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"I asked Grok.""I asked Chat gpt." ok, well, i asked Sam winchester, and he said,"So get this...

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googling shit like "why do i feel bad after hanging out with my friends" and all of the answers are either "you need better friends" (i don't; my friends are wonderful) or "your social battery is drained, you need to rest and regain your energy levels" (i don't; i've got tons of energy, it's just manifesting as over-the-top neurotic mania). why is this even happening. it's like some stupid toll i have to pay as a punishment for enjoying myself too much

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Reblog daily for health and prosperity

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...So no Cannibalism?

[Check out the trailer and wishlist Mandrake on Steam!]

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【enjoltaire Middle Earth AU 】

 Dol Amroth swan-knights! Enjolras x deserted Harad soldier! Grantaire

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The tides of Belfalas crashed into his soul; for the first time in his life, Grantaire felt alive.

"I do not believe in liberty, or justice, or the will of the free peoples. I believe in you."

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It’ll come, it’ll come.

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my hottest take

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...so I may have gone a tiny bit insane rewatching NBC's 'Hannibal,' and decided to redraw promo images for the show as fanart of Scrollon and Everette (made by Brightgoat and e40536, respectively) :)

The butterfly next to Scrollon is a Pink Rose, the one next to Everette is an Emerald Swallowtail, the shoulder bug is just a random cybernetic-looking bug, and the dragonfly is just supposed to be a generic red dragonfly.

(It wasn't intentional but like. Red Dragonfly = Red Dragon like the Hannibal book)

Based on these two promos respectively:

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Also wanted to draw Cinna here too, and found the perfect bit of dialogue between Hannibal and Alana Bloom in Season 3 :)

S: "...and if I were to escape in earnest, and come to kill you?"

C: "You'd do it the first chance you get, I assume."

S: "You died in my kitchen that night, Cinna. Every. Moment. Since. Is borrowed."

(Slightly altered dialogue, but it's from Season 3, Episode 13 of 'Hannibal.')

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Aaaand also drew Scrollon with bug features because of the whole 'Will sees Hannibal with shadowy deer features' thing, so why not have some shadowy bug features as how Everette may see him sometimes?

(alt text for the text next to the shadowy one)

^ This was actually made before the other three images lol.

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Scrollon (Pink Addison) and Cinnamon (Yellow Addison) belong to @brightgoat

Everette (Green Addison) belongs to @e40536

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Very late and almost not valid participation to barricade week ! This was so fucking fun I literally just blacked out and the illustration appeared. Forgive the many mistakes I'm noticing as we speak it is wayyy too late I should be snuggled up in bed snoring rn

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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 reason why NBC’s Hannibal found such a huge female audience is because Fuller’s/Mads’ Lecter is not a male power fantasy: he’s a female power fantasy.

He’s not a broody snippy git whose appeal is assumed apriori and who in real life would drive away absolutely everyone he met (e.g. any sad manboy ever trotted out as a lead by Moffat).

He’s not an “aspirational” over-muscled hulk.

He’s not a fighter for ‘truth’ or ‘justice’ for whom bodies are just collateral on his path to heroic self-actualization

This Hannibal is the Head Bitch In Charge.

He is independent to the n-th degree. He lives to please himself and no one else. He is fabulous. He shamelessly geeks out over obscure and refined pastimes and shares them with friends. He is the Queen Bee of his social circle. He takes any excuse to treat himself, but he also has perfect self-discipline: gym is not optional. His time-management skills are superhuman. He can decorate and keep a house like Martha Stewart, hold down several jobs, and practice multiple hobbies daily.

(And what are his hobbies, aside from slaughter? Cooking, foreign languages, drawing, playing musical instruments and composing. And clearly clothes shopping. He is probably on first-name basis with the best tailors and cordwainers in town. Contrast with Will, whose hobbies are stereotypically masculine: fixing motor boats, fishing, playing outside with his dogs.)

Hannibal is not young, but he wears his age gracefully. He regrets nothing, like an embodiment of Piaf’s “Non, rien de rien”. His hair is perfect because he clearly spends time in front of the mirror styling it, not because the show’s producer wanted him to look effortlessly cool (*cough*Sherlock*cough*).

He never, ever loses his temper in public, as if he knows that the world/audience will not fawn over him for trying to assert himself through vulgarity, posturing, or volume - all the typical ways in which men like to hijack and dominate conversations.

He can dispatch a creepy stalker like Franklyn with a single neck twist, with no consequences. A sweet fantasy, indeed. If only real life stalkers were so easy to dispose of.

Hannibal’s victims - those who were not killed in self-defense or as ‘murder presents’ for Will - tend to fall into two categories: other killers who act like *they* are the baddest bitches in town (Gideon, Tobias, the mural guy) and people who disrespect him. Of those, there are surprisingly many. In fact, it seems like the very esteemed pillar of Baltimore society Dr. Lecter goes through life constantly being dissed. This is rather puzzling. Hannibal is a tall good-looking white gentleman who speaks like a professor, dresses like a count, and drives a Bentley that costs more than people’s houses. And yet something about him prompts many people, especially in the service industry, to be rude to him.

But he doesn’t confront these “pigs” (already a gender-loaded term, even though it gets applied to victims of both sexes) in a head-on, macho way. Instead, he bides his time and dispatches his prey through some kind of a sneak attack. His preferred philosophy of fighting is “feminine”: assume your opponent is physically stronger and don’t try to out-muscle them. (Even if his opponent is much smaller and weaker, like Chilton.) Subterfuge, ambush, sedatives - Hannibal wins his fights by fighting on his own terms. Nevertheless, if a man should come at him with a weapon, he defends himself with perfect adroitness: Tobias, Jack, Mason’s henchmen, etc.

Even some aspects of Hannibal’s relationship with Will would make more sense if he were female. In particular the issue of, well, issue. Hannibal is clearly Not Okay with Will having children with anyone but him. This is somewhat odd for a man, especially one who seems to have never wanted kids before this. But it makes sense for a woman just past menopause: fate finally delivered her dream partner, but it’s too late to have a family. And so Hannibal sets up the dominoes for Margot’s pregnancy to be terminated practically as soon as he learns of it. If he can’t have Will’s kids, then no one can. They may be adopted, but they have to be *theirs*.

It also makes sense that when Hannibal discovers Will’s treachery, he goes full Medea on him. Killing the man’s children is common to cultural narratives of wronged women all over the world. It’s often the only leverage they have over the men, the only way they can exact revenge. Hannibal can take much more than Abigail from Will, but she is the only thing he can take that truly matters.

Bonus exercise for the reader: imagine a version of the show where everything is the same, but Hannibal is played by Meryl Streep.

Or even just swap Mads Mikkelsen & Gillian Anderson places. Let her be Hannah Lecter; let him be Dr. Bennett Du Maurier, her wary shrink. Both the characterization and plot still work almost 100%.

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Continue✨ Keep going✨

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"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.

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You can survive almost anything through the right combination of:

Bitching and moaning

Hater-ology

Doing a goofy little bit about it

Having a buddy say "that's so fucked up" at intermittent points (you can also be your own buddy)

Destroying the cursed amulet you carry everywhere, why do you even have that thing

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Blogging this tweet because this explains SO MUCH about the mindset of pretty much all the folks I’ve known who’re against single-payer, it’s not even funny…