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The reason why NBC’s Hannibal found such a huge female audience is because Fuller’s/Mads’ Lecter is not a male power fantasy: he’s a female power fantasy.

He’s not a broody snippy git whose appeal is assumed apriori and who in real life would drive away absolutely everyone he met (e.g. any sad manboy ever trotted out as a lead by Moffat).

He’s not an “aspirational” over-muscled hulk.

He’s not a fighter for ‘truth’ or ‘justice’ for whom bodies are just collateral on his path to heroic self-actualization

This Hannibal is the Head Bitch In Charge.

He is independent to the n-th degree. He lives to please himself and no one else. He is fabulous. He shamelessly geeks out over obscure and refined pastimes and shares them with friends. He is the Queen Bee of his social circle. He takes any excuse to treat himself, but he also has perfect self-discipline: gym is not optional. His time-management skills are superhuman. He can decorate and keep a house like Martha Stewart, hold down several jobs, and practice multiple hobbies daily.

(And what are his hobbies, aside from slaughter? Cooking, foreign languages, drawing, playing musical instruments and composing. And clearly clothes shopping. He is probably on first-name basis with the best tailors and cordwainers in town. Contrast with Will, whose hobbies are stereotypically masculine: fixing motor boats, fishing, playing outside with his dogs.)

Hannibal is not young, but he wears his age gracefully. He regrets nothing, like an embodiment of Piaf’s “Non, rien de rien”. His hair is perfect because he clearly spends time in front of the mirror styling it, not because the show’s producer wanted him to look effortlessly cool (*cough*Sherlock*cough*).

He never, ever loses his temper in public, as if he knows that the world/audience will not fawn over him for trying to assert himself through vulgarity, posturing, or volume - all the typical ways in which men like to hijack and dominate conversations.

He can dispatch a creepy stalker like Franklyn with a single neck twist, with no consequences. A sweet fantasy, indeed. If only real life stalkers were so easy to dispose of.

Hannibal’s victims - those who were not killed in self-defense or as ‘murder presents’ for Will - tend to fall into two categories: other killers who act like *they* are the baddest bitches in town (Gideon, Tobias, the mural guy) and people who disrespect him. Of those, there are surprisingly many. In fact, it seems like the very esteemed pillar of Baltimore society Dr. Lecter goes through life constantly being dissed. This is rather puzzling. Hannibal is a tall good-looking white gentleman who speaks like a professor, dresses like a count, and drives a Bentley that costs more than people’s houses. And yet something about him prompts many people, especially in the service industry, to be rude to him.

But he doesn’t confront these “pigs” (already a gender-loaded term, even though it gets applied to victims of both sexes) in a head-on, macho way. Instead, he bides his time and dispatches his prey through some kind of a sneak attack. His preferred philosophy of fighting is “feminine”: assume your opponent is physically stronger and don’t try to out-muscle them. (Even if his opponent is much smaller and weaker, like Chilton.) Subterfuge, ambush, sedatives - Hannibal wins his fights by fighting on his own terms. Nevertheless, if a man should come at him with a weapon, he defends himself with perfect adroitness: Tobias, Jack, Mason’s henchmen, etc.

Even some aspects of Hannibal’s relationship with Will would make more sense if he were female. In particular the issue of, well, issue. Hannibal is clearly Not Okay with Will having children with anyone but him. This is somewhat odd for a man, especially one who seems to have never wanted kids before this. But it makes sense for a woman just past menopause: fate finally delivered her dream partner, but it’s too late to have a family. And so Hannibal sets up the dominoes for Margot’s pregnancy to be terminated practically as soon as he learns of it. If he can’t have Will’s kids, then no one can. They may be adopted, but they have to be *theirs*.

It also makes sense that when Hannibal discovers Will’s treachery, he goes full Medea on him. Killing the man’s children is common to cultural narratives of wronged women all over the world. It’s often the only leverage they have over the men, the only way they can exact revenge. Hannibal can take much more than Abigail from Will, but she is the only thing he can take that truly matters.

Bonus exercise for the reader: imagine a version of the show where everything is the same, but Hannibal is played by Meryl Streep.

Or even just swap Mads Mikkelsen & Gillian Anderson places. Let her be Hannah Lecter; let him be Dr. Bennett Du Maurier, her wary shrink. Both the characterization and plot still work almost 100%.

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I wrote this before season 3, and I just want to point out something that happened on the show afterwards. We saw Hannibal engage in more stereotypical male combat: protracted, hand to hand, with improvised weapons. Once against Jack and once against The Great Red Dragon.

Both times, Hannibal was smaller and physically weaker. In Mizumono, he only got to Jack through cleverness; physically, Jack could throw him around like a rag doll. When they met again in Italy, Jack kicked his ass so thoroughly Hannibal had to save himself by falling out the window and hobbling off. Same with the Red Dragon: had they gone head to head, Hannibal would have been thoroughly pwned.

Bryan Fuller described Hannibal and Will fighting to “two jackals trying to take down a rhinoceros”. He might as well have said “two women trying to take down a man”.

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From my favorite scene of the ED, i think about this a lot ₍₍ (̨̡ ‾᷄♡‾᷅ )̧̢ ₎₎ ♥ (ww = equivalent of “lol” in japanese) Thank you so much for all the follows! Nice to meet you and feel free to talk to me anytime!♥

sunandstuff

Sometimes i wonder why I don’t ship a lot of straight couples because it would save me some serious stress. Then I remember that they’re usually stereotypical and have disgusting story lines.(I’m not saying all straight relationships, just some.)

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Because everyone needs this on their dash

strawberryopossum

Mario Kart with everyone and MC headcanons?

Long time no see Sorry it’s been a while, writer’s block sucks, but I’m trying to get back into the grove of things!~

You said everyone, so I did everyone

—

Yoosung

MC this man is a True Gamer

Why would you even try to beathim at video games

His own elemen—MC WAIT WHAT DOYOU MEAN THE RACE STARTED AN YOU’RE AHEAD

UNFAIR

doN’T JUST THROW SHELL’S AT MELIKE THAT!

MC WHY???

I thought you loved me T~T

Zen

He’d agree to play a few gameswith you, but would get bored fairly quickly

Probably would flop over withhis head in your lap, trying to take your attention away from the game and backonto him

Would resort to

Poking at your face

Making funny faces up at you

Pouting

And extreme cases eventickling you

However, if you really reallywanted to play

He’d use this time to try outhis acting skills and act as an announcer/commentator for the race

Jaehee

Haha

You’re funny MC

Wait why aren’t you laughing,you can’t really be serious??

We all know Baehee doesn’tlike video games (I felt so bad when I accidentally broke a heart by asking her;-;)

But, she MIGHT make anexception for you

As long as she didn’t have tobe up early the next day

Huh

She actually found herself enjoyingthe game

So much that you fell asleep,and she kept playing??

You woke up beside her on theliving room floor and she still has a controller in her hands???

Jaehee it’s 4 in the morning,put the game down!

Good thing she made sure shedidn’t have to be up the next morning…

Jumin

Jumin you’ve had these systemsin your living room forever

What do you mean you haven’t playedthem???

It takes a bit of convincing, butyou FINALLY get him to sit down and play with you

Honestly doesn’t really likeit

He drives in Mario Kart aboutas well as he drives in real life

Learns that he much preferswatching you play

You make the most adorablefaces when you’re concentrating

Probably takes so many blurrypictures of you cause you’re just that cute

Saeyoung

THIS

MEANS

WAR

Mario Kart style!!!

This competition game can goon F O R E V E R

Blue shells are being thrownleft and right

Someone’s knocking the otheroff Rainbow Road every other turn

This boy is not above elbowingyou in the ribs in order to get ahead

All’s fair in love and war

There are literal prizes onthe line here!

Mainly Honey Buddha Chips towhoever is the winner

He can’t see very good

So, I can’t really imagine he’dplay that much

He’d be more than happy towatch, though!

He learns that he really likesthe music that plays on the different courses

Probably also wants to takepictures of you while you play

Non-blurry ones ~

Also think’s the faces youmake while playing are adorable

Saeran

Probably just casual gamingfor the both of you

You both would play togetheron the weekends and make small little competitions out of it

Such as loser buys ice cream

Sometimes, if he’s feelingplayful, he’d resort to tickling you while playing so he’d win

He’d never admit it out loud,but he loved your pouty face when he did that

And he’d end up paying for theice cream anyway

It wasn’t that he liked you oranything

He just felt bad for cheating

Uh-huh

Love you too, you strawberrycream frappe

Vanderwood

Do you really think they havetime to play video games while dealing with all of Seven’s shit???

MC they do not have time toplay, please stop dragging them to the living room

MC please

Even though they protest alot, they secretly enjoy the small break from work

I felt nice to take out theiraggressions in a slightly healthy way

Tosses shells left and rightlike a madman

100% not above knocking youoff Rainbow Road

Struggles not to laugh whenyou yell at them for it

Seven probably records youboth playing for innocent blackmail purposes later

Elizabeth 3rd/Bodyguards

Jumin wasn’t home from workand you were bored

You had taken over the livingroom floor playing with his many gaming systems to keep yourself entertained

But you had to admit you werea little lonely

You even tried to get Elizabeth3rd to keep you company

But she just batted at the controllerso you would pet her

Glancing towards the door, youhad a brilliant idea

When Jumin came back, he wasstartled to see NONE of the bodyguards outside the door???

whERE WERE THEY? DID SOMETHINGHAPPEN??

WHY DID NO ONE TELL HIM??

He quickly burst through thedoor, prepared for the worst

Only to find all three guardssitting with you on the floor in front of the TV???

MC what is going on???

“Well, you were working lateand I was lonely, so they were keeping me company.”

Jumin couldn’t even be mad atthe guards

Technically he had told themto do as you asked

rebeccalerandom

The last one tho 😂🙏👌

dio420

some thoughts about DIO

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OKay it’s a LONG story that needs a lot of bg to really explain it all. So I’ll just do little chibi installments and maybe @gambitfairy will help me with them in the future XD

So it’s right before New Years. Yuuri had already moved in with Viktor to continue training. Otabek comes to visit Yuri because that’s what friends with an ounce of free time do.

While those two are having fun being besties, Viktor and Yuuri encounter JJ and Isabella who for some odd reason are also spending the new years in Moscow. They find out the two pushed their marriage even further and are enjoying their honey moon.

And in classic Viktor fashion, he gets people involved in things they’re not aware of. He suggest an exhibition skate right after the new year and also includes Yuri and Otabek into these shenanigans. Otabek meanwhile notices something weird in JJ’s social media feed.

I’ll post more later -w-