David Tennant Doesn't Know How To Half-ass A Kiss. If/when We Finally Get A Good Kiss Between Crowley

Franz Kafka, 1912

See, our first mistake was trying to have a civilization in northern Europe between October and February. The darkest three months of the year should be for staying home under the blankets, midwinter festivals, and getting blind drunk when the sun goes down at 4 pm like the bog gods intended.

長月 (Nagatsuki) "September" (archaic)

Like many countries, Japan uses a 12-month calendar. The names are very simple. January is literally "Month one", February is "Month two", etc:

一月 = January

二月 = February

However, before the Meiji Restoration (mid-1800s) it was common to use an older 12-month system. These months’ names referenced the weather and the seasons (similar to the French Revolutionary calendar).

This old system is based on a lunar calendar with exactly 28 days in each month, beginning and ending on the new moon. 

September is 長月:

長 = long

月 = month

So literally, "the long month".

In September the nights get longer, and we can enjoy the beautiful harvest moon. The September full moon sees the arrival of the Moon Viewing Festival, celebrated in many East Asian countries including Japan, in which it is traditional to enjoy the beautiful moon whilst eating white mochi (rice cakes). 🎑

“i don’t get hannibal lecter” it’s about being the worst person in the world and yet someone still loves you despite it and it’s about convincing yourself you’re fine living your life alone and never truly connecting with anyone until someone comes along and you realize you could never live without them now and it’s about caring about someone so deeply that all you want now is for them to truly see you and it’s about how your devotion is so crushing and deep that you’d go to lengths of even self-destruction just to keep them around so you can keep loving them. “but he’s a cannibal” lol yeah

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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

soft zaundads...

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I am neither Team "Aziraphale Is The Asshole" nor am I Team "Aziraphale Defense Squad."

I'm the secret third option: Team "Aziraphale is a flawed complicated messy traumatized character who has frequently fucked things up and made morally questionable choices and I'm rooting for him anyway because I don't think any of those things make him unforgivable, the bad guy, or undeserving of a happy ending. But he still did those things and I'm not interested in explaining them away as something else, actually, because a flawed protagonist who has fucked things up but still gets there in the end and is loved and forgiven is really important to me, actually."

But that's not quippy enough, I guess. Maybe I'll start a one-person effort to popularize a tag like "flawed protagonist aziraphale" or "let aziraphale have flaws" or something else in that vein.

I don't know, the more polarized and shouty this site gets about Aziraphale the more depressing it is and the less I want to post about GO (other than to reblog all the delightful fanart I get to see on here, y'all are so talented sdfklghskjfg). I came here because I thought this at least had a slim chance of being the nuanced conversations site but it's kind of becoming a drag.

Early s3 in my hannibal rewatch and I cant stop thinking about what if hannibal or will had kissed one another at any point in mizumono, but especially as will was bleeding out in hannibals arms.

Hannibal, feeling wills blood drain out of him, hearing it, his shuddering breaths in his ear. Keeping him standing by the hold of his arms around him. Knowing he's saying goodbye so he kisses him, maybe on the cheek? It would probably be the least of Wills concerns in that moment, but it would leave as permanent an affect on his mind as the affect of the stab wound on his body.

Will, taking shaky breaths, barely standing were it not for hannibal, knowing he may never see him again, feeling the blood and the life drain out of him. Why keep up the facade in death? Its hitting him how different this could have ended. It could have ended in a way that allowed for more but it didn't, because will couldnt do the "right" thing. He has to turn his head only slightly for his lips to be against hannibals cheek. The motion a ghost of the future he denied them both.

Anyway I'm very normal about them.

hate that mads mikkelsen hannibal has an ipad because an apple store would kill that man but even worse is that anthony hopkins hannibal would’ve fucking loved one. that’s an ipad kid right there. mads hannibal should be reading articles on parchment whilst hopkins hannibal’s playing zoo story 2. it’s a tragedy they were each born in the wrong time