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HANNIBAL + Text Posts 16/∞

[thsist]

mahendra baahubali you flop

[thsist]

am i feeling will graham or niall kennedy today...

[rambheem-is-real]

Just had to draw something for the salaar x project hail mary thoughts I was having earlier

edit i did fuck up one of the telugu words its supposed to be cell

[kraskrov]

inspired by this post about a historical tribal varadeva au!

[toyezu]

[allthecryingdragons]

"her eyes are like two drops of coffee in a cloud of milk" IS DRIVING ME INSANE

[thsist]

i rewatched English Vinglish and OH MY DAYS SASHI SHOULD HAVE ENDED UP WITH LAURENT

break up with ur toxic ass husband and start that french-indian restaurant PLEASE

[mobius-m-mobius]

Blanc and his Watsons 🔎💕

[thsist]

i miss when Superman (2025) came out and the world was kind to each other for two weeks 🙁

[tayasui-mono]

What gets me is that Hannibal doesn't need to keep Will alive to "own" him. He asserts complete dominance over people by consuming them. People he dislikes, people he adores, funny people, rude people, lovely people, intelligent people. He meets you, you're on his menu. He eats you, and he doesn't have to own you, because eating you has satisfied his hunger for you. But when it comes to Will, it's not enough. He could easily chop Will up, preserve him and savour him for years. But he won't. He can't. It's not enough. It simply won't be enough and he will starve and starve and starve without him. The only way for him to "have" Will is to have him completely. Have his life. Have his mind. He wants Will's attention, his likes, his dislikes, his trauma, his euphoria and his ecstacy. His tears, his anger, his hate. He needs every single bit of him. And he wants it so badly it doesn't matter if he crumbles to dust. All he is is his hunger for another.

[livingfandomly]

Absolutely LOVE the fact that unlike most superhero movies, Superman didn’t do everything.

It was set up as “oh no Metropolis and Jarhanpur are in trouble! He needs to quickly finish one and then help the other!” But no. Instead he just called his friends and they stepped in where he couldn’t. Even at Metro, he had Mr. Terrific’s help.

This is not a one-god-army kinda Superman. This is a I-could-try-to-do-it-all-or-I-can-ask-others-to-step-in-when-needed and isn’t that the crux of humanity right now? All of us may not be able to go where the problems are happening but we can help those who are there. We can also face the problems happening in our neighbourhood with people who can’t be close but can help in whatever way they can.

Because, sure, Superman could do it all himself. But that inevitably leads to a Superman who is stretched too thin and getting increasingly weary. But having people he knows he can rely on? Well isn’t that the best power anyone can have…

[thevoidbunny]

I know everyone’s seen the “Superman writes about lead pipes in metropolis” post, but has anyone considered Superman writing about endangered animals and conservation because he understands what it means to be one of the last of your species?

[glassmermaids]

[corvidcorgi]

With three movies to compare between, I really appreciate how each Knives Out movie explores justice from a different thematic angle, not based on the murder that was committed but based on the cruelty that led to that murder.

In Knives Out, a compassionate, ethical young woman treats everyone around her with generosity, and the people around her repeatedly try to take advantage of her kindness to force her into losing the fortune that was gifted to her by a dear friend. There, justice means that she keeps the fortune and decides that actually, she doesn't have to be kind and giving to people who've proven themselves assholes.

In Glass Onion, a woman loses her sister to a gang of wealthy, successful people who've sacrificed their principles for the sake of ambition and ego. There, justice means that everyone involved will be made notorious: whatever their other accomplishments, they will forever be known for being complicit in the burning of the most famous painting in history.

In Wake Up Dead Man, the church takes advantage of a young girl's loyalty and faith to place her under a lifelong burden and fill her with guilt, shame, and hatred. Justice means helping her understand what was done to her and the women around her, and giving her compassion so she can find peace.

This is cool because it means the movies contradict each other! The compassionate justice of Wake Up Dead Man would be totally misplaced in Knives Out, and so would the toppling-monuments justice of Glass Onion. And because each movie has something different to say, they all stand on their own and feel fresh.

This is also why Benoit Blanc is the uniting figure but never the protagonist of these movies. He's an agent of legal justice in that he's the detective and it's his job to figure out whodunnit, but the protagonist -- Marta, Helen, and now Jud -- is always the character who delivers thematic justice.

[afriblaq]

Anarcha Westcott was a young Black girl enslaved in Alabama. After a traumatic childbirth, she developed vaginal and rectal fistulas, a condition that left her in constant pain and shame.

Instead of receiving care, she was experimented on over 30 times by Dr. J. Marion Sims, who operated on her without anesthesia. He used her body to develop a surgery that would later be used to treat white women, with pain relief, dignity, and consent.

Anarcha didn’t agree to any of it. She wasn’t a patient. She was a victim of medical violence.

Today, she is finally being remembered, not as a statistic, but as one of the true Mothers of Modern Gynecology, alongside Lucy and Betsey.

[anarchistmemedistro]

Anarcha Westcott - Wikipedia

[bottleofbongwater]

there's nothing more punk rock than standing up for human rights

[singingrottenbones]

I was talking to a friend about the colours in Hannibal (shoutout @classicpalladium ) and they pointed out how the colour red is present in virtually any scene of the show. Whether that be the red curtains in Hannibal's office, the blood at a crime scene or a red shirt a character is wearing - it is omnipresent.

Naturally, during my rewatch, I paid close attention to see if I could find a scene that didn't contain red, and I discovered another interesting parallel.

In 1x03 Potage, Hannibal and Will visit Abigail in the hospital and take her for a short walk to the greenhouse.

Try and see how much red you can find in these two shots. At first glance, there isn't any. Not in the characters clothing (Will's sweater is brown), not in the background. As a matter of fact, we are surrounded by green - the colour opposite red on the colour wheel, the colour that is used to neutralize red.

At second glance, though, we notice that there is some red.

A few flowers on the left and one plant on the right. There's also orange leaves on the glass roof - the seasons are changing.

This is also when Abigail asks Will "So killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?", and his reply is "It's the ugliest thing in the world."

I think that the lack, or maybe very targeted use of the colour red perfectly encapsulates Will's and Hannibal's relationship at this stage of the show. Will has barely stepped into Hannibal's world. He doesn't know him yet, he's still closed off. The green is still fighting the red. Killing is ugly. It's horrible. It haunts him. And yet, there's little bits of red, of Hannibal, that are starting to push through, to bloom.

The complete opposite of this scene is, of course, the end of 3x13 The Wrath of the Lamb.

There is red everywhere, literally. It is inescapable. The blood is running and dripping. It almost feels like we as viewers are also tainted by it.

And yet, in a full circle moment, we get Will Graham's final line of the show:

"It's beautiful."

Drenched in blood, in red, in Hannibal. Two becomes one. There is nothing else left. He can finally see it. His becoming is complete.