#fannibalism

[iesika]

Attention Fannibals!

If you’re bored tonight and not at Fannibalfest I’m marathoning Hannibal on rabb.it. If you’re unfamiliar with the site, basically it’s a big shared video window with a chat box on the side.

https://lets.rabb.it/Oq9NXEgXZQ

This is open to absolutely anybody. Doesn’t matter if we’ve never spoken before. Doesn’t matter if you can only stay for bit.

Or, if you’ve wanted to watch Hannibal but were scared to do it alone, come watch it with other people!

Please come hang out and have fun!

[iesika]

I just realized missed my Hanniversary on my road trip. 

I posted the first chapter of Omiai on March 9 last year. My stats are probably pretty static since March 9 this year anyway, so here they are

113,918 words of fanfic, 2,081 AO3 comments (many from the same wonderful people over and over) from 39,373 hits. Not too bad. 

Several cool new friends, five in-person meat-ups, two people who made amazing art based on something I wrote, and did I mention cool new friends?

Thanks, y’all!

[hows-the-cat]

Two OTP things:

1) Since falling into Fannibalism, I really don’t understand how Destiel could have won all those polls.

B) My ultimate OTP was always 10th Doctor+Rose, and the Doomsday ending scene is still a cry-on-que material, I can’t watch it with dry eyes. But NOW, The Wrath of the Lamb is seriously giving it a run for its money.

One forever (ish) apart, the other, after a long time coming, finally forever together. Albeit in death (??)

[existingcharactersdiehorribly]

It’s been a long climb back up - let’s make sure we keep it! 

Vote Hannibal for Drama TV Show Champion!

[thewinterizzy]

When it's all said and done, will I miss the actual television show or nbchannibal's tags more? Only time will tell.

[araliaelata]

sometimes it's so weird watching Hannibal. I find myself wondering what the mutilation of the week's going to be

[ezraquincredible]

I have some thoughts about Hannibal that one of the season 3 promos has made me feel obligated to share.

[It’s the ‘Hannibal’s Dilemma’ promo, btw. I haven’t seen any of the others yet]

Knowing what I know about Bryan Fuller and the things he’s said about Hannigram [[marinades fingers in hand sanitizer after typing that word]], I’m a bit put off by the objectification of Hannibal. It’s an odd phrase to put together, I know, but that’s what appears to be a recurring theme in the show. I mean, I know in any show or movie, the characters are all objectified to an extent. (I mean, have you seen the promotional images for Supernatural? Like, from day 1, it’s been one romance novel cover after another)

But I just feel like we keep seeing Hannibal in very sexual contexts (BDSM in particular), and while I am very much attracted to Mads and very much a fan of BDSM, the way it’s being used for this character and how frequently it’s used to promote the show and double as fanservice just makes me uncomfortable. 

Compared to other shows in the same or similar genres/airtimes, sex isn’t really a major part of Hannibal, so when Hannibal is put into poses/outfits where there are heavy sexual themes/subtexts at play, it’s just uncomfortable because (1) Hannibal is the king of shitty terrible people and playing up his attractiveness just makes me uncomfortable because the last thing I want is to be attracted to Hannibal Lecter, (2) They seem to be attempting to frame it as/allude to BDSM which is super shitty because what they’re really doing is sexualizing abusive relationships and calling it BDSM (which it is NOT), and (3) it isn’t relevant to the plot except for one instance (that I’ve seen, anyway, I’m 6 episodes behind). Aside from that, it’s just sort of shoehorned in for no other reason other than to objectify him and it just makes me uncomfortable because that seems both cheap and inappropriate.

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE the looks of Mads shirtless and wearing a collar because I’m attracted to him and I’m into BDSM. But I have a problem with Hannibal shirtless and wearing a collar where its purpose is clearly to make the fans have a positive sexual response to him, especially when the showrunner is a very vocal shipper of Hannibal and Will, which is super abusive and unhealthy, which he knows full well and takes great pleasure from. And on top of all that, it’s just another of many examples of popular media giving BDSM a bad name by glorifying abusive relationships and calling it kinky.

tl;dr Bryan Fuller’s fetishization and promotion of an extraordinarily unhealthy relationship is gross enough on its own without him also painting the primary villain (who is an abuser, a cannibal, and a serial killer) as a sexual object we should all find attractive. Whether he’s meaning to make us uncomfortable or not in doing this, he is, and I really think he needs to stop.