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see-arcane · 5 months
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Just tripped and fell into a what-if scenario:
"What if Jonathan really had caught up to Dracula in Piccadilly and killed him in the street?"
Head lopped off. Kukri through the chest. The 'murder victim' turns to dust in full view of the gawking crowd. Then what? Then what??
Piccadilly Police: "So this man beheaded and impaled an aristocrat in the middle of the street."
Witnesses: "He did."
Piccadilly Police: "And the body..?"
Witnesses: "Crumbled into that pile of dust."
Piccadilly Police: "..."
Witnesses: "..."
Piccadilly Police: "...So has he named which magician he's working for or--?"
Witnesses: "No, he's just been busy kicking the dust into the horse dung piles in the gutter."
Of course, this is the best case scenario sillytimes version. Serious version? Jonathan only manages half of the process before some Good Samaritans tackle him; and likely get cut in the process. I bet he could chop Dracula's head off, but not manage the heart-piercing in time. He gets dragged off to jail. The Count's two pieces get taken to the morgue. And now Van Helsing, the Suitors, and Mina are all on a ticking deadline to stake Dracula's heart before sundown with Important Witnesses present to prove Jonathan's innocence and sanity in the slaying...
And if and when that happens?
That means the Drac Attack Pack are responsible for bringing the reality of vampires into the public awareness.
So.
Surprise, everyone!
Imagine the can of worms that would open around them, around the whole concept. Their original plan to head to Castle Dracula to end the Brides gets a LOT of extra tagalong company. Photographers are there. Ditto shady government sorts who, of course, are eager to investigate a way to turn vampirism into a benefit to the Crown. The Drac Attack Pack would be swamped with sensationalism. It'd be a circus.
Which all adds up to a belated understanding for me about just why Dracula had to get away from them in Piccadilly. If he had been caught and killed? God. What a mess it'd be.
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foxilayde · 2 years
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abirdie · 5 months
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Gael García Bernal on first meeting Diego Luna, SAG-AFTRA Foundation: Career Retrospective
I originally gifsetted this but so much of the appeal is in his tone of voice and the audience reaction that I un-gifsetted it again.
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scogito · 3 months
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Riassunto di un'epoca.
Ma è colpa dei giovani eh!
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siena-sevenwits · 4 months
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I’ve reached “A Journey in the Dark,” and am thinking on the scene where they discuss the worth of the mithril shirt, not knowing Frodo wears it. What Frodo bears upon his back is the price of the Shire.
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spoonerisrns · 1 day
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I know this might not be a huge thing, but I love that nearly all the commentators seem to be women??? Realizing I've NEVER seen so many female sports commentators before, and so many different kinds of presentation among them? I've often seen One Pretty Cis Het Woman on a panel of cis het dudes. This is hella refreshing.
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gregor-samsung · 9 days
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“ Se dovessimo tener conto delle letture importanti che dobbiamo alla Scuola, ai Critici, a tutte le forme di pubblicità e, viceversa, di quelle che dobbiamo all'amico, all'amante, al compagno di scuola, vuoi anche alla famiglia - quando non mette i libri nello scaffale dell'educazione - il risultato sarebbe chiaro: quel che abbiamo letto di più bello lo dobbiamo quasi sempre a una persona cara. Ed è a una persona cara che subito ne parleremo. Forse proprio perché la peculiarità del sentimento, come del desiderio di leggere, è il fatto di preferire. Amare vuol dire, in ultima analisi, far dono delle nostre preferenze a coloro che preferiamo. E queste preferenze condivise popolano l'invisibile cittadella della nostra libertà. Noi siamo abitati da libri e da amici. Quando una persona cara ci dà un libro da leggere, la prima cosa che facciamo è cercarla fra le righe, cercare i suoi gusti, i motivi che l'hanno spinta a piazzarci quel libro in mano, i segni di una fraternità. Poi il testo ci prende e dimentichiamo chi in esso ci ha immersi: tutta la forza di un'opera consiste proprio nel saper spazzar via anche questa contingenza! Eppure, con il passare degli anni, accade che l'evocazione del testo faccia tornare alla mente il ricordo dell'altro: alcuni titoli sono allora di nuovo dei volti. E, siamo giusti, non sempre il volto di una persona amata, ma anche quello (oh! raramente) del tal critico o del tal professore. È il caso di Pierre Dumayet, del suo sguardo, della sua voce, dei suoi silenzi, che nelle Letture per tutti della mia infanzia dicevano tutto il suo rispetto per il lettore che grazie a lui sarei diventato. E il caso di quel professore la cui passione per i libri sapeva dotarlo di un'infinita pazienza e regalarci perfino l'illusione dell'amore. Doveva proprio preferirci - o stimarci - noialtri allievi, per darci da leggere quel che gli era più caro. “
Daniel Pennac, Come un romanzo, traduzione di Yasmina Mélaouah, Feltrinelli (collana Idee), 1998²⁶, pp. 70-71. (Corsivi dell’autore)
[1ª edizione originale: Comme un roman, éditions Gallimard, 1992]
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spookydestinycat · 4 months
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How to Seduce Your Teacher (La liceale seduce i professori) (1979)
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breakdownsbuttlights · 10 months
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short-haired baby meso, who wore clothes with no holes and drove a car instead of a bike. and no tongue piercing! it doesn’t bear thinking about
Bold of you to assume that Mesothulas ever knew how to drive a car. (He’s got only the barest notion of how to safely ride a motorcycle.)
But even in his early days, there was always something… different… about him. When Prowl met him, he was in his brief but unfortunate tweed and bicycle phase.
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disasterbiwriter · 4 months
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my oldest is 9 today and yesterday informed his pediatrician that Bach is his favorite musician (news to me, i'd have said Beethoven).
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officialpenisenvy · 1 month
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piano B raga ripeto piano B
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lapioggiamiaamica · 2 months
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Dialogo tra Prof. e alunno
Prof, non ho fatto gli esercizi.’
‘Ma li vogliamo fare prima o poi?’
‘Ma chi?’
‘Ma tu, già!’
‘PROF TU ILLUDI LA GENTE, TUTTO ‘STO PLURALE E POI LA FATICA TOCCA SEMPRE E SOLO A ME.’
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ecoamerica · 2 months
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scogito · 7 months
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Discorso parzialmente vero e poco funzionale per coloro a chi si rivolge, perché si basa soprattutto sulla morale.
La probabilità di illuminare cervelli spenti dentro anni di bombardamenti opposti e immersi in esempi di merda con un intervento di cinque minuti, è semplicemente utopia.
Sarebbe inutile anche se ci andassero ogni weekend nelle scuole, perché resterebbero parole contro la realtà che poi hanno accanto per il resto del tempo.
Per i gruppi Whatsapp confermo in modo semidiretto attraverso le esperienze di mia sorella.
Per quanto riguarda la domanda del "come ci siamo arrivati", non rivolgetevi ai giovani, rivolgetevi a chi li ha allevati.
Risuggerisco la visione di Young Europe di Matteo Vicino. Si trova online anche su You Tube, se volete una visione molto lucida dell'irrimediabile casino a cui li avete destinati.
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siena-sevenwits · 4 months
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When I was a kid my dad was ridiculously eager to get me reading Tolkien ASAP, and apparently asked my mom through my preschool years, "Do you think she's old enough? Maybe this year?" As a result of my extreme youth when he read them to me, I had some weird first impressions and imaginings, most notably that I was under the impression that Gollum was a glob of pink goo (neon pink in my imagination) with glowing yellow snail eyes, and that Tom Bombadil looked exactly like Barliman Butterbur, but had a yo-yo which he constantly bounced to the rhythm of his songs.
Don't ask me how I got these impressions.
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cuoredolce67 · 11 months
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È tempo di esami …
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ecoamerica · 1 month
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