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I find the trout to be a very Nietzschean fish.

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Finally got to draw their final embrace 🫂

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Sometimes I think of how Hannibal is often exclusively portrayed or referred to as the cannibal of the show in fandom, and that gets me thinking about Will’s own intense potential for pathological cannibalism. Will is a man who deals with “huge amounts of fear”, as Hannibal said to Jack after he first met him, and that fear is a result of his huge amounts of anger and self-repression. He is wrathful first and a lamb second, by his own design. He was fired from the police force for refusing to pull the trigger on a presumably violent suspect— he later tells Hannibal, shaky, still relative strangers, that killing GJ Hobbs felt “good and powerful.”

He knew what pulling that trigger would awaken. Hannibal asks him if he considers Hobbs his victim, and the answer is a resounding no— Hobbs, in Will’s mind, is “just dead.” Will seemed to deal with his dark urges and disconnection from a normal sense of empathy and feelings for others by isolating himself and allowing others to direct his life for him, stripping himself of control to neuter his dark potential. Even after realizing what Hannibal cooks his meal with, he has no issue coming over for dinner. Even an agent who was pretending at neutrality would likely have huge issues with that if they weren’t disinclined to morality and the intrinsic worth of life already. He licks his Randall-laden fork while staring Hannibal down, seductive. The meat, too, is “just dead”— and by his hands, at his will. He goes above and beyond whenever presented with any excuse, tearing Randall apart for his tableaux, biting out a chunk of Cordell’s cheek to counterbalance his complete loss of autonomy, drugged and restrained.

Will kills for the rush and the power he wields over others while Hannibal kills to make his art, to assert his power over creation. Will taunts people coldly for fun, he fantasizes about gore and bondage. He takes enjoyment in chasing Freddie and sacrificing Chilton, having vendettas against them both for lessening him. Killing his victims isn’t enough of an assertion of his own power and freedom, they have to be completely immobilized, hanging in empty space like shanks of meat. Randall’s suit was his true body as he saw it, Will strung his suit up with chains just as he suspended Chiyoh’s prisoner in ropes. Power and the lack of it are gravitational forces in Will’s life, and pathological cannibalism is notorious for being an ultimate expression of power, the base matter of the unfortunate victim feeding one’s own, allowing one life. Total victory through biological, animal subservience. Will is a fisherman, a dog trainer, a studier of insects. He understands the hierarchy of the food chain.

Bedelia confirms for Will that Hannibal aches for him out of love. Hannibal surrenders on his knees at Will’s rejection, unable to live a life without him. Whatever can pain the Devil and make him kneel to sacrifice his worldly kingdom is something twice as fearful. Will’s a cannibal by the dictionary definition, but so is nearly everyone in the show, ignorantly. What matters more here is that his mindset is already highly conductive to that of cannibalism. He has the same intense drive for claimation and reclamation of power as Hannibal.

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delicious

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their engagement photo trust

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yum yum

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“Most of what we do, most of what we believe, is motivated by death.”

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The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

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this is a need

Heart shaped teapot 🫀

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happy belated twotl anniversary

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The Banished as Will Graham

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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.