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what’s it called when you’re so disconnected from reality that cold water doesn’t feel like anything and you can barely taste food anymore

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I feel like we have a spiritual successor to None Pizza with Left Beef: NONE CHEESEBURGER.

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done with the "came back wrong" trope. what about came back American

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"But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one; men know him not - and to know not is to care not for"

Cannot help but notice that Dracula's claim here contradicts Jonathan's experiences directly: Jonathan is the stranger in a strange land, and by the Count's logic, no local should care about him; he is not one of them, after all.

And yet, within a day, multiple strangers had risked their lives defying the boyar by warning him, given up their protective charms, or hurried his ride, to save him from the Vampire.

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"AI Engorgement" refers to the phenomenon where an AI model absorbs too much misinformation in its training data. This corrupts the model's base truth, leading to strange glitches. An engorged image model, when prompted to create images for "cat" and "historical", generated the following:

AI Engorgement may trigger a complete dissolution of truth within a model, leading it to back conspiracy theories, clearly debunked facts, and mistake fiction for reality. It is believed that the systematic siphoning of unreality by AI datasets is already revealing signs of engorgement in every major model.

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"AI Engorgement" refers to the phenomenon where an AI model absorbs too much misinformation in its training data. This corrupts the model's base truth, leading to strange glitches. An engorged image model, when prompted to create images for "cat" and "historical", generated the following:

AI Engorgement may trigger a complete dissolution of truth within a model, leading it to back conspiracy theories, clearly debunked facts, and mistake fiction for reality. It is believed that the systematic siphoning of unreality by AI datasets is already revealing signs of engorgement in every major model.

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Today marks the day the Count begins to psychologically torture our good friend Jonathan Harker.

First driving him in circles for a long time, the thing with the wolves, the handshake (twice), the wolves' howling, and more.

For whatever reason, for the three times I've read this part I have yet to understand the blue flames bit of the trip to the castle.

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Happy annual Dracula Paprika Discourse Day to those who celebrate!

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I am reading The New Annotated Dracula and there are so many annotations. So very many annotations that the May 3 entry begins on page 9 and ends on page 23.

But I will share two of them because they amused me:

The original titled of the novel, as it appeared on the hand-letter title page for the Manuscript, was The Un-Dead. Stoker's notes also indicate that he was considering "The Dead Un-Dead."

Great work, Bram.

Also Dracula's letter to Jonathan initially contained some sight-seeing advice which was later cut before publication. I guess Stoker thought the scary vampire shouldn't be giving travel tips.

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Once I "made" a custom emoji for my mum by crudely drawing a hijab on it and now whenever she wants me to buy a coffee for her I get a text like this

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many are saying it’s time we all fused our bones together in a mad tower and travailed to scrape down the stars; to pierce the very vault of heaven

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what if the new pope is problematic :/

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sure yeah the vampire can come. Inside

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a few great films that are free on the internet archive

in decent quality too!

here is the archive collection of these films so you can favorite on there/save if desired.

links below

black girl (1966) dir. ousmane sembene

the battle of algiers (1966) dir. gillo pontecorvo

paris, texas (1984) dir. wim wenders

desert hearts (1985) dir. donna deitch

harold and maude (1973) dir. hal ashby

los olvidados (1952) dir. luis bunuel

walkabout (1971) dir. nicolas roag

rope (1948) dir alfred hitchcock

freaks (1932) dir. tod browning

frankenstein (1931) dir. james whale

sunset boulevard (1950) dir billy wilder

fantastic planet (1973) dir. rené laloux

jeanne dielman (1975) dir. chantal akerman

the color of pomegranates (1969) dir. sergei parajanov

all about eve (1950) dir. joseph l. mankiewicz

gilda (1946) dir. charles vidor

the night of the hunter (1950) dir. charles laughton

the invisible man (1931) dir. james whale

COLLECTION of georges méliès shorts

rebecca (1940) dir. alfred hitchcock

brief encounter (1946) dir. david lean

to be or not to be (1942) dir. ernst lubitsch

a place in the sun (1951) dir george stevens

eyes without a face (1960) dir. georges franju

double indeminity dir. billy wilder

wild strawberries (1957) dir. ingmar bergman

shame (1968) dir. ingmar bergman

through a glass darkly (1961) dir. ingmar bergman

persona (1961) dir. ingmar bergman

winter light (1963) dir. ingmar bergman

the ascent (1977) dir. larisa shepitko

the devil, probably (1977) dir. robert bresson

cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. agnes varda

alien (1979) dir. ridley scott + its sequels

after hours (1985) dir. martin scorsese

halloween (1978) dir. john carpenter

the watermelon woman (1996) dir. cheryl dune

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MY GOOD FRIEND JONATHAN HARKER HAS SENT ME AN EMAIL!