#Thomas Harris

[cringeworms]

THANK YOU

If anyone wants the audiobooks for The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal (unfortunately I only have two out of the tetralogy)

since an anon requested nbc hannibal for free on google drive:

season one / season two / season three

[ecrudolly]

"My kind of rebirth tasted like blood."

- Anna de Noailles, tr. by Norman R. Shapiro, from Poems; "Dazzled, Precise,"

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I started reading the Thomas Harris Hannibal series books yesterday I’ve decided to read them in chronological order recommended by a friend, so I started reading Hannibal rising which I was very surprised to read but I was also very scared to read cause I had known nothing about Hannibal’s past except for fragments of it in the series of Netflix. But god, if the book isn’t so good I have never in my life been avoiding to go out just to read my book but since I started reading this yesterday I have been avoiding nearly all tasks. This book is so intriguing and I truly enjoy reading it.

On the other hand I cannot stop thinking about that scene in the show when Hannibal turns himself in so that will would always know where he is and will knows deep down that he could never resist going to see him. I think that scene is so beautiful because I relate to it I am a person who can never let things be I can never not think about someone ever again or resist the urge to be in the presence of someone that interesting and a person that affected me that much just to prove a point whether that’s to the person or to myself. It’s actually a small bit pathetic. Even though right before hand will had made his peace with Hannibal that he would not miss him or find him or look for him. He no longer wanted to think about Hannibal which is true but probably would never actually follow through, Hannibal had an affect on will the same way a meteor would destroy earth and all life among it, it would be destructive, disastrous, vile, and vicious but in the end we would be forced to see the beauty in the last few moments of life. Same way will did in his last few moments with Hannibal on that cliff after the suffering of Hannibal destroyed him.

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I really hope what I tried to describe came across as I hoped, I am not very good with words and I have big feelings that are hard to describe so I hope I did myself justice and didn’t just sound stupid.

[talkingaboutwhatiwant]

I will say Thomas Harris is not only beating the dumb southerner allegations but also does a pretty good job of showing what it's like as a woman in the workplace. Starling is the only agent (save for Graham who's retired) who's made any kind of progress with Lecter and the FBI just refuses to give her any kind of power or control 💀 not to mention that she clearly has so much to offer the behavioral science department but they're like "nooooo just do dumb stuff because we don't want you to have what you want" like 😭 Krendler sees her as his arch nemesis because she solved Buffalo Bill before him but he almost ruined the whole thing 💀 Harris is able to capture the sheer audacity of the white man and I love him for it ❤️

[wardengrill]

Red Dragon (2002)

[shamerli]

[neitherofusideal]

"I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Will."

"Looks are an accident, Dr. Lecter."

"If comeliness were earned, you'd still be beautiful."

[hauntedandmurdered]

Oh how I love that Tony himself is the biggest Clannibal shipper in this universe.

He's so 🤲

[localwhiskeyuncle]

A lot of the most poignant quotes from Hannibal were direct quotes from the book if you like that shit I highly recommend reading the Thomas Harris books!

Fun new game: does this quote originate from a homoerotic ancient/old text or poem, a high school romance movie or NBC's 2015 psychological horror series Hannibal

[localwhiskeyuncle]

NBC Hannibal not being able to get the rights to Clarice Starling was honestly a blessing in disguise; they were able to take all the best part of both book!Will and Clarice and make the most glorious version of Will Graham possible and it gave us Hannibal's dynamic with Abigail.

Regarding Will - I loved both characters so dearly, so to have them combined is honestly such a treat. He has book!Will's mind and temperament, but Clarice's fire, drive, and sharp sense of humor. I'm not kidding when I say the absolute best bits of each of their personalities were put into TV!Will and my God does he shine it's no wonder Hannibal is obsessed with him.

In the books Hannibal sees the potential in both Will and Clarice, but he misses his chance with Will, he pushes him too far. When Clarice comes along and is just as quick, and damaged, and bright (but younger and easier to mold), he is determined not to let her slip through his fingers like Will did. So with the two characters being of such similar significance to Hannibal, it is so perfect to blend the two of them together and makes all the sense in the world why Hannibal is absolutely bonkers crazy about Will Graham in the show - he's the amalgamation of the two most fascinating, promising people he has ever met in the source material. The show takes his obsession with two people and puts all that passion into an obsession with one person and it becomes, I think, all the more interesting for it.

Book!Hannibal is obsessive anyway (drawing Clarice as Jesus on the watch face, drawing her as a griffon on the copy of The Tattler in Florence, keeping close tabs on her career from another fucking country for seven years, Clarice being pretty much the only person he talked to Barney about, sending Clarice random gifts, etc.) but to have all of that obsession turned onto one person is delicious because Hannibal clearly finds genuine emotional longing/desire to be sort of grotesque but he cannot help but hope.

They also put some of Clarice's character into Miriam Lass (obviously - I would also say that Miriam's circumstances are a parallel to Jame Gumb's victims), but even more important, they gave some of her character to Abigail.

The books baaaaaarely touch on the Shrike and definitely have no mention of Abigail (WHICH SIDE NOTE - since she exists only in this universe she should've been called Hannah it would've tied into the books soooo nicely bc that name holds significance to Clarice and therefore begins to hold significance for Hannibal), but Abigail has arguably one of the most important pieces of Clarice, the one that kept Hannibal's interest aflame even after years of no contact: the parallel to Mischa. In the books his interest in Clarice is, at first, as a surrogate for Mischa. He attributed his connection to Clarice as a connection to Mischa for the longest time, I think partially because it confused him to feel that way for another person. He has displayed empathy at multiple points in the novels but it still doesn’t necessarily come easy to him. Abigail quite obviously steps into the surrogate sister/daughter role in the show and it's interesting to see how that plays out when you very deliberately subtract the (eventual) romance from the equation.

I guess to sum it up while I love Clarice Starling so dearly I'm glad she was not able to be included bc we ended up with much more complex relationships with the characters that do exist in the show

[creepynostalgy]

Anthony Hopkins in The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

[nicklloydnow]

The Wolf and the Lamb by Jean-Baptiste Oudry

“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.” - Cormac McCarthy, ‘Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West’ (1985)

“When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.” - Thomas Harris, ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ (1988)

[stacybal4ever]

I mean

[denjoust]

Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris

[onai88]

Hannibal and Mischa •́⁠ ⁠ ⁠‿⁠ ⁠,⁠•̀ ♡

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redraw of this

[i-myselfcannot]