#--or the society it thrives in

[daturanerium]

okay not to be like that but like. the entire series has been pushing the message that lyctorhood and perfect lyctorhood is not a good thing. everyone who has participated in the lyctorhood process has said "don't participate in the lyctorhood process" except pal & cam, and when cam and pal eventually do achieve perfect lyctorhood or something close it's not presented as a good thing--it's neutral and bittersweet at best. lyctorhood is the ultimate individual sacrifice. "here's to camilla hect, another one of devotion's casualties". "going to parties, self-actualising, reshaping your identity? i don't suppose you had much scope for it before", etc. etc. etc. just from nona, not to even mention the other two books. it's just very surprising that the book is so obvious about lyctorhood not being a good thing but ppl still talk about griddlehark perfect lyctorhood as a happy ending. is it possible? yeah for sure. knowing these girls' histories and behavioral patterns it could for sure happen. but is it truly a walk-into-the-sunset ending for gideon and harrow? i'm really not so sure. if that's what you're rooting for all power to you, but personally based of what i've seen i'm only interested if tazmuir treats it as the tragic ending she has been building up towards.

[lastoneout]

the whole guilt-tripping language in posts about important topics paired with how I'm still getting bitches in my notes talking about why it's actually good to tell "bad" people to kill themselves continues to prove to me that a lot of people have absolutely no concept of social justice or activism outside of assuming the worst of and then viciously attacking strangers on the internet

[eggsplice]

life when youve become a butterfly hive <3 and also butterflies as a hair fashion statement idk

[theladyofbloodshed]

it's so weird to me that horses aren't utilised more in acotar or carriages or ships??? like mortals seem to use them and eris rode into battle on a horse, but how are regular fae getting around if they can't fly or winnow or do they just exist and not go anywhere else

can they visit other courts? are there relationships strictly limited to the court they reside in?

[disneydatass]

At the end of Enchanted Giselle was the CEO of Andalasian dresses for little girls and had her own brick and mortar in NYC and in the sequel she is this depressed housewife? Did she lose her business to covid?!

[birues]

Radz-at-han being neighbors with Garlemald is kinda interesting to me bc look. Emet Selch's whole deal is manipulating entire civilizations into being despicable fascists then deep down being disappointed and upset that they do what he's manipulating them to do. (fyi I'm NOT absolving Garleans and Allagans of their own crimes. Saying that they're mindless beasts unable to put up a fight against ascian manipulation would prove ES right and would defeat the purpose of the entire game's message and has yikes and untrue implications. Also not every yikes state had an ascian hand in it) Bc compared to his PARADISE and most of the ideals the ancients upheld, every nation he's built is the exact opposite. And he blames the nature of the sundered for it (im not saying unsundered society was flawless btw, he also had the rosiest of glasses abt that). But. BUT!!! In his fucking next door there's an immortal dragon who's managed to build a prospering country with its people. And he did it after his whole siblings had a terrible experience with the mortal mankind. AND it was Radz-at-han who managed to figure out akasa/dynamis. And how protection scales. Do you see the narrative foils.

[marzipanandminutiae]

In yesterday’s Dracula Daily update, Mina mentions she is “only taking one change of dress”. 1) Was this a common occurrence for short trips or because of the circumstances? 2) Would both dresses be ‘traveling dresses’? 3) I’m assuming one dress means the top-most layer & she packed multiple chemises, etc. Could other undergarments (i.e. petticoats) be re-worn between washes? 4) Would she have been able to launder her clothing while travelling? Thank you.

Good questions!

While I'm not 100% sure, I believe her mentioning that she's only taking one change of dress is because that's such an unusual thing to do. To my eyes, it highlights how quick and desperate her flight to Jonathan is: she's dropping everything and preparing only the bare minimum so she can get to him as quickly as possible. I believe it would have been more common, for a trip all the way to Hungary, to bring the full trunk she's opting to have Lucy keep in readiness for her instead.

Given Mina's practical nature I'm going to assume they're both travelling dresses, but I suspect that could vary from person to person in similar circumstances. Eg she might pack two travelling dresses- hard-wearing materials, colors unlikely to show the soot and dirt of rail travel, skirts that clear the ground, etc. -but another woman might have chosen one travelling dress and one fancier dress. That seems like a more individual question to me.

She would almost certainly pack multiple chemises or pairs of combinations, yes. Anything that didn't touch the skin directly could definitely be re-worn between washes, unless it got particularly dirty (and even then, sponging the hems of one's petticoats and even outer skirts was a common way to remove dirt without a full wash).

As for laundry, Mina likely didn't do it herself even at home- it was quite common to send your clothes out to a laundress, even for middle-class families and individuals. As you can see in Bernadette Banner's recent video, laundry was a strenuous multi-day undertaking back then, which is why people could make decent money doing it as a full-time job. Anyone who could remotely afford to outsource it, did. I haven't done deep research on this, but it's my impression that most hotels of the caliber Mina's likely to be staying at would employ a laundress (or multiple) on their staff to wash guests' clothes.

[exaltior-a]

So glad to be living in the dirkjake renaissance. Finally, Dirkjake nuance. Dirkjake understanding. Dirkjake violence.

[yourqueenb]

This might seem like it’s coming out of left field, but I’m gonna say it anyway because it’s something that’s been in the back of my mind for actual years…

I feel like a good number of Choices fans on Tumblr specifically have this weird sense of hero-worship for Andrew Shvarts because he had a major hand in two of the most popular series (Blades and BB), because he can use basic symbolism, and because he is at least mildly aware that writers should be critical in both creating and consuming. And due to that, those particular fans think that anything he puts out is like the most groundbreaking thing to exist and is above criticism when it comes to the underlying messages. However, that could not be further from the truth. And I think it’s funny how those fans praise him for that last point about being critical when they clearly haven’t completely grasped what that means

[formulaonedirection]

Daniel showing us how he demonstrates on Michael

[rapidhighway]

I should probably work on my inability to do any work required of me but also that would mean doing work and the result of that would be continuing to do work, which I do not want to do

[studentbyday]

uuuggggghhhhnnnggghhhuhuhuhuhuhhhhhhhhh

[carelessflower]

if we doesn’t get something revolve around this on the book called the black volume of the DEAD it will be so bad for me personally what do you mean we already have example for a warlock who went mad over his lover being killed and what do you mean magnus like to think he wouldn’t be like that—

[kieren-fucking-walker]

Tell you what though all this Watcher stuff has really brought out how many of you don't have a fucking clue who the rich we are referring to in 'eat the rich' are.

[hauntedwoman]

actually one of the things about perpetually online ppl that rly annoys me is how they blindly adopt communism as an inverse of capitalism and call themselves a "communist" (i mostly see this w gen z age ppl that live in the us) as a way to say that they hate america when they really have no idea how badly communism decimated eastern european countries and their possibilities to grow into a stable economic state

[worstloki]

creating an insular echo chamber of resounding shared and overlapping voices of opinion to enjoy a blorbo worth maybe half a moment of thought bc that’s what you do when you care for something even when canon has desecrated the character and played it as a puppet on strings for the townsfolk children to enjoy for years rather than let the body be washed and buried