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Mind palace

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A few quick sketches of will graham with pen and watercolor

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I need this magazine!

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hahahahahahaha tumblr user willgramhamscock has watched the passenger *evil laughter can be heard from every direction*

why did no one warn me that I was going to read every single fanfiction in this fandom and realize they have less than 300 fics??? what am I supposed to do now? they're inside my brain so deep I can't think about anything else

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Considering after all this time whether Hobbs' 'See? See?' was something Will imagined up

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Hannibal (2013-2015)

3x03 - “Secondo”

Hannibal breaking the fourth wall

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he looks so fucking annoyed with hannibal’s stupid coffee machine

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I remember you. You killed my dad.

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I cannot believe 92% of people are wrong

Will literary admits in the show that he buys gifts when he's upset after he buys and beautifully wraps a present for Abigail. He gifts Hannibal a bottle of wine in season 1.

in 39 episodes of the show we don't see Hannibal surprising anyone with a gift.

Its also their personalities, Hannibal is someone who enjoys rare and beautiful things. Will cares less about material possessions but I think he would find a lot of pleasure in seeing an artisanal tea shop and getting to choose something unique for Hannibal. He would see something interesting, think of Hannibal and get it for him.

I head canon giftgiving to be a big part of how Will shows love. Predicting what someone would like and imagining their reaction etc.

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I cannot believe 92% of people are wrong

Will literary admits in the show that he buys gifts when he's upset after he buys and beautifully wraps a present for Abigail. He gifts Hannibal a bottle of wine in season 1.

in 39 episodes of the show we don't see Hannibal surprising anyone with a gift.

Its also their personalities, Hannibal is someone who enjoys rare and beautiful things. Will cares less about material possessions but I think he would find a lot of pleasure in seeing an artisanal tea shop and getting to choose something unique for Hannibal. He would see something interesting, think of Hannibal and get it for him.

I head canon giftgiving to be a big part of how Will shows love. Predicting what someone would like and imagining their reaction etc.

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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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💋 Happy International Kissing Day 💋 : Hugh Dancy

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i see that angel will graham is a fan favorite i'm glad we all agree

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Hannibal is less a 'love story' in the usual sense of the phrase and more a story about love, I think. supposing love stories are about how two or more characters fall in love, Hannibal is that, a little bit. but it's more devoted to what love is, or to all that love can be, including violent, to just be called a love story. it's romantic and it's about the Romantic, with terror and apprehension and awe. it builds it's story and world around the entanglement of all that. if that makes sense?

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Yes, exactly! 

There’s a quote from Anne Carson’s essay, The Anthropology of Water: “Humans in love are terrible. You see them come hungering at one another like prehistoric wolves, you see something struggling for life in between them like a root or a soul and it flares for a moment, then they smash it. The difference between them smashes the bones out. So delicate the bones.” The implication being that it is because they love one another that their bones are delicate. It is because they love one another that they smash it, because they can’t bear what they see in one another. No-one else speaks their language. No-one else can speak their language. And as intelligent as they both are, neither Will nor Hannibal know quite what to do with that. They both awaken emotions in one another that they’ve fought to repress their whole lives— Will repressing his capability and desire for righteous violence, Hannibal repressing his capability and desire for love. 

Like any Gothic narrative Hannibal is about repression. Look at Dracula and Carmilla, where repressed homosexuality emerges through the cracks as violence. Because repression doesn’t work. You think by locking desire behind a door you can starve it like an animal, but instead it grows bigger until it smashes through the walls. That’s what their relationship is, for the majority of the three seasons: trying to smash the desire out of themselves and out of one other. Their capability of profound love towards one another means they are also capable of profound hurt, to echo Ursula K. Le Guin. 

Will sees his love for Hannibal as an intolerable weapon: Hannibal sees his love for Will as an intolerable vulnerability. It’s not until the latter half of season three that they both begin to realize that this violence is not sustainable. That it still leaves them empty. I think Hannibal realizes this sooner than Will— (which is ironic, because it’s Hannibal who’s often the worst perpetrator)— hence his surrender in 3x07. And while Will is exhausted by the violence by then, I don’t think it’s until 3x12 that he realizes there is an alternative: tenderness.