Omg I think the shadowban is lifted?? 😭 I’m suddenly seeing old messages again. Once again so sorry to folks who tried to DM or message and it got eaten up.
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Neil confirmed a while ago that michael and david only really became friends while working on the first season of good omens, so that basically means that they were in their late forties by that time. As a young adult i think that’s just very inspiring bc you often feel like it’s difficult to make new, close friends at that age. Just seeing them get on so well that they decided to not only come back to good omens but also to work on several other projects together and very publicly display how much they care for each other is just the most heartwarming thing to see and honestly it gives me a lot of hope for the future
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I don't know if it was you who had pointed it out a month ago or so?? But there are so many Jonathan/Lucy parallels in the text it's crazy (like Lucy/Mina was expected but this wasn't) and you're right if it was you
Oh, I definitely can't be the first/only one to point that out, there's mentions of Jonathan and Lucy parallels everywhere, But It Is Right Regardless
It's one of the bajillion things that get glossed over when it comes to pop culture osmosis and adaptations (surprise surprise), because Jonathan's victimhood always gets shouldered aside to throw a spotlight on Lucy and Mina's ~sexily menaced maiden~ positions. You know, ignoring the fact that Jonathan is the only character to get personally cornered by Dracula in his castle for two months, the only character to be in nigh constant over-intimate danger from Dracula, the only character to even get actual conversation out of Dracula that isn't a Single Paragraph of threats, et cetera
Of the victims involved, Lucy's is nearest a match to Jonathan's nightmare for the fact of how long her attack is drawn out, how fixated Dracula becomes on 'having his way' with her, how entirely blindsiding the attack is because, like Jonathan, she was entirely innocent and the one thing to doom her was catching Dracula's attention, the trances, the nightly terror and so on
Though Mina's plight is obviously nothing to shrug off--and has its own parallels in that final blood rite scene, wherein she gets to be fully aware of herself being attacked just as Jonathan got a heads up from the Brides and Count "Tonight is mine!" Dracula--her overall length of attack (not counting the dreadful countdown aftermath) is far more curt in its awfulness compared to Dracula's preferred MO as exercised on Jonathan and Lucy
Mina was attacked out of pettiness and strategy, but Jonathan and Lucy were the Count playing with his food.
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I'd like to share something.
I am bipolar. I take medication, and I have a therapist I see on a weekly basis.
I am enrolled in a master's program for creative writing out of state.
I have put myself and my spouse through hell for this opportunity. We are considered homeless because we have been living in a second- rate motel room with a mini fridge and a cheap microwave for over six months. Our health has declined incredibly.
Now ..
School is saying I am in trouble. My attitude in class makes my classmates uncomfortable. (Enthusiastic to be there?) A classmate has decided that my poetry...p.o.e.t.r.y...is making him/her concerned for their life.
Our class is a zoom class.
They live a thousand miles away.
P.O.E.T.R.Y.
A TOTALLY DIFFERENT STATE.
I have NEVER intentionally written about ANY of my classmates. I reviewed my work, and there does not appear to be any indication that I had a specific person in mind while working on my poetry. I don't even know these people all that well. My crime? I used a name that sounded close to a student's name. Not a description, not an out-and-out personal attack, not even a classmate's NAME; just a name that sounded CLOSE TO someone's name.
My school expects me, and my bipolar-ness, to mind what I say and what I write. If I cannot mind my P's, Q's and themes of my work, then my participation in the program will be terminated.
Anyone who knows about bipolar manic will understand we don't always know we are manic, thus we don't see any changes in our behavior or our communication. It isn't until there is a problem brought up to us by someone else that we (mostly) take action and/or ask for help.
Knowing I am bipolar and knowing I have had issues in the past, I have always told professors how to help me so I can work on myself. I may not remember anything I said, but I have a witness to my interaction with class. But if it was a building concern, combined with the fact that I practically threw a User's Guide in my school's lap, I would think someone would have spoken up sooner. At least sooner than me facing expulsion.
And seriously? Someone who I don't really know who lives in a different state actually thinks I am out to physically hurt him/her? All because of poetry?
FUCKING POETRY?!
Does anyone want to pitch me their two cents about this scenario?
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You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).
Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.
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"just ate half of this i'll finish the rest later" is like my favourite tiktok trend ever
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Me, aroace: “Yeah I think these fictional characters are kinda hot”
Other people: “Oh you think they’re hot? Doesn’t that mean you’re not actually aroa-“
Me:
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