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100 days of enemy recs: 36. Hannibal
I did in fact read Silence of the Lambs, decades ago in college, in my earliest X-Files phase when I was reading everything profiler-related I could find, but honestly it did not make much of an impression on me. The serial killer stuff I could get by reading Mulder whumpfic and actual profiler memoirs was better anyway. And by that point Hannibal's cultural impact was already enough that the book could never live up to what I'd imagined.
I suspect the Hannibal TV show has more of what I want in serial killer stories! It sounds like a show that knows exactly what people are there for and goes hard for it. But I also suspect I would be really bad at watching the show, in that I would be annoyed by the lack of useful lighting in the cinematography, unable to follow what was going on at any given time because it expects its watchers to pay attention, far more interested than the show in the killer-of-the-week puzzles, and frustrated at what happens to all the secondary characters I like. So I haven't even tried it.
I do read fic though! An urbane cannibalistic serial killer and a scruffy profiler hanging onto sanity with his fingertips, mutually obsessed with each other in an unfinishable homoerotic chase that switches polarity at unpredictable intervals: what's not to love? Well. I guess some people can't take the gore and cannibalism and torture and manipulation and, okay, I suppose it is kind of a fandom for very particular tastes. Even I have a problem with a lot of the fic because I don't *mind* if the food (in a story) is people, but I want to *know* if the food is people, and you can't always *tell*.
I read fic in this fandom when I am in a very particular mood and have recs to lead me to the specific kind of fic I want to read, so here is another Extremely Specific Recs set, being 'Hannibal/Will AUs summarized by the old joke about the man who picks up a hitchhiker and says "Don't you feel unsafe? How do you know I'm not a serial killer?" and the hitchhiker says, "Because the odds that we're *both* serial killers are astronomical!"'
(Only two more fandoms with a Hannibal left on the list after this.):
I suspect the Hannibal TV show has more of what I want in serial killer stories! It sounds like a show that knows exactly what people are there for and goes hard for it. But I also suspect I would be really bad at watching the show, in that I would be annoyed by the lack of useful lighting in the cinematography, unable to follow what was going on at any given time because it expects its watchers to pay attention, far more interested than the show in the killer-of-the-week puzzles, and frustrated at what happens to all the secondary characters I like. So I haven't even tried it.
I do read fic though! An urbane cannibalistic serial killer and a scruffy profiler hanging onto sanity with his fingertips, mutually obsessed with each other in an unfinishable homoerotic chase that switches polarity at unpredictable intervals: what's not to love? Well. I guess some people can't take the gore and cannibalism and torture and manipulation and, okay, I suppose it is kind of a fandom for very particular tastes. Even I have a problem with a lot of the fic because I don't *mind* if the food (in a story) is people, but I want to *know* if the food is people, and you can't always *tell*.
I read fic in this fandom when I am in a very particular mood and have recs to lead me to the specific kind of fic I want to read, so here is another Extremely Specific Recs set, being 'Hannibal/Will AUs summarized by the old joke about the man who picks up a hitchhiker and says "Don't you feel unsafe? How do you know I'm not a serial killer?" and the hitchhiker says, "Because the odds that we're *both* serial killers are astronomical!"'
- Astronomical Odds (2562 words) by xzombiexkittenx
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hannibal (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter
Additional Tags: Serial Killer Will Graham, Pre-Season 1 AU, Hitchhiking
Series: Part 2 of Bad jokes and alternate professions
Hannibal may be traveling for work, but he can stop for an intriguing hitchhiker. - Black Rock Mountain (23964 words) by bokunojinsei
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hannibal (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter
Characters: Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter
Additional Tags: Explicit Sexual Content, Explicit Language, Alternate Universe - Serial Killers, Blood and Gore, Minor Original Character(s), Murder, Rough Sex, Disturbing Themes, Cannibalism, Dark Will
Series: Part 1 of Hitchhiker's Guide to Murder
Hannibal may be traveling for pleasure, but he can make a stop for an intriguing hitchhiker.
(Only two more fandoms with a Hannibal left on the list after this.):