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About 90% of my adulthood conversations with my mother were just the “you get how that’s worse, right?” meme on a loop. I am in the firm stance that the only people who should be having children are the ones who cannot be happy without kids, and I am firmly not in that group. I don’t like children enough to have one in my house 24/7. One time I brought this up with my mother, she pulled out the classic “oh, but you’ll like them when they’re yours :)”
I brought up that this clearly didn’t work for dad either, he never liked kids and never learned to like them either. We might have gotten along as adults but I never found out about that since he died when I was 17, but I clearly recall how much he hated everything about children acting like children. Dad didn’t like kids, he tolerated his own.
And mom just replied “oh, it’s not that he specifically disliked children, he just didn’t like people :)” and I was there just like. Why did you have children with this man.
Kinda in love with the idea that different places on other sides of the world can look so similar. Something something universal human experiences
Like. Kyrgyzstan and Switzerland?
Miami and the Gold Coast (in Aus)
New Zealand and Oregon
The great plains and the Russian steppe
India and fiji
Gonna consolidate a couple additions/recommendations from others
Napa Valley, California and Tuscany, Italy
Appalachians in America and the Grampians in Australia
Black sand beach in Iceland and New Zealand
Aurora borealis and australis
Congo and Amazon rainforest/river
desert roads in Australia, South Africa, Argentina, and Mexico
Mountains in France and Korea
It’s not turn-based but there is actually a game that is 100% this.
It’s called Kingsway, and it’s an active-time-battle roguelite. And it’s designed to look AND PLAY like windows 95. And I don’t mean it plays like a windows 95 game, I mean it plays like the operating system itself. Window management is a key part of the game! Often you have to juggle many windows and pop-ups to avoid getting hit or curses or whatever.
Like, when they cast a curse on you, it pops up as a small dialog box, often behind the main window, and you have only a few seconds to click AVOID to it.
The game doesn’t pause when you do inventory management, and you often have to manage a lot of bags at once. That’s hard to do in real-time, since each one is a separate window. The game uses the Windows 95 UI as part of the difficulty!
It’s a lot of fun and I highly recommend trying it out. Currently 10$ on steam, often drops down to like 5$ when there’s a sale. Check it out.
Young man goes out, sees girls, one tries to kiss him not on lips but throat, Old Count interferes - rage & fury diabolical - This man belongs to me I want him.
What appears to be the earliest draft of the scene with the three girls. Found in Stoker’s notes for the novel. Written on March 8, 1890 (one of the few dates for his notes we have).
“Why, this beats even shorthand! May I hear it say something?”
a commission of jack and mina from the scene where he’s showing her the phonograph!
I know the “You never love” / “Yes, I too can love” lines were some source of titillation last year and I didn’t really understand what exactly the sisters and Dracula meant by it, but on second read I think I understand now.
I think when they say “love,” it’s a euphemism for getting possessive. Staking a claim on an individual. It’s not romantic or even platonic love, it’s the sense of entitlement you might feel over something you want badly. It’s like when you really really really want the corner piece of a birthday cake and you call dibs on it and get unreasonably upset if someone else steals it. It’s like Agamemnon and Achilles fighting over Briseis. It’s not romance, it’s ownership.
So the impression I’m getting is that Dracula warned the sisters to stay away from Jonathan and they didn’t take him seriously because he doesn’t do this basically ever, the whole keeping a human victim prisoner and toying with them for an extended period of time for the pure fun of it—hence why they say “you never love.” This is new behavior, which honestly makes Dracula scarier. A predator breaking from his established pattern is unpredictable and therefore harder to defend against.
I agree with this post in that I also think Dracula was planning to just use Jonathan’s legal services and then kill him. Remember, he was originally expecting it to be Mr. Hawkins who came out to meet him, an old man he could use at his convenience and then dispose of when he no longer needed him. He wasn’t expecting to get young, earnest, fresh-faced Jonathan, someone so much more inexperienced, someone who hasn’t yet been
corruptedjaded by the world. Dracula preys on youth and innocence, if the sisters and [redacted] are anything to judge by. On top of that, Jonathan is smart enough to keep it interesting—he not only recognizes that he’s a prisoner of something inhuman, he recognizes that he can’t confront him directly for a variety of reasons. I have to imagine Dracula likes that. He likes that he gets to play this game with his new toy, seeing how much he can take before he cracks.So the sisters don’t initially take him seriously because this isn’t something they’ve seen from him, or rather, they seem to have forgotten that he got like this with them, too. Dracula normally only keeps them around until he’s gotten what he wants, and then he kills then; he doesn’t hold onto them for weeks on end just to drag it out and have his sadistic fun with them.
So yeah, Dracula “loves” Jonathan, just like you’d love a new novelty item and then discard it when it loses its appeal.
Precious man (not in black!) sighted ❤ (x,x)
Neil Gaiman: Hi, I’m Neil Gaiman. I’m wearing the first red T-shirt I’ve worn since 1987. Because I’m a member of the WGA. I’m on strike. I care so much for the things that I’ve written but I’m out here right now not working and here until we get a good contract because I care about the future of the WGA, the future of young writers. I want a world in which no AI writes scripts or attempts to. I want a world in which young writers get to learn how to make television. And I want a world in which we are fairly compensated for the things that we put up on streaming.
YOU – “My hungry ass could never be a brain surgeon.”
KIM KITSURAGI – The lieutenant’s tone borders on desperate. “What do you mean? What do you mean by that?”
Then the Count turned, after looking at my face attentively, and said in a soft whisper: “Yes, I too can love.“
Oddly specific. Got a deposit for 6,837 today
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