#quite extraordinary

[reflectismo]

You know, it just dawned on me that these photos were taken at the exact same press conference where photographer Allan DeLay recalls being fascinated by Paul’s beauty, so much so that he couldn’t take his eyes off of him (photos he took below):

Something was in the air that day.

#Paul McCartney #Allan DeLay #John Lennon #1965 #The Beatles #(I personally would have been looking at John) #(But yes Paul does look quite extraordinary that day)

[tsilvy]

So. Not to be that person (i'm literally that person), but there it is, the proof we didn't need, right?

In S1 there are clues enough (particularly in ep 3) that between 1793 (1800 if you count the script) and 1862 something very very bad happened between Hell and Crowley that made him chop off most of his hair (again), call an emergency meeting with Aziraphale in St. James's Park and ask for holy water, bla bla bla. This is where we were.

Well, here we go. In 1827, in Edinburgh, Crowley does a good deed while out of his head with laudanum. Maybe Hell noticed. Most probably no they didn't, until Aziraphale accidentally does what Crowley with various degrees of gravity has repeatedly asked him to never ever do. To never ever say out loud that Crowley is doing anything resembling good. That was very kind of you. You did a very good deed. He's said it many times before, with nothing happening, yes. But for all its bad management, Hell has updated their surveillance systems somewhat. Walls have ears now. Trees have ears. Maybe Gabriel's fucking statue has ears. And that made a bell ring in Hell that hadn't rung before.

Their lot send no rude notes, though. No, what they do is holding crash courses for forgetful demons about four-letter-words such as nice, or kind, or good. For what we know, those can be as short as a few minutes or as long as 35 years. But Aziraphale didn't see Crowley for a long time, after that night.

#i am in pain #quite extraordinary amounts of pain #good omens #good omens spoilers #good omens s2 #good omens season 2 #good omens s2 spoilers #spoilers #hell's violence #hell #crowley #my meta #meta

[gabetheunknown]

@after-the-end-times

Ah, there it is! I saw a post like this the other day and I could not, for the life of me find it back, so I'm glad I get to share my thoughts about this after all (not that anything would've stopped me) Prepare for the essay, I never keep things short!

The Rockrose and the Thistle, is in my opinion a love song of sorts, but a different kind of love song that Extraordinary Things is, focused on the first part of it. Both songs are very similar in more ways than just recurring notes. Both songs are written in Dminor. (wheras Extraordinary Things has Minor Melodic elements that raises the 6th note to create the G major chord he plays when he sings the lyrics ‘extraordinary things’ and sings an A on top which sounds really pretty and immediately caught my ear) 

The notes everyone is referring to are in the intro of Extraordinary Things, D C D E F E F G A B♭ A G A  (I put it on a scale because I can and I’m a nerd. I also love the harmonies)

And it doesn’t just come back in the Rockrose and the Thistle, there’s two other songs written in Dminor in the Horror and the Wild and that is The Horror and the Wild, where the repetition of these tones are beautifully audible in Madeleine’s ‘You are the son of every dressing up box’ and Farewell Wanderlust, where they immediately accentuate that B♭ (which is the 6th note of the Dminor scale) in instrumentals. In Farewell Wanderlust they also play with more chromatic elements as they add a flat second note and a flat seven. The use of chromatic elements (half note distances) isn’t new for Joey and Madeleine and in my opinion it just adds a lot to the musicality of it all, it’s clever, it immediately catches my ear, it’s subtle things like that that make me keep coming back to their music. Rather than a melodic minor scale, Joey could’ve just added that half note distance to add a major G chord to his scale, because the use of major chords in minor scales is just chef’s kiss in my musical opinion, especially in combination with the words he sings. The notes he uses are not uncharacteristic for Joey’s music.

NOW LISTEN, I LOVE this ask because it means I can break down every aspect of what I love about Joey’s singing and what different things I love about Jaskier’s singing. Because oh my god the TALENT, to still make people go ‘wait I just found out that Joey Batey sings both in the Amazing Devil and as Jaskier in the Witcher’ to this day astonishes me and I’m never surprised when someone stumbles upon that realization. The breathiness he uses on his voice in both the Rockrose and the Thistle (and more TAD songs) and Extraordinary Things blows my mind. But there’s a difference to the way he uses it in both songs, let me try to explain. He sings with an aspirated voice (Which means to sing with a breathy voice) in The Rockrose and the Thistle, but in Extraordinary Things, it feels like sometimes he is just breathless and it’s so beautiful and small and soft and intimate, considering the words he’s singing. We, as singers at the conservatory, were taught to make our breaths as inaudible as possible, to remove as much breath from our voices as possible, when singing on record. So needless to say it is a DELIGHT to hear Joey just put his whole heart and soul into every breath he takes, he’s considerate of every syllable, the volume of his voice, the clearness or lack thereof, the shakiness of his breaths fucking kill me dead… ALSO what astonishes me the most about the difference between his TAD songs and his Jaskier songs is the change in vibrato. Jaskier uses more vibrato in his voice than Joey does in the Amazing Devil and I go INSANE about that because my teachers have always said that vibrato is a hard thing to control and requires a lot of training and he’s just out there, mending it to his will as if it is no big deal, like :-) King? I’m jealous, hello? 

I’ve nothing else to say about this for now (lies) it’s already become a full on essay, so I hope this satisfies your needs for now lmao

#yike #lmao laughing at myself wtf is wrong with me #also I was almost finished typing this when I clicked on something and everything was fucking gone lol #'draft saved' lies #bitch where #I hope this answers your questions :-) #gabe replies #joey batey #madeleine hyland #the amazing devil #jaskier #the witcher #the witcher spoilers #music #gabe yells #quite a bit #extraordinary things

[dobranocka]

I definitely did not expect to love Extraordinary Attorney Woo as much as I do, but one of the things I absolutely do adore so far is how they are taking a lot of Woo Young-woo little idiosyncrasies and ticks she has as an autistic person and using them to built an absolutely adorable love story.

She doesn’t really get a lot of unwritten rules social rules? Great, Lee Joon-ho is ready to write down their own set of rules, from “talking about whales is allowed when it’s the two of us” to “this is a list of date appropriate activities”. Woo Young-woo doesn’t like hand-holding? Great, let’s have them count the seconds they are able to hold hands and then put a scene when they are touching their hands through a glass on top of that, just in case the audience didn’t have enough of this regency era like romance tropes. Woo Young-woo doesn’t know how to communicate her feelings towards others? Well, we will have her take advice from a male colleague and start courting Lee Joon-ho like he’s a harlequin heroine, because gender norms are for fake anyway. And then they will have a battle on a sidewalk about who gets to walk on the external side, just in case they ever get hit by a car. Who even said office romance cannot have arguments about who gets to die for each other?

Also. They way Woo Young-woo just. Turns around and walk away from conversations when Lee Joon-ho flusters her. And then he is so fond of it! He’s proud of himself! This is going straight to my heart, thanks.

This whole romance is absolutely adorable. And so soft! I just love them a lot.

#extraordinary attorney woo #woo young woo #lee joon ho #i know this tv series #is quite serious and doesn't shy away from more heavy topics #including navigating a relationship with an autistic person #and i love it because of that #but like #the sheer romance here #i need to scre #ascel.txt

[forcedhesitation]

I get most people only care about the singularity for memes and don't appreciate his character at all... and he is just a fictional character.... but wow I hate it so much when people call hux, the "transgender allegory" killer, by the wrong pronouns.

He is NOT an "it." his lore literally mentions him changing his pronouns from the ones he was given by humans to ones HE personally identifies with.

the transgender themes are not subtle at all, in any of his lore. there is even a scene in the archives in which he injects himself with genetic material in order to create his "perfect form."

how much clearer can they get without slapping a fucking pride flag on his face?

#dbd #hux a7 13 #thoughts about media #I love hux with my entire heart. and if you do not? well that's not my failure to fix. #but show my man some fucking respect! #he's one of the cooler original killers!!! I like that they took the typical “evil AI bent on destroying humanity” sci fi character- #-and did something different with the idea! #also he has the most graphic mori in the entire game. one that actually makes survivors afraid to be caught. #there really is nothing quite so satisfying as finally catching the little gnat of a survivor who's been annoying you- #-and popping their fucking face right open. #he's got the juice that turns the ordinary- extraordinary! fruit gushers baby ;) #all dbd fans know is how to dick ride felix and vittorio though so I do NOT know why I ever expect better.

[laurashapiro-noreally]

At the risk of tooting my own horn

I have to mention that I called it.

-----

“Do it again.”

“No.”

Tears still tracked down Aziraphale’s face, but Crowley would not be taken in. Never again would he be swayed by Aziraphale’s manipulations.

“But – surely we’ve said everything there is to be said.”

The angel was flushed, brow knitted, anxious eyes darting here and there. Crowley didn’t read books – he’d been reading this one for six thousand years. Six thousand and more.

“Might have. Might be I need to say a little more.”

Aziraphale’s gaze dropped to Crowley’s mouth. Crowley licked his lips, then could have blessed himself for it. No. Not giving in.

#good omens #my fic #ineffable husbands #the kiss #quite extraordinary amounts of kissing #posted before Rob said his thing #I am smug

[araneitela]

I live for when these unexpected little things happen. Okay, so I forget to loop the song I had picked to listen to on Youtube, and it ends up auto-playing to a live performance of a song. So I peek over, and I see the outfit that she's wearing. High-waist trousers, and that shirt, mostly tucked in as it is, with its sleeves rolled up just like that? It's a bit of that old-school romantic aesthetic, it exudes a certain old-fashioned femininity, it's quite timeless in its simplicity, and classy despite a rather relaxed fit. This is something that I see Kafka wearing during her downtime, and especially within the comforts of the Stellaron Hunter HQ/complex, and exactly in that color-scheme as well: darker in the legs, lighter in the upper body. It's simple, there might be the ever-enduring presence of that single earring (pearl), a thin bracelet at most but even that I'm hesitant about, and while she'd be void of any sort of necklace, you could smell the fragrance of that signature Black Opium as always.

#[ mini study. ] she must have sought something extraordinary. everything she does comes at a great cost. #[ old-fashioned. /old-fashioned/. it's that kind of allure. ] #[ that's what i see. ] #[ because while it's 'dressed down'-- it's not really... /dressed down/ if that makes sense. ] #[ there's still something quite fancy to it; but in a much simpler way. and a loose-hanging fit like that? it has that romantic air to it. #[ it's perfect. ] #[ i'm forever in love with her shirt in her default outfit; it's also a perfectly chosen color. so i want to be consistent. ] #[ i don't envision her in /colors/ exactly; sticking to those fancier neutral tones. but this just stood out to me as i opened the tab. ] #[ and saw it. it was a gut instinct reaction; no thought behind it. it just clicked. ] #[ perhaps slightly inspired by the jepella rebellion outfit. it's fine. ]

[suguwu]

still thinking about aventurine with a former casino dealer reader...

#bee chats #bonus points if you met at your table and he picked up how good you are immediately and kinda...bookmarked you as a potential #checks in on you from time to time to see if you've grown into something worth harvesting #until one day you pierce through his armor with a quick throwaway comment that clearly shows you've seen more of him than he'd like #that you're almost too perceptive #that you've more than outgrown this struggling casino #the ipc picks it up within the week—what's one more business to them—and you're so unamused #he tells you that you're lucky #and you say 'no more than you are' #and he laughs because his luck is extraordinary don't you know? #you stare at him for a breath—his smile stays firm but there's gooseflesh rising on his skin pricking against him like an untrimmed rose #because for a moment he thinks you see him in a way that he doesn't quite understand #but you blink and the sensation fades away #and if he avoids you for a little bit #well—no one but him is ever going to know

[aoitakumi8148]

...I’d make you look, I’d make you lie, I’d take the coldness from your eyes...

𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒯𝑜𝓁𝒹 𝑀𝑒: ‘𝓘𝓯 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓜𝓮, 𝓛𝓮𝓽 𝓘𝓽 𝓓𝓲𝓮’.

[v.1-v.6] Some gaps left to fill. The answers would not have any weight on the LO𝓟 content.

The Law 𝟘. I thought I'd somehow learn something that'd drastically change the way I feel about... quite the oposite. More questions now to Venigni, Sofia and Manus, rather than to...

What Is The Principle Of ‘Communication Through Ergo Wave Lengths’?

What Is The ‘Ergo Amplification’ Effect?

Is Romeo's ‘Deal With The Devil’ About Becoming A Puppet?

What Is The Interval Between The ‘Deal’ & The ‘Experiment’?

Does The Creator Still Work With The Organization? 𝒫.𝒮. It Is Coherent On A Short-Term Basis, ‘Former Colleagues’ [+ Before The KD]. Systematically? Doubtful. Why Would He? If Not Only As A ‘Compulsory Measure’. ✒ The Creator And Manus' Goals/Views Are Fundamentally Conflicting. ✒ & His Sceptical Attitude is Plausible, Persuasive. ✒ Not To Mention The Leader Of [The Alchemists] Almost ‘Praise[s]’ The PD. 𝒫.𝒮. Which Exactly Causes Carlo's Death.

Rhetorical Question. Why Admonish 𝓟? ‘Read’ Geppetto's Mind? Think You Know? Leave It Be.

A plan that is complicated to proceed, a combination of provoked events and "fortunate" circumstances, generating one genius technician's intention growing stronger each day... or all at once. It matters not.

Despite everything he observes, discovers, hears from others, the boy is eager to be with Geppetto, to reconcile x make him happy. Even at the cost of his life, even if that happiness will not be theirs. 𝓟's Creator, his Trigger, his Father gave him the reason to. The reason to feel like a real human. Because of the man's craft, he regrettably missed the time for Carlo in the past, but it's 𝓟's present that does define him… Our crippling, gentle, disorienting, astonishing present.

LO𝓟 is a great writer's philosophically fond tale taken by great minds & implemented in the form of melodius x glamorous ideality, NOT destined to burn the "core" of this tale to dust. Something that intense cannot be an illusion.

...With the full force of a dying star ~ I will find you, If you’re near or far, wherever you are...

#Aoi Takumi #blog #my gifs #NEOWIZ #ROUND8 STUDIO #Lies Of P 2023 #Lies Of P #2023 #game #NG+ #Winter Holiday Edition #license version #v.5 #PC #[𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝘃𝗲 *𝘀𝗶𝘅*] the -final round- of personal observations [extended / 𝕡. 𝕥𝕨𝕠]: #𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 #everyone [but not literaly] in Krat lie to 𝓟 one way or another... #his secrets are -fed- by the extraordinary love towards Carlo... his guilt x anguish eventually driving the man... #to choose x overconcentrate x exaggerate x ignore the obstacles around him... bottle up the feelings for his 𝓟uppet at some stage... #because this die is cast... / only in the effort to shield his gone son's ♡ ~ he is able to behold the will x realness of his alive 1's ~ #the same human form but a different substance / geniuses have their -gaps- too... #*𝕒𝕤 𝕝���𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕤 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕... 𝕖𝕒𝕔𝕙 𝕠𝕗 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕖𝕞𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝕚𝕤 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕚𝕠𝕦𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕞𝕖 #𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼 #-pouring fuel on the fire- x persistently vilifying your -best friend-'s family ain't quite smart ~ tell me 𝕀'𝕞 𝕨𝕣𝕠𝕟𝕘 #𝗣𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝘀 #a -world without lies- is the man's -grandiose moralistic performance- / #though what he demonstrates is basically how to -play- with Ergo/the Arm of God x hold the object of your obsession captive [...] #doesn't know from personal experience about care [fatherly care included] and consequently... #has no clear notion of what it is like... to bear the same burden with someone you love most... to -breathe- that someone's aura... #*𝕝𝕚𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕒𝕝𝕨𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕜𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 & 𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕥𝕙 𝕚𝕤 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕒𝕝𝕨𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘

[hopeinthebox]

tagged by loml @cordiallyfuturedwight for the monthly breakdown. i might like you less now that you know me so well. tagging some crushes @aprylynn @thvinyl @monismochi @kimtaegis @banghwa @eoieopda @pauls-mccharmly @letmelovekoo @visionsofgideontheninth @kimchokejin if you feel so inclined 💜

#gratuitous commentary as per: #ryan beatty no.1 to no-one's suprise. pretty sure i said last month that white teeth was a new fav and look at her now!! #BACK ON 74!!!!! always been a fan of jungle but my GOD. this track... the mv... it's taken over my life #unexpected breakthrough for the clash? no idea. great tune though #boygenius my beloved!! saw them live last week and i will perhaps never be quite the same again. #whole discography is a rec but leonard cohen has my heart in all senses #hozi3r... unreal unearth... it's a masterpiece... it's over for my wrapped #top artist yet only these two made the list? lord forgive me #first time and first light are spectacular. butchered tongue is otherworldly. i think unknown remains my fav single. #shy boy - fucks beyond belief. new crj album is magnificent as anticipated #dela - recently i have experienced a george of the jungle resurgence and this is very much the result of that. #phenomenal tune. extraordinary film. #come to your senses - tick tick boom revival for me also because andrew garfield the man that you are... #alas 40/23 doesn't have quite the ring to it #move - lynda dawn is fantastic. a lot of these tracks fell victim to my ayo edebiri playlist <33 #that's all folks! #tag #receiptify #is anyone still here?? kissing you

[kdramedies]

I love this recurring theme of “Young-woo finds this thing difficult but so do some neurotypical people” Like in episode 2 when Young-woo is feeling insecure because she can’t cook her own meals, but guess what? Neither does the woman they’re representing! Young-woo has trouble with the revolving door? So does Geurami!

I just love the way that they’re showing how yeah, things are more difficult for Young-woo sometimes, but things are difficult for everyone sometimes, so why is it only neurodivergent people who are looked down on and pitied?

#I really hope they keep scenes like that up #I love them #also I do think geurami is nd in some way (probs adhd) but she's not quite viewed the same way by the characters #so for the purposes of this post it makes sense #extraordinary attorney woo #kdramedies

[hairtusk]

i don't think i've ever in my life felt more supported than i have today

#it feels like everyone is wishing me well <3 #my bf / his best friend / his mother #my parents / my grandparents / my family friends #my tumblr mutuals and followers #and even a random girl in a cafe who overheard me talking about my interview and stopped me to wish me well #I've never felt anything quite like it. it's an extraordinary feeling to know you take up room in the lives of others

[tsilvy]

no i'm all right, just thinking how "nothing lasts forever" has basically the same vibe as "we'll be shutting this all down in 6k years", and how both sentences completely ruined crowley's day

#nothing to see here #i just like pain #quite extraordinary amounts of pain #good omens #good omens s2 #good omens season 2 #meta #my meta #my stuff

[kdramawitch]

Crackpot theory but are Woo Young-woo and Dong Geu-ra-mi ASD and ADHD besties?

#kdrama #extraordinary attorney woo #dong geurami i feel like is quite impulsive and very active #like that scene in attorney jung's pffice where she sets off the Newton's cradle v adhd vibes imo (i say this as a person with adhd) #text #extraordinary attorney woo kdrama

[sergeantjessi]

On the bright side: The ending gives all us solo cosplayers the opportunity to cosplay Crowley/Aziraphale without the other one. For a short time only, it's canon to separate the ineffable husbands-

#i'm sorry i'm desperate to cosplay Crowley but who! is! he! without! aziraphaple! #DO NOT SEPARATE. CROWLEY WITHOUT AZIRAPHALE IS JUST SOME EDGY GUY. #but now that neil made them split for a short while.... [eyes emoji] #just remember to have quite extraordinary amounts of alcohol with you!!! #good omens 2 #good omens #like i said. i'm desperate to cosplay Crowley and will be attending a con soon.... hmmmMMMMM.... #own

[fatalism-and-villainy]

Piggybacking off of my thoughts here a bit, here are some further musings on the distinction between Will and Bedelia in how they relate to Hannibal -

To put it briefly, they’re both afraid of Hannibal, but Bedelia is afraid of what Hannibal will do to her, whereas Will is afraid of what Hannibal brings out in him.

That Bedelia is afraid Hannibal will eat her, and that her general objection to his entire deal is the risk he poses to her, is pretty obviously established. She’s intrigued by his extra-moral tendencies, but balks when confronted with the reality of what he is. In Florence, her therapy is motivated by a genuine desire to help him, imo, but also by self-preservation, pitting him against Will and continuing to be useful to him so as to prolong her survival. And once she gets away from him, she’s got no inclination to see him again - as she tells Will, “I’ve seen enough of him.”

But while Bedelia certainly has trouble stomaching actual murder (as seen in the cases of Neal Frank and Anthony Dimmond), she doesn’t seem particularly fazed by the mere fact that violence appeals to her. When talking to Will, she owns her urge to crush a wounded bird without any compunction. She might not actually do it, but she’s not troubled by the impulse itself. She doesn’t believe in thoughtcrime! Hannibal recognized her sadistic and destructive impulses, and perhaps even helped make her more aware or accepting of them, but they don’t instill guilt in her or destabilize her sense of identity - she simply finds acting on them disturbing and unpalatable. So the horror in her relationship with Hannibal stems not from having to confront herself, but in the creeping threat of what he’s capable of - and the fact that it’s so much more than what she’s capable of, that she's bitten off more than she can chew.

Will, on the other hand, is surprisingly unconcerned with Hannibal’s murder and cannibalism - at least, insofar as he himself could become a victim of it. He snarks about the cannibalism a few times - “I haven’t been gorged, drowned, plucked, and roasted” in Ko No Mono, and “If you’re partial to beef products, it is inconvenient to be compassionate toward a cow” in Wrath of the Lamb - but unlike Bedelia, he doesn’t seem seriously preoccupied the threat of it. When he discovers that Hannibal has had other murder protégés in Randall and Margot (and makes a connection to Bedelia), what upsets him about the implications as to his possible disposability to Hannibal seems to be less the idea that Hannibal might kill him, and more that the authenticity of their bond is in question - that Hannibal might not be wrestling with the same conflicted feelings that Will is, and that Will is nothing but another toy for him to play with (“wind me up and watch me go”, etc.)

The horror of Hannibal, for Will, initially comes from the shock of the realization of his true nature - starting with Savoureux and continuing into early season 2, the stag man indicates the terrifying dissonance of the fact that someone Will trusted and opened up to so much could have such a monstrous nature, without him realizing it. But in the second half of season 2, it shifts into the horror of Will’s own transformation, and of the blurring between him and Hannibal. He comes to feel, as Chiyoh sums up, that he has to kill Hannibal to avoid becoming him, and that’s reflected in a lot of the most overt horror elements of the latter season 2 arc. The beginning of Ko No Mono - imo, one of the most genuinely unsettling nightmares sequences in the show - features the imagery of Will emerging, screaming, from the stag, which is rendered chrysalis-like - Hannibal’s nature is secondary to the horror of Will’s own becoming. That same episode features the extraordinarily uncanny few seconds in Hannibal’s office in which Hannibal’s face is swapped with Will’s, seemingly listening to himself talk, and then Will is in turn swapped with Hannibal - like the blending of their faces in the final shot of Naka-Choko, the unsettling horror elements are centered on the fear of Will’s loss of himself, of not knowing where he ends and Hannibal begins.

The summation of this is Will’s rejection of Hannibal in Digestivo. It’s not on the basis of Hannibal trying to eat his brains, which in a different story would easily be the “you’ve tried to hurt/kill me too many times” last straw. It’s “I don’t have your appetite.” Yes, it’s deliberately chosen because it would hurt Hannibal the most, but I’d also say it’s true in that it’s the main reason Will wants to be able to walk away from Hannibal - the fact that Hannibal brings out a part of Will that Will himself doesn’t want to face.

To put it another way, Bedelia is pretty thoroughly amoral, and in this she’s actually more akin to Hannibal than Will is. Will does have system of morals - one could even say an overly rigid and punitive one - but his moral compass just starts going haywire whenever Hannibal is around because of Hannibal’s irresistible magnetism (really getting some mileage out of this metaphor). Hannibal sees himself as God, and his values are centered on his own whims and aesthetic preferences. Bedelia’s values are centered on her own self-preservation first and foremost. But the fact that she has this particular quality in common with Hannibal is exactly why it’s so easy for her to walk away from him when she’s had enough. She’s self-possessed enough that she doesn’t need him the way Will does. For Will on the other hand, Hannibal brings about a rupturing of his sense of self. So he’s inclined to set himself up for pain and violence, over and over, in seeking Hannibal out, just to find some kind of clarity. And whether he rejects Hannibal or embraces him, there’s always a sense that he’ll lose some fundamental part of himself.

I would say this is part of why it’s important to Will that Hannibal take something from Bedelia, as she puts it in 3.12. Part of it is his belief that “if you play, you pay” and his moral outrage over her ability to escape without consequences. But I think another part of it is more personal resentment - resentment of the fact that she’s able to let Hannibal go so easily, using her experiences with him for monetary gain without much emotional turmoil. That she doesn’t dwell on Hannibal, doesn’t struggle with her feelings about him, doesn’t feel the same confusion and anguish and longing that Will does. The fact that it’s possible for anyone to have a brush with Hannibal without feeling that.

#cutting because this ended up quite long #will graham #bedelia du maurier #hannibal lecter #hannibal #hannibal meta #none of this is new insight exactly but - it is interesting to me to lay it all out #as an example of how extraordinary it is that will is just... not scared of hannibal in the way one would expect #and bedelia is so akin to him in some ways and yet is terrified of him #i love the character parallels/contrasts on the show #and the different combinations of notes in different people #my meta #hannibal talk