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watching this was a religious experience
I have never been more motivated to learn a new hobby
Needle felting is the best hobby!!! And I should do this honestly. I have so many slightly fucked sweaters...
Art experiment-
Ok, so I could nitpick all day and fiddle with it forever. (Ack the shape of the wings!) Buuuut I thought it'd be fun to play with doing a dot painting, rather than blending paints. Aaaand
I kinda want to do it again from scratch now that I have more of a feel for it. But it was a very fun experiment.
As a Crew is an OFMD Activity Book made by me, in which you'll find over 20 activities to play with involving the Revenge crew – from different types of puzzle to coloring, drawing, and writing games, to crafting. You can buy it at the link above through Lulu.com.
If you'd like to see more pictures, here's all sneak peeks I've posted:
I really hope it can bring you some pirate-y joy and fun; if you like the way it looks, a signal boost is very appreciated!
In starting I had cut myself slightly, but did not notice it at the moment. Having answered the Count's salutation, I turned to the glass again to see how I had been mistaken ... but at the instant I saw that the cut had bled a little, and the blood was trickling over my chin. I laid down the razor, turning as I did so half round to look for some sticking plaster. When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat.
May 8th
There lay the Count, but looking as if his youth had been half renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey; the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. ...Then I stopped and looked at the Count. There was a mocking smile on the bloated face which seemed to drive me mad. ... I seized a shovel which the workmen had been using to fill the cases, and lifting it high, struck, with the edge downward, at the hateful face.
June 30th
These are the only two direct acts of violence between Jonathan and Dracula in the Transylvania sequence, nicely bookending their relationship.
In the May 8th encounter, Jonathan has blood trickling over his chin, and when Dracula sees his face he is seized with "demonic fury" and attacks him.
Then on June 30th, it is Dracula who has blood trickling over his chin, and when Jonathan looks at his face he is driven mad and attacks him.
What really gets me is the specific detail of blood trickling over the chin, down to verbatim wording. And of course that both attacks are unsuccessfully, but still leave the recipient wounded (and possibly scarred)
I hadn't noticed this particular parallel before, but as somebody who has long loved the other ways in which you can see aspects of Jonathan and Dracula mirroring one another, this is a great observation. The fact that the Count seeks to steal Jonathan's identity (and to acquire unaccented English and blend in with London's "teeming masses") is made all the more fascinating by the ways that you can find aspects of the Count in Jonathan. While the transference of blood between them is never made explicit in the text, there's still a chilling transference of other properties that I feel one can read a lot into as regards the dynamics of vampiric predation.
still looking for the blinding light
still looking for the reason why
The ao3 "search within results" field is able to do a lot of stuff to help you curate your reading. I know a lot of us use "otp: true" to ensure we only get the one pairing in our search results (I use this a lot if the ship in looking for is also the favourite side ship to a much more popular pairing, oof) but there's other stuff you can do that pretty much nobody uses.
You can reverse the sorting by metrics if you want, like, instead of sorting by comments you can use "sort:>comments" and get the fewest comments to most comments instead.
You only want to have one-shots? You can use "expected_number_of_chapters: 1". You can exclude creators. You can exclude fics with 4 chapters. You can look for a specific word or phrase in the notes field.
There's so much weird stuff we don't use the ao3 search for, but we could. It lets us.
starquilt progress! 3/5 parts done :)
Four styles we haven’t seen on Crowley: a Lauren Bacall, some viking braids, a Joey Ramone and a Bowie, of course 💛
Do you have any good resourses for learning basic Welsh? I want to surprise my aunt (by marriage) next time I see her. I tried pronouncing the name of the town she grew up in and I failed miserably
Duolingo! Free and easy. I'd recommend maybe getting a simple lil grammar book to go with it, because Duolingo is fantastic but does not see a reason to explain any grammar rules. This is a link to a PDF of the BBC's Learn Welsh for Beginners Grammar Guide, that should help.
Also this is such a sweet thing for you to do
A drabble challenge!
The rules are simple:
Annnnnd… go!
🏴☠️🍊🗡️Just an Ed pining among Stede’s belongings, sorry for the angst :’) ❤️
Bic pen and watercolor
Inspired by: “Penitent Magdalene” by Mateo Cerezo
Hey Liza :) I just thought I would let you know, now I don't know if the genre is something you like or not but, the creators of Black Sails have a new show out called "The Old Man" and it is really, really good. In case you were interested :)
I'll add it to my list! I loved Black Sails enough to check out their other stuff.
SHOSHANNAH STERN TO STAR IN AND WRITE DEAF THRILLER LET'S FUCKING GOOOO
and rachel miner liked literally disabled babes supporting disabled babes
The Kraken
I just think the robe is neat
