#trap daily

[graceoartyo]

to commemorate the start of @gravity-falls-daily , here’s the twins arriving at Gravity Falls for the first time!

[daily-crabbys]

Today's crab is: weird little thing

[almondcroissantsandink]

i've been hearing some very disconcerting things from my friend jonathan. that is, when i hear from him.

[sealsdaily]

Today's Seal Is: British Showpiece

[draculasweedsmokinggirlfriend]

Me reading Dracula for the 6th time and finding out Our Good Friend Johnathan Harker is actually still alive:

[heartscrypt]

link click twewy au upon ye

[kosmical]

hello my beloved followers

[drac-kool-aid]

Seward's bone deep desire to run away from the asylum is not exactly surprising. There have been a lot of really good meta posts about how the return of Van Helsing into his life is the turning point where we see the caring and good side of him and how we can interpret his life as a student in Amersterdam as one of freedom and happiness. How he is part of the tragedy of manners, how strict social expectations allow Dracula to persist, and how they only exacerbate the unhappiness of the characters.

And I think the tragedy of Seward is that, really, he should not be the head of an asylum. It's a job that brings him no joy, and he's BAD at it. We can all recognize that if your first reaction to going back to work is "What if I just leave it all." That isn't a healthy work environment.

Now, in the modern day, the ability to pick and choose a work environment, even to leave one that is damaging your mental health, is a privilege. (IT SHOULDNT BE, but it is). And, although it is definitely reaching crisis levels in modern times, major changes in your career have almost always been difficult (unless you are really rich, or a particular brand of academic in the 17th-18th century, or both).

Seward can't just leave and become a surgeon. To give up the lofty position of "Head of an Asylum" would be unthinkable in the 1890s, especially for a reason like "Being here is basically turning me into the Joker." Like, how would Seward explain that in polite society? Would they accept that reasoning? Would they create salacious gossip if they didn't? Can Seward leave his position without losing a great amount of social capital?

Probably not.

His rise to head of an asylum, as many have pointed out, was meteoric, to say the least. It has afforded him status and respect and also left him deeply, deeply fucked up. And he can't leave!

I think his desperate attempts to quantify Renfield's behaviors into a new mental illness are telling in this regard. Maybe he is too used to having to meet some sort of expectation, and now he thinks this is the logical next step (It's NOT, but I digress). The feeling of having to keep performing above expectations, grasping at straws to do so, and subsequently burning oneself out (as well as others around you) and engaging in unethical practices? Idk. It sounds like something that would happen today. (tbh there are probably a ton of Sewards out there today, as there are still systemic problems within the mental health system that allow for the dehumanizing and abuse of patients).

It doesn't excuse his behavior. Nothing he does to Renfield is excusable, but I think it does explain some of the *why*. He isn't just cruel for cruelty's sake.

So, tldr I guess: I think reading Seward as someone who got stuck on a career path that he realized was unfufilling and that he ends up hating. Social conventions restrict him from just quitting without and a (socially acceptable) good reason to do so, and a lifetime of being regarded as one of the smartest people in the room means he can not allow himself to fail. Unfortunately, this also means he can not admit when his actions or his ideas are wrong when it comes to his job.

(But he can show that uncertainty FOR Lucy, and TO Arthur and Van Helsing, which speaks his trust and love for them)

[dailypearldoodles]

Day 306

So like, astral beings, right?

[dayurno]

kevin is funny and perfect he knows very well the effect he has on a man's psyche and he uses it to his advantage several times while remaining (?) perfectly heterosexual (?). the canonical pretty face that fucked jean over & sent riko to an early grave & made andrew take on the mafia. first male femme fatale

[immediatebreakfast]

Oh captain, you did your duty well.

But I am captain, and I must not leave my ship. But I shall baffle this fiend or monster, for I shall tie my hands to the wheel when my strength begins to fail, and along with them I shall tie that which He—It!—dare not touch; and then, come good wind or foul, I shall save my soul, and my honour as a captain.

This part is so heartbreaking, yet so important in the theme of what defines faith in this book. Our captain has believed that the deaths of his crew were man made, and even believed yesterday that it was all the first mate's doing after seeing jump aboard. doesn't have any knowledge about vampires, maybe about some of his local folklore, but by working in the sea those tales have no use for a captain like him when the water itself is a far more dangerous beast.

However, even if the captain doesn't have the methods that the Transylvanian locals had, nor any knowledge whatsoever, he fully understands that Dracula is akin to a demon. So, what can a man made of flesh and blood do in front of a supernatural being made of pure evil? Put his trust, and his faith into the power of god, and all of the saints. He ties the rosary with the cross along with the rope on the wheel as a way to not protect all of himself, but his hands, so Dracula cannot touch them.

If we are wrecked, mayhap this bottle may be found, and those who find it may understand; if not, ... well, then all men shall know that I have been true to my trust. God and the Blessed Virgin and the saints help a poor ignorant soul trying to do his duty...

The captain trusts all heaven to guide him either to a wreck, or to guide into what is beyond his understanding. Drifting in the vast waters of the world to keep this demon from doing what it did to his crew.

The captain may die tied to the wheel of the Demeter, but no one will dare to say that he didn't do his duty.

[doriansredroses]

Disney should go back to using 2D animation and create a Dracula musical film, allowing Jonathan Harker to be the Disney Princess he truly is.

[bloodfin]

I personally think that Catholic-in-life Phantom Ghoul has the best curse alternatives. See below:

Stubs toe: "Lucifer's taint!"

Annoyed: "For the love of Satan's sack."

Angry or surprised: "Son of a six-winged-harlot!"

Disappointed: "You muppet."

Instead of the fuck word in pleasure, has been caught saying:

glorious

dazzling

sensational

Dew had to take 5 the first time Phantom called his cock splendiferous. Rain and Swiss wouldn't have believed him if they weren't in the room to hear it.

Will also unironically use movie/pop culture/vine references instead of expletives ie:

You hamster!

Eat my shorts -

Will never say christ, only Chrysler

You are ✨️StIlL A PiEcE oF gArBAgE✨️

You're killing me, Smalls. (Dew hates this in particular)

Dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow.

Way to go, Paul. (Aether is so confused, no one in the entire ministry is named Paul)

[count-skribula]

God, todays entry is one of the scariest to me

Just the initial sadness of realizing a child was killed, and then seeing the grief of her mother before the horror of her being ripped apart by wolves

And Jonathan not even feeling pity because he felt death was a better date than knowing how her child died

It’s just SO horrific

[daily-property-police]

Day 590- HUEYEHEHRGEHEHHEEHEHHEAGAGERGGEA

[tiredbread]

Im here representing the weeds and the wildflowers