Jane Vyne @jane-vyne - Tumblr Blog

It's so funny how kids who were only given the "girl" toys seemed to frequently develop the most maniacal imaginations. When I was little and I visited friends or family who were little girls they'd have their Barbies involved in ritual sacrifice or human trafficking. They'd have barbie's evil twin drive ken to suicide by poisoning his horse or some shit.

Action figures set up only the simplest kinds of violence, heroes and villains punching or shooting each other over doomsday plots. When you crave high stakes drama as all children do but your characters are all rich suburban women you kinda have no choice but to get pitch dark I think. The only kinds of villains that logically exist in that setting are just so much sicker and nastier than just doctor octopus or something.

bogleech

........I could not have imagined the entertainment value of the examples you people are putting on this and I have TRIED to get to the end of them but there’s so many I had to give up after an hour and a half.

yourbigsisnissi

relationships are so much healthier when the goal is to experience life together and not to try to make the person into who you want them to be or to make them do what you want them to do.

cartoonbrew

Studio Ghibli’s animation software will be made available via open source this month.

That’s right…💯% free.

Read more on CartoonBrew.com

kithandqin-deactivated20220918

This is a BIG DEAL, folks.

Animation software is, by and large, very expensive and out of the range of most people seeking to get into animation. As of March 26th, this software will become open source and available to all prospective animators!

Spread the word!

amuseoffirebane

Here’s a direct link to the Toonz website.

wild-cabins

James Lloyd Cole

farmhouselove

Such a gorgeous farmhouse.

📷 ahoneyofafarmhouse

Follow us on Instagram | Shop Our Farmhouse Marketplace

farmhouselove

📷 thefrontdoorproject

Follow us on Instagram | Shop Our Farmhouse Marketplace

felixculpuh

the only way to grow in prayer is to pray.

felixculpuh

the only way to grow in reading is to read. the only way to grow in cooking is to cook. to grow in anyway you have to sit in it and just do it. stop all the analysis and just start.

cintosh

tinyshe

Kid, look around the globe! This isn’t an isolated event... it’s a global event. Wake up!

forthegothicheroine

Tumblr is full of people who love villains- myself included!- and we saw a bit of this in the very early parts of the book when Jonathan was in Dracula’s castle before the baby murdering started. So I’m fascinated that since Lucy’s death and especially since Mina’s assault, the tumblr reaction to Dracula has been pure fury and loathing. Even as a villain-lover, that’s fun to see!

ecosystem-administrator

When Dracula was putting on chaotic shenanigans with homoerotic undertones in order to run circles around a painfully English man who had recently had all his common sense replaced with law school, we were willing to laugh and cheer and relate to both parties in different ways. Who wouldn’t enjoy messing with a man too polite to object to obvious absurdities, and while we mostly didn’t want Jonathan to be in any actual danger, there was some agreement that he was fair game for a little mauling after he walked himself into an obvious trap.

Then Dracula gets to England and starts gaslighting and draining the life and personality from a sweet young woman whose only crime was being pretty and eager to please and in the wrong place, someone who Stoker had already exquisitely woven our affection for. As soon as it was clear that the danger to Lucy’s health was real and progressing, Dracula became That Fucking Guy, because we all know someone who we hate for doing that, someone who’s had that done to them. Naturally that’s when we start sharpening our knives, and still more so when he does it again, because of course it’s always a pattern, it’s never just one.

He became the symbolic manifestation of a familiar menace - not the one Stoker intended, the dangerous lascivious foreigner who would corrupt good women, for a modern audience he’s the abuser who creates a dangerous situation that takes a long time to even identify if you aren’t familiar with the red flags. That makes you wonder if you’re just making things up, or if it’s really that bad, or if there’s something you can do, if you just change your own behavior enough. And all the while his victim is slowly fading into less and less of herself while she can’t escape his influence, and all the while the people who have seen this before and understand what’s really going on can only howl from the outside PIN HIM DOWN AND STAB HIM THROUGH THE HEART, IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE!

dathen

What’s especially fascinating to me is how continuing through the book has reframed how we view and discuss that “fun” first part of the book.

Seeing his methods with Lucy is a big part of it, but seeing the effect it all had on Jonathan as a victim was the biggest part of this, I think. We also see him around other English characters, so he’s less “stand-in for England where bullying him is fun” and more “young person being taken advantage of because he can’t say no without putting himself in even worse danger.” We see his mental health break, the gaslighting leading to mental illness and him questioning his own sanity.

It’s just fascinating how, largely, the whole “abuser who manipulates your circumstances so you have to put up with the red flags” view of the villain that emerges is retroactive.

monstrousgourmandizingcats

And it works that way because of the daily format too! In the original we haven’t spent much time, if any, with Lucy yet when things go downhill for Jonathan, so the “fun” part of the book ends much earlier and in a very different way.