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i love armand so much someone should throw a brick at him he's perfect i hope he explodes in a nuclear disaster :(

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did... did Orlok sail all the way through the Mediterranean, then the Atlantic, then the North Sea to dock at a port in Germany? why... why not take a carriage from Romania to Germany instead? like Thomas did to get there?

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olivia rodrigo and louis partridge are very much jordelia-coded

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count orlok's explicitly corpse-like appearance, friedrich copulating with anna's dead body in her tomb, the deadly rat plague being synonymous with orlok's unsated sexual desire for ellen, ellen dreaming of being the happiest she's ever been marrying death, that naked lady being there on a horse when they exhumed the corpse in romania, ellen and orlok dying in bed together with limbs intertwined...

it's not about vampires, it's about necrophilia.

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Bravo also to Robert Eggers for probably the least bad depiction of Transylvania in Western vampire cinematic history:

1. Having actual Romanian actors doing the dialogue in Romanian. You'd think this is a low bar to clear but nope.

2. High quality costume design that looks pretty accurate to 19th century Romanian and Roma peasantry, even down to specific braided hairstyles from the Transylvanian region.

3. Depiction of Roma people but refrains from having them as some typical Hollywood exoticizing role like a magical fortune teller etc. They're in like half a scene, just chilling and playing music in front of an inn.

4. Use of the word "strigoi" which are actual spirits in Romanian folklore, unlike the term "vampire" which didn't exist in Romania.

5. Sorry to the Nosferatu moustache haters, but a Romanian nobleman would have had that exact facial hair.

6. Depiction of religion (nuns, churches) that actually looks like Eastern Orthodoxy and not some vaguely spooky goth Christianity.

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Come to me

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You are my affliction.

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trump is 78, putin is 72, netanyahu 75, biden 82, lukashenko 70. if you kill yourself now, you'll never see them die. keep going

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the funniest fucking thing daniel molloy ever did was furiously finding that background music to start playing for his telenovela joke

bro is committed to the bit!!

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thank you all for 6k!!!

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i wanna follow some more iwtv peeps! lmk if you regularly post about the show or give me your blog recommendations!

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I think maybe the most ironic part of the white supremacist “Muslims are taking over Europe, save European culture and its people!” rhetoric is that they’ve been saying it for the past 1,300 years. No exaggeration. This is something they’ve been fearmongering about since the 8th century.

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because i'm not an immigrant myself, nor are my parents for that matter, people seem to be comfortable casually saying things like "trump is lowkey right about immigration" and "close the borders" to me... like, fuck you?!

you and i are way more likely to become immigrants due to events and situations out of our personal individual control. you may want to instead hope you are never on the side of the door that gets slammed in the face when you most need a warm welcome someplace far from home.

immigration is one of the oldest phenomena in human history. the borders drawn up by nation-states are not. it has never been normal or natural to defend a legal document the way racists and xenophobes defend visas and passports. the country of one's origin has less to say about their values and behaviors than a hundred other signifiers. citizenship in this age of the nation-state's ideal of modernity is a scam.

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i find it funny that conservatives try to paint me calling for the death and destruction of multi-billionaire CEOs as some radical "woke liberal" standpoint. as if that even has anything to do with politics, especially in this era of surface level circus politics. the same way they try to politicize the hurricanes or the wildfires destroying parts of america, as if climate change is somehow a red vs. blue issue. it's no secret i'm from a deeply conservative family in the sticks of florida and i still grew up hearing "i fought the law and the law won". the healthcare system has fucked each and every member of my family in a different way at one point or another, as is the case with pretty much every family in this scorched earth nation. remember when country music, the genre currently associated the heaviest with the most conservative faction of america, used to be staunchly anti-government and about sticking it to the man? remember when the coal miners, grandfathers to the "trump-er hillbillies" of appalachia that everyone loves to write off as ignorant, fought tooth and nail for unionization because the companies that were built off their labor didn't give a shit if they lived or died? since when has "upholding traditional values" gone hand in hand with... defending lawmakers and oil tycoons. my family and i complain about the same issues at the dinner table. the men in charge better hope they can keep their digital smokescreens running as long as they can because the moment the rednecks and the hippies lay down their swords long enough to realize they have the same enemy, all hell is gonna break loose.

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they were having fag off