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St. Sebastian Nursed By St. Irene, Giovanni-battista Caracciolo / Dolce, NBC Hannibal

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love how will graham told jack crawford yea I have the perfect plan to catch hannibal lecter. see it consists of me hanging out with him all the time drinking wine and having fancy dinners while indulging my own violent impulses. this is the only way jack we'll get him this time I prommy <3333

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some more hannigram fanart (2021) ((seggsy edition))

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buying bell peppers from the grocery store because i cant bring myself to eat the bell pepper im growing in my garden

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3x08 || 3x10

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‘They’ve been alone in the world until they recognized something in the other that made them feel not alone, which is as good a description of love as you can have, I suppose.’ ~ Hugh Dancy

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Hannibal, you had one job ://

companion comic -> here

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will if he used twitter in s1. most his followers are students or psychiatrists

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murder “husbands” is NOT real. neither of them would be able to answer the question properly

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first of all none of us could afford hannibal’s therapy

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Red Berries / Two Girls (Lovers) - Egon Shiele / Intimacy - Angelica Alzona / The Lovers -  Akseli Gallen-Kallela

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Home

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i have difficulty coming 2 grips with the fact that there is serious a piece of media that my mutuals seriously like surrounding a cannibal named fucking hannibal

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special smooches for good bois only

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That one second twitch on Hannibal’s face is due to cognitive and emotional empathy. Will is stabbed on the right side of his face and Han’s right cheek twitched. Hannibal was branded with hot iron, stabbed, beaten but he never projected an emotion. He reflects Will’s pain here because they are merged as one. Metaphysical love at its best.

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hannibalology required reading:

- aestheticism, evil, homosexuality, and hannibal: if oscar wilde ate people by geoff klock

- becoming: genre, queerness, and transformation by nbc's hannibal by kavita mudan finn & ej nielsen (with a foreword by janice poon)

- "hannibal redefined how we tell stories on television" by matt zoller seitz

- "hannibal as comedy: a queer approach to a queer approach to horror" by n.l. amalfi

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The intertextuality of the music choice in Hannibal is. Not subtle. In S1E7, Hannibal tears up during the final song at an opera concert (it’s in aid of hunger relief - I hate him).

The aria responsible is called “Piangerò la sorte mia” from the A3S1 of Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto / Julius Caesar in Egypt. The soprano is Cleopatra, who has just learnt that Tolomeo has defeated her in battle - how much I have lost in just one day, she sings, both my splendour and might, and Caesar, my beautiful god, probably dead. She reckons that she’s doomed, and historically, she is. In the Handel version, however, she and Caesar both survive, get married, and live happily ever after. Basically it’s an incredibly soppy piece of early 18th century operatic fix-it-fic for Hannibal to start weeping over.

Except. Cleopatra acts against the Egyptian people and allies herself to a man from Rome, who’s her natural enemy. Hannibal acts against his own interest by getting so close to Will, whose vocation unavoidably makes him Hannibal’s adversary. And it’s an opera, so the two blood-thirsty lovers survive, fall deeper in love, and change the world (or at least the geopolitical order of the ancient Mediterranean) to suit their own needs. What parallels could Hannibal possibly see between this story and what’s going on with Will and himself, right?

That’s bad enough. But this is also the episode in which Hannibal thinks that Will could have been violently killed and is very vocal about his relief that Will survived. Arguably, the delighted gasp he makes when Will turns up at his office almost unscathed is the very first uncalculated and unfiltered expression of emotion Hannibal makes in the entire show. And it mirrors the plot of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar’s love story absolutely perfectly.