#rm spoilers

[hawkflight427]

Geez... the Smith family really does not deserve Morty... It broke my heart in the newest episode how the family treated this poor kid over spaghetti of all things... he deserves better for sure. It really speaks volumes to his character how he much he still loves them despite the way his own parents always neglect him and say such awful things to him. I really hope they explore this more in the future.

[boxwinebaddie]

bc i don't care about spoilers anymore, i want y'all to know that the climax of the south park portion of rm is at ike's winter formal where jersey is stuck wearing what sheila's brother or gerald wore to his prom in the eighties ( its giving downtown abbey, he looks like a founding father, help ) and is still mad as fuck at poor ravenstan, wolfing down punch ( he does not know is spiked, oof )

crimson dawn comes out, ravenstan is FITTED, bro like i put him in this badass emo boy red and black charro outfit because he's a legend with his red combat boots on and his eyeliner going crazy, ( ya i do think kenny and jimmy are in those 2007 scene shirts with the fake tie on them, marj looks like punk rock southern avril lavigne )

asks kyle to take him back, backflips into the splits says "HIT IT!" AND PROCEEDS TO DROP THE SICKEST BADDEST HARDEST POP GOES PUNK ROCK COVER OF STYLE BY TAYLOR SWIFT EVER.

[gofishygo]

i know that everyone says this but the mw3 rm soap death was shit awful . looking back at it, logistically , it shouldn’t have happened .

so the first injury in this was soap being shot in the right shoulder (most likely in joint tendon region) . pretty painful , and if did hit in the area i believe it did , would hinder mobility in the upper right region of the body (neck, arm, some torso muscles .

HOWEVER !! soap has proven to be shot in similar or worse regions in other missions and has been able to carry through and complete objective alive .

what you are seeing is a move that should have killed makarov instantly . this is a stab performed to the external jugular vein (and due to soaps experience , possibly a carotid artery . i was taught this attack in weapons studies , my friends in the military were also taught that this region is one of the quickest ways to krill . (not giving murder advice just trying to prove a point please don’t ban me) not to mention this is immensely painful . realistically , mans should have dropped then and there . not to mention there were sas soldiers who should have opened fire the second they saw him anyways ??

now THIS is the part that pisses me off the most. see makarov’s lock ? that actively engages the trapezius and scalene muscles , which would be DIRECTLY affected from the stab would . combined with the fact that soap is (estimated) 80-90 kgs , he would not have been able to perform that lock let alone hold it .

and with soap being part of the fucking MILITARY , he should have been able to get out of that by a) breaking the locked arm and using the other hand to either disarm / kill makarov (which he should have been able to handle , especially judging by the fucking alone mission) or b) hitting the back of makarovs knee to send them both to the ground, slip under him to not break his arm and hit em w the buck+trap+flip to get a vantage, and then continue the fight from there, which should be very short anyways considering that makarov’s bleeding out faster than a fucking SNAKE STRIKE . and somehow with the majestic force of activision giving less than 2 fucks about all the characters and medical theory there , makarov manages to get a straight aim and shoot soap straight through the ear ??!! and then bolt past a fuck ton of bullets that should have BEEN FIRED ON HIM EARLIER and then hurl himself INTO A TRAIN . if you wanted to kill of one of the leads in the modern warfare series , do it in a way that is well written and thought out and accurate .

[disco-tea]

I’m so upset I’m so upset because we immortalize Renfield as Dracula’s bug-eating minion. Dracula’s faithful servant. But do you know what he did? HE DIED PROTECTING MINA. He was the only one protecting Mina at the time. He died trying to selflessly protect somebody because they were kind to him. Because they treated him like a person. Because he couldn’t stand the idea of them being slowly drained and killed. He physically fought Dracula and it cost him his life. And maybe it’s just because I don’t know my Dracula adaptations all that well…but I don’t think how Renfield actually dies is talked about enough. I don’t think it’s appreciated how, here is somebody who believed they could prolong their life by consuming other lives…but in the end he GAVE his life for another.

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

babe are u ok? you barely touched your spiders

[spider-xan]

I'm happy to see all the meta this year, re: the parallels between Jonathan and Dracula at the castle versus Renfield and Seward at the asylum bc last year, it wasn't really a popular topic of analysis from what I remember, and without spoiling anything, I do think doing a read-through of Dracula last year put Renfield in a different light on a re-read, and it's honestly a relief to see Renfield being treated with more respect and sympathy this time around, as opposed to him being a joke character, prop for Seward's storyline, or his mental illness being stigmatized as something that makes him evil, creepy, and undeserving of sympathy and compassion.

Likewise, as someone who does like Seward as a complex and very flawed character, I'm glad to see more discussion about the way he and Dracula are foils to each other instead of such posts being dismissed as character slander - a lot of characters in the novel parallel Dracula in unique ways, so it's a legitimate topic of analysis if approached in good faith! - as well as viewing his treatment of Renfield in a more critical light bc while he isn't actively malicious in terms of intent, it was a little frustrating last year to see some of that critique reduced to how it's unfair to hold him to modern standards when his actions still nevertheless caused harm and some Victorian contemporaries would have seen them as wrong, not to mention that many of our 'modern' standards regarding mental illness are not progressive at all.

[picklepie888]

Dracula Mischaracterization Drinking Game

Sit down and watch the Dracula adaptation(s) of your choice, and take a drink anytime these common mischaracterizations occur.

Jonathan

Is combined with Renfield

Dies at the beginning

Is made into a generic male hero

Is a toxic partner to Mina

Barely has any presence at all

Never goes to Transylvania

Is made to be aggresive and "manly"

Mina

Is Dracula's love interest/reincarnated wife

Is indifferent to or hates Jonathan and/or Lucy

Is made into a one-note damsel in distress

Has none of her original intelligence

Is only there as "moral support" for the men

Is a prize to be won by the men

Is swapped with Lucy

Is married to someone other than Jonathan

Dies as a vampire or remains a vampire in the end

Dumps Jonathan for Dracula

Consented to the "Baptisim of Blood"

Jack

Is an old man/same age as Van Helsing

Is Mina's and/or Lucy's father

Isn't friends with Van Helsing or the rest of the Suitor Squad

Is the only present member of the Suitor Squad

Only there to be Lucy's doctor and has no emotional connection to her

Does all the research and work that Mina actually did in the original story

Van Helsing

Is way older or way younger than his original age

Is a badass action hero vampire hunter

Comes from/started a bloodline of famous vampire hunters

Is the only character other than Dracula from the book

Has a first name other than "Abraham"

Has supernatural powers

Is a woman/combined with Sister Agatha

Is the only one who knows Dracula is a vampire and has to prove it to everyone else

Is the one to kill Dracula

Is not Dutch in the slightest

Quincey

Is straight up nonexistent

Is combined with Arthur

Has so little relevancy he might as well not be there

Is British, or anything other than American/Texan

Is a shallow or douchey lover to Lucy

Has a futuristic descendent with more plot relevance than himself

Arthur

Is straight up nonexistent

Is combined with Jack, or Quincey, or Jonathan, or any combination of those

Doesn't contribute or is entirely absent in the staking vampire!Lucy scene

Is Lucy's or Mina's brother

Is a spoiled rich boy who barely contributes to the plot

Lucy

Is swapped/combined with Mina

Is Mina's sister

Is shallow/slutty/bitchy

Is a toxic friend to Mina/secretly hates her

Is framed by the narrative as deserving of her death at the hands of Dracula

Literally asked/invited Dracula to drain from her

Her plotline is ignored/never resolved

Is staked by someone other than Arthur

Is engaged/married to someone other than Arthur

Is actually canonically queer, but she still gets killed

Renfield

Is combined with Jonathan/goes to Transylvania instead of Jonathan

Is the secondary villain/straight up evil

Is way older or way younger than his original age

Remains loyal to Dracula throughout the whole story and never fights/turns on him

Never interacts with Mina

Is shown as "sane" at the beginning

Becomes a vampire at some point

The narrative tries to justify his mistreatment at the hands of Jack

Dracula

Is not "evil," just """misunderstood"""

Is actually the protagonist

His first name is Vlad

Appears and regularly interacts with the other characters throught the story

Is young/handsome/suave

Is here to "liberate" Mina from her "toxic"/"boring" husband

Is combined with Vlad the Impaler/some historical figure

Is obsessed with Mina specifically

Has all queer undertones stripped from him

Is not Romanian/his actor makes no attempt to sound Romanian

Is basically just a characature of Bela Logosi

Only kills the characters who "deserved" to die

Is hurt/killed by exposure to sunlight

Is Van Helsing's arch nemesis

Is friends with Frankenstein's monster

Never turns into anything other than a bat

[ibrithir-was-here]

Tada! Commission for @i-rove-rock-n-roll for a very cool Dracula sounding time loop/travel fic they have in the works featuring the characters who don’t make it through….

Thank you for commissioning me!

[treespen]

I know Lucy compared herself to Ophelia and that this is worrying, given the fact that Ophelia drowned and Lucy has been having drowning dreams but...

Jonathan has compared himself to Hamlet and Renfield was indirectly compared to Hamlet by Jack.

Sure, both Jonathan and Renfield are now madmen, as Hamlet was perceived. But they're not dead!

And Jack quoted Polonius, but he hasn't been stabbed!

[brotherdusk]

I can't stop thinking about how horribly, needlessly cruel dracula's attack on renfield was. like, there was never any hope of saving renfield’s life after the attack, but it was such a conscious decision on dracula's part to leave him there to linger and suffer for who knows how long instead of just killing him on the spot. it's the exact same need to torment his victims for as long as possible that allowed jonathan to escape - and the result is the same! jonathan lived to tell the tale and reveal dracula's plans to the rest of the squad, and renfield lived just long enough to report the attacks on mina. dracula in his hubris cannot resist taking that little extra effort to terrorise people, as he believes them all to be as powerless and isolated as the villagers he used to throw to the wolves

[seoul-bros]

Namjoon Spoiler King

Jikook kicking themselves for giving away too much. Now I am even more intrigued and impatient to see their fishy mukbang.

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Post Date: 05/12/2023

[abiscuit]

“Local girl with Renfield pfp distraught at his sudden death even though it was written over one hundred years ago and she fully knew it was coming”

[boxwinebaddie]

NINA?? THE CLIFFHANGER?? TF WHAT HAPPENED WHY R U EDGING US 😭

i fear it's the nina special, babycakes. i live for chaos and drama, which, because for some reason i am feeling run through my veins on this random, once tame saturday, i think i'll torture you a little more...

...With This.

( if you haven’t read this big ask, pls don’t read this yet. )

;)

[gofishygo]

ok ok fat disclaimer before i drop this take because i just KNOW this isnt gonna be received well , but

I AM NOT RACIST. I AM NOT RACIST. I AM LITERALLY NOT RACIST AND MY OPINIONS ARE NOT BASED ON RACE .

this is from a WRITING perspective, NOT PERSONAL PREFERENCE .

and now that we have established this, i will single handedly drop the take that will get my account mass reported and banned, and understandably so

as much as i love him , gaz dying would have been much better writing than soap .

think about it; he's the right hand man of price (one of the franchises most iconic characters and the lead protagonist of the series) , and is one of the most changed characters compared to the 09 versions . had some of the best writing and development throughout the series (apart from ghost and soap in mw2 but NOT mw3 they were just fuckin arounf the whole time) , and is arguably one of the most important and underrated leads . a death from him would have a huge effect on the team , especially price , and would make far more sense than soaps .

because in my opinion, soap was just fucking around the whole mw3 . made not a SINGLE smart decision (but not much characters did it was a battle of who could outstupid each other), and had less impact compared to gaz .

of course, we're changing the way he died and the final fight sequence because lets be real soap's death was one of the most underwhelming and medically inaccurate ways to die, but we should have killed him off like a main character. i would have much prefered gaz to die as the hero he was, and have some form of final interaction with price . let's create a sequel that is vengance in it's entirety, show the community the effects of tf141 without gaz that opens up so many plot potentials . because let's be real , that would have emotionally destroyed the whole fandom far more than the actual ending is , and created a far more interesting plotline .

ok hot take done please dont come after my whole bloodline please

[yooboointhemood]

I live, so I love

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[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

when drawing / picturing / imagining R.M Renfield, let's look at today's text for some clues:

wrenched out a window with his bare hands

scaled a high wall that Seward needed a ladder to climb over

described as "immensely strong"

took three to four other men (plus Seward?) to restrain him

So while Renfield has been traditionally cast and costumed and drawn, etc. as a scrawny, crazy l'il guy... what if in fact he's more, like... pick any of your favorite 40-something / 50-something movie star with a superhero physique?