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For anyone wondering, this is a partly comprehensive list of the Executive Orders (EOs) signed on Inauguration Day yesterday.

An even more comprehensive list with links to every EO can be found here.

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I’m sorry but I will truly never get over Ekko who lost his mentor and all his friends at a young age, then spent the rest of his childhood building a beautiful and strong community that helped get shimmer addicts off the streets and give them a new life that thrived off of trust, respect, and loyalty while slowly watching the girl he loves lose herself to her psyche and become an unhinged suicidal terrorist who he is unable to save despite repeated attempts at it. And THEN gets booted into an alternate reality where he learns he could have had EVERYTHING, the beautiful and thriving community, the education, his family, and the girl he loves and he heartbreakingly leaves it all behind because he knows he doesn’t belong there and he has to go back to save his people which he DOES multiple times at great risk despite knowing what overextending his z-drive could do only to end up completely alone in the end. The most selfless character in the entire series. That’s my boy savior.

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give them a week and they would fix literally every problem in Piltover and Zaun

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oh sorry i wasn’t listening i was just thinking about how alternate powder’s hideout has rails because she actually values her life

[ID: Arcane screencaps of Jinx/Powder's hideouts; both are similar in layout, but Jinx's is more harshly and colorfully lit and does not feature guard rails. End ID]

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We will see the end of Trump. He will leave office again one day, he will die, his cult will crumble and have no idea what to do with themselves. They will be remembered by those around them for choosing a dipshit criminal over all common sense and decency. The GOP will have an identity crisis without their Frankenstein's monster that led their party for over a decade. We will be there when it's all over, we’ve been right about him for almost a decade, and we won’t ever forget who did this.

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The amount of shitty news coming out this week made me feel like this needed to be said, so.

For all the boys and young men currently afraid that being male means some kind of moral death sentence: the same world that produced Neil Gaiman and Donald Trump also produced Levar Burton, Steve from Blues Clues, and my (step)dad, who isn't famous but did look at a deeply traumatized child with a bunch of mental health issues and said "is anybody going to support that?" and then didn't wait for an answer. There are good men out there doing good work in ways both big and small. Choose to use your strength to help rather than hurt, your voice to speak for those who must be silent, and you can be one of them.

Be the man Mister Rogers knew you could be. He wasn't wrong very often, and he believed you could do wonderful things. I do too.

(Anyone clowning on here will summarily get their ass kicked and their blog blocked. Pain is pain and I know there are a lot of scared teenagers right now.)

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My costume designs for Mina Harker in Dracula: The Danse Macabre

Right to Left: School Teacher; Waiting for News; Vampire Hunter; The Voice In Her Head.

School Teacher: Based on the typical outfits seen in photographs from the late 1880s early 1890s. The silhouette is similar to that of the 1880s but with a small vertical shoulder puff.

A full length black dress, flat boots, a white cotton blouse underneath. The lack of a bustle is expected by the mid 1890s and the puffs on the sleeves are small for the era but practical for a teacher. This is before the widespread introduction of the straight-front corset and so Mina has a high collar and collar stays with a long line bodice. This isn't the height of fashion but not rocking the boat.

I kept Mina's school teacher design simple and conventional with a simple but practical bun and white gloves. She is restrained by the expectations of her gender and position and dresses to conform.

Waiting for News: Masculine styles were becoming more integrated into women's fashion and as Mina starts failing to conform as much and fights to protect Lucy, while also maintaining her place in society, I tried to give her an outfit that speaks to that duality. Her hair is based on portraits from the era and is a little fancier than her School Teacher bun. She wears white gloves and boots and a blouse with a high collar. The dress was specifically designed after the dress Gertrude wears in the 1895 Punch cartoon on the Bicycle Suit. Mina, despite her private frustrations, still isn't letting herself drop conformation. She is playing the role of Mina Harker and it's taking its toll. There are the puffed sleeves and expected silhouette. However, her colour pallette plays with the typical vampiric colours with the hints of red in her clothing. Her clothing here is her shield as she tries to play the role society expects of the wife waiting for news of her husband.

The Vampire Hunter: This outfit is a Victorian Cycling outfit with the split skirt and cycling jacket. Mina is on her mission to capture Dracula and thus needs to travel and move often. Her hair is braided up and she probably isn't changing her outfits often, focussed on her mission. The design in simple and practical and follows the "Rational Dress Movement" trends. She isn't wearing gloves and is getting her hands dirty.

The Voice In Her Head: here, Mina is embracing her Van Helsing heritage and the voice of Dracula in her head. This outfit is based on a 1898 style travelling outfit with a fashionable cape and hat. The cape is red with black lace patterning and the lace patterning around her collar of reminiscent of the traditional Vampire bite marks. The gap in the cape over her heart reveals her blouse which is white, showing that Mina hasn't let Dracula corrupt her fully, even as she is now integrated with the monster. Conversely, her skirt it white but with a red lining as she has Dracula's blood inside. The diagonal design on her skirt is fashionable for the time but is also reminiscent of the Christian cross which abjures vampires. Her cape's black lace also mimics the epaulette style as seen in her Waiting For News Design but also pauldrons as seen in armour. Her hat includes a red ribbon and a veil with red detailing as she is concealing the part of herself that contains Dracula from the rest of the world. Tucked into the ribbon are garlic flowers as used by Van Helsing in Dracula (Stoker).

I hope you liked these and go listen to @draculathedansemacabre

(Please forgive my lack of design skills and knowledge of historical dress)

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I miss when I thought I was getting somewhere in my life.

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Vampire fans! DTDM creator Gabriel Urbina just posted a very silly extra on his Patreon. A short script of Mina and Count Dracula reacting as they watch the 2024 version of Nosferatu.

In Gabriel's own words:

A little while ago, I watched the new film version of Nosferatu, which I really enjoyed, really admired, and also recognized was interested in different parts of the vampire myth than where I'm drawn towards.

But the whole time I was watching it, I had my version of Mina and Dracula whispering in my ear, chiming up about what they thought about this or that moment. It became a running thing throughout the whole film - the Mina/Dracula commentary track.

I kept thinking about it, and finally today I decided to jot down some of my favorite bits of that thought experiment. So, here for your enjoyment, is a brief sketch of Mina and Dracula going to see Nosferatu together. It's by no means everything they'd have to say about the movie, but it's what I think some of the greatest hits would be.

Needless to say, this is A. very silly and just meant to be in good fun, B. deeply non-canonical for about a million different reasons, C. full of spoilers for all four episodes of Dracula: The Danse Macabre and the 2024 version of Nosferatu, and D. very much written with a lot of admiration for the film and a a desire to poke some tongue-in-cheek fun at it.

The post with the nine-page script is available on his Patreon for everyone who is signed up to be a paid supporter at any level, from a dollar on up!

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I made a wolf 359 animatic! (Posted on my yt if you’d prefer to watch it there)

Link: https://youtu.be/qlO8jF9UNOA?si=grO4of7B_FAktxdO

song is by the crane wives!

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Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook.

Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here in paperback or here on Kindle.

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there's a secret good sequel series that lives only in brain where finn and rey are force-sensitive foils to each other and they still spend movie #2 entirely apart but it's because they're exploring parallel and at time opposite relationships with the force and their place in the universe

and in my secret good version. okay hear me out. the han-leia kid is a hot lady. okay. are we following. and she DOES abandon luke's new jedi, not by falling and murdering people, but by stealing the millennium falcon and running off to escape responsibility and swaggers around with incredible han solo "loser pretending to be cool" energy. and then. she accidentally picks up two force sensitive teens on jakku and she's like. are you KIDDING me

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I copy pasted parts of this but I do hand letter everything, because while I'm trying to work easier as I'm chronically ill, I am still chronically stupid

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Having podcasts be your main source of entertainment is crazy. What do you mean I'm crying about the blorbos in my headphones and there's like 12 other people who even know who they are.