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Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Hello Tumblr and the critters upon it. I have a fanfic of Gravity Falls, which can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31286522 For Chapter 2, I have received this stunning piece of art by @spectralfineries, who has their commissions open, go throw money at them I beg of thee.
Wild Dogs see a Domesticated Dog
African wild dogs are one of my favorite animals. Those huge round circle ears and tricolored coats. I love you African wild dogs
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This is really clever. I wonder how long it took her to find all of these.
for folks concerned its AI, i'm pleased to report its not only legit, she has a whole ass burger coord to go with it and its delightful
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Really insane found media
So, back when Dracula first released in 1931, it came with an epilogue where Edward Van Sloan (who played Van Helsing) basically reassured the audience that vampires exist. They apparently removed it out of fear it’d anger religious groups. After almost a century, it’s now available
OH MY ACTUAL GOD
op I'm so sorry to bug out on your post but I have been obsessed with this particular monologue for over a decade, and I have been a Dracula nerd for much longer still
hi, my name is Rae, I got my actual phd in us american gothic and horror media (more generally, Literature) because of vampires. I adopted the last line of this monologue as a sort of academic credo, because to humanity, even if vampires aren't real outside of the bats, monsters are real because we need them in our stories to talk about so many things that we have a hard time discussing directly. monsters do so much important cultural work that there is literally a branch of the criticism I studied that is referred to as 'monster theory,' written about by scholars such as Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and also other people that aren't named Jeffrey, I swear. "there are such things!" is not only my blog title here, but I literally have it tattooed on my right shoulder.
pictured here: the stencil from when I got the tattoo in 2021 (observing the studio's mask protocol) as a delayed gift to myself for getting my MA in 2020.
so I'm freaking out about this because I've been obsessed not only with vampires and Dracula, but the Bela Lugosi version in particular. because as I'm betting you already know but humor me nonetheless, the Bela Lugosi version is obviously not based off the novel (as is alarmingly traditional for Dracula adaptations, many have noted), on the Hamilton Deane stage play from 1924. it's worth noting that he was an Irish playwright, and therefore (IIRC) one of the first and only people that Florence Stoker, (also Irish) Bram Stoker's widow by then, gave actual permission to adapt his work (unlike F.W. Murnau's silent film Nosferatu, which had just been released in 1922 and which she had ordered - or so the story goes - to have all the prints destroyed). so Deane getting to adapt the novel at all is highly significant, and especially because he was adapting it into a stage play. this is bc Stoker had been the proud business manager of London's Lyceum Theater for most of his life as an adult (which you can read more about at his estate's website) on behalf of Sir Henry Irving, the theater's owner and a very famous stage actor in their day. Stoker was also, to my understanding, Irving's personal manager and assistant to some degree, and they had the kind of relationship where many people in the history department would say they were definitely on-the-record "friends" but they'd say it with a very knowing intonation and meaningful eyebrow movement to indicate that they were arguably queer to some degree and Involved, though there is (to my knowledge) some uncertainty over how one-sided or at all reciprocal this relationship might have been (I seem to remember it being one-sided on Stoker's part, but I also admit I could have been projecting after a bad breakup, so take that with a grain of salt). Irving has been discussed in biographical writing as having the bearing of nobility despite his career as an actor (something that was not seen as "Respectable" at this time, though not Disreputable as in previous centuries), and his dramatic, intimidating imperiousness is often mentioned in various texts I've read over the years as a possible inspiration for Stoker's Dracula and his mannerisms. I recall having read some text on Dracula years ago where the author suggested that Stoker might have intended to adapt Dracula into a play all along and offer the role to Irving, but alas, I would need to do some digging to source that properly.
I mention all of this to explain this clip. the Hamilton Deane stage play toured in England before being performed in the West End for a bit, and then was revised at the request of an American producer by an American writer, John Balderson (hell of a name!!), in October 1927.
the person playing the role of Dracula in that Broadway staging was, indeed, the icon-to-be himself: Bela Lugosi. it was actually one of his first major roles in english, as he was a Hungarian actor who had come over to the states not long before this (and IIRC, had kind of learned a lot of his parts in english phonetically before then).
the revised version got so popular touring the States that it actually wound up replacing the original adaptation in England, and then was adapted into the Lugosi-starring movie, directed by Tod Browning for Universal Studios in 1931 -- one of the first sound film/"talkie" adaptations of the story
(unrelated aside: Browning would capitalize on this fame the next year by making Freaks, which was one of the first US horror movies to use actual disabled performers to play the roles they occupied in the circus/freakshow culture that was common at the time, and one of the earliest where they were actually portrayed sympathetically. but being as this was an era in the US where the culture that created so-called 'ugly laws' reigned, it also wound up more or less tanking his whole career. sorry Tod, you tried.)
the Dracula film did gangbusters, which is an old time-y way of saying it would literally go on to influence a lot of the USian (and others, by osmosis) pop cultural image of the vampire as a concept. like, the medal Lugosi wears in this film, the black suit and opera cape, and the widow's peak in his hair? this role is what made Dracula a noun; it's how we got vampires that are draculas (unlike those/los-feratus) and why all the vintage Halloween vampire masks seem to look like this one specific guy. it got released on Valentine's Day for the weirdos who would predate people like me by almost a century, beginning the proud tradition suggesting a a horror movie where there's a lot of biting, fainting, and underlying sexual tension for a date.
'lugosi isn't even in this clip.' I know, I'm getting there, I promise.
so if you've seen the Lugosi version, you know that the film ends seemingly extremely abruptly -- Mina is freed, Dracula is defeated, sunrise, then cut to black. that's because, as of course op pointed out, this was supposed to come next as the true final beat of the film.
you also have to understand that at nowhere else in the film does Van Helsing break the fourth wall. this is purely an epilogue thing. this also really isn't a thing you see (again, IIRC) in any of the other Universal horror movies, as they would come to be called. it seems very random and without precedent for Van Helsing to suddenly start speaking to the theater audience, until you know that this is a holdover from the Deane/Balderson stage play, and was originally meant to be delivered live and to a room full of people.
my advisor in undergrad was obsessed with the silent/black and white era of film, and especially the horror films of that period. he is also a gifted musician, and would frequently either host screenings of such at my university or get paid to work at local screenings by small community theaters to provide the accompanying score live on his piano (sometimes accompanied by string quartets or duos) like they would have done in the eras when these films were first released. it's how I saw a lot of the early gems of the genre, such as Nosferatu above, but also The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (which like Nosferatu is also getting a remake for some reason??) and those that are horror-adjacent, like Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927). it was a part of my education in the genre that I treasure immensely for how it exposed me to the collaborative artistic process that was not only how films were created and produced, but also how they were shared in live theatrical settings.
in a rare not-film instance, one of the things he provided the score for also happened to be the stage play version of Dracula that this clip directly adapts.
and let me tell you.
when you are sitting in a historic theater in perfect pitch blackness, accompanied by an ominous piano and the hushed breathing of your fellow audience members, the sincere gravitas of Dr. Van Helsing staring directly at you, yes, you, and reminding you that when you reach for the safety of the modern world outside this theater, when you comfort yourself with your electric lights, your notions of reality,
"there are such things!"
has a way of making your skin crawl and your hair stand on end with the unpleasant possibility that he might, in fact, be right.
the Van Helsing in this clip is a bit more semi-whimsical grandpa/old man mentor about it, which fits his vibe in the film, even if it lacks the menace of the one I originally saw.
I don't know when or where this clip was finally released, but op, you have fulfilled such a lifelong dream of mine by letting me finally get to see the 1931 version. thank you so so so much for sharing it with us here and I'm sincerely sorry for passionately info-hurling all over your post in my excitement :'D
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rauagghhh drifting stars I just got into this au and it's had me in a chokehold the entire day your art is fantastic I love it
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I was going to make you a quick little doodle but then I blacked out and found this:
Nasty and sophisticated scam: BEWARE of this!
If an email recently landed in your inbox with a subject line like "Pending charge of USD 987.90 for account activation. Questions? Call 855
Don’t get caught off guard by this. It’s quite a slick one.
What to actually do If you get one of these, the answer is boring and it works every time: Don't call the number. Don't reply. Don't click links in the email — not even the unsubscribe link. Open a fresh browser tab, type paypal.com yourself, and log into your account. Check your activity. You'll see either nothing, or a tiny incoming payment from a stranger that you can ignore. Then forward the original email as an attachment to [email protected] and delete it. If you want to go a step further, report the phone number to the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov — every report makes it slightly harder for these operations to keep running. And if you've already called? Don't beat yourself up — these scams are designed by professionals to fool smart people. Hang up, run a malware scan if you installed anything they asked you to install, change your PayPal and bank passwords from a different device, and call your bank's real fraud line (the number on the back of your card) to flag your accounts. Move fast, but you don't need to panic.
from the above linked article. For the UK the email to forward phishing scams to is [email protected], texts can be forwarded on to 7726 (for free!) and as a victim of fraud you can report it here (or here for Scotland)
— If an email recently landed in your inbox with a subject line like "Pending charge of USD 987.90 for account activation. Questions? Call (855) 629-1161" — don't call that number. Don't click anything. And whatever you do, don't panic-dial to "stop the charge."
You're being targeted by one of the cleverest scams going right now, and the reason it works is uncomfortable: the email genuinely came from PayPal.
The trick is in the subject line, not the email
When most people think "phishing email," they picture sketchy senders, broken English, and links to weird domains. This scam is the opposite. The email passes every authenticity check — SPF, DKIM, DMARC, all green. It comes from PayPal's actual mail servers. The fonts are right. The footer is right. The unsubscribe link works. If you forwarded it to a security expert and asked "is this really from PayPal?" they'd have to say yes.
So how is it a scam?
Scammers have figured out that PayPal lets anyone send small amounts of money to anyone else, and that PayPal will dutifully email the recipient a notification. The scammer sends you a payout of, say, one Hungarian forint — about a quarter of a cent. PayPal's system then automatically generates and sends you a real, legitimate, fully-authenticated email confirming the transaction.
Here's the catch: the email's subject line is whatever the scammer typed when they set up the payout. PayPal doesn't sanitize it. So they write something terrifying like "Pending charge of USD 987.90 — call this number with questions" and PayPal's servers cheerfully deliver that subject line straight to your inbox, wrapped in a perfectly legitimate-looking notification.
The actual transaction in the email body is for 1 forint. There is no $987.90 charge. There never was. But by the time most people read carefully enough to notice that, they've already dialed the number. —
“Kids shouldn’t have to know about that.”
Okay so actually letting a serious topic be vague and confusing is much more scary for a child than explaining it in calm language they can understand.
When you are in a safe place, explain the serious topic in a way the child can understand.
The fire alarm went off at school today because of a mistake, but your teachers did the right thing to take you outside to be sure it was safe.
Some people use wheelchairs because their legs don’t walk very well. It can happen because they are old and tired, or because they got hurt, or because they were born that way.
Your Uncle Jerod talked to mom and dad, and wants you to call her Aunt Kari now. We will call her Kari too, and we can all practice together if it takes some getting used to.
Anticipate age-appropriate fears the child might have so you can assuage those that are not a threat.
Yes, Kitty died at the vet, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not safe for Puppy to go to the vet.
Yes, Peyton and Jo are getting a divorce, but they are both still part of our family and love you very much.
Yes, Grandma has cancer, but cancer is not contagious, so you are not going to get cancer by visiting her.
Anticipate fears that are realistic, and give the child clear direction about what to do, and what happens next.
If someone asks you to get in their car without permission, find Mom, Mama, or a teacher and tell them right away. We will make sure you are safe.
If Sparky’s sickness makes him hurt very badly, we are going to take him to the vet and she will give him some medicine, and he will die, but then he won’t hurt any more. Because Sparky is very sick, we are going to spend some special time with him over the next few days.
If the fire alarm goes off at school again, follow the teacher’s directions. If the fire alarm goes off and you are somewhere alone, go outside, and ask a grownup to call 911.
Reassure the child that they’re safe and loved, validate their feelings, and see if they have follow-up questions. Give them the option to take space to process, or to stay near you to feel safe.
I’m sad about Sparky too. Do you think we could make his favorite peanut-butter treats, while we are spending special time with him?
I understand why Grandma’s cancer makes you feel angry. It doesn’t seem fair that people we love get sick. Would you like a hug?
You were worried about calling 911 if there’s not a grownup around. I wrote down some important things, like our address, and we can go over these together so you are ready if anything like that ever happens.
These things are principally the job of the child’s parent or guardian, but in some cases directing the child to that caregiver is difficult or impossible (parent refuses/confuses the child, parent is absent, child’s questions are specific and relevant to a situation their parent was not present for, etc.) so I think all adults should be prepared to have these conversations with kids.
Compilation of all the Promo Splashes for Cosmic Wonders
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
If it caught your fancy, you can check out the light novel here <3
The Fantasy Light Novel by P.M. Seymour, starring a colorful cast of characters telling their story in an anthology of mystifying tales!
thinking about the emphasis placed on noninterference with toad challenges (Grime’s Pupil) and then looking back on Reunion and how Grime reneged on the official terms and went Actually No.
It was to further his goals and avoid failure in the eyes of the crown, sure, but it was also to afford an otherwise nonexistent safety net to Sasha, who unambiguously lost that duel
Neurodivergent mystery twins return, at long last!! These two supporting each other is everything to me 🧡🩷
I imagine Mabel would get diagnosed way before Dipper, since her executive dysfunction effects her schoolwork (and she's more hyperactive) while Dipper's has more to do with self-care and cleaning. Fortunately, this does mean he has an understanding sister!
I had a dream about Columbo at a drag show. This is what came from it.
I'm waiting for him to explain to me how his newfound love of drag allowed him to prove I killed my business partner
callout posts in 2014: this user is sending mean messages to people! please be warned!
callout posts in 2015: this user is stealing bones from cemeteries for witch rituals!
callout posts in 2016: this user Actually A Nazi
callout posts in 2017: this user watches an anime I don’t like
callout posts in 2018: i went through this user’s youtube like history and found a video from JonTron that they liked in 2012, proving that they’re a bad person
callout posts in 2019: this user plays E-Rated Video Games, which are meant for children, which seems pretty sus to me idk :/
callout posts in 2020: this user stole 5 gallons of purified water from the New DC Resistance Camp and was last seen headed towards Sunken Brooklyn
what I REALLY don’t like is this post was made in 2017
This doesn’t include the best bit of the whole thing - she found the Twitter thread!
This is like one of those romance novels where people bond over accidentally writing each other emails but better.
Like Pride and Prejudice but instead of the love interest getting dissed for his toxicity and then reforming, it’s just two people bonding over dissing a dead toxic asshole.
10/10 would recommend
