Racing Turtles

in many ways gideon is v much a standard gothic heroine but instead of putting this line of argument anywhere productive, i can't get the thought of her stumbling across the dracula brides milf room and losing her mind and subsequently dying within the first thirty or so pages of bram stoker's dracula out of my head. so now you all can have it also

have had it pointed out that harrow's main role in the narrative would be to keep her from doing exactly this. refuted by the fact that harrowhark nonagesimus would die on page five from contact with paprika

Regardless of where you stand on the "did Jonathan Harker eat hell spicy paprika or sweet paprika" debate, I'd like to enter into discussion the fact that he did eat the whole meal, deal with the nightmares, and then eat that shit again the next morning, so regardless of his relative state of spice tolerance, at absolute minimum he was not a little bitch about it.

im loving this paprika discourse

I love how you guys are discovering spicy Hungarian paprika, and yes it is super good! But as a Hungarian I feel like it's my duty to mention that paprika hendl is simply german for our national dish paprikás csirke and it is Not made with spicy paprika. It's got sweet paprika. Jonathan Harker is unfortunately just british.

Beep Beep, reminder that paprika is sourced from a vegetable that has undergone massive flavor shifts in the past century, due to the development of a sweeter strain that is now interbred with most bell peppers used for paprika, and the reason John is overwhelmed by the flavor of that dish because paprika was way spicier a century ago.

From friends on discord who were looking up evidence, this from @atagotiak:

And from @brawltogethernow in particular:

(Also! “Paprika” is actually the name for bell peppers themselves, spicy and not, in a lot of countries, rather than the name of a spice. That said, the novel appears to be referring to the spice.)

Still on the paprika topic, the fact that he wants to send the recipe to mina suggests that he knows she can handle it. to him she is the strongest woman in the world. She can beat paprika.

Paprika (2006), dir. Satoshi Kon

Artbook: Art of Satoshi Kon