i avoid printers at all costs but deep down i think i should've been a printer. life so easy. i sit there all squarelike and when someone has a minor task for me i goFUCK YOU
how does tumblr even work do you just like talk to yourself until people are like "i like this one"
this is actually exactly how it works
will you just let me be silly for a sec. there's this dread so ancient in me
milf (myself i’d like to forgive) and dilf (despair i’d like to forget)
having to ask people if you’re still hanging out is one of the worst things ever . like is our playdate still on? im gonna stab myself
walks around the dashboard with my hands behind my back like someone's grandpa
i went to a tiny counterserve diner once and accidentally poured sugar instead of salt all over my hashbrowns and was eating them sadly anyways. the waitress took them away and started making me another one and I tried to protest, but she just snorted and said "we're not catholic here". now every time i'm doing something painful out of obligation i think about how that is not repenting, this body is not a catholic establishment, there is no nobility in suffering.
somewhere taylor lautner is looking at his phone, seeing the news about speak now tv, and falling asleep completely unbothered knowing he has nothing to worry about
YUP! YUP!!!
Boss's wife upon hearing I'm a medieval scholar: Isn't it crazy all the things medieval people thought would stop the plague?
Me: *Fighting all my devils & angels not to bring up that she drank horse antiparasitic last year.*
You’re a better person than I
“In writing. Don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was “terrible,” describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, “Please will you do my job for me.”
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~ C.S. Lewis
IT'S "FOUL BAUBLE OF MANS VANITY" DAY!!! REMEMBER TO THROW YOUR MIRRORS OUT THE HIGHEST WINDOW OF YOUR TALLEST TOWER
The way that the innkeeper and his wife initially just pretended that they don’t speak German to avoid answering Jonathan’s questions about the Count makes me wonder if they have a taboo against mentioning the vampires specifically. Poor Jonathan did try to learn more, only to run into the most awkward brick wall as they flat-out refuse to answer him to the point of pretending they don’t speak the language.
The way the woman begs with him so furtively once her husband isn’t there makes me think she’s risking breaking the taboo by even bringing it up. Even then, she didn’t say, “don’t go, he will kill you” or anything directly about the Count. Is it a sort of “speak of the devil and he will appear” situation?
Maybe I can offer some knowledge in this situation? Because this here reminds a lot of stuff that I see in pueblos, and folklore. Do have in mind that I'm speaking from a latinoamerican perspective, specifically colombian, so maybe it's different, but here we go.
Here in Colombia we have our myths, our demons, our creatures, and so and so. We know their names, BUT it is very advised to not say them out loud, or do something that could "invite" them to where you are because that would be really bad.
For example, the myth of la Llorona got passed around through all of Latinoamérica, but the way she is perceived varies a lot from country, to region, to popular level. Here, you should never say the name of la Llorona at night, worse if you are walking alone, or besides a rivera because she will hear you and go where you are.
When you are in a pueblo you better not whistle at night unless you want to call a witch since that is how they communicate. Moreover if you whistle, and a witch comes... let's say they don't get happy when a normal human uses their call.
So, the inkeepeer and his wife are probably operating under the same rules when it comes to Dracula. One thing that they could consider is that Dracula is old as fuck in the sense that he is probably knows more than enough about speak, and manners to twist any call, or reference to his name as an "invitation".
To add on to this with specifically Balkan stuff, the etymology of the word "vampire" is super muddy for precisely this reason - you get a lot of deformations of the word in the same way that English speakers often say "golly" or "gosh" rather than "God." The only one I remember from the talk was "lumpir" but that l is non-etymological.
The other thing I remember is that in Balkan vampire mythology the vampire hunter is always from somewhere else. He's not from your village he's at the very least from the village down the road. The vampire hunter must be a Foreigner.
And re: the innkeeper and his wife at the Golden Krone, in perfectly practical terms Dracula knows who they are. He sent Jonathan to that hotel. He wrote them a letter about the coach reservation. He gave them direct and specific instructions for the disposition of this Young English Herr. If he doesn't turn up at the appointed time, where is Dracula going to look for him first? And yet this woman tries to help him, against her husband's better judgment. They've been given money to deliver an innocent young man to Count Dracula - what can they do? What can they do? But though the husband washes his hands of it and doesn't dare interfere, the wife still tries to do something, anything.
Uggghhhh I'm getting emotions
social media has really warped our perception of creativity and hobbies. Stop doing things to post them. Just write. Just journal. Just sketch. Just read. Just annotate. Just sing. Just crochet. Just do the thing you’re going to do with the assumption no one will ever see or know you did it. Stop performing. Just enjoy it.
I like saying "I'll allow it" only in contexts where I have no power or authority
No hate or offence to Christians on Tumblr, but I don't understand how Jesus died for us people. Like, I see posts of Christians daily on how Jesus died for us and how we should be thankful for that but truth to be told, I'm always clueless. I don't know how he died for us or why, I don't know the story of it. I know about Jesus' story in Islam - which is different from Christianity - but I don't understand the Christian story much.
Can someone explain?
Okay. So I'm going to start this story not so much with Jesus, but with sin. You know how, in the Qur'an, there are many references to the forgetfulness of mankind? And how one of the purposes of the daily prayers is to keep Muslims returning to Allah, to keep them from drifting away from recalling God during the day? Christians also believe that humans are forgetful. But Christians believe that it is an ontological condition - that human nature itself is prone to "forgetting" God, of being alienated from Him, of being isolated from Him. This condition is called Original Sin, and we believe that our nature was not like that from the beginning - we believe we were created for perfect union with God, and that human beings have permanently "drifted" from God. That is where Jesus comes in. Like Muslims, Christians believe that Jesus was a prophet - but Christians believe He was more than that, too. Jesus didn't just bring a Message, the Gospel - He was the Gospel. We believe that, in the person of Jesus Christ, the divine nature dwelt in Its entirety. In Christ, God chose to be born into His own creation. And one of the reasons He did that was to reconcile that creation with Himself; humanity had gone astray and ran from Him; He became human in order to dwell among them. Part of this concept of Original Sin is the idea that this isolation from God introduced death into the world; there is an idea in the Hebrew Scriptures that death is the great barrier, the ultimate symbol of the separation of creation from its Source. And so.... Christ passes over this barrier. The divine nature is eternal; it cannot die. But Christ is both divine and human; so as a human being, Christ dies, and so God takes on the experience of death. God, in Christ, chooses to enter into the isolation of death in order to save those who are trapped in it. Death, formally a condition from which God was absent, is filled with His presence. In this way, human nature has been rescued by Christ; God's grace, God's Spirit, flows into creation through Jesus Christ; and because Jesus Christ is a human being, with a shared human nature, this grace flows from Him into the rest of humanity. This is what some early Christians called the "marvelous exchange"; God takes on human weakness and gives us His power, God experiences death so that we may experience resurrection, God pours Himself into His creation. This is the cosmic drama of the Christian story; if you don't know the human side (how Jesus was Crucified), I can go into more detail, too. But does this make sense, at least?
Hi!
Thanks for your wonderful explanation, I've learned a lot from you. And yes, your explanation does make sense, I've only heard of how Jesus is considered God in Christianity but never truly understood how or why, so you really helped me there.
I would like to know more about the human side, if that's not a problem of course?
Not a problem at all! So, Jesus Christ is conceived by the Holy Spirit of God in the Virgin Mary. She gives birth to Him. And, according to the Christian Scriptures.... that's it, for a long time, anyway. Then, when Jesus Christ turns about 30 years old, He is baptized in the River Jordan by a man named John the Baptist (Yahya ibn Zakariya). It is at this point that Jesus begins His public ministry, the preaching of the Gospel. The key element of this preaching is that "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand" [i.e., it is here], and that people are called to "repent and believe." Jesus first calls twelve men to be His disciples, which is in turn supplemented by 70 more followers. Eventually, though, Jesus is drawing in crowds of several thousand as He travels from town to town. And as He travels, He performs miracles; He heals the sick, He exorcises demons, He produces enough food to feed the multitudes.... He even raises people from the dead. And, all the while, He preaches a new way of living. He teaches that God is not with the strong, but with the weak; that those marginalized by society are not abandoned by God. Among these teachings are "You must love the Lord with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind," "Love your neighbor as yourself," "There is no greater love than this: that one lay down his life for his friends," and "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." Speaking of persecution, it is during this ministry of preaching that Jesus develops enemies among the established religious elite. Things come to a head because of Jesus claiming to be the Messiah or the Son of God - either because of His alleged political threat or His alleged blasphemy. With the backing of a portion of the Jewish religious elite, the local Roman authorities put Jesus to death. In this period, Jesus suffers abandonment by his friends; He is tortured and humiliated; He is forced to carry the Cross, the instrument of His execution, to the site of His execution; He is crucified, and is mocked and despised; and then, finally, He gives up His life. And, in another story, that might be the end. But in this story, on the third day since His death, Christ rises from the dead. Having submitted Himself to death, God broke the power of death. And, through Christ, it is believed that God offers eternal life, His very own life, to those who believe. This is a bare-bones kind of outline. I would really recommend reading one of the four gospels (my favorite is Luke) if you want a more thorough biography of Jesus (according to Christians).