you have to be annoying and do everything as passionately and genuinely as possible because we live in a world where everyone operates through sixteen layers of post irony and to love with recklessness is literally counterculture.
I have mixed thoughts on sex work. I love sex, but I hate work!
“Yeah, we hate seeing you work too!”
how does this post keep getting better
Thank you to Gretchen McCulloch for fielding this question, and sorry that as a result the world’s foremost internet linguist has been devoured by the brown one. She will be missed.
Arth is the Welsh word for bear.
Which suggests that Welsh people are either just always down to meet a bear, or have somehow broken the bear curse. Either way, impressed.
they know the bears can’t make it to wales without going through england first. an acceptable cost.
americans are always saying shit like garbage disposal and i-95
Those are good names for a pair of orange cats
I have mixed thoughts on sex work. I love sex, but I hate work!
“Yeah, we hate seeing you work too!”
how does this post keep getting better
boyboobs
the whole quiet quitting thing was a non issue but quiet firing is an actual real problem that real workers face because the people above them dont want to give them unemployment benefits so they instead drop their hours to the point where they cant survive financially and theyre forced to quit we should instead make 1000 articles on that phenomenon
There’s a youtuber out there, awaiting for the moment where the discourse about Dracula Daily reaches the point of overdramatic bullshit so they can make a 2 hour video explaining what happen.
"Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble"
Lucy Westenra and her three weed smorking boyfriends
Dracula out here trying to introduce the new guy to the rest of his polycule by letting them get used to him through a locked door like cats but the the new guy just barges right in and like. of COURSE they try to eat him so now Drac has to run in a separate them and start the process all over again 🙄
saw this tiktok insisting that people on tumblr have no grasp of the context of dracula and us saying that jonathan is stupid/clueless shows a lack of critical thinking skills. however, the tiktoker did not consider one vital thing: (affectionately) bullying jonathan for being dumb is funny.
I've seen a few people talking about how "cringe" the Dracula Daily thing is, like, "when we told you to read better books, this isn't what we meant"
Like! Imagine that! Watching people find and share joy in something together, bringing new life and discussion to a classic piece of literature, and thinking it's cringe because they're meming about it
Mina writing to Lucy:
Jonathan immediately after writing to Mina:
I love reading my daily Dracula email then immediately coming to tumblr to see what the Dracula book club is saying about the latest episode of Jonathan's adventures
jonathan harker: the castle is a prison, and i'm a prisoner! dracula doesn't have any servants, he does all the work himself! i fear i'm the only living soul in this place!
literally everyone reading the email: