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So the book actually gave me nightmares. The vampire movies my older brothers watched when we were kids gave me nightmares because of the gory images but this book gave me nightmares because of the concept. My brain took the feeling of being a prisoner of a strangely charming mysteriously dangerous weirdo and put me there. Will try not to fall asleep while reading anymore.

Also most of the time when people discuss this book they talk about the male protagonists but we should really talk about how the heroes literally only succeeded because Lucy (secondary main female character) is such an amazing person people would literally die for her and because Mina (primary main female character) is smarter than all of them put together.

Reading Dracula for the first time as my community theater is doing a "radio play" performance of it and I want to be prepared. I've seen many movie adaptations of this book due to one of my older brothers being obsessed with vampires as a kid. I must say not a single one of them even got close to resembling the book. Also the book is really really good. I can't stop reading it.

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Reading Dracula for the first time as my community theater is doing a "radio play" performance of it and I want to be prepared. I've seen many movie adaptations of this book due to one of my older brothers being obsessed with vampires as a kid. I must say not a single one of them even got close to resembling the book. Also the book is really really good. I can't stop reading it.

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hey it's me

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Oh no, you got isekaied into the last media you read/watch. You are now a background character dead center in the plot. Are you surviving.

Yes

No

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The grocery store next to my apartment decided to change their floor plan. I walked in with the plan to grab two things quick bc after shopping there for going on 3 years I can basically get what I need relying mostly on muscle memory. But today I walked in and saw the new look and thought I'd somehow been transported to the east side location. When I asked, the cashier said stores were matching the floor plans for consistency across locations, which makes sense. But they picked the wrong weekend to mess with my brain. The end of my first school year at this job, right before I start the summer program, going into it knowing next school year has some changes coming up. And to top it all off now I have to relearn an entire floor plan. Truly no one has experienced such distress.

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Listening to my mezzo boi playlist while I "clean"

(meaning I am actually wandering around occasionally putting things away and thinking abstractly on ways to reorganize.)

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Hi! I just wanted to let you know I finally was able to watch the Salzburg Tales of Hoffman from like, a few months ago or something, and it has genuinely become one of the most interesting (good) renditions of Tales of Hoffman I've seen so far!

idk what else to say lmao thanks for telling me about it 🫡

Yayy!! I'm so glad you liked it! It's such a good one. It's not often a production will capture my entire body and soul like this one did.

Mariame Clément is a genius.

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I was kinda inspired by my earlier post and got this idea…

Reblog with your favorite Clueless Tenor Moment

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Not going to be able to watch as many operas this month as I wanted. My new Internet is crap.

In other life updates we had the last day of school today. Next week I'm starting the summer program. I'm nervous and excited.

One of my coworkers who worked in my classroom and who was a great mentor and support for me all year is moving into another position. He's still in the program--he's literally next door to my classroom--but he's still not going to be IN my classroom, and I'm having a hard time with it. Like I'm super excited for him because he's totally going to rock this position and it's what he wants to do. But I'm really going to miss working together the way we did. And I'm worried we won't see each other before and after school hours as much as we did because I loved the conversations we'd have. And I know that's just a part of life and things always change like that. But this job has been the most consistent place I've been a part of for a long time. And I always struggle when things change in general.

Anyway it's been an emotional day and I took a three hour nap after work so I'm not sleeping anytime soon.

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Happy Opera Pride! 🌈🌈🌈 Der Rosenkavalier (Robert Carsen, 2017) Don Carlo (Emilio Sagi, 2016) L'incoronazione di Poppea (Jan Lauwers, 2018) Adelaide di Borgogna (Arnaud Bernard, 2023) Platée (Jetske Mijnssen, 2023) Alcina (Robert Carsen, 2021) Champion (James Robinson, 2023) Ariodante (Robert Carsen, 2023) Les Pêcheurs de perles (Timothy Nelson, 2015) Der Rosenkavalier (Josef Ernst Köpplinger, 2021)

+ bonus Les Brigands (Barrie Kosky, 2024):

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It's Pride Month tomorrow! Looking into some gay opera watching 🌈 since no one else did Operablr Pride Month last year I'm not going to do the whole shebang, but I am planning on making a personal schedule for some gay liveblogging over the next few weeks.

Currently looking at the operas that I wasn't able to get to last year, but if anyone has any suggestions send them my way!

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I wish there was a comic con but like for opera. I think I'd actually go.

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My camera caught a close-up of one of the robins.

So I went to that cabin I go to this weekend. And when I came back all the baby birdies were gone.

The day before I left I saw Wilma hopping around the balcony railing chirping at the nest. I was wondering if that was her trying to get the babies to come out of the nest. I'm super bummed that they decided to do this the weekend I was gone. And of course my cheap little camera only saves pictures for a day so I didn't get to see any evidence of it happening.

When the robins first built their nest on there, seeing the baby birdies grow and start to fly was one of the things I was most excited about. And of course it happens the one weekend I'm gone. That's life I guess.

At least I got this funny little shot.

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Look at the fat little bby birbies

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In other birdie news, someone finally found out about the bird feeder on my window

Also not pictured but this morning when I was watering my plants on the balcony I saw Wilma bringing worms to the babies. I saw their fat little heads sticking out over the nest. Wilma jumped on the balcony railing with two worms wiggling around in her beak. She jumped on to the nest and then saw that I was standing there. She stared at me. I froze. She stared at me. I stood there. She stared. I took a step back. She flew to the ground and scolded me. I ran inside and closed the door. She came back and fed the babies. I could hear them chirping. My stupid camera didn't catch any of it.