#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.

[saffitaffi]

So I just read all 914 pages of Fool’s Fate in one day. I don’t think I’ve ever read that much in one day ever. These books are so good holy snickerdoodles I love the politics and the amazing worldbuilding (robin writes matriarchies and different societal structures SO GOOD) and the realistic characters and Fitz’s unreliable narration and also the gay ass ‘friendship’ between him and the fool (fitz ‘no homo but also my bond with you is deeper than my love for anyone else including my other half bonded wolf and my wife and also sex’ farseer)

So uh. Yeah. Excuse me while I go cry in the corner. Again.

[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

[bogkeep]

it's my third year at a school in sweden and i have just been very bad at Conversing with people - like i am on friendly terms with everyone, i can do surface level small talk with most people (unless they're trying to talk to me at a loud party. why do people do that, i literally Can Not hear and understand you). i Try to participate by joining i when i hear something i can actually talk about, but it happens so rarely i mostly just do my own introvert thing in the periphery. a large part of this is just the language barrier in combination with the broken auditory processing. another part is of course, the Autism, and that i'm too queer and weird and online to connect easily with normies (non-derogative). i'm sure many can relate to this struggle!! i know i'm not actually terrible at holding conversations, because once i'm among my people, we're GOING. talking for HOURS. i sometimes forget this, when i've been isolated from my crowd for too long.

anyway. i have at least one classmate who's online enough to even get what i'm talking about, which is nice. (he had to explain what a 'fantasy league' is to me. "oh, like sports headcanons?" "...sure. like that.") now there's also a guy in the 2nd year who i will, occasionally, when the stars align, have interesting conversations with that go a little deeper than what's going on at school. this is a great development for me, even though i still leave these occasions like "oh god that was too much i am a wretched tumblrina stereotype and i will face judgement for my cringe" but i must embrace it. i know who i am and i own it. anyway all this to say that i'm only a little bit ashamed at joining a conversation today because i heard them talk about the omegaverse. we had a very interesting talk about media literacy and conspiracy theories okay. i learnt about chromatherapy wands

[idontmindifuforgetme]

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 :)

[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"

[bxriles]

I’m taking a second to rant because fantasy bros are so fucking annoying holy shit.

The amount of dudes I see on TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter being so condescending to women reading Stormlight/Sanderson, Red Rising, or (GOD FORBID) something like Malazan BOTF is downright insane. These mother fuckers really think women can’t read heavy fantasy texts.

Like bro, Sanderson’s writing style is not that fucking complicated and I would argue that most people with a 10th grade education could get through Stormlight without issue. The thing that makes Stormlight daunting is the length, not the writing. Be for real. And no, it doesn’t make you a “wEak MiNdEd ReAdEr” if you’re slightly put off by a book over 1000 pages long.

Red Rising ain’t all that lmao. And no, I don’t think that because I “didn’t understand” it. The writing is repetitive, the world building relies on telling instead of showing, and the characters are flat. There’s also a horrible misogynistic undertone in the entire book and too much violence against women. It’s low key like, “Here’s a whole new world to explore! A whole new society to learn about! Enjoy the creativity at work here! But also, I’m not creative enough to come up with a society that isn’t horrible to women. So don’t you ever forget that women fucking suck, they aren’t as SICK AND AWESOME as men are, and they deserve to be raped!” I said what I said. Argue with the wall if you’re mad about it.

And Malazan, while complex, is not a series of indecipherable tomes that only the “smartest, most driven men” can get through. Anyone who can read deliberately, carefully, and intentionally can read a fucking Malazan book and generally grasp what’s happening. And as a reminder, literally every single person reading Malazan BOTF for the first time struggles through it. If you claim you understood 90-100% of GotM on the first read, you’re actually lying LMAOOO.

And for the love of all things unholy, if I get a single response to this that says “NOT ALL MEN!! *I’M* NOT LIKE THAT” I will burn your house to the fucking ground. This clearly wasn’t about you then. (But if you feel the need to comment that, then yes. It is about you.)

[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

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

Always funny when someone is discussing contentious issues and uses the "NO ONE is saying that [blah blah blah]" like oh trust me buddy. Someone is saying that.