#like yeah will and hannibal are gay as shit

[naisvalta]

this is so funny lmao he just wanted a coat because it was raining

[ghostdrinkssoup]

the way madoka magica is my favourite anime and nbc hannibal is my favourite show which seems odd at first because there are No immediate similarities between them until you realise they both feature an insane and obsessive romance strong enough to defy god and the general concept of time, as well as a betrayal so profound it permanently changes the trajectory of the narrative. also fucked up imagery and phantasmagoria, out of pocket allusions to classic texts, and unhinged lesbianism

[gayestblogthesite]

Everyone else: Hannibal holding Will’s neck and staring lovingly into his soul was SO gay

Me, a clown: *misses the gay every time cause I’m too busy laughing myself sick at the look on Hanni’s face when the social worker struggles out of the dead horse*

[eli-elien]

I think this is also the gender that said "you don't know what side i'm on" at the literal chief of police and then sexily slinks into the darkness

Yeah, we’re all Will Graham gender but heres a uquiz to find out what kind of Will Graham Gender you are!

https://uquiz.com/jPPLDz

[cannibalovers]

Hello:3

posted on my personal blog about hannibal so much that i decided to create a separate one just so i can rant about it cuz i think im gonna get very deep into this gay cannibal shit for a very long time <3

my primary blog is @aggressiveguitarnoises so if u get a notification from that url, then yeah, that's me :) (personal blog, music especially nin based and other interests)

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rumai/canni/any variation of my url lol ¦ ukrainian ¦ 17 ¦ she/her

ofc expect hannibal on here (nbc for now but who knows!!!)

probably mostly reblogs than original posts? although i do make art but anyway expect:

hannibal quotes out of context (although most of it is on my other blog but...)

hannibal song of the day, music overall (got like 4 playlists just for hannibal,,,, concerning ik but here)

art!!! mostly digital and will be hannibal related (gonna be under rumaiq art hashtag)

hannigram. a lot of it. like cmon that's what the show is about. but other characters too obv

memes

shit posts

prob giving my opinions and thoughts in the hashtags, theyre very elaborate,,

rants about specific scenes or moments cuz i had a mind blowing realisation

asks open for anything(tho preferably hannibal related), including doodles

dms always open too:)

also got myself into a lovely mess of a hannibal rp and I am somehow running jack crawford's blog, @jack-loves-bella !

i think thats it for now

(there's also a discord server in the post which i highly encourage to join, it is very fun and very active, very friendly I love yall already)

also, i have a redbubble shop, encourage u to visit it :3

enjoy:3

[yonpote]

I need to know why and how you were anti-phannie from 2014-2016

alright here we go i get to talk about THIS shit now.

i was generally anti-rpf at that point, and honestly? i think it was for fair enough reasons as some people were a bit too eager about showing (general) youtubers stories they wrote about them sucking and fucking their friends. i think i was also pretty high and mighty about being a somewhat oldhead phannie tbh, like ugh do these gaming-channel-only people even know about dan being super edgy and offensive 🙄 and lowkey it was a lot of subtly misogynistic "i'm not like other girls" type shit like i was sooo much better than yall cuz i hadn't watched that video (yet.)

i was generally not into these sorts of fandoms to begin with. i wasnt on the superwhopotterlock side, i was on the homestuck/dangan ronpa/anime of the month side of tumblr, if that gives you an idea of what i was like lol. around 2014-15 i was very much in a community that is kinda similar to what you might see on twitter now, where if you had any interests in media that portrayed anything problematic, that means you are in full support of that problematic thing. if dan howell said something racist in 2010, it doesn't matter that he wasn't being racist in 2015 he's still racist and liking him makes you a racist etc. and of course, rpf is included in problematic topics. if you ship real people, even if said people say they don't mind it, you are a sick pervert and you should be in the loony bin for being so depraved. and if you write or read any fiction that has immoral acts, it means you support those acts in real life too and you are trying to normalize abuse and SA (yknow as if whitecishetpatriarchy hasnt normalized that enough) and you're a danger to children and you deserve to rot in prison (yknow as if a queer person writing stories about queer people hasnt heard that one before)

now here's the real kicker. in 2015-2016 i ran a game grumps fan blog where i did talk about shipping the grumps. "wait how were you anti-rpf if-" well have you ever heard of this thing called Lying? or perhaps even, Cognitive Dissonance? i HAD to run a separate blog for this interest, because if my friends knew i consumed slashfic about arin and danny they would stop being friends with me and think im this evil horrible monster etc. genuinely that was where my brain was at, and is a little bit the reason i decided to this day, to make my phannie accounts completely separate from my main accounts.

nowadays, none of my non-phannie friends actually give a fuck and i do occasionally talk about dnp being silly gay white boys w them! at this point i dont post about em on main just out of respect like "hey im sure you dont actually want to hear about british yaoi constantly regardless of our level of friendship so i'll keep it over here okay?"

also, yeah i grew out of thinking consuming media with deplorable acts makes me deplorable. my favorite tv show is hannibal. i know its shocking, but i dont actually support serial killer cannibals. i will say, i dont fuck with "pro/anti" language with regards to what is considered "problematic" or having that be an identity marker. i think that people are free to write fiction as they please so long as its all properly tagged for people who dont enjoy that kind of content to avoid. but i also think there can be and often are problems in the way these stories are written, and yeah if all the romance stories you read growing up involve some sort of force or danger, that CAN normalize this sort of action as inherent to romance stories/real life romance. but i think thats an issue with like, society at large, and it's not on an individual fic writer to be educating teens who read their dead dove fic despite the explicit rating and tags.

TL;DR: BASICALLY. I WAS A DUMBASS KNOW-IT-ALL BUT DW I GOT BETTER.

[beastblade69]

the great reason of me becoming fixated on one flew is literally my fixation MY MADLY STRONG FIXATION on everything related to psych wards and psychiatry overall. but like idkk, I'm literally watching dozens of movies about psych wards, my books are mosty only about psych wards, STILL MY BRAIN'S CHOSEN TO FIXATE ON ONE FLEW. WHY?? I HAVE NO CLUE. I WAS LIKE. I just finished watching hannibal series back then and remembered about our teacher telling us about one flew over the cuckoo's nest aka "the movie about how mental patients were treated not so long ago". obviously I became excited because of my fixation. so I've watched the movie. AND OMG, I LITERALLY COULDN'T QUIT THINKING ABOUT IT FOR ALL NIGHT LONG. still I hoped that it wasn't a fixation obsession, just like yk sometimes you get that average obsession that fades away pretty quickly. BUT NUH, WHEN I WOKE UP NEXT DAY I STILL WASN'T ABLE TO THINK ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE BUT ONE FLEW. AND SO YEH, UNFORTUNATELY FOR ME IT WAS A FIXATION. unfortunately because THIS FUCKING SHIT IS DRAMATIC AF AND NOT THAT SILLY AS MY USUAL HYPERFIXATIONS WERE (literally metalocalypse and gwar. two silly ass bands). SO YES, I'VE ORDERED A BOOK THAT MORNING AND SHIT MY LIFE WAS NEVER THE SAME AFTER THEN. I'LL NEVER RECOVER FROM THIS BOOK. but actually if we're comparing a book's and movie's ending I'd prefer the book's one (with all my love towards final movie gay scene, but nuh, book's def better) because in the book mcmurphy at least prevailed over the system. and almost everyone was released (not tge poor billy boy unfortunately 😔😔😔): harding finally got better and left, some other patients also left or switched wards. my beloved girlie aka chief finally got out and ratchet was defeated. it's almost a happy ending if comparing to the movie, where mcmurphy died literally for nothing. movie mcmurphy is not that deep at all, just a silly a bit stupid dude so yeah, okay, I wasn't expecting something deep from him anyways

[duchess-of-new-shire]

I mean imo what they do instead is somehow gayer than just kissing

yeah, so i just started watching dead boy detectives and i’m obsessed

[eric-the-disposable-demon]

ok everyone. Sit down and shut up. Cos nothing as amazing as what just happend will ever happen again.

this is hannibal related. For the sake of this story, I'll mark all the hannibal related bits in red.

So I just saw the human versions of hannibal and will and I'm not even kidding shut up listen to this.

This story is 100% real btw, I didn't make anything up.

So I was walking with my mom in the town were staying at in Italy. Two men and a dog walk past us. A moment later one of the men turns around and walks over to us. He's wearing a suit (with no tie though). His hair is a dirty blond, and very neat. He stop us and asks "excuse me, sorry for bothering you, but are you Israeli?" My mom and I say yes, we are (and were pretty shocked, too. We werent speaking hebrew or anything, we werent doing anything particularly Israeli). We asked him how he knew, and he said "oh, im not sure. It was just something about you. Your body language and general air. Sorry, im used to analyzing people more than i should. It happens automatically, i cant really turn it off." He then called the other man who was walking with him, who had already moved on. And, I SHIT YOU NOT. this is the name he called out. "William! William come here, look, these two are Israeli". William comes over and brings the dog with him. "This is my partner, william." The other man said. William was a bit shorter than him, he looked a bit scruffier, and he was wearing a wool hat. He had darker hair. He was wearing jeans and a corduroy jacket (i think) over a t shirt. He sighed and said "you know i hate that word, it makes it sound like i work with you in the clinic or something. Im his husband." I asked what happend to their dog (he was missing a leg). William said he was out fishing a few months back and took the dog with him, the dog went wondering off into the woods and got into a fight with a wild hog. "Luckily," the other man said "William is a vet. And kino (the dog) is fine now" There was an awkward pause. "Now, if youll excuse us, it was very nice talking to you but we have a lunch reservation and a client waiting." The other man said. "Yeah. That meat isnt going to eat itself" William said.

LIKE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. YOU LOOK ME IN THE EYE AND TELL ME THOSE WERENT HANNIBAL AND WILL. THEY HAD THE SAME FEATURES. ONENOF THEM WAS LEGIT CALLED WILLIAM. THEY HAD A DOG. WILLIAM GOES FISHING. THE OTHER MAN HAS CLIENTS. OUGH.

"That meat isnt going to eat itself" sure hun are you talking about lunch or your husband's fucking client.

Fucking gay cannibals walking around Italy with their 3 legged adorable dog. Oughhhhhh

[megaawkwardhuman]

hello hi hey I'm icarus (but I'm also fine with virgo) and welcome to my blog!

idkf how you got here but uhhh congrats?

also sorry if parts of the gif look weird idfk how to fix it

I'm a neurodivergent artist who talks about gay vampires (wwdits) a lot!

I do have other interests tho like ofmd, good omens, hannibal, re-animator, interview with the vampire, the band ghost, the world of mr plant, south park, and so much more (it's just that wwdits is just what I think about the most)

things I've made:

I've written a few fic before and one can be found on my blog! it's a post season 4 nandermo fic and here's a link if you wanna check it out :)

as for the rest can be found on my ao3 here! (I'm not going to move the post season 4 fic there mainly cause idk if I really wanna)

I made a uquiz a while ago that basically tells you what you would be if you where in the wwdits universe (a vampire, a familiar. an energy vampire etc)

I have an instagram that I just post my art to and that's really it

things I like to make:

as you can probably gather by now I primarily do pixel art but I also like to doodle/sketch with good old pencil and paper

I make a LOT of kandi (primarily singles) buuut I don't really post it on here (I mean unless someone asks me to I'm more than willing to share)

I kinda write? like I've written fics before and I DO have a bunch of wips but it's kinda hard for me to finish a fic due to the fact that I get distracted easily and the fact that I'm really dyslexic (you have no idea how badly I wanna fist fight the english language in a denny's parking lot at 3am)

oh while it's not a medium or anything but I'd like to mention I LOVE to draw characters from the media I like as pastel bunnies! (tho at this current moment it's primarily wwdits characters I draw) is it weird? yeah but I like to so I'm not stopping anytime soon if you want a rough explanation as to why I made a long post about it

fav characters:

guillermo de la cruz from wwdits (seriously I'm fucking feral for this man he's my top blorbo atm! he has my gender in a chokehold and I relate to him A LOT also harvey guillen is just really fucking hot-)

nandor the relentless also from wwdits (not as crazy about him but like he fascinates me and I love his goofy cringefail vibes... HE'S ALSO REALLY HOT-)

dib from invader zim (while I haven't watched invader zim in a while I still consider dib to be a fav! hell he's my fucking profile pic. he's one of the first ever characters in something I've seen that I've related to)

stede from ofmd (he's a huge fucking mood and I too jump into things head first without any plans whatsoever)

argos from twomp (a new addition to my fav character list since I stumbled upon twomp more recently. idk I just like him like go googly eye man date that murderous plant dude! wow that must sound weird to those who don't know what the world of mr plant is XD. it also might have to do with the fact that he's kinda socially awkward)

mr plant from twomp (another new addition. idfk something about that murderous plant I find oddly relatable? I think it's the fact that he's also socially awkward. arguably more than argos)

herbert west from re-animator (idk I think this autistic man with no care for ethics is neat)

I have more but for now those are the ones I'm gonna list :)

other shit:

as I've already said I have dyslexia, I possibly have ADHD (never officially diagnosed buuuuut really fucking confident I do and a past therapist said I most likely do), I keep running into situations where I question if I have autism or not so take that as you will, and despite what it may seem I have really REALLY bad social anxiety (well I have overall anxiety too but let's just say there's a reason I spend a lot of time online and not out and about)

asks as you can already tell are open

DMs are also open (tho I will say it's mainly to mutuals)

WARNING I KEYBOARD SMASH A LOT!

nandermo shipper but I'm fine with other ships involving the two :)

overall I try to be nice on here cuz there's enough negativity out there why add to it? tho key word here is try (I've gone on small rants here before and there's the possibility I will again)

I really REALLY fucking love bats and frogs THEY'RE JUST LITTLE GUYS HOW CAN I NOT?

there will be moments where for one reason or another (sleep deprived, sad, bored, it's a tueday, etc etc) I'll be reminded that oh yeah I fucking love frogs and will just start spam reblogging frog posts so be warned if you see me reblog a frog photo and read the words frog blogging or frog posting in the tags run while you still can (or don't cuz frogs are the best and need to be loved and cherished)

tag stuff:

misc thoughts/ideas/this tag is mainly random shit: throwing up my thoughts onto tumblr again

theories/meta/looking too much into small stuff: word garbage™

answering asks: answering stuff

my art: *funny tag for my art*

bunny art related posts: bun stuff

mothman memo related posts: mothman memo stuff

fanfics I've written: gather around and lend me your time

edits I've made: edit shmedit

memes I've made: brought to you by ms paint

show + tags thing: + tags

all the weekly wwdits sparkle on images: sparkle on it's gay vamp day!!!

posts that involve irl friends of mine: friend chaos

follow for a fuck ton of reblogs, art, and long tangents about whatever takes over my mind atm

thanks for reading, have a nice day, and remember: baby bats are called pups

this has nothing to do with this post I just thought this was important info plus I just wanted to throw in this cute bat image I found on google

[characteranalyst]

Thanks for the tag friend this seems like fun @fluidsoul31. I’m late sorry. But better late than never I guess.

Rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I have a ridiculous amount of WIPS because my brain does this /very/ annoying thing where when I get an idea for a fic, I have maybe a 10 + hour window (on a good day) to drop what I’m doing put ass in chair and type it out from start to finish without any interruptions or else the idea will just go *poof* gone never to be seen or heard from again. And the only reason I even wrote and posted my last fic was that I blessedly got the idea on a Saturday morning.

So welcome to my graveyard of WIPS that are gathering dust in my Google docs because I got the idea like 5 minutes before I had to leave for work and the juice ran out by the time I got home and all that was left was maybe 7 or 8 paragraphs if I was lucky that I got to spit out before the inspiration flew away.

So let’s start with the Phayu/Rain WIPS -

1. NICE TO M(EAT) YOU a.k.a the Hannibal AU. Butcher! Phayu/Line cook! Rain

(I actually wrote a good chunk of this from Phayu’s POV before I realized it would have been better to start in Rain’s POV so it’s unfinished but technically planned out)

2. SIMON SAYS -

(Fem! Phayu Rain fic. I wrote this one for the sensory deprivation day for Kinktober and it’s like 95% done but I got in my head and thought it was shit so I didn’t post it.)

3. MONEY TO BLOW a.k.a the BL co stars AU but make it dead dove -

(HIGH KEY wish I had called into to work to write this one. I really loved this concept. But I only got to spit out about 6 paragraphs before work. )

4. CARN(IV)AL DESIRES a.k.a the Carnival meet cute fic.

(We are going to collectively ignore my cheesy title. I wrote basically the entirety of this meaning to post for Valentine’s Day but the dialogue was beating my ass so it’s unfinished.)

5. PHAYU.EXE - a.k.a the succubus/computer virus Phayu AU

(So another one I wish I had called in to write. It’s probably 3 paragraphs of actually story and 1000 + words of bare bones skeletal ideas)

6. UNTITLED PORN AU

(I had written this one for the piss day I think for Kinktober. I wrote a good amount of it before the characterization got a little fucky and I had no clue where I was going with it.)

7. SOME LIKE IT KNOT - a.k.a my first attempt at an a/b/o fic

(Another idea 5 minutes before work. But I actually wrote a good chunk of this and world builded a little before I realized I also had no clue where I was going with it. )

8. FUCK ME ONCE SHAME ON YOU - a.k.a Fem!Rain’s gay awakening

(Another Fem! Phayu Rain one. Sort a retelling of the code line meeting night. This is basically fully written but I don’t know I just didnt want to post it. It felt very ‘I’m projecting onto the blorbos and I do not want to be perceived so let’s not post this’. So yeah.)

I have more but I can’t be bothered rn to go rummaging around to look for any more.

So next up is a Ray/Sand Only Friends WIP

1. THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE a.k.a the Ray goes to AA meetings fic

I wrote this while the show was still airing so canon kinda made me give up on finishing it but I wrote a good bit.

And lastly my Killing Stalking WIP

1. MOTHER MAY I?

This is a canon divergence rewrite of chapters 8-9 of the manga. Didn’t finish it but a wrote a lot and it was fun to write something a little fucked up. The manga was /something/ and I was itching to rewrite some parts of those chapters:

Ok so I know I technically didn’t follow the rules because it said only the titles but I couldn’t help myself. Sue me. Send me and ask if any catch your eye.

And I have no clue who to tag so anyone that wants to participate can have at it.

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

ohgghh i’m on the season finale. mind if i liveblog in ur inbox?? i’m doing it

this is already fucking insane. i have no idea whose side will is on. he’s giving information to both jack and hannibal before they meet for dinner. what is he doing. WHAT IS HIS PLAN

god i love freddie lounds. have i mentioned that?? i love her. morally fucked up women my beloved <3 she makes the narrative so interesting

hannibal is literally asking will to run away with him. my god. how much fucking gayer can this get. they need to make out sloppy style covered in blood right now immediately

HERE COMES JACK THIS WAS THE SCENE WE SAW RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASON ISN’T IT??? OHHH HELL YEAH BABEY IT’S THE FIGHT SCENE HEHEHEHE

ALANA’S HERE ALANA’S HERE AAAAAAA GIRLIE RUN ohhhhhh no jack is bleeding from the neck oh no oh no i don’t want him dead please no :( ALANA OH NO. OH NO SHE HAS NO BULLETS. OH NO GIRL RUNNNNN oh she found more oh thank god

ABIGAIL???????

WHAT THE FUCK

SHE PUSHED ALANA OUT THE WINDOW

alana don’t die noooo no no no :( i love her i don’t want her dead!!! oh god jack is probs dying too NOOOOOOOO

omg will saw abigail,,,,,, sobbing. wailing even. screaming and crying.

“we couldn’t leave without you” okay. gayass. my heart is already shattered what the fuck am i supposed to do about this

tenderly touching the side of will’s face. dude come on

HE STABBED HIM HE STABBED HIM OH MY GOD. WHAT THE FUCK

“do you believe you could change me the way i changed you?” “i already did” OKAY. ALRIGHT. I’LL JUST SIT WITH THIS NOW. WHAT THE HELL DUDE

HE’S KILLING ABIGAIL FOR REAL. DUDE. ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS. yeah no way everyone here is surviving this. oh fuck oh fuck jack is totally dead oh fuck ok time to cry. he called his wife in his last moments. stop. i’ve cried over bella twice before i don’t need to again ok

HANNIBAL AND HIS THERAPIST ARE JUST FUCKING OFF TO SOMEWHERE ELSE?? THAT’S THE WAY THE SEASON ENDS????? MAC WHAT THE HELL MAN

^ME RN. MY GOD. I DON’T KNOW HOW MANY OF THEM SURVIVED THAT BUT HOLY SHIT I DON’T HAVE THE TIME OR ENERGY TO START S3 RIGHT NOW. UHHHH THOUGHTS: IT GOT VERY GAY VERY QUICKLY. GENUINELY THOUGHT THEY WERE GONNA KISS AT MULTIPLE POINTS AND THE WRITERS WERE COWARDS FOR NOT LETTING THEM MAKE OUT SLOPPY STYLE COVERED IN BLOOD. VERY GLAD FREDDIE IS ALIVE GASLIGHT GATEKEEP GIRLBOSS <3 FIGURED ABIGAIL WASN’T DEAD BUT WAS STILL SURPRISED BY HER SHOWING UP. WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED. 10/10 I’M GOING TO GO TO BED NOW

AHAHAHHAAAA HOLY SHIT. WELCOME TO MY WORLD. WELCOME TO MY TWISTED MIND, IM A TWISTED FUCKING CYCLE PATH BECAUSE OF HANNIBAL S2 FINALE

"you were supposed to leave." "we couldnt leave without you". will run away with me. will we can escape but only if we do it together. unfortunately i cannot trust you and you cannot trust me. we work perfectly together and thats exactly why we can never work together. the way he fucking.. caresses wills face before he stabs him and then immediately just.. holds him. girls when they say they want to be held (me im girls). "DO YOU BELIEVE YOU COULD CHANGE ME THE WAY I CHANGED YOU" "I ALREADY DID" WHSIKEY CAN YOU HEAR ME . CAN YOU FUCKING HEAR ME. THEY SHOULD HAE MADE OUT SPLOPPY STYLE. "you would deny me my life?" "no no no" "my freedom, then? confine me to a prison cell?" << this dialogue. ugh. ughghghghghghhghghhghhgh. man what the fucj. im literally always thinking about hannibal season 2 finale. any time i need to do a factory reset on my brain i pull up my favorite youtube video conveniently titled "hannibal stabs will scene". fellas is it gay to gut another man like a fish. (the answer is yes)

[russilton]

OKAY BUT DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW PROFOUNDLY DOWNBAD THIS MAN IS- LIKE DO YOU SEE HOW ON MAIN HORNY HE IS FOR LEWIS- He’s a reflection of all of us and that’s why people hate hiM

me: luv and light and i am floating on clouds rn

mark: do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour and the fact that george russell has never been normal about lewis hamilton a day in his life and george’s gf encourages this and —

[connorlikesshows]

THE REASON THE I FORGIVE YOU IS EVEN MORE UNBELIEVABLY DEVISTATING TO ME IS BECAUSE OF FUCKING HANNIBAL ARE YOU KIDDING ME. I WAS LIKE"HMM THIS SEEMS FAMILIAR THIS REMINDS ME OF SOMETHING" YEAH NO FUCKING SHIT THESE STUPID FUCKING GAY PEOPLE.

[canmom]

chain meme, tagged by @translesbiantheo, sure why not

last song: i dread to say it but i think it must be one of the approximately 40 different mashups of gangnam style that @footsteps-on-the-dance-floor played for me yesterday. or maybe 'played at me' works better.

last song I listened to by choice was probably some random post-rock compilation on youtube tbh. something to fill my ears while working, not ideal listening conditions T_T

last show: rewatched the beginning of Oshi no Ko with Ash yesterday. honestly holds up well on rewatch, I'm noticing lots of little touches of character acting that do a lot for it (appropriate to a show about acting lol). I got into this show for the crazy turns it makes but it is genuinely a good story underneath that, and I'm looking forward to catching up on wherever the hell they take it.

currently watching: also catching up on Tengoku Daimakyō and GWitch. I hear Tengoku Daimakyō wraps up the season really well, and of course people have been going nuts about GWitch, so I'm excited for both. and yeah, I need to watch something that isn't anime lmao. i might give Hannibal or Succession a shot.

currently reading: I just finished Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters. Very late to the party on this one - it's a 20th anniversary printing and popular enough to be in an airport bookshop - but honestly, the popularity is well deserved. that Sarah Waters can't half turn a phrase and it's a wonderful ride of lesbian melodrama, and it portrays loneliness and intimacy and passion so well. it definitely shows the signs of being a first novel - compared to Waters's later novels that I've read/seen adaptations of, it telegraphs where it's going a lot more, and the ending is honestly a bit pat - she acknowledges in her afterword that the book is like, 90s gay scene with a Victorian skin and it was most obvious at the ending. But regardless: it's a real delight to go on this tour of gay shit the Victorians were doing at all levels of society, the protagonist is endearingly awful, Waters already has an incredibly sharp eye for voice and character dynamics, and even when it's dark, it's just plain fun all the way through - it felt really good to read and I found it hard to stop. I definitely want to track down her other books now.

current obsession: what an open-ended question! lessee... after Annecy i'm so excited to get back into animation! I've been so busy with work and stuff since I got home that it hasn't really happened, but this week! this will be the week! I'm also trying to learn to play the zhonghu (the viola to the erhu's violin) after being gifted one by a friend, that's going to be a hard road but hopefully a fun one.

tagging: i cba to tag people, open invitation have at

[xandromedan]

top 15 show in no particular order (tagged by @soleadita)

- sense8: one of the most incredible things I've ever watched, forever pissed we didn't get 5 seasons like we were supposed to

- altered carbon: season 1 is insane, absolutely peak cyberpunk television

- she-ra: starts off as silly gay people and ends up being one of the most insane stories I've ever watched. noelle stevenson continues to be on top

- greys anatomy: very fun no pressure show with sandra oh

- hannibal: um. yeah

- bridgerton: I love period dramas an unhealthy amount and it's just absolutely ridiculous

- teen wolf: still only on s2 but it's so ridiculous and edgy and perfect. plus the soundtrack is actually insane

- stargate sg-1: one of my all time favs omfg

- stargate atlantis: also one of my all time favs

- caatlevania: hot vampires and an insane ot3

- leverage: speaking of ot3s, holy shit. anti-capitalism found family ridiculousness. the writing is incredible, it's so fucking funny, the characters are fantastic. if you haven't seen it, fix that.

- how to train your dragon: the show. the universe is amazing and I love all the shenanigans they get up to

- avatar: fucking obviously. this goes for both of them.

- young justice: the first two seasons are fucking amazing, it's such a good show I need to rewatch it

- dirk gently's holistic detective agency: what a show!! do I know what happened? no. do I want to? not really. have I seen it six times? yeah

thanks for the tag pookie <3 anyone who wants to do it consider yourself tagged I'm too lazy to do it