#hannibal is a romcom

[vampirefucker-69]

Hannibal did homo eroticism better than anything I’ve ever seen

[strawberly95]

Sooo.....I finished Hannibal😀 Im not okey😭😭😭

aaaaanyways, theyre in love🤭

[super-who-locked-me-in-here]

I'm sitting in my living room watching Dolce and Digestivo and I can't stop laughing at things but my sister walked through and she's only seen Hannibal once, which is enough to enjoy the show but I don't think it's enough to actually laugh at it, and she asked what I was cackling about and it was the scene where Will bites Cordell's face off and she was just like Dot wtf

[piercedmysoul]

watching hannibal for the first time feels so dramatic and artistic and then u watch it again and realise how crazy and unserious it can be

[puppyyboyy]

i started watching Hannibal, these bitches gay!

[cvntybal]

exhibit A showing how you can put any love song in the background of ANY nbc hannibal clip with hannibal and will in it and it will literally look like it came straight out of a romance film

[lifewouldbebetteronmars]

I was about to argue that Hannibal is a romcom in English but then I knew everyone would think I was insane (I am but still) 😭😭😭

[imoticon]

This guy waxes poetry about their friendship and what they share and all that.

And then proceeds to literally SAW HIS HEAD OPEN!!!!

My guy, my sweet chamomile, maybe try kissing him first.

[ghostdrinkssoup]

nbc hannibal is a romcom purely because the central conflict results from hannibal not understanding his feelings for will and being a total loser about it because he’s never had a friend or been in love before which makes him act so silly and do the most insane things that will interprets being framed for murder as hannibal having something against him (as anyone would), and this series of misunderstandings is not resolved until hannibal’s ex girlfriend and former psychiatrist tells will that hannibal is so in love with him it makes him look stupid. after that will does not hesitate to break hannibal out of jail and douse himself in blood which is this show’s equivalent to the protagonist running to the airport to stop their love interest from leaving the country and marrying someone else before they’ve had the chance to confess that they’ve loved them ever since they’ve known them

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal 1x01 - “Apéritif”

[mymrsweirdnessshipperstuff-blog]

What's funny about enemies to lovers romcom is the best friend walking in the bedroom after they do the deed like they're asleep and cuddled up under the covers. Then they all shriek in surprise and then the best friend goes "DIDN'T YALL JUST TRY TO KILL EACH OTHER YESTERDAY?!"

[theycallmevalentine]

Hannibal is such a serious show but sometimes I literally burst out laughing while watching. Like that scene in season one where it randomly cuts to hannibal running through a forest chasing this random guy to eat him is the funniest shit i’ve ever seen.

[super-who-locked-me-in-here]

Okay I need people to look at these two gifs together:

This gif made by @lousolversons

And this gif by @not-psychotic

THAT IS THE SAME SMILE. THAT IS HUGH DANCY'S ROMCOM SMILE AND I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES IN THE WAY HUGH PRESENTS IT FOR EACH MOMENT.

First of all, the moment presented in the first gif is why I believe Will did love Molly. Yes, I'm a firm believer that Will still held feelings for Hannibal while he was with Molly, but I don't think she was a placeholder. The way I think Will's love for Hannibal and Molly works at the same time is like when you meet a widower who remarried.

Yes the widower (Will) still loves his first spouse (Hannibal), and it's terrible that they were ripped apart the way they were, but he can eventually move on. And he loves his new spouse (Molly), but there will always be a part of his heart that belongs to his first spouse. Except in the case of this analogy Hannibal isn't actually dead and he will come back.

And I mean, honestly, if the love of your life died and came back completely in one piece and still loved you after years of separation, what would you do? Would you tell them to move on because you've found someone else that you love almost as much as you loved them? Or would you discard your new spouse for the one you had always imagined you'd stay with? It's a really difficult decision.

But anyway I do wanna analyze these smiles. Obviously in the second gif Will is smiling at Hannibal, but in the first gif, Will is smiling at Jack while talking about Molly. They're the same smile but they're also so different.

In the first gif, the "romcomness" of the smile almost feels exaggerated. It's the way he smiled and kind of laughed but especially it's the way he broke eye contact. He breaks eye contact but the smile stays. It says "Molly and I can't see each other completely, but I'm happy enough." It reads as coy in a way we know Will Graham is not. It's a performance, but it's a performance based on a truth.

On the other hand, in the second gif, Will's smile is there but more subdued. Of course it could be just that he's tired and/or in pain as he's obviously injured, but to me it's lesser because it's just him and Hannibal. He doesn't need to wear his mask for Jack or for Molly or for anyone else. And he keeps eye contact with Hannibal even as his smile falls away because he and Hannibal can see each other. They accept the good (the smile) and the bad (the loss of the smile) in each other but that's okay for them because they're true to each other like they are to no one else.

The way Will smiles at Hannibal in the second gif is so much more intimate than the way he smiled about Molly in the second gif, and I can't help but wonder: if we got more scenes where Will and Molly were interacting face to face (because let's be honest there's not many), would Will smile the same way he did in the second gif? Would he even smile at her the same way he does talking about her in the first gif, or is that just him trying to appear like the happy/satisfied husband in front of company? I know Will loved Hannibal, and I know Will loved Molly, but these two gifs side by side just confirm for me that what he felt for Hannibal was so much more impactful for Will than his love for Molly.

[k1ngl30n]

Ok so I'm writing a dual POV fic. I am THIS FUCKING CLOSE to having Hannibal's perspective be a full-on romcom and Will's being a psychological horror. Just like the memes

Ok guys I'm cashing in on the notes here's the link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54206521?show_comments=true&view_full_work=true#comment_750267631

[artiemouse]

ryuk is the best death note character. he’s this terrifying giant demon dude that floats around cross-eyed adding the most useless commentary and is addicted to apples for some reason. does anyone ever stop to think how nonsensical that is?