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first time following dracula daily is so fucking funny because every day i wake up to a new email and i’m like “oh great, wonder how my good friend jonathan harker is doing?” and i open it and jonathan harker is sweating bullets in his room as he writes in his diary shit like “today dracula’s head spun 360 degrees so i gave him a thumbs up. i fear this is my last entry and i am inconsolable”
#i am surely in the toils#yeah sure man let it out#dracula daily#jonathan harker#dracula#re: dracula
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I am surely in the toils.
-Jonathan Harker, Dracula by Bram Stoker
#bram stoker#dracula#jonathan harker#i am surely in the toils#book quotes#dracula daily#feeling this today
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First I lose my job, then my 15yr/old cat died, and now, my nonna, who sent me a quilt with my face on it, is upset I do not like it...
Hey, what the fuck?
#I am surely in the toils#at least it I was in Hell I could hunt down regan#haven't been this depressed in a minute so that's fun...#marketpeaches
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32 days since we last heard from our good friend Jonathan Harker.
0 days since we last listened to the ramblings of an old man with Mina.
#i like the old guy but i am surely in the toils over my friend jonathan#daily dracula#dracula daily#draculadaily#jonathan harker#mina murray
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Apparently I can meet my goal of roughly 400,000 words in 6 months if I just somehow write at least 2,200 words a day ghbjh... Almost 2,500 today... huzzah...
#Definitely not going to be able to stick with it just due to like... being realistic about my energy levels and etc. ESPECIALLY as we#enter the Evil Summer and it becomes hot all the time. But... one can attempt.. at least...#I'm also a very slow writer since I tend to re-read and edit while I write. and only move onto the next section once what I'm writing#seems okay. Which is easy for visual novel type stuff. since ''sections'' of a conversation are more clearly marked (like if you#have a menu option with 5 different dialogue choices. finish the character's response for choice 1 before moving onto 2. etc.)#Especially since when I'm done with a whole quest I always follow it up by playing through it and picking every option and making sure it#actually all works okay and etc. So I am already going to see it all a second time. Then I can go back and reorder a few words or remove#certain sentences that don't sound natural when I read them out loud (I always read it all outloud to myself since it is... just peple#talking.. it should sound like natural dialogue in their voice. etc). But my ''first draft'' is kind of not as first drafty since I pause t#edit a lot as I go along. So it also takes longer probably than it would take other people who I think treat a first draft as more#of a loose guideline or something. AANYWAY...#80F in my bedroom right now again... huzzah... I did end up finishing and recording that sims build video before the heat wave (or is#it really a heat wave if it's just summer..?? lol) came in.. but now... augh.. the editing... plus the costume photos and all else... Much#to do as always.. Often such a long todo list.. a giant scroll hung upon the walls of the evil hermit wizard tower..#Anyhow.. I hope I can finish getting ready for bed early in time to reward myself with a game of tripeaks solitaire whilst I snack on#cheddar cheese and some of those preserved artichokes in a jar. hrgm... I actually have nasturtiums (ultimate best flower) on the#deck again this year but I had to move them all into a corner today because the leaves were getting burnt by the sun lol.. Also am now more#cautiously weaving through social media to ignore all dragon age news. NOT bc of spoilers (I actually love spoilers/literally never play#any game until there's full guides on it I can read to plan my entire playthrough based on knowing exactly what I want to happen lol + mods#and etc.) but just because I'm so busy with my ownprojects I simply do not have the brainspace to dedicate... Yes I love to think#about elves and fictional universe lore. but no.. I pretend I do not see it. Does not exist to me actually. ghgj.. OHH also took som#cool pictures of flowers in the garden section of a store and I wanted to do like.. character designs based on the colors of the flowers o#something. but that might just be another unnecessary project to add to the pile.. I want to commit to the daunting task of dyeing my#hair again some time.. hrm.. this is all of the updates I can think of. As if a bunch of random tags make up for never posting anything for#weeks on end lol.. alas.. too warm to think properly I suppose.. .. I neeeeeed a long lost relative to leave me some million dollar#estate in their will so I can have the resources to move to a colder climate or something ..augh#.. but for now.. I shall toil away in my little wizard tower trying to write 2000 something words a day whilst sweating and such ghbj
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He can’t use ANY of the ideas we send him?? Or just the ones he posts? I would think between all the asks he gets surely there’s some stuff he was already planning on doing
hi anon! you can read more on neil's post here, but as far as i know, yeah he can't. it's also very hard to disprove any accusation of him using a fan's theory/idea, even if he hasn't actually seen it -- worse still if he has acknowledged it previously.
the article linked to that post about an actual case also says:
...since if they ended up using an idea randomly pitched to him on social media, even by accident, there could be grounds for a legal claim.
and a tweet from the writer in question involved:
...please do not provide story ideas; they can't exist where I post for legal reasons, so tweeting story ideas 100% guarantees that I won't use them.
anything sent in or even anything neil happens to see can be considered "pitches". i'm really not fully sure on the exact extent of this, but it would make sense for him to take every precaution to not get into legal trouble, so it wouldn't surprise me if he just decides not to use any ideas that have been sent to him at all.
(honestly, no idea how he manages to avoid all of them, it's a question i've had for a while too. i don't think blocking the good omens meta tag is sufficient for that. maybe none of us have even come close to what the plot of s3 will be lol)
but yeah, it's a miracle he's still on tumblr interacting with us considering the risks tbh.
tldr; shut up <3 don't send him ANY theories, and also don't ask him for spoilers please, do y'all really think he'll reveal anything. be serious
#fearandhatred#fearandasks#thanks for asking! hope i answered this accurately lol#also sorry for the kinda late reply i am toiling my ass off over 4 one and a half hour math lectures#and had to make sure i got my sources#good omens#good omens season 2#neil gaiman
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girl whose favorite part of the writing process is editing still believes every first draft she writes needs to be perfect. really embarrassing for her.
#i love editing! i love doing away with wordy clutter and finding a sentence that pulls an entire scene together!#so why then is it still so hard to just get the initial words down on the page#a shout into the void#i've been trying really hard to get myself on a writing schedule because these last few months of writers block have not been it#but i am learning that when you commit to writing 2000 words a day those words are a lot uglier#than 2000 words you toil over for two weeks#the creative process sure is fun
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reading dracula for the first time. why didnt you guys tell me how funny this was
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Hey how do y'all remember to like yourselves
Asking for a friend
#sprout rant#i am surely in the toils my dudes#sorry i vanished i swear to god im trying to get back#but my habds are not cooperating right now#i have like $10 to my name rn and its stressing me out cause normally i would draw to recoup money but they just won't work
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Truly sorry that I only post about fall out boy at the moment. Don’t know what the fuck is wrong with me and I never will. xx
#i am surely in the toils etc etc#i will make more gifs soon probably and. not just fob. other things! I promise!#you have to understand I’m seeing them in less than 2 weeks so I’m vibrating at high fucking speeds right now#anni rambles#have to assume you’ve unfollowed me already if it really bugs you lol. sorry xx
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Me trying to make sense of Mine Eyes Dazzle's timeline:
Me trying to make sense of the unexpected subplot that means a character has gained a cousin and a whole lot of family drama:
Me trying to make sense of how Yo-han ever finds out about this case:
#nerissa rambles#writing#my WIPs#WIP: dazzle#to quote my good friend Jonathan Harker: I am surely in the toils#the murder is committed in february. okay. that's fine. but HOW DOES IT TAKE UNTIL AUGUST FOR THE MURDERER TO BE CAUGHT???
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oh , great, the romantic attraction is here again, whoopee time to doubt my arospec identity and my life choices as pine over this random human person who I barely know, isn’t that just lovely? Btw I already *have* one ongoing already, so I’m starting to think destiny seeks to spite me. Also they have the same name. Lol.
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realising i’m not 100% cis right after my parents finally accepted that im gay but openly said they’d never accept me being trans #lol
#as jonathan harker once said i am surely in the toils#is it over for me ? maybe#anyways he/him pronouns kinda go hard#i’m fine with being butch#i think butch lesbian is more of my gender than girl ever was#lesbian#butch#nonbinary#journal
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‘I am surely in the toils’ is the fanciest way to say ‘fuck my life’ ever and I can’t wait to say it to the next person who asks how I am
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1 day since we last heard from our good friend Jonathan Harker.
0 days since Mina read the journal of Jonathan’s struggles.
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“Despair has its own calms” is an all time Jonathanism, right up there with “I am surely in the toils!”
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