#no thoughts just hannibal lecter

[keyknows]

i'm so normal about hannibal lecter

[hannikin-grahamkin]

He's not my enemy. He is my homoerotic rival and if anybody but me ever tries to hurt him I will promptly kill them.

[folie-a-deux]

come to think of it, maybe the explanation on how freddie lounds was able to avoid being put in the soup despite her being the walking definition of rudeness is because she and hannibal made a deal for her life to be spared in exchange for the uncensored version of will's colostomy bag photo 🤪

[newvision]

Will answering “part of me will always want to” when Jack asks him if he’ll slip away with Hannibal is actually an insane thing to say cause at any other point during the show before that episode Jack would not have wanted Will to get this close to Hannibal. But now he needs him to!!!!!!!!!!!!! So he is forced to accept the part of Will that is fascinated by the very reason Hannibal is supposed to go to prison, his cruelty & violence, and therefore also that part of Hannibal. Will might as well have said “I wanna eat people with this guy and that’s the very reason why you need me to help you”. And the next scene is him being petty and jealous towards Hannibal’s wife. How did Jack not quit after one single day of working this case

[tethered-heartstrings]

[thefabledcannibals]

I was thinking about how Hannigram’s love language is violence, but Hannibal doesn’t have any scars from Will and I was thinking actually, maybe it makes sense that he doesn’t.

Hannibal is fine with the fact that he loves Will. He mentions it’s inconvenient, but at the end of the day he accepts that he loves him. So Will has a lot of scars from him.

But Will doesn’t accept or even know that he loves Hannibal for a long time. Being in love with Hannibal goes against the person he’s always trying to be, so he tries to suppress it/ignore it/get rid of it. The only time we ever see Will lay a violent hand on Hannibal is in his fantasies. But he never actually does it.

Hannibal has scars from Matthew Brown, who Will obviously sent to kill him, but I don’t count those because Will didn’t do it himself. I know Will was in jail at the time, but I see this as a way for Will to try to pawn his feelings off to someone else since he knows he can’t act on them even if he wasn’t in jail. Being violent with Hannibal would be like admitting he loves him, so he gets someone else to do it.

I think if the show had continued, we might’ve finally seen Hannibal be scarred by Wills hand since their relationship fundamentally shifts after the fall. Will could’ve accepted that he loved him and, therefore, scarred him.

[ineffably-graham]

hannibal did not repeatedly demonstrate that he would let will do anything he wanted with him, moan while tied up after being told will sent a guy to kill him, turn his head and lean sensually on his fridge while will pointed a gun at him, and lay on the floor after being shot while looking into will's eyes and posing like a renaissance painting for the fandom to decide hannibal is a christian grey type dom.

[monostardust]

Me whenever I'm asked why I really took Psychology

Ahem it's definitely not because Hannibal changed my brain chemistry ehem definitely not. I've always wanted to dissect the human mind of course it didn't actually topple over coz of Hannibal.

[ihaveanaxe]

Will: stop fucking biting my hand

Hannibal: oh so when your dogs do it they’re “teething” but when I do it I’m a “cannibal”

[pesky--dust]

We all are insane over this show and I love us.

It's have been four days already. We are only six days into this year guys.

[craqueluring]

re: this reddit post i found that discusses the idea that bedelia was too focused on being safe from hannibal, and that she neglected to consider the danger of actively provoking will (and his jealousy), who is just as dangerous. she did this by taunting him about how she was hannibal's wife, and with him "behind the veil" unlike will. OP says that bedelia seems like will's primary post-fall target because of this, and mentions the end credit scene of bedelia in TWOTL. (i really recommend reading their whole post! it was a very interesting observation and theory)

i am going to work with this idea that will is jealous of/angry at bedelia for her being in italy with hannibal instead of him (because will was supposed to be the one hannibal ran away with), and that the end credit scene of bedelia is reality.

i think there is significance to the fact that bedelia specifically had her leg (and most likely the rest of her limbs) cut off, cooked, and eaten by will and hannibal.

who is the only other person we have seen killed this way? gideon. why did hannibal want gideon dead in the first place? because gideon was effectively stealing hannibal's identity as the chesapeake ripper.

both gideon and bedelia were living lives that were not their lives to live. gideon falsely living as the chesapeake ripper, and bedelia falsely living as hannibal's companion, "behind the veil," in will's place.

i also thought it was interesting that in antipasto, the episode switches between the b&w flashback of hannibal cooking and eating gideon's limbs, and hannibal and bedelia's life in europe. i thought this could've been some subtle foreshadowing — as bedelia is living a life that wasnt hers to live, we see what happened to a man who was living a life that wasn't his to live.

as hannibal and gideon eat together, gideon learns about the real chesapeake ripper ("you were determined to know the chesapeake ripper, gideon. now is your opportunity"). i imagine that will and hannibal would do the same thing to bedelia. explaining their life together post-cliff, which what was supposed to happen post-mizumono, to bedelia who was in will's place, living a life that wasn't hers to live.

even further, i noticed that the painting changes in the room bedelia is in from the last time we see her in TWOTL (when will tells her his plan to fake hannibals escape) to the post-credit scene, which indicates that time has passed. so, they didnt instantly go to kill bedelia after the cliff. this time between the cliff and the post-credit scene could be the story of will and hannibal's life together that they explain to bedelia

so, bedelia gets the same treatment as gideon. they both get to see how it feels to (literally) have a part of them, their identity, their lives, taken from them. as they learn about the life they were stealing from the person whose life they were stealing. the divine punishment of a sinner mirrors the sin being punished.

[hannibal-is-my-comfort-show]

Thinking abt how Will and Hannibal are like that old myth where you can cure a werewolf by calling it by its Christian name, making it remember that their true self is human. Except, with them, Hannibal saw Will for who he truly was, allowing him to become the monster he was on the inside.

[lesbian-hannibal]

(x)

[midnightrain-and-cleandays]

“i love you”

“You shouldn’t “

“why?”

“because it’s dangerous”

“so am i”

[babylonqaf]

losing my shit over hannibal and will again because i felt like rewatching this show again

i cannot believe some people still don’t think it’s canon??? hannibal wants to fuck will so bad he baby traps him with a teenager within days of meeting him???

he stabs him for betraying him even though will literally told him to tun away??? will leaves his entire life for hannibal???

what more do you need? will clearly has been fighting himself and his morals (and his sexuality) from the start and hannibal has been coaxing him deeper into murdery (and gay) activities…

this show is three whole seasons of one man learning to accept himself and become who he is despite not wanting to be that person while his (not) therapist manipulates situations on the sidelines so he can have a boyfriend that gets him

[ineffably-graham]

more hannibal memes i made :)