#i liked killing hobbs

[pesky--dust]

You delight in wickedness and then berate yourself for the delight.

There is something special to me in the way how in first three episodes Will realises how good and natural he feels about killing and how you can see on his face that he is ashamed about it.

[brbarou]

i think jek should fistfight fitz

[wannabemylover]

rewatching the first episode of Hannibal and holy shit I forgot how good this is but it's actually insane that Brian fuller set up the ep like this, he introduces will and Hannibal by first briefly showing them at their core, at the darkest, most vile part of them---we get a glimpse behind the curtain---and then its gone, the curtain is snapped shut and we see their masks, their human suits.

Will empathizes with killers because he likes it, and he wants to kill but he refuses to give into the urge because he knows how much he'll like it and he won't be able to stop. So he lives vicariously through other killers, satisfying his own dark urge by feeding it little morsels of secondhand blood lust. Every crime scene he works gives the urge something that satisfies it, not enough for it to grow, but enough for it be sate. Enough that he can ignore it for long enough that he can walk around and be Professor Will Graham who is Weird, Brash, and Non-sociable.

And Hannibal is a cannibal at night and a psychiatrist by morning.

[longelk]

it never slips my mind that kaycee died young but it took me a bit to register that her manner of death is one of the most unimaginably painful ones to go through. oh well if homegirl was lucky she passed out from the smoke before she could feel her skin peel off 😁🤞

[bluemoonscape]

My experience with female characters in television is an interesting ride because I can start out being kinda indifferent about a female character but then I see how much hate she gets and suddenly I’m putting pictures of her face on my wall

[stuckinapril]

having a straight man and a gay man co host a podcast about bad books is sooooo silly . I love it

[wonderviolet17]

claudia x abigail manifesto

listen okay

so claudia (iwtv) and abigail hobbs are narratively very similar right- they both doomed by the narrative, shoved into the middle of a toxic relationship that will destroy anything that comes between them. they both are daughters, forced to perform a role for far too long. they are both smart and manipulative and dangerous but somehow never the main characters, never the masters of their own fates.

however, they both are such different characters in fascinating ways- claudia revels in killing; abigail loathes it to the point that she convinces herself that she had no part in it, it scares her. claudia kills lestat; abigail agrees to help hannibal. (both acts of self preservation, but in wildly different ways) claudia sings in defiance; abigail bares her neck in obedience.

so i had a thought. what if claudia survived the théàtre des vampires. what if she came back to the states. what if the hannibal plotline took place in the 1970s rather than the 2010s. what if abigail and claudia met. what if they fell in love. what if they committed patricide. x4.

what if…

completely unrelated but my ao3 is shrike_seventeen :)

[dustteller]

Now that I am mostly over the Absolutely Feral stage of my Radiant Emperor Obsession and can think again, I want to do a proper write up on how the series handles colonialism. I need to get my sources together and make it all pretty and stuff, but the gist of it is this.

I actually really respect SPC for not making it A Thing. Like, the colonialism is an inherent part of the serting, and a lot of important moments hinge around it, but there's also a pretty clear refusal by the author to turn it into A Statement. I think they do a really good job of walking the fine line between aknowledging it and making it clear that its an important part of the setting, without turning the book into a political thesis on Why Bad Actually.

I think a lot of fantasy authors that frankly have no business making their books into political science treatises try to be super philosophical about it, and inevitably have almost all their points ring flat bc the main character almost always ends up perpetuating the system they spent the whole book critiquing. The classic example being, of course, "We've destroyed The Evil Empire! We will now replace it with The Good Empire, which is functionally identical to The Evil Empire except Good bc our Main Character is in charge! This will totally change the systemic issues we've spent the last three million words exploring! How? Don't worry about it, absolute power only corrupts you if you're A Bad Person!" (atla. atla i am looking at you. my love for you does not mean I am letting you off the hook.)

The Radiant Emperor books interact with and aknowledge the colonialism. The empire canonically falls at least in part because of one guy's willfull ignorance of the differences between his culture and that of two of the people he loves the most, because his culture supercedes theirs to the point where he does not even consider the posibility of this difference truly existing as a real-life power imbalance. And still, these books are not about that! That is not the main theme! It is important. It is handled pretty well, it is aknowledged, and it is not The Point. I really appreciate that more understated approach that SPC takes, because ironically by refusing to partake in dramatic philosophical grandstanding the media often ends up making way better and more nuanced points, because then their point actually fits into the story they are trying to tell.

[venti-death-watch]

i love being right about freminet. there was always going to be a point where he wild cards and is the one to stand up against arlecchino’s philosophy

[fatalism-and-villainy]

Half-formed thought here, but. Usually in my mind I assume that the topic of Abigail goes almost completely unspoken between Will and Hannibal post-canon, but... man. What if they were even more unhinged about it than that. Like, what if they displayed a massive portrait of her on the mantlepiece or something, as a symbol of Will getting Hannibalpilled and buying into the idea that her death was a sad but inevitable consequence of the force of nature that is Hannibal. And then everyone who visited the house assumed she was just a beloved relative of one of them or something, without knowing anything about the details of how she died (or even that she was dead). And whatever murder buddies/protégés/frenemies/pseudo-children/sexy little thirds/[whatever unholy combination of those things] Will and Hannibal acquired would piece together some very idealized understanding of her as the Perfect Dead Sister-Daughter that they could never measure up to, whose ghostly presence hangs over them... and then coming to the very macabre discovery that Hannibal was the one who killed her! I think that'd be neat.

[whatkindofnameisella]

"before i knew it, he'd become the center of my life" "a tooth? let me see!" "his hands lifted as if he would put them on her shoulders. instead he crossed his arms on his chest." "she named my daughter nettle, after the herb she loves, though it leaves great rashes on her hands and arms if she is careless when she gathers it. is that how she felt about our daughter, that she brought pain even as she brought enjoyment?" "i fell asleep longing for words that did not exist"

[medievalthymes]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Burrich/Chivalry Farseer Characters: Burrich (Robin Hobb), Chivalry Farseer Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Pre-Assassins Quest, Character Study, slaps burrich on the back, you can fit so much self loathing in this bad boy, is it really a character study if the character haunts the narrative throughout the entire series?, Eventual Romance, Eventual Relationships, (robin hobb please do not sue me) Summary:

It was fitting, Burrich thought with a drunken huff, the world being hazed in red. It matched the unbridled rage that grew and festered in the pit of his stomach everyday. Ever since his bond with Neko had broken, split and cleaved from his soul during that sudden equine plague, his grief turned into a storm of reckless energy – energy to flee, to fight, to bite the hand that feeds. There was no sense to it, but then again, was there ever any sense to a beast's way of thinking? For that’s what he was, he reminded himself. He had engaged in the beast magic once more, turning further away from the world of men and embracing the way of animals. He deserved this, he deserved to be treated like the animal he was.

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Based on Burrich's description of his time within Chivalry's employment from Chapter Two of Assassin's Quest, I've expanded upon and taken some artistic liberties with the tale, though I tried to remain as close to canon as possible.

[giantkillerjack]

My first time watching Glass Onion it was obvious that Miles' speeches were bullshit, but I still searched for any hidden meaning there might be.

The second time is a different experience though because every time my brain starts to search for meaning, I feel like Benoit Blanc discovering that no, there is absolutely no hidden meaning.

It's bullshit it's all nothing nothing nothing! It is just how you end up talking when everyone reacts to your self-aggrandizing word vomit like it is actually wisdom.

Also, legit, when Miles gave his stupid bullshit speech about what the word 'disruptor' means to him, I shit you not I was like holy shit am I back in business school right now?!

Miles must have given speeches like that at 100 business school graduations, goddamn.

Like, the motherfuckers really do sound like this. We didn't have any billionaires come, but we had a lot of millionaire guest speakers in my classes, and they fucking talk like that.

They all think they're rugged capitalists, but they're just glass onions!

[0hrt]

why have I never seen anyone talk about the part in assassin's Fate that takes place while Fitz is alone and everyone thinks he's dead where Fitz finds the white woman (I believe her name was Capra?) who was responsible for all of the Fool's suffering and killed her. and he made sure to wake her up when he killed her so that he could say "for my Beloved and for my Bee, you die" and then look her in the eyes as he strangled her. can we talk about that. and then of course his absolute queen moment where he took the rest of her roasted chicken with him

[daisies-on-a-cup]

i sometimes wish will and margot got to interact more together beyond the brief stint, because although what margot had taken from her was a real, beating thing from inside of her, both she and will have matching scars from the violence of their separation from a connection that they thought would "save" them from their situations and make them "complete"

[misspickman]

Finished ship of magic and i cannot tell if this is a part of wintrows characterization or just robin hobb being fucking stupid but she sure has some takes on slaves in the last few chapters