#this fricken show

[ziocio]

Fan knew too much.

But there's something bigger than just that.

Where did he get the Mephone from?.. if it was the first time he ever went to Meeple in season 2 episode 8?..

He had these devices since the second episode (unless i missed smth in episode 1)

How did he get the phone? When? The laptop?

Cobs has been in control the whole time.

"It was generated by Mephone" No it wasn't. Soap's phone didn't disappear at the end of s2e17.

It's a real mephone. From Meeple.

Did he get it from Cobs?...

Not Cobs personally, just in general. Like it got shipped to him?..

Did Cobs.. want this?...

Was it a way for Cobs to keep an eye on the contestants and Mephone4 more closely??...

Fan constantly blogged. Online.

I'm sure Cobs could've seen them.

And.. if Cobs didn't personally send the phone to Fan himself.. did Mephone4 provide it?.. to keep the stereotype of Fan accurate?

I doubt Mephone4 would've.

The meeple phones are...

Really suspicious.

Cobs knows they're fake. Fake creations made by Mephone4. Why would he provide them internet access unless it were for his own gain.

Then Test Tube grants Fan his own original phone.

No longer associated with Meeple.

Their "rebellion" against the company after Fan lost his original phone.

This phone here is created with the tools Test Tube had. So it's fake compared to the realness of mephones.

So now they're no longer connected to Meeple on that fashion... but...

Speaking of the original phone...

Fan's original mephone was left on the Shimmers ship.

The mephones are very very important to the story in several ways.

In this scene, Fan wasn't even holding the phone when he dropped it.

It flung out of whatever invisible pocket he had.

This is either:

A. Left behind for the Shimmers to use in the finale

B1. Intense foreshadowing of Mephone4 going with the Shimmers

B2. Foreshadowing Mephone4's relationship with the shimmers

C. IF Cobs planned this from the start, the phone being on the Shimmers ship can cause chaotic karma.

No matter what happens.. Cobs truly was watching the whole time.

And the phones are always important.

Whether they're alive, like Mephone4, or not.

Also Soap possibly stole a phone from Meeple while she was there.

If that's true, then Cobs calling Soap a thief in that episode was crazy foreshadowing that she actually was a thief.

[love-songs-for-emma]

i think will knew he was special considering he tells hannibal he's all alone and that they're alone without each other. will understands that hannibal is alone even with all the other murderers he surrounds himself with, because he cannot find the same fulfillment in the company of others as he does with will because only will can see him and understand him and take away his loneliness.

hi anon ! thanks for sending this bc it's smth i've been meaning to expand on for awhile. i wrote a post many moons ago abt it and have another ask thats just been Waiting for a proper reply (srry!) and maybe now's the time to address it

okay so. i think this ask is in reference to my tags on a recent reblog, screencapped here for reference:

i think youre right that will is aware that he's special to hannibal, considering he's special enough to be one of the patients hannibal decides to try and coerce into their "Becoming." but! i do question will's understanding of the Depth of his uniqueness to hannibal.

in shiizakana (s2e9), after will finds out about randall tier having been hannibal's patient and margot visits him at home to chat abt hannibal's therapy, will has a bit of a stress fit in his next session:

pacing the room, avoiding the chair. he's questioning what he has in common with hannibal's other patients... he wonders how many others there have been – even bringing up his brief conversation with hannibal's own therapist who tells will he isnt in a particularly unique dynamic with hannibal

but. this is in shiizakana, 3 eps before the quote you're referencing. so let's move forward and see what's changed:

in tome-wan (s2e12), will finally gets to properly speak with the famed dr. du maurier and he asks how they can bring down hannibal. her only advice being

so. hannibal's got a bit of an ego (shocker). and during their next session,, things get a lil dicey. will leans hard into this idea. he essentially lists off all the work hannibal's done to get will to be entirely his

i'd like to argue that will doesn't see this list as a "why im special to hannibal" list but rather a way to stroke hannibal's ego, like bedelia had explicitly said would be hannibal's downfall. bc the fact is,, will Knows hannibal can and likely has done this level of insane shit to others. and narratively,, i'd say a lot of will's dialogue in this scene is influenced by bedelia's advice from the scene before where she advises will to stroke hanninal's whimsey and his need to feel Unique, even god-like. and hannibal even sees will seeing him!

so yeah will's saying "we're unique together," but that's also flattery on his part towards hannibal.! he's using hannibal's knowledge of his empathy to convince him that Only Will Gets Him. he's saying "yes ive been applying myself to your perspective and u are so unique and special." it's will manipulating BACK. (thats our powerful lil gay.) and i'd argue that all these layers of lies and deceit leave little room for truth and Feelings to leak through the cracks. how much of what hannibal says does will believe? how much of what will himself says does he believe?

all of this and we're still left questioning: does will know just how important and special he is to hannibal? well. i'l leave yall with some words from bedelia

[the-13th-battalion]

WELL HECK SOMEBODY GET ME A SHOOTING STAR SO I CAN STARE AT IT AND SMILE FONDLY AND SIGH "SASUKE" INTO THE WIND

[switch-bladefights]

i just watched psych 2x01 and shawn and gus performance of shout you are EVERYTHING TO ME

[fallingintheforest]

One of my favourite hc's I like to world-build is the idea that Lucien belongs to a super exclusive scholarly society.

It sounds dorky, but stay with me on this. This society holds access to powerful, protected texts long thought to be lost or forgotten. But the catch with this is that members are not able to use that knowledge for personal gain

There is no straight forward way to join. Instead, the group—or perhaps, the magic that binds the knowledge and rules within the society itself—chooses its members. Anyone can be selected—whether they are a high fae or lesser—because the magic doesn’t care about status; it cares about the worthiness of the individual to protect texts and their ability to contribute to the base of knowledge.

I imagine that Lucien was chosen by the magic when he was fairly young. I think that Lucien likely never told anyone about this, except perhaps Jesminda.

There is a way for Fae outside of the society to gain access to the protected texts, and that's through a bargain. The bargain that is required comes at a high price. Its never more than what a fae is able to offer but it's enough that most do not attempt it for fear of the cost required. Even more, the scholar summoned by the bargain can still choose to deny whether to provide the information if they find the seeker unworthy.

Now imagine, the HL's are in dire straits and decide to bargain with the scholars for information from a powerful text, then boom Lucien shows up like, whats good y'all??

[malevolentmissmouse43]

For future reference, any Rudy specific hate/shade sent to my inbox will immediately be deleted.

Kindly keep it to yourself or go somewhere else. I don’t want to see it.

[clumsyghosts]

Numb3rs: I want The 5th Man, Angels and Devils, and Hangman meta.

I want to read about how Charlie shut down when Don was shot at in the first episode and retreated to P vs NP just as he did when his mother was dying; when Don is stabbed he becomes obsessed with uncovering a serial killer.

His solace is in his math work.

When Amita is kidnapped, Charlie can't focus. He can't work, he can't pull the algorithms or concentrate on the data, so he retreats - not into his work, but to his other safe space: Don. He seeks comfort from his brother physically when he's prevented from seeing what he believes is Amita's body. Emotionally, he can't stay in the conference room where all the math takes place, so he goes to the bullpen, in Don's cubicle, Don's space, until Don comes to talk to him.

Until Don saves him from himself, like he has his entire life.

I wish more GIFs were made of these episodes. There are so many good moments.

[a-penchant-for-the-lethe]

I'm watching Supernatural for the first time and it's actually so adorable. No spoilers cuz I'm only on s2 e9 but like how come I didn't even know Sam was a character? Like I've heard a lot about this show but I knew more about some angel dude I haven't even met yet (Cassian?) than I did about the main character. I seriously didn't know he existed. I thought Dean was like the main guy ™️ and his brother was some dude lmao that's crazy

[scavengerssuccotash]

Reminiscing on Clint and Vents ™️

To my knowledge the entire Clint in vents trope in domestic Avengers fics is not founded in any canon reason or instance (I believe our first introduction to Clint even ever being INSIDE a vent is from the Black Widow movie when Nat and Yelena are in that vent in Budapest) which isn’t to say that it’s a bad thing (headcannons are quite literally the bread and butter of fandom culture, but I think when taken meta textually this trope highlights a glaring problem with Clint Barton and Hawkeyes introduction and characterization throughout the MCU.

Which is to say his introduction and characterization was so botched by the hands of Marvel and their inability to juggle a multi-character story without picking favorites (probably corporate meddling to increase merchandise sales) that we literally had nothing to go on as far as his character at the end of Avengers. Zilch. Nothing. Nada. We had Nat and the scorching chemistry between Scarjo and Jeremy but that was it! And because of that we resorted to hand waving that the guy just climbed in vents because he like Obi-Wan likes the high ground. Like—

Think about it. We all already had a pop culture knowledge and in some instance entire movies about Thor, Tony Stark, Hulk (the old version), and Captain America. And even in those movies we had knowledge and an on screen portrayal of: Black Widow, Loki, fuck even Bucky. And yeah sure Hawkeye had a cameo in Thor but did we really get anything about his character on the same level that we got of Black Widow, Loki and Bucky that they got in their respective supporting roles? No. We got his smart mouth and Jeremy’s perfect acting.

And then the Avengers, where he’s brainwashed 98% of the movie?

Yeah it’s no fricken wonder the whole Clint in Vents trope was a thing in domestic Avengers fics—

We.

Literally.

Had.

Crumbs!

This isn’t a bashing of the trope of course but merely an opportunity to highlight just how butchered Hawkeyes introduction was and how Marvel utterly dropped the ball with such a wonderful character.

(And Jeremy Renner deserved better)

Anyway read more Clint Barton centered fics. They are great.

And for the love of god let that man out of the vents!

[martianbugsbunny]

Are you seriously telling me that all of that work happened just to separate Zeb from Kallus.

I used Zeb's appearance in the Mandalorian as a reason he would definitely show up again! "Oh, why would they put all that effort and time and money into creating a live-action model for him if he was only going to appear in the Mandalorian briefly and then not be in the Ahsoka show, aka Rebels Season 5? That would be ridiculous!" Yeah keep laughing past-Martian, it did go down like that. I thought there had to be some deeper reason he was there, like setting the groundwork to appear again later, because why would he be pulled away from a pretty conclusive happy ending in Rebels just for some two-bit meaningless cameo in a show he had no connection to? Where's the logic in that? How does that make any sense? But no. That's all it was. And on damn top of it all, Kallus was never mentioned once in Ahsoka. Not once. Zeb is inexplicably away from Lira San with a job training recruits with no explanation as to how he decided to do it or how long he's been doing it or if Kallus is with him or even if Kallus is still alive.

All that time and effort was put the hell into trying to create a version of Zeb post-Rebels where he is explicitly not living on Lira San and there is no Kallus by his side.

[whereismyhat5678]

can you draw Werner werman x dr kahl with their robots please?

To whoever sent this WEEKS ago, I am so sincerely sorry-

I FINALLY GOT TO ANSWER IT BUT I’M SORRY FOR MAKING YOU WAIT-

Also about their robots- I really didn’t know how I would make them fit so I just drew them together separately…and-

The background still looks bad to me but ZAM DID I HAVE FUN DRAWING KAHL’S ROBOT- and Katzenwagen was fun too, he’s adorable 🫶

[vague-mintyboy]

I HAVE A MINI THEORY

In Season 2, I was wondering why Steve wasn’t questioning the “gifts” from Cesare, but in Down/Up he’s confused about why he was captured and I realized- the Zombie vs Clown rivalry probably started after Steve was shot into the center of the earth. The earth is only 4 billion years old and it seems like the zombies live underground, so that already seems like they are younger than the Clowns. Cesare retiring after only a thousand years while Steve spent millions of years being on Cats on plant Broadway (this is a bizarre paragraph out of context XD). So most likely Steve missed the whole memo and didn’t fully realize why Cesare was after him.

[rocketturtle4]

No thoughts just...

[hall0wedwyrm]

MY BRAIN IS SHUTTING OFF IM VIBRATING I CANT DO THIS I CANT IM DIYTDDTI GUYS GUYSS GUYS. IM IM IM AADGKDTKTSKSKT

OCTOBER 25th OCTOBER 25TH PUT IT IN YOUR CALENDARS HOLY COOOOWWWW

[glacymash45]

The Core in Amphibia in a nutshell(In my opinion)

Seriously, The Core is awesome and I feel bitter about how the story made it a footnote.

[keeps-ache]

they are in arizona :)