#bram you are loved

[ssaraexposs]

Congrats to those who predicted it!

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Y'know, there's this gripe I've had for years that really frustrates me, and it has to do with Love, Simon and people joking about it and calling it too-pg and designed-for-straight-people and all the like. (A similar thing has happened to Heartstopper, but that's another conversation.)

I saw Love, Simon in theaters when it came out my senior year in high school. I saw it three times, once with my friends/parents on opening night, once with my brother over spring break, and once with my grandparents.

On opening night, the air in the room was electric. It was palpable. Half the heads in there were dyed various colors. Queer kids were holding hands. We were all crying and laughing and cheering as a group. My friends grabbed my hands at the part where Simon was outed and didn't let go until his parents were saying that they accepted him. My friend came out to me as non-binary. Another person in our group admitted that she had feelings for girls. It was incredible. I left shaking. This was the first mainstream queer romance movie that had ever been produced by one of the main five studios, and I know that sounds like another "first queer character from Disney" bit but you have to understand that even in 2018 this was groundbreaking. Getting to have a sweet queer rom-com where the main character was told that he got "to breathe now" after coming out meant so much to me and my friends.

But also, from a designed-for-straight-people POV (which, to be frank, it was written by a bisexual author and directed by a gay man, this was not designed for straight audiences), why is it a bad thing that it appealed to the widest possible audience? That it could make my parents and grandparents see things in a new light? My stepdad wasn't at all interested in rom-coms but he saw it with me because it was something I cared about and he hugged me when we came out of the theater. My very Catholic grandparents watched it with me and though my grandpa said he still didn't quite understand the whole 'gay thing,' all he wanted was for me to be happy and to have a happy ending like Simon did. My Nana actually cried when Simon came out and squeeze my hand when his mother told him he could breathe.

And when Martin blackmailed Simon, my mom, badass ally that she is, literally hissed "Dropkick him. Dropkick him in the balls" leading to multiple queer kids in the audience to laugh or smile. Having my parents there- the only parents, by the way, out of my group of queer and questioning friends- made multiple people realize that supportive adults were out there. That parents like those in Love, Simon do exist in real life.

When people complain about Heartstopper not being realistic or Love, Simon being too cutesy, I remember seeing Love, Simon on opening night. I remember my friend coming out and my stepdad hugging me and my mom defending us through this character. I remember the cheers that went through the audience when Bram and Simon kissed and the chatter in the foyer after the movie was over and the way that this movie made me understand that happy endings do exist.

Queer kids need happy endings. Straight people need entry points to becoming allies. Both of these things can come together in beautiful ways. They can find out about more queer culture later, but for now, let them have this. Let them all have a glimpse at a better, happier world. Let them have queer joy.

[broken-risk-assessment-module]

murderbot referring to its different modules as "mods". thats the post. y'all can blame @blessphemy for this tomfoolery.

[bungouchronicles]

How messed up it is that even in his last moments all Bram could think about was to protect his daughter just like how he tried and failed to do all those years ago

[elisavi]

dracula is my most recent source of serotonin so here's part of the gang + renfield

[sableeira]

bram’s life really sucks. poor guy has been vilified for all his life because of his ability. Has been impaled by a sword twice. Used for the evil plot of other people. And now got his body taken over by this evil guy he had beef a few hundred years ago? That sucks a lot.

[moonsun2010]

TIL Bram Stoker was even taller than ACD... and a wrestling champion. Why are those authors swole.

1.88 metres... damn I wanna see ACD and Bram Stoker have a tussle. But also i found this pic of Stoker that's apparently from the Shakespeare birthplace trust and something abt it is so funny to me. Stoker looks like he got caught off guard and had to quickly shuffle into a position, legs apart jauntily. He seems like he's bending down ever so slightly to be able to fit into the frame. Henry Irving's posing all cunty. Its really nice.

[daz4i]

please don’t make me think up more captions for this sort of posts

[iwantmochisoup]

uhh if doodle requests are open then maybe bram and/or aya?? (if they're closed just ignore this)

hii, thank you for your request :3c i always wanted to draw them both like this, hehe hope you like it~

[academic-vampire]

“‘And oh, my dear, if it is to be that I must meet death at any hand, let it be at the hand of him that loves me best.’”

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

(p.352, Penguin Clothbound ed. 2011)

[knightpetrichor]

so this is basically what happened right

[ssaraexposs]

I swear Bram didn't deserve to die THREE FUCKING TIMES

[littencloud9]

parallels! how fun 😄 asagiri lock your doors

[randomcollection-o-stuff]

I Am so glad that my first time reading Dracula is through Dracula Daily and Re:Dracula. It is so immersive reading along with Mr. Harker, whose voice actor is incredible btw, all of them are!!!! Cannot recommend it enough

[sinnabunii]

*holding mic* who is the most relatable bsd character, and why is it bram?

[broken-risk-assessment-module]

I love how ART feed visualisations have become a fanart staple in this fandom, especially because the exquisite variety and creativity of the designs never ceases to amaze me. the weird animalistic ARTs, the surreal geometric shape ARTs, the eyeball ARTs - all of them, phenomenal.

when faced with all of these stunning depictions, I sometimes feel a little self-conscious of my own. it's one of the older ones, and a fairly straight-forward humanoid design. but recently I have come to the realisation that my ART design is a product of the type of fanart I typically make for Murderbot - comics, and scene depictions. the point of my ART visualisation, its purpose, is to allow me to give ART humanlike facial expressions and body language when I redraw scenes from the books. translating it's pure dialogue into emotional physicality that is relatable to humans is what drawing ART is all about, for me.

it's just nice to feel that switch flip from "man, my ART is kinda boring :/" to "my ART is a reflection of the type of thing I make with it, and it's actually really useful for that".