#SO IT WAS WAY SCARIER AND BETTER

[tobysbliss]

well i have a new favorite rollercoaster

[vickyvicarious]

And yet, if it be true, what terrible things there are in the world, and what an awful thing if that man, that monster, be really in London! I fear to think. I have this moment, whilst writing, had a wire from Jonathan, saying that he leaves by the 6:25 to-night from Launceston and will be here at 10:18, so that I shall have no fear to-night. Will you, therefore, instead of lunching with us, please come to breakfast at eight o'clock, if this be not too early for you?

Mina goes from "if he's in London" -> "I fear to think" -> "Jonathan will be home tonight so I won't fear tonight." It seems like she's worried for him being in the same place as Dracula for the night. Not necessarily because she thinks the Count will hunt him down, though that's always a possibility if he were to spot Jonathan somewhere this time. But at least for Jonathan seeing him and having another fit without her there to take care of him.

So of course Jonathan coming back to her tonight will ease those fears. But also, she's ready for them both to talk with Van Helsing over breakfast tomorrow, which she definitely would not spring on him with no warning. So she is planning on greeting him home and then having the conversation tonight. I want to see it so badly...

[starrysnowdrop]

“Excellent! This one possesses the qualities to be the perfect test subject!” ~Fandaniel

[byler-alarmist]

What scares me most about Byler endgame is the reality of it likely coming out long after the US presidential election 2024.

[lifesver]

i feel like playing leland optimally is also how he is in the narrative as well. i feel like in the house it’s like. leland would stick close to his friends to protect them so they could potentially open locked doors and escapes. stuff he would struggle with himself. and inevitably peel off when the family comes looking so he can take their attention elsewhere. and then you may or may not see him until the end of the game again looking like total shit

[voidfragments]

ok but i actually have sm to say about qi rong's relationship with anger. i could honestly just link a fic i wrote about it here bc i think i worded it better there than i ever can again but my ao3 links to my main twt and i prefer to keep rp stuff separate from my personal stuff for reasons sooooo lemme try to write it differently

cw for mentions of domestic violence bc holy shit like 99% of his character traces back to that in some way

the key thing is, of course, that anger is a trauma response for qi rong. he has every reason to be fucking pissed at like, all times, but fundamentally, his anger is not rational. rage and violence are all he knows! his earliest childhood memories are of being abused and seeing his mother be abused! even when he got out of that, he and his mother were bullied and ostracized, and his mother was eventually murdered. violence and cruelty shape his early childhood and in turn shape who he is today (enabled in large part by the queen's reluctance to properly discipline him when he began exhibiting cruel behavior himself).

in many cases, it's about revenge--getting "even", though he usually takes it much farther than the original offense. his father was abusive? he'll delight in warring against people from the same town as him. the yong'an rebellion tore away the one good thing he had in his life--his royal status? he'll crush their entire royal & noble classes in a single night. xie lian fell off the pedestal he held him on, "failed" and "abandoned" him? unforgivable.

very often, it's simply lashing out. the world has been cruel to him, so he'll be cruel too.

mostly, though, his anger just keeps him going. if he doesn't have his anger, then what does he have? sadness, loneliness, despair, heartbreak, misery.

being a ghost adds another angle to it, too--he can't let go of his anger, even if he wants to. well, he could, but then he'd disappear, and he doesn't want that. not yet. it's his source of life. it's also his source of power! and it's easy to forget with how often the rest of the cast and the narrative itself dunks on him, but he has a lot of power. #4 in the entire ghost realm! a near-supreme, one successful furnace trip away from becoming a full-fledged ghost king!

just--imagine, for a moment, being him. an abused kid--powerless--who suddenly learns that he's actually a prince--powerful!--and then, before even reaching adulthood, his kingdom crumbles, and he eventually dies just as powerless as he started. and then all that resentment causes him to come back even more powerful than before. it's no wonder he leans into it.

idk this is getting long-winded but i guess what i'm trying to say is--his anger is both justified and overblown, it is both understandable and irrational, it is something he needs to hold onto no matter how much it hurts him. he is his anger.

[no-pasaran-99]

oop. crazy how many people i have unfollowed/blocked today for the cyclical and asinine sentiment along the lines of "well leftists are you HAPPY now????"

girl we've done this 3 elections in a row. definition of insanity to still be blaming this on us especially when the numbers do not support your accusations. like we voted for the fucking war criminals and you STILL lost.

[i-appear-misssing]

I just had the horrible thought that I need to fall in love because having devastating crushes on beautiful, competent, authoritative women that I desperately want to please is exhausting and I need it to stop

[flutt3rb4tz]

i wanna form an actual opinion on the sh2 remake but god i cant get past how much they butchered eddie's design. he looked like me originally and now hes just That Fat Guy you see in video games, same style and everything. it makes me really sad. not to mention im TERRIFIED of how they'll handle his psychosis

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[ofyorkshire]

gosh, billie eilish's "hostage" is just one of those songs that feels like it's ripping out my heart. it plucks at something so visceral and desperate.

anyway, putting it here bc the song does remind me of bj a bit. idk in what context, but i think the song must be in his pov.

[aria0fgold]

The acid reflux is gone!!! YAAAY!!! That's one pain gone :3

[jellogram]

Also my friend left for India so it's just me today and I decided to get lunch (which was lovely) but it took a full 20 minutes of walking alone in Vienna for some old men to harass me. And I'm like oh yeah. I am once again a woman by herself. I stg men are the same in every country and every language they see a woman by herself and they're like I have GOT to make her uncomfortable or I'm gonna die

[attila-werther]

like, despite the absolute brainrot that I have about crassus, I do spend a lot of time thinking about all the other players in a scene. like you can't NOT think about slavery when you fuck around with crassus, because his stance on what obligation a head of a household has to his slaves when placed next to say. fucking cato's thoughts on slaves is just. wrugh. when germanicus was raging at his fate and talking about bodies in the walls, like no shit buddy, youre a roman aristocrat. if you have heated baths in like, your house, you have bodies under your floor already. you ever think about how educated slaves from roman aristocrat families who were able to buy their freedom were viewed with a certain degree of mistrust from both sides. that's so fucking lonely. I cannot stop thinking about the scholar from the spartacus documentary saying the worst thing about becoming enslaved was to get used to it.

[alicewoodward]

imo npmd is the funniest Hatchetfield musical but not very scary, Black Friday is the scariest but not very funny, and tgwdlm isn’t the best at horror or comedy but does balance the elements of them the best of the stage shows. But most importantly, tgwdlm is generally considered the favorite of all Hatchetfield stories pretty much across the fandom

What I am saying here is that while humor and comedy are subjective, imo tgwdlm shouldn’t have won either the best horror or comedy polls I ran, but people like it the most overall so that outshined every other measure of comparison. Also I am still in shock that somehow it managed to one on one beat Killer Track, Black Friday, Time Bastard, and Hey Melissa for scariest show

[agentark]

reading The Fernweh Saga for the first time: this town is definitely weird, but I'm not scared yet

chapter 11: 🧍