#OPHELIA FACTS!!!!!!

[hartxstarr-art]

eepy girl.

[inktonic]

I think Alastor as a parent, while caring about Ophelia, still needs to keep her under constant control. I mean, you really can't have your daughter ratting you out for being a serial killer?

She definitely found out when she was young, but because she was raised to never question her father, Ophelia stayed quiet about it. Alastor caught on, but he was confident she wouldn't tell. She was never the confrontational and outspoken type.

Even in the afterlife Ophelia still felt that crushing guilt, even if she couldn't remember why.

[lucydoodlessometimes]

have new oc art... little golden boy,,,,, oc art goes nowhere but this is MY tumblr and I get to decide the content!!

[extraterrestrial-chihuahua]

you want to read my Olive Specter fic so bad /manipulative

[sea-glass-and-fire]

just found out about NaClYoHo and i Love It. Spent an absolutely awful 20 minutes going through the pile of shit on my stairs today, but now there's not a pile of shit on my stairs??? Amazing!

realistically i'm not going to get to it every single day in November, but i want to hold myself accountable, so I'm telling you guys. Please yell at me if I don't mention NaClYoHo again soon.

[chiropteracupola]

sometimes you start to wonder what the historical record for the guys you made up looks like in the fictional world where they existed. and then you make some fake documents about it.

[moth and compass is a collaboration with @natdrinkstea!!!]

[mishkakagehishka]

I love seeing discourse, thinking "I'm not gonna get involved" and then seeing one comment, blacking out, and next thing i know i have two paragraphs to delete.

[eve-pie]

Much like the welcome home cast they're are a few things about the Welcome My neighbor cast that we have yet to discuss such as family members that have yet to be revealed and other canons

For now we will show the one's that's been revealed!

For starters Dream honeysuckle's family mother, father, and little sister

Fuck you latte

Lucky bug's younger step siblings

They're twins

Mellow creame's brother

Not to far in age

Dottie spot's older brother

He actually talks

Patches bashful's dazzling mother

She's a sweetheart

And Pepper shanty's lovely twin sister

Much like Pepper she's Barnaby's cousin obviously

Out of all these designs that some I actually hate I'd say my favorites are everyone but Latte she sucks.... Penny and Ophelia's designs are superior

[leviiackrman]

MINEYO GINNIVAN; pissed that her cliff diving fun was interrupted by some humans || KAIDA ISHIMOTO; enjoying having legs while getting anxious that she might get caught

RIN KYUTOKU; revelling in the spoils of the last victim in her cave || MARGOT DURAND; swamp thing will do what swamp thing will do

ASAMI ENATSU; thinking about the barbarian boy she saved from drowning… || OPHELIA DANDYTHORN; doing what all captains should on a late night sailing

I was tagged by the glorious @river-ward @marivenah + @corvosattano to use this INSANELY fun meiker for my bbies! Thank you sm my beloveds!

Tagging: @confidentandgood @chuckhansen @sstewyhosseini @risingsh0t @florbelles @indorilnerevarine @heroofpenamstan @unholymilf @nokstella @noonfaerie @denerims @simonxriley @jinfromyarikawa @detectivelokis @fenharel @queennymeria @shambhalala @jackiesarch @roofgeese @blissfulalchemist @jacobseed @necroticpetals @hunterhorn @kingsroad @baldurians @arthrmorgann @malefiicarum + @minaharkers

[2nd-mushroom-circle]

okay I’m so sorry I know we just became mutuals but!! I really really love what you said about Laertes actors never fully showing the emotional spectrum this poor man must be feeling :’( what REALLY gets me is that a lot of productions cut out the part where the dude breaks down crying and instead just leave it at the “too much water” line. LET LAERTES CRY. BRO JUST LOST HIS WHOLE ENTIRE FAMILY I JUST. WAUGH.

YES like laertes' reaction is where the emotional weight of ophelia's death comes from cutting it out does them both a disservice! stop making him like. hold in his tears like a man the whole point of the line is he CANT DO THAT

and also the man is ANGRY. from his entrance in 4.v to ophelia's death he's been on the verge of homicide at like the drop of a hat. claudius spends so much time trying to calm him down and BARELY succeeds - and that makes sense, cause his DAD JUST GOT MURDERED AND HIS SISTER WENT INSANE AND HE WASNT EVEN THERE. i just saw a production (that made me mad for many reasons) where it felt like the pace completely flagged when laertes arrived, which is the exact opposite of what should happen. laertes acts with so much urgency at the end of the play. he's such a direct foil to hamlet, in that his father is murdered and he IMMEDIATELY jumps into action without thinking (without, in fact, even bothering to check if the man he's about to kill in retaliation is at fault). actually, i will go so far as to say that at this point in the play, laertes is the emotion to hamlet's logic. everyone else is at some sort of emotional remove, but he bursts onto the stage and has to feel everything and react to it right away. LET HIM FUCKING CRY. hamlet can make grand speeches about eating crocodiles, cause hamlet is a talker, but laertes can cry and scream and jump into his sister's grave and physically attack hamlet, because laertes is an action guy. this started off as a petty grievance but actually now i'm convinced. laertes showing intense emotions is essential to the play.

also the "do you see this oh god?" line? that line goes hard as fuck. there's so much you can do with that line. howl it out in anger, be fully sobbing as ophelia leaves, clutch on to her skirts or stand shellshocked in the center of the stage - i love that line so much and i think you have to do something with it, because laertes gets so little time to directly respond do ophelia's madness. it needs to be immediate and visceral. claudius and gertrude and horatio can respond to ophelia rationally, but laertes is her BROTHER. if you throw away that line, i do not respect you

[horizon-penblade-art]

[practically-an-x-man]

it's Pi Day! (and also White Day!) what do your OCs do to celebrate? :)

Oooh thank you!

Rae: Probably not a whole lot, actually. It's not a big enough holiday for her to keep track of it, and her favorite pie shop is back in her hometown (and she's usually hundreds of miles away)

Robin: Honestly, kind of forgets it exists until she walks downstairs and sees that someone's bought a whole lineup of pies for the X-Mansion

Madison: She likes to bake, so she'll put together a pie or two and share it with her friends at the X-Mansion

Ophelia: She has a years-long tradition with Peter 2 where they'll call each other and recite as many digits of pi as they can remember, and whoever taps out first has to buy the other a slice of pie. This is what happens when your entire friend group is made up of hyper-nerds.

Jasper: One of their coworkers brought pies for the nursing staff, so they get a slice of pie on their lunch break (and then they make a chicken pot pie with Kyle for dinner later)

Kestrel: Will spend the afternoon making a pie with Warren, using fresh raspberries from their garden :D

Katherine: Will stop by a bakery and bring pies to the museum to share!

Quinn: Probably does very little... it's a lot of work to get into town, since they're out in the middle of nowhere, and she's nowhere near a good enough baker to make a pie herself.

Eris: Let's be real, it probably takes Rick ten minutes just to explain why March 14th is pi day to begin with ("three-one-four, it's the first three digits of pi") since Eris already struggles with dates and time blindness,

Nikoletta: Oh you just know she's making pies with Abner and listening to him quote every line he knows from Pushing Daisies (and of course, plastic wrap kisses at every opportunity <3333)

[rosetyler42]

Hi! I want to ask what you like about Martha Dracula.

Personally, I hate how she had no purpose other than die to make Drac sad. We didnt see any of her personality so her death feels far less impactful than say, Bambis mom, and I hate the concept of zing/love at first sight trope" because the idea you will immediately know who you are supposed to be with forever based on immediate attraction sends a harmful message to kids and erases aromatic and polyamorous people and ppl who break off romantic relationships but are happier off that way.

I do wish we got to know more about Martha beyond the tragedy of her death and her book about Mavis finding her own zing, but I can kinda understand it as...the story's more about Drac, Johnny and Mavis and there were alot of other things to focus on. We do have SOME window into her personality and relationship with Drac: Mavis is implied to be similar to her and be the peice of Martha he has left, part of the reason he's so protective of her (With all the talk of Ericka being Martha's reincarnation - basically this universe's Mina to compare to other Dracula adaptations, I kind of think MAVIS is actually closer to that role. At least symbolically, although there are other similarities after having read Dracula Daily.) We hear that Martha is clearly the more bold of the two (similarly to Johnny and Mavis.) There's the legend of her and Drac's love story and family in the "Lady Lubov" legend, Drac's been clearly sitting Shiva for over a century, Her book about zings and how they met when she was Mavis' age, And it's implied Drac and Martha loved making music together as Drac mentions he hasn't sung in public since Martha passed. But as much as I do love the things we got, I wish we'd gotten to see more of Martha, seen her and Drac together and their (Less amorous) Gomez and Morticia type dynamic. Now, there IS a deleted scene on the HT bluray that shows Drac and Martha meeting, their courtship, and them having Mavis which gives more of a glimpse at Drac and Martha together which you may be interested in seeing if you haven't already. Matter of fact, Martha's reveal of her pregnant belly as a bat CLEARLY got reused in HT2 in Mavis' reveal of her own pregnancy.

As for the whole zing business...Yes, like all "Love at first sight" and Soulmate stuff, it does spread some harmful ideas, particularly for aro and ace people (like myself!) My mother had similar issues with it herself when we first watched it (though I don't think she knew about aro identities) Though I can kind of understand why it exists. Social interaction, particularly dating, can be a confusing, difficult, and potentially painful process. And I guess it's nice to imagine that you COULD just know the person you're meant to be with without having to go through all the mess. In the case of the HT films, it's also supposed to be a gothic fairytale Romeo and Juliet kind of story, which Love at first sight and soulmates are common tropes in that. Not to mention the trying to juggle a love story plot, a buddy film, family antics, gags, worldbuilding, (and in HT3, the whole "Monster Genocide" business) doesn't exactly lend itself to slow burns. The zing is a sweet idea, even if it doesn't necessarily work that way in real life.

This got long as I have some feelings about anatonormativity + HT , so here's a read more:

To a certain extent, that's part of what I like about HT3: It challenges the "A Zing only happens once in your life" idea by having Drac find love again. And having him DEAL WITH the "You only zing once" being wrong. Alot of people hated that. Some seek to think him falling for Ericka lessens what he had with Martha or means that he's forgotten about her. That he's cheating on Martha somehow. Some dunked on Ericka saying she was "weird" and "ugly", saying Martha was prettier. Some tried to find explanations like Ericka being Martha's reincarnation. But to me...I mean, we tend to think of love as being "The One," yet people fall in love again and remarry all the time. There doesn't HAVE to be a reason Drac zinged twice. And it resolves an issue the first movie had ABOUT "If a zing only happens once, what about people who fall in love and remarry?" Making it at least a BIT less amatonormative in my opinion. Of course, I'm something of an expert at bending rules and finding less amatonormative interpretations, and they never explicitly state EVERYONE has a zing.

Honestly in some ways the HT films are both amatonormative and anti-amatonormative. You have the whole zing/soulmate business, Drac teasing Dennis about Winnie, the guys setting Drac up on dates despite him saying he's not interested, and the whole "late bloomer" conversion therapy business. Most characters in the show have a partner except the mummy (who's shown dating), Vlad (who's showing off for the witches and talks about Nefrititi) and Blobby (who's more comic relief.)

On the OTHER hand, You not only have a 3 generational Non-nuclear family (with a stepmom, yet!) Living together in the same building in close proximity to eachother, but also a bunch of friends that are basically considered family, and at no point in the franchise does the romantic relationship get put higher than the familial or platonic ones. Heck, half the franchise I'd about the familial relationships. And even in the ones about romance, the familial relationships are a big part of those too. (There's also quite a bit if gray-rose coding with Drac himself looking back at the series - including the fact the man only experienced confirmed romantic attraction TWICE that we know of despite how much of a charmer he's shown to be. He can flirt until he's actually interested, then he can't function around them. There's also possible internalized aphobia that does get touched on, particularly in HT2 with him trying to make Dennis a vampire but then turning around and saving him from Vlad's "scare the fangs" plan and ultimately coming to accept Dennis as he is - which there's parallels between Dennis and his younger self drawn there.) I'll also point out that despite the "love and family over racism, we're all basically the same" message, love isn't treated as what makes one "human" in the series. If ANYTHING, it's bravery and willingness to take risk. Particularly to have fun OR protect others.

So yeah, kind of mixed feelings there as an aroace fan.

PS: I'll warn you about the HT3 junior novelization, there's a scene of VH dismissing Love as if it means nothing to him which...more aphobic than the scene in the film was. Particularly since Van Helsing gives off aroace vibes himself.

[outofthiisworld]

. ✦ ݁ ˖ @pzfr sub sammies squeezed outta him !!!

[💜] “Mmm, I don’t knooow~! Feels like you had at least three,” Ophelia giggled and SQUEEEEZED again— for good measure, of course!

Though, her ears perked at the potential promise of what cuddly could entail, so with many more playful jests pinned for later: Ophelia stopped squeezing and spread her arms out wide! (she waited expectantly, but not patiently, as she made grabby hands for Rex’s attention).

“Oh oh oh! You should hug me with your extra arms, too! … if you want.” <- you sure were heavy handed with your own wants, huh Ophelia?

[speedane]

Yooo someone in the public dislyte server was saying that Tang Xuan was very ooc in Ashley’s 1st bounty and what he did to her was disgusting?? A very disgusting act of.... *checks the bounty* 

... scaring Ashley by surprising her? 

Also saying that Tang Xuan is the most morally correct member of the Esper Union.... while I agree, I don’t think he’s too nice to not know this kind of child’s play (from Tang Xuan’s bounty, of all things)

He said this himself in his own bounty, it’s a set-up to Ashley’s. I don’t know why this person said that it was ooc for Xuan, a morally correct person doesn’t mean someone who always sticks to the rules, that’s just someone who’s too uptight. Tang Xuan is a 20-year old energetic young man who is friends with Li Ling the lose cannon and Lewis the “fight me!!” guy. What did anyone expect? In real life terms they’re college students and are not mentally mature enough to be as mature as Ashley, a 27-year old woman. The age range of young adults is 18-24 years old which means Tang Xuan is barely an adult. 

I think Tang Xuan is free to loosen up a little and play pranks. I don’t see Ashley getting harmed and I don’t see the reason for Xuan to outgrow some childish hobbies for the time being. After all, doesn’t his twin Tang Yun also love pranks?

Twins being twins, am I right? (from Ophelia’s bounties)

Also I shared my same thoughts to the public server, but the person hasn’t replied to me so far. I am just very confused as to why this person would think it’s ooc for Tang Xuan to pull a harmless prank, when it’s not.

[sea-glass-and-fire]

not to brag but today i got 4.5 yards of what i THINK is mostly if not entirely pure wool in my favorite cool (a nice dark mossy green) for EIGHTEEN US DOLLARS. It's nice and thick and FEELS like wool and the burn test seemed to confirm?? you WISH you were me.