Shell Of Duality

Will beats a furry to death while fantasizing about Hannibal getting off to being beaten to death

A man??? Gets folded into an origami heart???????

A villains actual honest to god evil plan is to steal Will’s face so that he can eat Hannibal’s penis with it

Said villain then gets eaten by his pet eel??? After having his sperm harvested so his sister’s girlfriend can bear his child and inherit his wealth??

Honestly just Mason Verger in general: ??????

That time Hannibal waves at another serial killer and says “hello I love your work” before killing him

Hannibal wears at least four patterns at the same time and no one gouges their eyes out or tells him it looks awful

Fish jello treated as a delicacy that the average American would consume without vomiting

Hannibal getting off to Will telling him he’d kill Hannibal with his hands

Will sailing across the ocean to find Hannibal in Europe while making a pit-stop at Hannibal’s childhood castle 

The entire fifthsome scene

Hannibal feeding a man his own baked leg and the man’s first comment after taking a bite being ‘My compliments to the Chef’

Jack goes to dinner at Hannibal’s house even more often after he finds out it’s all human meat

Will spends months having seizures and somehow never has one in front of anyone except Hannibal, nor drives off the road

The human cello

The man who castrated himself, then flayed the skin off his own back to make wings, then strung himself up in a barn????? (Who could also somehow See evil people??????)

The man Hannibal grafted into a tree (not formed into a tree, not stuck branches on, but literally grafted into a living tree)

Dolarhyde eating that painting. He just fuckin cronches it

The time there is a LIVING BIRD inside a cadaver

The human totem pole how could I forget this most iconique creation

A pig is used semi-successfully as a surrogate host for a human embryo????

Hannibal being entirely open to that threesome

American television vendors wouldn’t let them show naked butts—UNLESS they filled in the cracks with fake blood, then it was fine.

Hannibal got caught in Italy not because the FBI was able to trace his numerous murders back to him, BUT because he won’t stop spending money on bougie shit like truffles and fancy wine.

Man was lobotomized and had part (if not most) of his brain replaced by a giant beehive.

Happy Sunday to you too, anon! You’re so sweet. I wasn’t having the best day, but your ask put a smile on my face.

By giggly Cockles moment I guess you’re meaning times when they make each other laugh. I can’t pick one, so I’m just going to pick a few ones

Let’s start with this one from JIB10, look how Jensen laughs and how Misha’s so porud of it

Also look how adorable they are laughing together

Or this one, where Jensen is bending and laughing after Misha said “what?!” after a fan said that SPN was ending

Jensen, control yourself

Seriously

Now this is one of my favorites. I love how both laugh in the whole interview, but this one is delightful

Also, s13′s gag reel, when Jensen touched Misha’s crotch while he was under a blanket

This is from sdcc17. Jensen isn’t laughing at first, but when he sees Misha, he stars laughing

Now, JIB9, THE WHISPERS, I have a weakness for these moments. I love it when they whisper something to each other and they start laughing

From the behind the scenes of making the voice acting for 13x16. Misha says something that’s not so funny, but for Jensen it’s the funniest thing ever

Also, Honcon, that was wonderful too. Look how giggly Jensen is after hearing Misha speaking with the empty!Cas accent

Also, look at this softness

JIB8, this was, again, one of those moments when Misha said something that was funnybut not so funny, but for Jensen, it was the most hilarious thing he had ever heard

And let’s not forget about the underbear

Or the roaring sound Jensen did

JIB7, THEY LAUGHED IN THE SAME WAY IN THE SAME PANEL. SO DAMN ADORABLE

Look how Jensen is looking a Misha with a cute smile

Or how laugh Misha laughs after Jensen whipered something to him

Or look at this

Or this, after Misha has spoken with his Indian Russian accent

Or this thing that still haunts me (credit)

I also love this moment after the headboop (credit)

And this headboop too

More SDCC cuteness

Aloha, Cowboy

Now, JIB6, LOOK AT THIS

How Jensen flirts with Misha on set

LOOK AT THEM

JIB5 MORE WHISPERS

The fake kiss scene

The bunny

JIB4 the flower

Or this cuteness

And this from when Jensen pied Misha

Somebody has to remind Jensen the camera's not on his husband's face 😂

Here is a wonderful interview with Bryan Fuller discussing the fact that Will and Hannibal are in fact in love, that is not platonic, and why he decided to take their love from subtext to direct text:

He also discusses that the open ending was meant to tell everyone that Hannibal survived, and the place-mats being set for three people meant that Will did too. Which we all already know because we know the characters so well. But I know some people still waver on what they believe went down:

It also addresses the amount of bisexual representation within the show. I was literally talking the other day about how I love the portrayal of bisexuality in this show because it is true to real life. There’s no internal struggle, no conflict, no need for discussion, because in real life that’s not how bisexuality works. When two people connect, they feel it, and float together naturally without a word because it has always been in their nature. So my bisexual ass is living for this validation and accurate representation (also thank you Bryan Fuller for defending bisexuality from the biphobes of the world):

Personally I can’t stand Hannibal being written fic wise as hyper controlling and dominating over Will, like requiring his servitude and obedience or whatever. It just real rustles my jimmies cause the way I see Hannibal’s regard for Will, it’s his desire that they be equals. 

He doesn’t see Will as less than him, as some empty puppet that he can control, he wants Will to realise his potential within himself and act on that potential in partnership with him. 

Hannibal sees himself as the catalyst for Will’s becoming. 

Hannibal is the stray ember that sparked the wildfire in Will. 

Will is truly one of the few if only people Hannibal cannot successfully read and or manipulate which is why Will is so fascinating and beautiful to him, he’s a challenge, ever changing and fluid, elusive difficult for Hannibal to fully grasp in his resplendent entirety. 

‘Hannibal: I can feed the caterpillar, I can whisper through the chrysalis, but what hatches, follows its own nature and is beyond me.’

He wants Will to come to him and to love him entirely of his own volition, which is why he gave himself up to Jack, so Will would know where he was when he was ready to embrace his becoming and Hannibal fully. Their relationship is one of shared power and ultimate partnership - a Bonnie and Cylde, Thelma and Louise, Us vs Them dynamic. As the only two people who fully know and see the other, they are bound together in isolation against the world. 

‘Can’t live with him, can’t live without him’ as Bedelia so astutely put it to Will. Not in the simple definition of physical life and death but in the more abstract sense of self - if we are not known and seen do we exist ? 

Possibly getting a little too existential for what was meant to be a lil meta rant but I firmly believe that Will without Hannibal is not Will - he is only a superficially constructed person suit version of Will , the loving father and husband who plays at simple domesticity. 

He is not SEEN. 

Hannibal without Will is an empty shell of the operatic glory he is in his presence. He thrives off Will’s company and wilts to ash in his absence. No one has seen Hannibal to his core, no one has seen the real Hannibal, except Will. ( Bedelia had a glimpse but she doesn’t possess Will’s advantage of knowing so implicitly and she doesn’t truly see in the way that Will does. ) 

Wrapping this ramble fest up I just can’t buy into the cold and dominating Hannibal trope because Hannibal is never less in control than when he’s with Will. 

Will makes him irrational and jealous and heartbroken and passionate and makes him FEEL and Hannibal loves him for it, is in love with him for it because for the first time in his life he is implicitly known and seen.

Do you ache for him?

For me, these two scenes effectively sum up just how alone Hannibal and Will are without each other. We see Will desperately attempting to focus all his attention on fixing a boat motor, a problem we heard Hannibal refer to as ‘easy’ to solve in season one. The simplicity of this creates a stark contrast in relation to Will’s current state of mind regarding his feelings for Hannibal, confirmed through the series of flashbacks we see. Will is not entirely haunted by the fact that Hannibal gutted him; he is haunted by the fact that Hannibal left him. We see flashbacks of Hannibal holding Will, followed by Will falling to the ground and Hannibal bending over him. These are not the typical flashbacks generally associated with people suffering from post-traumatic stress; these flashbacks are rooted in Will’s heartbreak over the fact that Hannibal left him.