#anyway idk hannibal is also sort of a dracula mansquito. they’re playing in a similar aesthetic space. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

chamerionwrites · 5 months ago

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As a random aside I think my immunity to the aesthetic charms of vampires may partly explain the way my brain processes NBC Hannibal, which is to say: S1 was electric spine-tingling horror that truly hits in a way that’s rare for me with the genre; in the abstract I can appreciate that it is a deeply horny show (unsettling power games, intensely lush and sensual visual language, have you looked at all these actors); however in practice the fact that Hannibal Lecter is genuinely scary coexists with the fact that personally I find him to be the world’s most cringefail loser in the least endearing or sexy way possible

#bro thinks expensive taste and a dime-a-dozen god complex make him interesting #u kno the suicidal impulse to laugh when a grown ass man throws a tantrum? genuinely dangerous & frightening yet also deeply pathetic?#that is hannibal lecter. to me. the simultaneous experience of terror and contempt.#he would eat me immediately for being rude (struggling to conceal the contempt) and i would go bitterly laughing to my grave #anyway idk hannibal is also sort of a dracula mansquito. they’re playing in a similar aesthetic space.#which apparently does nothing at all for me tho i am not at all immune to dark eroticism in other contexts! idk why.#my posts

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