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HARRY STYLES: YEAR IN REVIEW 2022
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Varney the Vampire - chapter 3
Chapter 2: Varney cannot get over a wall.
Chapter 3: Originally posted on Livejournal, December 7, 2010, in the same post as chapters 1-2. The recap was short, so I've expanded it. Content note: blood.
CHAPTER III.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE BODY. -- FLORA'S RECOVERY AND MADNESS. -- THE OFFER OF ASSISTANCE FROM SIR FRANCIS VARNEY.
Given that this serial is titled, you know, Varney the Vampire, I got to this header back in 2010 and blurted out, "O rly?," because that's how we talked back then. No, I did.
(There is no actual offer of assistance from Sir Francis Varney in this chapter. Ya rly.)
Previously on:
Henry had the weapon, and he pointed it full at the tall form with steady aim. He pulled the trigger -- the explosion followed, and that the bullet did its office there could be no manner of doubt, for the figure gave a howling shriek, and fell headlong from the wall on the outside.
Currently: GET HIS ASS
This was at once agreed to, and the whole three of them made what expedition they could towards a gate which let into a paddock, across which they hurried, and soon found themselves clear of the garden wall, so that they could make way towards where they fully expected to find the body of him who had worn so unearthly an aspect, but who it would be an excessive relief to find was human.
sloooow cab, meter runnin' 
Three hundred words later, the men go around the wall, examine the heathy (yes, heathy) vegetation and find... no vampyre. Three hundred and fifty words after that, it finally occurs to them to go back and see if Flora is, you know, dead or whatever.
"My senses," said Henry, "were all so much absorbed in gazing at that horrible form, that I never once looked towards her further than to see that she was, to appearance, dead. God help her! poor -- poor, beautiful Flora. This is, indeed, a sad, sad fate for you to come to. Flora -- Flora -- "
I am pretty sure that if the printer had let James Malcolm Rymer just have a ten-page lightswitch rave—doop doop doop. Flora. Flora. The Flora. Is down—he would have done it.
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I summarized the family for you earlier, but I think this is actually the first time we hear that Marchdale is "Robert Marchdale, you whom I [Flora's mother] have known even from my childhood," and who will surely not deceive her. I don't think they've told us... why, exactly... he's living here, in 1840s terms of respectability. (I think I was more suspicious of this back in 2010 than I actually am now. Sometimes a family is a mother, her children, a man, and his crowbar.) Anyway, everyone is just letting Flora bleed out at their leisure (content note: here comes the blood):
The mother approached the bed-side of the insensible, perhaps murdered girl; she saw her, to all appearance, weltering in blood, and, overcome by her emotions, she fainted on the floor of the room. [...] She was quite insensible, and her face was fearfully pale; while that she breathed at all could be but very faintly seen. On some of her clothing, about the neck, were spots of blood, and she looked more like one who had suffered some long and grievous illness, than a young girl in the prime of life and in the most robust health, as she had been on the day previous to the strange scene we have recorded. [...] “A wound!" said the mother, and she brought a light close to the bed, where all saw on the side of Flora's neck a small punctured wound; or, rather two, for there was one a little distance from the other. "How came these wounds?" said Henry. "I do not know," [Flora] replied. "I feel very faint and weak, as if I had almost bled to death."
Please notice all the blood, and also the puncture wounds, from which the blood endeavors to pour, and which are consistent with those made by vampire fangs (a concept that this serial, after all, introduced). This is going to be important later, if you want to understand why I got halfway through Volume Two and suddenly melted down in unbelieving rage that this godforsaken book would try to fucking gaslight me as to whether any of this happened or not.
The Bannerworth family revives Flora with wine, because, when in doubt: booze. And then, while Flora is wailing and trembling and fainting, the family all looks over at the spooky portrait in her room (whose idea was that, anyway?) and realizes that... it looks just like the vampyre. Of course it does. But it's the ancestral portrait of Sir Runnagate (oh, why not) Bannerworth, "who first, by his vices, gave the great blow to the family prosperity."
(You know, I said "why not" when I wrote that years ago, but no, I want to know why! Why the fuck is a 1700s dude named RUNNAGATE? So I go google it, and I get this:
Corruption of renegade, influenced by run + agate (“on the way, agoing”).
1. A deserter, renegade or apostate. 2. A fugitive; a runaway.
I'm gonna hope this was a sobriquet their ancestor picked up from some salty descendants after he blew the family fortune, because otherwise, this is a real "dead dove: I don't know what I expected" situation.)
Henry then tells us that the spooky portrait is ninety years old, which I thought was Rymer trying to tell us that Sir Runnagate is actually Varney, and that's (at least) how long he's been around. Hell, maybe that's what he is trying to tell us right now; the storylines of serials tend to drift all over the place, and writers either forget what they started out saying, or they decide to contradict themselves and hope no one notices. But I get ahead of myself.
To finish the chapter: Henry, having promised Flora that he won't leave, camps out at her bedside with Marchdale's crowbar reloaded pistols—which I mention because it reminds me a lot of the men watching over Lucy in Dracula. Or reverse-reminds me, since Varney predates Dracula by fifty years. My point is, here's another Literary Vampire Tradition Moment: the maiden abed, and her protectors' vigil. Which is worth noting, because there are a number of moments that feel like something you've seen a hundred times, and then there are vast, oceanic swathes of wackery. As I said back in 2010, I had read half the entire serial by that point, and the opening chapter was the first and only episode of vampiring I had seen in some 300,000 words. BE STRONG, WE CAN DO THIS.
(Chapter 4, sparkle willing, will go up on Tuesday, March 21.)
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dailytomlinson · 7 months
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Walls in Prague - 19.10
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Aftermovie Oficial #TecatePalNorte 2024 🦁
recap video from Tecate Pa’l Norte Festival in Monterrey, Mexico feat. a soundboard recording of Louis singing Silver Tongues and thanking the crowd + lots of footage!
posted Apr 12, 2024
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shootingstarbit · 9 months
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A short summary of the Crisis on Infinite Earths
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buckhelped · 2 years
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one month, 31 movies, and 248 gifs later, my first 31 days of horror is a success!!
i'm actually very proud of myself for sticking with it and getting all the edits out before midnight each day (even if some of them barely made it lol). i also had a lot of fun playing with color on these sets -- for the vast majority of them i chose 2-3 colors to stick with and went from there
here are some of my favorites from this month:
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thank you to everyone who reblogged these sets and gave me good feedback on them!! love y'all <3 i look forward to doing this again next year with a new batch of movies (and hopefully more of a head start lol)! as always if you're curious about any part of my process or any of these films feel free to shoot me a message :)
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retrokid616 · 1 year
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talesin getting the recap like
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me and the crtters remembering last week
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swallowingcinnamon · 9 months
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hello! I've decided to make a music blog, partly because I wanted to title a blog 'god's favorite fucking boyband', partly because I'm shy about posting online, and if a blog dedicated to one thing is what it takes to get over that then it's a small price to pay.
for a wider sample of my music taste, here's a playlist of one song I like from each of (most of) the artists I follow
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cannibalspicnic · 1 year
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😭😭😭
WHERE IS SHE???
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The Flash 
Season 9 Countdown: 8 days
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wiiildflowerrr · 1 year
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5SOS: World War Joy tour recap
Posted 5 January 2020. 🎥 Ryan Fleming
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marvelinorder · 2 years
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Amazing Fantasy (1962) #15 recap
"Spider-Man!" by Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
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Here we've got Spider-Man's debut right before he officially gained his own title. This issue covers his origin story, which will be familiar to just about everybody as the movie adaptations don't change it all that much.
The narrator does a nice job of explaining that while Peter is beloved by Uncle Ben and Aunt May, as well as his teachers, he is not popular with the other kids at school. He asks out a girl named Sally, who tells him he's not her type and that she prefers Flash Thompson. He asks some of his peers to accompany him to the science exhibit, but they decline, calling him a bookworm.
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The spider that bites Peter gets hit with a radioactive ray during the experiment and, according to the narration, bites Peter in shock right before it dies. He leaves the exhibit feeling pretty weird, almost gets hit by a car, and jumps onto the side of a building on instinct.
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With sticky hands and super strength, Peter decides to go challenge himself by entering a fighting contest with Crusher Hogan. He wears a disguise so if he fails he doesn't turn into a laughingstock. Good thing he "crushes" it!
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A TV producer in the audience takes note of Peter and convinces him to go on TV, but first Peter designs his iconic Spider-Man costume and invents his web shooters.
He becomes a TV sensation, but sadly his new fame goes to his head.
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From here, we all know how it goes. Peter arrives home to find Uncle Ben murdered one night, and the police tip him off about the criminal's whereabouts. He finds him in a warehouse and after beating him up, unmasks him only to realize it was the very same guy he could have stopped.
However, the truly important thing about this next panel is not that revelation, but the fact that for some reason they decided to give Peter a set of black dots for eyes here. Spooky!
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And so Peter learns the lesson that with great power comes great responsibility...
Join me next time for Journey into Mystery (1952) #83!
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bookgeekgrrl · 2 years
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My media this week (22-28 May 2022)
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📚 STUFF I READ 📚
😊👂 Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot #7.5) (Agatha Christie, playwright; Charles Osborne, adapter/novelization; John Moffat, narrator) - you can definitely tell that the bones of this were a play; still an entertaining listen/read
😍 Differently Okay Local Idiots series (One-EyedBossman (desert000rose), SecretFandomStories) - 137K series, Stucky no powers D/s AU - absolutely LOVED this!!!! both are recovering vets with many jagged edges and they see how they fit together - the narrative structure on this was great: dual POV, very tightly overlapping/interlocking (which could gone badly so easily but I really think these authors pull it off). Can't wait for more.
🥰 Daddy Issues (His Boy Next Door #39) (RJ Moray) - novella - the next chapter in Jack & Channon's story
😊 K'diwa: A Steamy Novel of Interspecies Romance, by Jim Kirk (branwyn) - 103K, Kirk/Spock - tagged 'Jim is a sweet sad bottom and Spock can't stand it' and that's really what you need to know
💖💖 +128K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖
It's A Very Distinctive Family Resemblance (copperbadge) - Leverage, MCU: Gen, 1.6K - I love every iteration of 'Eliot Spencer is related to Bucky Barnes'
Put It on Repeat, It Stays the Same (giselleslash) - MCU: Stucky, 20K - reread; love this story of these two pining FWB getting stuck together by a snowstorm and then ~~feelings~~
Rockin' and Rollin' (musette22) - MCU: Stucky, 3K - shout out to Minnie for taking up the challenge and writing some fucking delicious fic inspired by that mechanical bull riding video
fish in the sky (alby_mangroves, chaosmanor) - MCU: Stucky, 37K - http://ao3.org/works/27969167
📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺
Legends of Tomorrow - s4, e6-16; s5, e1
The Great Pottery Throw Down - s5, e6-10
Supergirl - s5, e9: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One"
Batwoman - s1, e9: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two"
The Flash - s6, e9: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three"
Arrow - s8, e9: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four"
Legends of Tomorrow - s5, e0: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five"
🎧 PODCASTS🎧
Lingthusiasm - #25: Every word is a real word
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Carhenge
99% Invisible - #492- Inheriting Froebel's Gifts
Partners - Sarah Schneider & Chris Kelly
Richmond Til We Die: A Ted Lasso Podcast - Ted Lasso S2E8, Part 1: This Was Not A Date
Hit Parade - The Lullaby of Broadway Edition
Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Ghosts in the (Hit) Machine
Still Processing - Sweat Equity
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Livestock Living at the End of the World
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Leaning Tower of Niles
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Père Lachaise Cemetery
Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Copyrights & Wrongs
Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Stop… Collaborate & Listen
This is Good for You - Ep 32: Romance Novels Are Not a Guilty Pleasure
Strong Songs Bonus Episodes - Sonny with a Side of Max
Lingthusiasm - Bonus 9: Is X a sandwich? Solving the word-meaning argument once and for all
Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Progression Obsession
Hit Parade - The B-Sides Edition
Lingthusiasm - 43: The grammar of singular they - Interview with Kirby Conrod
Hit Parade - The Feat. Don’t Fail Me Now Edition
Lingthusiasm - Bonus 17: Homonyms, homophones, and homographs
🎶 MUSIC 🎶
Doo-Wop
The Essential Kenny Loggins
Presenting The Go-Go's [The Go-Go's]
Beauty and the Beat [The Go-Go's]
Vacation [The Go-Go's]
Talk Show [The Go-Go's]
God Bless The Go-Go's [The Go-Go's]
Peaceful, Easy Feeling
The B-52's
Best of Rent: Highlights from the Original Cast Album
Broadway's Biggest Hits
The Wrecking Crew
Presenting Depeche Mode
The Very Best of Pure Prairie League
The World of Journey
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freezegirl · 5 months
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okay but will's dad mispronouncing kie's name every time he sees her - he pronounces it as 'key-on' while everyone else (mostly) pronounces it as 'kee-own-ee'.
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