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The look of "I love this Chaotic Space Alien with all my heart, but right now, I don't know why!" is brilliant.
Found this image while looking for a wallpaper for the PS3
Reblogging from @drunkfightingllamas, where I do my Original Posting!
munchin on some watermelon
"monch, monch, monch, monch, monch, monch, monch, monch,"
Just thought a bit of Baby Metal would make everyone's day a little better!
Reblogging from my OP sideblog!
Your daily dose of cat memes
me kan rede wiv mai bum-bum
Your daily dose of cat memes
I need to be vengefully angry, but these are just too comfy!
This is a copy of the photograph taken by Frank Sutcliffe showing the wreck of The Dmitry in Whitby. This is the wreck that gave Bram Stoker inspiration for part of his novel Dracula (more on that later). I love this picture have a copy hung at home.
Here’s some info on the photographer: Francis Meadow (Frank) Sutcliffe (1853 – 941) was an English pioneering photographic artist whose work presented an enduring record of life in the seaside town of Whitby, England, and surrounding areas, in the late Victorian era and early 20th century. He made a living as a portrait photographer, working first in Tunbridge Wells, Kent then for the rest of his life in Whitby, living in Broomfield Terrace in Whitby before moving to Sleights, Yorkshire. His business in Skinner Street rooted him to Whitby and the Eskdale valley but, by photographing the ordinary people that he knew well, he built up a most complete and revealing picture of a late Victorian town, and the people who lived and worked there.
And now onto what I consider the main highlight of this post: Dracula. I have always loved the book, having first purchased a copy on a Whitby holiday when I was young, and read it whilst staying in the town. I have reread it many times since then and it has remained a favourite of mine.
above - author Bram Stoker
Abraham “Bram” Stoker (1847 – 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving. Stoker visited the English coastal town of Whitby in 1890, and that visit is said to be part of the inspiration for Dracula. Stoker wrote other fiction, including the horror novels The Lady of the Shroud and The Lair of the White Worm. Before writing Dracula, Stoker met Ármin Vámbéry, a Hungarian writer and traveller. Dracula likely emerged from Vámbéry’s dark stories of the Carpathian mountains. Stoker then spent several years researching European folklore and mythological stories of vampires.
It has been claimed that the Count in Stoker’s novel was based Vlad III Dracula. At most however, Stoker borrowed only the name and “scraps of miscellaneous information” about Romanian history. Dracula is written as a collection of realistic but completely fictional diary entries, telegrams, letters, ship’s logs, and newspaper clippings, all of which added a level of detailed realism to the story, a skill which Stoker had developed as a newspaper writer. At the time of its publication, Dracula was considered a “straightforward horror novel” based on imaginary creations of supernatural life. “It gave form to a universal fantasy and became a part of popular culture.”
According to the Encyclopedia of World Biography, Stoker’s stories are today included in the categories of “horror fiction”, “romanticised Gothic” stories, and “melodrama.” They are classified alongside other “works of popular fiction” such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which also used the “myth-making” and story-telling method of having multiple narrators telling the same tale from different perspectives.
The original 541-page typescript of Dracula was believed to have been lost until it was found in a barn in northwestern Pennsylvania in the early 1980′s. It consisted of typed sheets with many revisions, plus handwritten on the title page was “THE UN-DEAD.” The author’s name was shown at the bottom as Bram Stoker. Stoker’s inspirations for the story, in addition to Whitby, may have included a visit to Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire, a visit to the crypts of St. Michan’s Church in Dublin, and the novella Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu.
It would take too long to explain the plot of Dracula and I like to think anyone reading this already knows the story, if only from the various films based on the book, although few of them are strictly accurate representations of the novel. Stoker also wrote a short novella titled Dracula’s Guest which I personally think should always be published with the Dracula novel but sadly rarely is.
There are far too many film interpretation of the Count so I have chosen my three personal favourite; Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee and Frank Langella.
Don't forget the greatest adaptation:-
Tonka is having a touch of the old sarkys.
There is a bit in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla where Eivor has a mission in The Weald, a forest in Cent that was the inspiration of the Hundred Acre Wood.
An orphan child is trying to get some honey for their only friend who saved their life. A bear, named Winifred.
Apropos of absolutely nothing, the game also references Gnome Queen Tonka Toy Legs I mean The Hobbit.
Using a gif that is, according to Tumblr at least, sexually explicit are we @fountain-of-blue-serenity?
What this painting fails to show, lying drunk at his feet, is the subject's cousin, Monarch Of The Glenfiddich!
There is a bit in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla where Eivor has a mission in The Weald, a forest in Cent that was the inspiration of the Hundred Acre Wood.
An orphan child is trying to get some honey for their only friend who saved their life. A bear, named Winifred.
Apropos of absolutely nothing, the game also references Gnome Queen Tonka Toy Legs I mean The Hobbit.
he thinks he's being so smooth with his little face on my leg. i SEE you, villain
Give them the sammich, you tight fisted git!
CAL KESTIS meets LUKE SKYWALKER and it goes exactly as you’d expect 🫢
Luke is deffo going round to Cal's place in the wee small hours to stick a Loth-Bat up his nightdress!
IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY
I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E
I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y
ok who the fuck got this on my dash it’s still june
get spooky
how does this appear every june
T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y
it’s june
LEE IT’S JUNE
Ideal for when you don't want your Lana moving in a straight line!
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia (nee Princess Charlotte of Wurttemberg) wearing court dress.
"Say that again you wanker, and I'll nail your bollocks to a flagpole."
