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One of my favorite things is modern adaptations that leave people with the same careers they had in the original material, because unless you’re a cop or a doctor that practically never happens.

Irene Adler’s an opera singer. We still have those! They don’t have the same subtext exactly, but nothing is going to because we aren’t the Victorians. She could continue to be an opera singer. I have never seen this happen.

Jonathan Harker can still be in real estate. That’s a job people have. A modern story that still involves Dracula contacting his firm to help him purchase property sounds amazing actually.

nudityandnerdery

A modern adaptation of Dracula where you keep seeing Jonathan Harker’s face on bus stop bench ads for his realtor office.

daddygrandpaandthebeaver

#“This client doesn’t seem to exist online; a bit strange. But he’s elderly so it’s not that unusual” -Jonathan about to make a mistake – @capslockdoesntexpressmyjoy

prokopetz

I was about to joke about Quincey Morris still being a cowboy, but then it occurred to me that he’s not actually a cowboy in the source material, is he? He’s the wealthy heir of a Texas ranch-owning family who just acts like an Old West cowboy. If anything, that’s even more plausible today than it was in 1897.

roach-works

let’s see dracula shrug off getting hit with one of these country cosplay motherfuckers

conduit-of-grace

“Even if you are committing mortal sins, keep on praying, and I guarantee you that you will reach the harbor of salvation.”

-St. Teresa of Avila

diehellasrache

I think I'm going to remember this phrase every time I cook for the next five years

elodieunderglass

Me too

orthodoxadventure

We should thank God now that we are still breathing and capable of voicing a word of repentance with every breath.

The Art of Salvation by Elder Ephraim of Arizona

I liked the picture of a pretty sailboat once the other day. ONCE.

Now my feed is full of other very cool sailboats that I might like.

Unfortunately, I have been liking the sailboats.

I'm feeding the madness.

#tumblr #sigh #this is who i am

rubyvroom

Yeah, it's time to get this post out again

conduit-of-grace

“Lord, beware of Philip, for he will betray you.

Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing danger. When a person puts himself in an occasion, saying "I shall not fall"—it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with great injury to his soul.”

-St. Philip Neri

merkerlerspeaks

"God isn't a magical genie" I say, except I know that genies are trickster creatures that go out of their way to take your wishes and twist them into the most harmful thing they can because they hate you, and thus I mean that if you don't word a prayer absolutely perfectly or get nasty intrusive thoughts while youre praying, God isn't going to take that and be like "Nope, sorry, you prayed it into being!". He knows what youre trying to say and he knows those nasty thoughts are intrusive and he isn't going to take your imperfect prayer and use it to hurt you or do something outside of your favour.

conduit-of-grace

Letter to her grown son:

“Be not my dear one so unhappy as to break willfully any command of our God, or to omit your prayers on any account.... From the first moment I received you in my arms and to my breast you have been consecrated to God by me and I have never ceased to beg him to take me from this world rather than you should offend him or dishonour your dear soul and as you know my stroke of death would be to know that you have quitted that path of virtue which alone can reunite us for ever. Separation, everything else I can bear-but that never. Your mother's heart must break if that blow falls on it.”

-St. Elizabeth Seton

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cogentranting

Observed today:

Two little girls playing gently with a daddy long legs.

Girl 1: can it die?

Girl 2, in a calm happy even tone: of course. Like all living things it can and must die.

penny-anna

Like you do need to recognise sometimes that a person is not picking up your social cues and adjust your communication style accordingly. If someone isn't understanding you then you need to change up how you're communicating and not just say the same thing over & over.

penny-anna

Working on your social awkwardness is important but being able to distinguish between someone who is consciously being rude and someone who is socially awkward is also an important social skill.

aw-tysm

"We're not supposed to be honest when people ask us how we are?"

Uhm.. Actually, you can be. There's a lot of people who are honest when answering that question. They just do it in ways that don't come across so upsetting or depressing.

Many people sugarcoat their answers to be more palatable for a greeting, or for a start of a conversation. It can also just be a polite way of giving others an out for a potential depressing conversation they may not want to be a part of.

These responses usually come in forms like, - "How are you?/How's it going?" - "Could be better." "It's definitely going." "I'm still alive." "I'm getting there." "New day, new problems." "Well, I'm still here." "Same old." "It's not all sunshine." "It's moving along". "It is what it is." "Not great but I'll survive." "Hoping tomorrow comes quickly." And many more responses like this. These are all ways of basically saying "Things are kinda/very shit at the moment for me". But they just don't go into detail about it. They are being honest, without the extra information.

If the other person doesn't want to go further into this then they may just responed with something like "I feel you", or "That's relatable", or "Yeh, that's life". Which are basically ways of saying "I acknowledge things aren't easy right now", without having to go into a conversation about it. Not everyone has the emotional energy to deal with conversations like that in that moment and that's okay.

Honesty doesn't need to come with the extra information. A lot of people won't give the extra information and that's the difference.