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will graham in every episode: 1x01 - Apertif

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make me choose  -  @tomatthefarm​ asked -  season 1, 2, or 3 will graham?

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Mood: Will Graham.

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You know, I was thinking about Hannibal’s insistence on Will using his hands. I mean, that was practically an arc in and of itself. It got me to thinking about how Will habitually uses guns. They’re impersonal, etc. And I’m thinking it’s important to note that Will WANTS to treat weapons as tools. He WANTS to distance himself. Certainly, that’s for different reasons at different times, but the point still stands.

But forgiveness isn’t a gun, not to Will. Forgiveness is a blade. And that’s very important for me to note.

Hannibal would never use a gun. It’s not that I don’t think he could, per se. In fact I have every confidence that Hannibal probably knows how to use one, at least theoretically. But I don’t think it’s just pretentiousness that keeps Hannibal from using one, and I don’t think it’s just a sadism thing. It has to do with it being personal.

Hannibal’s aunt (who is mentioned in the show), Lady Murasaki, is Japanese. She’s the one who Hannibal inherits the armor from, and the swords. And man, there is TRADITION there. How and when you clean a sword. How you treat the sword generally. You bow to the sword. (I’m not kidding–we still do this in iaido. You bow to the lowliest cheap bokken like mine or the genuine samurai katana my sensei has. Even in kendo, where the sword is bamboo and not a real katana, you still don’t step over it, lean it with its tip on the ground, or point it at someone you don’t intend to fight. The idea that it is a part of you and representative of your actions is very real.) If the katana is on your hip, you have a hand on it. If it’s not on your hip, it’s never more than five feet from you. That sword was probably blessed by one or more priests and prayed over during its forging. A sword was said to contain part of a samurai’s soul. Lady Murasaki was fully aware of that and cleaned the armor and the swords religiously, and passed that knowledge on to Hannibal.

So what I’m saying is, Hannibal was made aware of these myths and blade traditions at a young age. No wonder, then, that he so clearly prefers knives and hands over anything that puts distance between himself and the act of killing itself. No wonder he pushes Will to abandon them, if to Hannibal, Will’s heart, Will’s SOUL was so clearly not in the act.

Not to mention–this makes Will’s method of forgiveness in Dolce that much more interesting. Forgiveness is a blade, to Will. It’s safe to say his heart is in it.

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In her book Precarious Life, Judith Butler makes extensive use of Levinas’s notion of “the face of the Other,” which serves, for Levinas, as the locus of ethics. As Levinas puts it, “The face of the other in its precariousness and defenselessness, is for me at once the temptation to kill and the call to peace, the ‘You shall not kill.’” Unlike the many ethical systems that advocate beginning with the self and then extrapolating out to include an Other (epitomized, again, by the Golden Rule), Levinas begins with the reverse presumption—that “the other’s right to exist has primacy over my own, a primacy epitomized in the ethical edict: you shall not kill, you shall not jeopardize the life of the other.” The face of the Other delivers this edict, which can be understood as a kind of divine imperative. “If the Other, the Other’s face… at once tempts me with murder and prohibits me from acting upon it, then the face operates to produce a struggle for me, and establishes this struggle at the heart of ethics.”

 — Maggie Nelson, The Art of Cruelty (Butler excerpt here)

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All I can see here is Will seriously contemplating the idea of kissing Hannibal.

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Hugh Dancy: Sundance 2011 [x]

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Filson Limited Edition Collection

In a celebration of its trademark Cruiser Shirt, originally worn by brave adventurers during the Klondike Gold Rush and patented in 1914, Filson is releasing a limited edition of 222 pieces along with its 1922 Sleeve Vest. The garments come in an exclusive wooden box accompanied by historical documents about their origins.

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More Hannigram Addams Family AU, as requested by @somebodyhelpthenotdeadfreds. Inspired by this post.

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will + smiles

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