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Just got finished watching Count Dracula (1977).
#dracula daily#dracula#count dracula 1977#they've included so many scenes from the book that i haven't seen in any other adaptation#and they have quincey!!!#no dracmina bs#no victim blaming lucy#no downplaying jonathan#9.5/10#i am begging you to watch this movie!#dracula adaptations#couldve done without the problematic romani scenes tho#they also skipped over the demeter and the epilogue#but just about everything else was kept in!
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smth abt eddie telling dustin to look after the little sheep -> s5 is going to return to s1 form -> dustin tells mike in s1 that his obliviousness blows his mind -> the whole painting & confession & obvious general fiasco that is willelmike -> dustin's going to have to put on his bob the builder / "the world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes" sherlock holmes hat and get involved
#byler#do i think he's going to go “Dude You Are GAYYYYYYYYY”? no. but i do think he'd go “🤨 why are u guys being weird.” in some way which is#what tips over the first domino in the series of events#maybe . wishful thinking? mayhaps . but im Free#i also wouldnt be opposed to steve saying smth to jonathan which makes him go 🤨😳😦🫢#but i think ppl very much downplay dustin's role in the group and the support he offers his friends and how observant and “nosy” he is#and things are going to be much different now if they continue like how we left off ... so u don't think dustin would notice?#and u don't think tht he'd say something? esp when he had to deal with mike being an el stan + his obliviousness to others and their#jealousy over him? especially with him now being the character tht everyone wishes would shut up lmao? or with how#close he was to mike before he went to cali and how he had to take his place in his absence?#there's a million ways it could to obvi and i really don't have an expectation any which way but .#with tht latest least fave poll........ it jus made me think abt how a lot of people jus . really forget he exists#which is so crazy bc he stays in everyones business LMAO#but anyway .#she be rambling#and on mobile top so u already know im not rereading this if its incoherent its incoherent 🤷♀️#omg the typos... >_> you guys know wht i Mean .#mine#s5 predictions
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Say you're there when I feel helpless;
if that's true, why don't you help me?
It's my fault, I know I'm selfish.
Stand alone, my soul is jealous -
it wants love, but I reject it;
trade my joy for my protection.
Grab my hand, I'm drowning.
I feel my heart pounding.
Why haven't you found me yet?
I hold you so proudly.
Traumas, they surround me.
I wish you'd just love me back…
Say you're here, but I don't feel it.
Give me peace, but then you steal it.
Watch them laugh at all my secrets.
Scream and yell, but I feel speechless.
Ask for help, you call it weakness.
Lied and promised me my freedom.
#thanks for the rec undertheknightwing!#cw jonathan kent songs#‘watch them laugh at all my secrets’ makes me think of like. Sarah yelling at Jon when he was drinking because he was so upset w/ everything#like not that she was laughing (obviously) but that like. no-one but him knows all the secrets he’s keeping#and I mean on top of The Secret; his own secrets too#so they inadvertently downplay; thinking he isn’t carrying things#‘ask for help you call it weakness’ = his XK arc#‘lied and promised me my freedom’ the empty platitudes; esp in The Barn Scene#everything else I think is self-explanatory#‘it wants love but I reject it; trade my joy for protection’ SO much Jon rejecting spending time with Clark after all the letdowns#also ‘why haven’t you found me yet?’ can mean so many things#but like. it additionally is PERFECT for when Bizarro-Jon was on the loose!#because Jon was like ‘why did you choose The Secret over my safety?!’ you know?#like. it was just another moment when Jon felt like he came second (or worse) to all else#*clutches chest* Ow.
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People are like “Nancy Wheeler can’t be a lesbian because she dated Steve and Jonathan!” And I’m like:
1) Past relationships have nothing to do with your sexuality (especially when one of which was considered “bullshit”)
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2) There is no way in hell that Jonathan Byers (or Steve Harrington) is cisgender
#stranger things season four#stranger things#nancy wheeler#nancy stranger things#lesbian Nancy wheeler#I’m not trying to downplay bisexual Nancy wheeler because that’s also very valid#but in my head she’s such a lesbian#and I quite like jancy tbh#but Jonathan is not cis let’s be real#they’re so girlfriend coded#usually I wouldn’t HC steve as genderqueer but I can defo see it#Luci’s ST thoughts
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Coppola's Dracula is on Prime (why didn't they advertise this to me before Halloween?). Time for a rewatch to see if it's bad as I remember.
#i mean it has moments of so bad it's good#but also it is bad#the dracula mina love story is bad for a lot of reasons#badly done#they ignore him being vlad the impaler and therefore not romanti c#and it downplays jonathan/mina#not to mention their polycule
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No romantic relationship in stranger things will ever compare to the familial ones
#stranger things#its really the core of the show and its a shame theyve downplayed it so much in the last seasons#also i really love the el and will parallels and i love how theyre siblings now#boy goes missing girl gets found#both feel like a mistake/a monster#their connection to the UD#also im gonna be honest the only relationships that i tolerate in the show are#max/lucas and nancy/jonathan#everything else is kinda boring idk#if they really make nancy/steve a thing again 💀 it would just be fanservice lmao
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Leftists on the internet nitpicking Jonathan Glazer’s words and downplaying what he said about the violence in Gaza meanwhile everyone to the right of liberals is having a full scale five alarm meltdown calling for Glazer’s head and saying he’s a self-hating Jew for daring to say what he said so maybe it’s time to get some perspective girls
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lol you’re really slow if you believe that “transmisandry” is on the same level as transmisogyny. no one is denying that trans men face oppression because they are trans men, because they absolutely do! but a lot of the time, when you hear stories about trans men being assaulted or killed, it is purely because of misogyny; because they were perceived as a woman, if not for another outside reason. meanwhile, when a trans woman is killed, it is almost always because she is trans, not to mention that trans women have way more stigma against us compared to trans men. just look at who conservatives always blame for “gender ideology,” it’s ALWAYS a trans woman
"no one is–" yes they do. frequently people do exactly that. for example:
"trans men (mostly) get assaulted and killed because they are perceived as women." downplaying the role transness plays in the violence we experience is not much better than denying it happens at all. also calling me "slow" first thing in an ask is a bad idea if you want to seem reasonable.
First of all, people rarely ever admit that! People genuinely get pissed off at trans men for saying they are vulnerable to misogynistic violence while not being women. You are only admitting that trans men experience misogyny as an argument for why talking about anti-transmasculinity is BadWrong Actually.
Trans men are murdered and labeled women, trans men in abusive families and marriages aren't allowed to transition, so the vulnerability of trans men is never recognized. Woaaaah it's almost like.... the misogyny is intersecting with something..... being trans perhaps?
Second, "you only get murdered because people mistake you as a woman" is also an argument used against trans women, by people who are invested in ignoring the complexities of trans people's relationship with misogyny.
Thirdly, trans men do get assaulted and killed for being trans. Not that they always get enough police attention that the motivations or attackers will ever be known (very much the same case with trans women victims). Do you know any of their names? Do you talk about the violence done to them, ever? Not just Brandon Teena, but Ebeng Mayor? Myles Utz? Ahmed El-Tounsi? Gautam Ramachandra and Shaman Gupta? Zahair Martinez? Abhay Gondane? Ky Peterson? Jacob Williamson? Lourenzo Broken? Andrew Jonathan Blake-Newton? Camdyn Rider? Manoj? Do you ever think about them? Because I think the fact that we only talk about the violence against trans men when we are talking about how it barely ever happens and should be shoved aside to make space for the Real Issues says a lot.
Genuinely, what good do you think you are bringing to the world by sending me this ask?
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“Was this a customary incident in the life of a solicitor's clerk sent out to explain the purchase of a London estate to a foreigner? Solicitor's clerk! Mina would not like that. Solicitor—for just before leaving London I got word that my examination was successful; and I am now a full-blown solicitor!”
Why is this so cute? It just breaks my heart! He took a second writing his harrowing story just to remind himself that Mina wouldn’t want him to downplay his achievements, and to feel proud of his title! He’s soo cute!!! This is my first time reading Dracula, and I came in expecting a lot of things, but I did not expect to be so endeared to our good friend Jonathan! I love this boy!!!
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This might be one of these things that's interesting to no one but me, but I've taken a look at late Victorian household expenses and how they compare to the modern day.
Specifically I looked at average household weekly expenditure in the UK in 2022 (the latest year for which data is available) and compared it with the suggested budget from 1901 here for a family with an income of £150 annually.
Note that these things are not equivalent! A family with an income of £150 annually in 1901 was wealthier than average, and would be lower middle class, i.e. they are better off in comparison with their peers than an average household in the UK today. I've picked that in part because this is about the amount that Jonathan and Mina might expect to be living off when they're married.
The 1901 version is also a suggested budget not an actual budget, so it probably downplays how much people spend on fun non-essentials.
So here's a chart showing what percentage of annual household expenditure goes on each area:
There are two lots of 2022 lines because there are more people in the UK who own their houses outright than rent or own with a mortgage, which brings average modern-day housing costs down to a level that isn't really reflective many people's experiences.
So I did one version with true averages, and then one where I bumped up the amount spent on housing as if we were looking at the average renter rather than the average person in general. I didn't adjust any of the other amounts, because this was already getting quite complex, but I think we can assume the average renter spends less on other stuff across the board.
Here's a table with the raw amounts:
(sorry that this is undescribed, I couldn't figure out a sensible way to describe it)
The obvious difference is the cost of food and clothing. Clothing isn't a major expense in the modern day budget but it's more than 15% of expenditure in the Victorian one, and food is the single biggest expenditure area. If Mina is a thrifty housekeeper, then that would make a significant difference to the household.
Housing is not as different as I was expecting. I couldn't really capture it here, but the split between housing and heating bills is also (to my surprise!) quite similar.
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Jonathan Nolan 🤝 Creating Something-Hate-to-Love-to-Hate-to-What-The-f-is-that Twisted Relationships between multidimensional characters in parallel with moral convention questioning what makes us humans
P.S. I’m still barely over the twist of the first season of Westworld and Dolores x (won’t name the character in case you haven’t seen the series WATCH IT STRONGLY RECOMMENDED). Thus in contrast to those who hated the ending of the series I was like “OH SHIIIIIIT HERE WE GO AGAIN YES EVERYONE LIVES, THEY’LL BE TOGETHER SHE’LL FIX IT” Sorry for my kind of miserable opinion which downplays the merits of ideas in Westworld. Honestly, I love the philosophy there no less than storylines.
#ghoulcy#fallout ghoul#the ghoul#lucy maclean#fallout lucy#fallout series#fallout#fallout prime#westworld#dolores abernathy#ghoulucy#cooper howard#fallout tv series#vaultghoul#ghoul x lucy#cooper x lucy#ghoul x vault#made by partyviki
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Mutually Assured Destruction Part 4
Synopsis: Villain x Civilian. Civilian can sense other people's powers through auras but hides this ability. They are terrified of the most boring person at their office job, who hides the most powerful aura Civilian has ever felt.
“How is this art?”
Civilian had never heard of Rothko before this date, but they had assumed they would be looking at normal paintings — portraits and landscapes.
Not squares of color on a rectangle canvas.
Sure they were impressive in their size. But their simplicity clashed against the other paintings in the museum, full of intricate details and delicate brush strokes.
It definitely clashed with their idea of art. But also part of them wanted to get under Jonathan’s skin.
“Did you grow up under a rock?” Jonathan grumbled. “How are you so uncultured?”
“It’s literally two squares of color. I could paint something like that,” Civilian argued.
“Yes, but you didn’t,” he pointed out peevishly. “And even if you did, these are so much more than squares of color.”
“How so?”
Jonathan guided them closer to one of the paintings, his hand gentle on their shoulders. He positioned them directly center of one of the paintings and then stood behind them, close enough for Civilian to feel his breath stir the hair at the nape of their neck.
“To understand and appreciate this painting takes time. You have to really look.” His voice, so soft, so close, sent a small shiver down Civilian’s spine. “Rothko uses simultaneous contrast in his colors to create the illusion of light. If you stare long enough, you can see the color shimmer and move.”
Civilian squinted at the painting, trying to see what he described. At first they just remained a block of color. But, true to his word, after a few minutes, they began to see the shimmer, the glow, of the paint. Faint hues appeared in the black — red-black and dark dark blue-black. They shifted into one another, almost like a dance. It was hypnotic.
“Do you see it now?” Jonathan whispered.
“It’s . . .surprisingly beautiful,” they murmured.
“Just like you.”
The spell between them snapped. Civilian jerked around only to be met with his wicked smirk.
“So the unrefined can be taught,” he said. “You should be proud.”
“Shut up,” they snapped, cheeks hot.
He gestured to the next room. “Shall we continue?”
As they coasted to a stop on the third yellow light in five minutes, Civilian side-eyed Jonathan.
“I think this is your power — getting every yellow light.”
“That’s not a power — that’s a curse,” he muttered.
It had become a game between them. A strange, fucked up game where Civilian guessed intentionally wrong answers about the power behind his aura and he neither confirmed nor denied it.
Downplaying such power made it easier to bear sometimes, but also . . .it was dangerously easy after a month of “dating” to forget that he even had a power. The aura had turned into the background noise of their life, the way people who live by train tracks learn to tune out the noise of the trains.
Jonathan treated them to lunch every day at work, and once a week he took Civilian on a proper date — dinner and bowling (he got a perfect score compared to Civilian’s five gutter balls) or trivia night at a local bar (they both lost miserably in the sports category) or an afternoon trip to the aquarium in the next city over (their favorite date so far).
Civilian did not have any choice in the activities or any knowledge of what each date would bring, but underneath the constant layer of anxiety and frustration that coated every interaction with Jonathan was genuine enjoyment.
The dates were the only real social interaction that Civilian had outside of run-ins with neighbors and coworkers. A fact they tried not to dwell on too much.
Tonight they pulled into the parking lot of the movie theater. Civilian raised an eyebrow when Jonathan bought two tickets to Blood in the Stone but said nothing. Refined Art Museum Jonathan didn’t seem the type to like supernatural horror movies, but so much of him stayed shrouded in mystery that predicting anything about him was impossible.
Civilian, on the other hand, did not like horror movies. But they refused to let Jonathan see their trepidation. Instead, they watched the screen stone-faced and ripped the napkin in their lap to shreds. Something warm and ticklish slide down the delicate skin of their wrist just as the movie protagonist got caught up in some horrific tentacle monster and Civilian could not stop the scream from bursting out.
Jonathan’s warm breath brushed against their ear as he chuckled. His fingers slid down to detangle the twisted remains of napkin from their hands.
“Should we leave early, before you wet yourself?” he whispered.
“Why did you pick this movie?” Civilian hissed, refusing to look at him.
“Maybe that’s my power — I’m not afraid of things that aren’t real.”
“Maybe your power is being an obnoxious prick.”
He chuckled again, a low rumble in their ear, and Civilian had to bite their lip against the strange shiver that rippled down their spine.
A jump scare burst onto the screen. Civilian yelped, their fingers reflexively squeezing Jonathan’s hand. They expected him to pull away the second their death gripped relax, but his hand stayed throughout the rest of the movie, fingers casually interspersed with theirs.
Part five here
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It is strange that as yet I have not seen the Count eat or drink. He must be a very peculiar man!
I'm coming in on Jonathan's defense for this line. It's one that's been joked about a lot - and that's fair, it's a laughable understatement. But, to be honest... I think that might be exactly how Jonathan is using it here. In other places he does understate things, but it's typically trying to downplay his own distress, rather than be in outright denial. He's making a bleak sort of joke here, because 'peculiar' isn't enough to describe Dracula, and 'man' is maybe too much.
I don't think he's fully committed to thinking Dracula is a creature of the night, don't get me wrong. But he's amassing lots and lots of suspicions. Look at how he starts this entry:
If there were any one to talk to I could bear it, but there is no one. I have only the Count to speak with, and he!—I fear I am myself the only living soul within the place.
That's not the very first line, but it's pretty close. He admits that maybe it's his mind playing tricks, the nocturnal schedule messing with him, but he really doesn't think so. He scoffs at the idea of talking to Dracula, something which just yesterday he initially took comfort in doing. But the situation has changed now: not only is Dracula untrustworthy, but he might not even be a living soul. And I didn't include it in this quote, but immediately after making such a claim, he reminds himself to focus on the facts, and then proceeds to start relaying them. He provides justification for considering him something other than human with the account of Dracula not showing up in the mirror, but even then it's not solid enough yet to commit to calling him some specific creature. He provides justification for Dracula being untrustworthy with the locked doors. (Obviously the attack as well, but the doors are hard evidence that would stand even if all the supernatural-seeming stuff were truly just tricks of the mind. Also, easily confirmed again because the proof hasn't been flung out a window.)
Jonathan lingered on describing the coachman and Dracula both the other day, and also noted odd instances about the 'invisible service', so to speak, but didn't outright lay out all his suspicions. He doesn't want to get carried away speculating, he wants to stick to fact or at least well-founded suppositions with supporting evidence. So I think between that deliberate effort to be factual both for the sake of his own sanity, and to maintain as much calm as he can, we can read between the lines to find some of those fears/suspicions he doesn't dare speak. Just because he hasn't written it down doesn't mean he's not aware of the possibility.
He's not being dumb here, just... precise. And probably a bit sarcastic.
#dracula daily#jonathan harker#also look. if it's a joke it's a very good one. excellent dry dark sarcasm#let him have it i know he's capable
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there’s a popular dracula post right now by a very very popular blog that argues that mina and lucy are gay (absolutely valid) by claiming that mina’s letters to and about jonathan come off as platonic. which is just.. untrue?
jonathan and mina have one of the healthiest and most devoted relationships in victorian literature. it boggles me that someone can look at the things they write about each other and even begin to claim that stoker failed at writing their romantic relationship. do we not remember jonathan collecting recipes he thought mina would like? do we not remember mina’s continually expressed anxiety over not hearing from jonathan - and her ability to immediately clock that the short letter he was coerced to send her felt off? are we just going to disregard the ENTIRE WEDDING SCENE???
the post in question bends over backwards to downplay or altogether avoid including passages where mina expresses her concern, worry, and genuine love for jonathan - which is ridiculous! i literally AGREE with the point being made about mina’s passages about lucy being extremely sapphic in nature, but something absolutely rubs me the wrong way about trying to support that argument by claiming that mina sees jonathan as nothing more than a “good friend”.
argue for lucy/mina all you want! god knows that there’s PLENTY of textual evidence to support you! mina is an entire bisexual and should be recognized as such!! but don’t disregard or actively undermine her relationship with jonathan to do it!!!
#i’m defending the harkers to the GRAVE#also i’m not saying the name of the blog out of courtesy and good faith#but if you scroll through the dracula tag you can definitely find the post this is about#dracula#dracula daily#jonathan harker#mina murray#mina harker#lucy westenra#nat og
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Spinning Jon Sims in my head again. Everyone talks about the "yeah I was bullied cause I was a deeply annoying child" but. The way he follows the deeply annoying child bit with "he was over my twice my age, so I'm certainly not excusing it" is said in such a way that I'm like. He definitely mentioned his childhood bully offhandedly to Georgie at some point and justified it with "yeah haha I was just really annoying" and she went "that guy was an adult bullying an 8 year old what do you mean you were just annoying" and he hated that whole conversation so he just said "yeah okay I'm not excusing his bullying" but he absolutely still does think it was his fault for being annoying.
And he keeps downplaying it, too. He says "more than twice my age" which is true and sounds bad but not as bad as "a decade older than me and also legally an adult", especially with how casual he is about it. And "Name calling, the odd beating, sometimes stealing from me— all very standard" JON ARE WE JUST GOING TO BRUSH PAST THE FACT THAT YOU GOT BEAT UP BY A 19 YEAR OLD AT THE AGE OF 8. We just brush past it!!
I'm meant to be packing but I really want to just write an essay on how Jon's childhood (and more importantly, his perception of it) impacted his feelings and actions over the course of the series. Like, of course Jonathan "yeah I had a traumatic childhood but my grandmother tried her best and I was annoying so it's actually all fine" Sims blames himself for every problem ever and thinks he deserves pain and suffering about it. Shaking him. Please for the love of god get therapy about that
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Jealous Steve Harrington
Steve has always been a bit insecure when it comes to relationships, due in part to his past with Nancy.
When he first starts dating you, he's very careful not to come across as jealous or possessive.
However, as he becomes more invested in the relationship, his jealousy begins to bubble up.
At first, he tries to hide his jealousy by making jokes or teasing you about your interactions with other people.
He also becomes more attentive and affectionate, hoping to win your affection and prevent you from looking elsewhere.
If you don't respond as positively to his affection as he'd like, Steve's jealousy intensifies.
He may start to feel like you are pulling away from him, or that you're not as interested in the relationship as he is.
This can lead to him becoming more possessive, wanting to spend more time with you and limiting your interactions with others.
He might also start to question your motives, wondering if you have feelings for someone else or if you're not as committed to the relationship as he is.
If you try to confront him about his jealousy, he might initially deny it or downplay it, insisting that he's not upset or that everything is fine.
However, if you persist, he'll eventually open up about his feelings and try to work through them together.
He might even become a bit self-deprecating, acknowledging that his jealousy is a flaw he's working on.
One of the reasons Steve struggles with jealousy so much is because of his past with Nancy.
When he was dating Nancy, he often felt like he wasn't good enough for her, and was constantly worried that she would leave him for someone else.
This insecurity was compounded by the fact that Nancy did eventually leave him for Jonathan.
While Steve has moved on from Nancy and has feelings for you, his past experiences have left him with a lingering sense of inadequacy that can manifest as jealousy.
Despite his struggles, Steve is a devoted partner who truly cares about you and wants to make the relationship work.
He's willing to put in the effort to overcome his jealousy and build a healthy, trusting relationship.
In the end, his past experiences with Nancy have taught him a valuable lesson about the importance of communication and honesty in relationships.
With your help, Steve is able to work through his jealousy and build a strong, loving relationship that is free from the insecurities of his past.
#steve harrington#steve harrington x reader#steve harrington x you#steve harrington x y/n#steve harrington imagine#steve harrington fluff#steve harrington angst#steve harrington fanfic#steve harrington fandom#steve harrington fanfiction#steve harrington headcanon#jealous steve harrington#jealous!steve harrington
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