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If only. 😆
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This is the most hilarious thing I have read ALL WEEK.
With @granpappy-winchester‘s Basic Chickens Week almost upon us @victorineb and I are starting to think about writing things. But being the kind of people who want character and context in order to really get to grips with writing them… we’re doing the unthinkable. Tonight we are attempting to watch Basic Instinct 2 from beginning to end. We both have copies ready to press play as soon as the wine is poured and the popcorn pings… and we will be blogging about it. If anyone wants to join us or has seen it and wants to respond to anything we witter on about, please do.
We’re ready Fannibals, and so is Elias!
#!!!!!!!!!!#THIS!!!!!#I found it!!!!!#humour#basic instinct 2#poor bastards#this is absolutely fucking brilliant#...and I got to it nine years later
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*shining anime eyes*
The beast is unleashed.
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Because I’m a buffoon, I thought that was a necklace of some sort, and got all ready to scream “FIC/ART WITH WILL WEARING THIS NOW!!!”
…and then noticed it was a belt.
Gold and silver alloy (Electrum) belt with fastening at rear and attached apron frame. The frame originally held netting decorated with gold beads and cloisonne floral motifs from the mummy of King Shoshenq II, 3rd Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, c. 890 BC, Tanis. Now at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
#i have shamed and dishonoured my forefathers#still want that fic though#...and I got to it nine years later
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I regret to inform all you good folk of the tragic death of my feelings, aged nine hundred and forty-two years.
(insp.)
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This is so fantastically gorgeous
Hi, my name is Clo and I’m obsessed (also, @thisismydesignhannibal inspired me, so… this is kind of a shared culpability…<; )
Prints on my Society6, RedBubble and Mont8
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#hannibal#Fanart#gorgeous fanart#Awesome fannibals doing awesome things#...and I got to it nine years later
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hannibal is burglar canon??
remember cassie boyle’s death and how she was mounted on a stag head, and at the crime scene jack crawford was like “a stag head reported missing…” smh bruhh that means hannibal snuck into someone’s house and fuckng stole a stag head jesus christ
#hannibal#humour#who amongst us would not pay good money to see Hannibal in a dingy red pickup#driving across the plains of nowhere with a stag head and a toolbox?
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It was an EXCELLENT chat. And I’ve already written about 1000 more words of fic than I’ve been able to manage ALL
BLOODY
YEAR
Btw, if anyone is ever looking for some dirty kinky, and/or super dark, angsty, fucked up fic prompts, feel free to hit me up. Cause I’ve got, like…a lot of those and am more than willing to share. Just give me a pairing and a general idea of what you’re in the mood for, and maybe let me know any squicks you wanna stay away from.
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See, now, I look at this and I think 'O_O WILL AT AN EXCLUSIVE CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN FRANCE dear fuck Hannibal is going to destroy him I want.'
Hannibal Harry Potter AU (Hufflepuff)
Some of you might think Will is a Hufflepuff. @imaginedifference
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NOOOOH HELL MY FEELINGS
I know all this is true. I REALISE that this is Gideon's role in that episode. But dammit it still aggravates me every time I mentally relive that episode! I feel frustrated with Gideon for continuing to pop up through the episode, and for refusing to be satisfyingly tormented. I feel uncomfortably pinned by Gideon's statements and by a reversal of power that would be savory if it were with Will, but is unsettling and almost anxiety-inducing with Gideon. It's not even a slow, subtle, psychological grapple for power-- Hannibal is just stuck, like a butterfly on the end of a needle. And then, of course, there's the ever-present 'OKAY, WHERE THE HELL IS MY WILL ALREADY???' (I'm sure none of you noticed anything like that in my write-up of the episode.)
I suppose my point (wait, I'm supposed to be making a point here??) is that with this entire episode, not least of which is the Gideon dinners, Bryan Fuller pushes us so far into Hannibal's head that we can't even properly analytically appreciate how clever and effective this was for the duration. Or. Well. It seems other people can. By the end of it I'm about ready to make soup out of someone to try to relieve the overpowering frustration and want.
The Abel Gideon flashbacks are the most important scenes in Antipasto and here's why.
I have a laundry list of things that have happened off-camera in two seasons of Hannibal that I wanted to see, and what happened to Abel Gideon during the time he was Hannibal’s prisoner was not one of them. Hannibal kidnapped Abel Gideon, fed him his own leg and then used his diminished almost-corpse to frame Chilton for the Ripper murders. We saw how Gideon ended up, Hannibal did it, what more is there to know?
A lot, it appears. This was the highlight of the episode for me and in many ways the most important scenes.
Antipasto was about aesthetic. The present-day Italy scenes are the outside of the package—music, champagne, pretty clothes, dancing with a beautiful woman, bisexual poets for the asking—everything looks so glamorous.
In contrast you have the scenes with Gideon, not even depicted in the softly desaturated way that other flashbacks have been (Miriam Lass’ attack), but in stark black and white. These are the other side of the same cannibalistic coin.
The truth is, these scenes come the closest to depicting the inner state of Hannibal’s soul: a dinner table unmoored in black space, and a basement festooned with severed limbs and crawling with snails. Dark shadows swallowing details of his surroundings, turning his sumptuous house cell-like and bare, and an unstoppable voice flatly telling him the truths he denies himself.
The torture of Gideon seems perfunctory. Maybe it’s the rendering in gloomy Scandinavian-art-film level of black and white, but there is little joy in Hannibal’s torture of him. Gideon refuses to be terrorized. Ostensibly, Hannibal is torturing Gideon, but it is Hannibal who squirms as Gideon fidgets with the silverware and verbally hits bull’s-eye after bull’s-eye. This harshness of the black and white is especially appropriate because Gideon is being sharp as a blade in his necropsy of Hannibal and Will’s relationship.
Will is still in jail, but he is in these conversations in spirit, his unseen presence as real in the dining room as it is in the bedroom with Alana.
Gideon tells him a few things that, taken together, were prophetic. He tells Hannibal he is lonely, and that he might be the hunted someday. Gideon predicts that it’s only a matter of time that the wheel turns and Hannibal is on the receiving end of tooth and claw.
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#YET ANOTHER ONE THAT WAS ALL WRITTEN UP#what the hell#...and I got to it nine years later#hannibal#meta
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Is this just me, or is this reminding anyone else of Anthony Hopkins?
Hugh out and about in New York - July 2017. Original photo sourced from www.hughdancydaily.com.
#...and I got to it nine years later#this may be one of my most controversial additions#let's see shall we
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I just found this near the bottom of my drafts pile, and I know it’s hella late, but in the spirit of ‘every little bit helps,’ here.
Archive your fandom stuff
As we sit on the cusp of changes to the Internet, after your other activities to support Internet freedom, archive your fandom stuff.
Save the electronic files of your favorite online fandom works. Consider print-outs of your favorite online material. And save paper ephemera from fandom events.
Why save? Because you put the effort into a fanwork. Because you may be surprised when a fandom stays alive for years, or gets revived, or when an academic asks to cite your work. Because it’s stupidly hard to find items on Tumblr. Because, lo, in ages past, many fandom archives have risen and fallen, taking favorite fics off the ‘Net. Because it made you happy, makes you remember. Because you never know.
What can you save?
Fanart
Stories you wrote
Epic comments on stories you wrote
Stories you love that other people wrote
Meta and meta-related discussions
Translations others did of your works
Physical items: paper ephemera, clothing, accessories, art prints and drawings.
Behind the cut…saving from Tumblr and AO3, delving into lost web sites, how to save computer files for the long term, and why I’m glad I saved physical fandom items from 10+ years ago.
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Interesting and insightful! I especially appreciated the tarot card bit, as that’s a subject I’m less familiar with than I ought to be. My interpretation, though, as far as the Vitruvian Man scene went, was that the ‘perfect man’ referred to Dimmond– and, hear me out, here’s why:
It seemed to me the significance of Dimmond’s character was that in addition to a Will lookalike, he represented everything Hannibal would have wanted (or thought he wanted) in a partner before Will came into the picture. He’s academic, urbane, conscious of politeness but also not restrained by the rules of polite society, loves metaphor, is about as European and stylish as Hannibal could want, manipulative, not only fine with but INTRIGUED by Hannibal’s murder game, wants the hell out of Hannibal, and seems like he would really enjoy casual murder puns in public.
Perfect for Hannibal, right? Could be a confidant and a compatriot in everything he enjoys. But now that Will has come along and stolen Hannibal’s heart? Dimmond is just WRONG. ALL wrong, because he’s not Will. He’s a complete subversion and a mockery of everything Will is. He’s no longer the original, the standard to be measured by, Will is. So Hannibal takes his perfect man, his ideal match, and offers him up to Will as his heart.
Any way you interpret it, it’s a rather incredibly poignant and grandiose gesture; that’s just the way I looked at it. :)
Hannibal folding the Vitruvian Man, the “perfect man,” into a heart.
And these scenes are played alongside the shots of the “body” heart in the Capella Palatina, which Hannibal made for Will:
Will is Hannibal’s perfect man, his heart. The Beatrice to his Dante.
But, look at that heart there in the Norman Chapel. It’s being held up by three swords. The thrice pierced heart is a tarot card, one frequently used in readings about romantic relationships/lovers. Tarot has a rich history in Italy.
This are all things of which Hannibal would definitely be aware. Symbolism is never lost on him, and always intentional.
This is the Three of Swords. In it’s upright position, as we see above, it means “Painful separation, sorrow, heartbreak, grief, and rejection.”
S2 finale, anyone?
But, notice how the Norman Chapel heart is actually in the reversed position? Like this:
In the reversed position, the Three of Swords means “releasing pain, optimism, and forgiveness.”
Will understands.
“Betrayal and forgiveness are best seen as something akin to falling in love.”
**This was all INTENTIONAL. The cast and crew knew what they were building towards. Hannibal’s entire existance is layered with subtext and symbolism, and so is this show. I’ve never see a story more beautiful in my life. Hannigram is canon, and WE NEED S4!**
#...and i got to it nine years later#I have no idea WHY this was sitting in my drafts for a year and a half#it was fully written up when I found it#what on earth#???????????#hannibal#meta#analysis
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I NEED TO LIVE IN THIS TIMELINE
I LIVE HERE NOW
Alternate timeline where Will runs away with Hannibal to Florence.
They were interrupted by Commendatore Pazzi during a hair wash. Will watches from the bathroom while Hannibal opens the door.
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Um, EXCUSE ME, you did write this, and it’s just about perfect as-is.
at what point do you think Will fell in love with Hannibal? Do you think he was ever consciously aware of it or did he live in denial?
Hmmm. I’m not sure I’m the best person to answer this one for you, friend, for a variety of reasons. Including “I fell in love with Mr. Slippy almost 17 years ago so I’m not sure I even remember how precisely that shift works” and “TBH, the older I get the more I feel like ‘loving’ and ‘being in love’ are not the precise distinctions a younger me would have wanted them to be.” So you might want to seek out someone to answer this one for you who has had the “falling in love” experience in this millennium.
(Although, don’t get me wrong. I still fall in love with Mr. Slippy all the time, all over again. He’s pretty terrific. But it’s a different kind of thing than it was lo those many years ago.)
But if I absolutely had to pinpoint something I’d say that Will “I Just Sort Of Do Things And Then Figure Out How I Feel About Them Later, Usually From A Hospital Bed Because FML” Graham probably came to some kind of conscious awareness of feeling some kind of way about Hannibal somewhere between Mizumono and Aperitivo. I refuse to believe that even Will would admit out loud to wanting to run away with Hannibal, and then climb on a damn boat and set sail across the Atlantic to track him down without having to admitted to himself that there is something going on there that is not just about Bros Being Bros, Like Besties Do.
I don’t know that he’d classify it as “in love” in those words, then or ever, but I think somewhere around then you could probably get him to classify it as a kind of love.
if I had to pick exactly when he figured that out, I don’t know, and maybe I’d have to write a fic about it to find out. It would probably be a fic about Will deciding to restore a boat just to have something to do with his hands and his empty hours. A fic about how it’s just a project, just for time-passing and physical therapy and fresh air, and how he doesn’t, at all, pick out the boat because it looks like it could stand up to a long voyage.
It would be a fic about long hours and days and weeks of sandpaper and grease and paint and things that break when you’re trying to fix them, and parts that have to be ordered, and dogs underfoot, and studiously not thinking about where the boat might go when it’s done, because that’s not the point.
It might be a fic about studying charts and calculating supply levels, just as an intellectual exercise, just because it’s somehow calming to think about going far away. Somewhere out of the reach of physical therapists and well-intentioned friends and former colleagues.
It’s probably a fic about how Will stalls out completely when it comes to figuring out what to do about the galley. Which really only needs to be serviceable and not fancy, but the itch to make it nice, to make it somewhere you could really cook, maybe somewhere two people could move around each other while one of them cooked - well. That brings the nightmares roaring back and Will goes to bed for a week and doesn’t go anywhere near the damn boat.
Mostly it’s a fic about naming the boat, though, an idle process that amuses Will through many a chilly evening. She’s not going to be the Abigail or the Beverly, that’s for sure. He thinks about naming the boat after his mother, or a favorite book character. There’s a two minute window devoted to naming her the SS Encephalitis, which makes him laugh so hard he cries, or maybe he was crying to begin with - it was late, there was a lot of whiskey, his entire side ached with overwork, it’s best not to think about it.
Probably, though, it’s a story about the moment when he’s thinking about New Orleans, and how complicated he’d thought his life was then, and how simple it was now that he looks back at it. And he thinks: NOLA. And he thinks about the historical Hannibal, throwing himself at the Italian Nola over and over and never quite defeating it.
He knows two things immediately: That he’s found his name, and that he wants to tell Hannibal about it and see him laugh. He may or may not want to stab him immediately after that, but he definitely wants to make him smile before the stabbing part. It’ll take him a while longer to figure out what exactly that means, but when he looks back, yeah - that was the moment.
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AAAAAAND, falling for S1 Will Graham all over again.
Why it’s important to recognize Will rescues strays
So here’s why I think it’s such a disservice to Will Graham as a character to joking dismiss his interaction with Winston as “stealing” as opposed to rescuing.[*]
We’ve seen Jack drag Will, very reluctantly, into the initial Shrike investigation.
And Will has just had a Very Bad Horrible No Good Day. He’s had to interview the parents of a missing young woman, when he’s pretty certain she’s probably already dead.
He then discovered the dead body of that young woman – in her own bed – in front of her father. He had to find a way to prevent her father from disrupting the crime scene, while having full awareness of just how horrific this had to be for her father.
He had to reconstruct the horrific murder of this young woman, and be disrupted during that process by someone who had to remind him that he wasn’t mentally stable enough to be a full time FBI agent. And then there’s Zeller being all Zeller in his space.
Oh, and the first signs of his encephalitis making him feel unaccustomedly bad after the reconstruction, starting to mainline aspirin.
So, after a day that is pretty fucking horrible, and having to fly home, he finally gets into his car to drive home – and he sees a stray dog with a rope around its neck.
He can ignore the dog. He can just go home and go to sleep. But he doesn’t. He tries to engage the dog. Running around with a goddamn rope tied around its neck.
He could call animal control, and just go home. But he doesn’t. Despite being more tired and stressed than anyone should have to deal with, he goes and gets treats, and coaxes the dog to come to him.
And takes the obviously ill-treated stray dog home. And then gives the dog a proper grooming. And then, being a concerned dog owner, doesn’t just let it loose among his existing pack, but gives the dog a safe space of its own while introducing it.
Can you imagine how tired Will was? What a horrific day he’d had? And yet he still found the energy to connect with Winston, and introduce Winston to his new family.
That’s who Will Graham is. That’s the Will Graham who will become concerned about Abigail Hobbs, and Georgia Madchen, and Margot Verger. That’s the Will Graham who will be angry about the Lost Boys who gave away their families. That’s the Will Graham who will torment himself over enjoying killing Garret Jacob Hobbs.
So to dismiss his behavior as “dog thief” is to miss the whole point of what it says about who Will Graham really is.
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[*] you can certainly find me making/reblogging jokes about Will Graham, dog thief, and I undoubtedly will again. There are fandom shorthand jokes we know are jokes, but occasionally it’s useful to revisit the core character.
#...and I got to it nine years later#hannibal#season 1 Will Graham#tbh probably my favourite#I HAVE SOFT SPOTS OKAY!!!!
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