#margin rambles

[margindoodles2407]

ouagh lord of the rings really did say “it might be hopeless, it might be fatal, there may be no coming back— but it is always, always better to do something, to fight for what is good and true and beautiful, than to sit back and give into despair with an ‘it would have happened anyhow’”

[oli-ver-arts]

Welp. I was gonna draw and post something today... but I’ve got to flee to my dad’s ‘cause my mom’s, er, not the best to be around right now. I’m hoping to get back to the drawing board when I return!

I do have some traditional drawings I did of doodling a new character if anyone’s interested...?

[margindoodles2407]

crazy how all jonathan harker ever did was love his wife and then every subsequent adaptation of the story of jonathan harker loving his wife went, "hey what if jonathan harker didn't love his wife"

also crazy how all mina harker ever did was love her husband and then every subsequent adaptation of the story of mina harker loving her husband went, "hey what if mina harker didn't love her husband"

[margindoodles2407]

Perfectly Innocuous Questions that have been Forever Colored by the Media of my Childhood:

Where is my Hairbrush

What Have I Got in my Pocket

And others

[margindoodles2407]

as a catholic. i hate everyone's obsession with so-called "catholic guilt" actually

that's called scrupulosity (or, in the common parlance, religious/moral ocd) and it's not supposed to be there. we have resources we'll help you

[margindoodles2407]

being catholic is great because you get so many free dads. obviously first and foremost there is The Lord. but then you also have st joseph and you have the pope and you have your bishop and you have your pastor and if you have a male baptismal and/or confirmation saint he too can be a dad. and if your biological dad is also good then well. anyway i am beyond grateful for all my dads

[margindoodles2407]

You know, when you really and truly do start thinking of the Saints as your friends, and begin cultivating a relationship with your friends, there really and truly is an infinite improvement in your life

[margindoodles2407]

I think what bothers me most about the broader fandom's need to make EVERY close relationship romantic is that it makes me really sad, because a lot of it comes across as… like… people who have never experienced a real friendship before. I guess this comes to mind right now as we're back in Dracula season, and are starting to get another influx of "so Mina and Lucy were totally lesbians right" posting. And my honest reaction is, Okay, that's fine I guess, you do you, but… what's the thought process here? They want to spend time together? They compliment each others' appearance? They share a room and have epic girl sleepovers, 19th-century edition? Mina wants to protect Lucy and her reputation from that no-account rogue she sees when Lucy sleepwalks out in the middle of the night? I mean, you can ship whatever you want, and I can't stop you, but to my eyes and mind, that is QUITE LITERALLY just gals being pals. And I see this in so many other places, too, and I see it happen to male relationships, female relationships, AND male-female relationships. So it's not like it's confined to one sex or anything. But I think it's probably the biggest symptom of our over-sexualized culture, if that makes sense.

Because this is the "piss-on-the-poor" website I would like to go on record as saying that I don't mean you can NEVER ship ANYTHING that isn't explicitly canon. For goodness gracious' sake, MY number-one ship are two people who have never shared even a single second of canonical screentime. What I'm saying is that if someone's default response to a deep, close, rich relationship is "oh well then it HAS to be romantic, because only people who are IN LOVE can enjoy this level of intimacy and caring about each other", then I do feel sorry for them, because it's likely they haven't had many friends who want to build a relationship any deeper than surface-level "you're kinda fun to hang around with".