#alt route

[shrimpricebowl]

oh thank god

[thethirdromana]

More travels with Jonathan Harker, in pictures

Here's the route that Jonathan travels by the public coach today:

I've tried to find copyright-free photos from the actual route, but I've not had much success. So this tour is going to be a lot more vibes-based than reflective of the actual sights out of the stagecoach window. Think of it like Jonathan's Transylvanian Pinterest board.

(Scenery photos are all of Transylvania, assuming I can trust the sites where I found them, but not necessarily the right time of year or the right bit of Transylvania. It's a big place.)

"Before us lay a green sloping land full of forests and woods, with here and there steep hills, crowned with clumps of trees or with farmhouses, the blank gable end to the road."

"There was everywhere a bewildering mass of fruit blossom—apple, plum, pear, cherry; and as we drove by I could see the green grass under the trees spangled with the fallen petals."

"In and out amongst these green hills of what they call here the "Mittel Land" ran the road, losing itself as it swept round the grassy curve, or was shut out by the straggling ends of pine woods, which here and there ran down the hillsides like tongues of flame."

"Beyond the green swelling hills of the Mittel Land rose mighty slopes of forest up to the lofty steeps of the Carpathians themselves. Right and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly."

"As we wound on our endless way, and the sun sank lower and lower behind us, the shadows of the evening began to creep round us. This was emphasised by the fact that the snowy mountain-top still held the sunset, and seemed to glow out with a delicate cool pink."

"By the roadside were many crosses, and as we swept by, my companions all crossed themselves."

"Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness, which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys."

And a bonus: Bran Castle is marked as 'Dracula's Castle' despite being even further away from the locations in the book than most of my vibes-based photography choices. It also doesn't resemble Bram Stoker's descriptions of the castle.

But more importantly, it looks really cool. So here it is:

[ssecond-hand-faith]

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[soni-dragon]

aftermath

[sandraharissa]

I can't believe they character assassinated silco posthumously

[j0celynh0rr0r]

You’re not alone. Never ever.

[draw-ren-draw]

Finally getting ‘Bodacious-T’ some sweet ‘drip’

[ministarfruit]

I also did mock CGs of them for fun!!

(doppelgänger magni and vesper concepts)

[autoauthor]

Lesbian TobiIzu

Izuna, for her duty to the clan, needs to marry one of her clansmen and produce an heir. Even though she doesn't want that, she also doesn't like that every man the elders pick for her ends up dead.

Tobirama rationalizes it to herself in two ways:

Firstly, if they're good enough to be paired with Izuna, they're obviously an unrecognized threat to the Senju and must be eliminated.

Otherwise, Tobirama is just sparing the potential children of such a union from being born into the cycle of hatred. Clearly, she is just being responsible and making sure no more young lives are lost on the battlefield.

Things she likes to ignore are:

The fact that having Izuna off the battlefield for moths would lead to almost assured victory for the Senju in battles during that time period.

The fact that other people from both clans are already having children.

She only realizes her feelings when, during peacetime, she catches Izuna going over marriage prospects from both the Uchiha and other Konoha clans and finds herself plotting an assassination.

[wysteriaisapenguin]

Just thought it would be nice to put Contrarian in different outfits.

He is a silly little clown so he's gotta look the part!

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

Jean Valjean and Thénardier's fates are connected in some way that I cannot exactly put into words but that certainly exists.

[echo-nt]

Lucina -> Severa <- Camilla love triangle, but Severa is completely oblivious to the major beef happening between the princesses

[omegalomania]

we didn't start it!!!!!!!!

[chiralberry]

Stab me in the goddamn heart why don't ya

[kosmicsandshoes]

I know about your TerrorNoss shipping account mechanicalowls. it's very easy to put two and two together (and how about some DeliRiser, delirious and terroriser, just for fun/to experiment) you can't hide from the truth

i mean, i don’t really try to hide it

[non4ry]

you believe me like a god (i’ll betray you like a man)