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Mermay day 25: tsunami

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In all fairness, fans of the book Dracula tend to hate that adaptations make him a romantic lead.

I say though, that Carmilla has a lot more romantic connotations towards Laura in her book than Dracula ever has towards Mina.

YES AND THAT MAKES IT WORSE

like geez...you have one vampire novel that actually has a BASIS for the romanticized version of the story, and somehow that's not the one with the hero upgrade trend?

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2015 vs 2025 mermaid redraw!

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“You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me” Carmilla, 1872.

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Laura: Oh my God Carmilla look, a portrait of a Karnstein Countess that looks just like you! So beautiful... So lovely... I am going to put it in my room to always be able to look at you even at night! Ah, the moon tonight looks enchanting like the night I met you... The most delightful night... How beautiful you are under the moonlight, when you confess your strange love to me... Are you seeing anyone? Are you sure you aren't? I'd hate it if you did. I'll let you kiss me now.

Also Laura: Why is she so affectionate with me as if we were lovers? How peculiar.

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reading Carmilla for the first time, this book is even gayer than i ever would think possible. i thought the lesbian subtext was gonna be, well, subtext, but no this is just TEXT

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Carmilla, from the illuminated edition

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Mermay 2025 by Anna Havaska Svab

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1: Early August

2: Jiro, unfortunately. It's not that I dislike him. It's just that there are others I prefer now. And on 13 I choose Haku

3: ea8 and ea13

4: Shinigami's favor Rui (8) and wedding Zenji (13)

5: I'd prefer not to say

6: Jade

7: it was either standard banner Zenji, Rui, or Leo. I got them all on the same day, but it's been so long that now I can't remember which I got first.

8: On my main account, I believe that would be Vibrant Safari Haru, and on my alt, I think the last one I got was a Leo card.

9: either Rui or Haku I change my mind often

10: Oh, this is tough it tends to change often, but right now, I think it would have to be Kaito

11: I don't think I have one favorite, but right now, the top 3 that I like are tarot Rui, bunny haru, and hypnotic gaze Haku. I like the look of rui and haku but like that gaurd from bunny haru

12: Crystal virtue luca (they did him so dirty)

13: right now it's hotarubi

14: either of the jabberwock chapters

15: hmmm well the siren was terrifying, so I'll go with that

16: Elias

17: Lyca or Haku

18: peekaboo

19: Haku

20: Ren

Thank you

Tokyo Debunker QnA

When did you join the game? 

Which character did you choose? 

Sever? 

Strongest Card?

In Game Name?

MC Name? 

First SSR? 

Latest SSR? 

Fav Character?

Least Fav Character? 

Fav Card? 

Least Fav card? 

Fav Dorm? 

Fav Chapter? 

Fav Anomaly? 

Fav Staff? 

Fav Character Kitty? 

Peekaboo or Calamari? 

Who Do you Think Is The Spy? 

Character You Relate To?

Feel Freeto reblog and answer how you like! I would like to see some of the answers!

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I do worry that they've written themselves into a corner. There's just so many loose ends and so little time. I don't know what they plan on doing after they break her curse. I mean maybe events but yeah idk

Man why is time passing by so quickly in the story????? Only two months left??? Makes me wonder what the writers are planning on doing and how we'd keep the entire roster of characters for longer since most of them are 3rd years :(( I dont want them to leave, but also I don't think the story is close to an end idk idk

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On the topic of jiro seeming to get angry when he took down those balloons

"they're in the way" as his excuse for getting freaked out and ripping down balloons that coincidentally show his brother's birthday was so. . .interesting of a choice in words. "In the way."

Like yeah logically he meant 'it's making me sick which will be a hindrance' or it was just a nonsensical explanation but

What if Zenji was "in the way"?

What if he tore Zenji down too, for being "in the way"?

Zenji wouldn't wanna see his little brother doing all of these awful things to people during a war that he hardly even had any reason to be involved in. . .but if Zenji was "in the way" and Jiro just

Carelessly

Got him 'out of the way'. . . . . . .

I mean it'd also match Zenji not wanting him to be reminded or told he's there. Jiro wouldn't just be sick he'd probably be filled with regret and self-loathing. And Zenji wouldn't want that. Zenji wouldn't blame him.

Like Jiro definitely didn't kill Zenji, I highly doubt that's gonna be the story. But also.

Maybe he was just in the way.

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Edward Hart is hands down the funniest character in the game. He's a vampire from Eastern Europe. He's over 400 years old. He looks like a twink. He has no idea what a credit card is. He came to Japan for a holiday once, allegedly got captured and has just been leeching off of Darkwick's wifi ever since. He could probably leave at any time. The staff are scared of him. He's the most elegant man you've ever met. He lives in his own filth. He's deep into conspiracy theories on youtube. He doesn't know how to press play. He has a breeding kink. He may very well be a cuck. His bones are so sore. He once destroyed an entire building. I can't remember if they specificed how long he's been there for but iirc he has been held back. He could have been there for decades. He has black mold growing in his room. He doesn't take out his own rubbish. He relies on his best friend to clean up after him. Everything he does is for the love of drama. Every other ghoul besides Rui he interacts with hates him. His texts. The way he flies into the auditorium as a bat, casually drops the kykylos bombshell, and then flies off. He gets mildly inconvenienced by his arm being torn off. He's horny all the time. He belongs in a nursing home. He's a lazy bum. He's one of the most powerful characters we know of in TKDB.

He shares his first name with the vampire from Twilight.

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jon snow: im a bastard. everyone hates me. i want to die. and im 14

tyrion for some fucking reason:

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Okay, I'm saying it once on my Tumblr and if it gets lost then yay. I'm too awkward to try and promote it in the world chat of e-15.

Out of pure boredom when my family decided we should all go in a roadtrip, I got incredibly bored and decided "why not rewrite Tokyo Debunker" which thus led to me going back to reread the prologue chapters as I wrote up in a word document. It still follows the main story, but with a small rewrite of the mc to make fans who hate her a bit happier, but still keeping the good parts of her that helped ghouls like her. Basically, give an ADHD gal a pepper spray and take away her meds. (Also ACTUALLY implement more of an otome style to it since we got cheated out of it)

It's over on my AO3 with the first chapter having 7.3k words- I have the second chapter in progress, just trying to find motivation to keep working on it, cause I do wanna work on it but I just can't sit down long enough to do so. Plus, I don't beta read much, nor do I use a grammer catching thing like Grammerly. So, there's probably typos and it reads like a Wattpad fix no matter how much I tried to not let it come across that way. I can't wright first person to save my life-

Anyway, if you wanna read it or are just interested in the fic, I've got the same name over on AO3 that I have here. (Ignore typos or weird words that might show in this post,n I'm typing this with my phone whom will literally autocorrect correct words into typos or just not do it's job)

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There's something extremely depressing to me about how many people just don't want to get weird with female characters the way they do with male characters.

Like, I can kind of see why a lot of people feel weird about writing about bad things happening to female characters, but what it leads to is everyone putting female characters up on a shelf where you can admire them but you can't actually do anything interesting with them because that might be sexist or just make people feel bad. And I think that's actually a whole lot worse in the long run.