#dd august 11

[scoobhead]

quickly pointing out that the "full moon" around august 10 described in today's dracula daily matches almost exactly with the "full moon" TONIGHT, august 11, 2022.... coincidence?? i think NOT!!! THIS IS THE YEAR OF DRACULA

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

the way Mina came careening down that hill like she was gonna tell any monster creeping on Lucy to come catch these hands - nobody messes with her girlfriend!!

[lifelinebooks]

Oh don't mind me I'm just crying over Mina's devotion to Lucy again

[aster-blogging-dracula]

Reading BlueCatWriter's Dracula along with Dracula Daily

Ok so I've been meaning to read all of @bluecatwriter 's wonderful Dracula hc fics in order for a long time but I never have time to get with it so I decided to read it along with Dracula Daily this year.

If anyone else wants to do the same, here are the dates (or aproximante dates*) for each fic. (idk if someone has done this already but oh well) (BlueCat if you read this feel free to correct me if i got any date wrong)

*(Since there's 2 pre-canon fics and 2 days of may before dd, i'm setting those fics on those dates. Dates of undated fics are also adjusted to not overlap with date of other fics)

*(The order during the varna stay is a bit wacky since the book gets pretty vague for 2 weeks there but I tried to adjust it as well as possible.)

1-A picnic in may. May 1st 2-Home before you know it. May 2nd 3-I too can love. May 16th 4-Three letters. May 19th 5-The prisioner. Between May 20th and June 28th 6-Tonight is mine. June 29th 7-Stay awake. August 14th 8-In sickness and in health. August 26th 9-Full of vague fear. Between August 15th and August 25th 10-A golden afternoon. August 31st 11-A doctor’s confidence. September 2nd 12-I come to my friend when he call. September 2nd 13-Blood she must have. September 7th 14-After the transfusion. September 7th or 8th 15-Sleeping beauty. September 10th 16-The wolf in the window. September 17th 17-Sympathy. September 18th 18-Things will be different. September 19th 19-My only son. September 19th 20-Come, my husband. September 28th 21-These others. September 29th 22-Lucy’s second death. September 29th 23-How good and thoughtful. September 29th 24-Brandy, bath, and beadtime. September 30th or October 1st (preferably the former since the dd entry is slightly shorter that day) 25-A pale orphan. October 2nd 26-You will not call in vain. Between September 30th and October 11th?? 27-Renfield’s death. October 3rd 28-Safe for one more moment. October 3rd 31-Hungry. Between October 12th and October 15th 29-A week in varna. Between October 15th and October 27th? 30-Waiting. Between October 17th and October 27th? 32-Judge moneybag. Between October 15th and October 27th? 33-How i miss my phonograph. October 24th 34-Mem. get recipe for mina. Between October 15th and October 27th? 35-Farewell, sweet friends. October 30th 36-Starlight on the sereth. October 31st 37-Step into the light. Between October 15th? and November 6th (if reading in one sitting wait until november 6th)

38- Love multiplying. November 7th onward

Omg guys it's may already I'm so exited for this. This year I know I will be up do date with everything even tho I'm busy with my End of Degree Project because the dracula fixation i caught last year is a part of my life now I have been planning this so long guys.

[thevampirediariesdiary]

alright THIS is how it's gonna go:

Round 1.1 (May 28-June 11th)

A. 1 v 2

B. 3 v 4

C. 5 v 6

D. 7 v 8

E. 9 v 10

F. 11 v 12

G. 13 v 14

H. 15 v 16

I. 17 v 18

J. 19 v 20

K. 21 v 22

L. 23 v 24

M. 25 v 26

N. 27 v 28

O. 29 v 30

P. 31 v 32

Round 1.2 (June 11th-25th)

WINNERS BRACKET

Q. Winner of A vs Winner of B

R. Winner of C vs Winner of D

S. Winner of E vs Winner of F

T. Winner of G vs Winner of H

U. Winner of I vs Winner of J

V. Winner of K vs Winner of L

W. Winner of M vs Winner of N

X. Winner of O vs Winner of P

LOSERS BRACKET

Y. Loser of A vs Loser of B

Z. Loser of C vs Loser of D

AA. Loser of E vs Loser of F

BB. Loser of G vs Loser of H

CC. Loser of I vs Loser of J

DD. Loser of K vs Loser of L

EE. Loser of M vs Loser of N

FF. Loser of O vs Loser of P

Round 1.3 (June 25th-July 2nd)

LOSERS BRACKET

KK. Winner of Y vs Loser of U

LL. Winner of Z vs Loser of V

MM. Winner of AA vs Loser of W

NN. Winner of BB vs Loser of X

OO. Winner of CC vs Loser of Q

PP. Winner of DD vs Loser of R

QQ. Winner of EE vs Loser of S

RR. Winner of FF vs Loser of T

Round 1.4 (July 2nd-9th)

LOSERS BRACKET

SS. Winner of KK vs Winner of LL

TT. Winner of MM vs Winner of NN

UU. Winner of OO vs Winner of PP

VV. Winner of QQ vs Winner of RR

WINNERS BRACKET

GG. Winner of Q vs Winner of R

HH. Winner of S vs Winner of T

II. Winner of U versus Winner of V

JJ. Winner of W vs Winner of X

Round 1.5 (July 9th-16th)

LOSERS BRACKET

WW. Winner of SS vs Loser of GG

XX. Winner of TT vs Loser of HH

YY. Winner of UU vs Loser of II

ZZ. Winner of VV vs Loser of JJ

Round 1.6 (July 16th-23rd)

LOSERS BRACKET

AAA. Winner of WW vs Winner of XX

BBB. Winner of YY vs Winner of ZZ

WINNERS BRACKET

CCC. Winner of GG vs Winner of HH

DDD. Winner of II vs Winner of JJ

Round 1.7 (July 23rd-30th)

LOSERS BRACKET

EEE. Winner of AAA vs Loser of CCC

FFF. Winner of BBB vs Loser of DDD

Round 1.8 (July 30th-August 6th)

LOSERS BRACKET

GGG. Winner of EEE vs Winner of FFF

WINNERS BRACKET

HHH. WINNER of CCC vs Winner of DDD

Round 1.9 (August 6th-13th)

III. Winner of GGG vs Loser of HHH

Championship: (August 13th-20th)

Winner of HHH vs Winner of III

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

as i did last year, this year i've been recording basically everything i did during the year so i didn't forget. anyways, here is my true 2023 experience, it is divided by categories (travels, books, music, movies, etc) and i will bold my favourites of each category. also, if you want more details especially with travelling and music, here's the twitter thread i've been using to record everything down <3

also!! just in case, dates are in dd/mm format !

TRAVELS:

02/01. calp (alacant, spain) 05/04. mojácar (almería, spain) 17-18/04. glasgow (scotland) 18/04. balloch and loch lomond (west dunbartonshire, scotland) 20/06. albacete (spain) 18-19/08. barcelona (spain) 19-23/08. milano (italy) 20/08. lake como (lombardia, italy) 22/08. verona (italy) 08-10/09. valència (spain) 15/10. bari (italy) 15-28/10. metaponto (matera, italy) 22/10. taranto (italy) 13-16/12. vera (almería, spain) 15/12. mojácar (almería, spain) 16-17/12. valència / la pobla de vallbona (valència, spain)

CONCERTS:

14/01. amaia (la riviera) 17/04. paramore (OVO hydro, glasgow) 15/05. cariño (el matadero) 16/06. valeria castro (noches del botánico) 23/09. amaia (wizink center) 12/10. ginebras (wizink center)

MOVIES:

17/01. knives out 22/01. glass onion 19/02. ¡ay, carmela! 25/03. volver 26/03. jojo rabbit 26/04. super mario bros. the movie - IN THE CINEMA 30/04. knives out (rewatch) 27/05. glass onion (rewatch) 10/06. matilda (2022) 21/06. spiderman: across the spiderverse - IN THE CINEMA 28/07. barbie - IN THE CINEMA 01/09. indiana jones and the dial of destiny 22/09. the little mermaid (2023) 24/09. bottoms 11/10. barbie (rewatch) 18/11. mean girls 02/12. marie antoinette (2006) 09/10. the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds & snakes - IN THE CINEMA

VIDEOGAMES:

03/02. simmiland (PC) 03/02. stacklands (PC) 10/02. fire emblem engage (switch) 03/03. crusader kings iii (PC) 09/03. rpg maker xp (PC) 04/05. dice kingdoms (PC) 25/06. harvestella (switch) 27/06. indoorlands (PC) 08/07. humankind (PC) 28/07. the legend of zelda: tears of the kingdom (switch) 28/07. lakeburg legacies (PC) 28/08. the yawhg (PC) 08/09. frostpunk (PC) 31/10. lakeside (PC) 24/11. hades (PC) 23/12. cities skylines ii (PC)

TV SHOWS:

18/02. el ministerio del tiempo s1 06/03. druck s5 (rewatch) 08/03. druck s6 (rewatch) 13/03. el ministerio del tiempo s2 20/03. shadow and bone s2 16/05. abbott elementary s2 23/06. el ministerio del tiempo s3 21/07. derry girls s1 (rewatch) 12/11. bany compartit

TOP SONGS BY MONTH:

january: 5. la maza - priscila félix 4. la canción más hermosa del mundo - manuel carrasco 3. inteligencia emocional - belén aguilera 2. odio que te quiero - paula koops, noan 1. joker (REPUTA) - zahara, carolina durante february: 5. liar - paramore 4. you first - paramore 3. running out of time - paramore 2. big man, little dignity - paramore 1. figure 8 - paramore march: 5. si quieres - cariño 4. inteligencia emocional - belén aguilera 3. música ligera - ana mena 2. me he pillao x ti - ana mena, natalia lacunza (album version) 1. me he pillao x ti - ana mena, natalia lacunza (single version) april: 5. california friends - the regrettes 4. galgo - belén aguilera 3. costura - valeria castro 2. un clásico - ana mena 1. no me querías tanto - natalia lacunza may: 5. oh boi - shego 4. c'est comme ça - paramore 3. évidemment - la zarra 2. this is why - paramore 1. zenzenzense - RADWIMPS june: 5. yo quisiera - alice wonder 4. you first - paramore 3. antagonista - belén aguilera 2. father and son - yusuf / cat stevens 1. tonta - nathy peluso july: 5. guerrera - valeria castro 4. la vida moderna - veintiuno, love of lesbian 3. vampire - olivia rodrigo 2. i have a dream - amanda seyfried 1. fiebre - bad gyal august: 5. galgo - belén aguilera 4. nunca llega 05 - natalia lacunza 3. roméo&juliette - olympe chabert 2. discoteka - lola índigo, maría becerra 1. es albacete - rozalén september: 5. narciso - pipiolas 4. get him back! - olivia rodrigo 3. love is embarrassing - olivia rodrigo 2. vampire - olivia rodrigo 1. ballad of a homeschooled girl - olivia rodrigo october: 5. vampire - olivia rodrigo 4. hot to go! - chapell roan 3. más colao que el colacao - la la love you 2. vii. cassandra (fillas de cassandra) - fillas de cassandra 1. ateo - c. tangana, nathy peluso november: 5. novix - maría josé llergo 4. si quieres - cariño 3. maledetta primavera - loretta goggi 2. salvaje - nathy peluso 1. all too well (10 minutes version) - taylor swift december: 5. san peter - pipiolas 4. ballad of a homeschooled girl - olivia rodrigo 3. deja vu - olivia rodrigo 2. drivers license - olivia rodrigo 1. can't catch me now - olivia rodrigo

THEATRE PLAYS & MUSICAL SHOWS:

05/03. la saga (teatro lara) 07/04. tick tick... boom! (teatro la estación caixabank príncipe pío) 08/10. school of rock (teatro ibercaja delicias) 18/11. mean girls (grupo de teatro amorevo) 29/12. phantom of the opera (teatro albéniz)

BOOKS:

29/01. assembly - natasha brown (2021) 08/04. tartesso y los fenicios de occidente - sebastián celestino pérez & carolina lópez - ruiz (2020) 12/04. daddy - emma cline (2021) 23/04. a thousand splendid suns - khaled hosseini (2007) 29/05. los renglones torcidos de dios - torcuato luca de tena (1979) 03/06. the bands of mourning - brandon sanderson (2017) 24/06. kokoro - natsume soseki (1914) 10/07. miss benson's beetle - rachel joyce (2020) 08/08. the no-show - beth o'leary (2023) 18/08. tales of the alhambra - washington irving (1832) 22/09. the attack - yasmina khadra (2005) 25/09. the lightning thief - rick riordan (2005) RE-READ 30/09. the sea of monsters - rick riordan (2006) RE-READ 02/10. the titan's curse - rick riordan (2007) RE-READ 04/10. the battle of the labrynth - rick riordan (2008) RE-READ 07/10. the last olympian - rick riordan (2009) RE-READ 23/11. the kamogawa food detectives - hishashi kashiwai (2023) 21/12. a christmas carol - charles dickens (1843)

[the-empress-7]

Rumor-tracking anon here. I feel like I should make a side-tumblr with the name.

So many many apologies in advance for another long one. This one is incredibly nuanced because there are a lot of moving pieces and it does sound tinhatty but I PROMISE there's a point.

TL;DR - I need People Anon's help in trying to figure out the timing of the interview and the photoshoot if Kashner was filing his story around 8/2/17. I'm totally okay with extrapolating if she can only answer/give context using People's weekly format. My questions:

1) How long before a monthly magazine is published does the book close? 2) How long before the book closes are the articles and photographs due to be filed? 3) How far in advance of a publication's release are the advance copies/previews done?

The two three rumors I am working on are:

Harry proposed a very long time before they announced the engagement.

They kept the engagement a secret for a long time for a specific reason.

Something happened that caused the palace and Harry to "let" Meghan stay after the VF interview when in the past, Harry notoriously cut friends and girls out if they talked to the press.

And the Big Question is: when exactly did Harry propose?

So now the verrrrrrry long version. (feel free to put a cut here!)

Bower's VF excerpt says:

After Harry proposed, they discussed announcing the engagement when The Queen returned from her summer in Balmoral.

They were engaged when Meghan did the VF interview.

VF sent a preview copy when Meghan and Harry were in Botswana for her birthday, which Meghan saw after returning home.

The pictures accompanying the VF article were taken in London.

Meghan, Harry, and the Palace were angry that the VF story was about Harry. (Meghan b/c she wanted the focus to be her philanthropy, Harry b/c he didn't want to be in the article, and the Palace because she existed.)

From internet sleuthing -- all dates 2017 unless noted otherwise and I'm using American date convention (mm/dd).

Meghan shut her social media down in April 2017. We know she thrived on social media so she wouldn't have shut it down without something definite and concrete being given to her in return.

Meghan was papped with Harry in May 2017 - early May at polo and mid-May around Pippa's wedding.

Meghan did not attend Wimbledon 2017. (Serena wasn't playing so of course Meghan wasn't going to waste her time.) So she was not papped in London in late June/early July.

Per the Court Circular, Harry's summer holiday started 7/29. We know he was back in London by 8/29 as he attended the Diana Sunken Garden thing on 8/30.

Per the Court Circular, The Queen was in Balmoral from 8/7 to 10/10 so Harry and Meghan weren't planning to tell anyone they were engaged until at least 10/11.

Meghan's birthday is August 4. Meghan and Harry were papped at the airport in Botswana on 8/4 and her PR said there was a birthday party for her that night. We can assume Meghan flew into London around 7/28, when Harry took off for the summer.

Suits Season 7 announced filming dates of 4/4 - 11/15. Production actually wrapped on 11/23. The last pictures of Meghan on the Suits set were from 11/11. Meghan's stand-in tweeted on 11/17 and it seems to be a goodbye/thank you tweet, suggesting that 11/17 was her last day, meaning no more scenes involving Rachel Zane.

Suits Season 7 was split into half-seasons, with the first half airing in summer 2017 (7/12 - 9/13) and the second half airing in spring 2018 (3/28/18 - 4/25/18). This suggests that the production took a break in the summer for the cast to do PR for the premiere.

Members of Suits started doing PR for the new season in June 2017 with the ATX Festival. Meghan is seen in set photos taken 7/12 to celebrate filming Suits' 100th episode that Sarah Rafferty posted on IG.

On 11/20, Meghan moved to London after being spotted in the London airport and after movers were seen at her Toronto house.

The engagement was announced on 11/27.

So all of this to say I think the VF photoshoot was at the end of July, probably no later than 7/28 since Harry usually didn't work when she's visiting. Since Kashner (the VF writer) ended his story by saying Meghan texted him right before he was filing that she would be unreachable and a couple days later were the Botswana airport pics, that suggests he was probably filing the story around 8/4.

If Kashner filed on 8/4, then it was probably after a few weeks for VF to fact-check her, a week or two to write the story and turn in a draft for fact-checking, and a day or so for the interview. That puts the interview happening in early July, or at least sometime before July 12 when we know definitively she was still in Toronto on the Suits set. Which means that the photoshoot was either at the end of July when she was flying in ahead of the Botswana trip or in early/mid-May when she was papped at polo or Pippa's wedding. The latter sounds like it might be too early in the process since if the interview was early July, then they were probably negotiating the article in June with the offer being made late May/early June. (People Anon, help! Does this timeline sound reasonable? Is this the process?)

And if Bower's tea that they were engaged before she did the VF interview is true, then the evidence is indicating they actually got engaged in April or May. (Of course, it's also entirely possible there were other secret trips to London in the intervening time but when you look at Meghan's PR cycle, which always had a pap walk or a story about her being in London with Harry every 3-4 weeks like clockwork and there are no new stories between Pippa's wedding and August, it does seem unlikely.)

We know from their engagement interview that the proposal was very spur-of-the-moment, unexpected, and Harry had been unprepared. To me this sounds like Harry didn't have a ring for her. He just got caught up in the emotions of seeing her again and proposed, sans ring. Was that May? Maybe. Was that July? Maybe. Definitely wasn't November when she moved to London like their PR's been claiming since 2017. Definitely wasn't September or October like maybe they told friends, if they told people they were waiting till The Queen came back from Balmoral. Maybe Harry presented her with the ring around that time to make it official and that's their story, they're sticking to it, but it doesn't jibe with Bower's findings nor basic internet sleuthing.

(In other words, shenanigans afoot since the very beginning as everyone rightly suspected.)

So if they were secretly engaged when she did the VF interview, that means the proposal or the discussion to marry was in the late spring. And if Harry did propose in the late spring/mid-summer like the evidence shows (rather than the autumn like they claim), then why did they wait 4 to 7 months till November to announce? Why didn't they announce it around August 31st, the 20th anniversary of Diana's death, in a tribute to his mother's legacy? (It was guaranteed wall-to-wall press coverage and Meghan probably would've sold out the VF issue if they did, possibly cementing her as a "serious" cover girl at Kate's level.) Why didn't they announce it in September ahead of the Toronto Invictus Games and after the VF article? (Arguably they did with Meghan's strategic product placement of the Husband shirt.) Why didn't they announce it the second The Queen was back from Balmoral?

My theory: Harry knew they effed up with the VF article and delayed it to let the palace's anger blow over, and luckily Big Bro William to the rescue announcing Kate's third pregnancy right before Meghan's VF issue dropped so the firm could ignore the Meghan story in favor of pushing the new Cambridge baby.

And if Harry proposed before Meghan did the interview and if they were engaged before the issue dropped/the advance copy went out, then that explains why Meghan got to stick around after talking to the press about their relationship and why Meghan got the official royal treatment at Toronto IG despite being "just" a girlfriend; Harry was already committed and engaged to Meghan.

So finally FINALLY all this to say that People Anon might help me confirm this long-held Tumblr rumor: Meghan had something over Harry that caused him to keep her after she talked to VF about the relationship, and that was their engagement.

Whew.

If you want to respond with that Charlie Day gif from It's Always Sunny, the one where he's crazy on coffee explaining conspiracy theories in front of the wall of paper, I totally understand.

Although at this point I've been researching and writing this up for so long that now I'm doubting Bower's excerpt says they were engaged when she did the VF interview and I made that part up by overthinking it too much. I'm just going to click submit and you can tell me if I imagined that part.

I'll crawl back into my research hole now.

Phew. I hope you are saving all these somewhere.

Paging People Anon for Rumor Tracking Anon.

[rebloggingrexan]

heyo! i’ve got over 2000 Dracula Daily posts, all tagged by date! so this is my spoiler-free post where all the dates are easy to get to. (and this is my extra ginormous Dracula Daily masterpost WITH SPOILERS and more; and links to fun tags like “dracula meta” and “dracula is a comedy”)

Draculadailytracker, Cattuladaily, ourgoodfriendjonathan, and draculadailyreactions are good Dracula blogs to check out too!

ALSO THO, SINCE THIS IS MY PINNED POST AND I REBLOG MORE THAN DRACULA, BE SURE TO BLOCK ‘#HEAVY POST’ IF YOU WANT TO BLOCK ANYTHING LIKE BODY HORROR, GORE, SERIOUS POSTS, OR ADULT CONTENT

for Dracula Daily posts, the format here is "#dd (date) (month)," (i also use simply “#dracula daily,” but seriously beware spoilers. EVERYTHING is there) so the start of Dracula Daily and a glut of paprika memes would be "#dd 3 may," but on this post, to make things pretty, i'll just list them without the "dd" at the start. September, October, and November only use their first three letters in the tags, though, e.g. #dd 3 oct

(right now as of June 2023, there are a few scattered dates without posts, or with fewer posts than i’d prefer, but i’m working on that! some empty days will get filled when a given day rolls around and scheduled posts get reblogged :) )

you can sign up for the Dracula Daily emails HERE and you can check out past installments HERE!

(please glimpse through my “dracula important” tag to get some information on racist instances in the story as well as other places/ways that may be more convenient to read the story)

BONUS: APRIL

• 21 April • 25 April • 28 April • 30 April (one queued for 2024 lol)

MAY

• 3 May • 4 May • 5 May • 7 May • 8 May • 9 May • 10 May • 11 May • 12 May • 13 May • 14 May • 15 May • 16 May • 18 May • 19 May • 24 May • 25 May • 26 May • 27 May • 28 May • 30 May • 31 May 

Rest of months under cut!

___

JUNE

• 5 June • 6 June • 13 June • 17 June • 18 June • 24 June • 25 June • 29 June • 30 June 

JULY

• 1 July • 8 July • 18 July • 19 July • 20 July • 22 July • 24 July • 26 July • 27 July • 28 July • 29 July • 30 July

AUGUST

• 1 August • 2 August • 3 August • 4 August • 6 August • 8 August • 9 August • 10 August • 11 August • 12 August • 13 August • 14 August • 15 August • 16 August • 17 August • 18 August • 19 August • 20 August • 21 August • 23 August • 24 August • 25 August • 30 August • 31 August

SEPTEMBER (a busy month!! hold on!!!)

if you want some audio readings to help stay caught up, scroll down the archives of Cryptic Canticles’s Dracula Daily audio readings to get to any dates you may need

(note: in the tags, all months starting here and on use shortened versions with only their first three letters: sep, oct, nov)

• 1 Sep • 2 Sep • 3 Sep • 4 Sep • 5 Sep • 6 Sep • 7 Sep • 8 Sep • 9 Sep • 10 Sep • 11 Sep • 12 Sep • 13 Sep • 17 Sep • 18 Sep • 19 Sep • 20 Sep • 21 Sep • 22 Sep • 23 Sep • 24 Sep • 25 Sep • 26 Sep • 27 Sep • 28 Sep • 29 Sep • 30 Sep

OCTOBER (another busy month!!)

NOTE: OCTOBER 3 IS THE LARGEST ENTRY, OVER 50 PAGES. MAYBE START READING AHEAD IF YOU WANT. and again, you can scroll through the Cryptic Canticles archives to listen to any dates you need

• 1 Oct • 2 Oct • 3 Oct • 4 Oct • 5 Oct • 6 Oct • 7 Oct • 8 Oct • 11 Oct • 14 Oct • 15 Oct • 16 Oct • 17 Oct • 18 Oct • 19 Oct • 20 Oct • 21 Oct • 22 Oct • 23 Oct • 24 Oct • 25 Oct • 26 Oct • 27 Oct • 28 Oct • 29 Oct • 30 Oct • 31 Oct

NOVEMBER (NEARING THE END!!)

• 1 Nov • 2 Nov • 3 Nov • 4 Nov • 5 Nov • 6 Nov • 7 Nov • 9 Nov :)

SOME MORE BONUS TAGS

• prep (posts of people hyping Dracula Daily before it starts!)

• after (recaps, epilogue-ish non-November-7-specific posts, etc.!)

• ddn (posts that don’t really relate to any specific day and aren’t spoilery)

• other (Dracula-related posts that don’t directly relate to the story but may be spoilery for people who haven’t read it yet! like The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolks's posts. also basically a “miscellaneous” tag for posts i can’t otherwise figure out huehue.)

[rainbowsky]

I posted 2,523 times in 2022

1,768 posts created (70%)

755 posts reblogged (30%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@accio-victuuri

@rainbowsky

@significanceofmoths

@potteresque-ire

I tagged 2,509 of my posts in 2022

Only 1% of my posts had no tags

#ask - 684 posts

#wang yibo - 628 posts

#xiao zhan - 608 posts

#devastating dd - 318 posts

#chongqing beauty - 276 posts

#the mysteries of yizhan - 225 posts

#adorkable gg - 154 posts

#sdoc5 - 141 posts

#ggdd forever - 129 posts

#bjyx - 111 posts

Longest Tag: 131 characters

#thinking how sad it is that people rehearsing how to speak to each other in order to not look like an idiot is a trope in tv dramas

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

So I see a lot of bjyx saying things like GG denies all the rumors with li Qin and him dating and all the others but when it comes to DD he doesn’t do that so that automatically means something but in a county like CH it’s very hard for them to deny openly like this a same sex rumor about themselves especially how popular they are now so of course they would never do that even if there were rumors about them dating. And especially now with all the things that are changing there and them wanting to promote even more boy/girl romance and kinds stuff so it wouldn’t be in their best interest to deny them dating so openly like that…

And I just want to know what your thoughts are on the whole thing. Thank you 😊

What do I think, Anon? I think that this logic is so thoroughly contorted that it has a promising career with Cirque du Soleil. 😅

Fake, fan fiction, CPN.

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#4

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251 notes - Posted August 29, 2022

#3

DD was pictured promoting Yuehua's blind box figurines, and now the supertopics are full of hilarious memes fans have made from the photo. 😅

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#2

This clip on DD's dancing recently went viral on Douyin.

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[potteresque-ire]

Meta Series on "propaganda reblogs". This post is Section 2.

1) Introduction: why I am, for once, waving my candy-washing soap 2) Anatomy of a propaganda reblog, Part 1: the midnight timestamp 3) Anatomy of a propaganda reblog, Part 2: the ultrashort response 4) Beyond the propaganda: the significance (and tragedy) of events remembered by these posts 5) Conclusion: The Li Jiaqi Paradox

(Below the cut — Section 2: The Midnight Timestamp)

I'll start with the timestamps of these propaganda posts. I'm going to be a mean turtle for a bit, do some cleaning with my candy-washing soap.

Let's take a look at when Gg and Dd post on their personal blog usually, between June 1st, 2022 and today (August 2nd, 2022):

Local posting time, Gg, all non-political posts from 06/01/22 to 08/02/22 10:10, 10:10, 10:10, 19:50, 19:50, 10:01, 10:10, 10:13, 10:10, 22:00, 13:00, 10:10, 12:16

Local posting time, Dd, all non-political posts from 06/01/22 to 08/02/22 09:15, 10:00, 10:46, 09:00, 10:00, 10:10, 10:00, 19:10, 11:27, 10:00, 18:24, 16:51

These are working, "awake" hours: around 10 am is Gg and Dd's favourite time. But what about their reblogs of "propaganda posts"?

Local posting time of Gg's propaganda reblogs, shown in bold red, and a one-word summary of the event remembered by the propaganda post, in red. The difference between the reblog times on the image and my annotations is due to the 12-hour difference between China and my own time zone. Note that every timestamp was very close to midnight.

Local posting time of Dd's propaganda reblogs, shown in bold green, and the summary of the event remembered by the propaganda post, in green. The timestamps were also all very close to midnight.

The timestamps of Gg's and Dd's "propaganda reblogs" are all just past midnight, not the usual time they post things. Why?

Because these propaganda posts are often posted by CCTV (The Chinese State Broadcaster) at midnight — in the majority of cases, these posts celebrate, or commemorate, the anniversary of national events of importance, and so, CCTV (and sometimes, People's Daily, The Chinese State Newspaper) set the publishing time of the associated "propaganda posts" at 00:00, sharp.

Gg and Dd aren't the only stars who reblog the posts right away. As a random example, I chose Yang Yang 楊 洋 and checked the time of his reblogs:

Local posting time of Yang Yang's propaganda reblogs, shown in bold blue, and the summary of the event remembered by the propaganda post, in blue. The timestamps were also close to midnight. This may be a coincidence, but the last post, the one with 念 in the graphic, was reblogged relatively late — just like Dd's last post. Interestingly enough, the event 清明 was the least politically sensitive out of the bunch, with 清明 being one of the solar terms traditionally observed. While given a political significance by CCTV as a day to remember the fallen, 清明 has been a festival on which Chinese all over in the world — not just in mainland China — visit and clean the burial sites of their ancestors.

And so, here's my candy-washing soap (I'm sorry). While it is ordinarily 🤔🍭🤔🍭🤔🍭🤔 for Gg and Dd or their teams to post at similar times, it ... isn't as sweet at all for them to do propaganda reblogs at similar times. Because so many people do it; because the close-to-midnight timestamps are to show the reblogger, the star in this case, always has the dignity, the honour of their country in mind — their motherland's greatness, the tragedies and insults it has suffered even when they're supposed to be sleeping.

Propaganda posts are therefore far less showcases how any two of their rebloggers are loyal to each other, but showcases of how they're both loyal to the Chinese government.

(I know. I know. 😔)

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The "Propaganda Reblog" Meta Series: 

1) Introduction 2) The midnight timestamp < YOU'RE HERE 3) The ultrashort response 4) Beyond the propaganda 5) Conclusion: The Li Jiaqi Paradox

[scoobhead]

for years there's been literary debate about when exactly dracula takes place. there's a wide consensus that the novel happens at some point in the 1890s, but from there, there's no absolute agreement. some people believe the narrative happens in 1897, the year the book was published; some think the epilogue happens in 1897, placing the main events of the book at about 1890. dr. elizabeth miller - widely renowned as a dracula expert - argued adamantly for the main portion of the novel to take place in 1893, placing the epilogue in 1900. for a long time, i was a proponent of the theory that the story began the year after stoker published the novel, in 1898.

i've now come to the conclusion that all of these theories are wrong, and the entries from august 8 and august 11 prove it.

in this post i used the august 8 article about the storm that brought the demeter into whitby to attempt to put a year to the novel. the august 8 entry seems to have happened on a monday, and assuming this is true, the possible years that dracula could have taken place in the 1890s are 1892 and 1898 - which narrows the field substantially. (it also creates arguments for both 1881 and 1887, but i'm ruling them out as being too early to be plausible - stoker himself didn't visit whitby until 1890, which i would consider to be the earliest viable year.)

mina's august 11 journal entry describes a "full moon" on the night of the 10th/early morning of the 11th. for argument's sake (and to make our job a little easier), we'll assume that she doesn't mean a LITERAL full moon, but a moon that looks full or could be easily mistaken for one. 1898's august 10 moon phase was a waning crescent - not nearly full enough to meet our criteria - but the moon on august 10, 1892 was a waning gibbous with 95% illumination. we've cracked the case!! dracula (probably) takes place in 1892, and the epilogue happens in 1899.

did Old Bram put this much thought into the temporal placement of his gothic vampire novel? hard to say, but like. probably not. but I did! and loads of other people have! and i think it's neat that dracula daily led me down this fun little investigatory path of cross-checking moon phases and calendars and literary scholarship!!! that's ANALYSIS, babey!!!!

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

She thinks the vampire bite on her neck is just a couple of pin-pricks!

[afortuneforyourdisaster]

MCR:

pre mcr:

~ // 2001 (JAN-SEP)

bullets:

2001 // 2002 // 2003 (JAN-AUG~)

July 23, 2002 – I brought you my bullets, you brought me your love

revenge:

2003 (~SEP-DEC) // 2004 // 2005 // 2006 (JAN-MAR~)

August 31, 2003 – deal with reprise records announced

October 2003 – started working on revenge

June 8, 2004 – three cheers for sweet revenge

March 21, 2006 – life on the murder scene

black parade:

2006 (~APR-DEC) //2007 // 2008 // 2009 (JAN-MAY~)

April 10, 2006 – started recording tbp

October 24, 2006 (US) – the black parade

July 25-September 3, 2007 – projekt revolution

danger days (+ conventional weapons):

2009 (~MAY-DEC) // 2010 // 2011 // 2012 // 2013 (JAN-MAR)

May 27, 2009 — started recording dd

November 22, 2010 – danger days: the true lives of the fabulous killjoys

November 22, 2010 – the mad gear and missile kid

December 18, 2011 – every snowflake is different (just like you) on yo gabba gabba!

September 14, 2012 – conventional weapons announced

October 2012-February 2013 – two songs each month released collectively as conventional weapons (recorded in 2009 prior to the making of dd)

post break up:

2013 (APR-DEC) // 2014 // 2015 // 2016 // 2017 // 2018 // 2019 (JAN-OCT)

March 22, 2013 – breakup announced

March 25, 2014 – may death never stop you

September 23, 2016 – the black parade/living with ghosts

return:

2019 (NOV-DEC) // 2020 // 2021 // 2022 // 2023

October 31, 2019 – reunion announced

December 20, 2019 – mcrshrine (los angeles)

January 2020 – reunion tour announced

May 12, 2022 – foundations of decay

May 16-June 18, 2022 – eu leg: mcreden1-bonn2

August 20-October 29, 2022 – na leg: mcrokc-mcrwwwy3

November 18, 2022 – mcrmexico

March 11-March 26, 2023 – nz/au/jp: mcrauckland-mcrosaka

[nonbinary-morro]

I posted 3,656 times in 2022

That's 1,746 more posts than 2021!

94 posts created (3%)

3,562 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@/autisticsupervillain

@spin-in-time

@fernsehgerat

@/abraxas-calibrator

I tagged 3,642 of my posts in 2022

#reblog - 3,465 posts

#hs - 750 posts

#fave - 467 posts

#dhmis - 216 posts

#toh - 205 posts

#dc - 161 posts

#iz - 124 posts

#pokeani - 74 posts

#rc9gn - 70 posts

#vocaloid - 69 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#like. once a character has been assigned an incorrect quote or a vine. there's no going back. that's the archetype they're going to be boxe

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

and there were only 4 beds????....

(do not tag with lloyd ships please)

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#4

actually yknow what. fuck it i drew them

the robots

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#3

thick haired heros >>>

298 notes - Posted September 11, 2022

#2

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My #1 post of 2022

Morro wearing this jacket

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((no reposts please but reblogs are greatly appreciated :DD ))

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[dinnerthing]

i was tagged by the lovely @leesjieuns, thank you sm sher!!

name: lu

star sign(s): virgo sun, taurus moon, scorpio rising

height: 163 cm

time right now: 11 am

birthday: september 3rd

favorite band/artist: very surprisingly bts :DD 

last movie watched: black panther 2

last show watched: currently watching the eclipse, gap and the wrap effect

when i created this blog: created it in august 2022 and started really using it in november

what i post: kpop, tvshows and some other things when i feel like it 😌other blogs: i dont have another one i currently use

do i get asks? not rly !!

followers: 43

average amount of sleep: 8 hours or more if i can lmao

instruments: nope

what i am wearing: jeans and a tshirt and a hoodie

dream job: i don’t dream of labor  no but idk anything where i dont feel like dying and i can make somewhat of a living

dream trip: atm i would love to go to italy i havent been there in so long

favorite songs: rn lonely by RM, the astronaut by jin, kidult by seventeen

i tag: @fairytalespond, @cordiallyfuturedwight, @raplinenthusiasts , @rkivedfiles only if you want to, i hope it’s ok to tag <3

[the-average-procrastinator]

I posted 892 times in 2022

That's 291 more posts than 2021!

274 posts created (31%)

618 posts reblogged (69%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@the-average-procrastinator

@thisbibliomaniac

@egglygreg

@bluebellwren

@inkoutsidethelines

I tagged 798 of my posts in 2022

Only 11% of my posts had no tags

#tiff watches - 138 posts

#dd - 137 posts

#personal - 85 posts

#ignore me - 65 posts

#christianity - 56 posts

#art - 21 posts

#dracula daily - 21 posts

#tony stark - 19 posts

#fanart - 18 posts

#queue - 16 posts

Longest Tag: 94 characters

#also if you're saved and believe (which i presume a nun would be) you cannot be possessed :)))

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Once again, my brother is completely unhelpful

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#4

An attempt at some Lisa Frank dice

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#3

Sorry everyone, but The Mummy (1999) starring Brendan Fraser is a perfect film with no faults whatsoever, even including the cgi

64 notes - Posted October 31, 2022

#2

For the small amount of traffic my Etsy store gets, an alarming amount of people have liked the cursed furby notebook I made

79 notes - Posted October 11, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Ryan Gosling in The Gray Man is so funny bc no matter what horrible injury he's experienceing (being directly pepper sprayed, stabbed by scissors, stabbed by knives, falling out of a crashing plane, etc) his reaction to each is just :/

215 notes - Posted July 29, 2022

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