"You become responsible for what you have tamed"

Aussie | early 30 something | tired | Always happy to find new people to talk to! Sideblog for my hopeless yearning: fragile-victorian-enby

[laughter-remembered]

i don't know how to flirt so i just stare at you like a cat dragged out of a dumpster and hope you can see the longing in my panicked gaze

[lauralot89]

And now it's time for my Dracula adaptation hot takes:

Renfield is inevitably the best part of any Dracula adaptation because his actor is the only one they allow to have fun with it

I do not judge Dracula adaptations on their accuracy, but rather on the level of homoeroticism and/or campiness

With that said, the following things need to be featured in more adaptations:

Quincey. You have the opportunity to put a cowboy in your Dracula movie and you don't do it? For shame

Dracula running around doing chores at super-speed

Dracula wearing Jonathan's clothes (they do not fit and he looks ridiculous)

Dracula's stupid unfashionable hat

Mina geeking out about phonographs and traveling typewriters

The shovel

Seward getting annoyed about the amount of insects. Not disgusted, just annoyed.

Dracula opening the door to SURPRISE WOLVES

Dracula's trip to the zoo

Quincey shooting at bats

There just needs to be a scene of Van Helsing going on one of his endless Van Helsing monologues while everyone else zones out in their own distinct way

[penrenutet]

Rate the Dracula passage set on your birthday!

10/10 i am SO lucky

i like this bit!

it's a passage much like any other

i'm a bit disappointed

out of ALL of dracula, this is what i get??

nothing in dracula is set on my birthday 😭

see results

Voting ended on18h

you can find your birthday passage on the Dracula Daily sitemap

(because of the Demeter, if your birthday is July 6th, 11th-14th, or 16th-18th, for the purposes of this your birthday is July 18. take it up with Bram)

[theconcealedweapon]

[myosotispalustris]

This is evidenced by the numerous YouRube channels where people go around building fences, mowing lawns, cleaning houses, etc. For Free because they make their money off the views and Patreon.

Now imagine setting free all the people with the same inclinations, but who don’t have the desire or skill to film/edit/upload/ or manage social media.

[buttstothemoon]

More vacation time means more innovation. We have antibiotics because a guy went on vacation. More hobby time means more innovation. The internet is held together by obsessive weirdos fastidiously maintaining their open source plugins.

[violettressedd]

"maybe if i act nonchalant, they'll like me more"

baby, i want you to have a carnal, overwhelming love for me that you can't possibly keep inside of you. one so loud that you feel the need to express it in any way you can.

[strawberrypatch]

What I say: I wamt a boyfriend What I mean: I want someone in my life who i can be 100% me around, someone who wont judge me and who i don’t feel the need to hide a single aspect of myself from. Someone I can share my silly hobbies with, and sing badly around, someone I can text when I feel bad. Someone I can hug without it being tense and weird. Someone who, when they see me rolling around on the floor meowing at my cat at one AM will go “wow i love him” and not say a single word about me being weird.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[quasi-normalcy]

Every single person I know who did football in high school, without exception, has a chronic injury. Many regret what it's done to their knees and back, even major organs like the brain.

There is no serious legislative push to ban high school football.

[quasi-normalcy]

Also, like, if you want to talk about social pressure on minors to undertake activities that will result in regrettable, irreversible damage to their bodies:

No one, *ever*, tried to persuade me to transition.

My gym teacher tried to persuade me to try out for the football team almost every single day that I was in junior high.

[quasi-normalcy]

#i firmly believe that the reason why concussions and brain damage in general#are not taken nearly as seriously as they should be#is because of football#if we take concussions and brain trauma seriously then we have to acknowledge the risks that children are undertaking at even#high school level football#but we can't do that#because the kids need to play football in high school so they can play football in college so they can join the NFL#This time I'm really gonna queue it.

[vaspider]

Not a single one of my wife's fingers is completely straight. If you look at them closely -- which I have, many times, over the past 22 years -- you can see where they were broken, over and over, taped in place, and where she just kept fucking playing.

When I first met her, she used to joke about how her coach said, "I could get more than that out of a pig if I kicked it hard enough," and that was the nicest fucking thing he said. Two decades later, she's like, "Yeah, that man verbally and physically abused all of us for years."

There is at least one football game she played in high school that she simply doesn't remember, because she was a linebacker. She got a concussion. She got up and kept playing... or so she's told. She doesn't remember, because she had a fucking concussion and they let her keep playing.

I hate football so much. It ruined her back, her knees, fucked up her hands... everyone was so obsessed with how tall she was, how broad-shouldered. No one ever pushed her to transition, but I fucking wish someone had at least suggested it. That would have hurt her so much less than FUCKING FOOTBALL. Like, it would have been actually beneficial to her.

[mchug]

I heard that one of the actual reasons that organizations like the NFL have tried so hard to downplay CTE and other injuries like it is because they’re terrified that moms will refuse to let their children play football anymore and that entire massive industry will come collapsing down because of it.

[vaspider]

That fucking scans.

[1943hedgie]

Copying from my comment plbecause actually everyone SHOULD read this.

CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) in footy players is a hot topic in Australia right now. Recent research identified the youngest known player to die from CTE complications was 23.

Read that again.

23 years old. His name was Nick Lowden.

It's also showing up in amateur sports players. Although concussion is a major factor in developing CTE researchers have found it's also to do with the hundreds of smaller knocks that don't end up in concussion responsible for much of the damage. Concussion prevention in sports is not enough.

Everyone interested in brain injuries in sport should read or watch "Plum" by Brendan Cowell. It looks at CTE from the football player's perspective and how it affects their personal relationships.

Sources:

4 Corners ABC investigative report, aired 29th June, 2026

Australian Rules footballers who never played in the game's premier league are being diagnosed with CTE, revealing that the brain trauma cri

[jeffcross5000]

[jenjen4280]

This made me smile. Maybe you need a smile today too.

[deadpowol]

[naamahdarling]

I love the implication that, as Larry is an "unpaid trainee", the dog is paid.

[stillfuckingtired]

Brain fog is not an adequate descriptor, actually. Fog can be kinda nice and beautiful and ethereal and refreshing. The thing we’re describing is more like a brain BOG; everything moves slow like you’re wading through water, it’s clunky and heavy and you keep getting stuck in the mud. It’s uncomfortable and inconvenient and everything takes so much effort. You lost a shoe, probably.

[batbetbitbotbut]

@scribefindegil

[1943hedgie]

I love that my cat has no fear of me, and this has continued even after he went deaf. He sprawls across the couch to sleep because he feels safe. He sees a tradesperson in the house and trots over to sniff them, knowing I wouldn't let anyone hurt him.

I just...it hits me sometimes, that trust.

[judgejudyofficial]

stop letting miserable people on the internet convince you that you must have a concrete, well-constructed opinion on everything that has ever existed.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[judgejudyofficial]

everybody say thank you Marcus Aurelius

[libraford]

So like... OK. I went to three prides and one wedding this June. All of them had Casper slide and cupid shuffle. Some of them had electric slide, cotton-eye Joe, macarena, chicken dance, YMCA.

Rural Ohio is not a state greatly known for having a demographic eager to get on the dance floor. These songs are supposed to break the ice.

It did not break the ice the way it did when I was in middle school. A couple people got up to do some of them, but then went back to whatever.

Im presuming that these American folk dances are just no longer interesting to people. Or that dance floor awkwardness is strong.

So like... when putting together a Playlist for a festival or a wedding, im wondering if its better to just not have them and play other stuff from the White People Turnt list.

[akinmytua2]

I say start with cha cha slide and then do something like uptown funk or pretty fly for a white guy depending on the age of the audience. The general dancing always is after first dance and father daughter son mother dances so you need to switch the mood. Heck of there are kids at the wedding be silly and start with baby shark. The kids will mob the dancefloor (or whatever the new kid song is. I'm out of touch)

But you can't start with group dances unless it's a country line dance crowd. I've been to a few weddings where I got pulled into the boot-scoot boogie against my will and you can't go wrong with cotton eye joe even with a non country crowd.

White people especially in this region either need to be far drunker to dance or need someone to lead the charge (like the kiddos).

Line dancing is still alive and well, you just gotta pull it out of people.

And this is just the view of a very white very rural person (mix of European whites with some other ethnicities mixed in. We have the "two black cousins" in my family so... Yeah), other groups probably have different dance cultures.

[libraford]

See, cotton eye Joe did nothing at my cousin's wedding, and thats even a country crowd.

Cha cha slide and cupid shuffle got a few at one of the prides, but i think the problem is a lot of the mixes were like... all the line dances were right next to each other instead of spread out through the mix and its like... fatigue.

Like maybe we should pick a couple and pepper them in followed by like... Don't Stop Me Now or something like that instead of a solid block.

[finnglas]

Best thing that happened at a Pride event I went to this year was they played the new Lady Gaga song "Runway" and we split into two lines and people vogued down the corridor. I was living.

[libraford]

That absolutely needs someone to start the vogue, but God would I love it if that happened.

[1943hedgie]

You could go really wild, turn up the volume and play 'Nutbush City' by Tina Turner. It will do nothing for your guests but it WILL lure any Australians within a 10 mile radius to the dance floor.

Source: that time I was the only Australian at my then-girfriend's brother's wedding in Georgia. Rushed onto the dancefloor for the nutbush while every other guest avoided eye contact with me like I was possessed.

[dmbakura]

do u ever see someone elses headcannon for ur fave character and its like….. i completely respect that u have the right to that headcannon, i will not confront u at all and start needless bullshit over that headcannon…. but i will silently sit here and give you the sideways glance of the century

[sharkfish]

me, out loud: hey that’s cool we all have our own interpretations and i support you as part of fandom regardless 

me, in my head: ….but you’re wrong 

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

I would just like to remind everyone that this is the mature, reasonable, and sensible response.

[fang-emblem]

[creekfiend]

a funny thing about having conversations with people within institutions (academic in this case but also others) about gatekeeping, is that you end up having a conversation over and over in which you're like, "hey this alligator spike pit moat you have erected around your institution is keeping a lot of people out," and they're like, "well *I* navigated the alligator spike pit moat just fine," and you're like, "right. by dint of us having this conversation, you within the institution and me without, it is understood that you navigated the alligator spike pit moat. due to that being an inherent requirement of entering the institution," and they're like, "I don't think you understand the prestigious history of our alligator spike pit moat," and you're like, "is there a reason why there needs to be an alligator spike pit moat encircling the concept of higher education?" and they're like, "look, the alligator spike pit moat isn't for everyone. some people just aren't cut out for the alligator spike pit moat :)" and you're like, "right, yeah, like disabled people and people coming from poverty or unstable home environments or underserved communities or people dealing with difficult to navigate life events like pregnancy or abuse or prison or addiction or the death of a loved one, for example" and they're like, "how dare you imply that we are keeping those people out on purpose. it's their own problem if they can't wrestle the alligators and avoid the spikes while also disabled and/or poor and/or pregnant etc" and you're like, "well that seems evil," and they're like, "it sounds like maybe you're just bitter about the alligator spike pit moat because of your totally random individual experience with ONE bad alligator spike pit moat. have you considered therapy?" and you're like, "did you know that there's some patterns here in terms of how y'all are handling this stuff?" and they're like, "actually yes. we even have a department of alligator spike pit studies :)" and you're like, "that's great, how do I get access to and participate in those conversations?" and they're like, "well firstly you must cross the alligator spike pit moat"

[creekfiend]

if you can document that you have a medical condition that might make it challenging for you to navigate the alligator spike pit moat, they'll give you an extra 20 minutes to complete your navigation of the alligator spike pit moat

[creekfiend]

IMPORTANT: any injuries incurred as a result of navigating the alligator spike pit moat will be the sole responsibility of the injured parties. once you leave, the people who made you navigate the alligator spike pit moat and the institution that installed the alligator spike pit moat will never contact you again. except sometimes to ask you for more money.

[libraford]

Googled something about quick hydration and it suggested big jug of water, couple tbsp pickle juice, dash of lime juice.

Its surprisingly tasty????

[libraford]

Pleased to report that after a day of this i am not longer craving caper brine and my mouth is not dry as usual. There's some good suggestions in the notes too that I want to try.

-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)

-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt

-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint

-Agua pepino: water, cucumbers, lime, sugar, optional mint.

[libraford]

I have been reminded of:

-shrub: vinegar, sida water, elderberry (or other berry), sugar.

[libraford]

I have now been informed of

-sekanjabin: honey, vinegar, mint, water.

[libraford]

"Wow, I wonder why this post was popular this week."

-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-

"... ah."