#macks! hannibal

[movietonight]

Psych Hannibal crossover. Is this anything.

[stevethehairington]

helll yeahhhh finished reading red dragon today!!! book 11 of the year done AND book 1 of the hannibal series done!!! silence of the lambs next and im exciteddd

[miraculan-draws]

Ok so. You aren't gonna get Activism Bonus Points as a knight in shining armor for condemning the intersection of horror/and romance. People did it with Hannibal, Interview, Killing Eve, you can go as far back as Wuthering Heights and see the same shallow and lukewarm takes. Which is what Gothic Romance is—its horror and romance. It's not like. An aesthetic. It's not Romance but with black lace. Decrying it with every new story doesn't make you look righteous. it makes you look illiterate.

We have BEEN discussing. The psychology behind this sort of romance since FOREVER. Women and queer men (really the whole queer umbrella) are known to gravitate towards these kinds of love stories because culturally and historically that desire is "something to be ashamed of." So how do you justify wanting, when your kind of wanting is condemning? Worth shunning? A secret?

Take YOUR want out of the equation. Make the story about someone wanting YOU so badly that they don't take no for an answer, a "no/never/I won't give in to you" that can be given for propriety's sake as a verbal alibi. But it takes agency to toss ASIDE ones agency in the first place.

It's the same people clutching their pearls about pulp monster stories. With "bodice ripper" stories. (Same basic principle behind CNC in kink spaces honestly) And REALLY it's fitting that the centennial reproduction of Nosferatu is what started it back up because above ALL OF THESE—is the mack daddy of them all, vampire literature.

There is a line in Nosferatu 2024: "I am an appetite. Nothing more." And it took my breath away because THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT BABY. Vampire stories are never JUST a creature feature. They are never face value. They represent something, and it's mercurial—I believe Rolin Jones referred to vampires as "a dark mirror" to human wants and appetites, and how if you repress something hard enough it'll always rot and turn ugly and cruel.

"I am an appetite." You can read between the lines better when you're not shaking your head no for the imaginary social media jury.

And if this is something you routinely cannot catch on to, can't relate to, makes you uncomfortable beyond what you can tolerate, then there's no shame in just avoiding the genre altogether. (Fantasy/Adventure with romance as a side plot will probably be closer to something for you. Even Dark Fantasy will probably scratch the itch if you keep finding yourself starting and quitting gothic romances)

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

We are not even halfway through May and so far the month has given us:

The Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake rap beef, SS specifically the release of “Not Like Us” and everything that has happened in its wake

The absolute fiasco that was Eurovision

A presidential candidate with actual, literal brain worms

Trump rambling about “the late, great Hannibal Lecter” as if he’s a real guy

Joanne Rowling fully embracing bring evil and no longer bothering to hide behind a thin veneer of respectability

SomeOrdinaryGamers releasing a poorly researched documentary about Keffals with a transphobic caricature in the thumbnail, which has gained new fans such as Stonetoss and Graham Linehan

The return of the Mack(lemore)

Instead of going with some massive household name to play Galactus in the FF movie, they cast Ralph Ineson of The Witch, a man whose voice naturally sounds like it belongs to an ancient cosmic entity. Also John Malkovich is in.

Planet of the Apes fever swept Twitter, giving the world a nice monkey-themed break from the usual bigotry of the app

Coming off the Stellsr Blade drama, gamers are now mad over Hades II designs, with open racism over Hestia to transvestigating Aphrodite

Sony and Microsoft’s arms race to make the worst decisions possible

James Somerton returns from the dead, worse than ever before

[gamethecry]

@carriageofaerietails asked: "Can we just be normal for like two seconds for once?" (Main!Reya for our ego/Madpat-linked verse?)

a cacophany of ' nos ' filled through at that question , varying hazel eyes casting down to the woman . " to be fair , normalcy was never my thing from the beginning . " madison snorts , gloved arms crossing over his chest as a vibrant gleam glinted in his eyes .

" don't worry , that was pretty obvious , hannibal lecture . " mack sneers , easily making his distance from the madman , wordlessly bumping into james , who's gaze narrowed onto the short man with a deep annoyance before snapping over to reya . " we do apologize . you will find that this tumultuous , anomalous occurrence has put us all in a rather cumbersome position . being pulled from our own selective worlds we peacefully inhabited to this current one has us unstable . "

matthew grimaces something wide , looking at the trio they've collected so far with a deep concern and confusion before glancing over to reya . his voice is a murmur as he leans close to whisper to her his worry . " hey , so . . . we gotta keep these guys somewhere . . . else . they're not gonna be able to stay here , no way . "

[goblindickhead]

Hey there everyone.

It's Frank, or Mack, or Goblin, or FM. However you may know me.

I don't like making these posts, and luckily I've only had to make a couple.

But I feel like I am.... I don't know, I feel like I am too old even though I'm 14 and I feel like I'm too young at the same time. I had to grow up when I was too young, I shouldn't have had to.

It's odd, it's not nice

I'm so fucking self aware it's disturbing

Half of the time it feels like I'm not real or everything is too real

And sometimes I can't tell whats real and whats not because my dreams are so damn vivid and horrifying that it's hard to tell the difference.

The lines are slowly fading and it's scary, I don't like it

My psychiatrists won't listen to what I think is going on an ared it's tiring

So very tiring

I sleep for hours

But I get zero rest

No rest, no real sleep

The nightmares I have are so real that it's causing my mind stress while I'm asleep so I get no fucking rest, no god damn rest and NO ONE will listen to me

I doze in and out of sleep during my classes, I try not to go all the way to sleep so that I don't have dreams.

Fiction, and being online is how I can get away, I love all of my silly moots and Hannibal and The X-Men and all that

I want to be a Navy Fighter Pilot when I'm older

To fly

Though my mom doesn't like that, she doesn't want me in the military. She doesn't like anything about our government

No matter what it seems like I can't satisfy my mom, I can't get her off my ass

I'm in high-school now, yet she still is trying to micromanage everything I do

I can't catch a break

ever

I don't know why I'm telling the internet this, maybe I just need to get it out

I don't want to be here, yet I don't want to leave all my friends, my little brothers, my Nana, my cats, or miss the opportunity to do the things I want to do in the future

I want to act, I want to make comics and cartoons, I want to be a Pilot, I want to travel, I want to make a difference in this god awful world.

To everyone who sees this, to everyone who is struggling with anything, keep going. No matter how bad it seems, no matter how fucked you think you are, I care, I care about you. It doesn't matter if you don't know me and if I don't know you, I care about you, I want you to keep going, I know someone cares, I know for a fact that someone loves you.

[acrushedrosestillwins]

I love how after Murdock and the team save Dr. Richter from Colonel Mack Stoddard, the whole dimension of the relationship change between Richter and Murdock.

A few episodes later Murdock accompanies Dr. Richter to his highly status club. The rich and famous hang out there, people Dr. Richter respects, and maybe even a few he works with, or at least mingle in the same circles. He takes Murdock along.

Not only that, he trusts Murdock enough to be on his best behavior, I mean these are people that can ruin Richter's reputation if he or Murdock misbehaves. Even cost him membership...but no...Murdock can even sign the checks, and have free reign over the grounds.

Then some more episodes and Dr. Richter even allows Murdock to borrow his limousine, so he can take Face to the reunion. (I won't even ask how Dr. Richter can afford a limousine, or for what purpose he would want one.)

I mean after the rescue did they travel back to LA, and become friends? Did he get a chance to meet the other guys? A chance to understand Murdock better. Did he give Hannibal his word he would keep Murdock's association with the A-team a secret? What's his impression of the team and the dynamics? Have they talked about Murdock and his progress?

Are they close now? Does Murdock trust him enough to actually talk and try to get better? Is that why he was able to get out and get himself sane in season 5? Did Richter signed it off?

How does it work with him being Murdock's therapist now?

Did he get his breakthrough and went to Hawaii like he told Murdock... at this point I'll even bet he will take Murdock with him..🙃😉

(Another thing, I really love Murdock's smile in the picture, so much smugness and joy.

[euclydya]

if we ever feel like we aren't actually a system rhen i am beaming the fact that one of our hannibals fucking detests mac and cheese and the fact that i would gladly kill nya over that shit . how could u hate macking chees.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.19 (before 1950)

202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage. 439 – The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa. 1386 – The Universität Heidelberg holds its first lecture, making it the oldest German university. 1453 – Hundred Years' War: Three months after the Battle of Castillon, England loses its last possessions in southern France. 1466 – The Thirteen Years' War between Poland and the Teutonic Order ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn. 1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain. 1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology. 1579 – James VI of Scotland is celebrated as an adult ruler by a festival in Edinburgh. 1596 – The Spanish ship San Felipe runs aground on the coast of Japan and its cargo is confiscated by local authorities. 1649 – New Ross town in Ireland surrenders to Oliver Cromwell. 1781 – American Revolutionary War: The siege of Yorktown comes to an end. 1789 – John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States. 1791 – Treaty of Drottningholm, between Sweden and Russia. 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to Napoleon at the Battle of Ulm. 1812 – The French invasion of Russia fails when Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow. 1813 – War of the Sixth Coalition: Napoleon is forced to retreat from Germany after the Battle of Leipzig. 1847 – The novel Jane Eyre is published in London. 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Cedar Creek ends the last Confederate threat to Washington, DC. 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate agents based in Canada rob three banks in Saint Albans, Vermont. 1866 – In accordance with the Treaty of Vienna, Austria cedes Veneto and Mantua to France, which immediately awards them to Italy in exchange for the earlier Italian acquiescence to the French annexation of Savoy and Nice. 1900 – Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation. 1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire. 1914 – World War I: The First Battle of Ypres begins. 1921 – The Portuguese Prime Minister and several officials are murdered in the Bloody Night coup. 1922 – British Conservative MPs vote to terminate the coalition government with the Liberal Party. 1935 – The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia. 1943 – The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Crete and sunk. Two thousand and ninety-eight Italian prisoners of war drown with it. 1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. 1944 – United States forces land in the Philippines. 1944 – A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.

[froppy-butterflyfan2000]

Cappyverse:

Blake run a brothel and an alcohol business in London.

Snowden’s business is a food truck business. He sell slushies and crepes.

Hiraya works part-time at part-time running Bananas House/Shop in the Summer (Janna's Magic Shop) where she sell her invented artifacts (weapons) and artifacts (weapons) that need maintenance and repair.

Alverta does magic showbiz business as a financial backer. Her magic show help funds The Circle.

Janaya will probably own a cake shop for witches. Either in Townsville or Echo Creek, America or in England. He will share partnership with Cassia Breadhouse.

Hannibal is a ringleader of Cirque du Curious.

Precious would sent a supervillain or businessman, such as Calico coordinates of asteroids rich in asterubies, for a finder fee about 3% interest. He also expand his father's inventions by selling them to warring sides in the space. His business also funds The Circle too.

Lunaverse:

Aspen, son of Brittany Taylor and Mack Mackenzie from Daria, sell bootlegged magic potions with magic potency that acts like substances.

I could see Trixie Wilkins runs a tech store which will becomes a tech company in the future.

Tales of Mewni:

Chai runs a tea shop that sell poisonous tea to assassins and mercenaries, with a side gig of selling drugs with Earl and Kissy.

Does your OC run a business? If not, what would their business be?

[stevethehairington]

oh no the third book in the hannibal series taking place in italy — in florence, no less — for such a large chunk of it is making me want to go back sooooooo bad ahhhhh

[bowie-boy]

I love NBC Hannibal (2013-2015)

[movietonight]

Tell me, Will, are you the horse or the plinko?

[ihaveanaxe]

[new headcanon: Hannibal can ONLY cook complicated foods. If it’s simple he always fucks it up. Mack n cheese? Spoiled cheese. Over-easy eggs? Undercooked. Boiled peas? Burnt the water.

He doesn’t know how or why it happens, but he is UNABLE to cook simplistic meals]

can you make really good grilled cheeses

Matthew raised a brow, contemplating for a moment before giving a confident nod.

"Uh, yeah. Definitely. I can make the best grilled cheeses."

He paused, snickering,

"-unlike Hannibal. He'd probably go all defective Gordon Ramsay."

[uhhbeans]

watching hannibal again and. i keep forgetting its disturbing.