Will’s face (◡‿◡✿)
#i believe pretty firmly at this juncture that what i will call insouciantly performative submission is hannibal’s like#absolute number one kills him every time kink#will does it here#bedelia relies on it almost exclusively for dealing with hannibal and guess what it works every fucking time#(i am ignoring The Leg Question because we don’t know enough and aren’t supposed to)#i think he saw something of it in abigail too–a more feral version#for whatever reason that just absolutely slays him#i love it
I also love it ^^
I’m trying to remember who it was that observed that Hannibal prizes sprezzatura, in himself and in others, because he has an Italian Renaissance-trained mind – I mean, I make fun of the EFFORT he invests in everything, but in a way that’s precisely because I know he cares a lot about looking effortless and in fact is really good at it (as the audience you’re privy to more than the surface he presents).
and I in turn have been trying to remember who it was that first put the words “insouciantly performative submission” together and LOOK IT WASN’T ME, I knew it!! it was @22drunkb !!! major cred, major bows in that direction
oh my GOD this is hilarious because like, I…sort of thought I had identified the concept first (here–the second half about Bedelia is where it comes up) and was maybe slightly bummed that everyone was talking about it only now, two years later. But I had LITERALLY NO IDEA THAT THE PHRASE WAS ACTUALLY MINE???? #my impact
(thanks also to @genufa for credit, which I only half deserve since I didn’t even realize I’d invented anything)
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