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I posted my thoughts on the panel on Twitter, so figured I'd copy and paste them over here:

So the #HannibalReunion2024 panel was lovely.

Interestingly they mentioned the usual thing of how if there's a season 4 it'll need to be in the next 2-3 years

And there was a moment where Hugh Dancy got really like wink wink nudge nudge about it by bringing it up unrelated out of the blue with how he wondered how differently the characters might dress, and was weirdly coy in a way that suggested they might know more than they're letting on.

Which is something I'd usually consider as looking too much into it if I hadn't just watched it live myself lmao

So I guess we'll know for sure in the next 2-3 years, which is what I have always assumed.

But they were so silly and sweet, their rapport is still amazing, and it confirmed my thoughts that they'd still be able to play the characters without issue.

And I really can't wait to see Dust Bunny.

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Hannibal reunion is coming up!

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I was too impatient to wait 'til tomorrow, so chapter two is now up!

Character development, gallery work and rope bondage, oh my!

Original Work - Steel & Embers

Following my Hannigram fanfiction Adagio ovvero Largo. I decided to put some of that smutty queer kink energy into writing an original short story!

My hope is that if folks enjoy it, these characters and their dynamic, I'll keep adding to it.

The story is about a young, kink-curious guy who finds himself quite out of his depth when going to meet a stranger from a hook-up app, an older and charismatic but cold domineering gentleman who is clearly more experienced.

It features a fun little dynamic twist ending epilogue!

Note: This is adult fiction not intended for anyone under the age of 18, please heed the tags.

I hope you enjoy it.

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The thing about writing trans characters is that it is 100% guaranteed that at least a few trans people are going to be unhappy with whatever you write — not necessarily through any fault of your own, though that is certainly a possibility, but because there is such a dearth of trans representation in general.

Trans people are hungry and we’ve mostly been getting by on crumbs. I’m not saying that there are NO media with trans characters, but you have to admit that there are not a lot of really good things to read/watch/consume that have trans characters (and this is without getting into the question of whether or not those characters or the media they’re presented in cater to your particular tastes!)

^ This is usually the real problem. Certain genres and mediums have it worse, too! Think about how expensive it is to make movies or TV shows and how many people you have to get approval from and how many people need to be hired and paid to make one that makes it to cable, streaming services, or theaters, as an example.

Books and comics give us more to choose from in part because the barrier to pushing one out into the world is lower, though still not as much as I would like.

Personally, I want to make a TV show, but I can’t. So, I’m making the story into a comic that could maybe get adapted someday. This brings us close to my point:

Two of the protagonists (and many more of the side characters) in my current project are canonically trans. To some people, these two will be refreshing / the representation that they have been waiting to see for AGES. Those people will feel like they are being presented with a feast. To others, it will feel like being handed an empty plate and told to eat up. Those people are not wrong and I will not take it personally. The way that my writing makes them feel will be extremely real and undeniably valid.

What I want fellow writers to understand is that these feelings are not always going to be the fault of the individual author of the individual project that inspired these feelings (with the caveat that it does kind of suck when a new fictional trans person turns out to be exactly like all the other crumbs we’ve been forced to call a feast.) The people you make angry by breaking away from the norm could simply be mad because they’re used to feeling seen rather than because you've done something terrible.

People will be angry if a trans character is conventionally attractive or if they aren’t. They’ll be angry if you make the character pre-everything, non-op, HRT only, 10 years into a “do everything” transition, fat, thin, tall, short, etc. They’ll be angry if you make the character gay, straight, bi, pan, aro, ace -- I could keep going, but I won’t.

My point is that while you should definitely take the reasoning behind the anger your work may inspire into consideration and you should ABSOLUTELY remain critical of your own work if you want it to be the best it could possibly be...

You also have to be aware that you CANNOT please everyone, especially not with a single trans character in isolation, and you should not work yourself half to death trying to meet some imaginary guidelines of what “good” representation is, because it doesn’t exist.

"Good representation" means something different to everyone.

Also, someone already made basically what I was trying to express in this post but better and also in a single image:

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Hannibal (2013-2015)

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the thing that’s really funny about s1 Will is how he feels like The Dangerous Guy being around Hannibal

like Edward feels around Bella

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Hannibal S01E08 "Fromage"

Bonus:

Will trying to get a closer look at Hannibal's wounds and pretending he wasn't looking when Hannibal turns to him

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chilton : will graham likes taking lives just as much as he likes saving them. he likes playing god~

will graham disassociating: man i really love fishing! i wish i could do this all day

me: this man justs wants to fishhhh ~ let him fisshhhhh why is he hereee

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Bryan to Hugh…

‘I remember after, like on the day that you were shooting the inserts on stage for the close-ups, before I had seen the dailies you both came running up to me, and Mads was particularly giddy, where he’s like, “we really went for it, we really went to the love story, we almost kissed and it’s all there and you can use it.” Mads was giddy, giddy, giddy, giddy as a school girl about how far the homoeroticism has been pushed.’ ~ Bryan Fuller

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Literally this. The man has had a 6-7 season plan from day one.

The only reason I think a S4 would still work and not ruin the finale we already have is because Fuller's clearly been thinking about S4 for the last eight fucking years so that man must have a whole story in his head down to the details and I trust him to execute that story as beautifully as he did for three seasons.

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They’re on the run :]

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('v`ｂ)

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Let's go team throw up! Our time is now! By which I mean several hours away and I already feel like I'm going to vomit

I'd be tempted to liveblog the panel but I'll be too busy openly weeping

No matter what happens, this is a gift and we just have to go with the flow

Personally with Mads still making Dust Bunny with Bryan Fuller, and Bryan not being a guest, I don't believe we'll get any sort of announcement

But it'll all be good no matter what

Just to see these boys back together again, for the fans

I'm not team "announce season 4" or team "never make a season 4"

I'm team "this panel is going to make me throw up"

Can I get a hell yeah from all my nervous autistic friends who become overwhelmed by things they like

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If only he’d kept flipping the pages to get to all the nudes, fantasies of them making out and hearts doodled in the margins …

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You’re in his DM’s, I’m incorrectly drawing clocks in his office while I don’t notice him staring at me with barely contained lust