#hannibal is a comedy

[josmamatotaldrama]

Hannibal in a nutshell

[softstrawberrycreamcake]

[devouringyourson]

one of my favourite fantastical details in hannibal is just how how unbelievable will graham's classical beauty is like sure that man is a fishing fbi loner nerd?. love it because it adds to the gothic romance of it all watching this dude with his face carved by angels, lose his mind looking like a horny oil painting during every horrific scene. honestly by the dolarhyde calls him 'not very handsome' and we cut to hugh dancy, voted the prettiest girl at oxford, it's just funny

[hero-i-am-not]

when ao3 is down... I love you ao3, and thank you so much to the people who work so hard to make it such a lovely place!!

[ilikethecolorredsstuff]

U r not going to stand there and tell me that if will kissed hannibal good after that "i would could never entirely predict u" bit that he wouldn't audibly whimper and fall to his knees.

That man was waiting for will to do smtn to him.

[jay-wasstuff]

'never in my 20 years of psychoanalysing...'

[seraphhija]

Alana a real one

[mistikfir]

1x07 "Sorbet"

Without offense or even looking as he does it, Will closes the bathroom door on Zeller.

[marnonxiv]

Let me compare Clannibal and Hannigram for one moment please because I need to talk about it.

I love how Hannigram is based on Clannibal. I love all the ways it differs. Clarice really has to suffer to be with Hannibal, Hannibal wants her to be entirely different than what she is. He displays the same abusive behaviours as he does in the NBC adaptation, but in my mind: it's for two completely different reasons.

Clarice has a sense of self, throughout the events of Silence of the Lambs. She has a clear objective, and she genuinely does want to help people. She isn't presented as having this "dark" side to her (for a lack of a better word). Her trauma elevates her pathology; it's a driving force for her decisions. She's also a brave woman, and this shows in her interactions with Dr Lecter. Dr. Lecter is the only person in Silence of the Lambs who truly recognises her, and what's she is capable of. His response? To keep her.

Hannibal kidnaps her, attempts to drug and wane her and break down her mind to become Mischa, his sister. This doesn't work, because of Clarice's sense of self. She is resilient in challenging Lecter, and this maintains. This back and forth, and a range of events furthers her disillusionment with the FBI.

Will Graham is introduced as having this disillusionment towards the FBI, a resentment towards Jack Crawford. Will Graham's sense of self is a conflicting battle that consumes him. The reasons Hannibal goes after Will is different than his reasoning towards Clarice because Hannibal doesn't recognise Will, there's layers of Will's own human suit to chip away. Clarice is respected, Will is a convoluted interest. Hannibal wants to see how much Will can endure, and open him up.

And this surely happens. But Hannibal doesn't want to turn Will into anyone else, he wants Will to recognise himself. So, his abusive behaviours have a different cause than his abusive behaviour towards Clarice because she can call him out, there's a clear power imbalance between Will and Hannibal. When Hannibal drugs Will, sticks Abigail's "ear" down a tube, down his throat: Hannibal's framing Will. Is this to make Will recognise himself? To punish him because of how Hannibal feels towards him? Was it an easy escape? It's probably all three combined.

And Will, he responds and he responds to the point it's an equal measure. People see Clarice's compliance and relationship with Hannibal Lecter to have ruined her character. The cannibalistic dinners and breast feeding seems unlike the Clarice we're introduced to. Her character seems less consistent, and what made her be respected by Hannibal Lecter, for him to say that this world is more interesting with Clarice in it? It feels like she's just following along.

With Will, everything Clarice does: Will would be able to do because he's always been presented as someone with this darkness. If Will kills Bedelia and dines together with Hannibal in Cuba, this wouldn't present itself as a problem. It's both Will and Clarice's endurance and the way they challenge which makes Hannibal love them both as entirely themselves even though this is gradual. But in order to Clannibal to work, Thomas Harris felt as if he had to take away Clarice's character. For Hannigram to work, it can endure as it is. As Clannibal should've.

[thelaurenshippen]

happy 10 years to "I've never known myself as well as I know myself when I'm with him" and "there are means of influence other than violence but violence is what you understand" and "with all my knowledge and intuition I could never entirely predict you" and "I deliberated as the phone rang, I decided when I heard his voice" and "killing must feel good to God, too. he does it all the time and are we not created in his image" and "in the walls of our hearts and brains, danger waits. there are holes in the floor of the mind" and "I let you know me. see me." and "if I saw you everyday forever, will, I would remember this time" and

"I don't find you that interesting" "you will"

[michaelshelleyenthusiast]

I’m so obsessed with Hannibal posts that put ‘romcom’ in the tags like yeah that’s right it fucking is a romcom

[josmamatotaldrama]

Saw this quote and immediately thought of this scene

[softstrawberrycreamcake]

[will-graham-coded]

dumb slut

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[ilikethecolorredsstuff]

3 years in prison is bound to make hannibal a worm and lose all sense of self. He said : "u dropped the mic will" so yeah i think he WILL BE an INSUFFERABLE TEENAGE GIRL post fall AND WILL giggle and scream in his room after will touches his hair.