YES THE FACT THAT he knows the stigma around cannibalism and then feeds other people other people just to reassure himself that it is something people shouldn’t be as scared of as they are. The objection people have to human meat is morality but in Hannibal’s mind they are less than people because of their Rudeness or transgressions so there’s no moral dilema. Not that there had to be because yes he did eat his sister and was probably really destroyed by it, so he ate Rude people to justify how he felt about it. AND THEN HE NEEDS TO DO IT TO OTHERS !
But then when Will comes around here is a person whom he wants to let in and so the feeding becomes love. He wants Will to know him and know what he’s done so he gifts Will the good sides of the cannibalism that he’s discovered. There is the murder aspect of it which I think is just a fun side to it, the hunting and viewing yourself as a superior predator and whatnot. But he wants Will to love and know him so he gives Will the one thing that he has. (And nothing bad happens and they drive off into the sunset together.)
I often think about how Hannibal tricked people into cannibalism. it’s really easy to right this off as Hannibal just being sick and twisted, a psychopath, but its clearly something much deeper than that to Hannibal. Not only because he’s lonely and wants someone to understand him, enjoy this with him, but to console himself. He was forced to eat his own sister whom he loved and he enjoyed it. Every time he watches someone else enjoy it he feels righteous, he feels normal.
He does it to prove to himself he’s not a monster. Anyone else would feel the same in his situation. So he forces people over, and over, and over, to the same conclusion.
To comfort the sad little boy inside filled with doubt.
source digital trans archive (dated 1962)
Kaffeepause in the study
Caleb and Essek from Critical Role C2
i must not kill myself . killing myself is the myself killer
You're just a mammal. Let yourself act like it. Your brain needs enrichment. Your body needs rest. You feel hunger and grow hair. You need to pack bond with other sentient things so you don't become unsocialized and neurotic. You are biologically inclined to seek dopamine and become sick when chronically stressed. Outrage about hedonism is made up to place moral value on taking pleasure in sensory experiences. I am telling you that if you don't let yourself be a fucking mammal, as you were made, you will suffer and go insane. No grindset no diets no trying to be above your drive for connection. Pursue what makes you feel good and practice radical rejection of the constructs meant to turn you into a machine. You're a mammal.
communicatio in sacris by @voluptatiscausa
more art for vol, because these fics changed something in me okay!!
Just remembered that Will Graham was canonically a professor and-
What was that even LIKE???
Picture the scene: youre a bright-eyed prospective FBI agent who needs to take this class for a credit and you roll up to see a man who looks like he slept in a dumpster teaching your class.
Ok fine you can deal with that.
Next thing you learn is that he has the social skills of a ground-nesting chipmunk and the class has realized he tolerates you all only because you sit fifty feet away from him.
Fine. Cool. Sure.
Maybe the class starts trying to win him over. Maybe they leave him an apple as a joke and he goes on a fifteen minute rant about how many apples will kill you. The class realizes they can get him to talk about certain things:
Government Officials (Derogatory), Dogs, Knives, Dogs, Guns, Dogs, Kraft Mac and Cheese, Silly String (Derogatory)…
They get him a murder mystery book for his birthday and he spends the next class period talking about why it was wrong and who REALLY did it.
The class does some research, apparently he’s wired up in a weirder way than the class thought. That’s fine, you all like him in a “teacher who hates everyone kind of way”
Then he starts rambling about murders as if he WAS THERE AND DID IT, zones out, regularly gets interrupted by random people and then vanishes off the face of the earth only to reappear as a “murder husband” a few months later.
Good for him, you all knew only a bisexual could be that much of a flaming wreak.
The class is Professor Grahams biggest supporters, they cheer when he gets out of prison and keep up with the news as best they can.
Because goddamnit he’s their WEIRDO and good fucking batshit crazy teachers are SO hard to find
Curved-lined owlet moth, Phyprosopus callitrichoides, Erebidae
Found primarily in the eastern United States
Photos 1-3 by sambiology and 4-5 by gaudettelaura
my thoughts on aziraphale and crowley are as follows:
both of them kinda suck sometimes?? and um... isn't the entire point of the fucking story humanity? being human, which is inherently not good or bad. so the fact that aziraphale and crowley act human... it's the entire point!!! Aziraphale makes absolutely awful decisions sometimes. Crowley dances around his true intentions. Both of them are absolutely shit at communication. Neither of them are inherently good/bad because they're not meant to be. Their side is the side of humanity.
They've both got their own issues, and right now it is very apparent, but they've always had this sort of tension. This was just the culmination of 6,000 years of it. They'll be okay, and they'll figure it out. Just like humans do. But please, stop thinking of either of them as saints or evil because... the whole point is that they're human (figuratively).