#Thomas Harris

[imademyownhousebemygallows]

Credits to @evelynn.kl on TikTok for this absolutely HEARTWRENCHING edit

[localwhiskeyuncle]

How do we think Hannibal felt about composers like Schoenberg and their use of atonality….like we know he was a Bach stan more than anything do we think he’d like the unique approach of the twelve tone technique or do you think he’d hate how it sounded I’m torn

[hapycactus]

MORALITY IS SUBJECTIVE.

[shamerli]

[wardengrill]

Red Dragon (2002)

[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."

[stacybal4ever]

if nothing’s got me I know THIS comment’s got me

[hauntedandmurdered]

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

He's so 🤲

[creepynostalgy]

Anthony Hopkins in The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

[onai88]

Hannibal and Mischa •́⁠ ⁠ ⁠‿⁠ ⁠,⁠•̀ ♡

[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)

[denjoust]

Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris

[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

[rcntlydcccased]

redraw of this

[i-myselfcannot]

[devilboydogman]

Choose your favorite autistic FBI agent:

-guy who insists all of the crimes are caused by aliens (he is right somehow)

-woman who, fresh out the academy, fell in love with the cannibal that the FBI decided they needed the help of to catch a different killer, and probably tells her academy roommate about it

-man who stands at crime scenes and vibrates like a small nervous dog and falls in love with the SAME cannibal (it’s worse)

-man who low key has ESP and prophetic dreams but has such an endearing personality and love for pie and coffee that you can overlook how this is an unorthodox way to go about solving a murder investigation