#its not going well lads

[jartnell]

Love making silly little notes about my fic plot point ideas. Hate actually having to write it and flesh them out

[moon-giest]

we have had two (count em, 2) spirals in the same number of evenings. we have reached the darkness of winter

[causalityparadoxes]

The Pantheon of Discord | Doctor Who, The Legend of Ruby Sunday

[elation-station]

the town bisexuals are at your door it is time for you to pick a bride

[b4kuch1n]

red lion wizard !

[way2gosuperrstarr]

"oh wow! what a nice community of shared interest! i sure hope i can form good, solid friendships with my mutuals/other people and interact regularly, and form a true friendship that will last even when we begin to enter different fandoms. oh, joyous ! ☺️"

<- doesnt interact with anyone out of some sort of fear, the most silent mutual on earth, waits for people to talk first (npc behavior), takes 500 years to respond to a single ask, kind of afraid to share my own ideas, has some of the most stunted/stilted/stiff conversation skills on the planet, doesnt want to intrude on anyone/make someone feel obligated to talk to me because oh my god thats horrible, and when someone DOES actually talk to me in messages on their own will i take like 2000 years to respond to a single message out of fear or general exhaustion

[randomwriteronline]

pohatus very important observations on who is available for body heat sharing via snuggling, cuddling et al

Lewa: yes, serial snuggler

Gali: yes, appreaciates it

Onua: yes, great hugs

Tahu: yes but you have to goad him into it, es. "will you man up and cuddle w me". the warmth is worth the annoyance

Kopaka: the flesh would be willing but the soul is so complicated about it. lay down back to back with him and pretend to sleep to make him slowly turn around and snuggle. WILL wake up early to destroy the evidence. the chill is worth the annoyance

Turaga Metru: only yield to 2-second-long cuddles if exhausted. if you pile all six on one another they will automatically snuggle together though

Toa Hagah: only with each other and still very professionally

Turaga Dume: no (the warmth is NOT worth it)

Takanuva: yes, serial snuggler no. 2

Jaller: yes but you have to sort of casually brute force him into it. will fall asleep five seconds into snuggle

Hahli: yes but a bit shy

Hewkii: yes, loves a hearty cuddle

Kongu: no (very formal)

Nuparu: no (very awkward)

Matoro: the soul appreciates the thought but the flesh needs space. if you tell him youre available for snuggles he will keep it in mind and come to you when hes in need. very pleasant chill

Hafu: yes, especially if youre warm

Tamaru: yes, curls up nicely on your chest

Taipu: yes, splays himself like a corpse

Macku: yes but prefers Hewkii. fair

Kapura: yes. hes a perfectly still hot water bottle. delightful.

Kopeke: no (leave him be)

Krahka: yes, surprisingly

Pewku: yes and its good for your mental health

Jaller's crab: no (rocket launcher)

[rosylix]

hiiiiiii (^o^)

rosy pt 3 will be posted SOON‼️ maybe tomorrow or thurs/fri idk. definitely by the end of this week. keep ur eyes peeled. (^ー^)

[geronimomo-spd]

you go into classic who to figure out which doctor's era is making people go insane, only to discover its all of them and you will be going insane about them too, every single one, in order. mostly

[gingermintpepper]

Absolutely the funniest thing about my current corner of tumblr is that pretty much everyone I've recently followed for Apollo-Appreciating Purposes are either genuinely Hellenist or just rather very into Rick Riordan's Trials of Apollo series which is wild because I know a net zero about both of those things.

[popsicle-stick]

(in regards to this post)

i think you're right on the money. off the bat, i'd count budapest as metropole - it's a large city, culturally reknowned, part of the austro-hungarian empire - however, from the viewpoint of the novel i'm not so sure. it seems like budapest (and really perhaps moreso klausenburg/cluj-napoca) are depicted as sort of....last outposts of civilisation, before things get Too 'Wild'. a sort of liminal place, if you will. which is obviously crap and we all know it, but bram stoker was playing off preexisting xenophobia, and to the western mind at the time, this may all have felt quite real.

but yes! despite this, stoker is curiously inconsistent in how he depicts the east and west. the first thing that strikes me is one of the very first entries of jonathan's journal:

Some of them were just like the peasants at home or those I saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets and round hats and home-made trousers; but others were very picturesque.

it's interesting how he compares the rural working class of england ('peasants') and other western european countries with that of transylvania. despite the kinda gawking travelogue he writes here, there's an acknowledgement that this kind of rustic existence is a commonality across east and west. (only difference is how he notes the transylvanians have better drip. which is fair.) i think there's a very real want, by the english, to appear 'different' from those on the continent, particularly in eastern europe - the reality is, however, that this superiority is largely contrived, and jonathan himself notes the lack of difference between the rural poor at home and in transylvania.

then we have the largely slavic crew of the demeter, ill-armed against the Thing from the wilderness they're unknowingly carrying. in their depiction in the book and how their story is recieved by the english at whitby, they're just another example of sincere human civilisation at the mercy of dracula's inhumanity.

there's a strong divide between how the local transylvanians are depicted - as rustic, but kindly, and accomodating - perhaps not the metropole itself, but the last vestiges of it - in comparison to the roma characters, representative of 'wilderness', whose individuality is glossed over for the sake of a united front of nondescript hostile lackeys described as 'godless' and happy to serve the local undead warlord. this entirely goes against actual roma belief, which i believe was pointed out by roma readers in the 2022 run.

i honestly do think that while east versus west is a understandably oft examined angle, there's far more nuance to it than that, and i feel the metropole versus wilderness model leaves more room for those nuances. a footnote: it's also interesting to note that jonathan comes from exeter, itself a cultural centre yet still provincial, far from the vast metropole of london. it sits in devon, a very rural county full of its own obscure folklore and traditions, and (somewhat cruelly) stereotyped as backward and provincial to this very day. in this story of empire vs uncharted wilderness, it feels natural that he'd be from london, like every other english protagonist, but he's not. which is a curious choice.

[s0fter-sin]

you’re not repressing your emotions, you’re just a little silly! and the thought of getting out of bed makes you want to cry but that’s unrelated!

[daphnalia]

if the craigslist person doesnt match the vibe ogf this fucking ridiculous show the next ep will be first of all extremely awkward, second of all extremely fucking funny and last but not least it will make us want to die💥😊

[xawkward-ariesx]

Stop writing so I won't be tired for my first day back to classes tomorrow -> stay awake thinking about the fic unable to write it and unable to sleep

[b4kuch1n]

glorioso from last years twitterin

[aria0fgold]

My dream gave me a mission and that's to find a manwha or manga with a muscular woman character. For some reason... Ever since I started playing Slay the Princess, my dreams became a MESS, it's like I'm dimension hopping all over the place, one moment I'm in a certain scenario and the next I'm in a different one. And it feels like I am living in an alternate reality again.

This time, the one scenario I can clearly remember is me being in school, and my teacher was handing out books. Then we got to talking bout our one classmate that's still absent cuz he got hospitalized for forcing himself to dance something he didn't like (cuz it was needed for a school project).

And then, a guy from the class next door came over to me and started asking me about that muscular woman character I was drawing. Which is, by the way, something that happened in one of the dream scenarios I had YESTERDAY. So that's crazy how it's kiiinda like a continuation of that. There even was a flashback moment for it too where dream me tried to remember what the guy was talking about.

She was flustered and was like: "What? I uhh... I don't know! I forgot her name! Why are you asking about that now it's been awhile since I last read the webcomic ahahahahaha! I'll uhh... I'll tell you her name tomorrow! I'll go check!"

And then the guy left and a classmate of mine went to ask bout it and she was like: "What was that about???" So then I went to sit close to her and started explaining while holding back laughter: "Actually... I wasn't drawing woman during then... I was drawing a guy but then a teacher was passing by so I was like Oh Shit! And just put a pair of circles on the character's chest!"

We both ended up laughing and she was holding my hand during then and so I woke up with a mission and the phantom feeling as if someone was indeed, holding my hands.