#croupe

[hondagirll]

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I tested positive for covid this week. My symptoms are SO DIFFERENT from last time (no fever, no aches, no cough) that I thought it was just a run-of-the-mill head cold until my family group chat informed me otherwise and I tested myself and yup, covid with a capital C, friends.

I've spent the last few days resting well, staying hydrated, reminding myself to eat, etc but today I was feeling a bit better and decide I would do laundry because I needed to and wow, going up and down the flights of stairs to the laundry room did me in. I'm so tired now.

Stay safe out there, friends. It's no joke.

[meirimerens]

i'm very sorry to say this, but meiri, you are a foul woman for making me (a lonely lesbian) lust for a gender bent version of a canonically male character.....keep going 👍

in a more just world there would be no more male characters and the female characters would be as diverse as them. in a just world a female character would be a 197cm tall bald lying secretive corpse-desecrator who would attack her childhood friend and almost-adopted-sister on sight, spitting in her face that it was she who slept by their mentor's feet like a dog. in a just world a female character would be a vaguely futchy¹ bipolar alcoholic who tries to self-immolate in front of you, participated in a colleague's murder with her sister (or did she?), delirious from guilt, illness and drink (and it NOT being the "sexualized crazywoman" trope. because she'd be worse), whose sister would be protective of her like a rabid dog. in a just world a female character could be a brown-eyed brunette in a tacky snakeskin coat, arrogant, haughty until circumstances beyond her comprehension break her spirit, able and willing to tell someone that if they're that much of a pussy about killing themself she'll fucking help. in a just world a female character could be butcher [as in the cutter of meat.], daughter of butcher, feared for her perceived violence but not more wicked than any other, collecting organs and keeping them in her little pouch.

but it is not a just world. so fine. (rolls up sleeves) i'll do it myself.

¹ the butch-femme scale is not real and therefore "futch" or "futchy" isn't either. however that is a really funny word for a joke

[chameleonsd1sh]

this is the stupidest thing i have ever made. og after the cut. credit for the idea to @thinkanamelater they did it better

[bugslaststraw]

Cannot be understated how funny Croup eating that statuette is, especially in the audiobook, because he sits there talking about how beautiful it is for ten seconds, with you not knowing what he's getting at until Vandemar goes "are you gonna have it for later or" and "no I'll eat it now" followed by a bunch of crunchy eating noises. The whiplash. Bonus points for Mr V just awkwardly sitting there waiting + asking if it's tasty like he just does not get it but he's supportive. God bless.

[corvidcrafts273]

psst neverwhere fandom where you at

[onecopyoneyearinadvance]

Chillicothe Independent, Volume 6, Number 4, 29 October 1881

There was a serious diphtheria, also referred to as Membranous Croup, outbreak in the area October 1881, with several deaths mentioned in the paper each week. I doubt this worked, but it's hard to blame people for grasping for solutions

[feverflushed]

"Laryngotracheobronchitis? Really? You literally couldn't get any sicker than this."

Whumpee tries to reply but is cut off by loud, hoarse, barking coughs that scrape their throat and chest. When they recover, their voice is a faded whisper.

"The doctor could have just called it croup. You wouldn't have freaked out as much, at least."

"Diagnosis aside, that cough is enough to freak me out anyway. Come. Let's take your poor destroyed lungs home. You really need to be in bed, with tea, cough drops, and a nebulizer."

[adamsvanrhijn]

if i were a 19th century lesbian i think i would struggle to find a husband but i think if i could find one i probably would get married. but i would be such a completely different person to survive in the 19th century so i'm not sure if there's a way for me to really pose this question to myself in any meaningful manner

[eyes-like-the-night]

Really living my ailing Victorian woman life right now.

Propped up by pillows with blankets pulled up.

[zippocreed501]

Hywel Bennett as Mr. Croup and Clive Russell as Mr Vandemar

Neverwhere (1996)

[border-collie]

Whippet, now whippet good.

[element-terre]

[lawinez]

Most of the things in the Neverwhere comic are.. odd... but look at Croup and Vandemar. They're sweet. they're alright

also Mr V getting shit thrown at him under the cut

[cowardlycowboys]

I hope a lot of kids don't come this week cause it's almost break

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

Mr Croup & Vandemar speak about burning down a convent in the 16th century but in a way that suggests for them it happened just a few days ago. It's somewhere in the scene they're taking orders over the phone to not kill Door but scare her instead I believe. (I listened to an audiobook, sorry)

There's also an alternative prologue where the convent thing is described and Mr Croup explicitly states they're going to the 20th century next. It was kind of irrelevant to the overall story but such a whacky detail like what ARE these guys???

ohhhhhh YEAH i remember that scene! i need to get my book back i need to reread it asap for real.

thanks for that btw! gosh they are making me go mad. neverwhere is making me go mad, like so many things just Exist but also they don't in a way you think but also it's exactly what you think but also nothing is explained ever. and it's beautiful and it's consuming my mind lmao

[powderflower]

this made me the way i am.