potage was the short lived era of hannibal being will's hulking bodyguard who shadowed him everywhere and boy do i miss it

"what a cunning boy you are" Hannibal you fucking slut

I've been rewatching Hannibal lately. So, I made some Hannigram art. Some of the shading is wrong because I finished this half asleep, but I love it anyway.

Anyway, enjoy this bit of Hannibal art. 💛💛💛

This piece of fanart is inspired by this poem I saw on Tumblr a while back that, to me, was Hannibal coded ngl.

this poor kid. your dad dies, and your mom remarries. your step-dad is cool! he teaches you how to fish and he brings home a bunch of dogs! fast forward a little bit and it turns out your cool step-dad is locked in a psychosexual viscera-filled chess game with a bisexual cannibal. like what do you even do about that.

Will describing Hannibal's murder scene to his class: He is an intelligent psychopath. He is a sadist.

Hannibal, who is watching: *trying so hard to resist twirling his hair and going teehee <3*

I love that in the middle of Wills slowly declining mental health he has to go teach people about the psychology of the killers which are the reason for that declining mental health

watching fromage and everyone loves to laugh at the scene where will talks about how the killer made the victim into an instrument and the lab team looks at him like he’s a freak but no one ever mentions the scene immediately after in which will and hannibal are having a completely open and easy conversation about human bones making good instruments like wow find a man that vibes at your fucked up frequency

Hannibal saw what was within Will & knew he was capable.

Will saw what was within Chilton & knew he wasn’t capable.

Will was thrilled in the same way as Hannibal, knowing the truth & waiting for the other person to understand it.

i was curious so i looked up what story alana was reading to abigail and it's about a inmate who escapes a prison and ends up killing an entire family. she was reading that to a teenage girl who just narrowly escaped being killed by her serial killer father. anyway i never want to hear about how normal and well adjusted alana is ever again

imagine being randall tier. your therapist who helped you accept yourself tells you to kill somebody. so you show up in your murder fursuit outside his house and when you get to him, you're ready to fucking maul him. and then he tosses away his gun. HIS GUN.

Hannibal fighting for his life here trying not to fall to his knees. Truly the God's strongest soldier

Will Graham's whole thing with Alana is so fucking autistic at every turn. She has to lay out exactly what's going on for him because he can't not know, but he also just can't tell (which like... fair! She's being really confusing! Even she doesn't know what she wants!)

Of course he's going to feel more at ease with Hannibal - the man is so fucking consistent because he's trained himself to be placid.

Then there's also this autistic slant to Hannibal, because he's made his set of rules and he fucking sticks to it (and plainly insists that others stick to it as well, or else). He's great at social situations, but mainly those in highly structured settings like concerts or therapy sessions. He rarely shows facial emotions unless he's actively projecting something, and you can't tell me that the food thing isn't some kind of sensation seeking. Killing people is basically just a special interest. He dresses the same no matter the situation. He's got a vinyl murder onesie to keep himself clean.

Does Hannibal meet the diagnostic criteria for ASD? Absolutely not. But have you ever seen two autistic people who've known each other for long enough that all of their conversations are unintelligible to outsiders? That talk in collaborative run-on sentences and beat metaphors to death? Yeah, Will and Hannibal are sure as shit autistic with each other, even if Hannibal doesn't meet the criteria alone.

And like, we can all agree that they're both masking, yes? Will in the standard autistic way, and Hannibal in the person-suit way, but both definitely constructing their person-ness based on what they see as normal-enough-to-get-away-with. They use the people around them as their reference points for how to react to things. So shove Will and Hannibal in a room together and wait a week, and they'll both come out with the same mask. That's just season 2, honestly. Let these two get under each others' skin and they'll try to wear it. It's like flirting to them.

Never forget that Hannibal was the first one that put Will Graham in a jar and shook it just to see what would happen