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Sometimes, I'm like, "Pesky, stop being delulu. There won't be season 4, there won't be anything new. Hugh and Mads only see that they can make money at cons. That's it. There is nothing more to that", but at the same time:

there is going to be a new movie from Hannibal universe (it is unclear who is going to play Hannibal Lecter or anyone else really)

last year De Laurentiis Entertainment Group's page was updated after many years (at least someone claimed so) and that group worked on every single Hannibal related production

out of blue Hot Topic starts selling licensed NBC's Hannibal T-shirts

Mads Mikkelsen started a film making company

Bryan keeps running into a lot of Hannibal's actors recently

it seems Mads and Hugh are going for another "Hannibal tour" (reunions)

I dunno about it, but people think that Mads acted sus, when he was lately asked about season 4 of Hannibal

And so, I'm actually like:

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achtung.

achtung.

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Can we, for a second, think about the fact that Hannibal dressed Will before he carried him home through the snow?

Will is naked when he's about to get the face surgery from Cordell. We see a scene of him in the operation chair where he's shirtless, lower body covered by a hospital blanket. Hannibal, who cut himself free from the ropes that were holding him captive on Muskrat farm, who then killed a large sum of Mason's staff including trained security and surgeons, saves him before Will's face gets removed. This all happens off-screen. The next scene is Hannibal carrying Will (bridal style) through the snow. In this scene Will is dressed, including a jacket for the cold and all that. Imagine Hannibal, the violent beast we saw when he killed Mason's men, blood probably still on his hands, finding Will there. Unconscious, and then dressing him. Dressing someone is a very intimate thing, especially someone unconscious. It requires care and gentleness. That, and knowing how to handle a body and loving someone enough to dress them while they don't need to be. He buttoned his buttons for him, tied his shoes, put him in a jacket to make sure he wouldn't get cold - I mean, Hannibal himself doesn't even wear a jacket in that scene. There's blood and wounds all over Hannibal's face, he's exhausted and probably the one in the most physical danger, yet he takes care of Will before he takes care of himself.

This hits even harder if you think about why they ended up in Muskrat farm in the first place. In Florence, Hannibal tried to 'eat' Will. He tried to split his head open with a bone saw. That intense violence, the grotesque and desperate nature of those actions makes a perfect and sharp contrast to him saving Will after outside forces try to take their lives, which is a heroically gentle and intimate action. He didn't have to dress him up like that, he didn't have to carry him that way, but he did. Hannibal fails to kill Will in Florence, and with that he fails his last attempt to get rid of his feelings for Will. Or at least, to make his feelings bearable. He thinks that he can control himself better when Will is dead, so he tries to kill him but he fails. Not because he's stopped, but simply because he can't do it. If Hannibal wanted him dead, Will would have been dead. Mason's men only interrupted his theatrics. They gave him a reason to put away the saw and act like it was purely their fault, but then Will is in danger at the farm and Hannibal does everything in his power to save him and get him home safe and well. At home he takes off his jacket, literally lays him in bed and tucks him in. He covers Will with a blanket, he tries to write mathematical formulas to reverse time and cleans his wounds. That's why Will's rejection when he wakes up is so tragic and hard to watch. It breaks Hannibal, unbreakable and inhuman Hannibal Lecter. It simply hurts him enough to break his heart. It breaks him enough to give up everything he ever lived for and surrender to the FBI, which he spent a lifetime running from. He does this because when he decided to save Will, he realised he would never get over the things he felt for him. In Hannibal's mind, the worst thing that can happen is never seeing Will again. He finally realised that, after everything, and that's why he surrenders to the FBI.

Hannibal honey, you don't want to eat his brain. You just wanted him to love you.

It's subtle details like this that always stick to me afterwards. It's just another thought I had and I felt like sharing.

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Some things are worth waiting for, like a new Hannibal's Sketchbook page!

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“You sick fucks” Mads Mikkelsen is so real for this | New York Comic con

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From that post I saw going around. I just wanted to add something

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More hannibal art for yall.

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Shout out to my friend K.J. For putting me onto Ethel Cain

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will is werewolf coded because his darkness is hidden and repressed even to himself. he fights against it relentlessly, but he can’t get rid of it no matter how hard he tries. he only comes to terms with what he is under the light of the moon when he realises how much he loves the hunt.

hannibal is vampire coded because his darkness is always there, an irrepressible hunger within him. he can hide it from other people but never from himself, and so eventually gives in to his most violent impulses, despite the cultured exterior he gives off

idk i think it’s neat. they’re both so cool

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The fact this is something real and not straight out of a fanfiction is sending me. What’s wrong with him.

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My entry for @/ vivikenz's (instagram) DTIYS!!

Had a lot of fun with this, unfortunate that insta ruined the quality sm hoping Tumblr is better

Corel Painter and Photoshop

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Will Graham as Juan Carreño de Miranda’s Saint Sebastian.

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Dr. Du Maurier holds such a tight grip on her own expressions, clearly striving to keep Hannibal at arm's length.

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Deer Symbolism in Hannibal

"The deer is consistently mentioned throughout the Bible, symbolizing themes of longing, agility, and spiritual aspiration. It represents grace, beauty, swiftness, and a deep longing for God in biblical teachings."

Biblical themes are constantly evoked throughout the show, Hannibal is even portrayed as Jesus, who is God's child. We all know about the stagman and what it represents but in Will's mind, there isn't always the hannistag, sometimes it is a simple stag.

What about when Will gives in and thinks he has killed Hannibal, he then becomes the stag. Either it means Will has is becoming a stagman just like Hannibal or it can also simply mean he has seen God and he longs for Him even more. Beauty is one of the things that deer symbolize, isn't what the show is about? Will finally seeing beauty in Hannibal, in himself and in the way they kill and eat?

I think the deer doesn't represent Will's darkest desires, I thought so at first, I just think it's him, it's who he is and tries to avoid. There is no darkness in that, simply beauty and grace.

Also when Will's deer 'dies' with Abigail, when he wakes and hallucinates conversations with her, he is torn between wanting to follow Hannibal or do what is morally acceptable in society. He never stops fighting himself, but when it died Will forgave Hannibal and he finally stopped pretending. It can also simply mean that he died inside, since the deer represents him as a whole: as who he is entirely with all the parts he hides deep within himself.

I think we should really differentiate Will's stag and the Hannibal stagman because they represent two different things.

I'll get more into details about this because I'm currently on my 5th Hannibal rewatch

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Franklyn has the worst taste in friends, but I certainly don't blame him. Who could resist Hannibal's appeal?

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