Wills Sudden Shift Into Honey Trap Mode Complete With The Hair Cut And Dressing Up Makes Me Think Hes

wills sudden shift into honey trap mode complete with the hair cut and dressing up makes me think he’s always been aware he’s attractive...it would make sense that he can tell with his empathy when people are attracted to him and it’s easy to imagine that it’s something that made him uncomfortable and that he felt the need to cover up with scruffiness and prickliness as seen on s1

It’s interesting in general to consider how much wills empathy clues him into what people want from him and how much he uses that for his purposes. He knows chilton wants respect and refuses to use his title, calling him only his first name while he knows hannibal wants intimacy from him and refuses to call him anything other than ‘dr. lecter’. It’s something that makes him such a fisherman! And also something that gives him a lot of capacity for cruelty, since he knows exactly where to hit you so it hurts - as bedelia says in s3 “extreme acts of cruelty require a high degree of empathy”

the beauty about teenage girl characters in horror is like. you’re the sacrificial lamb for your family. you were the one tasked to raise your parents. you are the first to die, always beautiful, always innocent. you are the girl buried under the floorboards, in the refrigerator, stuffed in the couch cushions. you’re the final girl who burns everything down and kill the monster as you realize you are more alike than you’d like to admit. you’re the monster in the dark.

Maybe an obvious reminder but you don't have to feel guilty when you don't have anything to offer to your Deities in return for help.

In the same way you don't have to repay someone for doing you a favor out of their heart's desire - and don't have to feel bad if you cannot return their kindness with an equal gift back. People - and Deities - that love you understand when giving back is hard or impossible for you.

Sometimes a thank you is enough. Gratitude is enough, in whatever shape and form you can give it.

It's not transactional, it's set in mutual kindness and respect.

"Days will pass, and you'll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality."

– Nizar Qabbani

I love you silly witchcraft. I love you pop culture deities. I love you arts and crafts magic. I love you action figures on altars. I love you reconnecting with childhood wonder in magic. I love you getting weird with magic. I love you cringe magic.