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writing equations and solving quantum physics to figure out time travel instead of just apologizing is fucking crazy

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Radiohead is so them

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I came across a post on instagram explaining why people empathize with Hannibal: his charm, his control over situations, his calmness, intelligence, showing us forbidden fruits we cannot have.

Not denying these but, I thought to actually and truly feel Hannibal, one should see his pain. His rage. His agonizing loneliness, how he yearns, his longing, how he loves: intensely, madly, fiercely. How he makes something sacred out of such a feeling that defies all those made up "boundaries" and norms of society. How he's been all painfully alone, putting up mask after mask not too very uncomfortably, building up walls over years around his true self.

To love Hannibal, one could look at his elegance and intelligence. But to understand him? That's an entirely different story.

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first half of season two hannibal is low-key hilarious because it's just hannibal committing absolutely gruesome murders with some sweet poetic undertone for will and then showing up to visit him and say shit like, 'this killer must be like, in love with you or something'

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Watching TWOTL!!! and!!! i need to ramble about this ↓

When Hannibal & Will arrive at the house and Hannibal says, "The bluff is eroding. There was more land when I was here with Abigail. More land still when I was here with Miriam Lass."

Bluff here has two meanings, to me. Of course Hannibal can comment on the state of the cliff, but why would he insist so much?Here, bluff can also have the meaning of feigning, pretending.

When he came here with Miriam Lass, Hannibal was still very much wearing his person-suit. After meeting Will, he started revealing himself, piece by piece. Hence why, when he came back with Abigail, there was less land, because the bluff had been eroding.

But back to the present... Will replies, "Now you're here with me."

And Hannibal continues, "And the bluff is still eroding. You and I are suspended over the roiling Atlantic. Soon all of this will be lost to the sea."

Yes, the bluff is still eroding. Land gets lost to the sea, relentlessly. But also... Their pretending, their hiding, their feigning, has come to an end. They are both suspended, at the point of no return.

Their pretending will soon be lost to the sea. The real moment of truth is when the bluff erodes completely, when they both hit the sea and embrace truly, entirely, who they are, to themselves and each other.

RAAAAH I LOVE THEMMMMM

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cant believe some people still dont think will graham outfreaks hannibal when his FIRST solo mimicry of hannibal's kills he makes the most beautiful fucking thing ive ever seen. that dragonfly is genuinely more complex and gorgeous than half of hannibal's onscreen kills. ON HIS FIRST TRY

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Hannibal is the Devil.

Throughout the series, there are many instances where Hannibal is either directly compare to the devil or very strongly hinted to be the devil.

First of all is his role as the tempter, as the snake of Eden offering people the forbidden fruit. He temps those who come into his therapy to indulge in their violent sinful delights, to see their true nature, to rebel against the limitations placed on them by polite society.

Second, in a more literal sense Hannibal tempts people to consume and to enjoy consuming the most taboo, the most sinful of all meals possible - human flesh. He creates elaborate meals making others, though unwilling, but accomplices in his sin.

Next up is of course the scene where Will says that Hannibal wouldn’t want to be God.

This is a direct parallel to Satan’s role of God’s adversary, of God’s rival.

And of course the final piece is when Jack directly calls Hannibal the Devil in season 3, episode 12 as they discuss the wrath of the Lamb.

And let’s also not set aside the mystic, supernatural way he is portrayed in Will’s hallucination, with demonic black skin and white eyes and branching antlers.

And I love all of the biblical symbolism in Hannibal but especially love Hannibal as the Satanesque figure. He is definitely my favorite portrayal of the devil in media.

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Hannibal (2013-2015)

2x09 || 3x13

#couple goals

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I think Hannibal is melancholic as fuck but no one gets me

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Can I touch ur femoral artery

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It's always "Hannibal told Will he loved him in Will's dream so Will subconsciously knew Hannibal loved him" or "well actually Will was confessing to himself that he loves Hannibal because to Will, as he stated for himself in his own mind under the projected image of Hannibal, is knowing someone fully" but never:

it’s Will speaking to himself through the image of Hannibal. But crucially, it’s also Will’s interpretation of Hannibal...what Will believes Hannibal feels, or at least what Will hopes or fears he feels.

This means the dream isn't only a confession, it’s an act of inner revelation. It shows that Will, perhaps unconsciously, has reached a conclusion: if Hannibal loves at all, this is how he loves. And Will recognizes himself as the object of that love.

The words chosen are so precise. Not sentimental. Almost clinical, but filled with reverence. They mirror how Hannibal tends to speak about humanity: through a lens of transformation and potential. Hannibal doesn’t just feel things, he cultivates them. Love, for him, is an alchemical act. To love someone is to believe in their becoming, and then to coerce or lure them into becoming it.

So when Will dreams Hannibal saying those words, it reflects not just romantic yearning, it reflects recognition. He understands Hannibal’s manipulations as, in their own twisted logic, acts of love. Dangerous, controlling, but sincere by Hannibal’s own logic. Will has absorbed that logic deeply enough to articulate it on Hannibal’s behalf in a dream.

The dream as pivot point. This moment acts like a fulcrum. It’s not just Will’s subconscious projecting desire or clarity, it’s Will grappling with what kind of love is being offered, and whether he can respond to it, survive it, or surrender to it. That’s why the speech includes not just a confession, but a theory of love.

This is also the moment where Will realizes that Hannibal wants him to become. The becoming has always been the love language. Murder, manipulation, empathy...those are just the syntax. Love is the grammar.

So is it Will realizing he loves Hannibal? Not quite, not fully, not yet. But it is the point at which Will stops denying that love is the correct word for what binds them. It's not a confession. It’s a recognition of truth. And that’s why he puts the words in Hannibal’s mouth first. He needs to hear it from the other in order to know it’s safe to feel it himself.

The line is Will imagining what it means to be loved by Hannibal, not how he loves, but how he is loved by Hannibal. And by framing it in Hannibal’s voice, he grants himself permission to believe it.

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i want to watch hannibal enough times to be able to recite it like holy text btw.

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Tumblr is not letting me answer the ask directly so here it is:

I have no issue with the first interpretation or with any interpretation, really. The problem arises when others can't simply coexist with differing views and instead come into my posts with accusations, disrespect, or the insinuation that including sex in a relationship dynamic is somehow inferior or reductive. It’s not about disagreeing, it’s about the way disagreement is delivered.

Personally, I’ve never commented on someone else’s meta to claim they’re wrong or to invalidate their perspective. My approach is live and let live. But since the question was raised: the reason I don’t align with the first interpretation is because it often comes with the implication that sex is unnecessary when a connection is truly deep or “mental.” That framing subtly positions sexual expression as something lesser, something that only enters the picture when the bond is lacking elsewhere.

I don’t view sex as a need or a filler. I see it as a symbolic, intentional act, an extension of desire, not deficiency. In my reading, Hannigram engages in sex not because they’re incomplete without it, but because it becomes a way of expressing a particular facet of their bond.

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every day i wash and dress myself like a wound

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Hannibal's predacious nuzzling when he's in his element, either with his mate or his prey.

That's it. It has my heart.

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Hannibal's predacious nuzzling when he's in his element, either with his mate or his prey.

That's it. It has my heart.

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SCREAMING