#i salute their service

[boyrobott]

mad respect for all the character designers on the 2003 series who had the nerve to just straight-up say “yeah the villains are going to be hot actually”

[mihai-florescu]

When will people realise that fandom surveys conducted on twitter will never reflect the reality of a fanbase, and it's nothing personally offensive to anyone to point this out...oh well.

[the-owl-tree]

Do ypu ever think about how Hollykit didn't want to be a med cat because she was interested in herbs and healing and starclan but because she wanted to be important? But then as she grew she realized "wow I suck as this, it's much more important to make sure I'm good at my job" and swapped to a warrior apprentice? But she never shook the idea of "I need to be important and valuable to be worthy of others time" but starclan never intended that hollyleaf be important, she was just another tool for them to further the prophecy

GRRRRAAGGHH GRRRRR UGUGFJGJGGJGJ EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tswwwit]

Hi, I might have asked you this already, but I'm not quite sure, so I'll ask again: Do you have any up to date like master list of all your familiar AU stuff? Also, would you consider putting everything up in AO3? Love you and your writing!

I don't have one - but @weirdeggi does! Here's the link.

[incorrect-supercorp]

I would like you to know I shall be stealing from your blog to add things to supercorp fanfic thank you much

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no i'm kidding yes go ahead most of these are adopted from shows too so

[elvislefilm]

I wonder if Will ever asked Hannibal what his bodycount was...

I wonder if he laughed

[vulpinesaint]

I will not ask you to play it because I don't think I've seen you talk about games a lot but I will recommend looking into bloodborne's whole thing and just going insane

I WANNA PLAY BLOODBORNE SO FUCKING BAD. like not actually because i don't play video games really haha but the premise of bloodborne makes me go crazy and i need to get way more into it. i watched that one video essay about visceral femininity and it made me go crazy for real. i just need to get deeper into it to go Insane. every monster design i see from it lights something up in my brain and the central concept of the blood.... oh god.

you know what anon. you've done a good job. cause now i Will actually buy bloodborne and play it i think. there's a sale on the complete edition and everything... i need to get into the blood that makes you more monstrous the more you commit yourself to the holy sacrament but has you convinced that you need more of it to remain healed and pure. shaking a little bit

[grendelsmilf]

the afterparty s1 was so fucked up for being like “here is how every character’s life is so mundanely tragic except for the one guy everyone hates who became successful by being a racist, misogynistic asshole and exploiting his inherited wealth. now you will feel a sinking pit at the bottom of your stomach as you continue to watch this show knowing that someone is going to go to prison for life for doing something that is actually very noble and a net positive to society. also here’s a random episode of xtreme copaganda, instead of letting tiya sircar have her own episode, just because”

[questor-thews]

cavendish girlies are for real the strongest and bravest people on earth for babygirlifying a man who looks like this. he’s even british

[diamondsheep]

HI PETER !! ASFJHKGLDKGS !!

Thank you for voting for my beloved pirates 🏴‍☠️ 💖

asjfkgks and always remember to vote for the reindeer or the green haired swordman since they are my faves .. uh i mean the correct answer 🤣✨

[kissingagrumpygiant]

"Vhagar had a war flashback" is my favorite joke of all times i literally cant stop thinking about it

[sweetpeapoppy]

God bless all men who choose short shorts

[downtroddendeity]

Stoker Accent to English translation

Had some positive responses when I mentioned this, so for the benefit of Dracula Daily newcomers and anyone else who's curious, I figured I'd transcribe some of the annotations from my dead tree copy explaining Mina’s elderly friend Mr. Swales' dialogue. The dialect he's using is from Yorkshire, though I've always worked from the assumption that Stoker probably did about as well at representing how people from Yorkshire talk as he did Texans and Dutch people. This is all in Chapter 6 in the actual book, and these annotations are by Brooke Allen in the B&N Classics edition.

From the July 24th entry:

"I wouldn't fash masel' about them, miss. Them things be all wore out. Mind, I don't say that they never was, but I do say that they wasn't in my time. They be all very well for comers and trippers, an' the like, but not for a nice young lady like you. Them feet-folks from York and Leeds that be always eatin' cured herrin's an' drinkin' tea an' lookin' out to buy cheap jet would creed aught. I wonder masel' who'd be bothered tellin' lies to them—even the newspapers, which is full of fool-talk."

fash masel means "trouble myself"; feet-folks are people who travel on foot, in this case tourists; and creed aught means "believe anything."

"I must gang ageeanwards home now, miss. My granddaughter doesn't like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees, for there be a many of 'em; an', miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock."

gang ageeanwards means "go toward"; crammle aboon the grees means "go upstairs"; belly-timber is "food"; and sairly means "sorely" or "badly."

From the August 1st entry:

"It be all fool-talk, lock, stock, and barrel; that's what it be, an' nowt else. These bans an' wafts an' boh-ghosts an' barguests an' bogles an' all anent them is only fit to set bairns an' dizzy women a-belderin'."

The sentence "translates" as: "These curses and spirits and ghosts and bogie-men and the the like are only fit to make children and dizzy women cry."

"They be nowt but airblebs. They, an' all grims an' signs an' warnin's, be all invented by parsons an' illsome beuk-bodies an' railway touters to skeer an' scunner hafflin's, an' to get folks to do somethin' that they don't other incline to."

The old man goes on to talk about beuk-bodies, which are book-people or pedants. [Hi!] His phrase to skeer an' scunner hafflin's means "to scare and shame halfwits."

My gog, but it'll be a quare scowderment at the Day of Judgment when they come tumblin' up in their death-sarks, all jouped together an' try'm to drag their tombsteans with them to prove how good they was;

The part of the sentence "translates" as: “it’ll be a queer mess at the Day of Judgment when they come tumbling up here in their shrouds, all jumbled together and trying to drag their tombstones with them.”

some of them trimmlin' and ditherin', with their hands that dozzened* an' slippy from lyin' in the sea that they can't even keep their grup o' them."

*Withered.

"Yabblins! There may be a poorish few not wrong, savin' where they make out the people too good; for there be folk that do think a balm-bowl be like the sea, if only it be their own. The whole thing be only lies. Now look you here; you come here a stranger, an' you see this kirk-garth." 

yabblins means “perhaps”; a balm-bowl is a chamber-pot and a kirk-garth a churchyard

"And you consate that all these steans be aboon folk that be happed here, snod an' snog?" 

snod an’ snog means “snug and cozy”

Look at that one, the aftest abaft the bier-bank: read it!

the bier-bank is the churchyard path

I have me antherums* aboot it!

*Doubts.

I tell ye that when they got here they'd be jommlin'* an' jostlin' one another

*Pushing.

But that's because ye don't gawm the sorrowin' mother was a hell-cat that hated him because he was acrewk'd—a regular lamiter he was—

gawm means “know”; acrewk’d is “crooked”; lamiter means “cripple”

'Twarn't for crows then, for it brought the clegs and the dowps to him.

the clegs and the dowps are “the flies and the crows”

and won't it make Gabriel keckle when Geordie comes pantin' up the grees with the tombstean balanced on his hump, and asks it to be took as evidence!

keckle means “laugh”

From the August 6th entry (not out on Dracula Daily at the time of this posting):

We aud folks that be daffled*, and with one foot abaft the krok-hooal**

*Crazy or stupid. **One foot in the grave.

Ye see, I can't get out o' the habit of caffin'* about it all at once; the chafts** will wag as they be used to.

*Chafing. **Jaws.

But don't ye dooal an' greet,* my deary!

*Mourn and grieve

[the-owl-tree]

I’m a masc bi man and my partners a fem gay man and it always cracks us up when ppl share their weird homophobic definitely not based on reality Hot Takes online especially the ‘hetero passing’ nonsense w gay/bi relationships. i wanna know where the huge amount of masc/fem gay relationships are in media.. i would like to see them.. it’d be so great to see more relationships like my own in fiction.. too bad it’s not actually More Palatable to cishets so it barely exists either. it’s wild to say using butches as ur example too it makes it more obvious ppl just repeat things without thinking about it all like can u even name a butch in mainstream media. at all. wc confession anon if u r a kid please get better friends ur hanging out with losers and if u r not a kid. embarrassing

Not my place to assume anything anon, idk what they're going through how or anything so I'm gonna veer away from personal attacks (and would prefer if other people did the same). But like, yeah, not a great take. It's obviously media focused, and there's a lot to criticize there, but i think that implying butch/femme (hc's nonetheless, not the actual characters) falls into that sort of lens is....not it and did not sit well with me.

[sugared-violets]

had to share this. the gays stay fucking winning!!!

[baby-hush-hush]

Went back to Wattpad and read the things I used to read and Omygosh they were so cringe, I can't read those books nowadays because AO3 has spoiled me. But, I'm so glad younger me got to experience those fics, they made me so happy back then and even now just going back and looking at the stuff I read makes me nostalgic. Not nostalgic enough to sit and read through them again, but reminiscing how they made me feel is really nice.

To all the Wattpad, AO3, fanfiction.net, Tumblr, Quora, LiveJournal, Reddit, etc. Authors out there, thank you for giving me joy during those challenging days of my first year of high school. It was literally my life line for a while.

I HAVEN'T STOPPED READING THO, YOU STILL GIVE ME SO MUCH SEROTONIN PLEASE NEVER STOP.