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1moreoffkeyanthem · 3 months

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Can we get the Star Seven's favorite TV shows or Movies if you haven't yet? <3

AYYYY that’s what’s up!!! I did OrangeJuiceVerse Stan and Kyle’s favorite media here (shoutout to the wife for askin) but here’s the rest of the seven!

KENNY!!! Ok I cannot stress enough how much of a Muppets enthusiast this man is. Kenny absolutely wanted to work for Jim Henson Creature Shop at some point (same) and he fucking LOVES anything remotely related!!! He’s also a big horror fan due to the fact that he’s seen a lot of gnarly shit in his (consistently interrupted by deaths) life, and OH. MY. GOD. he fucking loves Troma Entertainment. Lloyd Kaufman and his gross ass vulgar comedy is Kenny’s lifeblood. He introduced the m5 to Toxic Avenger and Shakespeare’s Shitstorm (idk if that one’s actually out yet my partner’s just friends with Lloyd so we got an early copy) and literally every single one of his movies are so gross but Kenny very much enjoys them, out here casually enjoying the Tromaville High trilogy without flinching once. And he LOVES watching buddy comedies with Stan!!! The two of them will be up to all hours just watching Superbad and Clerks and any movie where two guys are in silly situations smh. And this guy ADORES the marvel netflix shows, especially Daredevil omg and he went feral for The Punisher. Kenny has also seen every Barbie movie ever

Tweek! He is a CHRONIC rewatcher!!! He’s seen Sherlock more times than he can count. Any show that’s formulaic, he likes it bc it isn’t unpredictable, so think kids shows. BUT!!! He also very much enjoys the most obscure gory art pieces, loves early film like A Trip To The Moon and Stagecoach, and adores Buster Keaton. At some point Stan got him into Supernatural and Tweek was TERRIFIED at points, but he loves the lore and the attention to detail. And he laughs his ASS OFF at Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia but it stresses him out lmao

Craig watched The Orville and absolutely lost his mind getting obsessed with it, he may be an astronomy professor and generally into space, but he can take or leave Star Wars. And Star Trek. His biggest guilty pleasure with movies that only Tweek knows about? This stoic mf fucking LOVES musicals. Like if Stan knew, OH BOY he’d be over at apt 2 constantly hanging out just because Craig is watching The Greatest Showman. Craig doesn’t discriminate against objectively bad cgi either, so he genuinely enjoyed the 2019 Cats and rewatches it frequently. He loves Seven Brides For Seven Brothers and introduced it to the rest of the star sev (Cartman loved it, Kyle was repulsed by “Bless Your Beautiful Hide”). One of his favorite shows is How It’s Made lmfao and he ADORES Mythbusters.

Marj omg she’s such a romantic, movies based on Jane Austen novels? She’s there. Bridgerton? Yep. But ALSO!!! Any movie that’s very race against time or like a movie where someone is falsely accused of a crime, she’s watchin it, and DUDE she LOVES CARTOONS!!! Her parents only ever let her watch pbs kids and she was SUCH an Arthur Girlie!!! Omg Fetch was a fave too!!! Also shes showed the group some DARK movies, like it was her turn to pick on movie night in the Survivor House and she put on The Black Phone and everyone was like JESUS CHRIST MARJ WHAT bc they were expecting her to pick Fern Gully or something again but nope she was like “fellas it’s really cerebral and dynamic” and literally Stan got so freaked he had to leave the room

Cartman is a HUGE reality show guy!!! He and Marj are sittin there watching the bachelor with popcorn and a love of drama!!! LITERALLY he lives for the arguments in Dance Moms and the pettiness like “oh you guys Jill bought a bench for Abby this is about to be freakin sweet” lmfao messy king. He’s definitely more of a show guy than a movie guy, but as long as there’s significant arguments he’s clocked in! Also when he was watching Hannibal 24/7 Kyle was VERY concerned lmao. Cartman’s favorite movie is ‘Alive’ (I think that’s what it’s called?) JUST because it scared kenny so bad when the characters had to eat each other. His favorite show is Lost and he was out here chomping his popcorn and that scene in the episode where Kate has her shirt off bc they ran into a swarm of bees and Charlie goes “I think it was full of C’s” and Cartman is like “hell no those are A cups at best” (this is a very specific hc I’m sorry) but lmfaoooo Cartman absolutely sends me into orbit bc he absolutely doesn’t shut up when he’s watching ANYTHING!!! His favorite musical is Phantom of The Opera.

There ya go my dude! Thank you again for asking I LOVE getting asks especially abt OJV and I deadass had so much fun thinking on this!

#asks #thank you so much #I LOVE ASKS #OrangeJuiceVerse #south park #the Star Seven I love them #headcanon #stan marsh #kyle broflovski #kenny mccormick #tweek tweak #craig tucker #marjorine stotch #eric cartman

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therealsaintscully · 3 years

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Mary and butterflies - the inevitability of death, murderous calling cards and collectors

Some ramblings with links to other people’s excellent meta, in which I suggest that butterflies (and/or moths) symbolize Mary as Moriarty’s reincarnation and or calling card, while also hint at her inevitable death.

Disclaimers: credits are below the cut. I’m not an expert in any of these topics. Thank you, @thewatsonbeekeepers for the beta. In this post I’ll be using moths and butterflies interchangeably, apologies to any entomologists.

Mary’s appearance in the show brings with it new imagery we haven’t seen prior to The Empty Hearse - butterflies. Once Mary’s in the picture, there are butterflies in some very strategic locations, all are either visually or subtextually leading to her. The show has done that previous to season 3; Moriarty is connected to some well established symbols like magpies, apples and IOUs.

When I first started reading meta I used to think these themes were a bit of a stretch, but I’ve since accepted that this is a show that puts barely noticeable phoenixes in a restaurant scene that shows us Sherlock rising from his death.

Here are some of the butterflies I spotted so far:

Butterflies (and in the case of this piece of meta, moth) symbolize most commonly resurrection, change and renewal. Behind the symbolism stands the transformation of a small, ungainly creature into something full-grown and unbound. In that case, in the simplest way, one could argue that butterflies were chosen to symbolize her because the ‘Mary Morstan’ persona was a stillborn’s identity that was stolen and used ‘reborn’ to create a new person.

But more than this simplistic idea; butterflies carry multiple symbolisms. When it comes to Sherlock, I and many others tend to look at Victorian symbolism, considering the detective’s Victorian roots.

I find the appearance of butterflies interesting in Mary’s context, much like I find the skull interesting in Sherlock’s. The skulls, in Sherlock’s case, serve plenty of purposes, but one of them is the idea of memento mori.

Memento mori (Latin for 'remember that you [have to] die') is an artistic or symbolic reminder of the inevitability of death. These are representations that can appear in any form of art such as paintings, literature, poetry etc. It’s a concept that existed in many ancient cultures but is also deeply rooted in early Christianity. It serves to remind people of the inevitable; that even if we choose to ignore it, not think about it, it’s always there lurking, and the purpose is not to scare us but to encourage us to make good use of our time when we’re alive. Memento mori was the philosophy of reflecting on your own death as a form of spiritual improvement, and rejecting earthly vanities.

Victorians were obsessed with the concept (weren’t Victorians obsessed with everything?). They would take photographs of the dead and keep locks of hair of those who died in mourning brooches. It is said that they found these practices comforting.

Another expression of the ‘remember that you must die’ concept was vanitas art; vanitas is a symbolic work of art showing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death. The Latin noun vanitas (from the Latin adjective vanus 'empty') means 'emptiness', 'futility', or 'worthlessness', the traditional Christian view being that earthly goods and pursuits are transient and worthless. It alludes to Ecclesiastes 1:2; 12:8, where vanitas translates the Hebrew word hevel (הבל), which also includes the concept of transitoriness.

This concept reminds me, most especially, of the skull used in The Abominable Bride, which is actually Charles Allen Gilbert's 'All is Vanity' Illusion art.

Back to butterflies - butterflies are a staple component of vanitas art - paintings executed in the vanitas style were meant to remind viewers of the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death. They also provided a moral justification for painting attractive objects - in a way, it’s a justification for the vanity, or the human need of enjoyment of beautiful things. Below is a vanitas by Jan Sanders van Hemessen:

But butterflies are also considered an omen of death:

“Butterflies and moths were associated with death, sometimes merely as omens, sometimes as the soul or ghost.” These butterfly omens came in many ways. For example, in the nineteenth century United States, some people thought that a trio of butterflies was an omen of death.” [x]

Oh.

But I also think there’s more to the butterfly symbolism than Mary’s imminent death; I suggest that, in keeping with @loudest-subtext-in-tv M-Theory (suggesting that Mary was planted in John’s life by Moriarty), they symbolize Mary as Moriarty reincarnated following his death in TRF. That Moriarty had indeed not disappointed Sherlock - there was a posthumous game after all! That Sherlock was supposed to understand that while one form of Moriarty died on that roof, another had emerged, continuing the mission of burning Sherlock’s heart. Mary is Moriarty’s calling card, left behind in the crime scene. They’re different, but not separate, which is why Sherlock is so obsessed with Moriarty between HLV-T6T; he’s both wrong and correct at the same time.

So far, what I’ve suggested is that in Sherlock, skulls are Sherlock’s symbolic memento mori - the skulls are associated with Sherlock in some very significant ways.

However, Mary’s character was doomed from the start - she dies during Sherlock’s hiatus in ACD canon. I believe many fans assumed Sherlock’s Mary expected the same fate when she was introduced to the show. Although the story of Samarra is told by Sherlock, who expects his own death in T6T, Mary is the one who ends up dying.

Butterflies in ACD canon

Searching for the significance of butterflies in the ACD and BBC canon led me to a number of interesting directions in meta written by others.

The first and probably the best place to start is this meta post by @tendergingergirl, which I strongly suggest you read in full: Butterflies, Sexual Deviancy & The Bloodline Theory in The Hound of The Baskervilles.

Stapleton also has a hobby. He collects bugs…Butterflies, to be exact. This can often be seen as purely academic, but depending on the actions of the hobbyist, they can indicate more disturbing things. That of holding something vulnerable captive, treating it as your hostage, pinning it down. The torture of animals has come to be a good indicator of someone who would do this to a human. He had already shown callousness by laughing as he recounts to Holmes of ponies wandering onto the Moor, becoming trapped, and dying. In 1974, there was a release of a new edition of Sherlock Holmes stories, with the forward of The Hound of The Baskervilles written by British author, John Fowles. He is responsible for several well-known works, including The French Lieutenant’s Wife. Another, was a novel that Mason finds himself wondering why Fowles doesn’t mention in his introduction, since the villain is such a close parallel to Stapleton.(but as we have learned through the study of ACD, most writers will not come right out and say where they got their inspiration. They like for you to guess!)

A lonely young man, works as a clerk, and collects butterflies, becomes obsessed with a pretty young girl, Miranda, an art student. He chloroforms, and kidnaps her, taking her to his cellar basement, to add Miranda to his collection. That book was called The Collector. But what else does it sound like?

“So yes, I googled. From an article on the release of the movie’s Documentary. "The docu proves a poor reference point for anyone who wants to understand the literary and movie links for “Lambs.” There’s no mention, for example, of how Harris partly based the butterfly-loving Bill on John Fowles’ kidnapper in “The Collector” …And here I thought Mofftiss added allusions to Silence of The Lambs into Sherlock just for fun. SMH.”

@tendergingergirl also added this photo to their post:

So what we have here is a chain of metatextualities/inspiration, starting with ACD’s THOB, where Jack Stapelton inspires a book about a disturbed butterfly collector (The Collector by John Fowles), which inspires a the author of Silence of the Lambs in creation of his character Buffalo Bill, a serial murderer who inserts a death's head moth into the victim's throat because he is fascinated by the insect's metamorphosis. Silence of the Lambs served as inspiration for Sherlock as analyzed by @garkgatiss in Bond, Hannibal, and Holmes (I suggest you read the whole Hannibal section) .

Let’s look again at some imagery from His Last Vow. Mary shoots Sherlock’s heart, essentially burning his heart out, and who does Sherlock meet in his Mind Palace in a very cocoon-like straightjacket? Yes, the dead dude who encourages him to die already (“one more push, and off you pop”).

What’s the next thing we as an audience see once Sherlock opens his eyes? Mary coming to the hospital to hear that Sherlock had, in fact, survived. And what is she wearing? Her butterfly scarf, one which will another appearance later in the episode, during the tarmac scene.

I also find it interesting that in the context of Sherlock and Silence of the Lamb, there’s an element of gender-switching between Moriarty and Mary. Buffalo Bill, the murderer from Silence of the Lambs, skins bodies of women to create himself a woman’s 'suit’; in Sherlock, Moriarty is a man-villain who transforms into a female-villain in the form of a bride and/or Mary.

By the way, who else is obsessed with his suits?

Also, let’s not forget the worms, maggots and other such crawlers in the grave scene:

Now, let’s go over some of the photos I included in the beginning of this post a bit further.

Mrs. Hudson’s butterfly tea set is first shown in TEH - she uses it to serve John tea when he comes visiting her and tellis her about Mary. We also see it near John’s chair on the day of the wedding. This isn’t Sherlock’s set - his set is different, featuring the British Isles. Moriarty drinks from it in TRF. The next tea set we see, now that Moriarty is dead, is the butterflies one. In TLD, Mrs. Hudson uses Sherlock’s tea set - the butterflies are gone.

Mary’s bedroom wallpaper is very feminine, with flowers and butterflies, both complementing symbols while also very common in vanitas art. Much like Mrs. Hudson’s wallpaper in Baker Street, Mary’s wallpaper is supposed to show the contrast between Mary’s flat/Mary and Sherlock’s flat/Sherlock.

There’s an interesting moth reference in The Empty Hearse, which in my opinion, is Mary & Moriarty related. In short, in a previous piece of meta I wrote, I suggested that the Jack the Ripper case in TEH is subtext alluding to Mary’s skeletons, which Sherlock ignores because he’s upset by his reception by John. And what’s one of the first things Sherlock notices about the skeleton? New mothballs smell, hinting at an attempt to get rid of moth/butterflies - maybe a hint to the fact that Sherlock has a chance to discover the truth about Mary but misses it. Also, in the context of Mary and the Jack the Ripper case, notice this transition:

Transitions are important on Sherlock - they’re nearly always there to draw our attention.

This, I think, is perhaps the most telling about a possible connection between Mary and Moriarty: we have both magpies (a Moriarty hint) and butterflies together here. This isn’t the only hint of Mary’s past we get in the wedding; there is, after all, the telegram from CAM.

Mary’s scarf is colorful, and it appears by the time Sherlock’s subconscious suspects Mary. Mary’s black butterfly dress - an ominous dress, I’d say - is the one she wears during the labour scene in the car. The third photo is a behind the scenes photo uploaded by Amanda Abbington, although I’m unsure whether this necklace is AA’s or Mary’s (but I couldn’t pass on including this).

Interestingly, the butterflies do not appear in Rosie’s context - either because it’s a telling sign that Mary won’t be with us much longer, or because Rosie is spared being considered a part of the ‘burning Sherlock’s heart’ plan. Sherlock, on the surface, seems to love Rosie and accepts her.

Also, another BTS photograph I came across during my research which I’ve never seen before and ties nicely to the vanity topic is this one (found here):

The Death's-head hawkmoth and ‘Death with Interruptions’

You’ll recall that I referenced The Collector and Silence of the Lambs, both featuring butterflies on their cover art.

The Silence of the Lambs cover features Acherontia atropos, otherwise known as the death's-head hawkmoth. It gets its name from the sinister-looking skull shape on its back. In many cultures it is thought to be an omen of death. In a bit of another coincidental but stunning piece of symbolism, all three species of the Death's-head hawkmoth are commonly observed raiding beehives of different species of honey bee; A. atropos only invades colonies of the well-known western honey bee, Apis mellifera, and feeds on both nectar and honey. They can move about in hives without being disturbed because they mimic the scent of the bees and are not recognised as intruders.

Anyway, the use of Acherontia atropos reminded me of the book ‘Death with Interruptions’ by Jose Saramago. Interestingly, this is another book about a deathly collector with a butterfly on the cover:

In Death with Interruptions death is a woman, and she falls in love with one of her future victims. She decides to spare his life: Every time death sends him his letter [notifying him of his imminent death], it gets returned. death discovers that, without reason, this man has mistakenly not been killed. Although originally intending merely to analyse this man and discover why he is unique, death eventually becomes infatuated with him, so much so that she takes on human form to meet him. Upon visiting the cellist, she plans to personally give him the letter; instead, she falls in love with him, and, by doing so, she becomes even more human-like.

It’s pretty common to read theories about Mary who maybe was one of the assassins due to kill John both at the pool and in front of Barts. So we have a death harbinger trying to kill someone twice and failing. She then falls in love with him.

But how does the butterfly fit in?

Well, at some point in the story, death (that’s her name, sans a capital d), contemplates that using the death head butterfly, instead of a violet piece of paper, would have sent a much stronger message to those whose death is coming for.

And here’s another last bit of coincidental reference to Sherlock: I’d argue shades of purple, among them shades of violet, are associated with Mary and her secrets. There’s the purple dress she wears in TEH, her bridesmaids’ dresses include various shades of purple (including what I would argue was a violet sash) and let’s not forget:

Oh and, by the way, remember the song Donde Estas, Yolanda from TEH, about a woman called Yolanda? Always thought it was a bit of an odd choice for a song?

Yolanda is a female given name, of Greek origin, meaning Violet.

Thoughts?

Credits: thank you @lukessense for directing me to @tendergingergirl meta about butterflies. Episode screenshots are from kissthemgoodbye.net.

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fandompitfalls · 3 years

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Fandom, Misogyny, and the Struggle for "Clarice"

Originally posted 2/24/21

There’s a quote that, summarized, says, in order for a woman to be seen as an equal to men, she has to work twice as hard. And never more what that brought to light outside real life than Valentine’s Day weekend when CBS aired the premiere of Clarice.

In 1991, Silence of the Lambs, a runaway hit thriller staring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins came onto public consumption and introduced the world to the phrase “quid pro quo” and the name Hannibal Lecter became a well-known name.

In 2013, a series by the name of Hannibal staring Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy premiered on television and was immediately embraced by the fandom community. Dating long before Silence of the Lambs, the show features a BSU consultant by the name of Will Graham who is called into service because of his unique ability to profile serial killers. He develops a professional and later, a personal relationship with Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

In the beginning the question of Will’s mental state was brought up, the reason Lecter was introduced into the series, he was hired on assess Will Graham after cases to make sure his fragile mental state was not deteriorating. It allowed Hannibal to get close to Will and manipulate him in an attempt to turn Will into a killer like himself. The show ended after three seasons and during those seasons, the show’s creator, Brian Fuller, made cinematography magic with his sets and scenes, a lot of them gruesome yet exquisite.

Hannibal became fandom’s gory darling, the relationship between Will and Hannibal being the main fodder. This was furthered by the support of Bryan Fuller’s comment in Collider stating that he saw Hannibal as being in love with Will Graham. https://collider.com/bryan-fuller-hannibal-silence-of-the-lambs-interview/

Just this past week, a new twist on the Silence of the Lambs timeline premiered with Clarice. Clarice takes place a year after Silence of the Lambs and the Buffalo Bill murders. She is pulled from the BAU and sent to a task force run by Ruth Martin, the mother of Buffalo Bill’s only surviving member, Catherine. Created by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet, Clarice is not affiliated with Hannibal, the Series, in any way, rather, it is a telling of Clarice Starling’s story after the events of Silence of the Lambs.

Here’s where it differs. And remember, this is only the first episode. By the time I post this, there will be two episodes out.

In the opening scene, Clarice Starling is sitting in a therapist’s office. The therapist, a man with no name as of yet, is trying to get her to tell him about her feelings regarding the one-year anniversary of the Buffalo Bill murders. He even has a copy of a magazine that features her on the cover with the title “Bride of Frankenstein.” The more he pushes the more she holds back, telling him the rots answers that most FBI therapists want to here. Finally, she mentions the magazine was bought by him as a trigger to see if she would break and he tells her that he thinks she’s not stable enough to go back in the field because she refuses to use to the “survivor” in relation to her encounter with Buffalo Bill. She is not a survivor, she was never kidnapped, she was an FBI agent doing a job. He also cites her relationship with Hannibal Lecter, insinuating that it was more personal in nature than he thought necessary.

Before he can put her at a desk, she is called back into the field by Ruth Martin and put under the team led by Paul Krendler, a man who Clarice “upped” in the movie when she was a trainee. He doesn’t want her there, insists on a profile after seeing the first two bodies and when she can’t give an accurate one because she doesn’t have all the evidence, he tells her she had to tell the press it’s a serial killer.

It’s already shown that Clarice has a bit of trauma with press conferences and this is something that keeps coming back. The press want Clarice and Paul Krendler just wants her to be the face of his team and tells her that she will say what he tells her to say. Clarice is not taken seriously by Krindler, by anyone else in the office, (there’s a scene where men from the other unit that share an office, coat her desk drawer with lotion and leave that lotion and a basket in the drawer and then laugh about it). Clarice is blocked at every turn by men, even her therapist calls Krindler and tells him to bench her because he’s worried about her mental state.

The first time we meet Will Graham, his mental state is mentioned as tenuous, yet the FBI have no problem throwing him right out into the field. Clarice was a trainee who managed to catch a serial killer, and somehow she’s considered too “fragile” to be put on any cases other than desk jobs. In fact, throughout the entire first episode, the only person on her new team to take an interest and believe what she says is Thomas Esquivel, an ex-special forces soldier turned agent who believes in what she says.

From the first moment of this show the misogyny was right out on view, there is no hiding that all of the men in this show do not like Clarice because she’s young, she’s a woman and they are intimidated by her talent. Her only support comes from Agent Esquivel and her friend and former trainee Ardelia Mapp.

I mention the misogyny because it’s not all on the show. It’s from the fans as well. The first time I was reminded the show was on was when I noticed Hannibal was trending on Twitter. The day and time frame Clarice aired its premiere, Twitter was lamenting that they wanted a season four of Hannibal. While researching for this blog, I used IMDB to get names and plot points. And came across this comment about the premiere:

“Can we bring back Hannibal, please?

12 February 2021 | by [redacted]

And by that I am of course referring to the excellent series featuring Mads Mikkelsen's amazing portrayal of Dr. Hannibal Lecter. That series had great style, fantastic atmosphere, and stellar directing, editing, and acting. They planned to tell the ultimate Hannibal Lecter story but only were able to make three seasons out of a seven season plan. So, here we have a Clarice Starling series that had been in the works for years but didn't get the train running till now. So the premiere - Meh. Rebecca Breeds makes a very good Clarice but nothing else is up to her level. The cinematography isn't bad but the atmosphere is lacking, the characters are none too memorable, and the storyline isn't attention grabbing enough. I give it about a season at least.”

I don’t know the time when this posted, but I’m not surprised by the comment at all. Comment and review bombing seems to be the way that fans express their “disappointment” about their old shows not getting anything…or rather, their favorite male characters not getting more screen time.

On the same page, the below link was posted. This was one day after the first episode of Clarice premiered:

Clarice: Season Two? Has the CBS TV Series Been Cancelled or Renewed Yet? 13 February 2021 | TVSeriesFinale

A freshman series about a female criminal profiler who is pushed down, ignored, harassed because of her sex. It’s almost a case of life imitating art.

I was going to leave this post as it was and post it today but last week the second episode aired which showed Clarice pushing past childhood trauma to face down a cult leader and a corrupt government system thereby earning Krendler’s respect and her position on the team. And while Thomas Esquivel told her that a team is only good if each of its members understand that they can trust and support one another, thereby hopefully foreshadowing that this team will eventually accept Clarice as one of their own and in turn she will do the same, it took her risking her life by going back inside the compound, disregarding orders and singlehandedly getting the information needed to put both the cult leader and head of the County Sheriff down for the count for Krendler to finally see her worth and decide to keep her on the team.

I liked Clarice. It was hard to watch at times, not only because of the trauma she is dealing with as well as the survivor, Catherine, calling her and harassing her, but because of the anger I felt watching Clarice get stepped on time and time again by the men in this show, only to get up and do her job. Her final speech she makes at the end of episode one about her grandmother is inspiring and gives the viewer a bit of a “in your face” to the men behind her, especially Krendler…even though we all know he’s going to make her life a living hell when they get back to the office because she didn’t follow his rules. That said, this show is very much a procedural, much like CSI or Criminal Minds. The series follows the format of the movie. This is not Hannibal. It’s not trying to be Hannibal, It is trying to be Clarice. And, as the quote goes, it’s going to have to work twice as hard to even get one half of the respect it deserves.

#FPBlog #Clarice #misogyny #fandom #televison #blog post #toxic fandom

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riversfire · 4 years

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Okay folks, it’s *thinking about Hannibal’s Uffizi gallery scene* hours again and I may be a dumb bitch and not a classics expert, but like, I’m obsessed with the sketch of Will as Zephyrus and Bedelia as Chloris that Hannibal creates in the gallery.

Clearly this sketch calls back to the murders of il mostro decades prior, with Hannibal killing and posing a man and woman in this position classically acknowledged as representing the final threshold, the transition to greatness through an unwilling act, because, as described by Ovid, Zephyrus literally transforms Chloris into deity through a carnal act of coercion. (He raped her and then made her his bride and a goddess to “make amends”).

Chloris becomes “Flora,” a name that comes from the word “blossoming”—Flora, who knew of the love Zephyrus bore for another man, his betrayal of Zephyrus, and his resulting murder at Zephyrus’s hand, and transformed that man’s blood into the first hyacinth to honor his tragedy in death. Flora, who feared Jupiter’s anger if she aided his victims and who became powerful but also essentially trapped in a garden of her violent husband’s making.

Zephyrus, often invoked to represent ocean wind carrying a loved one away or as the cause of dangerous waves, was the god of spring wind who killed the man he loved with his “death bringing breath.”

(Interestingly, Achilles prayed to Zephyrus to drive the fire that would burn the body of his beloved Patroclus, another pairing that is textually drawn as a parallel by Hannibal himself in the show, with, in my interpretation, Will described as the empathetic Patroclus, who died after becoming, in form, the murderous Achilles, his love. I also simply must include the fact that in the Iliad, Achilles threatens to eat the body of the man who killed Patroclus after killing him, and later, of course, dies).

Now, of course I do subscribe to the interpretation that Hannibal and Will are so blurred at this point that by drawing Will as Zephyros, Hannibal was actually signaling his own attempted murder-to-come (again) and subsequent transformation of Will, the man he loved, with his “wife” as distant witness. But of course, that failed, and Will’s true transformation was not until the end of season three, and it didn’t come through death. It came through finally becoming one with Hannibal. Thus, this “becoming” was the bigger fulfillment of Hannibal’s Will-as-Zephyrus-as-Hannibal parallel.

But wait, there’s more. I believe the primavera pose is both Hannibal’s beginning and his end. It’s his magnum opus. And the completion of the Hannibal/Will merging still requires the violent transformation of Bedelia.

With all the talk about the dragon “changing” his victims in death, and the moments of “becoming” in season three... Maybe what we’re seeing in the stinger at the end of season three is the beginning of Bedelia’s becoming at the hands of Hannibal *and Will*. Not the becoming that Will had in the season three finale, but the becoming that the dragon’s victims had. Through death.

Perhaps Hannibal wasn’t satisfied with arranging his puppet bodies and now intends to create the characters in full before killing them, and this is the foreshadowing of the completion of that moment. Hannibal deifies Will by merging with him completely, they deify Bedilia by killing her, and then eventually are killed themselves by each other so that the song may flower forever—perpetual spring in death (and perhaps the completion of Hannibal as the ultimate deity: Jupiter/Zeus parallel as the one who set these characters on this track) just as their counterparts were killed years earlier by Hannibal. But now it is the fuller realization of Hannibal’s design. “Revelation is the development of an image first blurred, then coming clear.”

I think it’s possible there could be additional foreshadowing to this moment—water has always represented Will and his states of being, and Water was used in similar ways for Bedelia in the beginning of season three, with the shots of her in the bathtub, being overtaken by the water.

Originally I thought this was just a representation of Bedelia’s own mental state due to Hannibal’s influence, as it seemed to be a representation of the same for Will.

But perhaps there could be a bit of foreshadowing there about what finally finishes her. It isn’t the blood, but the water she surrenders to. Will, after he has been transformed by Hannibal’s influence.

I’ve been seeing people mostly of the opinion that Hannibal may be behind Bedelia’s loss of limb, but that surely Will is not a participant of that particular cruelty. And yet, I posit that he is. (I’m not making a prediction for a possible season four with this whatsoever, just considering the option with the view of season 3 as the show finale, that we could imagine Will as being wholly one with Hannibal already. After all, they took the metaphorical and literal plunge together as one flesh, and there is no going back from that).

As Bedelia sits at the table preparing to be eaten, there are additional place settings at the table. Places for Hannibal and Will as well as Bedelia. And perhaps there is a chair-less place, set for Bedilia’s Becoming.

#bedelia du maurier #hannigram meta #hannibal meta #hannibal #zephyrus #hannibal + classical mythology

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hannigramficrecs · 4 years

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A/B/O

Alpha Mine by slashyrogue [words: 2,308]

Hannibal had always thought of his second gender as a weapon until he met Will Graham or Omega Hannibal has the hots for Will Graham who's too much of a gentleman to notice until it's too late.

Truly, Madly, Deeply by slashyrogue [words: 52,811]

They meet by chance at a Christmas Party and share a kiss that seals their fate.

Wage Your War by Della19 [words: 57,669]

A fic about omega Will Graham manipulating alpha Hannibal Lecter into getting exactly what he wants.

Arrangement by YouAreMyDesign [words: 11,185]

It's been a while since he was able to move within his house without listening to Abigail fussing, for any number of reasons. Desperation would make her hungry enough to take the occasional bottle, but he can't fight the feeling of supreme relief he feels, hearing a quiet house, knowing that his daughter will be well-fed and taken care of by such a sweet, young omega, with evident powerful maternal instincts.

Tender Loving Care by extremelyperturbed [words: 2,424]

AU in which Alphas during their Rut are as weak as Omegas in Heat. Driven by pheromones, they have only one thing on their mind and forget completely about water, food and sleep, and their Omegas have to care about them, feed them, calm them and make them rest.

Surrogacy by anon [words: 12,966]

Will is broke, unable to afford college. Instead of working multiple jobs or in something he would not appreciate, he decides to sign up at a surrogate agency. He meets the Lecter's, an alpha/alpha relationship where Alana is unable to have children, yet Hannibal wishes to carry on his lineage. They meet with Will, finding him exactly what they want in a surrogate. Only, it is not as simple as having Hannibal's child.

Railroad Track by rainbowdracul: [words: 19,942]

Will is an omega rendered undesirable by his vivid nightmares, sleepwalking, and hysteria. He's certain he's going to die a miserable spinster.Then he meets the handsome, successful Doctor Hannibal Lecter, who is instantly smitten and sweeps Will away. At first ecstatic, Will's visions slowly grow darker and focus on the serial killer known as the Chesapeake Ripper, as cracks begin to appear in his "perfect" mate.

Child Bride by IcarusFeathers [words: 4,378]

When Hannibal Lecter first met his intended, his child bride had asked rather innocently "are you my new daddy?" and he hadn't wanted to disappoint.

Tribe Mother by YouAreMyDesign [words: 19,071]

"I ask for his head and you bring me his whole body," Will murmurs. "I wonder if I should expect the same in all aspects of our life together."Hannibal smiles, not pausing from his work. "Ask me for a bite to eat and I will bring you a feast," he promises. "A river in place of a glass of water. Endless hours of pleasure when commanded to give a single kiss."

Dahlia by YouAreMyDesign [words: 12,435]

Hannibal merely stares at him, and wonders if the lamb's wool was hiding this wolf all along. "I know what you did to me. What you've done to all those omegas in the press. Butchered, childless, discarded like the trash they are."

Chesapeake Mafia by Anna_Jay [words: 21,704]

Hannibal is the leader of the mafia organization that continually evade capture from Agent Jack Crawford. However, when Jack catches wind of who the leader's mate is, he does whatever he can to take Hannibal down. Will, who is Hannibal's pregnant mate is not too keen on the idea of being used as bait.

Dissolving Like the Setting Sun by PKA [words: 3,422]

In this universe, Will doesn't suffer from encephalitis, but from a prolonged heat sickness. When he visits Hannibal with Abel Gideon in tow, things escalate.

A Keepsake by HigherMagic [words: 3,318]

As Alpha, when they'd mated, Will was legally his property, to do with as he sees fit – a set of laws Hannibal despises, and Will knows he despises, for they are equals in all things and no bite mark, no ability to knot, no ability to bear young, will change that.But the fact of the matter remains that their past was a product of Hannibal's designs. Now it's Will's turn.

Knot Me, Please by anon [words: 5,285]

Will is a young rescue omega that was saved from a mill, and Bedelia acquires him to breed and have pups with her pedigree alpha, Hannibal, once his first heat hits.

Footprints in Snow by scorpiobabylon [words: 12,509]

Hannibal is held at gunpoint by a pregnant omega in the woods. They fall in love, of course, on the omega's terms.

Marks by FireFleshAndBlood [words: 4,414]

The details of a case overwhelm Will's better judgment and he finds himself craving what he thought he never wanted.

Au Jus by canis_m [words: 2,311]

On the hunt for the Minnesota Shrike, Will goes into heat early. Good thing there's a doctor on call.

Imbalanced Perfection by Watermelonsmellinfellon [words: 7,276]

Will Graham was an Omega. However, there was something wrong internally. His instincts as an Omega were nonexistent due to an imbalance of chemicals in the body, meaning he felt no need to submit to Alphas, and disliked being ordered around. While his Heats were ever present and surely something he dealt with each year, he wasn’t considered ‘good enough’ and wasn’t wanted by anyone. Then Hannibal came along.

Shadowing by stratumgermanitivum and YouAreMyDesign [words: 12,725]

“I’m very strict with my interns,” the doctor says slowly, his eyes on Will’s, never drifting. “In fact, I had asked them not to assign me any more. Unfortunately, I was the only surgeon available to take on extra duties. My expectations for you and your behavior will be high. I have fired interns before, and while I didn’t relish the experience, I won’t hesitate to do so again.”

Sick Day by sku7314977 [words: 26,944]

Will misses his scheduled appointment and Hannibal visits Wolf Trap to see what’s keeping his favorite not-patient from visiting his office. When he comes by Will’s house expecting to find the assumed Beta curled in bed sick he’s caught off guard by the thick musk of hormones attacking his olfactory telling him of an unexpected Omega in heat.

More or Less by acheforhim [words: 6,696]

Will imprints on Lecter as soon as he meets him.

Sweet As Peaches On the Tongue by Dangereuse [words: 8,452]

Hannibal finds omega Will much younger than anyone suspected.

Feral by stratumgermanitivum [words: 2,397]

“Will,” Jack Crawford growls down the line, “Tell me Hannibal Lecter never confided in you that he was an Omega.” “Oh, shit.” “Oh, shit,” Jack agrees.

Predicaments by stratumgermanitivum [words: 3,865]

The good thing about being bonded was that eventually, your cycles synced up. Heats and ruts could still be triggered by outside circumstances, but generally, both you and your partner suffered together, instead of alone. Will had always been more or less regular, heats coming every three months, give or take a few days. Hannibal was like clockwork, a perfectly scheduled three-day weekend every three months. When they got together, they synchronized almost immediately. Will was busy, however. He didn’t always remember to track his heat- he had Hannibal for that. He didn’t realize he was late until he came home to a red-eyed Alpha growling at him from the doorway of the kitchen.

Wrong by HotMolasses [words: 4,257]

Will roughly rubbed his arm across his mouth again, trying to rub it off. Rub off the scent of Alana, after they’d kissed. After she’d kissed him. Or he’d kissed her? It was mutual. Until it wasn’t. Until Will breathed in her scent, so familiar, so Alpha, so…wrong. He’d pulled back forcibly, unable to hide the expression of revulsion on his face. “I…I need to go.” he said, sweeping his coat off the back of a chair on his way towards the door. “Lock up when you leave.” The weather was crap, and it probably wasn’t smart to drive in the snow while he was in pre-heat, but Will didn’t know what else to do. He needed to figure this out, he needed to talk to the only person who understood him. He needed to talk to Hannibal.

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#hannibal fic rec #hannigram #hannibal fanfiction #hannibal #hannigram fanfiction #abo

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silencedlamb-a · 3 years

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𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐝 … @ethicsbutcher

𝚗𝚘 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚔𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚟𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚛. she figured it best to avoid being told ‘ no ’ as though she were a young girl again , testing her mother’s patience in west virginia. it was bad enough that creep , chilton , was angry with her visits but didn’t have grounds to deny her access. doctor lecter had proved to be an integral part in her deciphering the case of buffalo bill which let to her finding him while she was alone and subsequently being able to rescue catherine martin. she thanks him for that , for all of the things his unique perspective taught her while she was only supposed to be gathering information for jack crawford. truth be told , she saw herself more under the tutelage of doctor lecter than agent crawford. the press from the case was huge , which took away from the free time she already lacked. visiting lecter wasn’t possible for a while , but the young agent isn’t quite ready to let hannibal slip from her life just yet.

through chilton’s protests , starling still manages to be cleared with barney opening the steel bar doors for her to head down the corridor to which doctor lecter’s cell formed a dead end. the pleasantries were skipped in favor of hannibal’s skepticism. considering who she works for , he’s right to be a cynic but it doesn’t change the concrete fact that she came on her own free will. she watches the man before her search for more with maroons that seemed to try and pick apart layers of her brain in a desperate search for a lie that did not exist. truth has always been a key component in their dynamic.

his remark and expression only bring a soft , delicate smile and a rosy warmth to alabaster cheeks. perhaps there is something behind his words. she admires the intellectual prowess of the doctor , how he looks at her and speaks to her differently than other men who only seek to dismantle her. she’s formed a trust in doctor lecter that she has in no one else — not even ardelia. he’s seen the inner – most corners of her mind and still sees so much potential , so much promise. tabloids called her ‘ bride of frankenstein ’ in regards to hannibal. maybe there was something blossoming there.

“ and do you think there’s any truth t’ that saying , doctor? ” for mere moment she’d broken the smile , but it made its grand return. her eyes took to the ground before doe eyes with emerald gemstone irises made their way back to him. “ i wanted t’ thank you. properly. you gave me more direction than agent crawford gave a second thought to. when he questioned your logic or honesty , i didn’t and i followed it. that led me to jame gumb and him to a red herring of a location. i was able t’ save catherine martin because of you. and you have no idea what that means to me. thank you , doctor lecter. ”

#/ when i tell you that ' people will say we're in love ' is and will be my personality for at least 3 months #/ i just think they're neat y'know #/ the destruction we talked about won't be but like for rn ? yes.#ethicsbutcher #𝐢𝐜. 𝚂𝙸𝙻𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴𝙳𝙻𝙰𝙼𝙱 … ﹕ interactions.#𝐨𝐭𝐩. … hannibal lecter ♡ ethicsbutcher.#/ also look at that shiny brand new tag there #𝐚𝐫𝐜. 𝚂𝙸𝙻𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴𝙳𝙻𝙰𝙼𝙱 … 〔 𝟎𝟎𝟏 〕 ﹕ main.

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lets-talk-about-claes-baby · 4 years

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Tagging Game

I’ve been tagged by @girlonfireice and thank you for giving me something to do this fine evening.

Rules: answer 20 questions and tag blogs you want to get to know better!

Name: Whatchumin? My handle is my real name ofc!

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Height: 5'4. I call it average thankyouverymuch.

Languages I Speak: Fluent: 2. One of them is English too! Learning: 1

Nationality: Let’s just say European

Favorite Season: Autumn and Spring. I just love it when everything withers and is ready for winter, and then i love it when nature wakes up and everything blossoms.

Favorite Flower: Red and white Geraniums. Or Jasmine.

Favorite Smell: When you saute garlic and onion (very sophisticated. I know)

Favorite Color: Red or Purple

Favorite Animal: Cats, hands down.

Favorite Fictional Character(s): um..shit. I’m not good at this. Do we mean theater, tv/movies or books? Oh well, i’m just gonna say what comes to mind first. Theater: -The Bride from “Blood Wedding” by Federico Garcia Lorka -Titania from “Midsummer night’s dream” by William Shakespeare Tv: Murderous husbands: Hannibal and Dracula Movies: Colin Firth’s George Falconer from “A single man” And i’m gonna leave it at that. Tea, Coffee, or Hot Chocolate: Coffee in the morning tea at night. Average Sleep Hours: If you let me i could sleep for 11 hours straight in a regular day, but average is 7-9hrs. Let’s not talk about my sleeping pattern though

Cat or Dog Person: I have both and i love my dog very very much, but if i had to choose it would be a cat person. Dream Trip: I’m just gonna write my top 5 of places i’d like to visit, which are: Malta, Italy, New York, Hawaii, Poland. # of Blankets I Sleep With: One and it’s a comforter Blog Established: January of 2020 but i’ve been on this site since 2012, i think?! Followers: More than i deserve really. Fun Fact(s): Remember the hours of sleep question? My personal record, is 16 straight hours of sleep after i was awake for 3 days. Why did i do that? I don’t know. Was it fun? yes, yes it was. -I’m a really good baker although cookies are my arch enemy. -I make a mean impression of an elephant! (can you say talent?) Ok- Tag time: It’s open to whomever wants to do this really, but i think @thebeautyofdisorder @festering-queen will be up to it :)

#tagging game #personal

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hedonisticteeth · 4 years

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I was tagged by @josy57 ❤

Question fact thingies:

Do you make your bed?

I straighten the comforter, but I sleep on top of it with another blanket because I prefer to not wash the huge one as often.

What’s your favorite number?

The number 49 came to mind immediately and I have no reason as to why

What’s your job?

Currently unemployed, but will be working in renovation soon + going to a tech school for machinery and going to work a blue collar for a while, then when I reach the age that I can go to college independently from my parent's money and debt, I'm getting my bachelor's and am pursuing a serious criminal justice career.

If you could, would you go back to school?

I plan on it, actually. I loathe campus life, but yes.

Can you parallel park?

I HAVE before but could I right now? I have no clue.

A job you’ve had that will surprise people?

I clean and tidy up graves and collect obituaries.

Do you think aliens are real?

Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist (which I am), it's been confirmed by world leaders of other countries, there have been too many coincidences, and my country has a top secret government bunker that holds more than weapons. You tell me, dude.

Can you drive a manual car:

Most definitely but I don't drive very often.

Any guilty pleasures?

I can't describe it the way I'd like to, so I'll just say escapism and meditation.

Tattoos?

4 and a half currently :)

Favorite color?

Deep amber, forest green, dark red, and baby pink <3

Things people do that drive you crazy?

Talking with your mouth full + smacking your food. I try my hardest to ignore it but god fucking DAMN it if I don't want to leave the room to avoid snapping at someone.

More seriously, it really irks me when people put others down or talk down on something they don't understand. I was called a pretentious try hard by one of my best friends just because they don't like poetry and I like to speak on and experience most things in a very poetic and indulgent way.

Any phobias?

Drowning. I also have very particular fears to do with outer space.

Favorite childhood sport?

I liked skateboarding and I still love basketball.

Do you talk to yourself?

Absolutely, it helps me organize my thoughts.

What movie do you adore?

Fight Club, Trainspotting, V for Vendetta, Saw Movies, Corpse Bride, Any and All Hannibal Movies (and even moreso the television show), Any Quentin Tarantino movie, Perfume, Adam, A Clockwork Orange, modern IT movies, a few more but I'm drawing a blank.

Do you like doing puzzles?

Absolutely! I prefer puzzles in the form of crime scenes because I'm pretty good at evaluating and drawing conclusions based on evidence.

Favorite kind of music?

Depends on the day!

Tea or coffee?

Hot tea, cold coffee, no absolute preference.

First thing you remember you wanted to be when you grew up?

I wanted to work in a tattoo shop and give tattoos and piercings when I was 4 and around 5 I decided I also wanted to be a cop and went back and forth for several years (amongst other things). At one point, around ages 9-11, I wanted to be an entomologist, but that wasn't good enough so I wanted to be a cryptozoologist. Then from 15-16 I wanted to be a forensic pathologist, then settled on criminal justice when I was 16. I ended up dropping out of college on that career path because of SEVERAL reasons but one being I was not mentally stable in any way, and I was genuinely scared that if I became a homicide detective, I was putting myself and others at risk. But it's all great now, it's wild.

I'm tagging: @violette-opalescence @achromatic-bs and anybody else who'd like to do it! <3

#tag game #get to know me #about hedon #<3 #personal #josy tag #violette tag <3

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thecannibalking · 4 years

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I know I shouldn’t have even watched the Moffat Dracula show on Netflix but I did because vampires okay and bitch it was full of plot holes and nonsense and it did the same thing Sherlock did of constantly patting itself on the back for being so clever when it actually wasn’t terribly clever at all the editing was just pretty to look at. They treated the women, the lgbt (let’s be real it included only gay characters and it seemed a bit self congratulatory that it had included any queer people at all), and the poc like absolute trash which is no surprise.

The only characters that I thought were done pretty well were Dracula and Lucy and the way they carelessly disposed of Lucy’s character and also the way they made her completely contradict herself (she was resentful of being treated like a pretty object and had no fear or judgment of anything and wanted to be somewhere where no one had to look at her and she didn’t have to smile, and then she begged to die because she was burned and scarred and therefore “ugly” wtf) has caused me to fall terribly ill tbh I am bed ridden with a terrible fever metaphorically speaking because they made me love Lucy Westenra in a while new way and then shit all over it.

But considering that Moffat claimed that Dracula isn’t about fucking dudes, he kinda fucks a couple dudes and it is pretty much only implied that he fucks ladies up until the end, and even then he was much more directly flirtatious with pretty much any young dude. So.

Jonathan Harker is asked almost immediately, out of no where and with very little explanation why, if he had sex with Dracula.

Dracula refers to Jonathan as his bride. Repeatedly. Possessivly. I don’t ship that (in this show, I didn’t like what they did w Jonathan like why would anyone call him Johnny for fucks sakes?) but it’s more than implied so...

Jonathan does in fact have a fantasy about Mina Murray (whose character was discarded in such a bullshit way) and it turns out he was actually getting his blood sucked by count old guy. There are a few scenes where Dracula is feeding on a man, while giving the man hallucinations about having sex, and it turns out the dude is humping Dracula. But okay. Dracula isn’t gay or bi. Right e o.

When you try to queerbait but cross the line by a mile so that no one could watch it and not have the impression that Dracula is probs bi and prefers men at the very least lmaoooo

I guess what I’m saying is, if you like Dracula or vampires or women or poc or queer peeps or consistent plot, this is not the show for you.

If you still believe that bbc Sherlock was an excellent and quality tv show in the year of our lord 2020 and on, if you are into watching a mildly pretty show that kind of sucks but you don’t really give a shit, if you are really stoned and just want to watch Dracula be a sassy bitch and you don’t care about the characterization too much, maybe you’ll like it.

This show was essentially watching three long episodes of what Steven Moffat thinks about himself and watching him jack off his own rancid personality and glorifying his own mediocrity as god-like genius and man. Yikes.

The best part imo is when someone asks Dracula if her husband is drunk and he says “that’s one way of putting it” I’m a Hannibal fan and I appreciate jokes about killing and eating people

That’s my review. 1.5/5 stars.

#like im all for loving something even if its low quality and it was kind of a fun cute show you dont think too much #but they did lucy and mina so dirty and the way they constantly made something seem inportant #then dropped the plotline without mention again #ugh yuck #it was trash af #dracula #netflix #steven moffat

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deactivated-account354643 · 5 years

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Current 2doc fics im working on

Four in the morning- Murdoc has a bad habit of going into 2D’s room and spilling all of his deepest secrets to the sleeping Singer. When he accidentally does it while 2D is awake, chaos follows. (Already posted, Phase 4, Trans Stu)

One Of The Boys- Stella Pot has never felt like a real girl. Maybe it was her mother constantly putting her down, or her father constantly perving on her, or her relentless bullies at school, or her utter hatred of her own body. She’s never really known. Until her first date with a fellow classmate, a boy called Murdoc, goes horribly wrong that she realizes what is wrong. Stella has never been a girl, because she should have been born a boy. (Highschool, Trans Stu)

1997- It’s the Summer of 1987, and Murdoc’s most recent band, Two’s a Crowd, has gone down in flames. After moving in with his older brother Hannibal, he meets Hannibal’s new boyfriend, Stuart! Stu is a painfully shy 19 year old Crawley Native, but still a nice enough guy even though Hannibal never lets him talk to Murdoc. And over time, Murdoc starts to wonder if the young man’s bruises are from more then just a few clumsy mishaps... (Canon Divergance, Hannistu, domestic violence)

Patience- 2D loves Murdoc, he really does. Even after years of abuse and mental torture, he still loves him. But God is he tired. He knows Murdoc loves him, but how can he feel loved when Murdoc can’t show it? (Touch Starved Murdoc, abused Murdoc, this one’s just fucking sad)

Stuart’s Baby- 2D is pregnant. He doesn’t know how, he doesn’t know why, and he doesn’t know who the father is, but he’s happy. And Murdoc seems to be too. He’s being a lot less mean, and even started to take care of him! Why exactly? Stuart doesn’t know, and he doesn’t care. If only he knew what Murdoc would get out of this... (Rosemary’s Baby, dickhole Murdoc, a lot of non conensual stuff)

Til Death Do Us Part- Stuart Pot is set to marry Lady Paula Cracker. She’s a nice enough young lady, but he feels no attraction towards her, or any other woman for that fact. After a particularly terrible wedding rehearsal, he rushes out of the house and out of town, into the woods in the midst of a panic attack. After calming himself down, he rehearses his wedding vows alone, even going as far as to slip the wedding ring onto a mysterious looking tree root sticking out of the ground. If he were more perceptive, he probably would have realized it wasn’t a root, but a skeleton arm. Oh well! Now he’s married to a corpse. (Corpse Bride au)

Snapshot- Stuart Pot is a law major living in London, about to finish his law degree, when he gets called up by some famous talent manager offering him a job. After meeting the team, Photographer Noodle, Talent Manager Russel, Talent manager Murdoc, fashion designer Del, and fellow ameture model Paula, the only way to go is up. (Model au, a whole lot of bottom Murdoc)

Rotten Apples- Gorillaz has been broken up for almost three years, and since then, 2D and his child (haven’t decided the gender yet) have been living with his parents. Life is good, 2D works at his dad’s fairground, and is slowly managing to get back to his normal pre-Gorillaz life while learning to raise his toddler alone. Then Noodle calls up, and before he knows it, he’s back in Kong Studios, now forced to co-parent with his ex, Murdoc. (Phase 2, mpreg, Murdoc just wants to be a good dad, please help me decide what gender that kid is)

Royalty- A war has raged between the kingdoms of Crawley and Stoke for centuries, and has finally been ended! King Sebastian of Stoke, in an attempt to save himself from being assassinated by one of his own children (a kingdom tradition) offers his youngest son Murdoc up for marriage, to which the Pots (rulers of Crawley) reluctantly accept and promise their only Son Stuart’s hand in marriage. Unfortunately, neither of the boys learn of this until they meet face to face. (Royalty au)

Stuart Potter- Stuart “The Boy Who lived” Potter has dreaded this day his entire life. The day his Hogwarts letter would arrive. Stuart’s parents weren’t the brightest Hogwarts Students, though they were certainly loved and admired. They went up against The Dark lord for Christ sake! of course that might not be a good thing. Ten years ago, when their house was attacked, baby Stuart was attacked, but survived, now with two fully black eyes. This incident left Stuart traumatized to this day, probably responsible for his insane fear of all wizarding arts. Still, he was the son of the famous Potters, the boy who lived. He had to be good at magic, whether he liked it or not. (Harry Potter au)

(Please tell me which ones you like best so I can get around to posting them!)

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lakeshorestrcngler · 6 years

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tagged by: Thieved as per usual tagging: @tiffanyxvalentine @bonafidebxnus representing the fam u know

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aquitainequeen · 6 years

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Being my sleep deprived ramble on Phantom of the Opera 9/8/2018:

Hannibal boy dancer is shiny.

I mean, really shiny. His bare torso is super oiled.

It’s very distracting.

Madame Giry is very vague and mysterious and Isadora Duncan-esque. Keeps pointing languidly at people.

Raoul is brilliant. He spends pretty much the entire musical really so annoyed and pissed off with just about everything, except when he’s being so sweet with Christine. He constaly looks like he wants to punch the Phantom, which is impressive considering they’re only physically in two scenes together.

Flatmate loves the ballet girls dancing in the back of Angel of Music/Little Lotte.

“Good use of proxemics. Only I don’t think they call it that now.”

“What do they call it?”

“Fuck only knows.”

(It is, in fact, still called proxemics. I don’t know if it means the same thing in a theatre. My flatmate is much smarter/more well-read than me.)

Flatmate loves the gondola, but is utterly betrayed that Phantom of the Opera is pre-recorded!!! He thinks the final note surely must be live.

We’re both very impressed by how the Phantom can turn a ‘c’ into a ‘k’ at the end of ‘music’. (I at first thought flatmate was talking about musical notes.)

Phantom catch Christine after Mirror Bride faint. Aw yisssssssssss

Phantom so damned enthusiastic when composing. Really gets into it. Adorable.

Not enough anger and venom in Stranger than You Dreamt It. Sounds too close to tears. That happens a lot with this Phantom.

I can never, ever hear what Raoul, Madame Giry and Meg are saying during Prima Donna. It niggles.

Managers are very funny. Loved when one continuously bumped into a ballet girl.

Flatmate loves the shadows. Boy ballet dancer very confused during the Il Muto ballet when the Phantom’s shadow shows up. Keeps going wait what and mugging at the audience.

Christine and Raoul so cute during All I Ask Of You. She giggles so much. Raoul is so sweet.

Flatmate and I were sitting at the back of the stalls, so we were craning our heads a bit until the angels descended further. Phantom coming up into view got a gasp, yisssssssss. Angels mouths started glowing, double yisssss.

Monkey girl cowers during Why So Silent. Does she always do that?

Firmin disgusted by the manuscript. Everyone handing it off to each other.

“She’s mad.” Carlotta is so blunt. It’s wonderful.

Christine’s horror and despair is captured so perfectly. Wraps arms around herself in distress a lot; nervous tic.

Giry’s “Can you be sure of that, signora?” is so simple and quiet and understated, and more terrifying for it.

“That voice that calls to me/And speaks my name” – I’m used to these lines being high a light. Christine really belted them out this time. Best I’ve ever heard.

She laughs a little during Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, “You were warm and gentle.” remembering the good times. Healing. She ended it almost happy. That’s good.

Phantom at the end of Wandering Child, when he calls out “Don’t go” once again sounds like he’s near to tears.

When laying the trap, Raoul looks like he wants to both punch the Phantom and shake some goddam sense into him. And then do the same to all the idiots he has to deal with.

I always love how the Phantom realised just how grossly he’s miscalculated in Point of No Return. Flatmate loved the choreography between the two. We personally believe Christine subconciosuly knew it was the Phantom almost right away. She surely wouldn’t have done that with Buquet. Not even for acting.

Essentially the Phantom spends the entire second half of the second act sounding like he’s about to burst into tears or have a panic attack.

Christine’s reaction during the All I Ask of You Reprise – ‘Ah. He overheard us that time Okay then. Don’t I feel like a scab.’

Madame Giry is rather vague and Isadora Duncan-esque even on the way to save Christine.

As the Phantom’s poling Christine down to the lair, here come the sobs.

Raoul doesn’t jump from the bridge. Boo.

When Christine says that the Phantom’s face holds no horror for her now, he tries to hug her, only to be fended away.

The Phantom raises the gate without getting up from his throne or even looking around. Just sticks his arm out and gestures. ‘I’m not even going to give you effort of standing up to do this.’ Like a boss.

“Tears of hate.” The moment Phantom realises he’s ruined it all, utterly. He collapses over the keyboard in grief.

“So do you spend your days with me, or do you send him to his grave?” Phantom actually puts his hands into Christine’s hair, then forces her over backward.

Christine hugs herself in despair, her nervous tick. The Phantom beats the sides of his head to punish himself.

‘I gave my mind blindly.” And he’s horrified. He stammers. He goes over to her. Down on one knee. Takes her face in his hands so gently. Is about to comfort her. I’ve never, never seen this done before And then he snaps and throws her down instead. He has another mini panic attack. He knows he’s ruined it yet again.

He never holds her as she kisses him. The Phantoms never seem to do. Her hand goes up to clutch the place where his skull shows through. He slips from her.

You can see the moment where he knows what he can do. He holds the candle to Raoul’s face You can see the moment where he’s decided what he has to do.

(I’ve just realised I haven’t paid attention to what Raoul’s doing. Sorry Raoul. To be fair he doesn’t really do a lot in this scene.)

Christine’s fighting to get back to the Phantom, Raoul holding her back. She’s mouthing something. Can’t tell what.

When Christine returns that final time, she kisses his hand goodbye. She holds it, for a moment, his hand between hers, as they stare at each other.

He’s left looking at his hand and the ring in it. He collapses as if he’s been hit in the gut.

Flatmate loves his disappearance under the cloak at the end

Spotlight clearly struggling to stay on the mask. Meg has to change position sharpish.

#poto #the phantom of the opera #phantom of the opera #ben lewis #kelly mathieson #I think it was kelly mathieson #I couldn't be bothered to go back and check who was christine today

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