“they were young and loud and triumphant, and the kings of henrietta.”

blue sargent | adam parrish | ronan lynch | gansey III | noah czerny

Letters van Helsing has now read:

9 May - "I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely [...] I shall try to do what I see lady journalists do: interviewing and writing descriptions and trying to remember conversations. I am told that, with a little practice, one can remember all that goes on or that one hears said during a day. [...] I have just had a few hurried lines from Jonathan from Transylvania. He is well, and will be returning in about a week."

24 August - "I found my dear one, oh, so thin and pale and weak-looking. All the resolution has gone out of his dear eyes, and that quiet dignity which I told you was in his face has vanished. He is only a wreck of himself, and he does not remember anything that has happened to him for a long time past. [...] ...after saying that she could never mention what my poor dear raved about, added: 'I can tell you this much, my dear: that it was not about anything which he has done wrong himself; and you, as his wife to be, have no cause to be concerned. He has not forgotten you or what he owes to you. His fear was of great and terrible things, which no mortal can treat of.' [...] I have had a great shock, and when I try to think of what it is I feel my head spin round, and I do not know if it was all real or the dreaming of a madman. You know I have had brain fever, and that is to be mad. The secret is here, and I do not want to know it. [...] I took the book from under his pillow, and wrapped it up in white paper, and tied it with a little bit of pale blue ribbon which was round my neck, and sealed it over the knot with sealing-wax, and for my seal I used my wedding ring. Then I kissed it and showed it to my husband, and told him that I would keep it so, and then it would be an outward and visible sign for us all our lives that we trusted each other; that I would never open it unless it were for his own dear sake or for the sake of some stern duty."

17 September - "Jonathan wants looking after still. He is beginning to put some flesh on his bones again, but he was terribly weakened by the long illness; even now he sometimes starts out of his sleep in a sudden way and awakes all trembling until I can coax him back to his usual placidity."

18 September - "But it is here that the grave shock that he experienced tells upon him the most. Oh, it is too hard that a sweet, simple, noble, strong nature such as his—a nature which enabled him by our dear, good friend's aid to rise from clerk to master in a few years—should be so injured that the very essence of its strength is gone."

He has also read Lucy's diary, the first entry of which (24 August) contains these lines: "I must imitate Mina, and keep writing things down. [...] Last night I seemed to be dreaming again just as I was at Whitby."

So, the impression he will have of the facts, upon writing his letter to Mina today, goes something like this:

Mina's then-fiance went to Transylvania and was supposed to return by around 16 May.

Instead, Mina found him terribly ill in a hospital in Budapest on 24 August, about three months later. He had been raving about great and terrible things, but could no longer recall them.

He had written a record of these things.

No one knows what is inside his record, but Mina has possession of it.

He is still fragile/slowly recovering.

Mina was with Lucy on Whitby, where Lucy was likely first attacked.

Mina kept a thorough record of those days.

So his goal in asking to speak to Mina is likely to try and get access to her journal from Whitby, and Jonathan's journal as well if he can manage it (less directly linked but suspicious). Not knowing that she has already read Jonathan's journal, it probably feels like a huge ask (since she sealed it up with great deliberacy) and he probably expects her to have no knowledge of the significance of anything she remembers from Whitby either. No wonder he is so polite and apologetic in his letter.

posted on facebook an image from one of the sets of stranger things to see if any of my 80’s babies/children/teens/adults fam members or whoever might be familiar with the lore and give me the insight.

i wrote out the post so formal though so they couldn’t get a whiff of the fact i am not asking because i intend to write an article for cinemablend but instead for my tumblr blog so my fellow mentally ill queers and i can go insane over a piece of prop to prove one of the hundreds of theories we all have ping ponging between us

And the blood moon rises once again

I don't go here but imagine having a whole ass indie studio make a solid 30 minute pilot of your series for free and you drop the books on the project.

one

the anticipation (the. anticipation.) is itching under your fingertips. you can feel it. you have to feel it.

two

closer. (ever closer) but you cant count yet. the wave has only just started. a deep yearning.

three

the itch. (the itch) time is thick. half congealed blood. an open wound you need to scratch at. let it scab or let it bleed but make it stop itching.

four

calm. (calm) its a wish more than anything. youre tense with something you dont have words for.

five

it catches in your throat (the sensation echoes) its only been a few seconds. its been years. its been lifetimes.

six

you couldnt be closer. (you need to be closer) youre too far.

seven

it stills. (it stills) youre here (youre here) youre here (youre here)

Hello praying people, I'm not doing well and would really appreciate your prayers right now <3

a look into yuta and toge's couple dorm life

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Sailom is a steady wind that came through Kanghan's door. gentle yet strong. he had proved that he was unfazed by Kanghan but how about his actual feeling towards him? with that much of Sailom's background story had been shown to us, I can be pretty sure he had faced enough bullshit in his life to which Kanghan's threats might not be even compared to. Sailom knows how to stand for himself. he knows exactly how the mind of the people who wanted to manipulate him works. he's trusting but by default vigilant at the same time. if, let's say, he's to fall first (for Kanghan), and perhaps, also to love the other harder, he'll come to that feeling fully conscious, and never to go easy on him, nonetheless. he'll be fully aware of the changes in his heart and knowing well exactly when he needs to hold on while never leave Kanghan's side.

I'm not whole somewhere in my life. I've lost the part that I feel. The part that smiles and yet the expression becomes a mask. Behind it is the tragic face of horror, pain, agony, rage, frustration, anxiety, and depression. Yet I've spoken to the angel's, they spoke of celebration and perfection in holiness. I've drunk with the fallen angels. They speak of the free will of imperfections, failure crying for learned lessons, and redemption. I am the one who's most safe amongst the most alone. So I cry not because I'm weak, nor am I a coward, but because you can only take pain for so long until it's too late.

the cancer journals – audre lorde

shoutout to mary renault for defending her Short King Theseus headcanon to the death

sometimes pure unbridled rage overcomes me and i want to write a thesis paper

okay i lied abt being done going thru old things ive spent the last like hour and a half clearing out my drawers bc they are a MESS and i found a “song book” of mine and it gets dark so unnervingly fast

"To put it another way, I feel always tender in the wrong places." -Audre Lorde from The Cancer Journals

Some of y’all’s morning routines flabbergast me. What do you mean you have time to read, stretch, journal, check your email, cook a nutritious breakfast, get through a mindfulness routine, and exercise and then actually get dressed and make it to work on time? Exactly what time are you waking up? Or is it that you’re secretly a vampire and don’t need sleep?

….omg don’t tell me you’re a Cullen cuz that would be gross. That’s grounds for disownment