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High school class pranks teacher by being silent and doing their work

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This is my design...

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Me as my friends have this running joke for the R&J au where Mercutio gave Romeo back door top surgery with a chainsaw (we’re very normal people about Shakespeare how can you tell??)

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I do not think this is right...

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In honor of Dracula daily starting (somewhat) soon, here are three lists to help people understand how modern the novel Dracula is.

(this is because I can see from adaptations, general vampire media, and vampire posts across the internet that some people really don't know how recent of a book it was)

List 1---Things that were invented before Dracula was published in 1897:

The dishwasher (1850)

Levi's jeans (1873)

The telephone (1876)

Coca cola (1886)

The Ferris wheel (1893)

List 2---Events that happened before Dracula was published in 1897:

Frankenstein was published (1818)

The first dinosaur fossil was discovered (1824)

The American Civil War (1861-1865)

Pablo Picasso was born (1881)

The earliest known film was made (1888)

Jack the ripper committed all of his known murders (1888--1891)

Agatha Christie was born (1890)

JRR Tolkien was born (1892)

The Chicago World Fair (1893)

The first modern Olympics (1896)

Radioactivity was discovered (1896)

List 3---Things that happened less than ten years after Dracula was published in 1897:

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published (1900)

Queen Victoria dies, ending the Victorian Era (1901)

The first film in color was made (1902) [A Trip to the Moon or Le Voyage dans la Lune]

The first airplane flight (1903)

c'mon the airplane was invented less than ten years after this book was published what more do you want from me

(Bonus!!) Other fun facts of this nature:

The Ford Model T was launched in 1908, eleven years after Dracula was published

Amelia Earhart was born in the same year Dracula was published (1897)

1897 was 128 years ago (as of 2025), the oldest verified man to have lived died at 116 years old. He was born in 1897 (I've written that year a LOT in this post so if you don't know what happened you aren't even trying) and he died in 2013.

The oldest verified person to have lived was a woman born in 1875 and died in 1997 at the age of 122

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There's something so profound about making a promise to someone and not knowing you will never be able to keep it.

When I started learning to play the guitar I told my grandpa I would play Here Comes the Sun for him, and he passed away not long after.

Someday I'll play it for him, but even three years later I can't bring myself to finish learning it.

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we need to go back to eating spaghetti the traditional way. no more of this fork and spoon nonsense

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as someone who also worked there, you guys have no idea how many boob jokes were made

like even by tumblr standards it was a lot

we still refer to boobs as yonkers sometimes

yonkers is such a deeply unserious name for a place. i bet nobody even dies there

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me 😊

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wait so asexuals love garlic bread, and vampires (who tend to be very sexual) are afraid of garlic...

hold on...

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I love gimmick blogs. thinking of starting another one

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my favourite hobby is correcting people when they playfully mock the "to be or not to be" hamlet soliloquy and pretend to hold a skull in their hand

like NOPE the skull scene was with the "alas, poor Yorick" monologue. let me underline that. MONOLOGUE. not soliloquy. because Horatio was there with Hamlet in the "alas, poor Yorick" scene so it wasn't a soliloquy, unlike the "to be or not to be" one

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"I love writing," I say as I spend 45 minutes writing 70 words (I will never open this doc again)

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