#Long sigh

[starsnstyrofoam]

Your f/o respects and loves you btw.

You're trans? Awesome, cool, sick. It doesn't change much but they take it into consideration and her you on bad days, make sure to use your preferred pronouns (and beat up a bitch if they're an asshole)

You're lgbt in some way? Sick! Your f/o supports it, duh. Human rights. They will very gladly support you and go woth you to pride. (Again, they'll beat up an asshole if need be)

Oh? What's that? The fandom decided your f/o isn't attracted to your gender? Oh well, lemme fix that for you. *crumples that titbit up and throws it away* perfect. Your f/o loves you despite gender, gay or not gay or whatever. I make the rules, I do not apologise.

Your f/o loves you damnit.

They respect you, and love you even on the bad days. Always. They use your chosen name and pronouns. They just love you for who you are

[I'm not projecting. ok maybe a little. I'm just, need f/o hugs. And gender affirmation. Shoutout to all the enbies btw, your f/o is in love with you.]

[another-delta-lover]

HANDS ON HEAD

I'M REALLY HAPPY FOR U MEDIC.................

[copingchaos]

i miss marc, i miss steven, i miss jake, i'm literally homesick for the moonboys

[prettyboykatsuki]

me when this silly umemiya piece is no longer silly and has plot and too many words

[see-arcane]

Well. I just read the Robert Eggers Nosferatu (2024) script in its nascent 2016 form. Quick and haunted thanks to @nosferattusx2 for making me aware of its existence. It’s here on the Internet Archive if you want to give it a look yourselves.

I don’t know if it’s legit, but it seems precariously close to the trailers. Even if it is the real thing, it’s also an eight-year-old rendition of the script, so there’s no guarantee of it being an exact mirror of what will hit theaters. That being said?

It’s. A lot.

SPOILERS BELOW

I won’t regurgitate the whole thing here, just the main bits that stood out to me for better or worse:

For a guy who says he's very against the sexy romantic vampire trope, Eggers makes sure to have everyone getting scared and horny over Orlok at every opportunity. I will give him grudging kudos for not confining this strictly to Ellen or otherwise Just the Ladies~. The thing opens on Knock stroking himself to the concept of the guy and Thomas gets his own erotic/assault-flavored attack from Orlok at the castle with future allusions framing it in a distinctly sexual framework. Ellen is set up as the ~darkly tempted Eve to Orlok’s Adam~ but it’s not aggressively mega-hetero about it. Progress?

Thomas arrives in Orlok territory and immediately gets swarmed and pickpocketed by smelly-masculine Romani people (referred to strictly by the g word through the script) bar the one pretty young teenage girl one who we later get to see riding naked on a horse because only naked virgin girls can lead the group to hidden vampires for their destruction. Yeah.

…

Bobby Egg, I can get behind the VVitch using seductive evil weirdness and I see why mermaids would swim around topless, but. What the fuck? And also follow-up what the fuckery to the whole portrayal of these guys, period? On that note.

Here we see the first example of Thomas being Assigned Twink at Comparison to All the Other Men. Eggers frames him as insecure beside the masculine Romani and has a future character refer to him as a ‘dandy’ (despite that being a term reserved for men who were well-off, not just effeminate/less than manfully manful). To Bobby Egg’s slight credit, Thomas is not portrayed negatively or milksop-shaped because of this; it’s just. Kind of there. All the time.

Count Orlok’s description isn’t bad. Very ominous, very classic gothic-supernatural. I do appreciate that he’s explicitly given more corpse-like attributes, making him seem like a mobile cadaver more than anything else. And Eggers does keep him creepy—no stealthy Count Fuckula spit-shining on him.

Shovel scene sort of happens as an original Dracula nod, but with no payoff. An attempt was made and thrown away.

Ellen. Oh, Ellen. Such a double-edged piece of work here. On the one hand, this version of the script implies that she isn’t doing the classic bastardized Mina thing of deciding her lame lameo human husband isn’t good enough for her and she needs herself a REAL MAN. There’s a lot of the original Thomas and Ellen’s genuine love and regard shown in the couple…

…up to a point. Eggers writes them a very very ugly and basically wholly OOC argument to do with Thomas claiming he wed her out of pity and saying she ought to have been sent to a madhouse when she was young, which itself was a follow-up to Ellen yelling that Orlok’s work is all his fault in a weirdly victim-blamey way and a scene that felt less like a badly done seduction and more like she was trying to actually assault him. They seemingly both reconcile after this, but like…what the entire hell?

Okay, to get this out of the way—I think Eggers is trying to lean hard into the ‘well in the actual time and place of the story things would be so grimdark and depressing, so it has to be nasty even between the loving main couple, and it adds to the horror-misery of it all, and it makes Ellen’s dark temptation~ more reasonable!’ thing. We can see a lot of that in how he sets Ellen up to have a history of dark thoughts, a lot of stigma surrounding her sanity/insanity, and there’s some very cruel medical ‘treatment’ she gets subjected to during her fits while waiting for Thomas and/or Orlok to arrive. Naturally those fits are all sexual/orgasmically twitchy because of course. Eggers is very much trying to set Ellen up as sympathetic in her situation and as a kind of next evolution to the Francisified Mina character who wants to fuck Dracula/Orlok/Death so so bad~

And then we get to the Van Helsing stand-in, Von Franz, and he is…oh man. 90% of his bits are fun. Interesting. The last 10% would make Abraham van Helsing in every iteration punch through the fourth wall and beat him to death with their library books. Surprise, Von Franz and Ellen both secretly colluded to set up the sunrise trap that will inevitably kill Ellen via Orlok feeding on her into the dawn. Von Franz purposefully leads the vampire hunter crew astray, including Thomas. When Thomas discovers this—from Knock who he mistakenly staked in Orlok’s place due to a mix-up with the coffin—Von Franz laughs as Thomas and Dr. Sievers the pseudo-Jack Seward make a run back to the house to try and save her.

The climax comes with Ellen and Orlok playing out the original Nosferatu ending. She dies happily cradling Orlok’s carcass. Thomas reaches her bedside and collapses in despair. The script closes on Von Franz showing up with a lilac bouquet and putting his hand on Thomas’ shoulder as he grieves, still unmoved from the bedside. Close on Ellen’s dead face ‘at peace.’

Somehow the scene doesn’t end with Thomas wringing Von Franz’ neck.   

There’s a lot more to read in there, obviously, but those were just all the big lumps sticking out of it to me.

I will grudgingly say it is not the absolute worst-case scenario I was afraid of. It’s not what I was hoping for—but that is keeping in line with Dracula and Nosferatu-adjacent media, per tradition. I do still want to see the film, I do want to like the finished product, even with the worrisome second trailer and sundry interviews throwing up red flags. Like The Last Voyage of the Demeter, it is at least an earnest attempt at taking this vein of classic gothic vampire horror seriously as a horror story.

But also.

I would really like directors to stop turning the Mina-Ellen figure into the vampire-pining gothic blowup doll for the latest ‘Bold and Subversive’ take #1654237 of GIRL AND THE DRACULA DO KISSY SEXY ROMANCE TIMES. An impossible dream, I guess.   

[realitysperception]

Transformers has ruined me part two.

[sheep-turtles-and-pizza]

Life of a multishipper is hard. So many shipping ideas for all my different ships and only 2 hands and 1 uncooperative brain.

My list gets bigger and my time not

[zhoras-bitch]

FIY: Alexandra is not the author of the new story (Garden of Eden), but the actual author refers to her as the lead writer. According to her, Remy's role is sort of like a consultant/advisor/beta reader.

[bittyfromquotev]

"I think we scared them away chat"

This is what those anons and the other non anonymous person was saying. Why are you still bringing attention to them if they haven't sent you anything else? This is what they say is the attention-seeking behavior you have. You are, as that other anon said, egging people on when the storm had already settled.

As for making light of harassment, just because your friends haven't called you out doesn't mean anything. They're your friends, and most of the time, friends rather defend each other than call out each other's bad behavior. You are making light of harassment by making satire and laughing about the assumption that people will harass you and your friends by making a doc about your side blog.

"See how I'm taking accountability here? Yeah."

That just sounded condescending, and based on your recent egging on, you didn't learn anything. Croissant said that those anons and the non anon person didn't provide criticism when actually they have been telling you to stop this behavior of yours because it does take away from the real victims and take accountability. By real victims, I meant the ones who have received those horrendous pictures for months and are still being harassed to this day. Not your friends.

People are telling you to stop this behavior because it's not helping the real victims but you're being stubborn and childish, assuming that those people are telling you to get off the internet when really, it was only that one anon who did. The rest were just telling you to stop your bad behavior that is taking away from the real victims. The anon who called you out first even said that the rude anon was "right in some way" regarding your behavior, and didn't say that the rude anon was right that you should get off the internet. They just said about your behavior, but you assumed they agreed to all the things the rude anon said.

I said that, yeah. I said that in a condescending way, and I’m sorry. I said it because clearly you guys don’t think I’m taking responsibility for my actions.

“you’re egging them on when the storm has already settled” BRO IM TRYING TO BE FUNNY 💀 also when I do that, the storm has yet to settle.

Dude how am I taking away from real victims? I need you to explain that to me. Clearly, no one fucking cares about my satirical posts unless it’s clearing something up about them or finding them funny. Again, people would have told be BEFORE THIS if I was doing something wrong. Not just my friends.

I don’t think you understand. I’ve explained my shit to y’all THREE TIMES. FOUR, MAYBE. You keep telling me the same things over and over and I’ve already explained myself to you! MY GOSH!

Look I’m sorry I’m being rude but I’m tired of this. There was no need to send me any of that shit. What the fuck.

[sexlapis]

//not fanfiction related

it’s really not understood how much having dyscalculia can limit you in life, especially as an adult.

most of the decent paying degrees & jobs require a good amount/a lot of math, so i’m out for that. when people even speak about going into high paying fields like mathematics, medicine, engineering, science etc it’s over for you before it even started. a lot of the time (but not most) people with dyscalculia can have an efficiency or interest in humanities or writing based subjects (eg literature, art, english, langauge, history, philosophy etc). i don’t think i even need to say it, but such degrees and industries are not known for paying well or even decently, and they are underfunded. it can be difficult to achieve jobs in these fields especially, more so than STEM fields. not to mention that at the moment, the job market is complete ass, and it will be even more so in the future (debatably because of the rise of AI), especially for humanities subjects. so that is out of the picture for me.

not to mention the shame and embarrassment socially due to having dyscalculia. being good a math is a huge signifier of intelligence, so having dyscalculia will put me at a disadvantage. yes, math is widely hated by people because they are bad at it, but dyscalculia isn’t just being bad at math. it’s a disability. one that isn’t widely researched (understandably).

my brain is not wired like everyone else’s. it is incapable of understanding not just math on its own, but concepts essential to understanding math (e.g, recognising patterns, placing things in order).

this isn’t just limited to math either, dyscalculia can hinder us when needing to do basic tasks. some common symptoms/signifiers are: difficulty remembering directions, numbers (phone numbers, pin codes), can struggle making change, budgeting, splitting bills (anything to do with finances basically), poor understanding is symbols/signs and sequencing events.

so chat am i like cooked

[nalidreams]

gahhhh I’m not surprised.

Mandy Moore is still cool though riteeee?? I don’t keep up w/ her either but I went through her ig out of curiosity and all seems alright 😓

[miivrs]

I LOVE MY WIFE

[uozlulu]

new vitamins have soy in them (it was hidden as the oil and for some reason the bottle labels things differently than the outside packaging???? so there is also soy lecithin in this but it didn't say so on the box???? and so I'm going to just go back to my old vitamins and get some iron supplements I know don't have soy in them. I just didn't want to have to take two vitamin pills but alas.

[see-arcane]

1922 Nosferatu: Ellen has pure heart, she has a loving and supporting husband, she does all the research to find a way to kill vampire, sacrifices herself to save her town and husband and then after vampire is defeated she dies in the arms of her husband

2024 Nosferatu: Ellen isn’t pure, she has dark forbidden desires or some shit, she’s into Orlok now because reasons, her husband insults her at one point basically saying that she’s crazy, she splits the planning how to defeat vampire with Van Helsing-knockoff now for whatever reasons, losing at least half of her original agency and dies caressing corpse of the vampire.

Man, we totally regressed as society

I don’t see it as a societal thing so much as a ‘distorting characters until they’re unrecognizable’ thing. It’s the same frustration I hit with a lot of the better-done but still wildly disconnected from/disrespectful to Dracula media.

‘I could have really enjoyed this if you weren’t trying to convince me these OCs are actually the characters from Dracula.’

Eggers is doing the same thing here. Like Mina before her, Ellen gets her canon agency stripped away, gets her genuine romance with Thomas spoiled, and then gets turned into the villain’s body pillow with only scraps of her original heroism left behind

It’s just how things are done, apparently. Take the most progressive horror stories of late 1890s and early 1900s and, for extra edgy This is How It’d REALLY Happen!!1! points, completely gut the best qualities of the characters and also double down on the rotten stereotypes of the time (with Girl x Vampire Man free space)

[crabbyhellfire]

I will never clean a sketch.

My oc doesn’t understand remote detonators and at this point she’s too afraid to ask

[asexualandalwaysshipping]

I got in about 7k words for this Dreamling fic I'm writing, only to come up with a better concept entirely, and nothing in those 7k was salvageable so excuse me while I go deal with that and ignoring the two exams I actually should be studying for.