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barrywhelk · 2 years
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Daily Graph Writer: the horrors! The terrors! The terrors! The horrors!
Daily Graph Writer: also there is a DOGGIE
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canisalbus · 6 months
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Related to the "sleepy greyhound" content, I can see Machete sleeping like Dracula. Stiff like a board with his arms crossed over his chest. Drama, even in his sleep
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I don't know about full blown Dracula pose but he definitely has a habit of crossing his arms before falling asleep.
It's a guarded/protective gesture more than anything.
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scrolling through various people's dracula daily tags on the bus because this book is all i want to think about right now i was reminded that seward is only 29 (with his own lunatic asylum!) - which struck me (a 34 year old) now in a way it didn't before i'd gotten to know him and the others, way back before most of the Plot had happened. jonathan's Baby's First Job energy and mina's excitement about her impending nuptials radiate off the page, but seward's diary is so self-serious and intense that i think mentally i'd automatically been picturing him as much older, even though he's a longtime bro of arthur and quincey. it makes his self-seriousness, and his near-worship of van helsing, more endearing to me now that i've corrected my image of him - and it REALLY gives an even better cast (read: more delightfully awkward) on the scene where he and mina talk diary-stuff to remember they're likely fairly close in age.
it also just made me appreciate that this is ultimately a novel about fairly young people / a text i can slot into my personal canon of Texts About Your Saturn Return, and makes me think also about both the fact that the character relationships center on two engagements (this is literally what your late twenties is), and about all the non-dracula-related death content that permeates the book, from the parents and parent-figures dying left and right to the old man in whitby's monologue about the deaths. none of these bright, healthy, life-loving twenty-somethings have yet had their lives warped by tragedy, and the thing is, that's pretty normal. having your first brush with tragedy involve an undead bloodsucker hunting you and your pals is not normal, but hitting something on the road to thirty that changes you from a person who has never lost anything that mattered to a person who has kind of is.
i dunno, there's something oddly sweet to me in thinking about that - about how dracula is a book about unspeakable horrors, and also a book about when you're in your late twenties and you thought this was the part of your life where things were settling down because everyone's getting engaged and you finished grad school and you're in an actual career now, and then your friend's mom has cancer and you don't know what to say because you've never had to say something about this before, and at the funeral it occurs to you that it may be a while before the next one but this is something you'll be doing for the rest of your life. at the beginning of the book, four of the characters - jonathan and mina, lucy and arthur - think they're a few months away from their happy endings, while a fifth, seward, our last major POV character, is contentedly speculating about how his fascinating new patient may afford him opportunities for major advances in his field. now, one of those happy endings is shattered brutally for good, while the other one has technically transpired but looks nothing like they'd imagined, and renfield is dead while thoughts of his career couldn't be further from seward's mind. this is all very late-twenties, to me: the time when it starts to really click inside you that there are no endings until the very end.
anyway. i guess what i'm saying is, bram stoker's 1897 gothic horror opus is actually a coming of age novel, and i for one would fucking kill for a modern adaptation that really leans into this aspect.
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isfjmel-phleg · 2 years
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We’ve finally arrived at an infamous line from Dracula, and I’d like to share some thoughts before anyone (like many, many critics before them) reads too much into Lucy’s comment about her three suitors.
From what we’ve seen (and will continue to see...I’m going to refer to some things that haven’t happened yet), Lucy’s intelligence is primarily interpersonal. She reads others’ mental states well, she’s strongly empathetic, feels things more acutely than others, and speaks out against what she sees as insensitivity. She has an interesting blend of demonstrativeness and reticence. Although she expresses her emotions readily when writing to her friend and when turning down Seward’s and Morris’s proposals, the way she declares to Mina, “There, that does me good,” after confessing her love for Arthur and thanks Mina for allowing her to be “able to tell you and to have your sympathy” suggests relief at being able to express something held back. She admittedly tries to be “a tough nut to crack” in front of Seward and is reluctant to give even Mina the full details of Arthur’s proposal. As much relief as she finds in emotional openness, she also seems to need to self-censor.
The reason lies in the keynote of her character: her need to please other people. One literary critic I’ve encountered has criticized her for apparently having no life beyond her mother and suitors. Lucy’s suitors do indeed take up a lot of her letters’ content, but before these letters comes a request from Mina: “Tell me all of the news when you write. You have not told me anything for a long time. I hear rumours, and especially of a tall, handsome, curly-haired man???” Lucy obligingly gives her friend the information she knows her to be most interested in hearing. As she tells Mina, “I have nothing to tell you. There is really nothing to interest you” (emphasis added). What we know of Lucy so far is only what she believes is relevant to Mina’s interests.
While she does love Arthur greatly, it's telling that the first thing she tells Mina about him is “he and mamma get on very well together; they have so many things to talk about in common.” Presumably he and Lucy relate to each other too, but her primary concern is her mother’s approval of her love interest. Once engaged to Arthur, she is careful to tailor herself to his preferences.  Likewise, she filters her emotions through the need to please; she admits she’s “very, very happy” at her engagement but considers herself undeserving and vows to “try in the future to show that I am not ungrateful.” Even while struggling with some incredibly traumatizing things herself, she shows concern for Mina’s anxieties about Jonathan and tries to console her. Later, we’ll see that her letters to Mina and her personal diary present very different pictures of her state; she glosses over her own pain to keep her friend from worrying. She similarly tries to “cheer up” to keep Arthur from being “miserable to see me so” and downplays her problems for the sake of her ailing mother. Even her private diary’s last entry ends not with a comment for her own benefit but an address to others: “Thank everybody for being so good to me! Thank God! Good-night, Arthur” It is as if she struggles to conceive of an identity for herself beyond her relation to others.
Given Lucy’s family situation, it makes sense that she would grow up with this mindset. As the only daughter of a widow, she is her mother’s only immediate family, and pressure seems to be placed on her in this relationship. Her mother expects her to marry, and Lucy does so, with attention to which suitor her mother gets along with. Her mother’s will even leaves “the whole estate, real and personal” to Arthur, requiring that Lucy marry him if she is to have any inheritance. Lucy seems reluctant to be open with her mother, judging from her relief at being able to confide in Mina, and her insistence on concealing her increasing struggles from her mother. Although the delicate state of Mrs. Westenra’s health is ostensibly kept from Lucy, she is implied to be aware that her mother is not well and feels responsible for her health and well-being.
This quality places Lucy’s conduct toward her suitors in a new light. Her remark “Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?” is commonly interpreted by critics as voracious desire for as many men as possible. Lucy’s rhetorical question is indeed unorthodox, as she acknowledges, and viewed in isolation, it does appear to support a reading of an over-sexualized Lucy. However, placed back into context, it becomes more consistent with her desire to please than any unusual lust. 
Lucy begins her account to Mina of the proposals with mixed feelings: “Just fancy! THREE proposals in one day! Isn’t it awful! I feel sorry, really and truly sorry for two of the poor fellows. Oh, Mina, I am so happy that I don’t know what to do with myself. And three proposals!” She is clearly flattered by the validation of attracting three men, but her happiness, as indicated later in the letter, refers to her engagement to Arthur more than to exultation at multiple conquests.
Her intermixed sorrow is not on her own account but on the behalf of the men she must reject. She shows no self-pity. Her empathetic nature takes on the emotions of her suitors in addition to her own; as she tells Mina, “it isn’t a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken-hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing quite out of his life.” So she feels “so miserable, though […] so happy.” After Quincey Morris’s proposal, she is overwhelmed with guilt for “almost making fun of this great-hearted, true gentleman” as she turns him down. This deep regret at having to disappoint another good, worthy person leads her to bring up marrying multiple men as a means to “save all this trouble” of the rejected ones’ pain and her own sorrow at not being about to please everyone.
Therefore, the emphasis in Lucy’s infamous line is not lust but her own sensitivity to others’ emotional pain. Once she is engaged to Arthur, she shows no sign of wanting the other two back or seeking them out in any way. This is not the behavior of a woman driven by desire for multiple partners. Choosing Arthur pleases her mother and herself, but for someone as committed to taking responsibility for everyone’s happiness as Lucy, a solution that does not satisfy all parties can be difficult to take.
For more on this reading of Lucy, I highly recommend Leah Davydov’s article “Why Can’t They Let a Girl Marry One Man?: The Origins of Lucy Westenra’s Suitors” (Journal of Dracula Studies, vol. 18, 2016, pp. 5-29).
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mmmmalo · 9 months
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If I ever finish my book, its subtitle will be "A Paranoid Reading of Homestuck" I think. Describes both form and content
Mobster Kingpin (whose bust is depicted by a mosaic of urban murals, who lords over the dollhouse world the heros inhabit) is located, like many of Hussie's villains, along the 4th wall, and his career of moonshinery seems related to a characterization of perception as the distillation of the perceived objects' essence -- Roxy's orange pumpkins give way to Dirk's orange soda, as one of the little ways their early relationship s premised upon a division between simplicity and abstraction. In Homestuck abstraction kills the simple (RIP Jaspers), and Dirk becomes a Daunting Text when he "sucks the fun out of shit. like a turd hungry dracula" -- a phraseology that returns us to the liquid conception of essence and points us to Kanaya, "rainbow drinker" being among other things a euphemism for the eyeball, which takes in color -- and insofar as troll reproduction is vaguely judicial in tone, the drones holding their buckets like scales, the Mother Grub seems posed in part as yet another threatening paradigm of viewership, demanding of you your essence. The earliest instance of this is in act 1: John's allusion to being allergic to the scorn of the peanut gallery is followed by a commercial for Hi-C Ectocooler -- a weirdly obtuse seeding of Her Imperious Condescension, whose character is downstream of a more general racialization of the 4th wall. Act 1 drags the sylladex into the fear of abstraction, first by having the narration express apprehension toward alien lingo like "captchalogue", and again when John drops the cat-killer, causing his arms (both fake and real) to be locked away in a box. Right? Right.
Dave shouts/throws his NINJA SWORD at a sticky fingered crow (crows would later, in a dream, act as Dave's personal 4th walls) and implicitly hurls an N WORD at a black figure, contributing to the comic's general air of racialized paranoia. A stupid pun, yes. Prior to this incident, there was a collision in Dave's hash map between NINJA SWORD and JUICE which, given the pejorative status of the former, suggested the latter might be an implicit JEWS. A stupid pun, yes. But as point 1 indicate, we actually have a pretty broad pattern of paranoia surrounding "juice"
The first time I became aware of possible antisemitism in Homestuck was a scene where Jack Noir commands all the Felt to get in the oven -- a couple readers wondered if it were a coincidence that the page had been published on Holocaust Remembrance Day, like a sort of hostile spin on the Christmas alchemy binges, or the New Years ball-drops at Jade and Jane's towers. With point 1 in mind in strikes me as curious that the (tentative) archetypally antisemitic archetype of the story would be the locking away of "juice" in a container, here invoked by the genocidal antisemitism of the Nazis. Likewise the way Lord English's manic glare often resolves into an 88 -- a number twice invoking the 8th letter of the alphabet H and thereby Heil Hitler -- would be consistent with the eye's general depiction as that which distills "juice". I had some anons wondering if the hints that the Mother Grub collects the blood of Alternia's children amounted to a blood libel smear, and I still don't know tbh, but we've apparently problematized rainbow drinking from another angle, so cheers to that
That the hostility towards abstraction might be among Homestuck's ciphers for antisemitism casts a different light on John's sharp rejection of psychoanalytic paradigms and "psycho-babblery"...? Like Freud is being invoked partly for his Jewishness... and that Freud's widely considered indefensible is utilized to let the antisemitic antiintellectualism pass through smoothly, I guess...
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thethirdromana · 2 years
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I have a big clump of thoughts that have been prompted by reading the LOTR newsletter and Dracula Daily at the same time. I haven't quite figured them all out yet, but I'm going to see if writing them out helps.
Specifically the thing I'm interested in is how these books relate to the time at which they were published.
Let's start with the Lord of the Rings. No matter how much I know that the Lord of the Rings was published in the 1950s, there's always a record scratch moment when I'm reminded of it, for instance by discussion of connections to World War II or even World War I.
Because it feels older, right? That's not just me? It feels like it could plausibly have been published in the 1850s rather than the 1950s. A tweet that I now can't find claimed that the Lord of the Rings is among the only exposure that people today have to non-modern ways of thinking. It's a story that Tolkien consciously crafted as mythology. It should feel old, it's supposed to.
But there's also a relationship between this and the response to Tolkien. There's a quote which I also now can't find, which could equally plausibly have been from Ursula Le Guin or some random tumblr post, which says - to paraphrase - Tolkien is the father of all fantasy, and fantasy writers either accept that (Robin Hobb, Brandon Sanderson) or yell "you're not my real dad!" and write in conscious opposition to him (NK Jemison, George RR Martin, in very different ways). But there's no escaping him.
[Edited: @elven-child suggests this could have been Terry Pratchett, who said:
J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.
... which I like better than the Oedipal Tolkien-as-father version.]
Game of Thrones was published in 1991. Assassin's Apprentice in 1995. And those are just the examples I chose from books that I can see from where I'm sitting right now. The all-consuming influence of the Lord of the Rings happened very fast after its publication - again, being published in the 1850s would feel more reasonable for the depth and breadth of its cultural impact. It feels like that should take longer!
Then there's Dracula. Which is as consciously modern as the Lord of the Rings is consciously... historic? Medieval? It's remarkable how little effort it would take to move the story of Dracula to the modern day - if Dracula's castle has no wifi and dodgy mobile phone reception, the rest of the story can play out pretty much as-is, with WhatsApp messages standing in for the telegrams and emails for the letters.
(The only bit I would struggle to believe is that Van Helsing could travel back and forth to Amsterdam that often on the Eurostar or Ryanair without once being delayed.)
That's fascinating to me because Dracula is also a call-back to an older mode of writing, just as Tolkien drew on Norse sagas and Old English literature. An epistolary gothic novel is very 18th century. Even in terms of the late 19th century gothic revival, Dracula came along pretty late - Carmilla was 25 years earlier. But instead of the weight of the history of gothic literature dragging Dracula backward, it feels like Dracula drags the rest of it forward instead.
In some ways, I think this is literally what happened. The horror tropes of Dracula became the horror tropes of 20th century cinema, and the result is that the content and themes of gothic literature are familiar to us. We understand most of what Northanger Abbey is parodying even if we've never read the Mysteries of Udolpho or any of the other novels that Austen satirises. The effect of Dracula's popularity has been to keep itself current in ways that Bram Stoker could never have anticipated or planned.
I'm not sure I've figured out exactly what my point is here, but it was fun to think about anyway.
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thanks for the updates from Maddie and Twitter! I can’t believe whats going on. The relaunch of Magnus in combination with stopping so many cool ongoing shows is so weird
You are very welcome! I actually revived my Twitter account to be able to check regularly for new posts, either from Maddy or others. There doesn’t seem to have been anything new in a few hours now, even if I personally missed it, I’d have heard about it via one of the multiple discords I’m on.
Yes, RQ has made incredibly strange decisions this past year (or even beyond that) which leave me as a fan - and highest tier Noble - incredibly frustrated.
When they shut the discord down, they said they’d reevaluate six months later. RQO recently “celebrated” its first death day. Personally, I don’t want RQO back. But I would have liked to have that promised reevaluation.
The reason the discord had to be shut down can apparently also be traced back to shit communication between RQ and the team of volunteer and unpaid mods.
When Chapter&Multiverse, Trice Forgotten, and Cry Havoc (Ask Questions Later) were announced in late 2021, they were projected to air within the first half of 2022. Instead, only C&M aired “on time”, Trice has a change in director and was delayed until summer, and Cry Havoc has now been pushed back until 2023. It’s great that they don’t want to burn out their cast and crew, but they’ve also been releasing Enthusigasm episodes twice a week and C&M main campaign and specials in parallel earlier this year. Clearly, someone didn’t think their schedule through properly.
Instead of making sure their new shows are taking off, they instead drag TMA’s corpse out of its grave. I love Magnus as much as the next person, it was an incredible show. Writing, acting, soundscaping… but the way RQ keeps pushing it into the limelight and down our throats to the detriment of their other shows (formerly only RQG and STL, but now even more shockingly also new shows like C&M and Trice), has fostered a real resentment towards TMA in me and others.
When the transcripts were put out, after literal years of delay, they were - and still are - full of errors, inconsistent, or incomplete. There have been no responses to feedback given via the appropriate feedback form, there have been no responses to emails, and there have been little to no corrections made to the transcripts, whether for old shows or new ones. Transcripts are Accessibility tools and should fulfil certain standards. Apart from that, the quality of these transcripts offends me on a professional level. RQ has referred to an agency multiple times in their updates. That agency clearly didn’t work to professional standards and RQ didn’t have any quality assurance process internally either. What an utter waste of (my and other patreons’) money.
Some of the TMA transcripts were apparently taken down this week for maintenance, which was ridiculous timing that made people think it was related to the ARG. Again: shit communication.
They’ve lost so many great people in the last two years: Auto and all the mods, Bryn, Mike, now Maddy. I didn’t listen to RQ podcasts, because they were RQ podcasts. I listened to them, because I enjoyed the content and creators. If the creators leave RQ, I’ll follow them to their next endeavours. Go check out @re-dracula for Karim, Jonny, Beth, Alasdair, Sasha, and Ben; @thekilda for Alasdair, Ben and Sasha; @faustiannonsense for Alasdair, Ben, Tim, and Jonny. I hear Mike is in Tiny Terrors. Sasha and Jonny create TTRPGs. Jonny just published his second book. Also check out everyone’s streams (I particularly enjoy Bryn and Auto struggling to solve puzzles together) and individual patreons and kofis.
Sorry this reply turned into a rant. I’m just fed up at the moment. I’ll go to bed and probably feel better in the morning.
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vestaclinicpod · 7 months
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Audio Drama Sunday - 8th October ✨
Happy Audio Drama Sunday! I feel like we’re really in spooky season this week with all the horrors on offer from the audio drama community!!
Big old spoilers below!
🌲 @hellofromthehallowoods (136) I looove when stories show escalating tension at the heart of the story through environmental change elsewhere!! And neither Danielle nor Clem knowing if the shaking was normal hurt my heart a little. They’re babies, your honour! I can’t wait for Danielle and Nikignik to chat again 🤞
HFTH does action SO well and the scene with Mort, Creep and Cindy was just masterful. I was cycling in to work but mentally I was right there. I really hope that Cindy’s plan works - I’ll not get into the ethics of utilitarianism here, but I’ll be so sad if her death isn’t ‘worth it’.
But HELL YEAH, let’s get Ralph back! Time to be useful, my man! Don’t fuck it up!
It’s safe to say that I didn’t have ‘Grug saving Diggory from the Phantom Radio Station’ on my end of S3 bingo. It is very interesting to me that they think their purpose is to die. I think it’s actually vital that the grave digger isn’t dead, but maybe that’s just me?
This final arc is such a white knuckle ride!! I can’t wait to see what happens next!
🦀 @thesiltverses (33) We’re all in agreement that Val is absolutely terrifying, right? Right. Good. We’ve heard the noose tighten a little around Faulkner’s throat, but will he be a different man now that he knows Carpenter is alive? I’m so excited to hear this plan fail.
👁️ @malevolentcast (36) The John memory scenes are done SO well because I literally cannot tell if he is lying or not. I usually want to have the upper hand as the listener and it’s so difficult to not know!! I *think* I’m glad that Arthur is trying to make friends but I did immediately assume that Oscar had run off with that book. Maybe this show has given me trust issues…
🌒 @monkeymanproductions Moonbase Theta, Out (Epilogue) SUCH A GOOD AND PERFECT ENDING. Oh MAN. There was so much to unpack here, but everyone seems content with their choices which makes my heart happy and THEY BROUGHT THE GIRLS TO THE MOON 😭😭😭😭😭 thank you, Deej, that is the best thing that could have happened.
🧛‍♂️ @re-dracula I’ve been trying and failing to catch up with the action this week but the early eps have made me feel very strongly that: WE MUST TALK TO EACH OTHER. Evil wins when good people stop communicating. Talk to your loved ones, reach out to people to might be struggling. No issue is too small for the people who love you. Aaand don’t be sexist lol. That is my Dracula related PSA. Thanks for listening!
🥾 @doyoucopypod (12) Do You Copy really do be about grief!! Poor Reese! But it is good to know that they were both rescued! I really can’t wait to get the final pieces of this puzzle and see how it all fits together!
⚓️ What a delight to catch the first episode of @eelerschoice! I knew this show would be right up my street and the first episode did not disappoint! Also, what a CAST! Very much looking forward to hearing more familiar voices!!
Have a good weekend everyone! 🥰 and if you’re the wishing/praying kind, please do shoot off a few desperate ones for amc’s laptop. my wife spilled water on it last night and we’re too scared to turn it on 🥲
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sepublic · 2 years
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There’s something so sad about a disappointed Renfield going back to his flies... My dude really thought and hoped for a salvation/miracle from Dracula, but now he’s gone and he has to go back to working it out himself, as he says. He’s legit depressed that Drac ghosted him and he can’t go back to enjoying his flies like before, knowing what he almost could’ve had... Is it weird I can sorta relate, or at least empathize? Plus, it just kinda highlights that Renfield could’ve lived a relatively happy life, in his own way, if it weren’t for Dracula. We’re reminded via a relapse, to show that he could’ve gone back from that; But Dracula, who uses and tosses others aside without a second thought, took that from him as well.
Likewise, for all his many faults, it seems Seward really is concerned for Renfield, and after the intensity caused by Dracula, is by this point just happy and relieved to see Renfield with his flies, being himself again and more or less content; Even enthusiastically encouraging the flies for Renfield’s sake, to give him a lesser evil to be distracted with. Jack’s still got issues, but you get the sense that Seward IS at least somewhat motivated to see Renfield get better, or at least eke out a sustainable existence for himself that he can enjoy. The flies were weird, but in the wake of now, Seward just wants things to go back to normal for Renfield.
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Hi!
Name: Anthony
Nicks: ant; glow
Gender: wobbly (transmasc enby)
Pronouns: ey/vey/zey/they
Orient.: aro/ace
Status: platonically pining for the same boy since I was 13
Languages: English (native), Spanish (decent), Romanian (bad)
Brain Stuff: OCD, ADHD, autism, psychosis, PTSD, bipolar disorder
Physical Stuff: hyper-mobile Ehlers Danlos Spectrum Disorder; postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome; migraines
DMs?: I’m awkward but will answer even
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Flirting/compliments?: non romantic and nonsexual
Swearing: I swear so much I don’t always register the use of the word fuck and my phone has autocorrected ‘duck’ to ‘fuck’ before.
Previously pinned post: horses
My overly active ao3: ant_is_in_an_anthill
My neglected art blog: @ants-awesome-art-blog (also present here tagged as ‘ant art go brr’)
My danger days fic specifically: endangered gays fic
Things I talk about pretty consistently:
- danger days
- Myself
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Blog tags and more abt me under the cut
Things I talk about sporadically:
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- The Historian
- The end Cretaceous Extinction Event
- Star Wars
- TMA & TMAGP
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- Other assorted music artists
- My intense craving for a Mikey Way 2012 fender bass guitar
Tags (I’m still sorting my blog so it’s sporadic and more will be added)
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Some blogs I interact with semi regularly have their urls tagged
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I have a couple levels of vent tags there’s mild vent and cw vent
Infodumping in the tags again - what it sounds like
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Danger days tags:
Danger days the true lives of the fabulous killjoys - umbrella tag for all danger days content (yes I chose the longest possible tag)
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obscureother · 23 days
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🌑 f/o list:
i got lots of them, look out lolol.
they come from things i fixate enough on. there's a whole process of how they come about, there's even a thing in my noggin called The Processor, developing f/os. i have other fictional crushes, you can ask for those but its a long list so these are just the ones that i pretend exist commonly. those are the f/os for on my blog.
once more, i dont mind sharing f/os!! i believe fictional people arent owned by anyone but their copyright holders lol, but my version of the character is going to be different from yours, our own experiences, headcanons, etc. even if there could be some in common too, so it doesnt effect me or my comfort if other people love them too. other people who understand the loveliness of the f/o are just who i can talk to and relate to!! i would love to talk about them or yours :0
if you dont like sharing, then i wont talk about them with you so you can be comfy or dont have to interact, thats ok too. i know some people dont for comfort reasons or something. or youre just gatekeepers 👀 /j
there are tags you can block for f/os. if you dont like to share or dont like the f/o themselves, you can block them through "🌑 obscure f/o: 🔲" but 🔲 = the f/o's emoji. the f/o's emojis can be found in the long version of the list below. it doesnt offend me if you dont want to see the f/o or their content!
. 🌑 .
f.o. list below the drop down, its kind of long!! also there's gifs, one of them is a bit flashy, so watch your eyes. if you want the short version of the list without the cool gifs, colors, n details:
Gerard Butler's Phantom of the Opera
Bela Lugosi's Count Dracula
Tim Burton + Disney Headless Horsemen. BOTH of them. 🖤💙
too many robert englund characters- Freddy Krueger, Smiley, Inkubus, other ones, uhhhh=
Jason Voorhees
Data
other f.o.
ones being protected for sake of my comfort, not on the f/o list for the time being. . though they /could/ get their own things later or only on certain comments or posts for them.
there could be some pet f/os, but idk. theyre very occasional for me.
"ghosting" or other f/os that i dont know for certain are there, arent developed yet, dont exist very often, etc.
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by order of existence:
their name or what/who they are!
Source (year of source) - where the f/o comes from
est. (year) - when they became an f/o
other notes - just some other notes :0
they have colors just cause i wanted to make them pretty, the colors dont mean anything specifically. the emojis are just for later reference for f/o content.
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"Gerik" 🥔 (Gerard Butler's Phantom; Erik)
Phantom of the Opera (2004)
technically not the first f/o ever, but he's the one who wasnt what i consider "proto-f/o"
est. 2017?? i dont remember when i was a freshman in high school lolol.
i have a couple of other phantoms too, but they're considered retired and live in some other world now. they just visit sometimes. those were from the Broadway musical, 1943, and 1990.
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Vlad Dracula 🦇
Dracula (1934)
(yes, the old Bela Lugosi one. OLD F/O. <33)
est. 2018 or so, pretty close to my POTO obsession.
there's the Count Von Count (from Sesame Street-) f/o too who kind of stemmed off of the Drac fixation?? 2018/2019 or so, he's the queerplatonic comfort. 🦇 💜
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Headless Horsemen (i have 2, i love BOTH of them.)
Sleepy Hollow (1999) & The Adventures of Ichabod Crane and Mr. Toad/The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)
Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow 💀est. 2019, Disney 🎃one est. same year but later!
They have their own lore + f/o headcanoned names, horses, so these horsemen are different from yours and the canon too.
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Freddy Krueger 🥓(yes, Fred, oh god-)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984-1991, I don't include New Nightmare in my f/o's lore/tweaks? but I do FvsJ!!)
est. 2021. . ??
He DOES NOT have any relations to the remake, he is exclusively the original series and FvsJ content. i BEG OF THEE do not associate him with it RGRHRHH- (no hate towards remake fans, he's just NOT MY FREDERICK. 😤)
for those of you convinced the original's a diddler too, tho. . not my frederick. <3
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The Rob Squad:
this is what i call the f/os that come from me becoming a loser for robert englund after freddy lolol.
all of them est. between 2021-2023 i think. so theyre new, but theyre very developed tho.
there are some other f/os of other rob characters, but theyre not developed enough/formed to be for certain??
includes: Smiley, Inkubus, other ones for later, down below:
Smiley :) ⛓
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
VERY lore heavy on my f/o, he has so little on him canonically, so i gave him some. My smiley is def not the exact same as yours.
he has NO CONTENT PLZ- i had to make this gif and i dont have good quality video tools >:"0 the head motion looks spooky fast for me idk how to fix iT.
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Inkubus 🖤
Inkubus (2011)
other tweaks/lore to him too. like demon and goat forms 👀
im nOT a loser for old men (normally), just this one >:"0 but we do support loving old men here, dont worry bros. <3
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Jason Voorhees 🏒
Friday the 13th (1980, im still watching FT13 so what movies get involved with his f/o form are still being developed. he's very. . ghost-ie rn between existing and not yet existing. they take time to develop for me.)
est. 2023
yes, it does get difficult with Freddy around. *sigh.*
relationship not known?? comfort f/o, bit of lore/tweaks for him too.
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Data ⭐
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994 i think??)
platonic?? im not really sure what the relationship is, he's just helpful and comforting.
Spot included.
est. late 2023/2024, very new & developing as of this post.
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for the one person who sent me an ask for my f/os: @wicked1will0sparkles
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mikalara-dracula · 2 years
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Can I request headcanons of drunk Subaru? Is he sweet or sadistic then? How honest and pouty he is and how cute he is then? Like if he cries if his s/o scolds him(jokingly but serious look in her eyes and words) while his drunk or he gets angry?
🍷 Drunk Subaru Hcs—
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Tagging: @liannelara-dracula
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Hi there, Anon!
Thank you so much for requesting! I'm sorry that this took so long. This was so fun to write. Feel free to request again any time. :)
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🍷 Oh my gosh, Subaru drunk is definitely something to see.
🍷 And if you’re his s/o and you happen to be around him when he’s drunk, he’s all over you.
🍷 Subaru doesn’t honestly get drunk much, it’s every once in a while, especially when his brothers have been more annoying than usual.
🍷 Now, when it comes to vampires getting drunk, @liannelara-dracula and I have headcanoned that normal alcohol won’t do and that immortals need special type of alcohol specifcally from the demon world.
🍷 Here’s our post on alcohol in the demon world if you want to check it out.
🍷 He views it as one of his best escapes since it keeps him wasted for a good while.
🍷 So, to obtain this escape, he goes directly to the alcohol made from the vampire clan to quench his needs.
🍷 Stumbles in the halls as he walks around the hall with the bottle's neck between his digits, downing another hard swig every so often as he paces through each corridor of the mansion. He even likes to walk around in the gardens and get drunk there as well.
🍷 Also keeps this special alcohol in a metal flask in a black box he keeps on a shelf in his room. He usually grabs it whenever he wants a quick swig.
🍷 If you're not around and he doesn’t want to get drunk at home, he's probably in some vampire club in the demon world getting wasted while clubbing.
🍷 Fuck, that's hot.
🍷 When drunk, his mood goes from one to the next.
🍷 For starters, this boi is horny in general, and by drinking, it’s only heightened.
🍷 Likes to get rough when it comes to intimacy, such as gripping your hips and ass more vicely than usual when making out with you.
🍷 Loves to randomly make out with you and if you tease him or bite his lip, it'll only rial him up more.
🍷 Tries to coax you into having sex with him by trying to get you into the mood with him touching or making out with you.
🍷 Likes to pull at your clothes for no reason.
🍷 If you're wearing a dress or something loose in nature, he'll try to pull it up in an attempt to pull it off, which you end up scolding him for since he persists.
🍷 His horniness gets so bad that he even tries to take your clothes off in front of his brothers since he's so stirred and out of it.
🍷 "C'mon, Y/N, let's give em' a show." He'd say starting to pull your pants down.
🍷 "No!" You'd yell, trying to stop him.
🍷 Becomes a total sad boy in some moments and starts to confess things you never imagined.
🍷 Can become petty sometimes and pouty if you step out of the room for one second or if you're busy with something and can't pay attention to him.
🍷 Here, he'll be a total brat and pull you into his arms and prevent you from leaving.
🍷 You'd of course try to get out of his grip, but it's honestly no use since he's much stronger and doesn't budge.
🍷 "C'mon, Subaru, let go. I have work I need to get done."
🍷 "Who cares."
🍷 Is a little more aggressive than usual since he's wasted.
🍷 Isn't afraid to throw any of his brothers into the wall if they piss him off.
🍷 One time, Laito decided to really annoy him by giving you both tips on what type of sex you both should’ve had since Subaru was drunk.
🍷 “Y’know, considering your state, Subaru, there’s lots of things you could try with her . . . I could even teach the two of you.” The fedora-wearing vampire would smirk.
🍷 Of course, Subaru just wasn’t having it and almost got a hold of Laito if you didn’t stop him.
🍷 “Tch! That bastard! Just wait till I get my hands on him.”
🍷 “Subaru, please. Don’t take him seriously.” You nudged, trying to hold him back.
🍷 If you're in the middle of doing something, he likes to randomly hug you from behind and whisper lewd things into your ears, such as what he wants to do to you.
🍷 And if you blush because of this, it only rials him up more and he gets a kick out of this in all honesty.
🍷 He'll try to coax you into drinking with him if he has some human-made alcohol around, but you figure it isn't the best idea since he's already a handful when drunk. Plus, who'd want to listen to Reiji's scolding if things got too out of hand?
🍷 “C’mon, Y/N, just a small shot won’t hurt.” He’d offer.
🍷 “No. If I get drunk, things could get out of hand and Reiji will yell at the both of us. You’re a handful enough as it is in this state.”
🍷 “I’m not a handful.” He’d pout, his expression quickly switching to a perverse one as he’d back you into a nearby wall, shamelessly grinding his hips into yours as he’d deviously smirk. “Unless you want me to be.”
🍷 “Shut up!” You’d say, your face growing red.
🍷 Likes to randomly smack your ass just to get your attention, or even poke it just cuz he's an asshole.
🍷 If only this boi was a sleepy drunk lmao.
🍷 Might even ask dumb sexual questions just to get on your nerves if he sees that you’re not paying attention.
🍷 “So, is it heavy to carry around?” He’d say, referring to your ass.
🍷 “Oh my god, shut up!” You’d say, playfully smacking his arm, only leaving him to laugh.
🍷 "What? It looks heavy."
🍷 "Ugh!"
🍷 If he ends up cornering you in some way, he might bite you if he's feeling a bit thirsty.
🍷 Since he's drunk, he'll bite you in much more sensitive places, such as the back of your thigh, right below your ass, or in the inner thigh near the groin area (his favorite spot).
🍷 If any part of your undergarments are showing, he’s definitely not going to sit there and do nothing.
🍷 He’ll pull at them with his fingers and make them snap against your skin just to throw you off.
🍷 “Subaru, stop!”
🍷 “What? You’re the one showing them to me.”
🍷 “Shut up! I’m not.”
🍷 And when he’s officially run out of energy, he likes to pass out in bed on top of you, where you serve as his body pillow, his face laying itself in your chest as he passes out from alcohol-exhaustion while you pass out from the exhaustion of dealing with him. xDD
🍷 He has his hand on your boob when falling asleep on top of you and he wakes up like that.
🍷 And he claims that by doing this, he’s going to start his day off right.
🍷 You end up smacking his arm playfully, only for him to laugh since he always gets a kick out of teasing you.
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bluravenite · 4 months
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I have not in fact finished rendering anything since November...
D&D OC art, my changeling unmasked and as a drow with his former elven partner, as well as dracula(? Astarion bite fanart(? because I have a whole timeline with him and a whole separate timeline with gale.
No tags on this one idc too much, rant ahead ↓
Last year started alright, I graduated with an Associates degree of arts before I decided to take a break from school because of burnout, and commissions were going really well, but as is social media, it can burn people out and if you make the wrong comments people will get angry at you.
That's always a learning experience and I don't expect to be able to handle those emotions, I'm only 20 and severely stressed and overwhelmed all the time, I struggle a lot with people online but I adore forming connections regardless. In that same tone I've been running my own D&D campaign for my irl friends, and that's been going wonderfully, it combines all my favorite things into one game.
Still I have a hard time with art, It hasn't been easy at all, and while I miss ghost art I don't know if I can be expected to return to it. I still get very triggered when I see kink or angst content relating to the issues that I have dealt with this past year, which is why I originally distanced myself from the fandom.
Grief also doesn't help but fortunately I am not someone who grieves too outwardly, still it takes a toll on my emotions and my trust with other people and myself, so healing takes it's time. even if it can feel lonely and isolating, I am grateful to have my friends, and my mom's support, even if she's not an ideal mother she has always encouraged me creatively.
I will open commissions soon, but I will not be doing elaborate stuff, no backgrounds, no full body/character sheets, no more than two characters, and with extended time frames, because I can't risk burning myself out again.
I mayyyy also think about some adoptable d&d NPCs, we shall see.
Thank you all for sticking with me through this rough end of the year 😮‍💨 I hope the new one is not so shitty in the end.
And please for the love of all godly and ungodly, just a gentle reminder that when people ask for tags and content filtering it isn't from a place of disgust or hatred towards the content creator, but rather personal safety. some of us are just going through rough patches and that content can hurt us even if it's not meant to. I love you all and I appreciate all of you who did listen and do tag your content, I see you and I thank you.
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Preliminary Poll
Jono Starsmore
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Submission reason:
He is soo underused oh my god. this isnt a writing thing i think when he was written in recent comics it was pretty good but we barely get any content of him despite things being set up. theres a lot we dont know about his powers and they keep teasing him practising but then never follow up on it (particularly with his psionic powers). there was an annual written for fucking ever ago that set up a dracula arc becaus ehe was bitten by dracula that isnt followed up on (unless you cound apocalyse vs dracula, which isnt really a conclusion to what happened but a possible explaination as to why dracula targeted jono specifically bc his great grandfather was there). they made him related to apocalypse then never did anything with it. he can supposedly fly (synch demonstraited the possibility when he copied jonos powers) but so far hasn't. no one knows what this guys deal is because it kept changing and i think the writers are confused by him. marvel. hire me i will write a solo comic.
Propaganda:
what more could you want in a character. hes british hes vaguely transmasc coded (to me) he has disintergrated one time but came back fine he went to the elf dimension he got hit by a train hes technically mute (and in the generation x comic stopped communicating for a couple days because he just didnt want to). he is so autism. hes related to apocalyspe and hates it.in the prose book he has a fear of mouths (he doesnrt have a mouth its explosions he blew up) every day he tries his best
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enzymedevice · 3 months
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Long pinned post because I got excited about the idea of embedding a lot of hyperlinks
Greetings! I’m Enzyme or Q, and I’m an asexual transneutral person who uses he/him pronouns. The primary word I use to describe myself is "goth" and I like comics, robots, weird films, visual kei and fashionable gay people ✨
Other equalities data that may be helpful for some people to know:
I have autism, Tourette's and an intersex variation; I identify as disabled, am mostly white-passing and have a mixed-religion upbringing that has led me to identify as agnostic. I don’t live in the US.
With regards to what you’ll find on this blog, I work in sex ed and aim to work in funeralcare so there’ll be some heavy or sexual content here - often in the form of stupid jokes - that I don’t tag for. I do tag for gore, however, under gore cw. If you notice me posting things you’re uncomfortable with under a certain tag, please block that tag.
My visual art can be found under the tag my art.
My poetry (a hit on my DeviantArt but a cringe footnote in my Tumblr history) can be found under the tag my poetry.
If you’d like to see only my art relating to my favourite subject matter, I can present you with gay people grimacing, which is exactly what it says on the tin.
I also have a tag for appreciating other people's art! Most of my blog is this.
I try to tag fandoms/subjects appropriately! These don’t represent my favourite things in general, but my most oft-used fandom tags are probably for Doctor Who, Naruto (more specifically Orochimaru), JoJo, Dracula, Castlevania (games and TV series), Cats the musical, DC Comics (more specifically Legion of Super-Heroes), The Case Study of Vanitas, Pokémon (more specifically Team Rocket) and Homestuck. Additionally, I like a bunch of horror/gore/weird antiquated media that crops up from time to time. In terms of subject matter, I currently also use the tags goth stuff, trans stuff, undertaker stuff, robots tag and placeholder cannibalism tag, the cannibalism tag I wanted a delicious name for but nothing bit :(
I know that writing a DNI won’t actually act as a preventative measure since anyone can just go on the internet and lie but considering I’m in my 20s I would prefer that anyone under 18 interacting with me proceed with caution since the content I share is not for you. This isn’t a slight on you, merely a personal boundary I choose to set.
Likewise, visible TERFs, trans/homophobes, racists/Islamophobes/antisemites, ableists, people arguing about shipping in a way that annoys me, people with a DNI criterion that resembles me or anyone else that just rubs me the wrong way for no discernible reason will be blocked on sight. It’s no big deal, I just prefer to look at things on here that don’t make me sad.
If I express enjoying some problematic media, please assume that I’m aware of all the things wrong with it and have, offline in my own time, unpacked its nuances, cherrypicking the things I like about it to uplift online.
… That's all I can think of to write! No one will read this ever.
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My media this week (7-13 Jan 2024)
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the addition of this disaster boy was delightful
📚 STUFF I READ 📚
🥰 Second First Chances (Kedreeva) - 92K, steddie, canon-divergent Ladyhawke AU. Very well-written, exactly what it says on the tin. Very enjoyable.
😊 Murray Mysteries (Knöves Storytelling) - "full-cast audio-drama style re-imagining of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, set in the present day. Mina Murray is an unemployed twenty-something, jigsaw puzzler, and brand new Podcaster. Her life doesn’t exactly make for interesting content. That is until her best friend Lucy falls mysteriously ill and Mina’s boyfriend Jonathan loses contact on a work trip to Romania…" Very creative, very queer, very enjoyable!
🥰 ship-to-ship combat (pomeloquat) - 76K, SuperBat - "Clark, in an attempt to make some spare cash, unintentionally stumbles into the world of superhero fanfiction, becomes a prolific writer for Gotham's OTP, and tries his best to fend off rival fans who want him to convert to superbat instead." - extremely funny and delightful identity porn fic
🥰 Tension and Tonic (Zenaidamacrouras1) - 78K, cellist!Bucky/artist!Steve, one night stand that develops feelings. Mostly hilarious, with some fantastic characterizations, especially of the supporting characters. Fic does go to some pretty dark thoughts very briefly but ultimately the vibe I ended up with was much more on the funny side of the scale.
💖💖 +41K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖
A Letter from "Crawly" to Azirapil (mostlydeadlanguages) - Good Omens: Aziraphale & Crowley, 486 words - actual cuneiform on actual clay tablets, 'translated'. Our boy Ea-Nasir gets a shoutout. Fan makers are amazing.
veracity (pomeloquat) - DCU: SuperBat, 3K - a group of Metropolis criminals give Batman some truth serum to find out how to deal with Superman & get more than they bargained for. Absolute hilarity. Fantastic related art.
📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺
8 Out of 10 Cats - s22, e11
QI - series S, ep3, 5
D20: Fantasy High: Sophomore Year - BONUS "Fireside Chat with Brennan & Friends
D20: Fantasy High: Sophomore Year - BONUS "Making Chungledown Bim (with Lou Wilson)"
Finding Your Roots - "Fathers and Sons" (s10, e3): LeVar Burton & Wes Studi
Hollywood Reporter Actors Roundtable 2023
The Holdovers (2023)
D20: Escape From The Bloodkeep - "The Tomb of Ultimate Evil" (s2, e6)
D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Summer Scaries" (s21, e1)
D20: Adventuring Party - "Yaaath Queen" (s16, e1)
All Creatures Great and Small - s4, e1-7 (😍😍😍)
🎧 PODCASTS 🎧
The Sporkful - Ozempic Isn’t So Great For Fat People, Says Aubrey Gordon
Pop Culture Happy Hour - All Of Us Strangers
Up First - Congressional Funding Deal, Israel and Lebanon, Lloyd Austin Fallout
Today, Explained - Pirates of the Red Sea
How To! - How To Keep Caring Amid Endless Crises
Shedunnit - Whodunnit Centenary: 1924
Switched on Pop - The case of the missing vocals, and other listener questions
Vibe Check - Look to God, Not Monica
ICYMI - The Nine-Month Cruise Heard Round the World
Code Switch - Everyone wants a piece of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy
Outward - Raquel Willis is in Bloom
Ologies with Alie Ward - Ethnoecology (ETHNOBOTANY/NATIVE PLANTS) with Leigh Joseph
Pop Culture Happy Hour - Baldur's Gate 3
NPR's Book of the Day - Roxane Gay fleshes out her strong 'Opinions'
99% Invisible #565 - Mini-Stories: Volume 18
Just One Thing - Be Kind
Not Another D&D Podcast - D&D Court: Sibling Rivalry Edition (w/ Ify Nwadiwe)
Dear Prudence - A DNA Test Revealed a Secret Sibling. Help!
What Next: TBD - Boeing’s Max Mess
⭐ Endless Thread - The Minnesota Timberwolves score NBA fandom in Brazil, but there's a kink
You're Dead to Me - History of Kung Fu
Today, Explained - Hollywood’s secret musicals
⭐ Hit Parade - And the Grammy Goes to… Edition
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly - Copycat Brands
🎶 MUSIC 🎶
'80s Soft Pop
The Golden Age of Boy Bands
Presenting Britney Spears
Def Leppard's Greatest Bites
Best of '80s Adult Hits
Covers & Remixes
Singer-Songwriter Classics
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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