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happy 2 year spiderverseary

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In truth, kind people are Will Graham's weakness. After their first encounter, Will doesn't want anything to do with Hannibal. But Hannibal barges in—with homemade food. Due to how their previous conversation went, Will is more offensive with his words now; he's rude, waspish, unsociable—not giving him a second chance. Hannibal, in contrast, is docile, placating, and reconciliatory—forcibly moulding a second chance. He takes Will's side this time instead of playing with him, telling him Jack is wrong to think him fragile. Then the greatest manipulation: he saves Abigail (even though he is the cause of her current predicament). He takes charge of first aid especially when Will is failing, he accompanies her in the ambulance, and then he SLEEPS or "sleeps" next to her sickbed. Hannibal successfully manufactures his second chance. Will is impressed, now respects Hannibal, and sort of trusts him—all because he's kind, seemingly contrary to his first impression. Following this, Hannibal remains exceedingly kind towards Will throughout season 1. Weaponised compassion, that's how he snares him.

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Lestat de Lioncourt & Louis de Pointe du Lac INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE — “Like Angels Put in Hell by God”

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still so insane to me that the term “murder husbands” was used in canon. freddie lounds was just straight up calling them gay in the newspaper.

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he's just fine!

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something something memory is a monster and how somehow the two ppl who are the most on claudia’s side are the guy who killed her and the guy who never met her

bc while her fathers are so stricken by grief and guilt and their own emotions that they are constantly sidelining her neglecting her projecting onto her making her play a role, on the other hand!!!!!! armand knew exactly what he was doing making her be baby lulu!!!! but lestat did the SAME EXACT THING to her treating her like a doll except HE was totally sincere and couldn’t even comprehend why she was unhappy

and daniel being the one to stand up for her and say no claudia would not have hesitated to burn lestat!!! even while louis’s guilt will do anything to block out his memories of how he failed her daniel won’t let him, even tho daniel himself is a deadbeat dad who was constantly failing HIS daughters

like. in some ways armand and daniel are able to see her with the most clarity bc they have the least grief. and for louis and lestat their grief over losing their daughter actually is the epitome of memory is a monster like OK BUT THAT ISNT UR DAUGHTER. THATS A MIRAGE. THATS A FANTASY. THATS BABY LULU.

also obv armand being the only one who can understand her on the level of “child vampire” and how a lot of his hatred and disdain for her doesn’t come from a place of actual hatred but more like. the detached contempt of putting down a sick dog that doesn’t know it’s sick. it’s not about her either. it’s about the laws about how he believes she’s a mistake just like he was a mistake and she will suffer just like he’s suffered and he’s putting her out of her misery. he’s able to write off taking her life bc “oh well it’s a mercy killing, she’s inherently broken (like i am)” instead of seeing her as a fully actualized person who HAS AGENCY AND CONTROLS HER OWN NARRATIVE AND DOESNT HAVE TO FOLLOW THE CYCLE!!!!!!

like. insanity. her parents should have protected her but they didn’t. the person who probably could have understood claudia the most in the world (armand) and therefore SHOULD have protected her from what he went through decided to repeat the cycle and that taking away her agency was for her own good and her death didn’t really mean anything bc she was doomed anyway. the guy who’s reading her diaries and scavenging between the lines for hints about who she was is too late to ever hear her voice

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Sitting here thinking about how EVERYONE in Interview with the Vampire read Claudia’s diary. Seeing how upset she was with Lestat and Louis back in New Orland in season 1 for touching her diary, and knowing that not only has Louis allowed Daniel and Armand - someone who, while he didn’t know the full extent of Armand’s role in the trial, he DID know that Armand was a part of the coven that held the trial - to read her journals, he also went through and EDITED OUT THE PARTS THAT MADE HIM LOOK BAD/UPSET HIM. Not only did the men in her lives feel entitled to her body, but also her mind and experiences. This girl - who Louis claimed to love and did love, even if it was a toxic sort of love, who Lestat loathed and only really loved after her death which he helped cause, and who Armand was supposed to protect under the coven - was never allowed freedom to just exist. She was always someone else’s and never her own. When she finally had someone, she was killed for it. Claudia with no true last name, you deserved so much better.

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A quick coloured scetch of Ulrich because he’s so pwetty and I really like him

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kevin i miss him very much

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one of my favorite things about nbc Hannibal is that Hannibal is meant to be a polyglot, a renaissance man, brilliant, fluent in a dozen languages and excessively educated. and yet he is played by a chain-smoking Danish himbo who didn’t know what half his lines meant ❤️

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"I'd like to resume my therapy."

Hannibal S2E07 Yakimono

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hi hello here's my catalog for ANIME EXPO, JUL 3 -6!

i'm artist alley table c39 with a mix of brand new and finely aged brainworms :)c it's my very first (and probably last lmao) time tabling, so come visit if you like! see ya then yahooo

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Claudia de lioncourt

Happy father day to this little dad killer!

Commission based on leyendecker painting

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reminiscing on when i went cave diving a couple years back & another dude who was in there was playing minecraft music out of his backpack so i just heard c418 slowly approaching me from within an actual cave. shoutout to that guy

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