If only. 😆

With @granpappy-winchester‘s Basic Chickens Week almost upon us @victorineb and I are starting to think about writing things. But being the kind of people who want character and context in order to really get to grips with writing them… we’re doing the unthinkable. Tonight we are attempting to watch Basic Instinct 2 from beginning to end. We both have copies ready to press play as soon as the wine is poured and the popcorn pings… and we will be blogging about it. If anyone wants to join us or has seen it and wants to respond to anything we witter on about, please do. 

We’re ready Fannibals, and so is Elias!

So, in addition to the horror of subjecting ourselves to this shitshow of a movie, I have suffered an additional tragedy:

The horror.

… I will popcorn for the both of us @victorineb 

Merlot and salted popcorn, Hannibal approves I’m sure!

*presses play*

*gulp*

I, on the other hand, am sticking with this classy beverage:

I’m no prude, but I gotta say… the opening to this movie is both sploosh and antisploosh… Sharon Stone just made a man give her what looked to be a terrible fingering whilst she drove and then ditched the car in a river… WTF?!

My reactions thus far:

“Ahhhhhh omg, it’s RB from Utopia!”

“Lupid has arrived.”

“Sharon Stone looks like she was created in a computer. Uncanny valley, baby.”

“Ooh, sweary Irish Lupin.”

I thought Lupin was going for Welsh… *adjusts volume*

oh it’s that guy who isn’t Doctor Who… he’s clearly already interested

Are we going to learn any character names by the end of this? I don’t feel like it is a requirement… And why does Sharon look like she’s chewing bees…

WAIT

HUUUGHHHHHHHHHHH *spies back of Hugh’s head*

Sharon needs to watch Hannibal for tips on her poker face. She couldn’t look any more smugly guilty if she tried.”

Oh man, this is gonna be minor British actor bingo. That lawyer was in Teachers many years ago.

David Morrissey’s all “Grrrr, I am principled and stern and I’m gonna get all up in that the second I get the chance.”

HUUUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHH! ENGLISH HUGH!

His real accent does things to me.

I… had actually no idea what nationality Adam as until now XD

So…. Sharon is addicted to risk *nods* I think they mean she’s an asshole…

I miss Hugh.

Ok, Morrissey’s just gonna eye bang every female in the place, huh?

And, of course, every female is just dtf his soulful, grumpy, averagely attractive bones.

Ok, they hired a guy to play Adam’s assistant because… Hugh couldn’t be bothered to turn up to set that day? Not that I blame him.

OMG his office is in the actual gherkin. He works in the biggest phallic object in the known world. Clearly, this film is highly concerned with subtlety.

Hannibal and Will had more chemistry discussing gruesome murders than these two have discussing actual fantasies. Though, tbf, they would have more chemistry discussing Hannibal’s choice in upholsterer.

She’s wearing a jumpsuit. How’s she gonna pull off her famous move in one of those?

POP CROTCH JUMPSUIT!

Also spawnling woke up he’s now joined the watch

Sharon and not-the-doctor both have the charisma of wet lettuce. more Hugh please! Is the rest of this movie just their therapy sessions? Because I’d be down for a Hannibal movie of that… but this…

Is this the time to admit I’ve never seen BI1 and all I know is that it was briefly responsible for Sharon Stone’s coochie being the biggest star of the 80s?

I think David might want to fuck Sharon. I mean, they’re being real subtle about it, but… *insert lecherous shot of Sharon Stone’s bod every three seconds*

Grrr, they keep mentioning Hugh but not showing him. Teases.

SHE SAID THE TITLE SHE WINS THE PRIZE!

I’m sure i watched it but cant remember or blocked it from my mind…

ok… so the “plot” is Sharon is addicted to risk. That might kill people. Morrisey is her psychiatrist and wants to bang her. Hugh is investigating some murders…

FYI typing with sleeping spawn on lap is hard!

Hair guy is back. He is magnificent. He is second only to Hugh in my affections.

Shock. Sharon doesn’t like rules. Because following the rules doesn’t get you laid. I’m not making this up. This is actual dialogue.

David Morrissey: *exists*. Womankind: *spreads legs*. Apparently.

Well, this is a sex scene in which someone is imagining fucking the psycho murderer they can’t help but want. And yet, something’s missing. Not David’s ass, that’s definitely present. No, it’s… oh, I know, no Wendigo.

Damn, Dave, don’t pull out like that, you’ll do her a mischief.

WAIT.

WAIT!

HUGH IS FUCKING DEAD ALREADY?! WHY ARE WE WATCHING THIS?

#HUGHDANCYDESERVESBETTER

He just saw a chance to get tied up like Mads and decided to take it. I can think of no other reason he’s in this movie.

omg NOOOOOOOOOOO

He was so cute and underused.

Maybe he asked to be let off the rest of filming. Maybe Mads was filming near by so they could hang out (of their pants) together. 💖🐻🐶💖

IS LUPIN WELSH?!?!?!

David is angry ( he loved Hugh!)

Sharon is glad Hugh is dead. Sharon is not my fave.

David doesn’t deserve Hugh. He is not fit to gaze upon his beauty. *sobs*

Sharon, sweetie, if you put the chair in front of it, it defeats the purpose.

I think… and this is just a theory… that David is not a very nice person.

Adam was a nice person. *mourns*

Ginger waitress knows something is wrong because Dave is not actively perving on her. She will solve this by sexing him.

Oh look, I’m psychic.

POSSIBLY WELSH LUPIN IS BACK!

so… he’s a sex addict right?! “PLOT” TWIST!

Lupin could be Northern…

I still have no idea what Hugh was meant to be investigating, but he actually seems important to the “plot”

SOMEBODYATE ALL MY POPCORN

“SOMEBODY ATE ALL MY POPCORN.” RECKONING!

I miss Hugh so much.

He went the way of all scarf wearing cuties.

THE RETURN OF HAIR GUY, PERHAPS HE CAN EASE MY SORROW!

“Come with me, you’ll enjoy it.” WHAT DO YOU THINK SHE MEANS BY THAT?

David is not listening to hair guy, he is wondering if he can have that kind of party with Sharon and Charlotte Rampling. David is a garbage human. ALWAYS PAY ATTENTION TO HAIR GUY!

My beer is gone. Hair guy is gone. HUGH IS GONE. HOW CAN I COPE WITH ALL THIS TRAGEDY?!

If it helps the room got dark and I can’t see my wine and I don’t want to move in case I hit it over

Oh GOD David is rescuing Sharon from a risky situation in a dominatrix parlour/orgy.

WHAT IS THIS MOVIE?!

AND WHY DID HUGH HAVE TO DIE BEFORE ALL THE SOFT CORE PORN??!

Oh no, Sharon’s getting a good fuck!

David is totes jealous. He has no idea how to sex like that *refers you back to the two previous sex scenes*

I THOUGHT RAMPLING WAS HIS MOTHER?!?

Lupin is definitely, maybe, Northern

or Welsh

Oh no, Dave has caught feelings.

No, he’s Welsh. Probably. Maybe.

I’ll give him this: Dave knows how to rock a coat. Still can’t compare to Adam and his scarf magic though.

LUTHER! She’s Luther’s wife! That’s been bugging me all movie.

Quit fictionally marrying unstable blokes, love, it’s not doing your fictional life expectancy any favours.

See? See?

OH DEAR!

I have no quip about that, she genuinely seemed nice, for a 2 dimensional fictional character who was clearly going to die sooner rather than later

Every time Lupin is on I have to turn up the volume?!?

Stop mumbling lad!

FOUND THE WINE

and not by knocking it over. By instinct!

Basic Instinct!

I said the title too, do I get a prize?

Is my prize to stop watching?

I have no idea how long we’ve been watching for. I no longer have any concept of time.

Maybe Hanners could have used this movie for his time-travel equations: it’s so terrible it actually warps the time/space continuum.

Continuum is a hard word to spell when there’s booze inside you.

Oh look, the movie’s still happening. Yay.

Oh just fuck and kill each other already you boring narcissistic twats.

Raise your hand if you’ve been personally victimised by Sharon Stone’s nipples.

*raises hand*

*slaps self in face*

I DON’T KNOW WHY I CAN SEE SHARON’S NIPPLES THROUGH THAT SHIRT, I JUST KNOW I DON’T LIKE IT!!!

oh good. Inevitable and awkward sex. he doesn’t look any happier having a belt around his neck

Dear lord this is terrible

I never before drew up a list of people I don’t want to watch fucking, but these guys just got a bingo

Lupin’s back. *turns up volume*

Lost my wine again. it’s somewhere in the dark, on the dark carpet. In darkness.

I miss my beer.

Also Hugh.

I shouldn’t start on the wine, right?

That would be bad.

HUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!

Only a picture but still, I’m in a Dancy desert and this is my oasis.

Jesus, what proof was that beer?

6.5%. Pfft. It’s not the booze, this movie has killed my brain.

I can feel myself getting dumber with each frame.

Awwwwww, Hugh’s assistant is sad that he’s dead. Me too, bro. Me too.

Insulin? What? I have no idea what’s happening. I only know the Hugh-shaped void in my heart.

Maybe he was born in Yorkshire and raised in Wales?

Or he just watched a lot of Ivor the Engine as a kid?

if it’s any consolation I think the end is soonish? (Chapter 24/29)

If this were a fic it would be tagged for “references to Adam Towers”

omg, they are in the (brothel?) and David is giving the ladies such gross looks. Like… these ladies wouldn’t go there even if you paid them!

I have a menu thing stuck on my screen now. But I found my wine again. WHEN WILL THIS END?!

So now he’s protecting Sharon? He’s such a dick.I don’t get movies where the leads are not likable characters. I literally give zero fucks about this guy. BRING BACK HUGH!

So tempted to wake up hubby for his opinion on Lupin’s accent - he’s good with accents.

I probably shouldn’t

Or. should I?

Nobody should lose sleep over this movie.

Except for the people who made it.

They don’t deserve sleep. They treated Hugh wrong.

Remember when I was looking up Twilight quotes the other day? Even they look good by comparison to Sharon’s writing.

“Adam was insufferable.” ADAM WAS TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD SHARON I HOPE YOU DROWN IN YOUR OWN JACUZZI.

Hannibal was way more convincing with the whole “murder is totally sexy” bit.

By comparison, Sharon makes murder look approximately as sexy as, well, murder.

Sigh. He didn’t kill her. You had ONE JOB, Dave.

What’s going on with his (possibly) mum??

why didn’t he kill sharon when he had the chance?I wanted to watch this to get context… I am so baffled

OMG HE SHOT LUPIN!! Now we’ll never work out his accent!

DAMMIT DAVE YOU CAN’T DO ANYTHING RIGHT!

Dave rocking the “sweaty and unstable” Will Graham 2013 look.

So, she orchestrates murders so that she can write novels based on them?

But, if she’s orchestrating them, she already has the plot in her head?

So… she could just write them and cut out all the murder?

HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!

STOP TRYING TO APPLY YOUR LOGIC!!!

but why him? what did she have against him to do all this to poor David? Other than him being an asshole womaniser?

Oh ok, I’m down with that

just… thank fuck that’s over. *pours more wine* 

Normally, I would be very happy with a movie where the femme fatale outwits the feckless fucker of a male and gets away with everything and yet, somehow, this has robbed me of that joy.

Also of Hugh.

HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!

I paid money to watch that. I need to reevaluate my entire life now.

Vic! It cost 1p plus postage!!

THAT IS STILL MONEY!

I’m never getting this time back and I don’t feel any better informed. Lol. Ah well. It was a wild ride. What with all the losing wine and finding it again. Oh and the movie. Yeah… the movie… happened.

So, in conclusion, don’t be like me and Tiger. We may never be the same after this harrowing experience. Be smart kids, stick to gifs of the stupidly pretty, tragically underused, true star of this movie, Adam Towers (and his scarf). We shall avenge his death by letting him bang as many Madses as he wants.

(As requested, @rosekay2016 <3)

So say we all! *is tempted to click the extras* *ejects dvd* FLEE ADAM! RUN TO YOUR ELIAS! !!! !

@victorineb and @desperatelyseekingcannibals you guys crack me up  - that was hilarious. I feel like we should force you to watch more crappy movies for us!!

Awesome. Suddenly my day got a whole load better.

I actually know someone in Basic Instinct 2. I hesitate to say ‘acting’. They’re in it though. Sadly I know no one in the Danish film industry.

@le-wendigogo 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 @victorineb @desperatelyseekingcannibals thanks for taking one for the team!

This is the most hilarious thing I have read ALL WEEK.

The beast is unleashed.

Do NOT mess with Hannibal’s mongoose.

*shining anime eyes*

Gold and silver alloy (Electrum) belt with fastening at rear and attached apron frame. The frame originally held netting decorated with gold beads and cloisonne floral motifs from the mummy of King Shoshenq II, 3rd Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, c. 890 BC, Tanis. Now at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

Because I’m a buffoon, I thought that was a necklace of some sort, and got all ready to scream “FIC/ART WITH WILL WEARING THIS NOW!!!”

…and then noticed it was a belt.

(insp.)

my heart

I regret to inform all you good folk of the tragic death of my feelings, aged nine hundred and forty-two years.

Hi, my name is Clo and I’m obsessed (also, @thisismydesignhannibal inspired me, so… this is kind of a shared culpability…<; )

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This is so fantastically gorgeous

hannibal is burglar canon??

remember cassie boyle’s death and how she was mounted on a stag head, and at the crime scene jack crawford was like “a stag head reported missing…” smh bruhh that means hannibal snuck into someone’s house and fuckng stole a stag head jesus christ

Never mind he took Cassie Boyle’s lungs while she was still breathing, and made them into sausage to feed Will Graham for breakfast. 

Well doing that is very Hannibal. Monstrous but with flair.

Plain old burglary is just so…plebeian.

I need someone to draw burglar Hannibal sneaking out from someone’s house carrying a stag head on his shoulder

I love that we don’t even bat an eye at hannibal murdering, mutilating, cooking and serving people but them someone goes “wait did hannibal steal shit?” and suddenly we’re all shocked. this fandom, i swear

Okay, but if the head was reported missing, that means Hannibal didn’t kill the original owner…which means he didn’t get caught…which means that he’s not only a burgler but a good one.  He successfully snuck a full stag’s head out of somewhere without anyone seeing.

HOW DID HE TRANSPORT IT????  DOES HE OWN A TRUCK???

Btw, if anyone is ever looking for some dirty kinky, and/or super dark, angsty, fucked up fic prompts, feel free to hit me up.  Cause I’ve got, like…a lot of those and am more than willing to share.  Just give me a pairing and a general idea of what you’re in the mood for, and maybe let me know any squicks you wanna stay away from.      

@ofdvorakanddastardlyschemes hit me up based to ask for a prompt, and we ended up having a great time chatting, so thanks to them, and shout out to anyone else who might be interested not to feel shy–I swear, I don’t bite!  Much ;-D

It was an EXCELLENT chat.  And I’ve already written about 1000 more words of fic than I’ve been able to manage ALL

BLOODY

YEAR

Hannibal Harry Potter AU (Hufflepuff)

Some of you might think Will is a Hufflepuff. @imaginedifference

See, now, I look at this and I think 'O_O WILL AT AN EXCLUSIVE CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN FRANCE dear fuck Hannibal is going to destroy him I want.'

The Abel Gideon flashbacks are the most important scenes in Antipasto and here's why.

I have a laundry list of things that have happened off-camera in two seasons of Hannibal that I wanted to see, and what happened to Abel Gideon during the time he was Hannibal’s prisoner was not one of them. Hannibal kidnapped Abel Gideon, fed him his own leg and then used his diminished almost-corpse to frame Chilton for the Ripper murders. We saw how Gideon ended up, Hannibal did it, what more is there to know?

A lot, it appears. This was the highlight of the episode for me and in many ways the most important scenes.

Antipasto was about aesthetic. The present-day Italy scenes are the outside of the package—music, champagne, pretty clothes, dancing with a beautiful woman, bisexual poets for the asking—everything looks so glamorous.

In contrast you have the scenes with Gideon, not even depicted in the softly desaturated way that other flashbacks have been (Miriam Lass’ attack), but in stark black and white. These are the other side of the same cannibalistic coin. 

The truth is, these scenes come the closest to depicting the inner state of Hannibal’s soul: a dinner table unmoored in black space, and a basement festooned with severed limbs and crawling with snails. Dark shadows swallowing details of his surroundings, turning his sumptuous house cell-like and bare, and an unstoppable voice flatly telling him the truths he denies himself.

The torture of Gideon seems perfunctory. Maybe it’s the rendering in gloomy Scandinavian-art-film level of black and white, but there is little joy in Hannibal’s torture of him. Gideon refuses to be terrorized. Ostensibly, Hannibal is torturing Gideon, but it is Hannibal who squirms as Gideon fidgets with the silverware and verbally hits bull’s-eye after bull’s-eye. This harshness of the black and white is especially appropriate because Gideon is being sharp as a blade in his necropsy of Hannibal and Will’s relationship.

Will is still in jail, but he is in these conversations in spirit, his unseen presence as real in the dining room as it is in the bedroom with Alana.

Gideon tells him a few things that, taken together, were prophetic. He tells Hannibal he is lonely, and that he might be the hunted someday. Gideon predicts that it’s only a matter of time that the wheel turns and Hannibal is on the receiving end of tooth and claw.

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@ofdvorakanddastardlyschemes yes, have another! 😄😄

NOOOOH HELL MY FEELINGS

I know all this is true. I REALISE that this is Gideon's role in that episode. But dammit it still aggravates me every time I mentally relive that episode! I feel frustrated with Gideon for continuing to pop up through the episode, and for refusing to be satisfyingly tormented. I feel uncomfortably pinned by Gideon's statements and by a reversal of power that would be savory if it were with Will, but is unsettling and almost anxiety-inducing with Gideon. It's not even a slow, subtle, psychological grapple for power-- Hannibal is just stuck, like a butterfly on the end of a needle. And then, of course, there's the ever-present 'OKAY, WHERE THE HELL IS MY WILL ALREADY???' (I'm sure none of you noticed anything like that in my write-up of the episode.)

I suppose my point (wait, I'm supposed to be making a point here??) is that with this entire episode, not least of which is the Gideon dinners, Bryan Fuller pushes us so far into Hannibal's head that we can't even properly analytically appreciate how clever and effective this was for the duration. Or. Well. It seems other people can. By the end of it I'm about ready to make soup out of someone to try to relieve the overpowering frustration and want.

Hugh out and about in New York - July 2017. Original photo sourced from www.hughdancydaily.com.

Is this just me, or is this reminding anyone else of Anthony Hopkins?

Archive your fandom stuff

As we sit on the cusp of changes to the Internet, after your other activities to support Internet freedom, archive your fandom stuff.

Save the electronic files of your favorite online fandom works. Consider print-outs of your favorite online material. And save paper ephemera from fandom events.

Why save? Because you put the effort into a fanwork. Because you may be surprised when a fandom stays alive for years, or gets revived, or when an academic asks to cite your work. Because it’s stupidly hard to find items on Tumblr. Because, lo, in ages past, many fandom archives have risen and fallen, taking favorite fics off the ‘Net. Because it made you happy, makes you remember. Because you never know.

What can you save?

Behind the cut…saving from Tumblr and AO3, delving into lost web sites, how to save computer files for the long term, and why I’m glad I saved physical fandom items from 10+ years ago.

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I just found this near the bottom of my drafts pile, and I know it’s hella late, but in the spirit of ‘every little bit helps,’ here.

Hannibal folding the Vitruvian Man, the “perfect man,” into a heart. 

And these scenes are played alongside the shots of the “body” heart in the Capella Palatina, which Hannibal made for Will:

Will is Hannibal’s perfect man, his heart. The Beatrice to his Dante. 

But, look at that heart there in the Norman Chapel. It’s being held up by three swords. The thrice pierced heart is a tarot card, one frequently used in readings about romantic relationships/lovers. Tarot has a rich history in Italy.

This are all things of which Hannibal would definitely be aware. Symbolism is never lost on him, and always intentional. 

This is the Three of Swords. In it’s upright position, as we see above, it means “Painful separation, sorrow, heartbreak, grief, and rejection.” 

S2 finale, anyone?

But, notice how the Norman Chapel heart is actually in the reversed position? Like this:

In the reversed position, the Three of Swords means “releasing pain, optimism, and forgiveness.” 

Will understands. 

“Betrayal and forgiveness are best seen as something akin to falling in love.”

**This was all INTENTIONAL. The cast and crew knew what they were building towards. Hannibal’s entire existance is layered with subtext and symbolism, and so is this show. I’ve never see a story more beautiful in my life. Hannigram is canon, and WE NEED S4!**

OH MY GOD I’M HAVING EMOTIONS 😭

I’m just gonna reblog this and need to say no more. Oh my heart 😩 oh…

Oh my God, it’s my old meta under my original blog!! @not-a-bit-good @blind-inviting-alleys THANK YOU TO WHOMEVER FOUND THIS AGAIN. I’ve been looking for this for FOREVER. ❤❤❤❤❤ If anyone else finds my old Hannibal metas under the charlesanderik2016 handle, PLEASE tag me! 😀

Interesting and insightful! I especially appreciated the tarot card bit, as that’s a subject I’m less familiar with than I ought to be. My interpretation, though, as far as the Vitruvian Man scene went, was that the ‘perfect man’ referred to Dimmond– and, hear me out, here’s why: 

It seemed to me the significance of Dimmond’s character was that in addition to a Will lookalike, he represented everything Hannibal would have wanted (or thought he wanted) in a partner before Will came into the picture. He’s academic, urbane, conscious of politeness but also not restrained by the rules of polite society, loves metaphor, is about as European and stylish as Hannibal could want, manipulative, not only fine with but INTRIGUED by Hannibal’s murder game, wants the hell out of Hannibal, and seems like he would really enjoy casual murder puns in public. 

Perfect for Hannibal, right? Could be a confidant and a compatriot in everything he enjoys. But now that Will has come along and stolen Hannibal’s heart? Dimmond is just WRONG. ALL wrong, because he’s not Will. He’s a complete subversion and a mockery of everything Will is. He’s no longer the original, the standard to be measured by, Will is. So Hannibal takes his perfect man, his ideal match, and offers him up to Will as his heart.

Any way you interpret it, it’s a rather incredibly poignant and grandiose gesture; that’s just the way I looked at it.  :)

@vulcanplomeeksoup

Very important Do we have Hugh’s, ‘cause the fics go both ways @le-wendigogo I’ll have ao3 account soon. I promised to write a decent comment for the Death Hawk AU ;“”“)))

You, my friend, have done me a great service.

Alternate timeline where Will runs away with Hannibal to Florence. 

They were interrupted by Commendatore Pazzi during a hair wash. Will watches from the bathroom while Hannibal opens the door. 

I NEED TO LIVE IN THIS TIMELINE

I LIVE HERE NOW

Damn, Slippy. Just… damn.

I just went so quickly through the stages of “I have no recollection of writing this”, “hey this is pretty good someone should write this”, “hey this is pretty good I should write this,” “oh god I would have to learn so much about shipbuilding and sailing to write this,” and now I remember why I never wrote this.

Um, EXCUSE ME, you did write this, and it’s just about perfect as-is.

Why it’s important to recognize Will rescues strays

So here’s why I think it’s such a disservice to Will Graham as a character to joking dismiss his interaction with Winston as “stealing” as opposed to rescuing.[*]

We’ve seen Jack drag Will, very reluctantly, into the initial Shrike investigation. 

And Will has just had a Very Bad Horrible No Good Day. He’s had to interview the parents of a missing young woman, when he’s pretty certain she’s probably already dead. 

He then discovered the dead body of that young woman – in her own bed – in front of her father. He had to find a way to prevent her father from disrupting the crime scene, while having full awareness of just how horrific this had to be for her father. 

He had to reconstruct the horrific murder of this young woman, and be disrupted during that process by someone who had to remind him that he wasn’t mentally stable enough to be a full time FBI agent. And then there’s Zeller being all Zeller in his space. 

Oh, and the first signs of his encephalitis making him feel unaccustomedly bad after the reconstruction, starting to mainline aspirin. 

So, after a day that is pretty fucking horrible, and having to fly home, he finally gets into his car to drive home – and he sees a stray dog with a rope around its neck.

He can ignore the dog. He can just go home and go to sleep. But he doesn’t. He tries to engage the dog. Running around with a goddamn rope tied around its neck. 

He could call animal control, and just go home. But he doesn’t. Despite being more tired and stressed than anyone should have to deal with, he goes and gets treats, and coaxes the dog to come to him. 

And takes the obviously ill-treated stray dog home. And then gives the dog a proper grooming. And then, being a concerned dog owner, doesn’t just let it loose among his existing pack, but gives the dog a safe space of its own while introducing it. 

Can you imagine how tired Will was? What a horrific day he’d had? And yet he still found the energy to connect with Winston, and introduce Winston to his new family. 

That’s who Will Graham is. That’s the Will Graham who will become concerned about Abigail Hobbs, and Georgia Madchen, and Margot Verger. That’s the Will Graham who will be angry about the Lost Boys who gave away their families. That’s the Will Graham who will torment himself over enjoying killing Garret Jacob Hobbs. 

So to dismiss his behavior as “dog thief” is to miss the whole point of what it says about who Will Graham really is. 

—

[*] you can certainly find me making/reblogging jokes about Will Graham, dog thief, and I undoubtedly will again. There are fandom shorthand jokes we know are jokes, but occasionally it’s useful to revisit the core character. 

AAAAAAND, falling for S1 Will Graham all over again.