#SQAS

[chwarlie]

The song 'One Day More' has never hit harder than when you know exam results day is tomorrow.

[thekingofspin]

the doctor is an accurate representation of me trying to study for English rn

[philzokman]

GUYSSS I GOT MY EXAM RESULTS BACK :D

[radicalsansa]

I'm so fucking stupid I can't even do national 5 maths, I have to do national 4 and even then it still makes me want to dig my eyes out with a pepsi max bottle cap

[t470n]

One thing that's becoming increasingly obvious is the running theme of Old vs New and how Team New is definitely winning. The whole thing about Jonathan and Mina being very young, like early twenties or something, and their youth being clearly reflected in their behaviour and this clashing with how immensely old Dracula is from his withering body to his ancient castle to the implied centuries of history he has lived through and personally participated in.

Dracula holds onto old ideas about useless peasants being nothing more than an endless supply of cannon fodder that he used to use as meat to throw at his enemies and now uses as food for himself (and his roomies) and there is also his thing about wistfully looking back on the history of his great house. He's happy that the house Jonathan found is old because a new one would have been impossible for him to live in. He has a grossly inflated sense of his own entitlement due to his noble status despite the fact that he is considered a dead man from an extinct lineage. He still considers himself as noble and respectable as he would have been hundreds of years ago, hence why he is so concerned about not being respected/revered in England, his predatory feasting on the local peasants as well as his treatment of Jonathan. Jonathan is a working man who is there in service of Dracula and therefore beneath him. Dracula can barge into his room whenever he wants, destroy his property, force him to acclimate to nocturnal life for Dracula's comfort and use him as a means to an end that will eventually die, in a way using him up just like he does with the local peasants. The way I see their relationship is that Dracula is possessive of Jonathan, not protective. To him, Jonathan is an object for his use that he has taken a fancy to, little more than an entertaining puppy or jester who means nothing in the grand scheme of things because he is hardly his own person, he is Dracula's. It's the same "I am noble therefore I matter and if you aren't noble you are here to be used" mindset that would have been acceptable in the ancient past he comes from but not in the modern day.

On the contrary, Jonathan and Mina are aggressively modern to the point where Jonathan explicitly mentions this when he's afraid ("19th century up to date with a vengeance"). They are young, they write in shorthand and (*SPOILERS FOR LATER ON IN THE BOOK*) there is one point in the story where Good Guy Squad needs to do a lot of blood transfusions which, at the time, was the Hot New Science and extremely modern, hence the complete disregard for blood types which weren't really a thing back then. Jonathan mentions that writing in shorthand would have confused the Count and therefore allowed him to send messages or keep writing that Dracula wouldn't have been able to decipher and being able to keep his shorthand diary does help keep Jonathan sane. Mina also mentions in her letter practising shorthand so she can keep diligent notes on the conversations she hears and oh boy I sure do wonder if that's going to be useful when someone needs to take notes on what happens in the rest of the book. The relationships between the heroes are also very, for lack of a better word, modern. Dracula and his roommates have a clear hierarchy that is very traditional but doesn't exist with the heroes. There is no one person in a position of power over everyone else in the group, including in the individual marriages. Neither Mina nor Jonathan have any more power over the other than the other has over them. They are equals, both mutually in love and mutually intelligent and productive. At the same time, it's fairly non-traditional for three suitors of the same woman to become very good friends. In most traditional narratives of gothic fiction you'd probably find a dual for the Lady's hand, a secret love, some kind of tragic heartbreak or something like that but these are "19th century up to date with a vengeance" young men who will not be so silly. Not to mention the fact that the group mostly comes together because of the relationship between two women which is refreshingly modern. The technology, attitudes, and relationships of the heroes are what set them apart from the Count as well as what lets them succeed.

I just love the dichotomy between the withered villain trying to relive the glory of the ancient past while desperately holding onto expired ideals of bygone days vs the modern and up-to-date heroes making full use of modern technology and stereotype-breaking to defeat him. In a way it almost spits in the face of the very common romanticisation of the past that is especially common in gothic fiction where the pretty old castles and cathedrals make people forget about the endless supply of downsides to those time periods and how horrifically nightmarish it would have been to live in those times if you weren't part of an extremely tiny group of extremely powerful people

[0f0t0graph]

Beach Lifestyle on the Gold Coast. Absolute beach frontage.

[princepsfianna]

How I be after reading my SQA results (5's and a's in everything .I have peaked)

[cllightning81]

Hope all the Scots reading this had a better results day than myself... if not we can suffer together

[postixr-blog]

Who else is attempting an all nighter for results tomorrow ☠️ no way I can sleep

[whatkindoflifeamiliving]

I got my SQA letters today which meant I could send proof to admissions to turn my conditional offer for HNC to UNCONDITIONAL OFFER! I can't wait to do HNC Social services next term.

I am going to be the best student in the class, making sure I get straight As or I am a loser. I just have to get my funding done and enrol at the end of the month then I am all sorted for the next term of college.

[cellulardreams]

Musician Series: Julien Baker 2017 by Steve Wheadon

[lastmidtownshowmp3]

A preview I guess of the santi zine I’m doing as a part of my college project

[thekingofspin]

the way I'm running out of motivational music that's actually motivational so I've resorted to these bangers

[scottishgremlin]

so happy about my exam results!

[radicalsansa]

Results day tomorrow. 8am.

[nothing-particularly-exciting]

3 hour long prelim tomorrow with no break… someone get me out of here