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~ Pictorial Medical Guide, by Forty-Two Leading Specialists, N. Henry Moss, Ed., 1964

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YAO as Bo Chow SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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cyberpunk in kiroshi film - 24/?

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So, Jonathan has three letters to be mailed on the dates you specified, the last one being June 29. Do you uh, have anything marked on your calendar that day? Aside from "send third mail"?

Only the necessary arrangements: there are bags to be seen to, and a carriage to be readied. The Slovaks and the others come early, and by dawn all must be in place. As for that evening...I should like to take one last supper before I depart.

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It sure is a great thing that according to those genuine letters that Jonathan absolutely wrote on his free will say that he has started his journey home on June 20th. Count Dracula himself bears him to the Borgo Pass to meet the diligence from Bukovina to Bistritz. How nice!

So polite of him! Can't wait to see Jonathan at home in Exeter again, safe and sound :)

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Will forever be obsessed with Jonathon “I love my wife” Harker and Mina “train fiend” Harker

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by Carrie

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sorry i was researching the author of a victorian book about raising children and now i'm fascinated by her. clear my schedule we're talking about lydia maria child.

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Book of Hours from Brittany, France, mid 15th century

from The Burrell Collection, Glasgow

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See, this is where Mina comes in. Seward is failing miserably at being a decent doctor to his patient. Dealing with his own mental health falling apart doesn't help either.

But the moment that Mina steps into the asylum she not only places Renfield as the last piece of the puzzle thanks to her deductions after listening to the phonograph entries, but she treats Renfield with dignity and empathy (she lived with Jonathan who was also a screaming madman of delusions). Seeing how differently Renfield reacts with Mina absolutely flabbergasts Jack Seward. It's no wonder that when Renfield begs to be listened to it falls on deaf ears with Mina sidelined, and disaster strikes because of the combination of the two.

Mina has a superpower that Seward cannot comprehend

✨️ empathy ✨️

Without Minas compassion the story would be so different

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whoa whoa whoa, are you enjoying yourself right now? rookie mistake. you're supposed to be afraid and angry... yeah no all the time. how else will you prove you care about all the problems?

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genres i'm tired of:

"feminist retellings" of stories that can already be considered feminist in their own right

"feminist retellings" that fumble the "feminist" plotline so bad it just turns misogynistic

"feminist retellings" that still center around and hinge on men

"feminist retellings" written by people who don't understand what feminism is

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boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture

interesting take from a fictional 14th century monk: torture is bad because it's basically sex

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Etchings of tigers by Herbert Thomas Dicksee (1862-1942)

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pope francis it is your moral obligation to make the entire ocean holy water. the devil cannot be allowed to surf

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Oh I really like your take about Dracula's daemon being an eagle! It fits him, I don't know much about his personality of course because we do not see his backstory but Van Helsing describing what he found about his life is describing Dracula as someone imperial, imposing, intelligent, proud, extraordinary, powerful, respected, of a noble bloodline, but it's too bad he chose to study under Satan and everything. So eagle is very fitting.

The eagle (sometimes double headed like Austria-Hungary) was used by many European nations since the Roman Empire times after all, including Transylvania itself since the 16th century. Though in Transylvania it's a black eagle instead of golden (the golden eagle is a Romanian symbol instead.) Hungary has a mythic eagle-like symbol too (Turul).

Glad you like it :)

I think what's important for me is that even by the moral code of a medieval nobleman, Dracula has failed. I mean, obviously he's a villain to the reader, and to Jonathan and Mina and so on, but I think human-Dracula might also be disgusted by how low vampire-Dracula has sunk. And giving him an aspirational daemon would help to underline that.