catwingsathena

[catwingsathena]

@amtrak-official are you forgetting the cars? I live in a city and while there have been multiple murders in my neighborhood in the past month (although, in fairness, that isn’t normal for us, just a bad month), the thing that really scares me is the constant threat of getting run over by a giant hunk of metal.

(Also. I do get the potential horror of rural environments but what is scary about trees?)

#tumblr polls

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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers ❤️

1. Weather. In general. Especially now that the weather is changing so I get to appreciate varieties of weather I haven’t experienced in a while! The sky was very blue today and it was lovely 🩵

2. My church, and the community I have through it. It makes me so happy to have a place where all my enthusiasm and weirdness and visible difference are absolutely welcome.

3. My friends and family. @thethistlegirl @dragonsthough101 @hauntedsuns @runarelle @thefaestolemyname @starsandsupernovae @emthetimelady @tempestvista and everyone else on this webbed site I’ve ever connected with, plus the ones who aren’t on here, especially aquantumkitten and my parents and sister. I love you all.

4. My writing. I’m working on chapter twelve of the Giant Sprawling AU fic that is A World of His Own, and I’m having an excellent time with it, not to mention making friends (see above).

5. The fact that a) I just decided that an inside joke about Helen the Distortion as an armadillo has evolved to the point that my writing sideblog (@catwings-writes-things) needs a specific tag for it, and b) that the tag I came up with for this purpose was “helen the armadillostortion”. This probably isn’t as funny to anyone else as it is to me, but I’m getting a kick out of it.

#ask game #five things that make you happy #tildeathiwillwrite #thank you!

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Y'know, something that gets me, is that in the book, Dracula's intentional predation of Lucy starts off with an accidental meeting. Sure, Lucy slept walked, and an argument could be made her path might have been supernaturally influenced, but I say she'd already been a known sleep-walker, and she went directly to a place she was familiar with.

Her stumbling onto Dracula's hiding spot in a very vulnerable state was just an accident, and from there, he intentionally set out to harm her, and through that, everyone around her he could get.

This is sort of related to Jonathan, too. Had Mr. Hawkins not come down with a bad case of gout, Jonathan wouldn't have been sent to Castle Dracula in his stead. Sure, Dracula probably would have had his fun with Hawkins before inevitably killing him, but I doubt he would have drawn it out so long or taken so much delight.

Dracula never sets out with a master-plan to attack Lucy or Jonathan. They just end up in his path and spark his interest. We know that if he isn't interested in you, he'll kill you. He'll, he breaks Mr. Swales neck doesn't even bite him. But the two victims he decides he's going to make suffer the longest he possibly can, he just stumbles upon and goes "oh this will be fun". Later, we see him start choosing victims as a way to retaliate, but for the two inciting incident victims upon which the rest of the story hangs...its just wrong place wrong time.

The reason this struck me is that I was misremembering. For some reason, which I now believe due to thinking about the *through gritted teeth* Coppola film, is that Lucy is sort of hand-picked by Dracula to be his victim. And yeah, the fucking film ain't subtle in its blaming of Lucy's victimization on the fact that she was Too Pretty and Too Flirtatious and Dracula psychically drew her into the garden in a flowing diaphanous dress, but it's really her fault....I hate this movie.

Like, i just read the films Wikipedia plot synopsis, Dracula "psychically seduces" Lucy before biting her. He chooses her out of everyone in England deliberately.

And just...no. That's not what happens. Lucy got so stressed from her wedding that her latent sleep walking started again. Mina gets so tired from the constant stress she falls asleep without meaning to. Lucy went to their favorite spot...Dracula just happened to be there and took advantage and both Lucy and Mina weren't floating along softly into a garden with a fan letting their hair blow, but cold, scared, and covered in mud and blood, and forced to sneak back to the house that way, facing not only the supernatural but the very ordinary horrors of being caught outside at night by a strange man.

Idk. The tragedy is that Dracula didn't set out to fuck with these people. It's just that they were the ones who crossed his path that he took an interest in, and he decided to draw it out as long as possible.

(Oh fuck, this is the crew of the Demeter too. It isn't like Draculas got some big plan. He just decides he's going to play with his food. Had he boarded any other ship it would have ended up the same way.)

I guess in conclusion, I find it odd that adaptions seem to need to find a reason for him doing what he does. Like, Coppola has to conjure up a whole reincarnation backstory at one point, but I don't understand why!! Let Dracula just be an opportunist, his casual cruelty knowing no reason. That makes him scarier.

#it’s because some people insist on thinking life is fair #and therefore that if anything bad happens to someone it must be somehow their fault #victim blaming #sexual assault mention #dracula

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#88 #tumblr polls

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@thethistlegirl here you go

this is by far my favorite safety/warning sign btw. they really went off with this one

#hazard signs #tsunami man

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It means a lot to me that when people send heart emojis, they have a specific color/style they use. And heart they choose to use seems to really reflect that persons personality and how they love.

Actually, do me a favor. Reblog this with the hearts you typically use.

💜💜💜💜

#💚 #also hello to the first post i reblogged on tumblr! #it had the same idea anyway #reblog meme

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Any story claiming to be a deconstruction of fairy tales but has nothing to offer except new types of violence, more explicit sex, and a general attitude of “lol happy endings aren’t real” is like. such a cultural waste of time tbh

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i feel like i'm losing my mind why has the AI debate pivoted away from material/labor concerns back to debates about Real vs Fake Art. cannot express just how little i care about relitigating Art and high art and low art and skilled vs unskilled art. what i care about is the treatment and compensation of workers, the power corporations are exerting over intellectual property and creators, the continued extraction of resources, and the omnipresent glut of spam and disinformation with few or no regulations/resources that filter out the SEO AI generated nonsense

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#sexuality? 17. i’m ace. nothing too complicated there #romantic orientation? 21-25; still very vague #grey- and homoromantic? probably? sort of? #doesn’t feel super relevant tbh #tumblr polls #sexuality

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#do you need baby otters? yes you do #here you go

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when she says she doesn’t send nudes

#THANKS OBAMA 😂 #this is hilarious #sex mention #…ish #i genuinely have no idea how to tag this #oh well #too funny not to reblog

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gen fic appreciation post. i love you gen fic. i love you serious, plot-heavy gen fic. i love you funny, lighthearted gen fic. i love you angsty whump and h/c gen fic. i love you emotionally complex and intimate gen fic. i love you super long chaptered gen fic. i love you oneshot gen fic. i love you strictly canon adherent gen fic. i love you alternate universe gen fic. i love you crossover gen fic. i love you gen fic about queer identity and relationships. i love you found family gen fic. i love you gen fic.

(edited to add: by ‘gen fic’ this post is NOT referring to rating. it is referring to fic that is not about and does not prominently feature romance, regardless of rating.)

#i have reblogged this post before and i will reblog it again!

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I dreamt that there was a big online quiz that helped people figure out where they fall on the ace spectrum, what microlabels might apply to them and whether they're favorable / repulsed / indifferent etc. One of the questions was this:

and I think it was hilarious because yeah depending on where you fall it's usually one or two of these. Oh, you feel uncomfortable watching sex scenes in movies? Straight up puritan, danger to a progressive society 💀

#puritan. or child. #depending on how and whether my autism has entered the chat 🙃 #asexuality

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the tma fandom and its embrace of ace/aroace characters and relationships and qprs and everything is just. its so much to me. it means a lot <3

#YES #as a greyromantic asexual #and #as a person in a mixed-attraction vaguely-queerplatonic relationship #it legitimately means SO MUCH that i can actually find representation #of relationships and experiences that feel like mine #i’d never seen that anywhere #let alone portrayed positively #tma #asexuality #aromanticism #relationships #queerplatonic relationships

[catwingsathena]

💌send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back, you must be pretty awesome.💌(Feel free not to send to anyone!!!)

Awww, thank you!!

#asks and answers #nade2308

[catwingsathena]

💌send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back, you must be pretty awesome.💌(Feel free not to send to anyone!!!)

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#asks and answers #thank you thistle!!!

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Am I getting a good grade in tumblr mutual?

#reblog meme #💚