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TIL that the reason lead levels in children’s blood have dropped 85% in the past thirty years is because of an unknown scientist who fought car companies to end leaded gasoline. He also removed it from paint, suggested its removal from pipes, and campaigned for the removal of lead solder from cans.

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Steter Secret Santa here, any particular AUs or storyline you would like?

As before I like the garage scene. I like fox stiles. I like the train station with steter.

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Steter Secret Santa here. Would a smutty version of the garage scene be okay? What would you like in something like that?

Yeah that would be amazing. Something with stiles wanting to be thought of first maybe, a sense of community. Preferably nothing to noncon.

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Your Steter secret Santa here, just saying hi and am curious about what kind of magical Stiles you would like for the fic. Any particular AUs you like?

Oh of course, I like spark stiles a lot but I am partial to anything really , ( fey, spark, mage )

If you saw my babysitter's a vampire the magic that Ethan or Benny have is cool too.

Im not really a fan of druid stiles I just don't get the right vibe from it.

But I am super open thank you!

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Jonathan's behavior while... enraging and also heartbreaking (he's gonna hate himself for it real soon and that makes me sad) is also interesting to me. He admits today that he originally thought Mina could handle the Horrors but now after the doctors suggested otherwise he's been convinced that she is more at risk of madness and trauma bc of female frailty

Jonathan mostly associates with women. This is as many male friends as he's ever had. Mr. Hawkins is mentioned but he's a father figure. I think Mina mentions a newspaper correspondent friend of Jonathan's once, but that's it and who knows if that was a good friend or just someone he liked well enough.

He spends his intimate time with women. The past months of his life he has been taken care of by women (the nuns and Mina) and talked about everything with them. He doesn't see them as women he sees them as people. It did not naturally occur to him that Mina would have less nerve because of her gender- he has avoided picking up The Sexism so far, and you can see it by his behavior towards her the whole novel. He doesn't treat Mina like a child, the way that the suitors treat Lucy like a child.

Then he got his polycule ID card, and suddenly is with all these men. And Jonathan is not a stubborn or prideful person. It's never been difficult for him to admit a mistake or when he doesn't know something. He has excellent instincts but he doesn't trust them. His lack of confidence in himself is imo his fatal flaw. And these men, two doctors among them are like yes we need to cut Mina out. It would be irresponsible to keep her in. She could never handle it. And this is not a natural conclusion for Jonathan to make. He writes that he finds it hard to keep things from her. It's not his instinct. But he feels inexperienced, and he desperately wants to be a good husband. The idea that he has not done his duty, that he's been careless in letting Mina do so much, that he's been unchivalrous and selfish, it's a new feeling but it's a horrible one and he bows immediately to what he perceives as the expertise and knowledge of Van Helsing.

That doesn't excuse him. It was wrong of him to do and he should have spoken for her. But I think it's interesting to look at how societal pressure and sexism worked on the character of Jonathan Harker in this instance to twist the love he has for her into something that hurts them both.

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His rolly polly instinct to curl up into a sad little ball

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I wanna say something about Dr. Seward...

He has a single very important role in this novel, and that is Observer. He is extremely good at fine details, noticing behaviors and patterns, especially when those behaviors are aberrant in some way, and he is diligent about recording all those details precisely.

Things Seward has Observed

Renfield's "love of animals"

Renfield's changes in behavior / uncharacteristic reactions

Renfield's day-night cycle under Dracula's influencefellow's.

The fact that Lucy clearly knows her mother is unwell

Batcula, behaving in a way unusual for natural bats

Van Helsing behaving uncharacteristically

Lucy's embarrassment on his behalf

Lucy's bite marks

Lucy's teeth

Quincey holding back tears by exceptional manhood

The sudden disappearance of Lucy's bite marks

Lucy's wake-sleep cycle with the garlic

And as the book goes on he's going to be the one person to consistently notice / observe changes or uncharacteristic behavior in his fellows. Observing and Noticing is something he is extremely good at.

HOWEVER.

He has functionally no capacity to draw conclusions from his observations. Here are the thrilling conclusions to his observations.

*Observing Renfield working his way up the food chain* I'm having a thought! ~twelve days of cogitation later~ My thought is that he's might be working his way up the food chain! If only there were some way to test it...

*hearing van Helsing tell Lucy "we will send him out to smoke the cigarette"* ...I took the hint and left"

*seeing Renfield come at him with a knife* "he seemed dangerous"

We make fun of him, but he's not stupid. It's just that assembling the pieces and putting them together are two different skills and Jack has exactly one of them.

(And this is consistent with the notion that Jack might be autistic. The thing he struggles with is drawing connections. But patterns and deviations from patterns he is very VERY good at)

And this really stands out in his interaction with Quincey because Quincey is excellent at drawing connections. As well he should be - he's a storyteller, and what is a story but putting together pieces? He doesn't magically know it's a vampire attack, but he connects Lucy's situation to the situation with his horse. He connects his transfusion to the others and correctly deduces that they've given transfusions as well.

It's like each of our heroes is a stand in for a different part of the Scientific Process. Van Helsing is Research, Seward is Observation, Quincey is Synthesis, Arthur is the Bibliography - getting all the sources together.

And there's an already hinted synergy between Jack's role and Mina's role in that they stand in for the difference between Data and Information, structured vs unstructured data perhaps

But I think the point is that these people have incredible skills but they're useless alone. They need to be put together to do anything. Jack is never going to draw the correct conclusions because his skill and his role is Observation untainted by analysis. The analysis will have to be done by someone else, but the observation is a crucial first step in that process

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Do you have the link to the Dracula ballet? I can't seem to find it anywhere 😭

Yes! Right here. (Obvious caveat for spoilers. Our place in the book lines up just around the 1 hour and 10 minute mark in the ballet, if you'd like to stay spoiler free.)

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Lucy, Jonathan, Mina, and the Bastardization of Their Horror Story

I’ve been chewing on this one for a while. I thought it kind of went without saying among all us bitter bookworms when it came to the TV and movie treatments of Dracula and the characters/arcs therein. A lot is a given by now; a running joke. But goddamn if rereading today’s entry didn’t just tick me right off all over again. So here we go.

Keep reading

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quincy p. morris: this is my boyfriend, jack seward, and this is his boyfriend, art, and this is art's fiance, lucy, and this is lucy's girlfriend, mina, and mina's fiance jonathan is in romania with his boyfriend, vlad, cause vlad lives there with his own three girlfriend roommates, blonde and brunette #1 and brunette #2

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let. the cat. PLAY!!!

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Yes omg yes. this! this! it makes me so angry in the movies.

Somewhere in the Bureau of Increasingly Less Faithful Dracula Adaptations

Directors 1-60: Look, Mina clearly needs to be the sexy vampire bait-heroine in the next every one. She’s her era’s modern woman! She’ll appeal to all the wistful nerd chicks in the audience when we have her drop that Victorian snore Jonathan and pair her with Dracula!

Directors 61-99: Please, Mina’s old news. The real spotlight belongs to the original man harem juggler, Lucy. Everyone knows from the movies and shows that she 1) Is the hot one, 2) Brings all the dudes to the yard, and 3) Has plenty of potential for unfulfilled bisexy goings-on with Mina and Dracula. (Cannot stress enough that the Mina stuff stay unfulfilled, though.) If anyone’s the Babe-for-Bloodsuckers damsel protagonist, it’s Lucy!

Director 100: …Shouldn’t it be Jonathan? 

Directors 1-99: what

Director 100: I mean, in both Dracula and the cut prologue, “Dracula’s Guest,” Jonathan Harker gets sought out by the most lusty/bloodlusting vampires, period. In “Dracula’s Guest,” he gets approached by a vampire woman in a tomb, then an entire graveyard full of eager vampires in a storm, all of whom he was only shielded from because Dracula was stalking him in his giant wolf form and literally laid on top of him as protection while he howled to get the villagers’ attention. Then he left after tasting Jonathan’s neck. 

When Jonathan finally gets to the castle in the novel itself, Dracula destroys his personal space and imprisons him outright, full gothic heroine style, and at one point undresses and redresses Jonathan while he’s unconscious–after rescuing him from the three vampire girlfriends who hypnotize and try to take turns preying on the guy, which they and the Count go out of their way to call ‘kissing’ him. With the latter setup being only the first of multiple attempts from the ladies. 

Point being, if anybody should get acknowledged as the resident vampire magnet and damsel in distress with unwanted toothy intimacy issues in a new adaptation, it should be Jonathan Harker. 

Directors 1-99: …

Director 100: …

Directors 1-99: We always figured him and Dracula were just good friends

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I found this on tiktok and I laughed so hard so I thought I’d share on here

It’s so chaotic I love it

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i hope he dies