hell is other people

i hate to be that guy, but the idea that gender, sex, and sexuality are ontologically pure concepts that can be rigidly defined if we simply police our language enough (our english language, because of course) is—i cannot stress this enough—a total waste of time. you may as well spend your afternoons teaching a brick how to swim

I think about this old tweet...a LOT

average friendship

yeah sure read Stone Butch Blues to understand he/him lesbians but don’t forget the unionizing your workplace part

Bitch I don’t even know you. And you’re a deer.

unfortunately i have to see discourse on my dash every day that makes me think some of y'all are really only posturing about the whole being a gender weirdo freak thing

"can you treat a trans woman as an equal if she has visible facial hair, or a trans man who has visible breasts?" is a good starting point but let me ask you some more questions.

could you have a normal conversation with a 50 year old transsexual who still considers himself a mother to his son? can you be in community with retransitioners and genderqueer people with non-normative transition trajectories? can you have a nice chat with someone who was afab and calls themself transfemme, or with someone who was amab and calls themself transmasc?

and even more! do you welcome the guy in a dress who calls himself a transvestite and has been doing drag every saturday for the past 10 years to your pride parade? are you willing to hear out the young woman who had bottom surgery at 18 and now kinda wishes she didn't? do you actually respect the people who decide not to go on hrt or to get surgery due to their family's medical history?

they may be hypothetical to you, but those are the people i have met and hang out with every day.

and you might answer yes to all of these, obviously, but could you actually say that when actually meeting them? because i've seen for myself that, no, the hypothetical and reality don't always align.

thanks for the memories even if they werent so great like some say

I wish we would know more context about this scene. I believe Will didn't even call to announce that he was coming over. If he did then Hannibal would have had a great deal of time to change into something less casual. So I imagine Will just materialized in front of his door before going to work.

This is episode 5, it's pretty early and it just shows how comfortable they are with each other. Hannibal who is not taking his person suit in front of anyone, is wearing his bathrobe and his hair is messy and he looks very relaxed. It's probably 7 am and he doesn't mind having Will in his kitchen. He doesn't mind that Will sees him like that.

Cause Will sees already deeper than that. Listening to the way Will describes the Ripper was the proof that Will is the only person in the world who sees beyond his walls and suit.

And Will, Will doesn't have any friend and it doesn't seem like he has ever been close to someone. He is not sure what he did is socially acceptable (he excuses himself), this is something new for him and he is learning how this whole friendship thing works. But he was as well, comfortable enough with popping up on Hannibal's porch to talk about what's on bis mind.

And Hannibal listens. Hannibal makes coffee and listens.

I wanted to add to this with some script for you, OP! It confirms that Hannibal wasn't prepared, having been "roused from sleep."

Hannibal also makes the joke, "Although I may be, is it safe to assume you're not sleepwalking now?"

So the dude is still half-asleep lmao

New version of Hannibal, everything is the same except Hannibal dresses like this:

Lou Sullivan’s portrait for Jim Wigler’s exhibit Faces of AIDS. In total, the exhibit was of 101 people infected with the AIDS virus during the mid 1980’s. You can find all the portraits here.

“Yesterday I drove my motorcycle about 30 miles to Redwood City down the El Camino Real to see the photograph exhibit.

All 60 close-up facial photos Jim Wigler took of men (and 2 women) diagnosed with AIDS were on display in the San Mateo County Hall of Justice + will be [for another month]. He had black ribbons on 5 of them and it took me a while to realize that meant they were already dead.

I wanted to stand + stare at my photo and read the words over + over, but it seemed like everyone else there (and the place was mobbed) wanted to do the same thing. For sure people lingered looking at my photo, I’m sure because it was the first time they had ever seen a female-to-male, and my quote. There was a big close-up of my face, and beside it my name + age and “I am a female-to-male transsexual living as a gay man. AIDS was the last thing I expected—I haven’t had that many contacts. They told me at the gender clinic that I could not live as a gay man, but it looks like I will die as one.

I got the feeling several people “recognized” me, so I didn’t want to stand stare at my own photograph. But my face was so masculine and my eyes truly looked sad.”

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We Both Laughed In Pleasure

Lou Sullivan

fucking cryingg that from his coworkers' pov will doesn't have a personality

me when i log onto www.youtube.con

Me when i find out who killed the radio star

me when i'm a digital media exec in the 2010s trying to figure out what to pivot to