#like i literally just corrected it there with “times” AND AGAIN WITH TIMES.

[weemietime]

Not to mention this, but you can plainly see it in Arabic articles on Wikipedia where Holocaust denialism is clear, which means that for anyone who doesn't speak English, the most comprehensive data on the Holocaust that they're liable to even glance at, is nothing more than antisemitic canard.

The word Holocaust is mentioned a grand total of 9 times. The rest of the article focuses on Hitler's family, lmao. There is not even a "Holocaust" section in this article, while there is very clearly one in English.

So yea, you can claim "it just means Palestine will be free," the same way you can claim there's no historical revisionism in major Arabic sources about WW2, even though the word "genocide" is used a grand total of twice and not even in the first paragraph blurb.

Compared to the English article, where it's used 7 times, however during each of those times it is then followed by a very clear and comprehensive explanation into what was actually being done (the mass organized murder of 6 million Jews and who was responsible for it) - again, not present in the Arabic version.

I also feel the need to sidebar that the eleven million figure (Jews and others) is fucking mythological. This number was given as an answer to a question by someone literally just guessing off the top of their head. The correct number is more like THIRTY FIVE MILLION but hey on Holocaust remembrance day we don't need facts fam!

Consider when packaged together by people claiming Israel ought to be eradicated and regurgitating literal al-Husseini rhetoric about Arabizing Israel during his Best Friend meetings with Adolf Hitler, and considering the quote exists in two other forms with the pan-Arab sentiments clearly in tact, don't turn around and bitch that nobody trusts you.

Especially when you fuckers are out there calling for globalized intifada. Instead of being a shill for Husseini, why don't you ever spend any time educating people on the multiple pan-Arab versions of this quote (and those who freely and proudly spew them) and condemning that? Could it be that you actually don't give a shit, mayhaps?

Color me shocked and stunned. By the way, Hamas was doing the same shit in Haifa that you idiots blame Israel for doing despite clear evidence of white phosphorous shells from Hamas, too. None of you fuckers give a shit about civilian casualties, you are just mask-off antisemites.

If this was really about Gaza being free from Israel then maybe you can explain why EVERY version of this quote features the phrase "from the River to the Sea"? From the river to the sea WHAT, exactly? Gaza is not located from the river to the sea, dipshit. It means that from the Mediterranean sea to the Jordan River Jews will be expelled so Arabs can move in.

And ftr, as far as I can tell, a majority of Jewish people would be fine with Arabs moving in to live peacefully alongside them. But as Hamas themselves have told you fucking imbeciles from their inception, right up until 2016 it was fully emblazoned on the Hamas charter itself in fact (that Hamas is not a government for Gaza but rather a tool to exterminate Jews), they do not WANT that.

Maybe instead of noble savage bullshit where poor brown people can do no wrong you can shut the fuck up and actually listen to what they are telling you they are going to do.

For every one Nakba (of which there was a grand total of one and which was reactionary to six Arab countries simultaneously attacking Israel despite most refugees there building in uninhabited completely worthless land which they farmed back to life themselves) there are dozens, hundreds of Farhuds and Hebron massacres and pogroms and expulsions and supercessionist revisionist oppressions.

None of you care that all Jews were expelled from Iraq and Yemen and Afghanistan and Ethiopia and Russia and on and on and on and on and on. Expelled to Israel. Then the leaders say oh death to Israel, tee hee, idk what ur talking about "the Jews who I expelled there will die????" no idea!!!

How about instead of chanting from the river to the sea you chant "Yemen, repatriate your Jewish population at once!" catchier, too. In the year of 2025 (btw a Christian year, after the death of CHRIST but let's just say Before common era yeah it's fine) during literal Holocaust remembrance day you motherfuckers continue to pull this shit.

Sit down and shut the fuck up forever.

Wait why is "from the river to the sea" a genocidal chant??

Simply put, it's being chanted by Hamas supporters, who have made it abundantly clear that they intend to control and ethnically cleanse by means of mass murder the entire region between "the river and the sea".

And the version "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free" is the English translation. In the original Arabic... well...

There are two versions:

min il-ṃayye la-l-ṃayye / Falasṭīn ʿarabiyye/من المية للمية / فلسطين عربية,

"from the water to the water / Palestine is Arab"

Which, well, doesn't have much room for non-Arabs, now does it?

And the version

min il-ṃayye la-l-ṃayye / Falasṭīn islāmiyye من المية للمية / فلسطين إسلامية,

"from the water to the water / Palestine is Islamic"

Well, that doesn't leave any room for Jews, now does it?

But yeah, given that the people chanting the slogan in English are doing so in explicit support of Hamas--which has said that they will continue to engage in 7/10-style attacks until they kill all of the Jews, which is not an exaggeration on my part--there is no way to take that statement as anything other than an endorsement of Jewish genocide or ethnic cleansing.

[wrystia]

cut that!! spencer agnew x fem!reader (fluff/est. relationship) wc: 932

   "welcome back, we are playing the classic clue game. but the catch is that one of us is the killer and must try to throw the others off from figuring out who it is, what they used, and what room they did it in..." you start off the video, fixing your bowtie and straightening your glasses, "i'm your host professor plum and welcome to my classroom."

  "that was so corny holy shit," angela immediately exclaims, laughing as she lowers her head off to the side, making sure she doesn't hit the table. 

 it was either the way her laugh echoes through the room or the absolute exhaustion that you were feeling from the busy week but you broke out in laughter as well. you look to your coworkers who are also holding back laughter and running their hands down their faces. “i’m never introducing a video ever again,” you shake your head against the games table, laugh subsiding.

  “i don’t know i thought it was pretty good.”

  “you’d think anything was good spencer, you literally tried to get me to say ‘and what room they did it in.. and by ‘it’, i mean… murder’. like that isn’t even cornier,” you look over at him, knee pressing against his under the table.

  he smiles widely at the comment, looking back at you with a similar getup to yours. however, his suit is less fashionable than yours (and considerably more green). his glasses even crooked in a way that makes you want to correct them like you would do any other way. fingers grappling at the temples and fixing them just before pulling him in a kiss. however, you restrain yourself, simply shaking your head.

  “that’s actually true, i saw them writing it with the pencil in the editor’s room,” shayne brings his fingers together, dressed like wadsworth, his usual smirk lining his lips. 

  you shake your head lightly, trying to take in the absolutely insanity that the room has become. none of you were running on enough sleep, filming nearly everyday that week and then finishing off today with a long shoot. you try to keep your composure, but the lack of sleep was getting to your head. “thank you for the info, wadsworth… but how about we start with our first guess, mrs. white. use your bob and roll that dice,” you set them in front of angela.

  the following rounds went rather easily, gathering information from the different sources. your paper was mostly filled out with information that would either screw you over or could win the game. looking up from your paper, you scan each of their faces, watching as shayne rolls again. “okay, so i’m in the kitchen. i’d like to make my guess. it was professor plum in the living room with the rope,” he looks over at you, grabbing the small envelope.

  making eye contact with shayne, you feel your lips curling into a smile of success. pursing your lips you hide it and wait for him to look at the cards. as he pulls them out he keeps his eye contact with you, only looking down when the cards are all out. much to your knowledge, he was completely wrong on the murderer part. “i called it initially! i got completely thrown off,” he stuffs them back into the envelope, tossing it back towards the game board.

  “well it seems we have had our first false accusation and our first power outage?” you joke, watching as one of the crew members turns off the lights.

  as shayne situates a knife under his armpit, you can see fake blood on the handle and the blade. looking back towards spencer, you give him a soft smile, grabbing his hand under the table. “if you were the murderer you wouldn’t kill me, right?” you whisper, leaning back into your seat, raising your eyebrows.

  “no promises babe, but i would kill you last, if that’s any consolation,” he whispers back, knowing all of this will be cut for time.

  his eyes roll within the darkness, something you can only tell by the whites of his eyes. however, his thumb also rubs along the back of your palm, a soothing motion that comes to a slow start as someone counts down to continuing. pulling your hand back to the table, you sit up. the light flickers on and there sits shayne slumped in his seat. the knife sticks out, as well as his tongue. 

  angela immediately starts to giggle as she notices his tongue sticking out. it absolutely breaks the immersion but you can’t help but join in in her laughter. shayne lifts his head up from his seat, furrowing his eyebrows. “really? i die and you all start laughing, feels especially cold because i know who killed me.”

  “hey, you tried to make accusations and the killer got scared, honestly i think that’s your own fault.”

  “wow, victim blaming babe, that’s real mature of you,” spencer casuals calls you out, accidentally using one of the many pet names you share. looking at him with wide eyes, you immediately look back at the camera, hand doing a striking motion at your neck.

  “cut that!! you’re ridiculous,” you shake your head, bringing your hands up to rest your face in.

  the crew and ‘talent’ already knew about your relationship, and you’ve done this plenty of times. but there’s still something so special about being able to be playful and still keep it between you. so, while you’d love to tell the world, you’ve said ‘cut that’ more times than you can count. 

[sofa-king-lame]

Snippet Sunday

Yaaay my PC is back up and running, so I'm able to write properly again! It's Monday night here. but whatever.

Tagged by @playinginthunderstorms, @stevethehairington, @dangerpronebuddie, and @smilingbuckley

Literally just started writing an epilogue for Nanny Buck (not ready to let them go yet), so here's a little taste:

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The day starts simply enough. Buck gets up early, makes coffee for himself and Eddie, makes breakfast for all three of them, and cleans up after himself all before anyone else is awake. Eddie gets up as Buck dries and puts away the pan he used to make the eggs, kisses him good morning, and sits down with Buck at the table to eat. 

“Veggs are fucking genius,” Eddie says, voice muffled around his mouthful of food. “These are so good.” 

“My culinary skills were the only thing I had going for me at one point,” Buck snorts. “All self-taught.” 

“Liar,” Eddie huffs. 

“Excuse me?” Buck laughs, because it’s true. He’d watched hours of videos on different cooking skills, scoured blogs for recipes (oh god the life stories he’d had to slog through), and spent weeks testing dishes before he cooked them for other people. Buck’s not sure who Eddie thinks would have taught him to cook – besides Maddie of course, who did teach him some basics but the rest of it was all him. 

“I do not believe at all that at any point in your life you had only your cooking skills to offer,” Eddie scoffs. Oh, okay. Eddie’s honed in on the self-deprecation. Buck’s getting better at not defaulting to it, because Eddie calls him on it every time. 

“Oh, right. That. At that point in my life, I felt like I had nothing else to offer.” Buck corrects himself. Eddie smiles, pleased, leaning into Buck’s space to kiss him. He tastes life coffee and sage (which Buck went a little overboard with in the eggs this morning).  

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Tagging anyone who wants an excuse to do this!

[leaf-in-a-flower-garden]

Getting re-obsessed over Two Embers cause it was supposed to be out by now.

[spoonbread5]

Again an impossible hate rant about trans people, likely going vs trans women first. A Legal minority. Claims a fifth of one...ONE percent of the population cannot do even if all the trans women were trying. Out or not, cause bigots don't get population numbers, explain how things are possible.

See the reality is this center odds are never even changed owners, managers, the folks running it are likely the same, the same that built it, the same women. And how dare they update their name to reflect their services.

And as more of their other services are used the more funding but... you're a bigot by choice bud. I'm very sure you don't know how funding 4 these places goes.

You bud needed to push the spaces bullshit and do you get vs a legal minority, that it lines up to protected to correct spaces and you need to remove their status so you can hurl men at them.

I mean you literally just did that...and again the trans population in total can't do that, much less the hypothetical trans people ruining the space.

Replacement theory or close enough you're mirroring it.

Angry hate aimed at a place for self change to reflect time and services, based on accusations that are literally not numerically possible, towards a legally recognized minority.

You're hate farming, not mourning a damned thing.

All by choice and beliefs.

Again bud TRA is you guys trying to mirror trans allies and people to MRA's. And again the vert right wing Fascist doods that did security for even time #Letwomenspeak was on tour.

Remember you claiming white power wasn't your thing.

But still ranting TRA and now this replacement theory copycat stuff.

seeing the female only space i grew up with getting its name changed from “womens center” to “survivor empowerment center” radicalized me honestly. Why are you so scared of the word women??? It didnt even start as a “survivor” center. It was for all women. Any women.

It had been operating since the 80s. My grandmother knew the founders. She was on the board. She was rightfully pissed at the name change. I (shoulder deep in TRA rhetoric) was pissed at the name change. It was a womens center. In the middle of a rural hick area with no other refuge. And now they welcome males into their space. What a fucking joke.

WOMEN built and kept that space alive for forty fucking years. Fucking everything else is for men. Men can go anywhere. I cant even walk downtown with my MOTHER next to me without being catcalled. Why do they need female spaces so fucking badly??? Why cant women be left alone anywhere?????

[bread-wizards]

I think that Orym actually does doubt Imogen, but this isn't a thing that is unique to Imogen. Orym doubts all of them to an extent, because paranoia is something he struggles with (and this is continuously reinforced by the story).

It's not a 'good' thing that he should never get over, nor is it an immoral character flaw that proves he actually hates Imogen. However it's also not something I think he can get over as long as the threat of having to possibly fight his friends exists.

"I have all the faith in the world in you guys, all of you. And I have also spent time thinking how to neutralize each of you."

[backpackingspace]

Okay but consider post Canon over protective Athena who is sick to death of her most devout being raped.

Athena sticking close to the whole family and promising penelope that she'll keep a close eye on odysseus the first time he has to go into the market and penelope can't go with him. (She was going to go anyway. She's never actually going to let any of them out of her sight ever again. And it's an easy promise to her dearest weaver who seems so distressed to have odysseus leaving her side.)

Athena fully manifesting in the market when someone grabs odysseus with godly flashes of snakes and owls and the drums of war to scream /release him/ (odysseus is feeling indulgent for both his patron and his wife it's so cute that they're this worried it's not like he couldn't defend himself just fine. Especially from whatever poor fuck just grabbed him who definitely doesn't deserve a goddess screaming in his face. Hes trying so hard not to laugh if he did athena would send him flying.)

Athena telling all the other gods that yes she knows odysseus is the favorite barbie doll she choose him well after all and to back the fuck off if any of them bother him again they will have made an enemy of her.

Athena disguising odysseus only as an old beggar from here on out instead of an irresistibly tall and handsome man. Because she saw how uncomfortable nausicaa's attention made him.

[hanzajesthanza]

it is absolutely so weird to me to try to imagine a version of geralt that is like, my age. like, no. get back to being an old man

[lilith-is-off]

(long post, beside the comments on haters behavior there's an explanation of llorumi's relationship, Harumi's and Morro's parallels along with the way it influenced their story)

Now this is just unserious. I get it, llorumi is a very unhealthy ship that is not everyone's cup of tea. I really do get it. It's a really strong case in ninjago fandom bc most of the ships are really wholesome or have this pinch of weirdness/toxicity/unhealthiest/whatever the fuck is the case. Llorumi was a strong hit in the series as Harumi's whole thing as a character is begin a liar and manipulator. It literally didn't happen before or the ship wasn't as popular. But guys, it's really not that fucking deep. Get over it. There are worse cases in many fandoms that are more accepted than llorumi. But people make it like it's the worst fucking thing in the world. And don't let me start on hypocrisy in this fandom. Bc apparently it's okay to shit on llorumi shippers and add "llorumi shippers dni" in their bio (I get it, it's your choice) and it's all bc they hate her and at the very same time they like another villain... smh.

(This is the part when I yapp about differences and similarities between Morro and Harumi - it is revenant but it's not required to read as long as you acknowledge these things) Those people love Morro - the same guy that possessed Lloyd and definitely fucked him up mentally as he used his body to hurt his friends and then locked him in a cage while he was planning how to destroy the world and take the position of the green ninja - his revenge was towards Lloyd that didn't make his choice and not towards Wu that made him believe that he is the chosen one (definitely an act of desperation as he wanted to make the prophecy to happen so his brother could be defeated). Morro made Lloyd suffer for things he was not responsible for. And guess who did the same? If your answer is Harumi then you are correct. She wanted to take revenge on Lloyd as she blamed him for her parents death and that he didn't do anything. And he didn't do anything bc: 1. He was just a kid and others didn't let him, 2. He wasn't jet good with his powers which made him useless. "Oh but Morro changed his way and gave Wu the crystal before basically killing himself while harumi was a villain for three seasons." Literally the worst argument. Wu was chasing after Morro all the time to try to get him back, he was the person that was basically like a father to him. The very end of the season is Morro understanding that he may not be the green ninja but he is special in his own way that makes Wu love him the way he is. What about Harumi? After her parents death it's clear that she has no other family since she got adopted by the royal family. The same one that neglected her trauma for years and only focused into making her the perfect princess (Garmadon rulezzz tells a lot about her relationship with her adoptive parents). The whole reason why she was the way she was is bc she had no one to help her go through her traumas. Someone who was close to her. Only Hunchkins (or whatever his name was) was trying to help her but it wasn't enough with the way she was treated by her parents. When someone (Lloyd) tried to reach their hand to her it was too late, and it wasn't the right person. She had no respect towards him and only anger. Morro still had a part of affection in him towards Wu. If Wu didn't come after Morro that episode and it would have been someone else, we wouldn't get any redemption.

Do to summarize a little bc I started yapping about Harumi (again) and her differences and similarities with ninjago fandom fav villain - llorumi IS unhealthy, but both of them are. It's okay to not like a ship and don't want people that ship it to interact with your profile. But don't be an asshole and hypocrite about it. Don't send death and rape threats to those shippers. Let them ship. Those two are not family members, there is no pedophily in it. Just two mentally unstable people where one of them has unhealed trauma and seeks revenge on the second. And the second that has a saviour complex that was forced on him by a stupid prophecy. They are unhealthy, but they can work it out. We had a beginning of it at the end of crystalized. Harumi attacks OL when she finds out that he's the one responsible for her parent's death. She joins Lloyd - a person she hated for so long. She is doubtful in her future as she's ashamed of the things she did and wonders if she can do something to repay for her crimes. But guess what? Lloyd tells her that now she has the rest of her life to figure it out. He reaches his hand again towards her just like Wu did with Morro. And now he's close enough to her to accept it. And we have it - Harumi's redemption morro style but stretched over 3 seasons and not one WITH a build up through the seasons between.

So - ninjagotwt bc it's targeted towards you - ad llorumi dni to your bio, block the tags, block the users and just don't fucking interact with them, don't send any threats, don't comment how you hate the ship under art of fanfics, just don't interact. Interact with this part of the fandom you like. And everyone would be more happy. Let's not become a more toxic fandom that we will become a history in toxic fandom. Let's not become another Voltron or bnha fandom or any other that is so toxic that people outside the fandom know the drama.

being on Ninjagotwt as a Llorumi enjoyer is CRAZY rn, people are literally saying they should "bring the hate back to the shippers" and I'm just sitting there like 'WTF man'(i haven't actually posted about Llorumi on there so no one knows)

Like, i get not liking the ship, ok? it's a pretty 'toxic' ship in terms of Ninjago* and that's not for everyone. it is completely fine if you don't like it. Your entitled to your own opinion.

What ISN'T fine is sending people DEATH THREATS and telling them to KTS over it, like my guy, these are LEGO'S, you are telling someone that they should kill themselves, over LEGO'S. do you not understand how fucking deranged that is. like dude what happened to just not engaging with fandom stuff you don't like, when did everyone decide they needed to bust out the torches and pitchforks.

It's not just Llorumi either, I've also seen a NOTICEABLE uptick in Lava hate, just a lot more toxic behavior in general really.

*I say 'in terms of Ninjago' because compared to some other ships i've seen (i.e Billford) that are way more widely accepted by their respective fandoms, Llorumi is actually pretty tame.

TL;DR: Ninjagotwt is getting toxic AF for Llorumi shippers, stay safe out there Y'all

[icewindandboringhorror]

Recent-ish things ~

[flickeringflame216]

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[b4kuch1n]

pre-holiday leave crumbs

[daincrediblegg]

You know… when I came out of Joker 2019 for the first time, my head was buzzing with delight over how the film managed to tell a story that served as a sort of ink-blot test for the viewer. A lot of people back then saw what they wanted to see out of it and it showed that from how many differing opinions people had about it and the central character of Arthur Fleck. Most movies are pretty much either universally loved or universally hated, but Joker managed to have subject matter that was ambiguously portrayed enough to sow the most contentious and divided audience perhaps ever seen in the history of film itself.

Joker 2 left me with a very similar feeling, but it was way more negative. And I’m going to have to take a lot of time to unpack that. But hey. I got all night.

[face-breaker]

what if we talked more about elliott's language / speech impediment ?

( aka: copy & pasted old hc posts with broken links. ) we have A LOT to unpack here, and if we’re bein’ honest — i’m not sure i even know where to start ! but i guess we can first lay down some ( headcanon ) facts:      elliott displays several different speech and language impediments when speaking. some are more prominent than others, some he’s gotten pretty good at ‘ masking ’ or controlling.           in this post, we’ll talk about the main and most conspicuous of them all: his APHASIA.

     it’s the one that’s got him forgetting certain words and how to properly pronounce them, sometimes even replacing them with other words. there’s a few things to note about this condition in elliott’s case specifically: for starters, he IS properly diagnosed, and has been since he was twenty-eight. however, due to the nature of the condition and how he developed it, IT IS UNTREATABLE. it will also only WORSEN with time.

     the specific type of aphasia elliott was diagnosed with is called primary progressive aphasia ( or PPA ), which is a neurological syndrome in which language capabilities become slowly and progressively impaired. unlike other forms of aphasia that typically result from a stroke or brain injury, PPA is caused by neurodegenerative diseases, such as EARLY-ONSET ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE — which he was also diagnosed with at the same time. it does run on his mother’s side of the family. there’s three sub-categories of PPA, elliott’s diagnosis being logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia, or lvPPA. persons with lvPPA have increasing trouble thinking of the words they want to say and, as time goes on, have more trouble getting the words out and pronounced properly. they eventually begin to speak slower and slower in an attempt to process language, and sometimes find such difficulty in finding words that they might stop speaking all together. difficulties with memory typically get worse over time, and reading and writing may become harder. eventually, they may even start to get lost or have trouble recognizing people.

          and that absolutely TERRIFIES elliott.

     ever since his diagnosis, he attends speech therapy every other week and has regular doctor’s appointments to keep up with the development of his alzheimer’s. it’s something he doesn’t like talking about, and will hardly mention it to even his close friends. the worst part about it being: having to watch his mother live through it and seeing what it’s done and continues to do to her every day. he hates the idea of living like that, HATES the idea of dying like that; alone, confused and SCARED...

     he fights to keep her every day — he wonders if he’ll ever get that bad...when he’ll get that bad. and if there will be anyone there to fight for HIM the way he does for her — and if he’ll even remember who they are when they do.

     there’s times where these thoughts keep him up at night; long, dark hours of just WONDERING — but he always manages to get up and put a smile on other’s faces.

     he’d argue that it’s because he just enjoys other’s happiness — which, he wouldn’t be wrong — but, maybe it does have a little bit to do with, giving them something GOOD to remember him by. because he knows that, at some point, he won’t be enough of HIMSELF to share that with the world anymore.

[transmandrake]

Bruh

'These sounds are very rare in languages'

'These sounds are common in disordered speech'

I wonder if these 2 facts have anything to do with each other.

[ghostforwhat]

when you’re off of work would you please elaborate on your hannibal service top agenda,,, please my family is starving

i don’t want anyone to starve so obviously I will extrapolate on the service top aspect of Hannibal Lecter o7!! I am going to get so carried away and I apologize in advance.

Alright going to start this off by saying I do think they’re vers but only in regards to each other, I think for canon relationships, Will has a tendency to allow himself to be directed while Hannibal loves to orchestrate. With each other, though, it grows increasingly and alluringly complicated. Arguments could be made and subsequently thrown out depending on what part of the show you’re watching and post fall is an entire free-for-all because you can’t tell me two grown men survive murder-suicide via cliff and then settle into the puritanical rigidity of who tops and who bottoms.

Okay that being said, honestly i could make the case that both of them lean more toward making sure whoever they’re with is getting the most out of the encounter (maybe for different reasons; the popular trope of Will’s empathy causing a sort of blissful feedback loop and in Hannibal’s case, it stands to reason the politeness overlaps with a challenging sort of hedonism, he’s in control and playful about it) but I think that specifically for Hannibal, Will’s reactions are what he’s constantly seeking and then hoarding. Like. Will responding to stimuli that Hannibal presents is basically the premise of the show and Hannibal very clearly gets off on that, maybe not anywhere explicitly but we see shots of his pupils dilating, his gaze always caught on Will, licking his lips, all in response to Will reacting to him. It’s very rare he’s outright hungry at the beginning of a conversation or interaction, he seems to maintain a sense of aloofness until Will snarks or baits or replies or even defers and then, it’s as though he’s desperate to see more. I'm not getting into the whole them eating meals together because I'll devolve very quickly but like. just keep in mind the way Hannibal watches Will eat, as though he savors Will instead of the meal he cooked. Right. Okay. He gets caught up in Will’s responses very quickly, enraptured and almost stupid about it and trying to immediately trigger more which!! Goes hand and hand with him doing very uh lets say unique acts of service (the malewife jokes are only half jokes); the breakfasts & dinners, the driving, the caretaking. Yes all that’s manipulative but to Hannibal, that doesn’t negate that it’s still getting him the responses he wants and that’s also maybe why he’s so quick to say they’re friends because he’s viewing it as a form of relationship building and quite frankly, that is the only way that man knows how to build relationships; he sets himself up as a crutch and then breaks your leg and unfortunately at that point, for Will, for Jack, for Abigail, for Bedelia, for Chiyoh, you are too grateful to be standing that you forget he’s the reason you can’t do it on your own. The others I mentioned learn either very quickly or very (in painful irony) rudely that he is only a crutch as long as he enjoys it, as long as he can benefit from holding you aloft.

However. In Will’s case, he tries to remove himself and finds that it’s him who can’t stand and he’s immediately resentful and desperate to take back that ability, leaving another gift, another act of service, for Will to prove that he can still provide it and detrimentally putting himself on the map for Jack and Mason in the process. He’s so eager to have Will’s response, he waits at his own fucking crime scene. Will gives him what he wants and he’s too overwhelmed to respond with any sort of power or immediate selfishness, he runs again. And then. Muskrat Farms and his surrender. I feel like I don’t even need to explain why that backs up my case here, that man is so so ready to rescue and then surrender all because Will’s involved; two things he’s never done in his entire life, they essentially reduce him to this almost pathetic thing and it doesn’t give him pause at all because again, they’re acts of service whether Will wants them at that point or not. Like Bedelia said it best, he’s obsessed, he wants every reaction, every word, every sigh and curse, he’s very single-minded about getting them and he doesn’t care who he has to hurt, himself or others, to get them. Now, combine all that and the cliff scene and tell me that man doesn’t spend every second they’re in a bed together completely and utterly focused on Will and Will alone.