Dropping the latest Sketch-a-Wish voted on by my lovely Patreons for June! A cozy scene from Legends & Lattes (by @travis_baldree), featuring Viv and Tandri trying out Thimble's scrumptious Cinnamon Roll! If you missed it, reading this book for this SAW prompted me to make my own Cinnamon Rolls from scratch (for research, of course!) I have a highlight of these shenanigans on my Instagram. 😂 Are we excited for the Bookshops & Bonedust prequel? 🔥

So, I have a “type.”

I like romantic, gothic, sensual men with pale skin and long, dark hair, and an elegant fashion sense. Men who seethe with intensity and passion. Byronic men.

Unfortunately, such men have a 1 in 5 chance of being the Lord of Darkness. 

For example, the above: When I saw Tom Riddle described as “historical English drama handsome” I was like, “that is so true, and that means I am so dead.” And Mathias Cronqvist from Castlevania has beauty that almost rivals his son’s. And the version of Jekyll/Hyde depicted in these videos resembles my OC (the Prince of Shadows) almost perfectly. 

So. Ladies (and gents) with tastes like mine, when confronted with three such men, which would you choose?

1. Dorian Gray. (i.e. Tom Riddle) He’s about as handsome as the sun is bright, and much like the sun, you will hurt if you look at him too long. His reputation suggests that he is completely depraved, but you have never met anyone so charming, or with such an appetite for the finer things in life. You’d screw him in a heartbeat. You would never believe that he hides his soul in an object, or that he has blood on his hands. 

2. Dracula. The supreme lord of vampires who rules from his castle, with all the beauty, dignity and grace (and Machiavellian charisma) you would expect. He is classy, languid, intelligent, and witty. He loves you dearly, more than life itself, and his cold heart simply melts when he is with you. Should you die tragically of Victorian Novel Disease or be burned at the stake for witchcraft, he will mercilessly destroy humankind with his army of night creatures in your name. Romantic?

3. Dr. Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde: By day, he’s a completely sweet and compassionate young doctor who’s just a little too obsessed with his work. By night, he’s a debauched incubus of a man who drips with sex appeal and maddened exhilaration. So, you get the best of both worlds! Hopefully you can help Jekyll come to terms with the dark side of his personality and become nicely integrated before Hyde murders someone. 

Alright, well today was pretty good. I set my alarm for 9:50 and managed to wake up on time and get out the door on schedule. I had to go get my back x-rayed because that's what my doctor wanted me to do since its been driving me nuts. The place wasn't far off one of the stops on my usual red line commute so I just took that there. It was fine, pretty easy and over soon enough. I had a little time to kill before I had to go to class since I was already pretty close, so I went into a Mariano's that was nearby (though I had to walk through like two stairways and a parking garage to get there, very strange)- Mariano's is a super awesome grocery store that has a bunch of hot food options, kind of like whole foods (but probably less overall healthy, lol). So I look around for a bit before deciding on some pizza, which was amazingly delicious, and I ate like half of it on the train back over to school. I see Dan in his usual spot, and as I was approaching another girl came over and knelt down to start talking to him, so I joined them and we talked a little- I had given out my last bar yesterday and was completely out of cash, and I felt God kind of nudging me just like "hey Rachel, give him your pizza" and I was like ugh but it tastes so good! Haha but I didn't really protest, so I offered it to him and he was super happy to get some warm food (and he said he was glad it wasn't deep dish, because he'd apparently gotten a lot of that and he was sick of it by now, lol. The overall action was kind of cool though, cuz the other girl that was there was wearing a hijab (she was white so I didn't automatically assume she was Muslim but she then mentioned going a mosque up the street, and I just felt like it was a really cool moment for both of us from different religions stopping and showing kindness to someone who needs help because that's what we believe our God wants us to do. Now, I'm not exactly a universalist- I don't think all faiths are equally valid and any will get you into heaven- but I do think it was an awesome moment considering the conflict between many people of the two religions at this point. I may write up a Facebook post on the incident, but I'll have to think about what I want to say exactly since it could get into some touchy areas when it comes to the finer points of theology some of my Facebook friends are rather keen on debating. I did head out eventually since I had class, but not before running over to Anthony and giving him the bag of smart pop popcorn I had in my bag because hey, I didn't really need it anyway. It's funny, I try to plan ahead and bring food with me when I'll be out all day, but then I end up just giving it to the homeless people I come across- it kind of makes me smile, really. So, class. It was fine, we got to talk a bit more about the finer points of cases were relying on and such and I talked a fair amount and felt more clear on our points, so that was good. We got out around 2:35 and the next thing I had to do was get to the Apple Store at 3:30, which wasn't too far so I had a little time. Since I no longer had any food on me, I went to the Starbucks next door to school and was intrigued enough by their new item, the malt chocolate latte to ask what I was sure was a stupid question, if it was possible to make it without coffee, lol (they can make any of the fraps without coffee using a cream base) and the girl was like "uh let me check" then returned a second later and said they could, so I got that and a warmed up butter croissant because those are amazing. The drink was good, I'm pretty sure it only amounted to hot chocolate really- steamed milk and syrups of different flavors, lol, but still enjoyable. I got on the bus I generally take to the bus at this point on my Friday and stayed on a bit longer till we got to the Apple Store. Didn't have to wait too long, they ran one test and said the computer was having trouble connecting with the hard drive, meaning there might be something wrong with it (which could mean risking losing all my data) orrr it could be this cable that connects it to the rest of the computer that a lot of people have had issues with so they would try to replace that and see if it worked, and since it was a recurring problem they were covering the repair costs, even though it wasn't under warranty, so that was awesome. Bus back to school, got to hang for a few minutes in which I tried to start my mission based lawyering project haha but I got a minimal start at least. Then we had the PAD meeting, nothing interesting really. Towards the end my phone rang and it was the Apple Store saying my computer was good to go, and we pretty much had wrapped up so I grabbed a Lyft to the Apple Store (ugh, traffic) and grabbed my computer, then took another Lyft over to the bar/restaurant the child and family law association was hosting with the child and family law society at the law school across the street from us. So I spent a few hours there and it was nice, casual and some good conversations and story swapping of course. So that was good. After a while I heard out and came home, and decided to finally turn on Supergirl, which I may not react to in too much detail right now because it's late and I'm tired, lol. The episode just really left me irritated though, because Kara barely even had a plot, it was all the Meh-El show and I'm so over him and his stupid drama, so most of the show I was tweeting telling him to just go with his parents and leave us alone, but of course that couldn't happen. I called that his mom was gonna stab his dad like a solid minute before it happened haha so I was pleased with that prediction. Idk, I still get the feeling (although this might be more of a hope than actual intuition) that they're somehow gonna write him off in the season finale. Like I guess he just feels like a one season character to me, so let's hope that's what they do. One good highlight of the episode was of course Sanvers, who continue to have super touching moments and that one at the end almost had me in tears because it was just too perfect. They're seriously the best thing that's come out of season 2 so far, by a long shot. Sigh. After that I watched Riverdale, which was an interesting and intense episode. There are a lot of crazy people in that town, lol. The whole Polly situation made me mad, and while I've pretty much had nothing but contempt for Mrs Cooper the whole time the show's been on so far the way she stood up to her husband for her daughter tonight I thought was really beautiful and showed just how much she did care about Polly, even if she struggles to show it at times. And then the end scene with her and Betty crying because Polly decided to go live with the Blossoms (which of course is a terrible idea, which I'm sure we'll see soon) was so heartbreaking. I like that Hermione (it feels really weird to use that name outside the context of Harry Potter) was so willing to let Polly stay with her, I'd like to think that's the type of mom I'd be. Other than that I didn't really care much about the Archie and Jughead construction plot line that was just kind of meh. But yeah, very dramatic episode, but not a bad one. And on that note I pretty much ended up evening activities, and I think now I will end this post here since it's quite late and my eyes would very much like to be closed right now. Goodnight ladies and gents. Happy weekend.