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Something Beautiful is Going to Happen

@jam-the-hologram

✨My love for old TV shows and strange movies is overwelming✨ (He/They)

Personal Info:

Hello friends and strangers, my name is Jamie (He/They)! I’m 19 years old and hail from Australia. I’m queer and transgender.

Interests (i.e the content you will most likely see on my blog):

My favourite TV Shows are Doctor Who (both Classic and New), M*A*S*H, Star Trek (TOS), Red Dwarf and BBC Ghosts. My favourite book is The Picture of Dorian Gray and my favourite movie is Doctor Who: The Movie, though I do like a lot of other films like Re-Animator, Jojo Rabbit and Salomé (see my Letterboxd account here). My favourite games are Disco Elysium, Fallout: New Vegas and heaps of other that I don’t post about (i.e Hades, Splatoon 2/3, Skyrim etc.).

I reblog heaps of other stuff as well.

Have a nice day everyone! :)

In celebration of his day of birth, I do want to highlight one of the most underrated aspects of Shane Madej’s career, which has been his growth as a person and content creator. People (rightfully) make much of the way Ryan has grown braver and more confident over time but I think Shane dropping much of the cynical snarkiness he had in the early Buzzfeed years for an earnest celebration of the world and what it has in it is just as courageous in it’s own way. It’s really easy to show the world sarcasm, it’s harder to show them what you’re passionate about. The man in that 2016 Illuminati episode would have never made Puppet History or excitedly declared that it’s good to be a ghost hunter. I’ve said a lot about how Watcher is comforting to me because all the founders are comfortable in being adults that don’t necessarily always conform to the way adults are “supposed” to be (boring!) and it’s just been lovely to see how each of them have individually grown into that. Shane’s journey has been the most stark and noticeable in that regard. Happy 37th birthday noodle man. Hope you continue being weird. <3

i mean this completely seriously but… a cup of coffee can save your life a little, a shower can save your life a little, making your favorite meal can save your life a little…….little things actually add up to really big things in the long run if you let them, the secret to surviving everyday is infusing a little bit of magic into the mundane i truly believe that

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why are christian bale and patrick bateman the exact same person

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like. ok

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who was going to tell me that christian bale is the actor that played the fictional character patrick bateman. and who was going to tell me that patrick bateman is not an actor that looks like christian bale. who was going to tell me this.

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STOP REBLOGGING THIS IM DELETIMG MY BLOG

Yes! The whole point was they were just kids. They were kids behaving like kids. So Juliet is easily swayed and Romeo is a fickle teenager who falls in “love” at the drop of a hat. The point is that if their families weren’t sworn enemies, this probably would have played out very melodramatically with tears and teenage heartbreak. But no one would have died. The point was that this family feud took your average teenage love affair and made it into a big tragic mess. What would have been just a bad breakup for the both of them to get over in a couple weeks became a secret marriage and tragic deaths instead.

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there is a very real tendency of teenagers with anxiety disorders self diagnosing with considerably more stigmatized and impairing mental illnesses (e.g. schizophrenia, DID, personality disorders), but the best response to that isn't to get angry with them for "appropriating" lol. instead you show them coping resources for the problems they're actually having and deemphasize diagnostic categories in general. if an 18 year old is claiming to have alzheimer's, they're probably making an innocent mistake and are in genuine distress. be kind.

Also I think this trend comes, at least in part, from how brushed aside anxiety disorders can be. If your parents and teachers dismiss you with 'oh everyone feels anxious', then inevitably you're going to start thinking that there must be something else going on with you

”You must feel very scared right now; let’s talk about how to help you personally, tailored to your symptoms” will always be more helpful than “stop faking (X) for attention”. If theyre that desperate for attention or an explanation, something is wrong.

And like, at least some of them are probably right. Yeah these disorders are less common than things like anxiety disorders, but they are more common than you think they are. Like, they probably shouldn't self diagnose without doing a reasonable amount of research and talking to a professional if possible, but not every single one of them is wrong, and being wrong about something is not the same thing as lying about having something you don't. Be nice to teenagers they're still learning

Let's talk about Language

Jonathan Harker is an Englishman from Exeter. As such he speaks (Devon-accented) English.

He has mentioned a couple of times now that he also speaks German, but not very well. He calls it a "smattering" but it's enough to get him through Hungary, which is famously diglossic. He does not speak Hungarian. When he gets into Romania the language barrier becomes more profound because not only does he not understand any Romanian, the locals don't have a whole lot of German either. When he talks to the innkeeper's wife they're both using a common language neither speaks well.

You've all heard me go on about this but I am going to say it again: I'm obsessed with the fact that in earlier drafts when the Count was located in Austria he specifically requested a solicitor who did not speak German. He's not supposed to be able to communicate with the locals. He's supposed to be wholly dependent on Dracula, who as we've seen in the finished version is arranging all his travel and writing him little letters and such to help him navigate his way there.

[Aside: is Dracula speaking German to the coachman? Because Jonathan is able to understand their conversation, which he wouldn't if it were in Romanian. It makes sense because the coachman refers to him as the English Herr. But if so Dracula must be doing so specifically for Jonathan's benefit - otherwise he would be using his own language.]

But! At some point Jonathan acquired a polyglot dictionary! This is another great character moment. Like his research at the British Museum, it means he is aware of his deficiencies (not speaking the local language) and taken steps to correct them. Dracula wants him isolated, but Jonathan wants to know things and talk to people. He asked questions of the waiters in Budapest. He asked questions of the innkepers in Bistritz (who suddenly forgot how to speak German). He can't ask questions of the townsfolk or other passengers on the coach because he doesn't speak their language, but he's trying to understand anyway by means of the resources he does have - the polyglot dictionary. Communication is key and he's trying to make it happen.

A second aside: people have pointed out that he misspells (and mistranslates) ördög. Other people have pointed out that he's remarkably good at looking up words in a language he doesn't speak just on sound. (To harken means to listen and pay attention - his name means Listener, so maybe he's just preternaturally good at that). But he's writing his diary in shorthand, which may not have an obvious way of rendering the diacritics (he leaves them off of mămăligă as well) so that's an extra layer of translation. And he's relying on his little dictionary, but that dictionary may not be reliable, in the same way that despite all his research he was not able to find Castle Dracula on any map. (Maybe it's like Rokovoko - too real for maps).

We laugh a lot at "I must ask the Count about these superstitions," but here's the thing: the Count speaks English. No one else on this trip is able to communicate with Jonathan in his own language (or in theirs!) even if they wanted to (which they often don't, since vampires are Scary). And this is by design!

And Dracula speaks excellent English. Better than Jonathan's German. And he wants to get better at it (which is totally reasonable). But there's this huge linguistic power imbalance here, in spite of which Jonathan still manages to arrive better prepared and better informed than he is supposed to.

By the time Dracula arrives in England, will he be speaking with a Devon accent?

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