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It appears as if Elon Musk has acquired Twitter, which means I am going to be reducing my activity on that site by at least 75%. Which I have been trying and failing to do so far over the past year. (ETA: LOL PSYCH. I'm glad the deal fell through. ETA 2: Damn it.)
One of the reasons I haven't been back here as much in the past few months is that I have been alternately Doomscrolling the Ukraine situation and interacting with the Hannibal/HEU (Hannibal Extended Universe) fandom - the majority of which exists on Twitter.
Oh man. How do I even explain the Hannibal Extended Universe?
So Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy, the costars of Hannibal, have been in a ton of other films and shows. Sometimes (more often than not) the Fannibals will decide that those films and shows and the characters that Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy have portrayed within them are adjacent to the Hannibal continuity. Fanfics will frequently feature crossovers between the Hannibal TV show and other media which is considered to be in the HEU. There is an HEU shipping chart. And over the past two weeks, SpaceDogs in particular has eaten my brain.
What is SpaceDogs? I'm glad you asked!
This is Adam.
Adam is a Pure Cinnamon Roll on the Autistic Spectrum (specifically diagnosed with Aspergers) from the eponymous 2009 film Adam, which is like a slice of life portrayal of a neurodivergent man in his late twenties trying to navigate the allistic/neurotypical-centric world around him. His primary interests are astronomy, technology, and watching raccoons frolic in the park. As such, he is the "Space" half of SpaceDogs.
This is Nigel.
He is a violent gangster/cocaine runner who primarily operated out of Bucharest, Romania, until certain events depicted in the 2013 film Charlie Countryman. His primary interests are Doing Crimes, stalking his ex wife, and trying to kill Shia LaBeouf's character (the eponymous Charlie.) He is the Dogs half of SpaceDogs, because of his trademark Wiener Dog-patterned bowling shirt.
For some reason, Fannibals ship these two like burning. And now I do too. I'm still trying to figure that one out. (I think the Violent Gangster/Pure Cinnamon Roll ship is a popular manga trope? Is it? Do I have that right?) I think it appeals to me because, while I love the Hannibal and Will, I just can't get past the more toxic aspects of it or the fact that Hannibal gaslit THE HELL out of Will and murdered people close to him. While the idea of Violent Gangster finally moving the fuck on from his ex wife Gabi (who is also a really hecking cool character, Evan Rachel Wood's performance was over 9000 in that movie.) and shacking up with The Astronomer he didn't know he needed in his life is a lot more palatable.
This has turned out to be quite the fandom rabbit hole.
And when I realize it has been a few weeks since I've posted, I shame spiral about it and them doomscroll/fanscroll some more to avoid shamespiraling. But I could bypass the whole shamespiraling process if I could just nope out of that hellsite for good.
So maybe now is the time.
Anyway, here are the ghillie shoes I was making!
Current mood:
One of the reasons I haven't been back here as much in the past few months is that I have been alternately Doomscrolling the Ukraine situation and interacting with the Hannibal/HEU (Hannibal Extended Universe) fandom - the majority of which exists on Twitter.
Oh man. How do I even explain the Hannibal Extended Universe?
So Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy, the costars of Hannibal, have been in a ton of other films and shows. Sometimes (more often than not) the Fannibals will decide that those films and shows and the characters that Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy have portrayed within them are adjacent to the Hannibal continuity. Fanfics will frequently feature crossovers between the Hannibal TV show and other media which is considered to be in the HEU. There is an HEU shipping chart. And over the past two weeks, SpaceDogs in particular has eaten my brain.
What is SpaceDogs? I'm glad you asked!
This is Adam.
Adam is a Pure Cinnamon Roll on the Autistic Spectrum (specifically diagnosed with Aspergers) from the eponymous 2009 film Adam, which is like a slice of life portrayal of a neurodivergent man in his late twenties trying to navigate the allistic/neurotypical-centric world around him. His primary interests are astronomy, technology, and watching raccoons frolic in the park. As such, he is the "Space" half of SpaceDogs.
This is Nigel.
He is a violent gangster/cocaine runner who primarily operated out of Bucharest, Romania, until certain events depicted in the 2013 film Charlie Countryman. His primary interests are Doing Crimes, stalking his ex wife, and trying to kill Shia LaBeouf's character (the eponymous Charlie.) He is the Dogs half of SpaceDogs, because of his trademark Wiener Dog-patterned bowling shirt.
For some reason, Fannibals ship these two like burning. And now I do too. I'm still trying to figure that one out. (I think the Violent Gangster/Pure Cinnamon Roll ship is a popular manga trope? Is it? Do I have that right?) I think it appeals to me because, while I love the Hannibal and Will, I just can't get past the more toxic aspects of it or the fact that Hannibal gaslit THE HELL out of Will and murdered people close to him. While the idea of Violent Gangster finally moving the fuck on from his ex wife Gabi (who is also a really hecking cool character, Evan Rachel Wood's performance was over 9000 in that movie.) and shacking up with The Astronomer he didn't know he needed in his life is a lot more palatable.
This has turned out to be quite the fandom rabbit hole.
And when I realize it has been a few weeks since I've posted, I shame spiral about it and them doomscroll/fanscroll some more to avoid shamespiraling. But I could bypass the whole shamespiraling process if I could just nope out of that hellsite for good.
So maybe now is the time.
Anyway, here are the ghillie shoes I was making!
Current mood:
