Wait, So Squak Disguises All His Letters As Responses To Book Recommendations. Ie Thanking The Person

Wait, so Squak disguises all his letters as responses to book recommendations. ie thanking the person he's writing to for recommending a book to him. And the book in question is always The Green Hunter by Airry Pearry. Which Squak wrote. So he's making out that other people are recommending his own book to him, and that he's writing to thank them - but also sometimes responding with absolutely scathing reviews of it? What a marvellous mess.

I do not have a Write A Coherent Essay brain but today's Dracula just made me feel a little sad about toxic masculinity and the cultural norm that men have to put on a good face in front of other men

Like, we've been watching Arthur mourn, even "I would release Renfield after one coherent conversation" Seward could see he was upset, and even in this tight group of men who are incredibly open about their feelings for the time, he still needed to be alone with a woman to fully break down and receive comfort, and I just feel SAD, you know? Like, it's not fair to women and it's not fair to men, and people are STILL doing this, and I want more for them.

There's a lot to say about how Stoker writes women and probably a woman written by a woman wouldn't be necessarily so blithely accepting of this dynamic as Mina, but looking at how Stoker writes MEN, I just get this feeling of him as someone with A Lot Of Emotions who thinks about them a lot but doesn't have the gender theory to realize that the patriarchy might be the problem.

Strap in, true believers, this episode on @unexploredcast, the Unexplored Place we're exploring will be

MURDERWORLD

we literally Should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

Unfriendly reminder that the night of the staking was supposed to be Arthur and Lucy's wedding night :)