"You Better Lie Down 'cause The Angels Are Watching"

This happened to @sleahlicious and I, oh my god.

it's march 2024. you're on tumblr. you see a gifset of a movie in which an angry brunette appears to be torturing some sad blonde twink. interesting. you watch the movie. you feel really normal about it. you open tumblr. you search "the passenger (2023)”. the trajectory of your life is changed forever.

There’s something wrong with your head and it’s very alluring. I need to dissect you like that one scene in hannibal… plea….se……

Hello, ravenous thing.

It would please you to know that I am currently waiting, laid out on the dining room table, head on plate.

It should also please you to know that there is a spot right beside me for you to lay, and I am getting the first cut of dissection.

...this is a mutual act.

A part of our agreement.

You have no choice.

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.

VAC <3

artists: francisco de goya (1746-1828)

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Gott weiß, ich will kein Engel sein.