.

And then that rose on the gravestone? That single red rose? And the look on Old Raoul's face (still Patrick Wilson, by the way, under all that makeup) when he saw it and realized he wasn't the only one visiting Christine's grave? Yup, I lost it again there, too. And I really didn't want to. Because I tend to cry over movies I love, y'know? And I didn't love this movie. At all

Yet I still cried at the end. I'm not really sure why. I think perhaps it had something to do with the way the story still "got" me, deep down inside, despite the lousy casting and less-than-perfect singing and ridiculously unnecessary elements that totally didn't need to be there. It's still a tragically beautiful romance, and even a bad film can't kill that.

In conclusion, I think Mary Poppins can best express what I thought of POTO 2004.

In conclusion, I rate it a 2.7/5

#Grace spills tea #grace speaks #poto 2004 #phantom of the opera musical #phantom of the opera #the phantom of the opera #Phantom of the opera 2004 #movie review #my reviews

[irageneveart]

I rly liked ur rfa hc, and was wondering if I could ask for one about the rfa and horror movies? Like what each members fav movie or monster/etc would be, or how they'd react to horror movies! It's cool if u dont wanna, ur just the only person I've seen doing those that likes horror too, and I rly rly wanna mix the two together cause i love both~

wow anony you’re making me smile so much! thank you for the feedback, I’m a sucker for that sjkdfdifhd and I’m very very happy you enjoyed those HCs!!!

I’m honored to be able to answer this for you haha it’s good to be in totally different and weird fandoms xDDDD

I hope you enjoy these, it was fun to think what they would like and the reasons why, I hope I did well. under the cut cause I don’t like covering someone’s entire dash jdskfdsn

thank youuu for your request and sweet words o/

RFA and their favorite horror movies

ZEN

you’d expect Zen to be “MC these aren’t real / don’t worry I’ll protect you” but he’s actually scared during the movie lmao

ofc, he won’t ever say it out loud but, Zen, you don’t sweat and grab the couch at every jumpscare because you find the movie boring pls

no series movies because he doesn’t know if he has time to watch them every day and he doesn’t want to disappoint you. he will watch any movie you pick tho

the movie has to be at least decent in plotting, he can pick up bad acting really fast and it will just ruin the movie for him. if the main protagonist is just a screaming lady in distress he won’t be really impressed by the movie

he enjoys the most those with a bit of romance on the side. he liked the chemistry between the scientist and the journalist from “The Fly”, he understood the drive of Candyman from the movie with the same name, he even liked “Only Lovers Left Alive” even if you found it completely slow and boring. I know I did

his favorite tho has to be “The Shape of Water”. it had a bit of love, a bit of plot, a bit of gore and well written and diverse characters

after it ended he acted a bit in front of you, telling you he loves you without words and taking you in for a slow dance because you are his Eliza

what a sappy bastard gosh i love him

YOOSUNG

needless to say all of them scare him lol but he will act brave because what if they scare you! and you need him!!

he likes long series that you two can go on marathon with, blankets and snacks are mandatory

if you just finished binge watching a show this week, next week you can put on the Halloween series and so on. he’s fine with most slasher movies, but somehow still hopes people will escape even if you know damn well there’s just one survivor in these movies come on Yoo

the one that stuck with him the most has to be “Happy Death Day”. he found it relatable, the student life and the way he found it funny and cool at first, just like Tree

but the more the movie progressed he started to feel sad and maybe it’s okay to age and just do the same things every day with the people you love. it’s comfy and secure and he likes that the most about his life with you

he gave you a long embrace after, he was happy with the ending and the movie gave him a weird feeling of being content

JAEHEE

“These aren’t real, MC. There is no thing like immortality” she says in a very unimpressed voice

yep, she doesn’t like horror movies

you can watch them tho she has nothing against them, it’s just she feels there are better things to do than watching fake blood and screaming everywhere

however if there is something more than the general annoying people-killer-killing-end things that she finds so predictable and boring, she will watch what you very nicely ask her to

she watched “Don’t Breathe” and “10 Cloverfield Lane” which she found pretty nice, but the endings threw her off and ruined the feeling for her

She also watched “The Shining” which she enjoyed the most up until that point

but one night you ask her to watch "Get Out” without telling her anything, and she loved it. not only that she didn’t expect the twist, but she also finds it terrifying because it can be true. themes like racism, slavery and etc - these are sad truths that were, and in some cases still are, real

JUMIN

alright listen, he loves everything with magic, cults, even monsters, but it has to have a plot

but just. don’t watch horror movies with him.

or any movie for that matter ksdkjsfjbd

Juju, I love you but I don’t need to know every historically correct detail about this scene I just wanted to see them married ok

with horror he is always picking on the realistic parts of the movies even if you’re watching something like freaking IT. “that cannot be possible”, it’s a movie Juju keep watching. “that is too much blood for just a cut in the forearm” JUMIN

the only time he is completely silent is when he’s watching movies like “Zodiac / The zodiac killer”, “Saw” or “V from Vendetta”, trying to figure out the outcome. bonus points if he doesn’t guess the ending and he’s just BOOM

his favorite tho is “Silence of The Lambs”. he is so engaged into the movie, the acting, the filming, Hannibal, everything. his only reaction is just one word as the movie ends. Masterpiece.

he will find every little detail about the story afterward tho, prepare yourself for an entire week of information. he tried the show too, but it didn’t leave him with the same feelings as the original movie did

one night before bed he will turn around and he would just ask you if you want him to acquire healthy human flesh for cooking juju wtf go to sleep

he is so precious just let him learn and discover everything omg but no human flesh pls

SAEYOUNG

he is like Randy Meeks from “Scream”, you bring up horror movies he will constantly talk only in horror movies quotes and will trivia the shit out of you

lmao he won’t ask you to watch movies, he will just call you from the other room asking in a ghostface voice “Wanna watch a scary movie~?”

he knows every slasher movie with behind the scenes, out takes, lost tapes and every buried article on the internet. the perks of being a hacker

of course he loves “Alien” and “Predator” series, space and aliens? he’s in

he also probably owns a very rare copy of the masks used on the set for Jason and Michael. you really spend time making sure that’s not the real goddamn mask of Leatherface made out of human skin, that’s how real and good it looked

there is at least one day in the week where you, Seven, Saeran and Vandy are watching a horror together. it’s usually Vanderwood nagging Saeyoung for dropping the chips on the carpet, you’re laughing and Saeran is the only one to actually watch the movie and just ignore the rest

but aside the movies you two know so well and have a fun time watching, being silly at this point after watching them again and again, he really likes the ones on the darker side of realism. “The Number 23” and 1960’s “Psycho” are movies he just likes to sit down and watch

but his favorite is “American Psycho” hands down. he won’t comment much on it, he watches it pretty serious and engaged into the movie, doesn’t matter how many times he has seen it

seeing Patrick Bateman’s double life and how creepy, disturbing, frightening, satirical, funny and heartbreaking the movie is you don’t have to guess too much why Saeyoung loves this movie tho

he is the type that would totally fuck you while wearing a horror mask if you asked him to don’t @ me

boyfriend goals ksdnkjdjbnfsdjk ok i’ll see myself out

#ira geneve #rfa headcanons #zen hyun ryu #yoosung kim #jaehee kang #jumin han #saeyoung choi #mystic messenger #horror themes mentioned #mysme headcanons #anon request #writing requests #my writing

[douxreviews]

The Punisher - ‘The Abyss’ Review

"You're not the monster. You never were."

Not what you'd call a heavy action episode, but I really enjoyed it. Actually, maybe that's why I enjoyed it.

Frank, who spent nearly the entire episode cuffed to a hospital bed, was overwhelmed with guilt because he believed that he had killed three innocent women, and three very different women who all believe in Frank came to his rescue. Obviously, there was some deliberate numerical symmetry going on there.

The first of Frank's rescuers was Amy, who ran to the hospital to save Frank from anyone wanting to cash in on that five mil. She even managed to secure another disguise and talk herself past the police guard and into Frank's room, and she saved him from that rogue cop. Talk about karma.

And Karen arrived. Finally! I wanted her to be in this entire season because I can't help but see her as Frank's love interest because of that lovely moment in the elevator back in season one. Sadly, no progress on that front. But Karen also faked her way past the police guard and got Madani into the morgue to check out the bodies of those three victims.

The fact that Madani was so easily able to clear Frank, at least to her own satisfaction, was just a bit too pat for me. Frank was in kill mode and could have easily killed those women, anyway. He was pouring bullets into a concealed space and couldn't see who was in it. I understand that Frank thinks of women and children as non-combatants, and he can't bear it when they're victimized, but that doesn't make him an innocent man. It's just not as black and white as Karen sees it.

Frank is a killer. He keeps putting himself in situations where he can kill bad guys, so he must find killing satisfying in some way. Karen thinks there could be a happily-ever-after for Frank, but I don't think so. Like the Winchesters, Frank will probably keep fighting evil until it kills him. But I did find it moving when the rogue cop came in with the needle and Frank simply bared his arm for the guy. It reminded me of when Brad Pitt opened his shirt to death in Interview With the Vampire.

It's fascinating how Billy and Frank keep not killing each other when they have the chance. Billy called so that he could gloat about Frank being chained to a hospital bed, just like Billy was. Rubber bullets and rock salt explained how Frank could have lived through that bloodbath in the warehouse, and I wonder – was Billy deliberately trying to have his guys replicate his own facial scars on Frank?

So many parallels. Frank and his women, Billy and his woman. The incredibly self-centered Billy suddenly realized that he knew almost nothing about Krista Dumont, even after a lot of painful sex and killing a whole bunch of people together. This time, we learned that Krista is working out her daddy issues with Billy. When she was little, her father, a damaged Vietnam vet, took her out a window with him when he killed himself, the selfish shit. Like Karen with Frank, Krista thinks that Billy deserves happiness. She wants to heal Billy, although how she can do that by encouraging him to kill is beyond me. She must be from the Hannibal Lecter school of shrinks.

I liked those nine bullet casings Billy set up on the table while he and Krista were talking. It was a perfect and disturbing visual reminder of those murders they had just committed together. Maybe Billy was using them to keep reminding Krista of her partnership in his crimes. Of course he was.

Pilgrim's story progressed as he moved from bleeding all over his motel room to completely trashing it after Ma Kent, another selfish monster, reluctantly brought him the news that his wife Rebecca had died. Too much loss, just like everyone else in the cast. I almost felt sorry for him. Not that Ma Kent (okay, Eliza Schultz) came to tell him the news because she cared about him; she tried to keep it from him as long as she could because it might make him a less effective minion and assassin. For a moment, as she was blathering on and on at him, I thought he might even lose it and kill her. Sadly, no.

After leaving his motel room (you know, someone is going to have to clean that up), Pilgrim dropped by the hospital, looking way too conspicuous with his ripped clothes and bruised face, but arrived too late to kill Frank.

Who was handcuffed inside an ambulance. Wasn't this where we came in?

Bits:

— Curtis. Sigh. He killed for the first time and as a healer, he was very upset about it. I get that. But I was disappointed in him for leaving Amy to fend for herself.

— Karen bribed Creepy Ed the morgue guy with her own high heels. I thought that was pretty funny.

— Please tell me this episode isn't all the Karen we're getting?

— Why didn't Amy give the photos to Karen? She's a reporter, isn't she?

— Re: the five million dollar bounty, I'm unclear about whether it's five mil for each of them, or if it's a package deal. Anyone?

Quotes:

Frank: "Now I'm the monster."

Billy: (to Krista) "It was a dark thing that we did." You think? Bit of an understatement there, Billy. Pitch black would be a better adjective.

Amy: "You mother scratcher!" Why did this amuse me so much?

I really enjoyed this episode. Three out of four mother scratchers,

Billie Doux loves good television and spends way too much time writing about it.

#The Punisher #Frank Castle #Billy Russo #Dinah Madani #Karen Page #Marvel #MCU #The Punisher Reviews #Doux Reviews #TV Reviews

[another-chorus-girl]

Erik House - Chapter 20

OHMYGOODNESS quite a milestone! I will try to update quicker than this and extend the chapters to be much longer in length. Rest assured this story is far from over my friends!

Erik was not in a pleasant mood at all. After calling down several residents of the house they were all gathered before the pipe organ.

Taking a seat, Erik attempted to play a simple funeral march only for the instrument to wheeze and screech violently at the press of his fingers on the keys. Behind the black mask, Erik's gold eyes were locked in a glare crossing his arms.

"Who broke it?" The original asked, standing upright. "I insist I'm not angry-as I have my own personal instrument of disposal to me. I just want to know."

Crawford heaved a breath, "I did it, Monsieur. I br-"

"No. No you didn't." Erik interrupted, knowing full well it was not the elder Merik, despite his humble action to take the heat for this. But he did take notice to several Meriks that were also in attendance. "Perhaps however it was one of your boys..."

Panaro shook his head seeing the novelized original's steely gaze fall over him.

"See here now, don't look at me! Look at Gerik."

The film adapted tenor turned to the Broadway Merik defensively. "What?! I did NOT break it."

"Hm, that's funny. Well then how did you know it was broken monsieur?" Karimloo chimed in

"Because it's sitting right in front of us and it's broken!

Panaro stared him down, shaking his head. "Suspicious..."

"No it's not."

'If it matters.' Lerik signed, Erik as well as many of the tenants were well flent with this language by now with the black and white mute in the house.

Sometimes Lerik didn't always have his board handy. 'Well probably doesn't matter. But Monsieur Y was the last one to use it'

Mr. Y made his presence known and was outraged by the accusation. "I don't even play on this floor!"

'Really? Then pray tell what were you doing by the pipe organ earlier this evening?' He signed, his dark eyes skeptical.

"I study the inner mechanism workings so I can apply them to better my automatons. Everyone in this house knows that Monsieur!" The older man exclaimed.

"Ok, let's not fight gentlemen." Crawford intervened holding his hands out defensively, "I broke it, let me pay for it Monsieur F'antome."

"NO! Who. Broke. It?" Erik gritted through his teeth, thoroughly annoyed.

"Sir..." Cherik mumbled timidly, "Destler's been awfully quiet-"

"REALLY?!" Destler all but shouted, as the parlor erupted in debate and swears in both English, French, and even Persian resounding as half argued and a few tried to fiddle with the instrument to find the root of the problem.

Just by the stairwell, Kerik chuckled aloud watching the chaos. Winslow-whom had to fix his voice box which had been acting up again, had missed the drama unfolding.

"What is happening?" Noticing the novelized man laughing.

"I broke it," Kerik confessed to the helmet adorned maestro. "It wasn't hitting the correct note on the middle C and was quite frustrating so I punched it."

"Shouldn't you let the others know?"

Kerik shook his head, "And go out into that? I predict ten minutes from now they'll be at each others throats with war paint on their masked faces and a Hannibal prop head on a stick."

Winslow blinked quizzically as Kerik began heading upstairs.

"Besides," The masked man laughed, "It was getting a little chummy around here."

Kerik smiled at his little lady, curled up in her bed, only tonight she wasn't alone. Curled beside her were a litter of newborn kittens.

Kerik had called Nadir for some assistance, having experience in Persia when one of the Shah's feline's was expecting. Ayesha made it through the labor with little to no hitch, and the kittens appeared healthy.

Gerik crouched down, staring at the small mounds of fur, currently hungry for milk.

"What do you plan to do with them?" He asked.

Kerik scratched his head, readjusting his mask as he did so. "I haven't quite decided. Ayesha was allowed board here, but I'm not sure how they will sit with the hermit in the basement."

Charles, whom had come to see the Siamese new litter watched the mewing fluffs of fur. "Perhaps if not a shelter? Or I could ask around to find them a home if he will not allow them to be kept here?"

Gerik blinked, "Kerik? Weren't there six kittens?"

Kerik sighed, "Yes, I can count. Why?"

"I only see five."

Yellow gold eyes were wide. "What? That's not-"

With horror he whipped around to the doorframe which was slightly ajar.

"You didn't shut the door behind you?!" He exclaimed, a string of Persian curses on his tongue.

"I did, but your door has a habit of falling open if it isn't locked."

"Well don't just stand there Gerry, help me find it!"

Panaro gave his partner a sideways glance. The two Meriks were seated in the kitchen, the Broadway counterpart snacking on a bowl of dark chocolate spheres watched Karimloo quietly.

"What's going on?" Panaro asked, to which his West End fiancee jerked up.

"Beg your pardon?" Karimloo asked.

"You heated your pizza rolls more than ten minutes ago and barely touched them," Indicating to his now cold plate.

"I guess I'm not hungry."

Panaro wouldn't let it go so easily. "Is it about the wedding? You arn't having second thoughts are you?"

"No! Of course not Pan"

"Then what's happened?"

Karimloo's shoulders were tense. "I...found something in Monsieur Gerik's room."

Panaro groaned at the reminder his partner was staying with the film adapted tenor. Of all the West End wing's rooms that were affected theirs was the last room to be fixed, leaving them still seperated.

"I hardly think stumbling upon his makeshift barbies' was overly traumatizing."

"He made something. It looked like me..." Karimloo grimaced.

Panaro's attention snapped fully to the West End Merik.

"Excuse me?" His eyes narrowed not liking where this was going.

Reaching into the breastpocket of his lapel, Karimloo tossed photographs on the table.

"I imagine he used these for my likeness..." He said shakily, feeling exposed and overwhelmed.

The Broadway Merik's brown eyes scanned over each photo-obviously taken without the man's knowing.

Panaro stood, abandoning his chocolates.

"I'll make him curse the day he did not do well enough to leave us alone!" The Broadway Merik out for blood now.

Gerik however was outside the manor grounds, helping Kerik find the missing kitten, whilst Charles and his masked father searched inside. To cover more ground Kerik decided to search the third floor and the roof, while Charles checked the first floor and then the second.

All while the discreet search was happening, Crawford stepped out of his room and into the parlor. He took note of Panaro whom stormed up passed him and toward the third floor stairwell looking livid. Deciding to stay out of the Broadway man's affairs for the time being, the elder Merik settled on a seat in the parlor.

He opened the newest Playbill, an impressive casting he deduced from reviews in New York.

"Wait, Crawford who?" The Merik stammered aloud, continuing to read.

But while reading he was interrupted by a tug on the tail of his suit jacket. Confused he glanced down toward where the pulling sensation came from and was surprised to say the least.

The kitten stared up at him, Crawford's mismatch eyes contorted in confusion.

"Where did you come from little one?" He asked the small mound of fur, unhooking it's tiny paw from his suit.

It was all black, save for it's little feet and a white blotch over it's right eye-the Merik chuckled as it looked as though it adorned it's own pint size mask.

The kitten walked as though it were it's first day on new feet-though it had been over a week already on these feet. To avoid the tiny creature toppling out of his hand, Crawford set the kitten on the adjacent cushion. This only leading to the feline wobbly walking and seating itself on his lap.

And everytime it climbed back on him, it smushed the Playbill out of his hand, seeking out affection.

With a chuckle, Crawford rubbed behind the kitten's ears.

"Well I suppose I won't be getting any reading done." Standing up, the Merik scooped up the kitten and sat down at the bench in front of the organ.

Seating the furry creature beside him, he poised his hands over the keys.

"Did you find it?" Kerik asked as he and Charles met at the stairwell.

The younger man sighed, "No"

"Well it has to be somewhere around here. I mean surely it-"

But the masked man was halted when Charles raised a hand shushing him.

He glared yellow gold glow eyes at his son, "Boy what are you-?"

"Shh! Do you here that?" He asked as Kerik too listened.

The masked man shrugged, pushing a stray hair out of his face.

"It's just one of the Meriks' no doubt, this is their floor."

"No not the music, listen again."

It was faint over the haunting bellows of the organ, but a small mewing could also be heard.

"You don't suppose?" Charles asked, as the two creeped to the parlor.

They could see Crawford had his back to them, and seated by him was a tiny dark ball of fur, appearing to try and half mew half howl feebly to the music.

Pausing his aria, the older Merik chuckled, rubbing under the kitten's chin-whom purred and rubbed against his hand in response.

"If I could teach Sarah, perhaps we could learn you a sense of pitch as well hm?" He said, before continuing where he'd left off.

Charles smirked, "Well I suppose we only have to worry about giving five kittens a home."

Kerik stared at his son, "You can't be serious? You want to let the old man keep it?"

"From the looks of things I don't really think it's up to either of us. Or up to him it seems." Charles said, watching the kitten scoot closer, rubbing the man's occupied hand on the keys for

Footnotes as always!

-The first scene was highly inspired and quotes this scene from the popular tv series “Parks and Recreation” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auK3t0MSsCA

-Playbills for those who may not fully understand is indeed a magazine focused specifically on theatre and given as programs at some theatre production, Phantom being no exception.

-Yes, Crawford was indeed reading about Broadway’s latest Phantom currently Ben Crawford (no relation to Michael)

#Erik house AU #erik house #Gerik #Merik #Kerik

[th3fragile]

1, 9, 10, 12, 13, 20, 22, 50, 51, 58, 64, 65, 76, 77, 80, 82, 85, 90, 91 and 94

WAHHHHHHH that was fast. Thank you pal!

1.Sunrise or sunset?:Aesthetically,sunset. I’m more a sunrise person though.

9.Introvert or extrovert?:I think introvert.

10.What do you think when you look at your body?:I’m disgusted.I ‘ve come a long way in self-acceptance and just then started body issues and not relating to my body in gendered terms.So yeah.One of the worst relationships ever.But I also know I’m the only one who could possibly love it.

12.Do you have a particular song that you feel deeply?:Generally it’s Autumntales by Lyriel. Right now, it’s Waste by Brand New.

13.Talk about a time in your life where you have felt most alive?:Summer 2015,and my Nightwish gig in Bologna in 2015.

20.Favorite part of your body?:Hair but also ears.

22.Favorite quote?:Anything that comes out of Virginia Woolf or Esenin’s suicide notes; from Majakovskij’s or from 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane.

50.Have you committed an illegal act?:Yes

51.If you had two days to spend one million dollars how would you spend it?:My silly first reaction would be to buy a lot and treat myself;it’d probably be better to just buy them to get my family fixed and invest them in something useful such as a farm or idk

58.What colour eyes, hair and skin do you have?:Brown,green and white

64.Are you comfortable accepting compliments?:Not really,though I welcome them

65.Are you comfortable giving compliments?:it’s my favourite activity

76.Have you ever stopped someone from hurting themselves?:Yes

77.Has anyone ever stopped you from hurting yourself?:No.Not that I recall.I had people help me out after very bad cutting session but nobody ever stopped me.

80.Do you have any funny family stories?:A lot!But most of them make sense in italian

82.Do you like to watch true crime shows or movies?:YES!

85.List some things you wanted in your childhood but never got?:to go on a plane or a cruise with my ex best friend, a Tamagotchi,and probably more but I can’t recall right now

90.Do you keep a journal?:Yes

91.Would anyone be hurt by reading it?:Yes,probably

94.List your favorite movies?:AHHHH I don’t know!!I’ll copypaste what I put in my ‘about me’:Tim Burton’s, the Hannibal Lecter saga, Harry Potter, Gentelmen Prefer Blondes, Marie Antoinette, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Repo!The Genetic Opera, The Help, Easy A, St.Trinian’s, Chloe, The Virgin Suicides, Little Miss Sunshine, Farewell My Queen, Blindness, The Hours, Mamma Mia!, Hairspray, Hamlet, Mean Girls, Sucker Punch, The Phantom Of The Opera, Game Change, Toast, Thirteen, V for Vendetta, Girl Interrupted, The Hobbit, The Addams Family, A Single Man, The Craft, Chicago, Shutter Island, The English Teacher, Pulp Fiction, Perfume, The Breakfast Club, American Mary, Lonely Hearts, Monster, Thelma&Louise, Cry Baby, Le Fate Ignoranti, Pretty In Pink, Clueless, The Devil’s Advocate, Carol, Mommy, Suffragette, Pride, the Namesake, Into the Forest, Moonlight, The Bridge.

#anon

[lunarsaturn88]

Runaway Bride Can’t Hurry Love Part 8- Sam Winchester

Warnings: Some angst (I think)

Words: 1081

Pairing: Cas x Reader, Sam x Reader (Later)

A/N: Welcome to Part 8 of Runaway Bride Can’t Hurry Love. I hope that you guys enjoy this next part.

Summary: You get a little surprise when you come home.

You had a nice day after seeing Sam go through the torture that he had put you through. Coloring his hair was sweet vengeance. You pulled up into the driveway of your home in your beat up truck that you used for work. You happily got out of your truck and walked inside, dropping your bag and toolbox by the door.

“You know, when I only see one dog, I know I’ve had too much to drink,” your father said as he put down his beer bottle onto the table.

“You’ll never guess who came crawling into town with his tail between his legs,” you said with a smile as you walked into the room. You saw your soon to be husband, Cas, your father, and your grandmother waiting for you.

“Who?” a voice that you recognized well said.

You stopped in your tracks when you saw Sam sitting in the room with a hat protectively covering his colored hair.

Sam smiled from his spot on the couch. “Hello, Y/N,” he said in an innocent tone. “I just came by to apologize to your family.” Sam looked at your father. “When I’m wrong, I’m wrong. I pushed a story. I made a mistake.”

“In other words… he’s only human. And he brought us wine to drink,” your father said, holding up a full wine bottle.

“They made me put my hat back on,” Sam said offering you a small smile.

“Oh, yeah scared the hell out of Rufus.” Your father explained to you.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” you said as you looked up at the ceiling, not liking the idea of having Sam Winchester in your home.

“No, no, you should have seen Rufus,” Cas said with a chuckle, growling a little bit.

“It wasn’t that funny,” Sam said looking at Cas. He didn’t see it as funny. He had never had a dog growl at him like your dog had, and he loved dogs.

You moved towards Cas with a stiff smile on your lips and you sat on the arm of the chair that he was sitting in, putting your arm on his shoulder. “So, the forces of good and evil have already met.” You took the wine bottle from the table that was next to your father and looked at Cas before storming out of the room.

Cas quickly got up and followed you to make sure that you were alright.  “I’ll help you take that into the kitchen.”

“Check on the crabs, Cas,” your grandmother told Cas as he walked out of the room.

“You got it,” Cas called back to your grandmother.

Sam looked over his shoulder with pursed lips. “Gee, I hope they don’t have a fight out there. You don’t think they’ll call it off?” It would make his story even better if something happened. He wanted to get the truth about you and he would if it was the last thing that he did.

“Well, wedding cake freezes. This we know,” your father replied leaning back in his seat. He knew first hand with how many wedding cakes he had to freeze because of you running off. He and your grandmother had been the ones to sit down and eat them after all three cancelled weddings.

“You know, your daughter seems… like a lovely girl,” Sam said softly.

Your father pointed to a painting on the wall. “Like her mother.”

Sam saw the portrait. “Ah, beautiful.” He got up to admire it. “I just can’t see her leaving multiple grooms in the dust like that.”

“Oh, yes, you can. She has ‘em all on tape,” your grandmother.

“She has a tape?” Sam asked, surprised to know that you kept tapes of the embarrassing ceremonies.

“Yeah. Chuck at the hotel videos weddings. I mean, Y/N didn’t know she was doing to make the hundred-yard dash,” your father said gesturing to a pile of videos that were on the bookcase.

Sam went over and looked at the tapes. “Dad’s fishing trip, Grandma’s knee operation, Grandma’s birthday…”

“Gotta tell you this about my daughter. My daughter makes real good time, even in a long dress and heels. Y/N may not be Hannibal’s longest running joke, but she certainly is the fastest,” your father laughed.

“Ha ha,” your grandmother said giving your father a look.

Sam noticed a tape that said Y/N I, II, III. Sam carefully picked it up while your grandmother and father went into the dining room.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Your father whacked his crab with a hammer busting it open. “Y/M/N and I were only blessed with one child, not for lack of trying.”

You took a bite of your crab rolling your eyes. “This is good, Dad, don’t leave anything out.”

Sam’s hammer flew out of his hand, and he went to pick it up from where it had landed.

“So I’ve come to see it as a bonus, really, that we’ve been able to plan, and pay for so many weddings.”

“Not this one. This one’s on me.”

Your father looked at you with wide eyes, shocked hearing you say that.

“That’s fair,” Sam said looking at you.

“Despite what you think, I don’t do it on purpose. And I have no intention of doing it again.”

Cas looked at you with a smile. “That’s right, Y/N. Just keep your eye on the ball.”

Sam looked at Cas, raising his eyebrows in question to what he had said.

“Sports psychology. It was my major in college,” Cas explained to Sam.

“Ah…”

“I’m the town’s unofficial fitness trainer. Big advocate of the mind and body combining for success. You could say, or you can quote me, I’m a glass full kind of guy.”

“Cas is the head of the P.E. department at the high school. And he coaches the football team. And he’s climbed Everest.”

Sam looked at Cas with a shocked look. He hadn’t been expecting that. “Everest. Is that right?”

“Twice…”

“Really?”

“Without oxygen…”

“My girl likes to brag about me,” Cas said with a coy smile.

You leaned over and kissed Cas on the lips.

“I’m taking her trekking in Annapurna on our honeymoon.”

“How romantic,” Sam said with a coy smile.

“We think so.”

“Nothing like sharing your nuptial bed with Sherpas and a yak.”

Your father laughed at what Sam said.

You shot Sam a look that could kill.

Sam smiled at you knowing that he had won this round.

Tagging: @idreamofhazel (Thanks for betaing this) @faegal04 @supernatural508 @mommy-winchester @mamaredd123 @crazysocklovingfangirl @mrswhozeewhatsis @baitellasupernatural @fandommaniacx  @oneshoeshort @tinalynn91 @sofreddie

#Sam Winchester #castiel #Runaway Bride Cant Hurry Love #SUPERNATURAL AU

[cmnatic]

Get to know me in 100 Questions

1) Have you ever been in a relationship?

Yesss

2) Do you have a crush on anybody?

OH DO I

3) Is there anyone you don’t like?

Generally? People who can’t accept others, be it expressing themselves how they like, or whose hand they choose too hold

4) What is your sexuality?

Gay (GOTY)

5) Do you have any siblings? If so are they older or younger?

Two! And they’re younger, they’re my Brothers.

6) What are your plans for the near future?

(Very) near future is to move away from my Home Town. attend University, start a-fresh and be able to express myself in multiple ways, away from my family

7) What do you usually wear everyday?

Depends on the day, during the week it’s shirt and tie with cargo’s for Work, and on the weekends it’s t-shirt and jeans generally. Unless I’m riding, then it’s thick ass gear the entire time.

8) What songs do you like to listen to?

I’ll cover this answer in a post somewhere

9) Can you give me a link to one of the songs you listen to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6JpxDebokM

10) What are you usually fond doing?

Driving, attending concerts or chilling with people that I love.

11) What’s your favorite movie genre?

I want to say Horror, but specifically psychological horror. Though, I think Crime / Thrillers is my answer.

12) Do you have any movie recommendations?

The Closet Monster, The way he looks, a few.

13) When is your birthday (Month, day)?

23rd August :S

14) What is your favorite colour?

Blue! or maybe purple. Why not both? live a little

15) What country do you live in?

United Kingdom!

16) Who do you look up to?

Probably Chance the rapper, I find his Music and his story very moving. I don’t want to become him, but what he’s done and his History. Very inspiring. But actually, I would say a colleague that I had the pleasure of working with. He’s improved his life, and is working in a very very cool place.

17) What religion are you in? (Christianity, Buddhism, etc.)

I’m not a followerer of any.

18) What books/fanfics do you recommend for me to read?

To be honest, I’m not really a fan of Books or fanfics as a whole.

19) What are some topics that trigger you?

I don’t really know???

20) What are some of your pet peeves?

A) Loud chewers B) Heavy breathers C) Earphones tangling

21) What shows/anime do you recommend for me to watch?

I reccommend a few TV Shows, I could never get into Anime. Dexter, Hannibal (it’s pretty gory to say the least though) Still game, I have a list. 22) What is your favorite food?

A stir-fry of some description, but like Steak or maybe Chicken to be honest 23) Who is your favorite [Insert anime/show] character?

Will Graham? Oh no! Elliot from Mr Robot, I have a huuuuuuuuuge crush for (Young) Rami Malek

24) What is your favorite kind of chocolate (milk chocolate, dark, special dark, white chocolate, etc.)

Not really a fan of chocolate as a whole, but if I was to have any, I’d choose white chocolate

25) If you could be anywhere in the world, where would you be?

Sweden, or maybe Denmark?

26) Can you draw? If so can you draw yourself/your muse?

Oh how I desperately wish.

27) What hairstyle do you usually have?

Literally cannot describe without providing a photo of it.

28) Do you have another blog? If so can you tell me what it is?

Yeah! https://blog.cmnatic.co.uk

29) What do you like to snack on when you’re bored?

Popcorn or ....... whatever I can find lmao

30) What is your favorite popcorn flavor?

I know how bad it is, but salted.

31) What is your favorite potato chip flavor?

Sweet chili, yeaaah

32) What is the best food to make with potatoes?

Curly fries, fight me if you think otherwise

33) Do you have more interest in planets or stars?

Stars are pretty.

34) What is your Chinese zodiac?

I had to google this but, the Rabbit? I’d say I agree with it actually.

35) What is your horoscope? 36) Do you play video games?

Yeah, a few. Not anywhere near as much as I used too.

37) What video games do you play?

Project Cars, Dirt Rally, League of Legends, and slwoly getting back into Starcraft 2

38) What is your least favorite color?

Yellow, or green.

39) What is your least favorite movie?

I can’t name one specifically ,but I hatedd the Transformers series as a whole. Alongsie other stuff.

40) What is your least favorite food?

Far too much, I don’t like fish, mushrooms, tomatoes. Yeah, i’m pretty bland lmao.

41) What’s your favorite country?

Depends on the Season, Sweden is gorgeous in the Winter, but the UK can be lovely during the Summer so.

42) What is your favorite state? 43) What place would you like to go for sightseeing?

America to be honest, or Iceland actually!

44) Who are your five favorite characters? 45) What are your top five ships?

- @alotofalotte + Harry = lorry

- Yuri and Viktor, though they’re a thing so. I’m behind it regardless.

46) Would you rather see the future or change the past?

I feel like I could make so much more use of the Future, rather then change the past.

47) If you could change one thing in your life, what would it be?

- A lot. But probably my anxiety and the people I’m surrounded by.

48) If you could be anything what would you be?

Firefighter or a Paramedic actually.

49) What’s better: earrings or necklaces?

Necklaces fo’ sure.

50) What’s your favorite flower?

Cheesy, but despite what it does to my alergies, it’ll be lavendar or elderflower.

51) What’s your favorite band/singer?

Gonna do both because I can’t choose:

Band - Iron Maiden, Guns N roses, Fleetwood Mac

Artists - Post-malone, Troye Sivan, Lorde (but Heroine era) Stevie

52) Who’s your favorite artist?

Probably Troye.

53) What is your favorite quote and who’s it by? 54) What’s your favorite book and who’s it by? 55) Who’s your favorite author? 56) What do you think of [Insert blog name]? 57) Do you like to play board games/card games?

Yes!

58) What’s your favorite board game?

In Sweden, there’s a ‘traditional’ Board Game called “Bondespelet” where you manage a farm, choose the crops that you want plant during the Seasons, and you have to make as much Money as you can and beat the other farmers.

59) What’s your favorite card game to play?

Cards against Humanity, my sick humour can’t hide that lmao.

60) Will you ever do a face reveal?

Possibly, lets see if I continue well with my weight loss.

61) Do you wear glasses or contact lenses?

No! But I used too wear glasses a few years ago.

62) Do you have braces or anything for your teeth?

Nope

63) What’s your favorite form of art?

Music, or photography.

64) Do you like to cook/bake?

Cook, yes

65) What’s your favorite food to cook/bake?

Oh gosh, anything really. I just like the act of cooking.

66) 67) Do you wear any accessories?

Nope, not really.

68) What’s your favorite kind of cookie?

Chocolate chip if I had to choose.

69) Are you still a virgin?

Heh. *ahem* I don’t advertise if I am or not, people who know me, know if I am or not. 70) What inspires you?

Seeing the work that other people do.

71) What’s your favorite poem and who’s it by? 72) What’s your favorite brand?

Oh this is a good one, I can’t think of particular ultra favourites.

73) Norse or Greek mythology?

Norse. 74) Favorite YouTuber and why?

Big Narstie, he’s beyond hilarious. Or uh, Jim Sterling. Bigclive live, he dissaembles electrics and stuff. Very cool stuff

75) What your favorite drink?

Ribena, or capri-sun or, Greggs Lemonade. Depends on the day to be honest. I’m like a pregnant woman in that sense.

76) would you rather drink coffee or tea?

Neither, I don’t drink both

77) Soda or no soda?

Again, changes like upon the week.

78) What’s your favorite soda?

Coke cherry.

79) Minecraft or Terraria?

Minecraft, though Terraria is quite fun too.

80) Are you still in school?

Nope, but I will be heading into Uni shortly.

81) Would you rather married or single?

I honestly don’t know, I’d say married cause I hated being Single once I wasn’t single.

82) Are you friends with any blogs irl?

Yes!

83) What’s better: hot or cold?

Cold. For. Definite.

84) Are you an introvert, extrovert, or somewhere between?

I was an Introvert, I’d like to think over the past year I’ve been leaning more to extrovert, but I’d still be majorly introvert.

85) Do you curse/say bad words?

Too fuckin’ much. I even change them up, makes it interesting. 86) Did you ever witness bad incidents or accidents?

Yeah.

87) Have you ever gotten into a bad incident or accident?

Yeah, Ive come off a motorbike twice, I wouldn’t say it was serious, but damn i felt it for a good few days. My knee from the 2nd one still causes me a bit of pain here and there today.

88) What language(s) do you speak?

Swedish and English

89) If you could speak any language what would it be?

It’d be something like German, It’s aggressive but there’s something about it. idk.

90) What are your opinions on sharks?

Fin.

91) Do you have any pets? How many?

3 pets!

92) What’s your favorite element?

I don’t really have one aha. But it’d be ones that people combine to make a funny work, I like those kinds of things.

93) What’s your favorite season?

Winter, or the season before Winter when it transitions from Summer to winter (fall?)

94) Have you ever gotten trouble? What for?

No, not really. Had run-ins with the police, but nothing came of it and/or was anything to do with me.

95) would you rather go on defense or offense?

Defense

96) Choose one: Spiders, Snakes, or Sharks?

None, all of them terrify me.

97) What place have you gone to for vacation? Was it fun?

Spain, that was quite enjoyable!

98) Do you have any phobias? What are some of them? 99) What’s your favorite time of the year?

Again, winter. But I’ve enjoy the Summer of this year, so many things with sos many cool people.

100) Top bunk or bottom bunk?

Bottom bunk, even though I’m certified at working at heights. Watching me climb up ladders is a sight and a half. I can’t be dealing with that when I first wake up.

#get to know me #easy answers #nothing to hide #pretty sfw / non-embarassing #100 questions #aboutme #more to come

[this-is-my-decline]

Red Dragon con 3 recap part 3

PART 1 - 2 

Hugh and Bryan Q&A panel summary (well, only Hugh in this post though)

Poor Hugh had to start the panel alone, because Bryan was still taking his time doing his autographs! In the end, the whole panel lasted close to 1hr extra, but I’m not sure anyone really minded! (Also, once again, apologies for possible inaccuracies, but I tried to make this as detailed as I could!)

Hugh

-The panel started with Hugh announcing he would not planning to do any one man reenactments of BDSM practices :’D 

-The first (oh god haha) question was if he did any preparations for his role in Hysteria? Well, he did hand exercises...also, some guy in customs in Israel asked him “did you do that vibrator movie?”

-Dream project? “Besides the obvious?”. Hugh trusts Bryan, and would take part in any of his projects. 

-Will presenting to be “on the spectrum” was a defense mechanism!

-People kept telling Hugh “thank you for being here”, and he just had to emphasize that HE is really happy to be here. (aww)

-Role models: directors who went the extra mile, family, friends.

-Cal is a “very lonely man”. “The last thing I would do would be to practice in front of a mirror”.

-Hugh and Mads joked about Will finding Hannibal’s notes on him, and wondered if Hannibal had a “don’t show this to Will” folder.

-Hugh about Hannibal: Hannibal is an evil genius, getting dressed up in the morning, preparing food etc. “When does that man sleep?”

-Will Graham would be the world’s worst Christian Grey like billionaire: he’d live in the same house, buy more dogs, upgrade his fishing equipment, build a wall around the house...and he’d never take off his glasses.

-Hannibal & Will relationship: To Hugh, when Will asks “is Hannibal in love with me”, it’s weird it hasn’t occurred to him before. Before that question, he saw it as platonic obsessive love. “For both of them it’s a relief from loneliness. Is that not love?”. Meeting a person who answers all your questions, even if they create more questions in the process. The world makes more sense when they’re together. (I really wish I could give a direct quote about this!)

- Will was plenty dark before Hannibal’s influence. Will was born with his mental makeup, as was Hannibal. “It doesn’t matter what kid got eaten”.

-What does Will listen to? “He could be a Deadhead and listens to 70s rock. He could also have a deep love for Austrian chamber music”. Will could be one of those people who are full of surprises, so maybe he played the piano in his house, but it probably came with the house.

-”You could think about these things more in depth. I’m very aware the characters are not real, except Scott’s performance which was rooted in reality”

-”If Will and Hannibal survived the fall...”, “Oh they did”. Maybe Hannibal had a magic toolbox that saved them? The fall was real, not a metaphor. It was a deliberate decision for Will to go off the cliff, he was convinced they both had to go. After the fall, there would be a lot of recuperation going on, and it would allow a kind of character reset. However, a show without Will’s empathy would not the show anymore. 

-Then a question about the wedding..and Hugh starts with “I couldn’t imagine them having a wedding”, “I mean with Molly”, “oh” (Hugh please..). Anyway, it probably was a simple wedding, just going to the courthouse.

- Hugh had to explain the “mic drop” thing to Mads.

- In Digestivo Will outplayed Hannibal, using the knowledge of Hannibal’s soft spot for him as an advantage. Will also genuinely wanted to break up with Hannibal.

- The dogs were rescue dogs! The scenes with them took a long time because they were not trained.

-Filming was very hard work, you couldn’t come in half prepared. But ”Mads is a very funny person on set, Bryan is very funny, Aaron tries, and Scott...pffft.”

-A big motivation for Hugh coming to the con was seeing Bryan and the cast again, aww!

-What kind of shoes would Hannibal wear to the beach in Cuba? “Probably something as ridiculous as the hat”.

-”Every gentleman should own a pair of slippers and a library card”, Bryan to Hugh...(though I have no idea what the context for this even was????)

-”It was so fucking cold in Toronto”. Then he apologizes for saying “fucking”, of course. They all held hot water bottles to stay warm.

-Trajectory for each season: S1 waking up with feet covered in mud and vomit up an ear. S2 accepting and even desiring Hannibal’s knife and the consummation of Hannibal pushing the knife into him. S3 the horror of being violent and bloody and yet thinking it was beautiful.

-Will would be happy to be at the table, eating Bedelia. Will was only really bitchy with her! He had his claws out with her, and Will would think she had it coming. “Meat is back on the menu!”.

-OK I know there is a direct quote about this going around which you should take a look at, but: Will hadn’t conceived Hannibal could feel love. You would look at Hannibal all “nice suits, nice kitchen, nice conversationalist, nice hair - but not think what a loving guy!”. He didn’t think love being what he experienced with Hannibal.

-Why did Will draw his gun in TWOTL? “Ok now I’m here with TWO psychos”. Will was 50% open to watching Hannibal get killed though.

-Hugh says it’s possible he said something about bellydancing once, because “sometimes you run out of things to say” :’D

-The mic made him sound like he had a really shaky voice or he was crying, and Hugh just joked about it “maybe I should recite some sad poetry”. it was pretty hilarious!

-Hugh wants to do more work on broadway, in NY and London!

-Is Will a good man? “Will is trying to be a good man, but he’s not only a good man...he has good in him, and that other thing”.

-How did Will feel like when Chiyoh pushed him off the train? “How would YOU feel when someone pushed you off a train? I survived ANOTHER thing no human should survive. Now I have to walk like 300 miles and my leg hurts. I’m not a lucky guy”

-”A Little Life” was the last book he had read. 

aaaaand I’ll cut here because this got SO LONG, so next part will be Hugh AND Bryan together! If you have something to add, PLEASE DO, I know I’m missing some details.

#red dragon con #rdc3 #rdc3 recap #hannibalcon #hannibal #panel summary #hugh dancy #saturday

[geminigrlfriend]

All of them!!!!!!!!! 💖💕👍

1. Who was the last person you held hands with? my bf!! the angel

2. Are you outgoing or shy? pretty outgoing but sometimes i get shy

3. Who are you looking forward to seeing? my parents tomorrowwww

4. Are you easy to get along with? i hope so?? i couldn’t tell you

5. If you were drunk would the person you like take care of you? yeah he would

6. What kind of people are you attracted to? kind and fun ones. people who are dorks and make me laugh

7. Do you think you’ll be in a relationship two months from now? yeah (i mean i hope so i don’t wanna mess with my karma by being too cocky)

8. Who from the opposite gender is on your mind? stephen who else 

9. Does talking about sex make you uncomfortable? no i’m almost too comfortable with it

10. Who was the last person you had a deep conversation with? stephen

11. What does the most recent text that you sent say? it’s up to you!! i can do either b (to rach about our breakfast plans tomorrow)

12. What are your 5 favorite songs right now? sweet dispostion-the temper trap, i can lift a car-walk the moon, west coast-FIDLAR, faith-george michael, and hope-modern baseball

13. Do you like it when people play with your hair? yes yes yes

14. Do you believe in luck and miracles? yes! just tryin to have hope

15. What good thing happened this summer? rach and i went on a lot of drives 

16. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again? yes i’m gonna kiss him tomorrow! 

17. Do you think there is life on other planets? yes 

18. Do you still talk to your first crush? no 

19. Do you like bubble baths? yes with lush bath bombs and bubbles. my fav

20. Do you like your neighbors? yeah they’re cute 

21. What are you bad habits? biting my nails, smoking, getting angry too easily at little things

22. Where would you like to travel? iceland, india, england, france, and many more

23. Do you have trust issues? yeah but i’m better than i was before 

24. Favorite part of your daily routine? washing my makeup off at night

25. What part of your body are you most uncomfortable with? my butt and arms

26. What do you do when you wake up? check the cosmo snap story 

27. Do you wish your skin was lighter or darker? nope

28. Who are you most comfortable around? melly, stephen, rach, and my parents

29. Have any of your ex’s told you they regret breaking up? no but one was very reluctant to even break up does that count

30. Do you ever want to get married? yes!! 

31. If your hair long enough for a pony tail? it’s in one rn! 

32. Which celebrities would you have a threesome with? rami malek and daniel norris (who is a baseball player but whatever)

33. Spell your name with your chin. ssfss 

34. Do you play sports? What sports? nah i’m not coordinated 

35. Would you rather live without TV or music? someone else asked me this so imma save it!

36. Have you ever liked someone and never told them? ^^ same as above

37. What do you say during awkward silences? oh god too much

38. Describe your dream girl/guy? honest, kind, funny, dorky, respectful, curly hair, light eyes, and totally in love with me

39. What are your favorite stores to shop in? TARGET and trader joes

40. What do you want to do after high school? currently in college so i guess that was the answer

41. Do you believe everyone deserves a second chance? no. on minor stuff yes, but some people really don’t.

42. If your being extremely quiet what does it mean? that i’m disassociating or that i’m sad or that i just don’t feel like talking

43. Do you smile at strangers? sometimes!

44. Trip to outer space or bottom of the ocean? s p a c e

45. What makes you get out of bed in the morning? coffee and plans

46. What are you paranoid about? so many things. that i’m never gonna live the life i want to

47. Have you ever been high? yep 

48. Have you ever been drunk? yep

49. Have you done anything recently that you hope nobody finds out about? no

50. What was the colour of the last hoodie you wore? i think black?

51. Ever wished you were someone else? all the time

52. One thing you wish you could change about yourself? pls whoever or whatever god is make my nose smaller

53. Favourite makeup brand? love e.l.f

54. Favourite store? target

55. Favourite blog? flowury i love her

56. Favourite colour? green! and pink and yellow

57. Favourite food? berries and pizza

58. Last thing you ate? powered sugar donuts

59. First thing you ate this morning? powdered sugar donuts lol (it was a big bag of them)

60. Ever won a competition? For what? i won a tshirt design competition in 5th grade omg my proudest moment my dad still wears the shirt i designed

61. Been suspended/expelled? For what? no

62. Been arrested? For what? no

63. Ever been in love? on the verge of it right now

64. Tell us the story of your first kiss? i was laying in bed with this boy i had a crush on and we were drunk and the shining was on and xmas lights were lighting the room and he leaned over and kissed me

65. Are you hungry right now? actually yes which is sad cause i just told melly i wasn’t gonna go get food earlier but i have regrets. i may order pizza. 

66. Do you like your tumblr friends more than your real friends? no i love my real friends

67. Facebook or Twitter? i don’t even have a twitter but still probably twitter

68. Twitter or Tumblr? tumblr

69. Are you watching tv right now? nope

70. Names of your bestfriends? melly, rach, han, maddy, and britt

71. Craving something? What? food! 

72. What colour are your towels? blue

72. How many pillows do you sleep with? two

73. Do you sleep with stuffed animals? yeah i have my valentine’s seal i bought for myself after i broke up with someone cause i was sad

74. How many stuffed animals do you think you have? about 10? 15?

75. Favourite animal? i love cats

76. What colour is your underwear? grey

77. Chocolate or Vanilla? vanilla

78. Favourite ice cream flavour? MINT CHOCOLATE CHIP

79. What colour shirt are you wearing? grey

80. What colour pants? saving it for someone else 

81. Favourite tv show? ooh i love so many. gilmore girls, call the midwife, outlander, hannibal, fargo, etc.

82. Favourite movie? the shining

83. Mean Girls or Mean Girls 2? original

84. Mean Girls or 21 Jump Street? mean girls but i do love jump street

85. Favourite character from Mean Girls? ms. norbury

86. Favourite character from Finding Nemo? nemooo

87. First person you talked to today? stephen

88. Last person you talked to today? melly

89. Name a person you hate? donald trump

90. Name a person you love? all my friends 

91. Is there anyone you want to punch in the face right now? refer to question 89

92. In a fight with someone? no

93. How many sweatpants do you have? like 6 

94. How many sweaters/hoodies do you have? ooh too many 

95. Last movie you watched? the babadook

96. Favourite actress? katharine hepburn

97. Favourite actor? love rami malek

98. Do you tan a lot? no

99. Have any pets? 3 cats n 2 birds

100. How are you feeling? hungry and have a little headache

101. Do you type fast? average

102. Do you regret anything from your past? yeah

103. Can you spell well? yes

104. Do you miss anyone from your past? i mean yeah but my life is better without them

105. Ever been to a bonfire party? yes

106. Ever broken someone’s heart? yes

107. Have you ever been on a horse? no

108. What should you be doing? nothing cause finals are over!!! bye!!

109. Is something irritating you right now? no

110. Have you ever liked someone so much it hurt? yes yes 

111. Do you have trust issues? ya

112. Who was the last person you cried in front of? my parents

113. What was your childhood nickname? i didn’t have one! 

114. Have you ever been out of your province/state? yes

115. Do you play the Wii? someone else asked !

116. Are you listening to music right now? no

117. Do you like chicken noodle soup? i’m vegetarian but 5th grade me lived off of tim horton’s chicken noodle

118. Do you like Chinese food? yeah!

119. Favourite book? too many

120. Are you afraid of the dark? no

121. Are you mean? i can be

122. Is cheating ever okay? no!!!!!

123. Can you keep white shoes clean? lol

124. Do you believe in love at first sight? no

125. Do you believe in true love? yes

126. Are you currently bored? yes i’m answering 150 questions for no reason

127. What makes you happy? my friends, my boyfriend, my parents, avocado toast, music

128. Would you change your name? no i like my name

129. What your zodiac sign? gemini!

130. Do you like subway? yes that sounds so good rn wow

131. Your bestfriend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do? see if i like them back then proceed from there

132. Who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with? ,, this was already asked,, 

133. Favourite lyrics right now? “will i ever be able to be your hope”

134. Can you count to one million? i’m so impatient!!

135. Dumbest lie you ever told? i can’t remember but i’m sure it was dumb

136. Do you sleep with your doors open or closed? closed

137. How tall are you? 5′8

138. Curly or Straight hair? curlyyy it’s so cute

139. Brunette or Blonde? both are pretty

140. Summer or Winter? usually winter but rn i want summer and watermelon

141. Night or Day? day

142. Favourite month? october 

143. Are you a vegetarian? i am!

144. Dark, milk or white chocolate? milk

145. Tea or Coffee? coffee

146. Was today a good day? yeah it was good but cold

147. Mars or Snickers? snickers

148. What’s your favourite quote? i don’t know if i have a favorite!

149. Do you believe in ghosts? yes they’re always watching

150. Get the closest book next to you, open it to page 42, what’s the first line on that page? “later heard her volley crude nonsense at Rose across the fence.” from lolita

thanks for asking b xx