#as soon as the voting starts ...

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Congratulations to TEAM CHEESE for winning the popular vote on the Charcuterie poll!

[martianbugsbunny]

My TNG poll is over (Data won and I should not be surprised lmao; proud of dealer's choice Will Riker for pulling a solid third) so let's do another one!

Dax and Odo don't get to be in it because that feels like cheating. they're actually trans.

[onesnoopyaday]

I AM AT MY LIMIT

Snoopy #90

30/12/2024

description under the cut

[description: a cartoon-style drawing of Snoopy's head. Snoopy is a white dog with black ears. His eyes are shut and his mouth is a horizontal line. There are two large blue teardrops, one under each eye. The text "I am at my limit" is handwritten across the top of the image.]

[illegalvampire]

An old(ish) doodle page of my favorite guys :)

[dollsinvogue]

Barbie for president!

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YOU COULD SAY I'M A LOBBYIST, BUT THAT DOESN'T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THAT I'M ALSO A FRIEND, A SISTER, A DAUGHTER, AND MOST OF ALL, AN AMERICAN. (And I'm not just saying that because I'm thinking of running for office one day) I went to the rally last night, and my mind is still reeling. Women have been making such progress. Whoo! And all the speeches have been inspiring. I'm glad I registered to vote this year. Each vote counts, you know.

[comfymoth]

oc vampire au…. eyes

okaaayyyy well really it’s a vampire au inside of a band au where quinn and leon make a concept album about vampires, but ^-^ here’s a lil peek at some of my thumbnails :3 they’re very silly

[dnpgvidtourney]

Submissions are closed!

Here's some interesting data:

We had a total of 128 nominations, with 28 videos being nominated more than once

Out of those 28:

14 were nominated twice

4 were nominated 3 times

3 were nominated 4 times

5 were nominated 5 times

1 was nominated 7 times

and 1 was nominated a whopping 8 times!

i made it so the most nominated ones aren't against each other in the beggining to test if more nominations = more votes

let's see if these will be the finalists/winners, bc i'll be honest the most nominated one surprised me!

[whompthatsucker1981]

communities from the holonet seeping into my tumblrs suggestions

[telesodalite]

[Train ride :D!]

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[quantumfeat72]

Hi! I'm alive

but i'm also still pretty sick, and i have a day job now, so running 2-3 comics in parallel isn't gonna be possible for a while. to be honest, i'm not sure i can handle a regular update schedule for one of them, but if i can i do want to start drawing again. so i'm curious:

more details:

KFC or robotchara would likely still be in colored-sketch form, and i might have to ignore asks for a couple updates while i remember what i was doing

CoL would probably have to move to a digital format - still black & white with hatching, but done fully digitally instead of scanning my sketchbook like i had been. (i don't have a good place for working on traditional art right now, and i gave my good scanner to a friend a while ago)

which one i prioritize is likely to change at some point, as i have plans i want to get to for all three (but especially CoL, since i actually have an ending planned for it), but it might be a while before that would happen

[filmbyjy]

TWITTER SUCKS! > twenty-one! heerizz (very effective)

a/n: not me forgetting like halfway through doing the texts that mae went out on a date😀

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synopsis > who knew you could become famous overnight for paying $8 for a single blue checkmark? however, it does come with consequences…what happens when the actual BELIFT Lab comes knocking at your door. all because you simply impersonated your bias.

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[sir-subpar]

Looks like the results of the poll were yes!

Thank you guys for giving me this opportunity, I only have four characters ready for adoption at the moment, but I figured it'd be a simple way to start

Starting off with these four lovely doctors!

I'll be giving them placeholder names going from left to right. Of course, if you adopt a character, you are free to make any changes you please. Because at that point, it's yours!

So!

We have:

Callum, Alouette, Saboor, and Jinxia!

If you are interested, or have any questions, feel free to message me through Tumblr messages. I take PayPal. (I don't know if I should call it DM or PM or something, but you get what I mean)

[vickyvicarious]

On October 28, Van Helsing and Jack react crushed to the news that the Czarina Catherine escaped them (Dracula apparently saw through Mina their location/plans, despite her efforts not to). Their worst fear is confirmed. Arthur is in a panic. Quincey seems to have been expecting this twist, but he's silently ready to go to the port Dracula is heading to. Jonathan is a bit less easy to read. He seemingly feels darkly hopeless but seeks the hilt of his knife.

Mina reveals, to their shock, that she's a step ahead: She has already read the Varna train schedules, including the ones to Galaz where the boat is revealed to be going.

My question is when is the most likely that she studied those, this isn't the Exeter and London locations she's studied months ago for Jonathan's work. The 25th when she woke up strong from her odd noon deep slumber? Right after the 25th? The morning of the 28th? Did she get an international/Bulgarian guide for this?

We also don't see Jonathan's reaction to her "train fiend" moment, only Arthur being baffled, Van Helsing and Jack caught by surprise. Is it possible that Jonathan already knew, or even fetched a guide per her request?

Oh, there are some good options here. And they each have slightly different implications about her state of mind, don't they?

If she looked this up after the 25th, then it would tend to rather definitively counter Van Helsing's supposition that Mina being aware of being semi-possessed/spied on by Dracula that day would "overwhelm her and make despair". Instead, that timing would strongly suggest that either she knew what had happened or at least suspected it* even if only based on the mens' reactions (this would also suggest Jack is wrong about her failing to notice things now, or at least not correct about the extent of what she misses). And though she didn't immediately inform the others (maybe she was unable to, in much the same way Renfield couldn't explain why he wanted to leave; maybe she wasn't certain and was waiting for confirmation before alarming them), Mina nonetheless did not break down. Rather, she took steps to counter Dracula's latest move.

However, if she looked this up before her noontime sleep/trance, then it leaves the question of her knowledge about Dracula definitively spying back through her unanswered. She might still have realized* or might not. But two things would be very clear if she did this preparation on arrival (15th) or at least some time before the 25th. Firstly, Mina is not in quite so deep a state of suppressed interest/activity as she may appear. Her Dracula-induced lethargy is not so extreme that it can suppress her desire to learn things and be useful, nor can it fully stop her from acting on this urge. Secondly, despite choosing herself to be left out of most plans, Mina was still acting in preparation for the eventuality that things fail somehow. It's not clear if she figured out what their plan was despite trying not to, or if she was acting just in case regardless. But she clearly wasn't just looking because she likes trains and was trying to occupy herself while waiting - she tells everyone that she did this with the idea that they may have to go to Castle Dracula at some point.

I suppose it is possible she expected this to be necessary even if the plan succeeds. There are still the vampire women at the Castle, after all. But everyone is so focused on Dracula himself that I think this is about him, not some hypothetical mopping-up of other far-off vampires after his death.

So, which of these options? Both are good, honestly. But I lean towards Mina doing this before the 25th, for a couple reasons. Firstly, her exact wording:

At home in Exeter I always used to make up the time-tables, so as to be helpful to my husband. I found it so useful sometimes, that I always make a study of the time-tables now. I knew that if anything were to take us to Castle Dracula we should go by Galatz, or at any rate through Bucharest, so I learned the times very carefully.

Mina speaks of this as, firstly, something she always does now, and secondly, something she's studied carefully. Both of these suggest she didn't take this course of action thanks to any particular recent outside trigger (such as the 25th). Instead, it is a standard practice for her. She's had time to memorize the schedule. And sure, it might not take much time to memorize this schedule in particular, since she was studying for routes to a very particular destination and there aren't many options (not sure if it's one per day or just one tomorrow but either way not a lot).

Wording here aside, I think it is in general very characteristic of Mina to do this. She suffers a lot from inactivity in general. And while she can't do much to relieve it in the wait before now, some small action would be very appealing to her. It also of course corresponds with her own interests. And finally, she is linked throughout the entire book with thinking of the future. She's always making plans! So having her do this in advance of any evident need, rather than in reaction to something, is very fitting for her.

As for how she learned this schedule... I'm not sure. Jonathan's lack of surprise could definitely be because he has helped her by gathering materials of some kind, such as a guide. I doubt she has been going out on her own at all, certainly. At the same time, I could also easily buy him just not acting surprised because this is the sort of thing Mina would do. He might just be sitting there proudly thinking "That's my wife! Of course Mina has a plan to save us!" without having any prior knowledge at all. Maybe she asked hotel staff to bring her whatever materials she needed.

* I certainly think this is the case, regardless of the time she learned the train schedules. Mina has a logical enough mind to connect the dots between their long wait, her taking an unusual nap, then suddenly everyone being upset at their plan being foiled shortly afterwards. She also is very aware that she could be used against the rest of them right now. This is the reason she herself asked to be left out of things, as well as the reason she used to convince everyone that she must be brought along. The only way I buy her not realizing Dracula spied on them through her is if his magic suppressed her ability to connect those dots, as happened the first two times he drank from her. However, she clearly tells us that she feels his influence lift from her today, so I think at the least she'd be able to figure it out in retrospect.

[here-there-were-dragons]

i'm seeing three times as many people bitching in the tag about the very idea that someone might not like this breed than i see people actually expressing unambiguous dislike for this breed

[dailyautophagy]

Project 2025 is real, Trump is a fascist and he's going to lose the election by a landslide because he's flaming out in public like the loser he is.

Cry more about it. You'll be just like him: a big whiney baby who can't face reality.

Project 2025 exists because some faggot who worked for the trump campaign briefly (and AFTER Trump had already lost the election) wrote it. Trump didn’t write it and literally referred to it as “abysmal”. Brainwashed sheep, yo

Flaming out in public? Check your MA

At least the TV agrees with you ??

Fortunately for me, no one with a functioning brain does. (Unfortunately for all of us, the average IQ is pretty low, and it’s possible that enough people have been brainwashed over the last four years that Kamala gets even more than 81 million votes)

Trump does kiss the jew wall so he’s not infallible but he’s 100% better than a bitch 0 people voted in to office.