Y'know that one scene from Lilo and Stitch where they're at the pound adopting him and Nani's like "does it have to be this dog?" and it cuts to Stitch picking his nose with his tongue and then back to Lilo like "yes, he's good, I can tell"
show you what devotion is, deeper than the ocean is. 🤍
AHHHHH i can finally show you guys this AMAZING piece i commissioned from my incredibly talented good friend @senchee!! i asked sen to draw totk link as jeon jungkook of BTS in one of his promotional pictures for his new solo song ‘seven’ ft latto (which you should check out, banger song) and it turned out SO BEAUTIFULLY 🥰🙏 thank you so much to sen for your gorgeous work 🥺🫶 this is gonna keep me fed for like. ever. i love u sm ♡
(original reference photo of jungkook under the cut ^_^)
this doesn't apply to people who goofily clown on him btw (bc i do it too. and i think everyone should do it it's fun), but i have ALWAYS gotten really weird vibes around people who unironically, vitriolically hate maxwell, and it's only recently that i've figured out exactly what it is about people like that that miff me out so much:
don't starve- storywise, themewise- relies heavily on maxwell to get those points across. and not just in the sense that he's a main character, but in how interwoven the overall ideology is in almost every action he performs.
don't starve is about pride. it's about hubris. it's about wanting something badly, and about how much you're willing to sacrifice to get your hands on it. don't starve is about self inflicted torture. don't starve is about chain reactions- hurting the people around you through your decisions, no matter how minuscule. it's about the vicious cycle of power hunger, and the fact there's nothing anyone can do to stop it from repeating.
don't starve is about loneliness, even when surrounded by others. it's about emptiness, even when physically sated. it's about a pain that will never go away. it's about losing nearly everything you've known about yourself, and replacing it with spare parts to build an almost unrecognizable facsimile of who you used to be; and it's about not knowing whether or not to loathe it for what it made you lose, or to be thankful that you even have it at all.
there is no major theme of don't starve that maxwell doesn't completely embody. and i guess it's just so puzzling to me that people can like don't starve and hate him as a character when he's so essential to the greater story being told. like... idk what are you here for lol
Why did Dracula "save" Jonathan for the very last night until his journey? We know from how he fed on Mina for three days she was pale and weak, but not dead, so he could have been feeding on him for a few days/week until he succumbed.
But he kept him unbitten until Jonathan's final letter was written and only then Dracula declared that "he is mine tonight", and the rest is history.
Dracula prefers foreplay over the climactic act when he's enjoying himself rather than pressed for time. He likes playing with his food and/or future conscripted vampires. With Jonathan, he gives the superficial reason of wanting the Englishman around to learn how to speak in the same way. Which might be part of it! But to have him prisoner and literal captive audience for two months implies the more likely desire of just enjoying the cat-and-mouse of it all. Teasing things out until the last possible night and what Dracula assumes will be Jonathan's last night as a human being full of terror before the Brides have their turn with him, forcing him into inevitable vampirism.
Even with the Demeter crew, we see him playing. None of the men aboard strike him as anything other than another revitalizing meal in potentia, so the only fun he has is playing the torturous game of picking them off one by one in the dark, but the play is there.
You mentioned how different his MO with Mina was--how brisk. I'd say it's because it was all business. And petty vengeance. Not only was he striking at an enemy by trying to conscript her, not only was he violating her and her husband in what played out very much like a rape and a hovering promise that in time she will very literally be another of his pretty undead pets like the Brides. It was also to (unsuccessfully) give him eyes and ears on the group using her borrowed senses. He was on the clock with Mina, which is why she gets the quickest treatment.
Though I think there is something else worth mentioning in how he preys on Lucy; the character we're meant to assume is the template for how he hunts out new undead members to the Dracula club. And what do we learn from her case?
We see that if it weren't for Mina, Van Helsing and the suitors' intervention, his playtime with Lucy would have been far, far shorter and had even less impression on him than the book already showed. Lucy has friends. Lucy has people giving her new blood to stall her undeath. Lucy's conscription keeps getting stalled--and that is what keeps Dracula interested. It's a matter of engagement, pride, and, most likely, the only reason he really bothers to play more extravagantly with her. Hence the theatrics of getting poor Berserker in on it.
And after all that back and forth and bleeding and biting and Bloofer Ladying? He immediately loses interest and starts sniffing after the Pretty Girl in Piccadilly. Which, while indicative of him being a glutton for beauties, shows another very lopsided treatment compared to how he toyed with Jonathan.
I've pointed out before how Jonathan is the only character in the book Dracula goes out of his way to have whole conversations with. Mina gets one villain monologue, the group gets some fist-shaking and moustache-twirling at the Piccadilly house, but even when he has no reason to, Dracula really does go full gothic horror 'courtship' mode with Jonathan. Chatting, cooking for him, maintaining the whole castle charade; true, with increasing acts of abuse and psychological torment, but he actually engages with Jonathan.
This, when Lucy doesn't get so much as a 'Hey xoxo ;)' and Mina is given a traumatic speedrun to get her into vampire mode ASAP.
Dracula shows minimal finesse with Lucy, none with Mina, and devotes two months to Being Very Intimately Weird with Jonathan. Which means the question is less 'Why did Dracula wait so long to bite Jonathan?' and more 'Why is Jonathan's treatment so different from every other victim of Dracula's period?'
The past month or so has been a HILARIOUS trainwreck - My new job essentially went bankrupt after my FIRST day, I accidentally grew Datura on my balcony, I have an elusive MRI appointment that keeps getting pushed around, tried to get the limited Hozier vinyl but they only got a payment method I don't have, my friend nearly got snuck up on by a TORNADO cause we were busy playing Fortnite, and I STILL need to fix some of my ReShade presets -
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