Misc. Bullshit

Hamlet apologist. Also a Claudius apologist as well tbh. I have a lot of intense interests and it's a toss up as to which one I'm blogging about today. Do understand that I was a TJLC-er back in the day and that will never leave my psyche.

[astrangergivingthestrangewelcome]

I've been meaning to make a pinned post with a link to Strange Wonders for ages, and now that Dracula Daily is over (again) I figured I finally would.

Strange Wonders explores the chain of events that happen when Jonathan is the one to stay home on September 30th. It's a story about survival, love, gothic horror and grasping for freedom. It's me taking the melodrama of Bram Stoker's Dracula waaaay too seriously but also being super indulgent about my love of 19th century literature and my love of Jonmina, of course. I care way more about it than is sane.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[ooppo]

Your heart is not true enough to enter the gates of Margaritaville

[empurressnepetaiii]

:33 < sighhhhh... is it pure enough for kokomo atleast? I need SOMETHING to look forward to....

[ooppo]

Actually, Nepeta from Homestuck, you're good to come in

[homunculus-argument]

A woman who is advised to go into the woods to reconnect with nature, but the only way that she has ever known of how to bond and connect with anyone is by an overwhelming avalanche of yapping. So she goes on a beginners' hiking trail and starts talking to the wild as she walks, just the same way she'll talk anyone's ear off if someone's too slow or polite to escape her nonstop chatter.

Halfway up the trail she starts putting together that hold on, she might be onto something here. She actually has a point here and there with the ongoing yap. Out of all the people who have been trapped in one-sided conversations with her and wished they'd have the option to chew their own leg off to escape, she herself was always the first. She still won't stop talking but this time actually pays attention and listens.

[drchucktingle]

When Limby orders ice cream with a friend, she isn’t expecting the day to quickly evolve into a full-on existential panic attack. When she notices the melting ice cream and realizes the impermanence of all things, however, that’s exactly what happens.

Limby takes off into the park, deeply upset, and soon enough finds herself face to face with the physical manifestation of her anxiety over the finite nature of all things, who is named Alyssa. As the two of them talk, however, two truths become apparent.

There’s beauty in impermanence, and Alyssa is hot as heck!

This erotic tale is 4,000 words of sizzling human on sentient existential dread action and lesbian physically manifested anxiety love.

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[ashenmind]

[hardcorewhimsy]

Reddit u/mynameisfreddit 's fish, as seen on @ashenmind 's blog with @lefttobloom 's tag caption

[aubreyhepbum]

@animals-with-fan-art

[visit-me-here-in-wonderland]

[ofishal-fish-posts]

official fish post

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

2 pics. no caption

[crabussy]

Why do kiwis have such massive fucking eggs “it’s because they are related to ostriches and-“ yeah ok but like why didn’t they evolve smaller eggs if I was in charge I would do that shit pronto. Thoughts?

their big eggs are actually that size for a similar reason to human babies having massive heads!! being bigger at birth can be important.

kiwi are trying SO HARD to become mammals. fur-like feathers, whisker-like feathers, little beady eyes, nocturnal, great sense of smell.... that's basically a mammal!! they're well suited for life on the forest floor.

their big eggs work alongside these adaptations to give them a leg up in the bird world. their young hatch already feathered! they're precocial, which means they're born with the ability to open their eyes and move around. like foals.

big egg = more powerful offspring from the get-go. babies don't need to spend precious time vulnerable while they develop on the ground when they've already done all that in the egg!

(unfortunately, with the introduction of mammals to aotearoa, these adaptations are a little less useful...)

[nothingimportantanywhere]

Important addition: baby kiwi come out of the egg looking like they've come out of a shower with a hangover

[assortedinsanities]

They look like one of the downsides of emerging from an egg fully formed is how aware you are off just having come out on egg. First minute alive, already dealing with some fucking experience.

[thememedaddy]

[white-luke]

If I worked in a college or library I would just randomly hang signs asking people not to do the most incomprehensible things

[white-luke]

"Please be mindful of other library-goers! Do not descale fish in the library!"

[bedlamsbard]

#is this about cornell having to tell students not to butcher a bear in the student dorms #prev WHAT (@snowberriesromanoff)

this is all from like two weeks ago btw (the bear was killed legally)

(for those not in the U.S., Cornell University is an Ivy League private university in upstate New York)

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

hamlet production where while he explains to horatio what’s happened in denmark he’s microwaving food from the wedding/funeral that’s been in the freezer

[yandere-angela]

dracula's son, alucard, and frankenstein's son, nietsneknarf

[astrangergivingthestrangewelcome]

[astrangergivingthestrangewelcome]

It's also so funny that the movie made Albert the Counts son. Imagine thinking that was more interesting. The fact that Albert is Fernand's child, born of his deception and lies, and that he grows to enjoy the Counts company and the Count to enjoy his, is so juicy. The weight of Albert sitting with what his father did to the Count and instead of shrinking from it like a coward, facing the situation, accepting it and being honorable about it. His father sending a fucking servant to ask him how the fight went and him just responding "I apologized to the count" like the fact that he is Fernands son is the most interesting part of his character.

[astrangergivingthestrangewelcome]

I went from wanting Vampa to shoot Albert at the beginning of the novel bc he was so fucking annoying to actually feeling more sorry for him than anyone else.

Idk it just like. Of all of the situations characters in this novel are put in. He didn't do anything, nothing to cause the ruin that comes into his life, and he doesn't have any recourse to avenge or right it.

Like. Some kids have to reckon with the fact they only exist due to a trauma or a horrible mistake their parents made. Some kids have to deal with the gut punch of idolizing a parent and being blindsided by their double life. Some kids have to deal with their parents committing suicide. Some kids have to deal with being wholly unprepared by their parents for the life they have to lead as adults.

Fernand does all of this to his son. I mean at ever point he just. Fails to live the values he raises his son with, lies about it at every turn as much as he can, he is willing to let his son go off and duel the count without one word or action to stop him or go in his place, and when he finds it all out, he leaves him no closure offers no apology and just immediately kills himself.

When Edmond escapes from the prison, he has a very clear path of what vengeance looks like in front of him. What can Albert do? He can renounce his father's wealth and make a name for himself outside of that disgrace, which is what he does, but? What vengeance can Albert get from the father who wronged him? Even if Fernand hadn't killed himself, what vengeance? Killing his father wouldn't set him on the path to healing.

It's just. It's so fucked. Imagine if that were your family.

[monamoni]

Capturing a once-in-a-lifetime skating stunt with total eclipse as the backdrop.

Spanish Olympic Skateboarder [Danny León](https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db9nYVDDEKl) performed a Once-In-A-Lifetime skating stunt, timing an incredible aerial jump to silhouette directly against the solar eclipse on August 12, 2026. Calling it “the move of his life,” he perfectly synchronized his launch as the Moon passed in front of the Sun.

[papayajuan2019]

could really go for 200mg right now. of anything.

[dduane]

Kids Have Been Drawing Violent Battles And Fantastical Beasts on Their Homework Since The 13th Century

Long before the 'cool S', Onfim was doodling wars, beasts, and friendship on his homework.

This never gets old. :)