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Season 5 RuPaul’s rag race thoughts

So I’ve had a couple of days to digest what I thought was the expected result of RuPaul’s Drag Race. I was #teamalaska since the first episode when she answered the question about how she’d dealt with Sharon Needles winning the crown that she had so longed for.

Well, in fairness, I think Alaska’s aim was only ever to be on the show. Winning the crown probably seemed like a distant reality. But whatever. I’d had a taste of her in season 4 and thought she was probably a nutjob. Jesus God was I right about that. All the best drag queens are.

Actually, back it up. I truly felt for her when she couldn’t sink. After years of trying to be on the show, it seemed tragic that she couldn’t complete the first mini challenge and I fretted that after all of that pining, she’d be out in the first without ever getting to shed the shadow of Sharon Needles.

Pretty compelling and dramatic stuff.

As the weeks went on, I fell more and more deeply in love. Not just with her spirit, but this sincerely punk rock vibe she brought and her genius writing and character ability. Rolaskatox was formed early and my expected favorite, Detox, was part of that. Yet, it was always Alaska’s performances that caught my attention and always Alaska whom I chewed my nails to the nub over.

Because, let’s face it. Those first weeks were seriously rough. She wasn’t in the bottom two but she was definitely in the bottom three. It seemed like just a matter of time before something went wrong for her and it all blew up in her face.

Except, it didn’t.

She ditched Rolaskatox, which I’d suspected that instead of being a meangirl clique, was mostly using Alaska’s originality and writing to see them through. Not that Detox should’ve needed the support but she did seem decidedly distracted through the second half of the season. Maybe it was exhaustion. She mentioned her father being sick and I do think that Ru’s triggering really did throw a lot of queens off. Except for Alaska. Needle’s appearance seemed to focus her.

Anyway.

Along the way, Jinkx also caught my eye. Not just for her performances and her improved fashion, but because Coco seemed to target her. Earlier in the season Coco tried the same sort of shit with Alaska. Lineysha Sparks called Alaska a disaster. But she did not fold, she did not cry. She deflected and called them rude. It was no fun to pick on Alaska Thunderfuck, who may not have been that self-assured, but she wasn’t letting those bitches see her sweat.

Jinkx was a little more vocal in her complaints. It was clear that when Coco came for her that it bothered her. It didn’t thow off her performances, but she was visibly upset. I believe that this is where Jinkx gained the upper hand. Queens that were mean to her represented every bully we’ve ever had and we all wanted to be Jinkx for standing up to them.

Roxxy called it Jinkx playing the victim, but that took two to tango. Jinkx let them see her sweat and the thing is, she did it in front of them and when the rabbit yelped, the foxes didn’t show up to help. I don’t personally believe that Jinkx was “playing” anything. She was genuinely hurt. And while I’m sure that people on the internet rising to her defense was flattering, if she’s half the person I believe her to be, her schadenfreude probably lasted right up until someone said that Roxxy’s mother was right to leave her at the bus stop.

And at a certain point, protecting Jinkx probably feels offensive. She’s a grown ass man. She stood up for herself. She didn’t let anyone put Baby in the corner. That’s why she’s worthy of the crown.

I just happen to feel that there was someone else worthier. Alaska stood up for herself. She accepted her partner’s success and rose above it to make her own. She came out in boy drag. She was hilarious in challenges and in the workrooms. She cried when it was appropriate, but never when it felt manipulative. She was, in general, a warm, awesome human being as well as crazy talented.

And, for me, Alaska is what I want from drag. Sass. Political incorrectness. Wild. Punk rock. Dirty subversive tempered with determination and a singular force of personality. I could argue that much of this is true to Jinkx, but reading other posts from people, I didn’t get the feeling that those are the reasons they voted for her.

The Cult of Nice is probably going to have a lot of the same problems with Jinkx as they do with Sharon Needles. Drag is, by nature, subversive. Edgy. It’s not JUST a guy in a dress but it is, more or less, a guy in a dress. By their very nature, they’re performing a revolutionary act in our culture to even go there in a dress. They’re meant to be provocative. They’re wired for it. If you’re not questioning your preconceived notions, they really are just a dude in a dress.

Speaking of… Roxxy. What the fuck. Not only, in the end, did she miss the point of drag, but her real tragedy wasn’t getting on the wrong side of Jinkx fans. It was not embracing the fact that she can be FUCKING FUNNY. As hilarious as Alaska and Jinkx, no. But Tossya Salad? That was awesome! As Taymar Braxton? Holy crap. Work it girl.

It’s not RuPaul’s Comedy Skit race. Roxxy didn’t have to be the funniest. She just needed to be funny enough. Instead she got all twisted and it affected her ability to be funny. She could be so much more than she is, she doesn’t even begin to comprehend her power. I hope this show taught her a lesson because with her polish and humor, she could rule it.

But, as it is, it’s Monsoon Season. I hope it’s a year that treats her with all of the love and kindness she deserves. And I hope that I get to meet Alaska Thunderfuck for reals at Woodlawn in October. I have a little something for her. I couldn’t afford her a crown but I have something that I think she’ll like better.

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Hannibal Feels: Entree

The episode starts in familiar territory. Before we meet Dr. Chilton, he’s already in charge of the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane where there are, in fact, other criminally insane people. What’s interesting about this episode and this series in general is how it echoes or foreshadows events that we know will eventually take place at least in the books. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Gideon fakes an injury and has taken up deep breathing techniques that I guess Hannibal uses later in order to seem like his pulse is low. Seems pretty legit out of it, so they chain him to the bed and leave him with the nurse. Since Gideon was just faking, he snaps out of it, uses a piece of metal he’d snuck in using his body as a pocket and is free to walk about the cabin.

We know it can’t be good because we go to commercial. Once we’re back, we see Will Graham and Jack Crawford. Poor nurse.

And poor Will Graham. The actor portraying Chilton is doing an awesome job of both being a smarmy above-it-all guy who knows fuck all and a great imitation of one of my coworkers. This makes me happy because the actor is doing a great job and it spawns in me the hope that someday someone may eat my coworker.

Anyway. Chilton seems pretty happy that maybe he’s got the Chesapeake Ripper and feels like he’s somehow busted this guy himself, though Gideon has pretty much been just chilling in the institution for two years getting interviewed by Chilton. Will and Alana Bloom both interview Gideon and don’t seem convinced, though there is the implication that maybe Chilton, through his interviews, gave some heavy hints to Gideon what it would take to be The Ripper and maybe this acting out is for attention.

To get a real feel for the action, Will goes into meditation and we see him attack the nurse in one of the more viscerally disturbing bits of action I’ve seen on network television. And I watch American Horror Story. It was some real Game of Thrones shit. But it wasn’t as sexy as that stabby “Criminal Minds” scene. You know what I’m talking about.

The nurse, in the end, had the distinctive organ “trophies” removed and was stabbed in an imitation of Wound Man which is an illustration for medical texts of wounds a person could suffer. This is the way The Chesapeake Ripper has left his victims so it all seems to check out. At least on the surface.

In previous episodes, Hannibal has needled Jack Crawford about special agents he may have lost in the past. In a move that we see later in the storyline in “Silence of the Lambs,” Jack Crawford recruits a student named Miriam Lass to help him track down The Ripper.

Sadly, this arrangement does not work out so well as it does for Starling.

Now, in the books, it is Will Graham who tracks down Hannibal Lecter through his work in the ER as having treated a man who he would later murder. And it is Will who finds the image of the Wound Man and who Hannibal sneaks up on and assaults. History may repeat itself, though it seems unlikely that Hannibal would be that clumsy around Will now. This is interesting because it could be a way of telling us to put some of that canon out of our heads. I don’t mind this because it’s more fun to have Hannibal in play than locked up, of course.

Jack Crawford has much to angst over. His wife is dying of cancer and he’s going to lose her, but the Chesapeake Ripper case comes alive again and he can’t help but think of Miriam. Especially when the killer uses a recording of her voice, presumably the last recording of her alive, to taunt Jack, calling from various untraceable locations.

This serves two purposes: torment Jack, but also makes a definite statement that Gideon is most certainly NOT the Chesapeake Ripper and that he is still at large. This seems like an extraordinarily dangerous game. We don’t know Hannibal or his motivations well enough yet to know why it would matter so much to him to be known, but unknown.

It makes me even more curious to know what game he’s playing with Will. Is Hannibal just a straight up sadist, or is he attempting to reach out? In the third novel, differing from the movie version, Hannibal reaches out and successfully conditions Starling to accept him as family and as a lover. We see shades of this in the TV show with Abigail Hobbs in the pulled episode of Ceuf that you can now get from iTunes (Or just watch it on the webisodes on the NBC site for free.) It would definitely make for interesting television to see the very broken Will in a mental battle with Hannibal for his own free will. But we will see.

While Jack is definitely haunted by his memories of Miriam, or perhaps because of them, Jack pressures Freddie Lounds to write an article about Gideon being the Chesapeake Ripper to flush the real one out. He receives another recorded message while he’s interviewing Gideon that comes from his home. Miriam’s prints and hair are found in his bedroom which, while Will and Jack seem pretty sure she’s well and truly dead, causes Will to ask some interesting questions about what happened to her. They never found a body.

I think I know why.

In the end, they find her disembodied arm holding her phone at an observatory. The message, “What do you see?”

I see me looking forward to next Thursday!

And Monday. Don’t forget, hunties, #TEAMALASKA

Filed under: hannibal, recaps Tagged: alaska thunderfuck, hannibal, hannibal feels, hannibal recap

Hannibal 6 “Entree” Recap and #teamalaska just because

The episode starts in familiar territory. Before we meet Dr. Chilton, he’s already in charge of the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane where there are, in fact, other criminally insane people. What’s interesting about this episode and this series in general is how it echoes or foreshadows events that we know will eventually take place at least in the books. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Gideon fakes an injury and has taken up deep breathing techniques that I guess Hannibal uses later in order to seem like his pulse is low. Seems pretty legit out of it, so they chain him to the bed and leave him with the nurse. Since Gideon was just faking, he snaps out of it, uses a piece of metal he’d snuck in using his body as a pocket and is free to walk about the cabin.

We know it can’t be good because we go to commercial. Once we’re back, we see Will Graham and Jack Crawford. Poor nurse.

And poor Will Graham. The actor portraying Chilton is doing an awesome job of both being a smarmy above-it-all guy who knows fuck all and a great imitation of one of my coworkers. This makes me happy because the actor is doing a great job and it spawns in me the hope that someday someone may eat my coworker.

Anyway. Chilton seems pretty happy that maybe he’s got the Chesapeake Ripper and feels like he’s somehow busted this guy himself, though Gideon has pretty much been just chilling in the institution for two years getting interviewed by Chilton. Will and Alana Bloom both interview Gideon and don’t seem convinced, though there is the implication that maybe Chilton, through his interviews, gave some heavy hints to Gideon what it would take to be The Ripper and maybe this acting out is for attention.

To get a real feel for the action, Will goes into meditation and we see him attack the nurse in one of the more viscerally disturbing bits of action I’ve seen on network television. And I watch American Horror Story. It was some real Game of Thrones shit. But it wasn’t as sexy as that stabby “Criminal Minds” scene. You know what I’m talking about. 

The nurse, in the end, had the distinctive organ “trophies” removed and was stabbed in an imitation of Wound Man which is an illustration for medical texts of wounds a person could suffer. This is the way The Chesapeake Ripper has left his victims so it all seems to check out. At least on the surface.

In previous episodes, Hannibal has needled Jack Crawford about special agents he may have lost in the past. In a move that we see later in the storyline in “Silence of the Lambs,” Jack Crawford recruits a student named Miriam Lass to help him track down The Ripper.

Sadly, this arrangement does not work out so well as it does for Starling.

Now, in the books, it is Will Graham who tracks down Hannibal Lecter through his work in the ER as having treated a man who he would later murder. And it is Will who finds the image of the Wound Man and who Hannibal sneaks up on and assaults. History may repeat itself, though it seems unlikely that Hannibal would be that clumsy around Will now. This is interesting because it could be a way of telling us to put some of that canon out of our heads. I don’t mind this because it’s more fun to have Hannibal in play than locked up, of course.

Jack Crawford has much to angst over. His wife is dying of cancer and he’s going to lose her, but the Chesapeake Ripper case comes alive again and he can’t help but think of Miriam. Especially when the killer uses a recording of her voice, presumably the last recording of her alive, to taunt Jack, calling from various untraceable locations.

This serves two purposes: torment Jack, but also makes a definite statement that Gideon is most certainly NOT the Chesapeake Ripper and that he is still at large. This seems like an extraordinarily dangerous game. We don’t know Hannibal or his motivations well enough yet to know why it would matter so much to him to be known, but unknown.

It makes me even more curious to know what game he’s playing with Will. Is Hannibal just a straight up sadist, or is he attempting to reach out? In the third novel, differing from the movie version, Hannibal reaches out and successfully conditions Starling to accept him as family and as a lover. We see shades of this in the TV show with Abigail Hobbs in the pulled episode of Ceuf that you can now get from iTunes (Or just watch it on the webisodes on the NBC site for free.) It would definitely make for interesting television to see the very broken Will in a mental battle with Hannibal for his own free will. But we will see.

While Jack is definitely haunted by his memories of Miriam, or perhaps because of them, Jack pressures Freddie Lounds to write an article about Gideon being the Chesapeake Ripper to flush the real one out. He receives another recorded message while he’s interviewing Gideon that comes from his home. Miriam’s prints and hair are found in his bedroom which, while Will and Jack seem pretty sure she’s well and truly dead, causes Will to ask some interesting questions about what happened to her. They never found a body.

I think I know why.

In the end, they find her disembodied arm holding her phone at an observatory. The message, “What do you see?”

I see me looking forward to next Thursday!

And Monday. Don’t forget, hunties, #TEAMALASKA

Filed under: hannibal, recaps Tagged: alaska thunderfuck, hannibal, hannibal recap

I want Sharon Needles/Alaska Thunderfuck fanfic

I see a lot in my referrers that this is what people are looking for: Sharon Needles and Alakska Thunderfuck fanfic. I don’t have any, but perfect casting. Just been too busy now but if I were to… what would you like to see them do? Get me inspired!

ETA: If you have any or know of any, call me link me!

Filed under: about clancy, writing Tagged: alaska thunderfuck, drag queens, rupaul, rupauls drag race, sharon needles, silly

Sharon Needles/Alaska Thunderfuck fanfic

I see a lot in my referrers that this is what people are looking for: Sharon Needles and Alakska Thunderfuck fanfic. I don’t have any, but perfect casting. Just been too busy now but if I were to… what would you like to see them do? Get me inspired!

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Hannibal Feels: Coquilles

ETA: I noticed a lot of people wound up here searching for the perfume that Hannibal was talking about Bella wearing. Husband suggested it was Bolt of Lightning by Jar.

The episode starts with Will Graham sleepwalking, nudged on by his imaginary buck. I suspect psychedelic mushrooms may be involved. That is, after all, Hannibal’s MO, but Will is an emotionally distressed man being effortlessly puppeted by a psychopath and used by the FBI. Other than that, I don’t see what’s so stressful about his situation.

The next morning, Will checks in with Hannibal who again points out that no one cares near as much as about Will as Hannibal. That may be true. He’s just leaving out that no one wants to EAT him as much as Hannibal.

Meanwhile, in the morning, a man in a hotel getting ice sees everyone with their heads on fire. That rarely leads to anything good.

In fact, it leads to quite a lot of bad.

Now, in the missing week’s episode, we did get to finally see Jack’s wife. This week Hannibal meets her. He serves foie gras, which she turns down. Also in last week’s episode, we got a flash on the fact that Hannibal is, indeed, serving up people, or it’s certainly being heavily implied. So when Hannibal assures her that the next course is a supercilious pig, I imagine he’s been driving in Austin traffic and found himself a winner.

Things are obviously not going so well in Jack’s marriage. His wife seems a little toned down. Hannibal sniffs her, remarks on her perfume, then sniffs Jack. The implication is confusing but a suspicious person like me thinks, “Oh, is he smelling someone else on her?”

But then Hannibal makes an interesting remark about how he smelled stomach cancer on a professor before he was properly diagnosed. As it turns out, the wife has lung cancer and has been keeping it from her husband, which she reveals to Hannibal in a counseling session.

The man who has been seeing Ghost Rider people, it turns out, has a sort of supernatural ability to see who is evil. And in his Dexter way is killing killers but beyond that, cuts their back skin into flaps and strings them up with fishing line to make them appear as angels. As such he transforms them from demons to angels.

However, he is a man who has cancer who is dying and his mind has apparently turned against him. Now, this is where it gets dicey and I may have to rewatch to sort this out. But somehow this man manages to cut his own back into wings and string himself up. I kind of suspect intervention but if Will thinks that, he isn’t saying. At least, not yet.

And in truth, Will is pretty distracted. He’s sleepwalking. He wakes up standing on his roof with his dogs barking at him that life is still worth living. That doesn’t indicate the best night’s sleep.

In the midst of trying to resolve the case, Will stopped by Hannibal’s office and after a quick whiff, Hannibal suggests that Will invest in a better cologne. He keeps getting the cologne he’s wearing for Christmas which means either he has someone who really doesn’t like him on his Christmas list, or, knowing that Hannibal has been house sitting for Will, perhaps he has dosed the cologne with something. We know that he has given Abigail Hobbs shrooms. Is he experimenting with this therapy with Will? Or is someone else messing with Will? Freddie Lounds?

Feeling paranoid now, which is a great way to feel when you’re watching Hannibal. I’m very excited for where this is going, seeing the building dread and the way that the story is building between the Hannibal cannon that I at least vaguely remember and how this is playing out.

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Hannibal recap, Episode 4 Coquilles (spoilers including from webisodes)

The episode starts with Will Graham sleepwalking, nudged on by his imaginary buck. I suspect psychedelic mushrooms may be involved. That is, after all, Hannibal’s MO, but Will is an emotionally distressed man being effortlessly puppeted by a psychopath and used by the FBI. Other than that, I don’t see what’s so stressful about his situation.

The next morning, Will checks in with Hannibal who again points out that no one cares near as much as about Will as Hannibal. That may be true. He’s just leaving out that no one wants to EAT him as much as Hannibal.

Meanwhile, in the morning, a man in a hotel getting ice sees everyone with their heads on fire. That rarely leads to anything good.

In fact, it leads to quite a lot of bad.

Now, in the missing week’s episode, we did get to finally see Jack’s wife. This week Hannibal meets her. He serves foie gras, which she turns down. Also in last week’s episode, we got a flash on the fact that Hannibal is, indeed, serving up people, or it’s certainly being heavily implied. So when Hannibal assures her that the next course is a supercilious pig, I imagine he’s been driving in Austin traffic and found himself a winner.

Things are obviously not going so well in Jack’s marriage. His wife seems a little toned down. Hannibal sniffs her, remarks on her perfume, then sniffs Jack. The implication is confusing but a suspicious person like me thinks, “Oh, is he smelling someone else on her?”

But then Hannibal makes an interesting remark about how he smelled stomach cancer on a professor before he was properly diagnosed. As it turns out, the wife has lung cancer and has been keeping it from her husband, which she reveals to Hannibal in a counseling session.

The man who has been seeing Ghost Rider people, it turns out, has a sort of supernatural ability to see who is evil. And in his Dexter way is killing killers but beyond that, cuts their back skin into flaps and strings them up with fishing line to make them appear as angels. As such he transforms them from demons to angels.

However, he is a man who has cancer who is dying and his mind has apparently turned against him. Now, this is where it gets dicey and I may have to rewatch to sort this out. But somehow this man manages to cut his own back into wings and string himself up. I kind of suspect intervention but if Will thinks that, he isn’t saying. At least, not yet.

And in truth, Will is pretty distracted. He’s sleepwalking. He wakes up standing on his roof with his dogs barking at him that life is still worth living. That doesn’t indicate the best night’s sleep.

In the midst of trying to resolve the case, Will stopped by Hannibal’s office and after a quick whiff, Hannibal suggests that Will invest in a better cologne. He keeps getting the cologne he’s wearing for Christmas which means either he has someone who really doesn’t like him on his Christmas list, or, knowing that Hannibal has been house sitting for Will, perhaps he has dosed the cologne with something. We know that he has given Abigail Hobbs shrooms. Is he experimenting with this therapy with Will? Or is someone else messing with Will? Freddie Lounds?

Feeling paranoid now, which is a great way to feel when you’re watching Hannibal. I’m very excited for where this is going, seeing the building dread and the way that the story is building between the Hannibal cannon that I at least vaguely remember and how this is playing out.

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Hannibal Webisodes Recap Ceuf (spoilers–links to webisodes)

This week Hannibal skipped an episode and I skipped last week’s recap because I was just wrung out and worn out from what happened in Boston. It’s apparently with sensitivity to that that they moved what was to be this week’s episode into web exclusives. They cut out the main plot which the rumor is has to do with children who kill.

The webisodes are in six parts and basically cover the relationship portions of that episode that was cut. I’ll note that the intro in part one Bryan Fuller explains that this is only being cut from the US NBC market. If’n you’re out there and have the full episode stashed somewhere…call me!

Ceuf, part 1

Part one starts with Graham telling Hannibal about his experiences “channeling” Garret Jacob Hobbs. Hannibal takes an unseemly amount of interest in this, like he’d like to be the focus of such empathy and understanding. Using the books, it does seem that on some level Hannibal is seeking the ultimate companion–someone to murder with. A lonely God searching for an equal. Perhaps his future actions per the book cannon are an expression of his disappointment that Will did not respond.

Hannibal then shows up at Will’s home while Will isn’t there. He feeds Will’s dogs sausage to keep them compliant and then pokes around in Will’s drawers. Of particular interest is a fishing lure that Will has mounted. Hannibal finishes the fly then penetrates his thumb with the hook. I believe this to be foreshadowing of penetration he wants to happen but I write gay porn. Chances are, there’s something more sinister going on.

Ceuf, part 2

Abigail is damaged by what happened to her and uses strategic scarves to hide her scar. Dr. Bloom visits her at the hospital. She is also wearing a scarf. Hmm.

Apparently group therapy doesn’t work for Abigail, but Dr. Bloom insists it’s the best way before she goes to have a beer with Hannibal. In his office. Where he keeps wine and beer. Well, he is a serial killer, that’s probably not professional either.

Ceuf, part 3

Will & Hannibal talk about their childhoods, though not in great detail. Just enough that Will is aware of Hannibal being an orphan like Abigail and we find that Will never knew his mother. Will’s father was a bit of a nomad who went from town to town working on boats.

Will thanks Hannibal for checking on his dogs which lets us know that that field trip into Will’s home was authorized. But since this isn’t the full episode, I have no clue where he was.

Hannibal makes dinner for Jack Crawford where it is implied that the “rabbit” they were eating was likely a young man who should’ve run faster. Hannibal is disappointed that Jack’s wife does not attend. They discuss Will’s state of mind and Abigail. Hannibal suggest that Jack’s job at the FBI isn’t tearing Will’s psyche apart but is an anchor. Only, not so much.

Ceuf, part 4

Hannibal didn’t agree on the course of treatment for Abigail, so he boosted her from the hospital. Perhaps, as he said to Will, he feels responsible for her now that she’s been orphaned. Or maybe he senses that Will’s intention to bond with her may actually work. It’s better for him if they are isolated from each other–it would make them easier to control and dependent on them.

Ceuf, part 5

As part of therapy, Hannibal feels that Abigail should be tripping balls and doses her with shrooms. His theory, as he sells it to her, is that he could “rewire” her brain by creating positive associations to her bad memories. I’m no doctor, but I don’t think that’s how it works.

But, he makes her the dinner she was having with her parents the night that her father went crazy and killed her mother.

Ceuf, part 6

Dr. Bloom is pretty ticked about this alternate therapy and she doesn’t even know about the shrooms. She is at his house where Hannibal and Abigail are sitting down to dinner. Dr. Bloom joins them, but what Abigail sees are her dead parents. I don’t know if it’s good, but she at least looks happy.

In bed, Jack tries to close the distance between himself and his wife with no success.

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New contract with Loose Id with cowriter Thursday Euclid

I’m so happy to announce that our most recent collaboration, tentatively titled, “You’re Welcome. Love, Your Cat” has been accepted at Loose Id! I’m going to wrap up my end of the paperwork tonight and then it’ll be off to Thursday but hopefully soon we’ll have more details. 

It’s a little May/December, some nice comfort and, of course, there are a couple of cats that oversee everything. Oh and did I mention a hot mechanic? Hm. I must’ve forgot that part. We’re kind of taking some of our love of classic cars, love of hometown Austin, and, you know, I’m a crazy cat lady, and Thursday’s love of history for the romantic lead, a history professor, and smashing it all together.

I think it’s quite charming, but I guess that’s my job. Hopefully you will, too!

And… drag race. OMG. It’s getting so tight now! I’m keeping my fingers crossed for Alaska, but you never know how it’s going to go. There isn’t really a queen I dislike in this final four, but I ain’t their momma so I have a total favorite. 

I’m a little curious about “Defiance” but it chose a bad time to be on. If it’s any good I’m sure SyFy will have a catch up session. Actually even if it isn’t good I’m sure they’ll play it a million zillion times. Their series are always so hit or miss for me. I really like “Being Human” but I think I catch the eps on an “alternate time” late on Fridays. Good stuff, though. 

Filed under: books Tagged: alaska thunderfuck, being human, loose id, new contract, rupaul, rupauls drag race, syfy, you're welcome love your cat

Hannibal Ep 2: Amuse-Bouche Recap (spoilers)

This week, the actors seemed, in general, more settled into their roles. We learn that Freddie Lounds is now with an ie and is a female. We also learn that the FBI scenes are not nearly as impregnable as previously presumed, which lends some credence to my husband’s theory that perhaps the Shrike copycat killer was not, in fact, Hannibal as the editing would certainly imply but may be a true copycat.

Though, even if it wasn’t Hannibal himself, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a patient. And, I do wonder what happened to Hannibal’s administrative assistant. Who told Freddie Lounds about when Will’s appointment was, indeed?

Because I was pointed at Reddit earlier in the week, I’d had seen the fungus bodies, though a flash of the bodies was already part of the preview, this just gave me a better look. My favorite serial killer stories are those where if you tilt your head, you can see how they got there. This murderer wanted the spores, the threads of the mind, to be able connect and communicate, perhaps even beyond death. It wasn’t stated, but I had a moment of drifting off thinking of fungus as transmitter of thought and experience, spores that spread. In that respect, it was quite beautiful and even poetic.

In another respect, I remembered confirming my address for my pharmacist this morning and tried to remember if she had dirt under her nails.

Of course, it wouldn’t be Hannibal without food porn. After Freddie Lounds is exposed by Hannibal, he tells her that she has been very rude, which in movies, seems to be the only provocation Hannibal needs for murder. But this is again where I think of Hopkins v Mikkelson. Hopkins Hannibal is already exposed. There is less need for subtlety unless he’s in hiding.

Mikkelson’s Hannibal has everything to lose, so perhaps killing the reporter isn’t the priority. And, perhaps, her article about Will is something he can use for his seductive dance with Will.

Because there is a seductive dance. Hannibal is clearly interested in Will, though whether he intends to eat him or try and draw him close for another purpose, we do not know. As of this episode, that dance seems to be going as planned. In episode 1, Will winds up at the exact right construction site where he could find Hobbs. Hannibal smiles.

Hannibal knows exactly what to do to set the man off, though why he does this, we do not know yet. It seems to be part of this dance. And in the end, with Will struggling with his humanity, grieving that he felt good about killing Hobbs, like he’d settled the issue with finality in spite of the orphan in the aftermath, Hannibal presses on. Because God kills. Must enjoy killing as he does it so much. And if we are in His image, then perhaps this is how we are meant to be.

But are we better than that? Should we be?

Those are the bigger questions, not resolved this week. Next week promises the return of Hobbs’s daughter, which should throw an interesting quandary in the mix: was she complicit in her father’s cannibalism? What does this mean for her?

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