wtfannibal:

I still can’t believe that Hannibal Lecter actually fucking said the words “atta girl” like where tf did that come from

Probably Thomas Harris, but S1E1 was like the last time Mads-Hannibal saying super Harris-y lines didn’t feel weird.

He also did a little dance with the phone cord when he said “I’ll get out of your hair” and I astral projected

Okay, so 

I was trying to create a prompt based on changing the gender of popular character archetypes (e.g. male shrew, female rugged individualist, nonbinary lonely orphan), when I got to male “Earth Mother” and was like “…is that the one trope that would be EXTREMELY hard to write because it’s just so female-coded in all media and we’ve never seen a male version of the trope before?”  

To name a popular example, Molly Weasley from Harry Potter is an Earth Mother.  I looked up the official definition and the TVTropes definition to try and figure out what a male Earth Mother would look like.  

Official:  

a sensual and maternal woman.

TVTropes:  

We are talking here about big homely gals who have a lot of love to give, who are generous, who are bountiful, who can make green things grow and flourish, and who want to share that love and bounty in one way or another — food being a particularly popular one.”  

…and that’s when I realized.  

I’m going to get eaten for this, but it checks out.