#i need my daily reading

[lovelybaka]

Dear Tumblr,

I've stoped counting hours.

I'm waiting.

I think I've lost some sanity and I even talked about some tv shows during my break. To my coworkers. To people.

Archive of our own, I miss you.

Dearly.

[moonsun2010]

5 June - The Dracula Drought begins

a redraw of this art from DD2023!

[starscream-is-my-wife]

This is part 1 of a continuation for my other post where LL Megatron gets trapped in the G1 universe, I was thinking about how someone would go insane in this cartoon world and thought "what if Megatron had someone else to accompany him" so, I gave Starscream an existential crisis

Edit: pt 2 here

[tzarrz]

to all people who said PART 1 made them laugh - i lov u 💗 this is for u

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

Transcript:

Machine, hit the slay button!

Audio source

[sygneth]

Things are starting to get awkward hehe

Part 5 of of Holmes' collage adventures

Chapter 1: part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6 Masterpost (Index) AO3

[flints-silver]

long john silver naming his parrot flint in treasure island is so gay. you never got over him didja?

[strigital]

just... him... 🥺

[serafimo]

I COULD'VE BEEN A STUDENT, TOO! DON'T JUDGE A GIRL ON HOW SHE LOOKS! I KNOW A LOT OF THINGS, I DO!

Mya Rena Hunter and Jake David Smith starring as Éponine and Marius together in the Les Misérables North American tour. 🎥 — @medium-observation.

[accessibleaesthetics]

I'm sure I'm not the first person to talk about this, but I really want to give a big shout out to the @re-dracula team for making the Re: Dracula experience so accessible. And I'm not just talking about offering the whole thing for free, though that's still defintely an aspect of it.

For one thing, every podcast has a full and proper transcript. By "full and proper," I mean it not only covers the actual text being read, but who says what, what parts are said by which people, and crucially, describes all of the extra sound effects and musical cues they put in. Some transcripts are just a text dump, but this is a properly formatted script with all the bells and whistles.

Another thing is that each episode is prefaced by content warnings, where applicable. That is not something you can get from the original text, nor even Matt Kirkland's extra notes that come with each entry from previous years. Someone (or in all likelihood, multiple people) had to review the full manuscript for each podcast and figure out which themes required warnings. They then had to figure out how to make them specific enough to be useful but vague enough not to just be a flat out spoiler. That took extra effort and care, but it's going to make the whole thing so much more accessible to those who need them.

[severinaprince]

u kno, I don’t think that people consider enough the possibility (and very high probability) that Snape wasn’t mean to student’s because he wanted to, but more so because he had to. Not saying they he was nice. That man sure as hell wasn’t nice, especially when reading from Harry’s point of view.

But let’s consider for a moment the objective circumstances: Severus Snape was a past Death Eater, who at 21-ish years old changed sides (something only Dumbledore knew to which extent and the reasons), and knew of the possibility of the Dark Lord coming back because Dumbledore told him, and anyone who listened honestly, that he didn’t believe Voldemort to be truly gone.

Now, Severus Snape knows that Harry Potter, this child who is the Dark Lord’s undoing, is alive and is coming to the school, as probably most of his contemporary schoolmate’s kids are also going, have been there a while and will come for various years after. Snape is still bound to Dumbledore by his promise to be a spy, and is bound to Voldemort by brand. And Dumbledore is highly suspicious shit is about to go down (which u kno, he was rights ‘cause even from the first year lil Harry started Going Through It™️).

Having that background: Severus Snape, Head of Slytherin, and presumed Death Eater (‘cause u kno, spy), who was never known to be openly warm nor kind, who was fiercely bullied and he retaliated when felt necessary, is supposed to seem impartial and nice to all of his students?

Morally, should he had been? Heck yeah. Any decent teacher and adult should.

Realistically, should he had been? Well, if he wanted his cover blown, sure. If he wanted all of the Death Eaters who had children in school questioning the hell out of him, yeah. If he wanted Voldemort suspicious of his alliance and current belief system (which would have been at odds with the Death Eater ideals), uh-huh. But that would have made for a lousy spy at best and disastrous war changing consequences at worst.

And let’s be really honest here: Dumbledore gave him the position as teacher, primarily because he wanted to use Snape as a spy. That was Dumbledore’s priority, not the teaching. Which is a little wild to think coming from a school headmaster, truly.

This theory (which personally extends from theory to canon, because that’s how being a spy works) does not excuse him from how his prejudice blinded him from seeing Harry for Harry and not James (but the case could be made that neither did Sirius, but that’s another topic). That was wild. However, at the same time, he looked out for Harry’s life.

Again, I’m not saying Severus was warm and nice and he certainly acted mean and cruel at moments, particularly with kids from the other three houses. I just think that was part of the tragedy. He had a role to play, he played it perfectly, getting himself branded as a coward and a traitor by the people closest to him. And because of him, they won the war.

[selenophiliiaaa]

got a new book from a local witchy store and i am So Excited to read it - its “Secrets of Greek Mysticism; a modern guide to daily practice with the Greek gods and goddesses” by George Lizos,,, im only a couple chapters in but it seems like itll be a really good read !!

[novelconcepts]

Just remember, kids: most of the time, stupid is how you feel, not who you are.

[immediatebreakfast]

Think, dear, that there have been times when brave men have killed their wives and their womenkind, to keep them from falling into the hands of the enemy. Their hands did not falter any the more because those that they loved implored them to slay them. 

Mina I love you, and your resolution against the poison that runs through your blood which is transforming you into a creature far away from yourself, with the weight of your own guilt on your back as you see death in every corner, but... I don't really think this is the most convincing argument for your self orchestrated murder at the hands of your husband.

Out of all of the things that Mina had sais which leads to the reading of the Burial service, this is the most representative of her now fragile state of mind. Mina is by no means a weak person, nor someone who turns away from problems when she is resolute in finding a solution, however these two virtues are a dangerous combination to have when Mina now thinks that there are only two paths for her from now on: Self found salvation, or absolute destruction.

We cannot hold these suicidal thoughts against Mina after she went through such traumatic events that clashed with everything she believed in, it's not fair to her nor what the narrative tells us. It's a tragedy on its own to see how Mina tries to make sense of an act that wasn't her fault in any way, both as a woman and as religious believer, and concludes that her only two solutions stem from begging forgiveness to god with a sacrifice. If it's the Count (the perpretator), or herself (the victim) it would be fine either way.

So, Mina tries to engage Jonathan in what I can only speculate to call a murder-suicide pact because she knows that he is the only one out of the group who could stop the solution she put in motion. Mina is appealing to his devotion to her, his love, his solemn duty in a way that calls to the duty of a soldier against an enemy to ride Jonathan's sense of Justice towards her suicidal suffering, while unintentionally painting what is Jonathan's worst nightmare in place.

The narrative doesn't hold this against Mina in any way, it would not be fair for it since it's clear that Mina is not in a stable state of mind right now, in the sense that she is disregarding her personhood to paint an idea of a Woman to be saved or killed, instead of Mina Harker who has suffered while still standing.

[aloeverawrites]

Me visibly shaken after reading And Then There Were None, in one go: Christie you madwoman

[eye-of-yelough]

the lucanis almost kiss scene with the demisexual virgin confirmation changes everything in the best way possible, because, as an aroace, lemme tell ya. i have had so many times where i’ve SHOCKED myself with my own game. turns out flirting comes very easily when there’s no actual attraction or plans to follow through. and then, once i realise that’s what i’m doing? leading someone on? i immediately have to remove myself. usually much more gracelessly than he does, so good on him.