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What is up with Bedelia DuMaurier?

Just something that strikes me in connection with Bedelia — is she real at all? Or are her circumstances, maybe, rather different from what we see?

Was it Hannibal who attacked her and killed her because she found out about him in their sessions, and he only re-visits his impression of her in his mind? Her dead body wherever he stashed it, like the mother in ‘Psycho’? Is she in some psychiatric hospital or nursing home, and he just visits her, and as it’s a posh place that’s their visitor’s lounge?

Come to think of it, Hannibal was still drinking the rosé wine he had asked of her when Will came by a bit later in the first episode she turned up in, so unless he opened another bottle of rosé that fit with what he had with Bedelia after getting back, he had never left his office when he went to talk to her, so apparently, she resides somewhere within his memory palace, and what we see (the outside of her house) is what Hannibal uses to mentally go and visit/invoke the entity that he calls Bedelia DuMaurier, whether that is based on a real person or not?

In any case, she is quite divorced from anything else in his life, and while he is still guarded with her, she knows much more than is really safe to know about Hannibal Lecter, and live. She must be either a patient, a corpse, or a mere entity in Hannibal’s famous memory palace (which we may be seeing for the first time ourselves in those scenes) for him to feel safe in talking to her about it all.

asix-oud: For Spicedpiano Happy Belated Birthday Dearest

asix-oud:

For Spicedpiano

Happy Belated Birthday Dearest

Basically, a collection of all the pictures of Hannibal Lecter...

Basically, a collection of all the pictures of Hannibal Lecter as embodied by Mads Mikkelsen, wearing dress shirts with no jackets, and mostly cooking, that I have on my hard disk. Found these all over and banging them up here for the benefit of one Wingy!Kate.

terresdebrume: Fandom is, essentially, the collective refusal of thousands of people accross the...

terresdebrume:

Fandom is, essentially, the collective refusal of thousands of people accross the world to be passive about the media they are exposed to.

I just wish people from the outside would realize how great it truly is.

haliameguid: So in keeping with the whole ~*Siren*~ thing and...

haliameguid:

So in keeping with the whole ~*Siren*~ thing and because I've been on a Pirates of the Caribbean kick, here's a quick a capella cover of My Jolly Sailor Bold from Pirates 4 (aka the film we pretend doesn't exist but the music's great so). Enjoy! xxx

My Jolly Sailor Bold (From Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End)

Upon one summer's morning, I carelessly did stray,
Down by the Walls of Wapping, where I met a sailor gay,
Conversing with a bouncing lass, who seem'd to be in pain, Saying, William, when you go, will you e'er return again?

A fig for his riches, his merchandize, and gold,
Love is grafted in my heart; give me my sailor bold:
Should he return in poverty, from o'er the ocean far,
To my tender bosom, I'll press my jolly tar.

My sailor is as smiling as the pleasant month of May,
And oft we have wandered through Ratcliffe Highway,
Where many a blooming girl we happy did behold,
Reclining on the bosom of her jolly sailor bold.

Come all you pretty fair maids, wherever you may be
Who love a jolly sailor that ploughs the raging sea,
While up aloft, in storm or gale, from me his absence mourn,
And firmly pray, arrive the day, he home will safe return.

My name it is Maria, a merchant's daughter fair,
And I have left my parents' three thousand pounds a year,
My heart is pierced by Cupid,
I disdain all glittering gold,
There is nothing can console me but my jolly sailor bold.

My heart is pierced by Cupid, I disdain all glittering gold,
There is nothing can console me but my jolly sailor bold.

Oh look, people of Milliways, Halia Meguid also covered Tamara's song! How cool is that?!

**links from Tamara's profile page**

fatbodypolitics: beccabae: psychristiatric: queensassyofthefat...

fatbodypolitics:

beccabae:

psychristiatric:

queensassyofthefatties:

queenfattyoftherollpalace:

iridessence:

Will wait for someone to reblog this and say "I'm all about loving oneself and believing that you look good but what this guy is doing here is just NOT healthy."

I'll wait. Or does he get a pass for displaying something potentially unhealthy in a photo because he's slim and sexy?

WTF HOW CAN YOU REBLOG THIS PICTURE 

THIS IS FUCKING DISGUSTING AND YOU ARE PROMOTING UNHEALTHY HABITS. HE IS OBVIOUSLY SMOKING AND WHAT'S IN THAT CUP??? COFFEE??? DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD CAFFEINE IS FOR YOU??? 

WITH UNHEALTHY HABITS LIKE THAT HE'S PROBABLY DRINKING LIQUOR, LET'S BE HONEST. 

HE OBVIOUSLY HAS NO SELF CONTROL GOD THIS MAKES ME FUCKING SICK.

GOD, PEOPLE LIKE THIS JUST MAKE ME SO MAD.

SAY HELLO TO A LIFE OF BREATHING PROBLEMS AND LUNG CANCER.

STUPID SMOKERS. CAN'T EVEN PUT DOWN THOSE FUCKING CIGARETTES FOR MORE THAN 10 MINUTES.

YOU'RE KILLING YOURSELVES, YOU KNOW!

OMG, HAVE SOME SELF RESPECT!!!1!!1!

I seriously hope you guys are joking.

Considering I've seen numerous people ask if this is a joke and actually ask me personally..

The lovely ladies above are not being serious. From what I've gathered about both they aren't one to call out people on things that are personal to them, ie health. They also recognize that you can't tell a persons health from merely looking at them. Beyond that, health is not a determiner of one's worth.

The funny thing is that commentary like this on this kind of picture (of a conventionally attractive, SLIM, white male who is doing something that most would consider a potential health threat) is met with confusion. People don't reblog this kind of thing making rude comments and then try and justify it by saying, 'OH BUT I CARE ABOUT THEIR HEALTH. ITS NOTHING ABOUT ATTRACTION OR ANYTHING I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ITS NOT OKAY TO LIKE THIS PICTURE BECAUSE THE SUBJECT IS CLEARLY PUTTING THEIR HEALTH AT RISK!!!111!!##"'. People ignore it, people do not make vast assumptions about his quality of life and if he's going to die at a young age. People do not go out of their way to reblog 'potential health threats', unless its a picture of a fat body.

Seeing a picture like this reblogged with invasive, rude commentary is met with confusion. Seeing a picture of a fat person reblogged with similar commentary is not. Most people who've spent enough time on the internet have seen it on numerous occasions, its expected. People either expect it, agree with it to some degree, or are the ones making the commentary. it doesn't mean that it isn't repulsive to see, but like I said…its not an uncommon thing. This above, that is.

This.

feministsupernatural: stephgonzal: sparklingganymede: abaldwin...

feministsupernatural:

stephgonzal:

sparklingganymede:

abaldwin360:

What would Jesus not do?

Things Jesus would do:

• Flip tables
• Turn water into fine wine to save your wedding party
• Tell the weather outside to STOP
• Curse trees for producing shitty fruit
• Bring people back from the dead
• Go fishing
• Give you food
• Whatever the hell he wants to on the Sabbath
• Make furniture
• Walk across the ocean because you need to stop

This…is the best

As Stalkingstalkerthatstalks said: Canon Jesus is better than fanon Jesus.

Photo

science-officer-spock: sound familiar? "It was always too...

science-officer-spock:

sound familiar?

"It was always too phil`osophical for me"

"I want to make a movie for movie fans"

"It's not for Star Trek fans, it's for people like me"

"Khan can't be brown, he'll be seen as a terrorist and nothing will change that"

"Who cares if he's white. It's about the acting, nobody's gonna pay for someone who isn't as famous as benedict"

"Star Trek has a large male fanbase so we have to appeal to them (by always having women in their underwear)

"Carol Marcus was a talented scientist but now she's in her underwear, same as Uhura - I guess the public is not ready for educated women with equal positions"

"It's 2013! and we're still putting up with racism!"

"Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek always promoted equality and paid wave for coloured actors, and this is still happening?"

"It's done, why do you still care, things can't be different"

How is there an episode of DS9 where the entire cast is working for a newspaper in the 1960s (holodeck/some sort of alien-induced AU, I guess?), and I have never seen it? It looks brilliant!

Laureny: Some other ways to woo a fatty:

Laureny: Some other ways to woo a fatty::

mccormcorp:

- "Hi I am attracted to you. If you like me back, follow this intricately-planned treasure map to the location where i will be waiting with a fun picnic."

- "Hi I am attracted to you, here is a list I've written out of my top fifty things about you and in this list I do not use the word "pushing" "cushion" or "booty" "

- "Hi I am attracted to you and would like to take you to a restaurant, hold your hand, and then go to a movie or a show, or just go sit in my house and put on a movie as background noise for smooches, and if you don't like me that way then let's be friends and we'll do a fun group activity with our other platonic friends like play a game of Apples to Apples to Apples (that's A to A but you also drink hard apple cider while you play)."

Number one would already have me intrigued, iPhone in hand, navigating the city or the woods towards wherever that picnic is…

nbchannibal: haliameguid: So this is the first completely...

nbchannibal:

haliameguid:

So this is the first completely original piece I've ever put on Tumblr and that's a bit nerve-wracking but regardless, this is a song inspired by the NBC series Hannibal, lyrics and melody by me. I really hope you enjoy it! xx

THE RAVENSTAG (inspired by "Hannibal")

blue as night, the ravenstag was flying
as you plucked the hyde, the beast stood crying
was it ever not enough to torment enough, cried out the blood in the veins
of the ravenstag who told me your name

i've started dreaming the most peculiar pictures
the blacks and whites and colors are richer
did you feel it kind enough, yes kind enough to plant the seed in my brain
of the ravenstag whispering your name

vulgar fruit, it gleams like vulgar diamonds
a picture of my own designing 
wish they'd said beware the signs, the meats and wines of the velvet joy and the pain
of the ravenstag when he calls my name

(bridge, bach aria medley)

come into my parlor says the spider
close my eyes, the space between heartbeats grows wider
maybe i'm not brave enough or sane enough to steady the knife of the gaze
of the ravenstag as it whispers my name

morning's come and the ravenstag's behind me
i'm a crimson stain and no wind can dry me
is an enemy enough to keep the love of a monster that swallows and maims
the same ravenstag who knows my name?

A MUST LISTEN

"Hannibal" has all the meta, the most intelligent essays (I am sure professors would kill for such essays instead of the drivel they get), and also the classiest filk ever.

Wow! Just wow.

starsoverhead: I was trying to shake fragments of pizza crust off the pan and into the trash...

starsoverhead:

I was trying to shake fragments of pizza crust off the pan and into the trash can.

My cat was sitting on his box in front of the trash can.

He decided to look at what I was holding right as I went to shake the pan.

I just accidentally smacked my cat in the face with a pizza pan.

I feel like such an ass, for all he seems to not be bothered at all.

Cats.

Mephi does that all the time — put his little furry face in the way because he is curious, and then makes people feel guilty for smacking him. He goes and sits in a corner and is all emo at me, though.

It’s definitely a cat thing.

nowwheresmynut: "What do you see?" With many thanks to...

nowwheresmynut:

"What do you see?"

With many thanks to Schaudwen, for making this possible haha not even joking :I

This is such an amazing piece of fan art!

theletteraesc: 148km: thegestianpoet: one of them is an IT...

theletteraesc:

148km:

thegestianpoet:

one of them is an IT consultant

imagine hannibal getting bad computer help

#'hAVE YOU TRIED TURNING IT OFF AND ON AGAIN' #'have you tried being slow-roasted with a side of stuffed peppers'

Obviously, Hannibal!logic doesn't work this way, but seriously, what if you were like a barista at a snotty coffee joint or underpaid retail associate who had a totally shitty day dealing with stupid entitled people whining about corporate policy over which you have no control, demanding you remake their drink again because it didn't have the proper soy-to-whip ratio or deliberately going in to the stack of shirts you just finished folding and trying to yank the shirt they want out from the middle, and all you want to do is go home and drink and not look at the seething mass of idiots known as humanity for another 12 hours…. and then this one dapper asshole with a Windsor knot comes in just before you close and you huffily give him his goddamn free-trade organic espresso or get slightly annoyed when he asks if you have time to take some measurements for a bespoke shirt in the most hideous pattern you've ever seen.

And then a year or so later you have been turned into a haggis and your appendix is a garnish.

I'm just saying, Hannibal, sometimes people have bad days. That doesn't mean you need to eat them.

Hannibal!logic operates along the lines of a total lack of actual empathy, so Hannibal of course never takes into account that other people may have had a bad day, or have feelings at all. They are rude => they are dinner.

But that's not in any way astonishing. He is evil, and in no way of looking at it is what he does ever remotely okay. We find him interesting and stylish, perhaps even because of his extreme world-view, but he's still evil.

juicyjacqulyn: femmesandfamily: The Adipositivity...

juicyjacqulyn:

femmesandfamily:

The Adipositivity Project

FAT TINKERBELL

GOD YES

aaahhhhh Kendra bb! I loved when she wore this in Vegas

For reasons of personal history, my very favourite Adipositivity!

1 - 2 - 3 - 4, I declare a fic war!

afullmargin:

dea-goes-a-tumbln:

What: Tumblr Fic War

Who: Anyone who reblogs this post.

When: Until everyone is actualfax dead, because this is WAR suckers!

Why: FEELINGS

What: Everyone who reblogs this post is opening their ask box up to the most brutal, feelings-inducing prompts anyone who is playing can imagine.  Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take those prompts and DESTROY EVERYONE with them. Not just angsty stuff either, fluff can be just as bad, as many of you know!

Bring it on!

Oh yes, please, give me prompts! You know what I like and am into.

atthelamppost: I LIKE DAMAGED PEOPLE FINDING A TERRIBLE FORM OF LOVE WITH EACH OTHER! For that last...

atthelamppost:

I LIKE DAMAGED PEOPLE FINDING A TERRIBLE FORM OF LOVE WITH EACH OTHER!

For that last reblog, I don't actually ship Hannibal and Will sexually but I love watching their messed up relationship play out, but I think that last line about damaged people fitting together is true for many ships I like. The terrible part isn't always true but its there for a lot of them where their love doesn't make everything magically better. Instead it just adds lots of complications to their lives.

My most common example of course is Charles and Erik where yes, Charles is fairly put together but there are issues. And their issues fit together in fascinating ways. The same is true for Jane Austen and Tom Lefroy in Becoming Jane and well a great list of pairings I enjoy watching or writing. This is also why I love RP, you never know how two characters' issues will interact.

Word!! I couldn’t agree more.

Breaking out from the 'Murder Family'

I was discussing the topic of Abigail Hobbs and the ‘murder family’ approach of some parts of the fandom with my online friend Ashie on a locked post of hers over on Dreamwidth, We had been mentioning that detail about the good wine glasses, and the fact that only Alana and Abigail are ever seen helping Hannibal in the kitchen, crossing over to his side and helping from behind the scenes of his grand performance, so to speak, and then we went on to the relative power of Hannibal and Abigail, and how she doesn’t concur with views that give Hannibal too much lasting power in that system, and with how much fandom actually approves of Abigail’s class being ‘raised’ with her as Hannibal’s apprentice, and so on.

I’ll throw my answering comment out here again because I wandered further than I had meant to in the reply, and hit upon a pet peeve of mine.

Hannibal wants the ‘murder family’, these tainted people around him (definitely including Alana) that he can manipulate into interesting patterns towards his endgame. He thinks if he does the right sort of Family Constellation (which is an arcane flavour of psychotherapy that actually exists) with them, he can get what he wants — most likely for Will to fully see him and not reject him/give him away to Jack Crawford, from all we can extrapolate so far.

I have started wondering if it might be Alana, rather than Will, who will eventually make the whole sick little system explode into Hannibal’s face. But Abigail might play an important part in it if she decides to come clean about her secrets to Alana. It might be these two that bring down Hannibal and free Will from the stranglehold of his power.

What this ‘wrong side of fandom’ fails to see is that, despite all the fascination of a stylish villain that Hannibal exudes, he remains the villain, and deeply evil. In no system of ethics (within our modern western world) is it ever okay  to regard people as food, to dehumanise them and kill them at a whim. We enjoy the edginess of the tale, but there is no ‘let us all be killers together happily ever after’ that rhymes at all with the edginess of the narrative. We can have Hannibal escape with Clarice and vanish into myth, as he does at the end of the novel ‘Hannibal’, but that is supposed to be a downer ending, or a cautionary ending — the principle of that arrogance and contempt, that delusional superiority, is still loose in our world our there. The Hannibal Lecters of our world can win any day.

But that is not a good and happy thing.

fawkesmulder: Literature Meme: Genres (1/3) > Horror Horror...

fawkesmulder:

Literature Meme: Genres (1/3) > Horror

Horror fiction takes its roots from folklores and religious tradition, which commonly focused on themes of darkness and mysticism, including death, the demonic, the afterlife, and dealings with the devil. Gothic horror became prominent in the 18th century with its focus on the supernatural in written novels, and the Gothic tradition eventually transformed into the modern-day horror genre. By its very definition, horror is supposed to provoke an emotional response in the reader, whether by use of gore, horrific images, the fear of the unknown, or haunting spectres shrouded in darkness. Well-known Gothic horror authors include Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Horace Walpole. Later, H.G. Wells' and H.P. Lovecraft's works paved the way for contemporary horror authors such as Anne Rice and Stephen King, who is widely considered the modern-day master of horror.

Homo homini lupus est — people are bloody dangerous, and we should remember that. The person you annoy on the street with your rude behaviour might just as easily be inclined to have your liver with fava beans and a nice chianti as to suffer your foolishness gladly. Horror is a healthy reminder of that potential abyss everywhere.

alas_a_llama | Very Rough Hannibal Meta Outline.

alas_a_llama | Very Rough Hannibal Meta Outline.:

A friend and co-Milliwayser wrote up some excellent points in bullet-point form on why 'Hannibal' is basically set in a magical realist world. Go read, it's very much worth your time!