A love dark and twisted,
based on crossing—fully aware—the gates of Dante’s Hell
plunging in and emerging out of each other’s minds
finding parallels, like in no one else
different, but the same—on a higher plane
finding its equal in the echoes of Giotto frescoes
a few stark and mournful piano notes
conjured up by a virtuoso more than two centuries ago
mutual admiration coupled with manipulation
adding to a need—greed—burning and consuming
leads to an operatic and Gothic blood fest in lieu of sex
this elitist love is a nightmare painted with sanguine shades
a baroque moon, of its pale light bled
intense as an hypnotic belly dance performed in a pit filled with poisonous snakes
beautiful, pathological, impossible
only death
can reconcile the irreconcilable
*I have now finished the last season of Hannibal. I did the whole binge watching thing with the first 2 seasons but tried to make the third one last because I just didn’t want it to end. I do (really, truly, madly) hope the show gets picked up again, but if it doesn’t, the Season 3 finale was just perfect—just how I would have ended it if I’d been in charge. It was – the word is overused and devalued but it’s the only one fitting here – beautiful. And now, I shall hopefully stop boring everyone with my obsession with the fascinating psychopath and maybe also quit acting like such a fangirl (no chance) *
Great show. Mostly because of its show-runner, Bryan Fuller. He’s amazing, especially if you like Star Trek. Great guy.
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He is amazing. Although I’m not a Star Trek fan myself (sorry, lol)
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And here fangirl is a word of such beauty, and devotion. There are such great shows these days, and there’s no shame in admiring their beauty.
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Oh yes, if I’m gonna be fangirling then of course it’s gonna be in my own special “elevated” way haha
Yes, I agree completely. There is absolutely no shame in enthusing about a great TV show.
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This poem is exquisite! You must really be inspired by this show. 🙂 Now I wish I watched to the end. That huge photo of Mads at the end- mmmm…
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I am inspired by the show, Vic. In so many ways…some of the dreams I’ve had about it have been particularly vivid…and nice 😉
And yes, I was tempted to just stick a hundred pics of Mad in this post lol but I settled for just one but…mmmmm…so delicious 😍
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Umm, I seem to remember you saying you’d tell me about a certain vivid dream!!
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Haha so I did! I’d forgotten all about it. Not to mention there’s a poem I need to write my bit for 😝
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Yes, that too, you great big slacker!! 😛
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I will get onto it tonight. There’s just another quick post I need to do as well 😁
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ha ha, don’t worry about it! We’ve waited this long… 😉 😛
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Now I feel bad! Awful. I may not recover from this comment 😝
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ha ha, I bet. 😛
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The poem is wonderful. I will blow it if I try to gush! But just amazing. And you’ve totally peaked my interest in a show I had pretty much ignored to this point. Your enthusiasm is infectious! 💜 Fangirl fever 🙃
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Meg, you’ve got to get on this, it’s unbelievable. I predict if you do, you’ll be fangirling too, for sure! 😉
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Adding to my queue!!! 😍
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You never bored us with this. It’s so hot! Somehow wrong but still hot. The chemistry between the two men is unbelievable. ❤
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Unbelievable, not as in ‘not-believable-, but as in incredibly hot!
I’m sure you got that, just needed to clarify this. They are both amazing actors!
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Yeah, I did get that 😉
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I love how your enthusiasm mirrors my own, Christoph!
It is HOT and the chemistry between them two IS unbelievable. The show is SO good on every level but ultimately it is the relationship between Will and Hannibal that sold it to me. I must say Mads is especially incredible because he made it so the “psychopath” tag is not the thing you retain about Hannibal. I mean, you do, but it comes behind his intellect, and his refinement and elegance and everything else. It is quite something that he made such a character sympathetic somehow.
Because by the middle of Season 2, I wanted Will to run away with him, as impossible as it was (because, Hannibal is someone who likes to kill and eat people after all)
You know the time when Jack goes and see Will in Season 3 and ask why he phoned Hannibal to warn him and Will just…hesitantly, tentatively replies: “because…because he was my friend…and because…I wanted to run away with him.”
I mean…wow! Love, incredibly enough considering the circumstances but…love. The writing was great but it is the acting that made us believe in this crazy relationship, they made it real.
I have not been this affected by a relationship between two men on the screen since Brokeback Mountain, which needless to say broke my heart (one of my fav films). To this day it is one of the most tragic love stories I’ve ever seen on-screen.
Anyway, I’ve gone all fangirl again, sorry. I could talk about this show for hours 😉
Thanks for putting up with me and my out of control comments 😘💜
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Not putting up with you, loving every minute of your out of control moments. They make you you and the blog so phenomenal.
❤
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I suggest watching it again, all of it. This is my third, there is so much more every time you watch it, so much.
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I’m going to! I’m sure I’ll be watching it for years to come but I’m definitely going to start from the beginning again.
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As I. There is something in that “hello will” that has so much……I don’t know the word I want to use
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I know exactly what you mean. It’s just…full of…implications…full of…*meaning*
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Yes
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Such an interesting and dark poem, Nathalie. I haven’t watched the show, but you’ve intrigued me. And I love binge-watching. Hmm. Maybe this spring 🙂
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Thank you, Diana 🙂 The show is exceedingly good, I highly recommend it (as you might have gathered from my enthusiastic posts about it lol)
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You looking in the wrong
direction darling,
pathological, reality
is here
living
within
thee!
chris
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Lol I think we can find pathological reality anywhere we look these days…there’s no such thing as the wrong direction 😉
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Ciao Nathalie un abbraccio ❤
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Wow, such a brilliantly constructed poem. You’ve drawn a lot of inspiration from this show, Nathalie. and it’s made for some wonderful artwork! ❤
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Thank you, lovely Eric. Praise from you is like receiving ambrosia 😘💜
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You really gave some life to this one Nathalie, I love it! A sophisiticated woman of good taste clearly ❤
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Aw, thank you! I’d like to think I am indeed a sophisticated woman of good taste (most of the time 😉)
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If it produces “echoes of Giotto frescoes” your fangirlism is worth it. Well done.
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Thank you, my friend. J’apprécie 🙂
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You are completely obsessed but this is some of your most beautiful writing. Mads is your muse and he has released the passion and lyricism of your heart
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I watched the first two series and the start of the third. But couldn’t find the time to keep up with it. Pity. I really enjoyed it. No other show like it around.
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You should go back to it when you get the time, well worth it! (Admittedly, I’m obsessed with it 😉)
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HARK did I hear a fan girl scream? A cacophony even? Hell to the YEAH!
Seriously, being the artist/creative/writer/thinker/cerebal/smarty-pants that you are, PLUS your love of beauty and FINE MEN I just knew you’d love the H.
Now it’s spoilt all normal life of course …. fuckittyfuck
Shall we A. Become alcoholics to assuage our pain? Or film directors and make our own beauty?
In another life I’d do both.
Meanwhile we wait … hopeful of another fantasy
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Alcoholics definitely because I’m half way there already! Haha
And film directors…I’d love to have a go at that! I direct enough movies in my own head on a regular basis to qualify as “kinda experienced” 😉
And yes, it has spoilt all normal life. And I am now hopelessly in love with Mads #FanGirl
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Good grief girl I’m with you because lately I’ve been knocking it back? Full moon? 😉 ha ha!
I’d love to re-make an erotic film into one that REALLY was because every time I see one I’m like ‘oh no you got that wrong’ in my head. The wrong people have money, this we know. My first degree was a film degree if you can believe … shoulda woulda coulda …. Mads says he misses you deeply also and feels utterly bereft
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How many degrees have you got?? And no I didn’t know that about you but fuck am I impressed! So, we could totally do this! 😉
Full moon just robs me of my sleep, I can’t possibly blame it for my alcohol intake as well haha
Tell Mads I will meet him somewhere between the fjords and make it up to him then 😉
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I’m the person who has too many and does nothing of worth with any 😉 (that’s a t-shirt) totally hate academia too ha ha ha naw I don’t have that many really just so useless the ones I did get. Anyway I am stumbling to find a show as addictive as Hannibal and short of watching a little girl of poetry dance to tv (guess who) I can’t think of anything worth my time
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