#--ship: hannigram

[paperlignes]

Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter Hannibal (2013-2015)

[samd1o1]

My experience with queer media lately:

[givemeureyes]

day 1 without ao3: i have gone through all 5 stages of grief multiple times and have invented a 6th. i will not disclose what the 6th stage of grief is.

[duchess-of-new-shire]

Love ships where its like some guy with autism and his special interest is his wife

[peppermintquartz]

I want them comfortably married and happy and bickering over their morning beverages and also I want them to fuck nasty on the living room floor because they can't wait another second

[bebx]

“this ship is not canon” babe, they’re fictional characters. they’re not real. they’re literally dolls we play with. we don’t care about whether or not these fictional characters’ love story is canon in this piece of media that is also entirely based on fiction. I mean, sure, canon would be lovely, but it’s a bonus. it’s not necessary. what we care about is the fun of talking about these 2 idiots being in love.

we don’t give a fuck if they didn’t kiss in “canon”. they had raw sex in thousands of fics about them though. and I’d say that’s more than enough to make people who ship them happily ship them even harder. happy shipping!

[sharlinefreire]

sometimes what you need to get out of a deep depression is to start shipping a fictional couple that encourages you to read fanfiction until 3 am.

[sketchyface]

Guy who says “it’s my first time” before getting stabbed

[sscarletvenus]

i love unrequited love, i love blind devotion, i love guard dogs. i love being desperately obsessed with the object of your affections. i love when devotion rots into cruelty, i love when love doesn't know any better, i love when love is ugly. i love defanging and declawing yourself just to be loved. i love when a character will wait for the next time they will be loved like a bird or a dog at their beloved’s door. i love when love is insanity and by the LORD do i love betting on losing dogs

[hugh-lauries-bald-spot]

i feel like this is relevant to a lot of ships

[paperlignes]

hannibal lecter and will graham, hannibal (2013-2015) / litany in which certain things are crossed out, richard siken (2005)

[evilkaeya]

the best kind of ships are the ones where the characters make their relationship everyone's problem

[thefabledpheasant]

I only just finished Hannibal and I already have a deep affection for the team behind this show. They didn’t call their audience crazy for Hannigram ships and they didn’t deny the obvious on screen tension/chemistry between the two male leads. They agreed with it.

Bryan Fuller said he didn’t intend them to be romantic but it naturally evolved that way and to not address it would be inauthentic. Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy pitched the idea of a kiss. Don Mancini was always about having more “homosexual text”.

And this is what artists do. They don’t give a shit if it’s gay or straight, they care that it’s authentic.

It’s just such a breath of fresh air to watch a show with an mlm ship that didn’t originally intend any romance and then not be homophobic or defensive about it. Even though, realistically, that should be the bare minimum.

[suchawrathfullamb]

The problem with thinking Hannibal loved any other character besides Will (and Mischa) is that he literally destroyed his whole life, his carefully crafted life and security and comfort and freedom and EVERYTHING, because he felt love for Will. He lost his mind. It's not something that would happen if he was used to the feeling of love. He might like, or even respect some people, but love? This doesn't really add up to his own behavior. He tried to REVERSE TIME. REVERSE TIME. This is a guy who never thinks he's wrong or tends to justify his wrong doings, and he regretted what he did just because he couldn't have Will. He never felt this for anyone else. He literally ATE his own SISTER because he loved her and that made him feel weak and vulnerable. I don't think he comes even close to loving anyone else. He might find them interesting and pleasant to be around some times, and even cares about them to some degree, like Abigail, but he only cared because he projected Mischa unto her and because she was a mediator between him and Will and his fantasies about having a family, but love?? LOVE??

[sillylittleg00ber]

AWWWW WHY R THEY SO SCRUMDILLYUMPTIOUS 🥹

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

personally, I think people are allowed to ship a “toxic ship” as long as it’s fictional and they can separate fiction from reality. shipping a fictional “problematic ship” doesn’t mean you’re “abuse apologist” in real life. the same way people who enjoy fictional villains are not “murderers” in real life.

it’s okay if you think this ship makes you uncomfortable and so you personally dislike it. what you can and should do is avoid their contents and refrain from interacting with people who do ship them. that mute and block buttons are your friends.

what you shouldn’t do, though, is harass people who ship them and brag about how they’re “red flags irl” and how you’re “morally superior” simply because of fictional characters.

I promise you, minding your own business and not caring about what ship strangers on the internet ship will make your fandom so much less toxic and a whole lot more enjoyable.