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Ami Thompson aka Mami Uebayashi Thompson (Japanese, b. Osaka, Japan, based Los Angeles, CA, USA) - Nosferatu, Paintings: Digital Art

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98 minutes of reanimator edited to different songs as an audio retelling/character studies/just for fun mixtape reani brain rot style (full a side and b side edits are available if anyone's interested pls this took me like 3 months)

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need him doing something terrible and violent and feeling sick with himself after

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Betrayed and backstabbed by your scheming evil advisor? Psch. Skill issue. Absolute amateur problem. Just hire two of them and reward them for snitching on each other. Just make sure that neither of them is gay or they'll just end up hate-fucking each other and fucking you over all the same.

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Collection | Inspired by Pyrex and vintage dishware

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Julia Dragović. CBR Building (1970), designed by C. Brodzki, M. Lambrichs. Bruxelles, Belgium

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Your post about the treatment of the Eastern European peasants in Netflix Castlevania reminds me how it is *also* the exact opposite of what happens in the novel Dracula. The common people are superstitious (but shown as rightly so!), uneducated, but ultimately *good* people who try to help Jonathan Harker, and even risk their lives to save some ignorant foreigner from the Vampire feudal lord. They warn him, pray for him, give him an "idol" that saves his life, drive the carriage earlier to avoid Dracula so he wouldn't get "herr englishman".

Dracula speaks ill of them in front of Jonathan Harker, that the "peasant is at heart a coward and a fool!" He has contempt, while praising his own noble bloodline. He also claims that no one cares about a stranger in a strange land.

Yet after Harker escapes it's those lowly peasants who help him get into a train and a hospital without money. Because Dracula had taken his identification, his money, and his sanity, and Harker could not even tell where "home" was, but they helped him anyway.

You are doing something wrong if you are more xenophobic and classist than a novel written in the 1890s.

Huh, I never made this connection, but you're right. The story can be seen as a metaphor for the fear of the foreigner - Dracula is an barbaric Eastern warlord who seeks to invade the superior England, corrupt the women, and populate it with fellow monsters - and yet, when it comes to depict the "lowly" Eastern peasants, they're generally presented as superstitious but well meaning. They are good, oppressed people, who are completely blameless when the Count is up to his atrocities like stealing babies. They may be different from the British Jonathan, and not as "advanced", but they are all allied together against the monster.

And I think this is it. Dracula the book is about people coming together to fight the vampire. It's a celebration of community, communication, support - yes technology too, but the "odd" beliefs of the Romanian also helped Jonathan survive.

NFCV at its core despises humanity, thinks of it as inherently stupid and evil, and thinks the vampires are much cooler and more interesting to explore. I can't even say "morally", because the vampires are still profoundly evil, the difference is whether they're "sane" and pragmatic or "insane". Which is another intelligent/stupid dichotomy, the same used to put humanity down. It's not morally repugnant to kill/enslave the human population, it's just a very short sighted plan!

Then again, the Dracula book is somehow more feminist than NFCV, too. Mina is brilliant and competent but much more than a "girlboss", the love between her and Jonathan is bright pure and not based on mean "banter", and Lucy is a sweet loving girl who did nothing to deserve being preyed on. I feel more for the nameless woman giving the crucifix to Jonathan than I do for any "stronk queen" who I'm supposed to love because they're "badass".

And I don't think I need to say that the way Jonathan's trauma at the hands of Dracula was depicted and respected, even with outdated concepts like brain fever, is leagues ahead to how cruelly Hector was written.

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ao3 writing

Getting new comments on older work is like the BEST surprise. Knowing what resonated with a reader reminds authors of what they love about the story. Comments make us go back and rediscover stories and daydream more. And then we write more because we're delighted that YOU read.

Fandom is a conversation, don't be shy.

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Victorian dogs

(Repost - 2017)

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Dig my grave deep, F.U.

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Photographs of sea stars, collected during the Siboga Expedition around Indonesia, 1899–1900.

More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/photographs-of-sea-stars-1917

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Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

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Ozzy Osbourne has died at the age of 76 💔 The Prince of Darkness and Black Sabbath frontman has died just weeks after his farewell show.

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PSA: download your faves!

Currently scrawling the Wayback Machine for some bookmarked fics that suddenly went dark :(

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Rest in Peace to the Prince of Darkness. Thank you for almost 60 years of amazing music & for always being your true authentic self 🖤