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The Hunger 1983 | Tony Scott

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Hannibal (2013-2015)

3x06 - “Dolce”

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we didn't want ai, we wanted technology that could emit smells so that when we search 'what does patchouli smell like' we get violently sprayed in the face

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throwing this out into the void

Baltimore, 1896. Hannibal has a steady practice as an alienist, a sometimes-but-not-really-familiar, and a living, breathing house with a beating heart. The necromancer may have put much of his recreational activities on halt, sure, and his relationship with Will had reached a point where it was going no further, but he wouldn't say he had stagnated. Not quite. Not until in his absence someone else takes up the mantle of the Chesapeake Ripper, and thus begins a series of events that forces Hannibal and Will to address the skeletons in their closets, and either grow closer or fall apart as a result.

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Nighttime wip?

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Once again long live Freddie Lounds for giving us "murder husbands"

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dinner date?

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love hannigram headcanons of will pulling a gun on hannibal and not in a serious way like, "oh will you shouldn't eat that its junk- *gun*

"darling you let the kitchen a mess yes-*gun*

"the sofa is full of dog hair they should- *gun*

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“Lestat is so silly” “Lestat is so unserious” SILENCE! That man is actually so dead fucking serious 24/7, he just so happens to also be a FOOL

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Sometimes I think of how Hannibal is often exclusively portrayed or referred to as the cannibal of the show in fandom, and that gets me thinking about Will’s own intense potential for pathological cannibalism. Will is a man who deals with “huge amounts of fear”, as Hannibal said to Jack after he first met him, and that fear is a result of his huge amounts of anger and self-repression. He is wrathful first and a lamb second, by his own design. He was fired from the police force for refusing to pull the trigger on a presumably violent suspect— he later tells Hannibal, shaky, still relative strangers, that killing GJ Hobbs felt “good and powerful.”

He knew what pulling that trigger would awaken. Hannibal asks him if he considers Hobbs his victim, and the answer is a resounding no— Hobbs, in Will’s mind, is “just dead.” Will seemed to deal with his dark urges and disconnection from a normal sense of empathy and feelings for others by isolating himself and allowing others to direct his life for him, stripping himself of control to neuter his dark potential. Even after realizing what Hannibal cooks his meal with, he has no issue coming over for dinner. Even an agent who was pretending at neutrality would likely have huge issues with that if they weren’t disinclined to morality and the intrinsic worth of life already. He licks his Randall-laden fork while staring Hannibal down, seductive. The meat, too, is “just dead”— and by his hands, at his will. He goes above and beyond whenever presented with any excuse, tearing Randall apart for his tableaux, biting out a chunk of Cordell’s cheek to counterbalance his complete loss of autonomy, drugged and restrained.

Will kills for the rush and the power he wields over others while Hannibal kills to make his art, to assert his power over creation. Will taunts people coldly for fun, he fantasizes about gore and bondage. He takes enjoyment in chasing Freddie and sacrificing Chilton, having vendettas against them both for lessening him. Killing his victims isn’t enough of an assertion of his own power and freedom, they have to be completely immobilized, hanging in empty space like shanks of meat. Randall’s suit was his true body as he saw it, Will strung his suit up with chains just as he suspended Chiyoh’s prisoner in ropes. Power and the lack of it are gravitational forces in Will’s life, and pathological cannibalism is notorious for being an ultimate expression of power, the base matter of the unfortunate victim feeding one’s own, allowing one life. Total victory through biological, animal subservience. Will is a fisherman, a dog trainer, a studier of insects. He understands the hierarchy of the food chain.

Bedelia confirms for Will that Hannibal aches for him out of love. Hannibal surrenders on his knees at Will’s rejection, unable to live a life without him. Whatever can pain the Devil and make him kneel to sacrifice his worldly kingdom is something twice as fearful. Will’s a cannibal by the dictionary definition, but so is nearly everyone in the show, ignorantly. What matters more here is that his mindset is already highly conductive to that of cannibalism. He has the same intense drive for claimation and reclamation of power as Hannibal.

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turns out a diet of aspirin and whiskey isn't conducive to gaining weight

HOW EASY IS IT TO PICK THIS MAN UP

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languages that don't distinguish between formal and informal you are missing out on so much petty drama. my grandparents have two neighbours who once got into a huge fight over something honestly pretty trivial, so neighbour A said he was going to revoke neighbour B's du (informal you) privileges. neighbour B was like "okay but can i use du one last time?" and neighbour A was like "yeah go ahead", and neighbour B said "du arschloch" (you asshole). incredible.

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