Happy Valentine's Day, Friends! 💜

Love these two so much 😭

Hozier with Trinity Orchestra (playing Arcade Fire), September 22nd 2011 📸 Sophie Murphy

"It's beautiful."

Mechanical snencils

YES THE FACT THAT he knows the stigma around cannibalism and then feeds other people other people just to reassure himself that it is something people shouldn’t be as scared of as they are. The objection people have to human meat is morality but in Hannibal’s mind they are less than people because of their Rudeness or transgressions so there’s no moral dilema. Not that there had to be because yes he did eat his sister and was probably really destroyed by it, so he ate Rude people to justify how he felt about it. AND THEN HE NEEDS TO DO IT TO OTHERS !

But then when Will comes around here is a person whom he wants to let in and so the feeding becomes love. He wants Will to know him and know what he’s done so he gifts Will the good sides of the cannibalism that he’s discovered. There is the murder aspect of it which I think is just a fun side to it, the hunting and viewing yourself as a superior predator and whatnot. But he wants Will to love and know him so he gives Will the one thing that he has. (And nothing bad happens and they drive off into the sunset together.)

I often think about how Hannibal tricked people into cannibalism. it’s really easy to right this off as Hannibal just being sick and twisted, a psychopath, but its clearly something much deeper than that to Hannibal. Not only because he’s lonely and wants someone to understand him, enjoy this with him, but to console himself. He was forced to eat his own sister whom he loved and he enjoyed it. Every time he watches someone else enjoy it he feels righteous, he feels normal.

He does it to prove to himself he’s not a monster. Anyone else would feel the same in his situation. So he forces people over, and over, and over, to the same conclusion.

To comfort the sad little boy inside filled with doubt.

ah yes, my nightly pre-sleep ritual of cracking every bone in my body so that I might prepare them for the sleep when they will never move again.

hozier - unreal unearth tour @ dublin’s 3arena - 22 december 2023

(all pics taken by me, feel free to use w/ credit! <3)

If I saw you every day, forever, Will I would remember this time

the best part of the social worker in the horse situation isn't even that there was a social worker in a horse or that dr hannibal b cannibal was disgusted by it or even the really gay ass hannigram scene immediately after. it's that hannibal deadass told the social worker to get back in the horse because suffocating inside a horse is preferable to any situation in which will graham has a gun

source digital trans archive (dated 1962)