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blackharlaw: I can’t wait to watch Game of What Will People be Offended at Tonight ◡‿◡✿

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:42:46 -0400

blackharlaw:

I can’t wait to watch Game of What Will People be Offended at Tonight ◡‿◡✿

thepacosanchezz: my favorite show is sherlock starring bonkadonk clamberdouche and morgan freeman

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:05:29 -0400

thepacosanchezz:

my favorite show is sherlock starring bonkadonk clamberdouche and morgan freeman

miss-nerdgasmz: What ship do you think I’m the child of? #oH FUCKING YES #PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE I’M...

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:04:10 -0400

miss-nerdgasmz:

What ship do you think I’m the child of?

#oH FUCKING YES #PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE I’M SO CURIOUS #CROSSOVERS COUNT BTW LIKE IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE A STANDARD SHIP OR ANYTHING#WHICHEVER PEOPLE YOU THINK MADE ME

sherleck: #not until now

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:12:40 -0400

sherleck:

#not until now

queen-of-love-and-beauty: onlyalittlelion: canuta-black: New...

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:10:34 -0400

queen-of-love-and-beauty:

onlyalittlelion:

canuta-black:

New promotional image for 3x08 [x]

IS THAT A CLOAK

HE HAS THE CLOAK!

Run Sophie Run [x]

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:25:32 -0400

Run Sophie Run [x]

camuizuuki: ileolai: i’m fucking hyperventilatin...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:33:44 -0400

camuizuuki:

ileolai:

i’m fucking hyperventilatin g

ACTUALLY SCREAMING

WHY IS THE HANNIBAL FANDOM SO FUCKING VANILLA I CANNOT

Davos, Arya & Melisandre on the iron throne. Unique picture...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:22:47 -0400

Davos, Arya & Melisandre on the iron throne. Unique picture I would say.. [x]

on what's 'appropriate' and 'inappropriate' in hannibal fandom

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:07:28 -0400

hannibalfalling:

Okay Hannibal fandom let me explain you a thing. I’ve seen a lot of discussion on the tag about how it’s disgusting to empathize with Hannibal, how people don’t understand why anyone could/would be a fan of a character as cruel as Hannibal, how people are upset by these silly posts about Hannibal, etc etc. Putting aside how killing has been quote unquote glorified in media since literally the first extant written works, the thing you must let me explain you is this: fiction relies on empathy to engage readers/viewers. We like to consume media about characters with whom we empathize. We don’t like to consume media about characters with whom we absolutely cannot empathize. (Ever wonder why all main robot characters have or replicate human emotion, as in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Battlestar Galactica, Iron Giant, etc? It’s because a robot with no empathy bores the audience.) The focal character(s) in any fictional media must necessarily be capable of engaging the reader’s empathy. The audience must feel the focal character’s emotions, hopes, dreams, desires, fears, so on and so on. This is Writing 101.

So a TV show titled Hannibal must necessarily create Hannibal as a character for whom we can feel empathy, or else the viewers won’t give a fuck. It’s true that Will Graham is one of the main characters, and that we sometimes see Hannibal through Will’s eyes—but we don’t see the entire show through Will’s eyes. Whenever Will Graham is absent from a scene, Hannibal becomes the focal character, and the audience has got to attach itself to him, instead. So all of the scenes with Franklyn, with Bedelia, with Tobias—all of those killing-and-cooking scenes in Sorbet—are scenes in which the audience is attaching itself to Hannibal as the focal character. If people don’t feel any emotional engagement with Hannibal’s triumphs, failures, irritations, etc, they don’t enjoy watching the show, or at least the parts of the show in which Hannibal is the focal character. That empathetic reaction isn’t going to happen across the board—not every person feels engaged with every work of fiction. But it’s absolutely natural—ultimately the aim of the show—for the audience to feel empathetic towards Hannibal.

Moving on to the fandom… Let me explain you another thing. People adjust the way they speak based on where they are. There are a few vaguely academic things I could say here, but it’s pretty much a given: you talk with your boss differently than you talk with your friend differently than you talk with your mother, so on and so on. There’s a very particular—deceptively ‘loose’—manner of speaking that’s common in certain parts of fandom tumblr. You know what I mean—‘alskdlskdf;fds; my babies omg’, ‘r u srs?? bitch i might be!!!’ etc etc. When people do this, they’re translating their internal, wordless thoughts and feelings into a ‘language’ that fits their social surroundings. This type of interaction is common in tumblr fandoms, and these types of posts are made about every character, killer or saint; in certain circles, this type of interaction is expected and encouraged when discussing media. So when someone watches the scene in which Hannibal gets stood up by Will, and they make a tumblr post that says, ‘hannibal my cannibal bb u look so sad’, they’re taking their appropriate, understandable—in fact, predesigned—emotional reaction to a work of fiction and converting it into a manner of speech that will best connect them to their peers. It does not signify a complete and all-consuming lightheartedness or lack of ability to deeply engage with and criticize media.

Can it be interpreted differently by people who are used to a different style of discourse? Absolutely. There’s a huge gap in understanding—there’s also a huge gap in perception of morals, in perception of the distance of fiction from reality, etc, and there’s a lot more going on than I can explain in one tumblr post. But I do think that people who believe that the Hannibal fandom in general is glorifying/supporting/appreciating the actions of serial killers, both fictional and real, are either blind to or willfully ignoring the type of social interaction and expression of engagement w/ media that’s actually going on when people make those casual, silly tumblr posts.

Tl;dr everyone take a load off, everything will be fine.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:10 -0400

plaidimpala: Will Graham is shopping for the perfect sweater at good will then he stumbles upon it,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:59:13 -0400

plaidimpala:

Will Graham is shopping for the perfect sweater at good will

then he stumbles upon it, the perfect sweater

it has a dog pattern

“Yes” he whispers “This is my design”

USA Upfronts - Aaron Tveit

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:43:05 -0400

USA Upfronts - Aaron Tveit

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Fri, 17 May 2013 15:31:44 -0400

“A little bloody gratitude would be a start.”

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:21:50 -0400

“A little bloody gratitude would be a start.”

Dean’s favorite things

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:21:14 -0400

Dean’s favorite things

When people ask for your help and they get mad at you for “telling them what to do”....

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:17:59 -0400

When people ask for your help and they get mad at you for “telling them what to do”. Wow, okay. Let’s get things straight. Do you want me to tell you what I really think or do you want me to tell you what you want to hear?

ioweyouaphoneboxandaassbutt: Telling someone about my fandom.

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:36:15 -0400

ioweyouaphoneboxandaassbutt:

Telling someone about my fandom.

midorieyes: #It’s like jarvis is giving him a hug...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:50:20 -0400

midorieyes:

#It’s like jarvis is giving him a hug edgvfsdfrgvfrsd

Who would you want to play, if you can pick anyone? [X]

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:23:15 -0400

Who would you want to play, if you can pick anyone? [X]

thefaulttinourstars: afeastforkings: In which the bear is...

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:48:02 -0400

thefaulttinourstars:

afeastforkings:

In which the bear is tumblr

The second gif is so perfect