They Can Live In My New World, Or They Can Die In Their Old One.

There’s no happy ending with me.

The Fall (2006) dir. Tarsem Singh

HANNIBAL S01E01 / SQUID GAME S02E06

Mervovignian brooch, made in copper alloy covered in gold,set with S W garnets and a sapphire, 700 A.D. [560 x 860]

@sixofcrowsnet heist: au

DARK ROYALTY AU  »  ft. kaz & inej as king and queen; jesper as viceroy; wylan as prince; nina as grand duchess; matthias as knight; and kuwei as viscount

“we’ll be kings and queens, inej. kings and queens.”

Battleship Potemkin (1925, dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein)

Hunger is obviously a major theme in Hannibal—it’s literally the cannibal show—but the difference in how that’s portrayed with Hannigram is intriguing.

Hannibal was starving for connection before he had Will, and then everything changed for him. As Bedelia tells Will, “Did he daily feel a stab of hunger, and find nourishment at the very sight of you? Yes.” Hannibal’s hunger is sated by so much as the sight of Will. A mere look at him is enough to satisfy him.

But Will is different. Rather than being sated by his connection with Hannibal, it is the very thing that makes him hungry. There’s a frame in the Italy chapter that makes it look like he’s trapped in a starvation cage. In the script for his sailing scene, he’s literally described to look hungry:

Both Hannibal and Will have a possessive, obsessive, all-consuming love for one another, but it affects them quite differently. Hannibal is nourished by the very sight of Will, but for Will, no amount of the profound attention he experiences from Hannibal can fully sate his hunger—it’s a high he can’t help but chase. It fuels his pathological need to return to Hannibal again and again, no matter how self-destructive it is. I think this is why Will is more outwardly possessive of Hannibal than Hannibal is of Will. Hannibal wants Will to be his; Will wants Hannibal to be no one else’s. Both forms of possession, but Will’s is more jealous because of the way he experiences Hannibal’s attention. It’s a high, it’s a hunger—it’s a need, not a want.

Isabella was said to resemble her father, and not her mother, queen regnant of Navarre, a plump, plain woman. This indicates that Isabella was slender and pale-skinned, although the fashion at the time was for blonde, slightly full-faced women, and Isabella may well have followed this stereotype instead. Throughout her career, Isabella was noted as charming and diplomatic, with a particular skill at convincing people to follow her courses of action. Unusual for the medieval period, contemporaries also commented on her high intelligence.

Cimabue, The Capture of Christ, 1280-83 / Hannibal 1.05 Coquilles

Les Miserables Modern!AU → Grantaire