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I tie a knot for everything, everything that goes right

I tie a knot

I untie a knot for everything, everything that goes wrong

Untie a knot

~ firewoodisland, ‘knot’

#killing words #untie it #take back my truths #music

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Scaffolding

by SEAMUS HEANEY

Masons, when they start upon a building, Are careful to test out the scaffolding; Make sure that planks won’t slip at busy points, Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints. And yet all this comes down when the job’s done Showing off walls of sure and solid stone. So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be Old bridges breaking between you and me Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall Confident that we have built our wall.

#poetry #seamus heaney #of love #the art of losing

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#heartbreak #never ends #music

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i have both shrike by hozier and love like ghosts by lord huron stuck in my head so you can IMAGINE the kind of day i am having

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Men are from Mars Women are from Venus.. and I’m from some off-world several systems away…

#rough night #life #i must live in some other universe

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(Maybe) birb: I may be pretty but I can still mess you up

This is like a caption me or a mood o̷r̷ ̷a̷ ̷s̷p̷i̷r̷i̷t̷ ̷a̷n̷i̷m̷a̷l̷

Or a̷l̷l̷ ̷3̷ ̷i̷n̷ ̷1̷.. 2 in 1

It would also be a good study in paint ~from afar, note to self: do not invade territory or resemble large prey as “friendly” is not even in their vocab..~scratches spirit animal off too~

#birbs #are scary #hozier #shrike #highly aggressive means be glad you’re as big as you are #trust me

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What book tiktok thinks "dark romance" is:

"he degrades her, humiliates her, abuses her, kidnaps her, assaults her, but he's so sexy and they fall in love ❤️"

What dark romance is:

whatever the Harkers have got going on

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“We have seen the agent, who was much impressed with Godalming's kindly manner to him, “

#dracula daily #how much money equals kindly? #in coins or pints

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Are we there yet…?

#dracula daily #this seems like a much longer trip #without recipes #and locals handing out crosses #wolves..even…? #are we lost?

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"Nay," she said, holding up a warning hand. "I am deeper in death at this moment than if the weight of an earthly grave lay heavy upon me!"

~ mina

#dracula daily #deeper in #too but #that little group of loving and devoted friends kneeling round #what would it be like to be loved and listened to like that? #i must live in some other universe #poor mina though #heavy choices

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Yay we’re going on a trip today!! to Varna

I hope there’s snacks and decent reads…

#dracula daily #because there’s no update #so have to make up my own #but..oh. this is not like vacay yay. #darn.

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The additional tags are perfect too

If we take seriously the idea of Jonathan being impossibly young then he's at the opposite end of the Drac Attack Pack from Seward, in a way that becomes really funny to me.

The calculation I have seen gives us Jonathan at 21 (apprenticed at 16 + 5 years for his exams). Jack is 29. There could be as many as 8 solid years between them.

Especially if Mina is like 22-23. Age gaps between husbands and wives were expected up to a point because women became marriagiable after puberty and men became marriageable once they had a career. This is why 29 year old Jack is courting 19 year old Lucy. He's also impossibly young to be where he is professionally, and he's only just now entering the Sexual Marketplace as it were. Whereas Jonathan and Mina are implied to have been together for years and years - the relationship began before they were financially ready for it. Probably Jonathan proposed in conjunction with qualifying for his exams - once I am a full-blown solicitor then we can finally get married!

So Jack meets Mina who's in her early 20s and expects her to be married to a man - well, about his age, if not older. But you know, a godlike paragon of Manliness, to not only have escaped Castle Dracula but also to have won such a woman.

And then Jonathan arrives and he's gotta be like. Oh. He's a Baby. That is a Human Child.

And then 3 days later they're in Picadilly and it's all Baby have a KNIFE! No wonder he's trying to be protective.

Or maybe I'm projecting because my reactions to both babies and 21 year olds are also:

HOW do you have so much energy?

WHERE did you get that knife?

I will protect you with my life

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3.

I know we’re 150-something days in and all.

And I probably should have asked this earlier.

But…. how in the heck can they all memorize dialogue so well to write it down later?!?

#dracula daily #in a world of suspension of belief. Yep. This is all i want to know.

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2.

“Alas, but that sentence is a puddle; is it not? “

~ van helsing

#dracula daily #another me daily

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A trio today

1.

“unless the ship were to touch the land, and then only at full or slack tide. “

~ dracula

meet background music supplied by my brain:

“It’s at the slack tide

Or when you can't cry

You follow the words

You follow the words from the caves”

~haux

#dracula daily #no i’m not fine #my head is noisy

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“and with it I have so much in memory of you that is sweet, that I take it all together. “

#dracula daily #rilke #last conversation #versus whole #memories

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Whoa.. ignoring tomorrow’s length in lieu of: those 152 days went fast. We’ve been tumblr book clubbing that long?

For those of you who want to visualize the length of tomorrows Dracula daily

We’ve received 89 days worth of entries so far, and have been on this journey a total of 152 days. In the top three positions for length so far we have

October 3rd ??? - 15,883 words

October 1st The Attack - 10,259 words

September 29th An Eventful Day - 9,034 words

For the worried of you, rejoice! There will be no entries in the future that top these 3 in word count!

#dracula daily #the summer was hazy blorbo mia sadness though