#nothing could have prepared me for this.

[stil-lindigo]

scorched earth.

a comic about a princess who died in a fire.

(this is a sequel to bite of winter, a comic about Snow and what became of her after her death.)

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#cw: blood #cw: beheading #cw:death #cw: gore #cw: burning alive #so nice of ash to have prepared a barbequed buffet ready for snow when she arrives #if it wasn't made clear enough ash did die in that fire #she just did it while taking down as many people as she could in the process. and now shes a smoke monster #and yes. the fire powers do imply she's not quite human. but shes human enough to fall in love and die and thats enough. #im sorry this comic took me so long. i had about a week where i was very depressed and nothing got done. #thank you for your patience #and as always #thank you for reading #comic art #sapphic art #lgbt #horror #somehow not as scary as snow but ash is still fearsome in her own way #stillindigo art #stillindigo comics

[thirddagger]

Liam O'Brien posting this gorgeous @babsdraws art hit me like a truck

#nothing could have prepared me #😳😳😳 #is so BEAUTIFUL OH MY GOD #critical role #vax'ildan #liam o'brien #vaxleth #keyleth #marisha ray #babsdraws

[yabishrihere]

Lord help me I’ve got a problem… well, a few actually

#halsin #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 halsin #oak father preserve me #bg3 spoilers #bg3 #oakdaddy #lord help me #im a simp #I need more fan art of him because I’ve done saved it all #mount halsin #nothing could prepare me for the scene that unfolded before my eyes #if I had a nickel for every baldurs gate man I fell in love with I’d have too many nickels

[kedreeva]

I saw this and of course my first thought was of you! I had never seen one of these before, but it's so pretty!

literally nothing could have prepared me for the text accompanying this screencap.

#it was blurred out at first because tumblr #and I had no idea what I was going to see #I assumed something peafowl related #but literally nothing could have prepared me #for this woman talking about her bulldog's sweaty ballsack #amazing #asks #peacocks #thank you for sharing

[amanitacurses]

"Okay! Off to change the past, then!"

#terukane #minamoto teru #aoi akane #jibaku shounen hanako kun #jibaku shounen hanako kun spoilers #jshk akane #jshk teru #jshk #jshk spoilers #NOTHING COULD HAVE PREPARED ME FOR THE INFORMATION WE GOT ABOUT THE NEW-PRESENT. #I can't believe Teru and Akane are in their break-up era... #Teru looked s t a r t l e d at the thought of his “new situation” with Aoi #Akane went through all 500 stages of grief on the student council floor #toilet bound hanako kun #tbhk teru #tbhk akane #tbhk

[jimmysea]

LAWS OF ATTRACTION (2023) Episode 5

#laws of attraction #tinnchan #jamfilm #jam rachata #film thanapat #nothing and i repeat NOTHING could have me prepared to tinn flirting back #marigif

[forestborg]

Learning to trust people is hard but at least tiddy is soft

#minthara #bg3 #nightwarden minthara #baldurs gate 3 #nothing could have prepared me for the experience that is minthara I love her so much 😭 #also my durge was doing her fucking best to be good at the beginning #wyll was really turning out to be a good influence on her #and then…there was minthara lol #poor thing didn’t stand a chance #but jaheiras kind of helping to curb both of their murderous tendencies #my art

[sishsash]

i'm not even in the markiplier fandom (if that's what it's called) but every single time markiplier trends on tumblr is such a treat because you're always guaranteed to see the wildest shit imaginable going on over there

#this is because of the podcast onlyfans situation #literally nothing could have prepared me for any of that #markiplier #personal

[markantonys]

I'm looking at the old covers for the french books and I just ... who ?? in the actual fuck ?? thought this was not only a good idea for a cover but also for the 1st book ?? I mean look at this ... just WHY ???

https://ia801409.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/31/items/olcovers98/olcovers98-L.zip&file=980232-L.jpg

Again, like what in the holy hell is this ???? https://img.livraddict.com/covers/19/19766/couv25811289.jpg

what, you mean you don't remember the iconic scenes in EOTW and TGH when rand gets strapped to wheel-like objects with his ass out? it's my favorite part!

small brain:

galaxy brain:

lanfear get over here, there is an ass that's waiting to be spanked! she's so mad that she didn't think of this herself for their TAR meeting

#nothing in the world could have prepared me for these images #i was like 'ok let's see what's wild about them' pasted in the link and immediately went PFFFFFFTT???!!!??! out loud #i hope rafe has these images on his moodboard for future seasons because i would like to see it #anonymous #answered

[saltycactusss]

guys nanami is alive and well and he was able to finally give his watch to ino 😁😁😁

#jujutsu kaisen #jjk fanart #jjk #nanami kento #nanamin #digital art #fanart #jjk nanami #nanami my beloved #ino takuma #ep 18 DESTROYED ME!!!! #NOTHING COULD HAVE PREPARED ME FOR THAT MOMENT #IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL BUT GUT WRETCHING #ILY NANAMI RIP !!!!

[nemmet]

i can’t believe that be cool scooby doo is a show that actually exists (/pos)

#NOTHING COULD HAVE POSSIBLY PREPARED ME FOR THIS EPISODE #I LOVED EVERY SECOND IT MADE MY DAY #i just think it’s neat that fred canonically knows how to do eyeliner and they treat it as a normal thing and don’t mock him for it #he’s just living his best magician life and i am very proud of him :’) #yet another iconic fred hyperfixation to add to the list #also i typically spell it like ‘freddie’ when it comes to fred scooby doo but i used the ‘freddy’ spelling to keep the pun intact lmao #scooby doo #be cool scooby doo #scooby doo fanart #fred jones #fred scooby doo #fred jones fanart #nem art :) #scooby doo and nemmet too!

[hangkennyy]

❤️❤️❤️

#bray wyatt #wwe #grew up with this man since I started watching wrestling #This broke my heart #my heart actually hurts thinking about this #Nothing could have prepared me for this #May god bless his soul and his family and friends #❤️❤️❤️

[immediatebreakfast]

"Knowledge is power" you say and I believe it's becoming a big theme. Jonathan is sinking his nails into his sanity, vehemently refusing to lose it because losing himself (to insanity, to vampirism) is a horror greater than death to him. And his main weapon in this is to refuse to be in the dark. He must know the truth, instead of flee from it or deny it, gortesque even if it proves to be. The Castle is claiming his mind and his response is to explore every nook and cranny until he knows the enemy like he knows himself.

It's really a very noticeable theme, and it's one of the key parts that will help our characters against Dracula in the long run.

I have to make the comparison with another genre of book across the literary globe that have knowledge as a central theme.

The Lovecraft myths with their eldritch abominations also have the central theme of knowledge, but instead of presenting said knowledge as something hopeful to have (even if in the grand scheme of the universe is empty) knowledge is a curse. It's something that once the characters have, they wish to go back to their ignorance, all of the undescribed horrors that tell of incomprensible beings from beyond our stars open a new horrifying reality for these characters, one that they do not wish to understand.

Instead, here in Dracula, this novel regards knowledge as a precious weapon.

Jonathan understands that as a lawyer, and as a human being. Knowledge can help him understand, the written truth assures him that he is not imagining things. The broken door tells Jonathan, "Yes what happened was real, and you survived." And it gives him mental strenght to go another day.

Jonathan is feeling how his sanity is slipping from his fingers thanks to the castle, thanks to Dracula himself, so he must grab every piece of truth that he can find. Jonathan must know the Count's truth so he can act accordingly, he must know Dracula as if Dracula was him because it's the only way for him to know that he is still sane. That this knowledge can help whoever comes after him.

A really neat quote that I stumbled upon while searching for this really captured Jonathan's future, even if he might not be alive at the end of his journey.

"She will reenter the world carrying a heaviness she might never lay down, but also with something warm and steady burning in her, the knowledge of what she has survived, what she has become." - Chakraborty, A. (2021). Ode to the Gothic Heroine (A Selection).

Jonathan now carries the burden of knowledge regarding every oddity, and danger that Dracula presents from an outside perspective. Different, but not really from the ancient knowledge of the kind locals who tried to protect him from his fate, yet Jonathan doesn't shy away from that burden.

Knowledge is power, and power transforms the person into something not anticipated. It's the proof, and the reassurance of having something that can help, a little light in the middle of an endless cave. Jonathan is taking all of the information he can find, so that maybe he can transform the idea of escaping into something plausible.

Is Jonathan risking his own life by doing this? Of course he is! He is terrified of the outcome, of what the uncertain future holds for him! But, Jonathan is also gaining time. Moreover, with Dracula's new assigned "span of life", the Count has given Jonathan one of the most powerful weapons in the hands of a human, hope.

Now with the certain date of his possible, Jonathan can stop giving enough of a fuck about any pretenses of leaving the castle by the mercy of Dracula. Now Jonathan can hope to carve his escape with his own hands.

#Never NEVER has someone succesfully protected anyone by telling them nothing #If you want to understand if you want to prepare if you want to SURVIVE #YOU HAVE TO SHARE KNOWLEDGE EH YOU [Redacted for Dracula spoilers] #But yes basically knowledge is very important in this novel #Also can someone explain to me how the fuck Lovecraft managed to have those racist overtones that could put any bigoted writing to shame? #I was reading the fish people one and woah my dude relax for a fucking second (horrified) #dracula daily #dracula #jonathan harker

[thingaddams4]

Wednesday bluntly saying "you should know I'm waiting for someone" and "I'm actually here for Tyler" to Xavier and continuing to frown unfazed as Xavier's face contorts in disapproval whenever Tyler shows up beside her, BUT pausing before saying "Xavier" when Tyler asked her who she asked to the Rave'N.

#also refusing eye contact when explaining herself on why she's going #gritting her teeth after asking Xavier and planning to use her old dress #but internally panicking when Tyler showed up bcs how could you do this to me Thing I'm not prepared and have nothing to wear! #opening the door then slamming it to the other's face and thinking “oh my god he's here! why is he here” is a such a romcom move idc #should've bought that damn dress oh wait Thing you did? guess I have to cancel my initial plans bcs Tyler is waiting outside #wednesday #wednesday addams #wyler #weyler #wednesday x tyler #tyler x wednesday #tyler galpin

[moonpleaser]

this season is for into the woods girlies and the mechanisms girlies and all the girlies of any media that fucks around with fairy tales

#neverafter #dimension 20 #into the woods #the mechanisms #neverafter spoilers #my neurons are fucking lighting up #they introduced cole and i was like Wait a minute #and then siobhan bringing up the fiddlers and YEAAA #nothing could have prepared me more for this than silly little fairy tale retelling media #anyway i'm gonna keep reading beyond the woods and try to be normal until next wednesday

[mewtwo24]

Okay but like. Two things about the volume 8 statue [redacted] chapter.

Firstly. By god no amount of "yeah it was unhinged" comments on this website prepared me for whatever the fuck that was. I need at least 5 business days to process.

Second, was I the only one who read that scene as:

Hua Cheng, teeming with self-satisfaction to see Mu Qing near writhing with scorned disgust and fury: this was a 100% successful trip

Xie Lian: our statues are fucking in Mu Qing's palace oh god oh fuck what do you m e a n successful

Hua Cheng, smirk getting even bigger: this was a 100% successful trip

#tgcf #volume 8 spoilers #hualian #hua cheng #xie lian #mu qing #hua cheng really out here like 'it's called christening the heavens with our love which is more than you lot deserve.' #nothing could have prepared me for how that scene played out #hua cheng how does it feel to win every single day of your deceased life #mf thought he was going to be humiliated in front of his lifelong crush/sworn love #only to instead watch one of his love rivals tangentially humiliated by XL's (hualian POST-COITAL) overwhelming spiritual power no less #I have never witnessed a bigger W in my life holy shit the way that boomeranged #I just can't get over how funnily hc's built I swear to god it ends me every time #mfer was born and literally nobody liked that. baby boy suffers for most of his life #fast forward to ghost hc. master of cataclysmic power and protecting his loving failwife (who is basically full of aged weird girl energy) #said weird girl energy being hc's salvation because xl saw him feral and unhinged and legit went 'i like him i'll let him tear up the couch #for 800 y e a r s hc pined and nourished his love--waiting for his opportunity #thusly leaving every single one of his competitors for xl's attention in the dust (not that they were much to write home about) #hc is like the definition of 'bide your time and fucking destroy' #i don't care what anyone says he's legitimately one of the coolest characters i've ever seen #i also can't get over hua cheng straight up being like 'xl in distress? we all know who this is a job for. M E' **builds hc statue** #without an ounce of hesitation #the way i love this mfer he's so sweet and so funny at the same time nobody doing it like him #i also love mxtx's passion for the dynamic of “GET RID OF HIM HE'S A MENACE” “no he just needs enrichment let him be" #why bingqiu and hualian will live forever in my heart