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In Renfield (2023) Rebecca learns how to make a protective circle from wiccan tumblr. This wrongly implies that tumblr has a usable search function

#you fool obviously she googled 'protective circle instructions' and clicked on a tumblr link in desperation three pages down #after the first three pages were nothing but Supernatural fanfiction

Congratulations @marypsue you are the only person allowed to mention Google on this post because you had the good sense to make it funny. Please proceed to hunt all the others for sport

Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?

that genuinely is it

yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body

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childrentalking

lets bring back sheetwares

also chlamys:

and exomis:

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fightthemane

trust the ancients to make a fashion statement out of straight cloth and nothing but pins

Wrap Yourself In Blankets, Call It a Day

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awhiffofcavendish

Wear blanket. Conquer world.

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That last one looks dope

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Squares and rectangles: easy to weave!! No cutting means no hemming.

And easy to construct, you don’t have to have complicated seaming and patterning to turn fabric into clothing!

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ancient Egyptian robes

This sort of clothing solution wasn’t just for the Mediterranean, or northern Africa, either. Behold the Belted Plaid:

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Has anyone already reblogged this with saris? It’s cool how many cultures have similarities like this hidden in plain sight.

Since we are here might as well share the dhoti and the lungi

It’s only men in the photos but really anyone can wear them. I am wearing a lungi right now.

I also know Thailand and Sri Lanka have their versions of a lungi as well.

Great Mouse Detective version of Dracula happening simultaneously as the events of Dracula, so there’s just five mice in Victorian clothes unnoticed by the human cast desperately trying to kill a bat.

Or they’re also trying to kill Dracula, but exclusively during the parts of the book when he’s turned into a bat.

Dracula invited a human realtor and a mouse realtor to his castle and there were extended periods of time where he would say to his human realtor “Ah please excuse me I have business to attend to” and turn into a bat to talk to his mouse realtor.

ART for this amazing idea!

Since they’re supposedly to be mice who exist in the same world as the actual Dracula characters I made up some names for them: Featuring our heroine “Lina Lorrey”, her very stressed fiancé “Jeremy Barker” her dear doomed friend “Lily Easton” who becomes “The Blue Fur Lady”

And of course Dracula as himself

(Definitely wanna do a proper line up of the rest of the characters at some point but here’s what I had time/energy for atm)

linguisticparadox

Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?

Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"

Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.

Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain.  You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.

It is free. 

It is legal.

I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.

I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this.  I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this.  Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this.  When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here.  It’s a great resource.

linguisticparadox

Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn't heard of the gutenberg project! It's been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it's such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that's just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!

If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!

And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!

I'm so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let's keep that fire blazing!

Also, if you can't handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it's a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there's a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!

it's a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!

Also don't think a book is old because it's in the public domain

lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons

because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death

Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it's always worth checking because you can save a fortune

and the more popular the classic - the more likely someone has uploaded it

Also don’t think a

book is old because it’s in

the public domain

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

kendallroy-deactivated20210425

idk who needs to hear this but when your english teacher asks you to explain why an author chose to use a specific metaphor or literary device, it’s not because you won’t be able to function in real-world society without the essential knowledge of gatsby’s green light or whatever, it’s because that process develops your abilities to parse a text for meaning and fill in gaps in information by yourself, and if you’re wondering what happens when you DON’T develop an adult level of reading comprehension, look no further than the dizzying array of examples right here on tumblr dot com

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kendallroy

this post went from 600 to 2400 notes in the time it took me to write 3 emails. i’m already terrified for what’s going to happen in there

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kendallroy

k but also, as an addendum, the reason we study literary analysis is because everything an author writes has meaning, whether it was intentional or not, and their biases and agendas are often reflected in their choice of language and literary devices and so forth! and that ties directly into being able to identify, for example, the racist and antisemitic dogwhistles often employed by the right wing, or the subconscious word choices that can unintentionally illustrate someone’s bias or blind spot. LANGUAGE HAS WEIGHT AND MEANING! the way we communicate is a reflection of our inner selves, and that’s true regardless of whether it’s a short story or a novel or a blog post or a tweet. instead of taking a piece of writing at face value and stopping there, assuming that there is no deeper meaning or thought behind the words on the page, ask yourself these two questions instead:

1. what is the author trying to say? 2. what does the author maybe not realize they’re saying?

because the most interesting reading of any piece of literature, imho, usually occupies the space in between those questions.

I also want to add: literary analysis doesn’t just reveal things about the authors and the work, it also reveals things about you, the reader.

This is the part that sometimes (maybe even often) gets ignored/avoided in English classes, because it’s so personal, but it’s just as important, and if your teacher isn’t thinking about it then you should be.  “I liked this” or “ugh, this one was boring and terrible” are important starting points for analysis, because they open you up to ask:

What part of this piece of writing resonated with me so much?  Why do I feel in my gut like this is important?  Do I like this because I agree with it?  Just because I agree with it, does that make it right?

OR

Why does this put me off?  What are the author’s priorities here?  Do I dislike it because it’s saying something I don’t want to acknowledge or agree with?  Just because I disagree, does that make it wrong?

And those questions really matter too, maybe just as much as trying to figure out what the author is communicating.  They’re the questions that lead to thinking and growing, not just in how well we understand other people, but in how well we understand ourselves.

Yang Liu practising her 獨竹漂 (du2zhu2piao1; single bamboo drifting) skills. As it is a dying skill, she aims to promote it to the whole world so that it will not be forgotten.

(See my other post here for a bit more info on what bamboo drifting is)

[eng by me]

Never gets old seeing posts that so earnestly and genuinely explain something that is 100% obvious to anybody who doesn't spend their life hopelessly online

"You have to bring your own moral framework to adult stories"

"There's more to media than shipping"

"We NEED to get comfortable with disliking people without pretending they've done anything wrong"

"Sometimes people on the internet LIE so always check donation posts!!"

"Do NOT cosign a loan for someone on tumblr"

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