Wait, what? What, now?

If you leave a hamster wheel out in the forest, wild mice will come and run on it.

I blame this entirely on @the-bees-patella.

“You can tell by the way you use that pole you’re a rippin’ man without a soul.”

“Well, killed your wife and mother and then you killed another, you’re takin’ a life, takin’ a life.  I say you were rippin’ and everybody’s trippin’, you’re takin’ a life, takin’ a life.”

“Oh, I know now I’m the Ripper!  Self knowledge makes me chipper, and I’m takin’ a life!”

Sabina’s 1013 Followers Giveaway!

Hey folks - I’ve been saying I’d do this for a while, and I can’t reasonably procrastinate any further XD; it doesn’t look like I’ll fall under 1K due to a mass unfollow any time soon, so here it is: a Giveaway Of Stuff to celebrate the unparalleled artistry and productivity of the Hannibal fandom community. Please don’t make me go on about how great y’all are and the times we’ve had: I’m no good at that, but assume it’s true. I <3 you all.

This is realistically the only time I’m doing this so there are four (4) choices:

* An unopened copy of RADIANCE (@lovecrimebooks) and associated postcard art. (NB: I swapped in my copy for the photo as otherwise it would have depicted only my shiny face reflected in the shrink wrap.)

* A copy of Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur’s Cookbook by Janice Poon.

* A sundry collection of Hannibal fan art - postcards, stickers, buttons, charms, etc. More stuff included as I find it. I would tag the lovely artists but my records are very iffy, sorry for that! Please tag yourselves in if you like!

* A 1000 word minimum story or essay by me, on a prompt of your choice.

The giveaway will run until August 15, 2018. On the 15th, I’ll draw a winner from the entries at random, contact that person, and they will have 24 hours to let me know which of the 4 prizes they prefer. Then I’ll choose a second winner who gets to choose among the 3 remaining prizes, and so on.

Rules behind the cut!

Thor: I apologize for your loss, I know how it feels 

Thor: These things happen sometimes.

My awesome manicurist, Momo at Oh My Nails (check out her insta!) has done it again.  I wanted something inspired by Newt’s tattoo sleeves to celebrate a Pacific Rim sequel and she took it so much further than I could have imagined!  You’ll notice Newt’s kaiju designs on both middle fingers, and partial detail from his sleeves on the two flanking fingers on the right hand (top).

The left hand is an ode to my little ‘shipper heart - Newt’s sleeve design is flanked with a complementary-colored version of Hannibal Chau’s Kaiju Remedies logo on one side, and a copy of the black flocking pattern on Hannibal’s jacket in black.  I like to think Newt worked the same into his tatts at some point.

fucking look at this shit though

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”