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22drunkb reblogged your post “Do you think Will is aware that Hannibal is sexually interested in him? It's likely that he just assumes Hannibal's love...”

#also i think maybe if we slaughtered our own food we might look at meat on the hoof more like hannibal does people?#but i mean. still not uh. the same#i think that line to tobias about ''of course you were going to kill me. i'm lean'' says a lot

Ahh, ya city folk!  Easterners.  ;)  Not all of us are that distanced from the food we eat. :P 

It’s funny that you mentioned this because I was just five minutes ago looking at a video about a big guinea pig rescue and thinking about how eating cuy has forever changed my emotional reaction to seeing guinea pigs. Like, I literally look at them as livestock, not pets. But I don’t look at them and think YUM in the same way I sort of meant that it seems like some fandom depictions of Hannibal have him doing. XD  People don’t seem to look at raw meat much and have their mouths water, it seems to me. And some meat looks even less appetizing when it’s still alive! Like fish. And shrimp. Who ever looked at shrimp and said I WANT TO PUT THAT BUG IN MY MOUTH. But thankfully someone did. (I love shrimp.) 

I will admit that I have driven by cows in fields and thought about how beautifully delicious they look, though. And sometimes I ponder the way my cat’s relaxed thigh feels a little like a chicken leg if I squeeze it gently. 

I’m glad you liked the post!

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22drunkb reblogged your photo “womeninmovieswearinghats: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rupert Everett and Hugh Dancy in Hysteria (2011) Direction: Tanya Wexler ...”

#rewatched this recently#still great#me: i just want something nice and pleasant to distract me#me about 40 minutes later: oh man i forgot this movie is uh. kind of about activism#me maybe about 25 minutes after that: FUCK I FORGOT ABOUT THE CATHARTIC COURT?? SCENE????#and so on#hysteria

Come for the Hugh Dancy giving women orgasms, stay for the Discourse. 

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22drunkb reblogged your photoset “Favorite character moments, an occasional series Will carefully hiding his injured knuckles when talking to Freddie,...”

#omg#now that i see it it looks SO WEIRD AND UNNATURAL#who uses their hand to limply carry their other hand around like that#amazing#hannibal#will graham

I’m even more curious if it was intentionally unnatural on Will’s part, like let me TOTALLY INCONSPICUOUSLY HIDE MY KNUCKLES THERE IS NOTHING TO NOTICE HERE, FREDDIE NOTHING AT ALL DON’T THINK ABOUT IT ESPECIALLY IN RELATIONSHIP TO THAT FORMER PATIENT OF HANNIBAL’S THAT WAS JUST FOUND MURDERATED.

He could, after all, have pulled a Freddie and just worn gloves the whole time. 

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22drunkb reblogged your post and added:

HA! I had a feeling “Naveen Andrews” might have done it but had no evidence to back up said feeling. Now I Know.

lazy uber alles, lbr. if/when you get to it I’d definitely be interested to know what you think (but give it a few episodes, it takes a bit to really get its feet under it).

I have a type, I really, really do. Dark hair, compelling eyes, and a certain configuration of features that suggests sweetness. Usually not too young. Thick eyebrows, beard and curls are a plus, but not required. So is an accent. Fortunately for me, this look is found pretty much everywhere. :D 

My husband (who fits this type, btw), was curious about Sense8 when I had him put it in queue, so he pulled up a trailer for it, and I could hear it from where I sit but not see it, and Naveen Andrews’ voice came up and I’m like “STOP EVERYTHING WHO IS SPEAKING RIGHT NOW” and he’s just resigned, and he goes, “It’s that guy you like.”

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22drunkb reblogged your post and added:

I FEEL YOU ON THE FATIGUE. I have a lot to say still when I finally have the fucking time (SO SOON. WINTER BREAK IS SO CLOSE), so for now all I can say is I hope you stick around long enough that you’re still here by the time I finally publish all that stuff. Because I selfishly want you to read it :D

I’m not going anywhere, lol. I just feel like there aren’t that many questions that come in that I haven’t answered in some form two or three times already, and what is there left to say? It’s that problem where I know people haven’t read (and I don’t expect them to read) everything I’ve written on any given subject, but I have said this stuff before and can’t escape that experience of having done so, so how many times can I possibly say it new? 

And my inbox is pretty much uncontrollable at this point: I had three surprise days off this week because of the local flooding, and I’ve accomplished literally nothing in that time just because I’ve tried to stay on top of my asks. I don’t know how to fix the problem of my inbox, and my own mixed feelings about it. When it’s off, I miss it being on and am envious of my fellow meta-writers, but when it’s on, I’m buried, even if I have anon off. 

I think I’m just experiencing a shift in how I want to spend my time. I’d like to spend it on writing some fic now and doing some fan art, and now that the blu-rays are here, maybe doing some nice big, pretty gifs. I don’t think I’ll stop writing meta--and maybe I’ll decide there are some capstone pieces I want to put together once all is said and done, if I ever go through what I’ve written and decide what’s worth keeping and what I want my legacy, for lack of a better word, to be--but it’s not where my heart is right now. (I do hope that The Path will yield some interesting meta--it sounds like it could--and American Gods will, I’m sure, whenever it gets here, and I expect to be here for all that.)

But I will definitely be here to read anything you’ve written about anything! I wouldn’t miss it for the world. :)

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22drunkb reblogged your photoset and added:

I’m so mad Gideon and Bedelia were never in a scene together, my god

Things I didn’t know I needed until right this moment. 

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I knew you wanted me to know exactly where I could find you when I needed to.

I was surprised by @22drunkb‘s tags on this gif set not liking the no decisive victory/zero-sum game exchange.

Because it’s one of my very favorites. And I love it even more after TWOTL. 

Like most things I love, I love it for many reasons. 

At the highest level, it provides a convenient touchpoint for understanding the dance between Will and Hannibal as a viewer. It’s all about balance. Neither of them can win. If one wins, the other loses. And any element that appears to be a win for one is actually the seeds of their own loss. 

Hannibal manages to deflect the inevitable attention on himself about the copycat murders by framing Will. But is left alone, wishing he had Will to talk to. 

Will thinks he can work with Jack to catch Hannibal - only to realize it’s Hannibal he wants to save, and even run away with. 

At the next level, we see Will reframing how Hannibal wants to understand where they are at in that moment. 

Hannibal has suggested that Will’s imagination, his greatest power, can envision the teacup coming together. It can overcome the rules of disorder. They can move forward, together.

Instead, Will pushes Hannibal towards seeing the current situation as part of the ongoing game. And then Will’s next step is to resign from the game.

Which leads to further evidence that Will was fully aware of what he was doing, getting Hannibal to turn himself in. 

He made Hannibal think in terms of the zero-sum game, a context he knew Hannibal, from both his mathematical and psychiatric backgrounds, would be well aware of. He puts Hannibal in that mindset, and then plays his hand, which is saying he’s resigning from the board. 

And thus he gets Hannibal to make the desired move. Hannibal turns himself in, to deny Will the one thing he’s said he’s wanted, which is to not know where Hannibal is, and what he’s doing. 

And yet, Will’s fully aware, it is in face a zero-sum game with no decisive victory. Because he’s being honest; it’s the only reason his gambit can work. He knows he’ll need to find Hannibal, he knows he’ll need Hannibal, even if that very moment, in his own bed in his little house, he can’t face reengaging in the chase. 

So Will lets Hannibal file himself away until Will needs him. 

Because the essence of their zero-sum game is balance. They are the two sides of the same coin, they are alone without each other.