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this is how Hannigram (Hannibal 2013) is paralleled as Frankenstein and the Creature from Frankenstein (1816). *Spoilers for both*

Frankenstein and references to Frankenstein are made a few times in the show, and there are a lot of parallels and similar themes, such as playing God, creation and destruction, betrayal, revenge, and more.

In my head, for the most part, Will mirrors Frankenstein and Hannibal mirrors the Creature, or "Adam", but I think it also makes a lot of sense the other way around. Frankenstein is entirely human, often unstable, and drowns in his emotions constantly. He feels constant regret, remorse, and hatred for his creation. He set out to create something beautiful, something awe-inspiring, and reality defying from his imagination, but ended up creating, or discovering, a huge darkness both within himself and his creation. This directly parallels Will and Hannibal's relationship, with Will looking for help and stability, and when he opens up, Hannibal helps Will create, or discover, the same darkness within him.

When Frankenstein realizes what he's created, an ugly, horrible thing, he abandons it, betrays it, even though the Creature is vulnerable. He simply can't accept something so disgusting and hideous. He leaves it totally alone because he fears, for his own life and dignity. In Hannibal, when Will discovers what Hannibal is, he betrays him in much the same way. Hannibal lets Will understand him, "see him", and becomes vulnerable with him. But much like Frankenstein, Will simply can't accept what Hannibal is, and turns him into the FBI.

Both Will and Frankenstein come to regret their actions, as the Creature and Hannibal seek revenge. After Frankenstein returns to his life, he finds that the Creature has killed his brother, and indirectly, one of his childhood best friends. Frankenstein is heartbroken, and vows to destroy his Creature, no matter what it takes. Hannibal mirrors this as well, as when Hannibal finds out Will has betrayed him, he kills someone equally important to Will, Abigail, as well as almost killing him. This also builds Will's hatred for Hannibal, and his desire to kill and destroy him.

As both stories progress, Will and Frankenstein look for their monsters, while also moving on with their lives. They both get partners, a wife or fiance, and are almost content with their lives, except for reoccurring thoughts of their monstrous counterparts. In Hannibal and the Creature's plots for revenge, they attempt to kill Will and Frankenstein's partners. The monsters share a common goal of destroying everything in their enemies lives that they care about, whether that be lovers, friends, family, or careers.

However, deep down, the only thing the "monsters" want is to be understood. They both have such a deep understanding of rejection, of betrayal, and of isolation that all they long for is to be fully and completely understood by someone. Their true desires, behind the ruthless violence, is someone who loves them completely, who can ignore their flaws and accept them, even if society can't. For Hannibal, he desires to be loved and accepted by Will, and the Creature wants a "bride", both someone as equally ugly, horrible, and evil as themselves, someone who understands them because they have experienced the same societal rejection as them.

Near the end of both stories, both sets of characters run away together, with Hannibal and Will escaping after the staged jailbreak, and with Frankenstein chasing the Creature to the Arctic. Eventually, Will and Frankenstein accept their fate, that they must die, literally or metaphorically, in order to take down their monsters. They both come to an understanding of their creatures, and even though they despise them, they have to die to take them down, and sacrifice their sanity, family, and everything left of their old lives to prevent any more destruction.

And finally, at the end of these stories, our characters die, metaphorically or literally. Frankenstein dies, with his last wish being to make sure that the Creature dies as well. Soon after, the Creature discovers his death, and upon his realization that he has doomed Frankenstein, he decides to join him in death, fulfilling his final wish. Similarly, in Hannibal, Will realizes that he "can't save himself", and accepts his fate. After their final fight, he decides that the only way Hannibal will go down is with him, so in a final sacrifice, they "die" together, in a final embrace, finally fulfilling his wish to "kill" him.

Of course, this could also work the other way around, because Hannibal "created" Will, much the same as Frankenstein created his monster. There are so many more parallels, and of course, contradictions, but I think these stories are great mirrors of each other. Both are gut-wrenching stories about love, revenge, creation, and death that beautifully display aspects of the human condition, and are very much worth reading or watching.

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The burden of leadership in Yellowjackets

There is such an interesting burden that each of the Yellowjackets leaders (Jackie, Lottie, Nat, and now Shauna) have had to carry of being the group’s scapegoat; the embodiment of the group’s darkness and therefore the one demonized to absolve the rest of their sins. Each have served as a symbol of the state of the group at a given time, a physical manifestation of their deepest needs and urges.

Jackie was a symbol of society, representing the team’s pre-crash identities and last shreds of civilization they clung to in the wilderness. Before the crash, she was revered and worshipped, but as the group’s desperation began to increase and their needs began to shift to something more primal, Jackie became a living reminder of the life they left behind and the societal constraints they were just starting to shed. Her resistance to change and insistence on old social norms made her an easy scapegoat for the group’s early struggles to adapt. The traits that once garnered admiration from the group (Jackie’s composure, her traditional femininity, her social confidence) became liabilities in the wilderness. What once made her a leader now made her a threat, a mirror reflecting who they used to be and how far they were falling. Therefore, Jackie was the first to be cast out; a symbol they could sacrifice to avoid confronting the shame of their own loss of innocence and moral decay.

Lottie was a symbol of faith and spirituality in a time of desperation for the group. As starvation and fear took hold, the team turned to something larger than themselves for meaning; something to explain the inexplicable and justify the unthinkable. But as the group’s belief in her grew, so did their dependence on her. Their belief in her as a prophet gradually evolved into worship of her as a divine figure in her own right. They made a teenage girl into a god. She became the scapegoat for the horrors they committed in her name. When the faith they had placed in her didn’t offer the salvation they hoped for and she inevitably broke under the weight of their expectations, they dismissed her as “crazy” and cast her out again. Even after the crash, the narrative persists that Lottie made them do those terrible things, when in truth, they molded Lottie into the figurehead they needed to justify the things they were already willing to do.

Natalie became a symbol of pragmatism and conscience, a reflection of the group’s desire to return to order after the chaos of winter. Like Jackie before her, she tried to reestablish some sense of society, grounding her leadership in fairness, logic, and restraint. She didn’t ask for power, but she stepped into it because the group needed someone to set limits, to draw a line between survival and savagery. In many ways, she embodied the group’s collective remorse; their quiet longing to repent for Jackie and Javi’s deaths and to take the necessary steps to prevent that kind of darkness from ever surfacing in them again. But following Natalie meant confronting what they had done, and few were ready for that. Coach Ben’s return gave the group an easier target; someone to redirect their guilt and rage onto. Instead of reckoning with their own actions, they focused on punishing him for his perceived betrayal. Natalie’s calls for reason and restraint began to feel like judgment, and her moral clarity became alienating. Therefore, she was ridiculed and cast down when the group’s remorse and attempts at recreating civilization were overpowered by their own primal urges.

Shauna is a symbol of the group's brutality and rage. Her turn as leader has come at the peak of the group’s suppressed grief, anger, and loss of control. The group needed someone to act out their darkest impulses, and Shauna became that person. She was made the butcher (literally and symbolically), tasked with executing the physical horrors the others could not. The group unthinkingly offers her up to execute Nat after the card draw and elect her to butcher Javi’s body. By pushing her into that role, they created a vessel for their own savagery, then blamed her for it. And by continuing to blame her, they can go on pretending they had no choice, that the darkness lives in her, not in them.

I keep coming back to Van’s line about Lottie in Season 2: “She’s like this because of us.” The survivors may try to distance themselves from their leaders’ choices, they may point fingers, assign blame, but the truth is, Jackie, Lottie, Nat, and Shauna became exactly what the group needed them to be. They needed Jackie’s normalcy, Lottie’s faith, Natalie’s pragmatism and remorse, and eventually, Shauna’s rage and capacity for violence. The leaders didn’t act in a vacuum; they were shaped, elevated, and used by the group. And the others were just as complicit in everything that followed. Jackie, Lottie, Nat, and Shauna didn’t just carry carried the weight of their own sins, they carried the entire group’s. They were not simply leaders. They were vessels, absorbing the group’s collective fear, projection, and shifting morality. And in doing so, they became the easiest ones to sacrifice when the group needed someone to blame.

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my little freaks

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Alternative responses to "I love you":

Kill me.

I can't.

Kill me.

I love you.

Kill me.

You wouldn't ask me unless—

Kill me.

Unless you didn't love me back.

Kill me.

In the Time Station you said you did.

Kill me.

You didn't mean it, did you?

Kill me.

Just the sort of thing the Doctor says.

Kill me.

I thought you were the bravest person I ever knew.

Kill me.

Because you're not.

Kill me.

It's me. I'm the bravest person here.

Kill me.

Goodbye, Doctor.

Goodbye, Charley. Thank you.

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, really I am.

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welp

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the trio of all time 🦖🦖🦖

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what's better than one mulder? four mulders

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SEE.

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Sinners is one of those movies that is not only entirely worth the hype, but imo deserves even more hype than it already has, because that's a goddamn phenomenal movie. New favorite movie right there. Proselytizing it around to all my friends. Can't stop thinking about it. Like my partner has said to me, I agree that my life is now pre and post this movie.

The themes the symbolism the intertwined messages the cast the cinematography the costuming the dance the choreography the music the music the MUSIC!!!!! Music is so important in this movie, it's the lifeblood of the premise, how powerful and transformative music can be, that it can connect you to your ancestors and your descendants, music ties the past present and future together, music is so powerful!!! How it can be used both to share culture and force culture and appropriate culture, in the dichotomy of Sammie's soulful heartfelt song bringing everyone together sharing their cultures in the juke joint, and Remmick forcing his thralls to sing and dance to Rocky Road to Dublin. Delta Slim remarking that white folk love the blues but not the people that made it. How music attracts good and bad, that you gotta deal with the hand you're dealt because dammit life without music is so much more bleak.

The way music can be used to process and cope with strong emotions like grief, anguish, rage, joy. Delta Slim telling the story of his friend getting lynched then without missing a beat immediately goes into humming and stomping a song to comfort and soothe himself from his grief and anguish. Music can soothe, music can distract, music is personal, cultural, universal and specific all at the same time. It's catharsis.

Sammie naming his band Pearline's as an homage to the first girl he fancied, the girl who died that night, carrying that name with him as a ode, a metaphorical flower to put on her gravestone. He holds that grief and joy with him and processes and expresses it through his music. How even though that was the most traumatic night of his life, before all the horrible shit went down, it was also the best night of his life. The dichotomy of how much can happen in a day, at one event, within one musical number.

Just ohhhhhhh this movie is so juicy I want it seared into my neurons I want to sink my teeth into this musical marrow and savor the taste as long as I have memory to spare.