#Alana answers

[alanshee-keeper-of-realms]

What is your opinion of Walt Disney?

Okay I will warn you this will be a bit long

Walt Disney is an inspiration flat out no matter what you say he is an inspiration to me, I come from humble rural backgrounds just 3 hours away from me lays Chicago where the Disney Family built a house and was starting a life before Elias Disney Walt's father moved them to Mississippi

There's a reason Kansas City claims to be Home of the Mouse because that's where Walt did a lot of blue collar work, from working in ad companies to working in the newspapers while he taught himself how to draw and eventually yes how to animate

You know how he first made his projectors at home with one of those really old-fashioned cameras. I am talking 1920s camera a sheet and some technical know-how,

Laugh-o-gram Studios had just gone up and that's what caused them to move to California, they weren't known, they did not have a penny to their name, they were just some Mississippi Chicago boys with a wish and a dream,

And from a shed in the backyard of Walt and Roy's Aunt and Uncle, the Disney Company would be founded and to go from that shed to the absolute massive company we see now

That only happened due in part because of Walt and yes Roy I will always give Roy just as much credit as his brother because he's much like Oswald quite forgotten in this story

Walt was a man ahead of his time, the original Dreamer no matter who laughed jeered ect he kept pushing the boundaries of what people thought Animation could do,

That is not to say he was perfect ohhh no he was definitely human, he had problems sharing he was known for being unbelievably stubborn on certain things, extremely old fashioned in views (He was Lost Gen After all being born in 1901)

1941 he traumatized himself horribly by ostracizing his crew who wanted to form a union, it lead to Walt getting into an actual brawl out front of the Disney Studios with one of his inner circle as they called it, leading to that one leaving with several others it broke his trust badly, and even worse

It took his passion for Animation away from him

A majority of projects in the 40s, 50s and '60s up until his death weren't really headed by him, sure he was involved in certain aspects but a majority of the times it was somebody else in the Studio that was the main overseer of those movies.

It really is sad because Jungle Book which was released in 1967 gave him his passion for animation back he was actually enjoying himself and had a few projects in mind, just as the cancer unfortunately struck and took him not even 2 months later on Dec 15th 1966,

When people say Walt Disney had so much unfinished business, they aren't lying. He was an imperfect human who believed in Family, Wishes,Dreams and seeing the Wonder in everything,that everything had a possibility to be great,

Did you know Characters in the parks aren't supposed to let go in a hug until the child does because Walt said

When a child hugs you, you don't let go first. Let them let go when they're ready because you never know how much they may need that hug in their life.

He was not perfect. However, he was a prime example of not giving up despite adversity, caring for Families instead of the Profits, Lord knows he danced the edge with bankruptcy multiple times fun fact The Three Caballeros helped save the company in the 40s after Fantasias fantastic flop, the government paid Disney to produce that package film and thats what kept them from going completely under, also thank Disney for your Surround Sound because Fantasia is the first 1. There is a reason some do say Disney is the prime example of the American Dream realized.

Because that's all Walt Roy and Ub had when they walked into Hollywood in the 1920s and founded a company that would become known around the World eventually with a Mouse who's name would come to be known by almost every child.

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal 1x04 - “Œuf”

#hannibal was expecting will for family dinner

[willgrahamscock]

No, no. I'll get help. If I die at the hands of a sexy European therapist so be it

[annabelle--cane]

THE DEH MOVIE CUT GOOD FOR YOU??? i didnt watch it but what the actual fuck 😭

yep! "anybody have a map," "to break in a glove," and "good for you" were all axed, along with (I believe) all song reprises, and evan's entire thing about talking to an imaginary version of connor got cut so "disappear" was replaced by a new alana song called "anonymous ones." fucking bizarre decisions all around.

[its-ate-oclock-somewhere]

i have this thing about accurate name meanings...

[dysenchanted]

Do you think Hannibal was in love with Alana and Bedelia? The same way he was in love with Will? Or how do you see Hannibal's relationship with Alana and Bedelia compared to his intense love for Will?

Hiii 🫀

Short answer: No, I don't think he was ever in love with Alana or Bedelia

Long answer is a bit more complicated

I do think he had a true appreciation for both of them, him being a mentor turned college/friend to Alana and a mix of patient and somewhat friend to Bedelia.

(I also use the term "friend" kinda loosely in here because I also believe Hannibal never truly considered someone his friend until Will, but that's another rant)

I think hannibal used his romantic relationships as a means to an end. With Alana he started seeing her as a way of taking something from Will (same way as he was taking his position as profiler on the fbi) while also solidifying his good image and innocence (he used her as an alibi in Futamono), while with Bedelia he used her as a replacement for Will after Mizumono and as way to maintain his image while in Florence (they took the role of an existing married couple).

(While tipying the last paragraph I kinda realized he looked for the company of both woman after being rejected by Will so... take that as you will)

Returning to the appreciation, I do think he saw worth in them, as intelligent people and someone nice to have around, people worth maintaining alive. During Mizumono he could have decided to kill Alana without hesitation, but he didn't, he only promised to kill her after she refused to turn away after being given the option. During Dolce he could have killed Bedelia after she refused to go with him, but he didn't, instead he helped her support her alibi declaring he was maintaining her drugged and not conscious of her identity or actions (but Bedelia did deduce during their goodbyes that Hannibal was going to eat her someday, but that's another rant aswell)

(Also, i see hannibal as a hedonist, so of course if he's maintaining a romantic relationship with beautiful women he's going to take the opportunity to have sex and enjoy it.)

He saw worth in their company and in their minds, but he didn't see them as an equal, someone who could truly understand him, while he did see Will as one.

Alana could have never understood him, with her strong morals and inclination to always do what's right. Her transformation occurred only after being changed by Hannibal (and Abigail), she didn't have a tendency for violence beforehand. With Bedelia is a bit different, she had an awareness of his person suit and has always had a tendency for violence (I love her scenes with Will and their dialogues, I think that's when we begin to understand her more as a character), but also she had a deep fear of what Hannibal truly was and what he was capable of doing. He saw potential for her violence and changed her through their patient, but he also used that to have something to hold against her to encourage her to keep his secrets.

With Will is different, he saw his potential and by the end of the show he could truly see and accept him as he was, finding beauty in their conjoined slaying of the dragon. For Hannibal love is that, understanding and acceptance, and Will was the only person who could truly see him as he was. He could have never had that with Alana or Bedelia.

Anyways, I care so much about Alana and Bedelia and their relationship with Hannibal <3 I truly believe the exploration of the different types of romantic relationships enrich the show a lot and also highlight how special Will is to Hannibal.

[cherrypie-eyed]

what's your favourite tv show of all time and what are you watching right now ??

of ALL TIME is so hard to choose. Honestly, maybe Young Sheldon — but Gilmore Girls is up there, as well as The Walking Dead (but after season 7 i really started to dislike it)

Currently i’m getting into Sex and the City ^^

[arl1n-e]

HIII

I'm new so I'm just gonna make a small req =

Maybe the gang in a group photo that Connor most definitely took?

THANKZZZ

— ⭐((also I'm becoming an emoji anon so I remember me :]))

ARGGH ARTBLOCK IS A PAIN

They're vibin'

Connor is tall, that's how you can tell that Connor took the pictures because everyone is small or looking up 🙏‼️

[nobodysdaydreams]

What's going on with Daniel Jacobi and the ducks. does he have a duck for a nemesis like me and the turkey. please I need to know

Words cannot express how much this question delights me. I apologize in advance for the ensuing rant.

Let me give you the backstory.

So first off, a little about the man in question, Daniel Jacobi. (Disclaimer, I have not consumed all Wolf359 content so this is just based on what I got so far).

We don’t know much about his background except the following:

He specializes in making bombs, weapons, and in his words “things that hurt/break other things” especially humans. He feels little to no remorse for this

He at one point was in the army but never served and so far it’s been implied something happen there that he doesn’t want to talk about that might have involved blowing up a hospital and disappointing his Air Force father (he has severe daddy issues)

He agrees to work for an evil company that kills people knowing full well that they are an evil company that kills people (even and often their own employees). Not everyone working for the evil company knows that they are working for an evil company that kills people, but Jacobi does (because he does a lot of the killing). Like most who are in the know about this, he believes that the evil company would either A) never kill him or B) that if they did kill him, it would be okay because his work would be used for the greater good (though Jacobi is more option A here. Hilbert, who you may have seen me rant about before, falls more into the B category).

More facts about Jacobi later, but first, a word about the evil company and what he actually does for them. The evil company (Goddard Futuristics) focuses primarily on evil shady space exploration that involves killing all the crews they send up when they’re done using them (and for some reason, no one on earth seems to find this suspicious at all. I mean, they do choose people with criminal histories and/or people who don’t have a lot of friends or family who’d miss them, but still someone should have caught on by now). Goddard Futuristics also does a lot of AI development, where they create AI with fully human consciousnesses, personalities, and pain responses, only to enslave them to serve their evil purposes, even forcing them to torture the human crews they’ve come to consider their friends. The folks who run the company also seem to enjoy torturing the AI and their human employees for fun. For context, the company is run by an evil smooth talking business guy and his behind the scenes evil science girlfriend. Think Curtain and Garrison but if they were more evil, sadist, cruel, and the nature of their relationship was 50x more weird and confusing. They run the company like an evil pyramid scheme, with everyone thinking they’re essential personal who are in the “inner circle” and don’t have to worry about getting killed off (but that the people below them on the pyramid do) OR they understand that they are expendable but are in way too deep to back out now, so they keeping doing what their bosses want so they don’t get killed or because they delude themselves into believing their murderous bosses actually have good intentions that couldn’t be accomplished without all the murder.

Directly below evil business man and his evil science girlfriend in the pyramid of evil are Rachel, evil business man’s mean assistant back on earth who I don’t like, and Jacobi’s boss Kepler, who is somehow even worse. All he does is monologue about Whiskey and act like an ominous supervillain (even though it’s clear he doesn’t know what he’s talking about half the time and his bosses are intentionally keeping him out of the loop).

So by now you’re like: “okay Bods, so why does Jacobi kill people for this evil guy Kepler, who is also on his own level of this evil murder science business pyramid scheme? And what does any of this have to do with your passion for torturing Jacobi with ducks?” So glad you asked. After Kepler sweet talks Jacobi at a bar, he agrees to work for Kepler and the evil company he represents because Kepler entices him with an offer he can’t refuse: a chance to have a job where he gets to make things go boom! for a living. While at the company, Jacobi befriends someone on the same level of the evil pyramid scheme as him: Dr. Maxwell, who was enticed by Kepler into working for Goddard with a similar offer he gave Jacobi: a chance to have her dream job working on AI for a living. To Maxwell’s credit, unlike other characters, she treats the AI as human equals. Unfortunately, Maxwell doesn’t treat a lot of the human characters very well so this doesn’t mean much, and when some of the humans and AI turn on Kepler (for justifiable and obvious reasons), Maxwell and Jacobi don’t hesitate to betray, hurt, and enslave the AI and attempt to kill the humans.

This is where things get interesting. During this uprising, the rebels win and Jacobi and Kepler are taken hostage. Maxwell is killed. Jacobi does not take her death well. Jacobi starts freaking out and slowly puts together a ton of obvious stuff we already knew: Kepler is a bad leader who only looks out for his own self interest, he actually doesn’t know what he’s talking about 90% of the time, he was stupid enough to gamble the life of their AI expert and doesn’t care at all that she’s gone, and Jacobi and Maxwell were expendable the whole time just like everyone else at the evil company.

So he has a whole crisis about that, but I know you’re dying to know: what does any of this have to do with ducks?

Honestly, not that much.

You see, one day, the crew finds out that the evil company knows oddly detailed deeply personal embarrassing and incriminating information about all of them. One of these personal secrets is that Jacobi, Mr. Murder Man, Mr. Explosives, Mr. Bomb Expert, Mr. “I kill for a living and don’t lose a moment of sleep”, is highly afraid of ducks. They never explain why he has such an intense fear of ducks (to the point where he freaks out if people make quacking noises) and it’s never brought up again, at least not so far. So I have no idea if he has a specific duck nemesis like you do with your turkey because the show never addresses or explains it.

So then why do I mock him relentlessly for something mentioned so briefly that has little or no bearing on the plot? Well, I’ll tell you, Milk. You see, despite discovering the evil company is evil and losing faith in his horrible boss for letting his best friend get killed, Jacobi STILL doesn’t decide to join the good guys and even insists that Goddard has “done some good things too” and that there really is no good or bad just “progress” and that people like him are necessary so people like Maxwell can do their jobs. The redemption arc is right there for the taking, the bar is on the floor, but instead he decides to completely overlook the very obvious facts that no, actually, good science can in fact be done without murdering tons of people, and being okay with murder until it’s you and your friends that are getting murdered is hypocritical, and I don’t care how much good the evil science company did for the environment, if a successful environmental activist was found guilty of murder, they would still go to jail. You don’t need to do bad things to do good things, and doing some good things once doesn’t give you a free pass to kill whoever you want. In addition to this highly frustrating failure to see the obvious and conscious choice to bury his head in the sand (though to be fair, he’s not the only character that does this), Jacobi also followed his boss’s orders and murdered my favorite character: Blessie, aka The Blessed Eternal aka Specimen 34, aka The Plant Monster aka Percy the Plant aka a bunch of other names. He was iconic, a legend, likely the biological son of Commander Renee Minkowski (and we love that for him), and now he’s dead. He was born in the darkness of space and built himself a night light because he didn’t have any sunlight. 🥺 All he wanted was to go to earth so he could see the sun and plant himself in the soil, where he could live with the other plants. Now he can’t. 💔 Oh. And also, Blessie at one point took over the mind of a Russian scientist, named himself “The Blessed Eternal” and tried to enslave the entire crew, but that Russian scientist did some evil messed up stuff and also it’s okay that Blessie did that, because he was just scared and it was funny and he apologized for it later in his own way so we forgive him 💕 (also God forbid a mutant plant monster does anything 🙄).

The point is: For his crimes, most notably the execution of Blessie’s murder, his lack of remorse, relentless stupidity, and intentional rejection, suppression, and mockery of any feelings of empathy or compassion, Jacobi must pay. So I have decided that an appropriate punishment is to mock him and his fear of ducks relentlessly whenever the opportunity arises.

I hope this explanation is sufficient, sorry to rant so much about the evil murder science company’s pyramid scheme and backstory, but I hope you enjoyed it!

[narcissism-positivity]

My phones screen keeps acting up to the point that it makes tagnging posts nearly impossible that is very rude. I’m using speech to text right now but it requires heavy editing. Anybody got any suggestions on what to do about a phone screen that won’t take your input?

[alanshee-keeper-of-realms]

What is the most gayest shit Raeda will do on their free time on the timeskip era? 😂

They go to pride parades in the Human Realm with Luz and Amity, they don't have to conceal their ears as everyone assumes it's cosmetic surgery or really good makeup.

They also switch clothing sometimes for these parades to the groups hilarity, Raine wearing Edas dress found out it pissed off certain religious humans, and it was all over 🤣 mindset of

Oh that pisses you off? Let me do it more *gremlin laughter*

They are the chaos elder gays, always causing havoc the young at heart.

[milksteakkk]

i want. no. i REQUIRE the lore from the swap au like please please please please please i need it it is vital for my existence

not entirely sure if this is what u meant by lore but here is literally everything i have for the au so far !!

every swap nd how the work

evan and connor

jared and miguel

alana and zoe

heidi and cynthia

mark and larry

ive already explained how swap!evan and swap!connor work in another ask (thank you ray <3)

w jared and miguel, surprisingly there werent any drastic differences. swap!miguel would still insist theyre not real friends. hes wayy more relaxed about the whole emails and connor project thing but his emotional blowout w swap!connor would be the same as it was w evan nd jared. swap!jared would be more or less the same as miguel but thats only because we barely hear from miguel so i dont have much interesting characterisation i can do w swap!jared ;[

i really dont know how to explain the different characterisations w swap!alana nd swap!zoe but when i post more art about em youll defo notice it. what i can say about swap!alana is that she isnt as hostile towards swap!connor at the start as zoe is to evan, more confused by the whole thing

not much to say about swap!heidi and swap!cynthia. swap!cynthia is still as absent as heidi but swap!heidi and swap!mark arent as... in love ?? as cythia and larry are ?? their marriage is lowkey hangin on by the thinnest thread. if that makes any sense

again not much to say about swap!mark nd swap!larry except what i mentioned before and also swap!mark is somehow more absent than larry is lol

as for design i really didnt wanna js swap their cannon outfits nd call it a day because i think thats boring, but it also means that i have to make outfits from scratch while also making it make sense for their swap while also not being too samey or different from the original and also colour schemes which is.... hard. im trying T_T if the designs suck its because i have no idea what im doing hope this helps !!

because of the swaps, evan and alana are now siblings so i think im js gonna go w alana hansen and zoe beck ?? it sounds strange but im working w what ive got and also im not leaving zoe nd alana as they are and having swap!connor fall in love w his sister from another universe cuz thats strangeee and icky

umm uhhhh. swap!evan is norwegian and swap!connor is waisian. thats not au exclusive i love those hcs w my whole heart

[fatalism-and-villainy]

1, 9 for the choose violence meme :3

The character everyone gets wrong

It's very easy to say Will, what with him always being pulled too much in one direction and not enough in the other, but I'm actually going to say Alana. Possibly the character where I see the most portrayals of her (whether in fic or in casual one-liner text posts) that feel off the mark to me in a much more totalizing manner.

Which is to say, she's considerably more neurotic than gets recognized, and while she doesn't have low self-esteem at all, she is prone to continual and rigorous self-analysis. Her pathological introspection (her tendency to "be her own therapist"), her difficulties with intimacy, and her saviour complex all indicate that she has some emotional problems that she hides under the mask of professionalism.

And I also don't see that going away, necessarily, come season 3 and beyond. She becomes more hard-edged and less trusting or willing to open up to others, but she retains a lot of her base characteristics, such as her strong convictions and sense of personal responsibility. And I don't see that coming without a strong sense of guilt and internal conflict - she'll always be questioning what she's willing to sacrifice and what harm she's willing to live with, and resisting her worst impulses. That'll just take a different form post-canon.

That is to say - she's not spending her time flicking her hair and blithely luxuriating in how much better she is than Hannibal (and Will). I mean, she is obviously a better person, in general, and she's aware of it - but she has been marked by her association with Hannibal, and she's well aware of that too. She feels fury and hatred towards him, but she hasn't been spared his influence. And her total conviction that she's in the right has also steered her wrong in the past, and has the capacity to do so again.

[islandtarochips]

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👀👀👀 curious!

Lol. Ok! I'll be giving you ALL of the Warriors Task Force thought about Aly! When they all met her for the first time.

Tiala - "Hmm. She seems nice. And smart....I like her."

Kanoa - "Damn. She looks pretty hot. I could see why Price is into this chick. Did I say that out loud? "

Agnes - "OOOOOOOOOOOO! She looks SO pretty! Smart! Hot! Pretty! Oh wait...I already said that."

Nigel - "Fuck...Is she gonna me mad at me? Does she knows that I was part of the Shadow Company? I hope she doesn't know about that? Wait....of COURSE she'll know! She's a fucking CIA! Ah shit...I hope she doesn't beat up my ass like what Colonel Vargas did..."

Aelan - "She really does know her stuff. Maybe I should talk with her to learn more about that CIA stuff."

Alana - "....Price has a good taste. Let's hope that he'll KEEP her."

There you go! Thanks for sending it Aly! The WTF REALLY like her and they'll be there whenever she needed them! Love you peles!

[sketchyface]

I love the Hannibal fandom and I am a Hannigram shipper, but I hate it when people intentionally or unintentionally demonise/mischaracterise the other characters to make Hannigram look better

Like yeah, nearly all characters have done shitty things but most of them aren’t inherently bad people. Just people struggling and not knowing how to deal with it because the situation is complex and/or they’re being manipulated in some way

Hannibal is inherently a more horrible person that the rest of the main cast and that’s fine! You don’t need to make them worse! His morals are fucked and that’s what makes him and Hannigram interesting!

Sorry for the rant, I’m tired and just needed to get this out

Edit: I’ll probably make a longer rant about this in the future, cuz there’s a lot of other shit I want to say

Edit 2: Also if you know any Hannigram fics where the characters aren’t demonised or mischaracterised pls tell me