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This is what hieroglyphs and figures in ancient Egyptian temples looked like before their colors faded. They were recreated using a polychromatic light display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, following thorough research.

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Three Together via NASA APOD

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Me when I want to begin a contentious divorce from my wife, Reality

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Chloë Sevigny photographed by Nadia Lee Cohen for The Cut

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I wanna talk about Hannibal’s white and red suit in his memory palace in season 3 episode 13.

It appeared on screen for like .5 seconds but it is my favorite outfit because it represents Hannibal so well.

White is a color representative of honesty, goodness and innocence. But also neutrality and peace. That’s the person suit Hannibal wears on the outside. It’s the image he shows the world. The good doctor, always calm and collected.

But the shirt and tie mostly obscured by the suit are a deep red. The color of blood he has spilled - the monster beneath the person suit. But also the colour of passion. Beneath the person suit Hannibal is passionate and irrational and emotional, he burns for Will, he aches for him and his passion is as all consuming as fire.

The red also reminds me of the heart Hannibal left for Will in the same chapel - the heart he usually wears hidden beneath his clean person suit, the heart he had left out in the open only for Will.

And of course the second important aspect of a white suit (especially in the context of a chapel): wedding attire. Especially combined with an earlier season 3 scene that looks as if Will is walking down the altar towards Hannibal.

And it’s also important that this white suit appears in the last episode is season 3. In the scene Hannibal and Will are lighting votive candles - candles that are lit as offerings when praying for oneself or for someone.

Now the way I see it there are two possible interpretations:

1. This is the only time Hannibal truly prays - the dragon is believed to be dead and this is his last chance to keep Will. Will is perhaps praying for the same thing - a reason to stay. A reason to choose Hannibal. Or maybe the strength to let go once and for all.

2. They are praying to each other, lighting candles as offerings to each other. Because they are gods to each other, the only gods the other will ever worship. They are praying to their gods to show them mercy, to let them go or to keep them. Maybe both, maybe neither.

And this is the episode Will finally fully yielded. The episode he chose Hannibal. The episode he and Hannibal finally unite. Their prayers, perhaps the only prayers they had ever offered were answered.

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The blood-soaked, Hannibal, with his shirt sleeves rolled up, his hair perfectly mussed in his face double wielding knives and lunging at a door in Mizumono makes me go FERAL

Like this fandom appreciates unhinged Will and soft Hannibal plenty but this is an unhinged Hannibal appreciation post.

Like look at this man:

Also the little “In the pantry”? I can’t, I just can’t. he’s so silly

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not normie enough to fit in but not fringe enough to lean into being a freak, worst of both worlds, pure liminality, just the weird coworker, and unrelatable classmate. and your mutual

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do you guys wanna see my favorite video on the internet yes you do

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oh boy I sure do love playing of the devil-- wait what

who the hell is that

oh well. im sure it's fine

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oh boy I sure do love playing of the devil-- wait what

who the hell is that

oh well. im sure it's fine

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Oh on the hannibal/will and Margot/Alana parallels. This is probably nothing and I KNOW the characters aren’t who they are because of trauma exclusively and nothing made them, but simultaneously I do think it’s obtuse to ignore the influence of nurture, traumas, etc especially as triggers/accelerators to nature. Interesting that hannibal and Margot are who they are/had their becoming at an early age from early childhood traumatic experiences and have been who they are for a long time, while will and Alana are thrust into their nature/becoming through later adult traumatic experiences. Fundamental differences between early and late bloomers.

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my rooster doesn’t crow when the sun rises, he crows when he hears humans wake up, like you can literally just roll over in bed and he’s like “hoLY SHIT THAT’S A PEOPLE THE HUMAN ISAWAKE AHHH AHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

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something like that

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I hate when people ask me about my preference but I don’t understand their preference level. Like yes I kinda want Chinese food 10% more than I want a sandwich but if you want a sandwich like 40% more than Chinese food then I would say it’s totally reasonable we get sandwiches.

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There's something so heart clenching about Hannibal after he turned himself in I can't quite pinpoint.

Idk, it looks like the sight of a man who's lost everything to love, even though he does even that with dignity and majesty.

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Me Giving a Pressed Conference: our advocacy for the disabled must include the addict, the imperfect victim, those we despise; the right to autonomy and life cannot devolve into a popularity contest

Reporter I Hate (Not Sexual Tension): Does that include all the attendees of the Bored Ape NFT event who went blind

Me: *Blood streaming from my nostrils and eyes* david, it includes everyone