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[luckshiptoshore]

catching up on Dracula Daily and … I do not think it is a coincidence that the book goes straight from Dracula’s three brides to Lucy’s three suitors. The book keeps saying: Dracula Polycule Bad, Human Polycule Good. But The Two Things Are Essentially The Same.

[girlwithwhitebeltinmoshpit]

bizarre hat at the thrift today

[immediatebreakfast]

It's truly incredible on its own that Jonathan managed to hide his journal up to this point in the novel. It's, subtextually, this little piece of evidence that Jonathan clings his life to since he is truly alone in a hostile place. He doesn't trust his mind, but he trusts the words written in the paper.

Moreso, Jonathan constantly writing down everything no matter what happened and his paranoia of keeping the journal close to his person at all times payed off today, now that Dracula has robbed Jonathan of anything he could use to survive if he can somehow find a way to escape.

[plumslices]

Hand-painted Hilma of Klimt nails by @nailedbytav

[thehmn]

In Copenhagen you can visit The Round Tower. It used to be an astronomical observatory until light pollution and the vibrations from increased traffic in the streets made it useless for its original purpose.

Today it’s mostly famous for what it looks like on the inside.

It has an equestrian staircase though it’s so smooth it’s really just a gentle slope more than a staircase. It was build like that so our lazy bum king could ride his horse all the way to the top (king not in photo)

And naturally people have also driven cars up the tower

And held a bike race

For a while it was just sort of abandoned by the authorities and became a sloping marketplace

But today it has been restored and become a tourist spot as well as a popular destination for school trips. And yes, you can still watch the cosmos at the top.

[damaramegido]

[homunculus-argument]

The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.

And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and

[thekijs]

His girlfriend had been fending off the 5 drunk guys for most of the evening by explaining that even if she was going to ditch her boyfriend, she can't possibly leave without finishing her beer, which she is keeping perpetually full via careful sleight of hand where she's just pouring it back and forth into and out of the pitcher.

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.

[weaselle]

yuh i was there, that's how it happened

[apolladay]

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Thank you Mod H!

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[lyricwritesthings]

Jonathan Harker today

[artiisantm]

Lucy and Mina in matching dresses ( during their stay in Whitby )

[cry-ptidd]

Mina mina mina

[eleanor-shellfish]

TIL that the sap from handling raw zucchini can form a film on your fingertips that’s like near impossible to wash off

and when it hardens, it makes it look like your skin is splitting open😭 but actually it’s just a Weird Zucchini Sap Crust

you could go your whole life not knowing this and then discover it one day with an unlucky zucchini

[evydraws]

Lucy and Mina, in a very different part of this story than whatever Jonathan is currently living through...

[eleanor-shellfish]

got rejected from a grant application i worked really hard on. record number of applicants etc etc etc.

there are a few more grants i’m applying for this summer

if anyone has tips on what grant committees look for in very open-ended written portions of the application (vague prompts, etc), I’d love any advice

[ambrosial-sunshine]

Jonathan Harker is really the character ever. Goes from “The Devil Surely Walks on this Earth” to “The Count is up to his Lizard shit again 🙄” in one day.

[thisauthorisscreaming]

Does it count as 'sword in the stone' if it looks more like 'sword in the cairn'...?

[eleanor-shellfish]

lmao….guess the book from my Libby holds

[beyondwhimsy]

Hate when the lawyer I’m keeping trapped in my castle judges me for going out in my lizard fashion #mylizardfashion