Getting You All A Barbie Cake For The 10 Year Anniversary Of Hannibal

BANGERRRR

yeah. that one joan of arc pose. anyways i don't like this one,, i like the line art thoufh

Hannibal literally stabbing a guy in the head: sorry guys my impulsive thoughts 🤪

“I don’t know if i can save myself…

maybe that’s just fine”

Tweet of the year

EXPLODING

I will start sobbing violently no one look at me

Poem by Natalie Wee

Avatar of the stranger but its just someone who makes an absurd amount of AI art and deepfakes.

Avatar of the flesh but its just someone who makes disturbing ads for PETA

Avatar of the eye but its just a huge comic nerd who’s constantly condescending about their knowledge to everyone

Avatar of the desolation but its just someone who purposefully messes with office/school microwaves, making them unusable

Avatar of the slaughter but its just a LARPer who’s wayyyyy too into the ‘fighting’

Avatar of the lonely but its just a gas station clerk who always takes the night shift by themselves

Avatar of the dark but its just an electrician who’s really really bad at their job

Avatar of the spiral but its just a clickbait YouTuber with really long videos and weirdly familiar but untraceable background music

Avatar of the corruption but its just someone who writes weird shipfics with awful, insidiously unhealthy relationship dynamics

Avatar of the end but its just a goth who hangs out at cemeteries that won’t stop death infodumping to random bereaved people

Avatar of the hunt but its just an edgy middle schooler who pretends to be a wolf and keeps winning at tag against kids who aren’t playing

Avatar of the web but its just a scam phone caller who’s good at getting old people who aren’t good with computers

Avatar of the buried but its just a construction worker who always has to be the first one to do any excavating or digging

Avatar of the vast but its just someone who makes religious talks about how large and all-encompassing their god/gods is/are

Avatar of the extinction but its just an artist who constantly makes climate change or pollution related exhibitions.

Apparently my magic trick was “very disturbing” and “off putting” and “joints and tongues aren’t supposed to go that way”

Hello Tumblr friends, apropos of nothing, I have a book recommendation for you.

If You Think You Would Enjoy:

First person narration that Does Something Cool With It

Urban fantasy that really leans into the urban aspect. The mundane beauty of the city made magical

London Man Investigates His Own Murder While Committing Several More Murders, more at 8

A protagonist who is just an absolute wet pathetic paper bag of a man and knows it

A protagonist(s) who are the exuberant and unhinged personification of telecommunications technology with an unparalleled zest for life and also sometimes murder

Both of those characters are technically the same person

The most breathtakingly gorgeous prose that has ever been used to describe a magically animated pile of garbage

A tone that I feel can reasonably be described as “gritty,” with its refusal to shy away from the blood and grime of reality, but that is also suffused with a deep unflinching love for everything that humanity is

A supporting cast that includes many of the world’s weirdest and most badass women

The protagonist getting beat up and/or stabbed and/or shot and almost dying at least twice per book

A reading experience not quite like any you have seen before or since

Then You Should Read:

The Matthew Swift series by Kate Griffin, starting with A Madness of Angels

If you love the city of London, you will love this book. If you have never been to the city of London, this book will show you what it looks like through the eyes of someone who loves it.

(And also what it looks like when embodied as a giant dragon made of street signs.)

I cannot emphasize enough the gorgeousness of this prose, the geniusness of the urban magic system, and the amount of love for London and for humanity that oozes out of this book. I am also fully convinced that Matthew Swift would be a tumblr blorbo if his books were not mostly out of print and very niche.

It can be a bit hard to get your hands on a physical copy—try thriftbooks or another online used bookseller, or call your friendly neighborhood bookstore and see if they can order it for you. Or just go for an ebook (maybe your library has it on Libby). It is absolutely worth the trouble.

Brief content note while I have you here: There is a fair amount of violence and it is sometimes very lovingly described. Also...don’t get too attached to side characters.

Go read it and then join the approximately 3 people on tumblr who know this book exists and are obsessed with it!!

Yknow, you only really hug the skin. Maybe the other organs are touch starved? Please hug a local liver, It’s feeling a bit lonely.

*Hannibal and Will having this deep, tender moment, looking into each others eyes in a way that was deeply romantic and heartfelt*

The man behind them that just got sewn into, and promptly crawled out of a dead horse: