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Photos taken seconds before he GETS you

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I didn’t know this on my first read, but all the fuckery with Jonathan’s letters is SUCH a classic gothic lit element, seen primarily with women. A great example is The Woman in White, where the female characters have to go to wild lengths to make sure the mail they send is actually making it out of the house. Even when they know it’s being tampered with or stolen, they have to mask this knowledge, because they live in the power of the ones doing it and would only endanger themselves if they brought it up. Being in a position where the only power you have is putting words to paper, and even that is being stolen from you.

Anyway this has been post #462 of how much I love our gothic Heroine Jonathan Harker

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guess i'm makin these now

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remember guys. when you go to somebodies home and he gets in a fight with you and tries to get you to stab yourself because "it would be totaly rad bro", the solution is always to rob him and admit to robbing him to his face. this will always resolve your situation

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I love that the theme of sharing knowledge, especially to Mina, comes up as early as the May 12 entry! Jonathan notes that he could share all details with her in shorthand, even while he also writes to Mr. Hawkins. No “her female constitution can’t handle it,” no “I can’t let her worry,” no “she wouldn’t be able to help anyway.” Jonathan has to be trained and pressured out of this instinct!

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Okay I didn't adjust color on this at all.

Who told Vice he was allowed to be purple?

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i say this in all seriousness, a great way to resist the broad cultural shift of devaluing curiosity and critical thinking is to play my favorite game, Hey What Is That Thing

you play it while walking around with friends and if you see something and don't know what it is or wonder why its there, you stop and point and say Hey What Is That Thing. and everyone speculates about it. googling it is allowed but preferably after spending several minutes guessing or asking a passerby about it

weird structures, ambiguous signs, unfamiliar car modifications, anything that you can't immediately understand its function. eight times out of ten, someone in the group actually knows, and now you know!

a few examples from me and my friends the past few weeks: "why is there a piece of plywood sticking out of that pond in a way that looks intentional?" (its a ramp so squirrels that fall in to the pond can climb out) • "my boss keeps insisting i take a vacation of nine days or more, thats so specific" (you work at a bank, banks make employees take vacation in long chunks so if youre stealing or committing fraud, itll be more obvious) • "why does this brick wall have random wooden blocks in it" (theres actually several reasons why this could be but we asked and it was so you could nail stuff to the wall) • "most of these old factories we drive past have tinted windows, was that just for style?" (fun fact the factory owners realized that blue light keeps people awake, much like screen light does now, so they tinted the windows blue to keep workers alert and make them work longer hours)

been playing this game for a long time and ive learned (and taught) a fuckton about zoning laws, local history, utilities (did you know you can just go to your local water treatment plant and ask for a tour and if they have a spare intern theyll just give you a tour!!!) and a whole lot of fun trivia. and now suddenly you're paying more attention when youre walking around, thinking about the reasons behind every design choice in the place you live that used to just be background noise. and it fuckin rules.

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okay i know i’m Back On My Bullshit but hear me out: found footage macbeth

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my favorite thing in the muppet show is when jim did an impressive puppetry trick but was clearly worried the audience wouldnt notice so he had kermit just directly point it out

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I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi - like my father.

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Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the sea comes the end of our fellowship.

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Yes, what would you like to ask.

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most of the time everything sucks but when the sky is blanketed in dark blue-grey clouds after heavy raining and the sun starts to peek through the clouds so that the tops of trees glint pale green and every white structure is starkly, blindingly silhouetted against the sky i’m ok.

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Once the dead man is revived, we can ask him five questions, at which point he will die again, never to be re-revived.

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I struggle a lot with faith these days because of all I've seen at the hospital, but I know this much:

My faith follows the life of a man who was ly*ched, under false accusations, illegally disappeared at night, by religious and political powers, as he protested those authorities. He was a child refugee, he built with his hands, he healed and fed and took in the sick and hungry, he constantly cautioned about wealth, he never refused children.

To me, if anything, his life is resonant more than ever.

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I didn’t know this on my first read, but all the fuckery with Jonathan’s letters is SUCH a classic gothic lit element, seen primarily with women. A great example is The Woman in White, where the female characters have to go to wild lengths to make sure the mail they send is actually making it out of the house. Even when they know it’s being tampered with or stolen, they have to mask this knowledge, because they live in the power of the ones doing it and would only endanger themselves if they brought it up. Being in a position where the only power you have is putting words to paper, and even that is being stolen from you.

Anyway this has been post #462 of how much I love our gothic Heroine Jonathan Harker

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People often mistake “your feelings are valid” with “your reaction based on your feelings is ok”

Which isn’t the same thing

You’re entitled to how you feel. You’re not entitled to behave however you want based off of those feelings