"Do You Ever Try To Read Your Own Face? I Do"

"Do you ever try to read your own face? I do"

I'm on the Dracula train

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Day 27: A headcanon about dreamshare.

Oh wow, this one was so much harder than I expected.

I'd say that with enough practise, a skilled extractor could develop control over their own body to the level that they could do things like make wounds disappear, move instantly from one area to another, go invisible, etc. Like a better version of Eames becoming someone's doppelganger.

I feel like everyone new to reading Dracula this year would probably benefit from knowing that in the original outline, Jonathan at the beginning of the novel was already supposed to have undergone the events in “Dracula’s Guest” where he spent Walpurgisnacht wandering around in a storm and watching a hot vampire lady get struck by lightning before a wolf-that-was-probably-Dracula came and sat on him to keep him warm all night.

I feel like this missing bit of information goes a long way to explaining why he’s sort of like: “Storm. Wolves. Mysterious blue flames my preternaturally strong driver gets out to inspect. Is this a normal part of being a solicitor? (Mem. Remember not to call yourself a clerk. Mina will be proud of you. <3)”

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Day 26: If each character was a snack food, what snack would they be?

Cobb: Muddy buddies/puppy chow. I have a lot of good memories of making these with my family. They're easy enough that you can whip up a batch quickly with/for kids. (or if you're also the dad friend of the group)

Arthur: These things. You can't eat just one. Befote you know it you've shoved all 30 into your mouth in one sitting. You still feel good about yourself though, because they're just so tasty.

Ariadne: Angel food cake. Toeing the line between 'snack' and 'dessert' but I, for one, am completely incorrigible and will eat it any time so I think it counts. Light and fluffy and goes great with pretty much any topping. Especially homemade whipped cream. Mm.

Eames: Pigs in a blanket. Easy to make, but absolutely essential. When I walk in to any social gathering and see these, it's going to be a good time no matter what. My team lost the Super Bowl? Well, I know nothing about sports and I've eaten like a dozen pigs in a blanket so it's still a pretty good day for me.

Yusuf: Cold rotisserie chicken straight out of the fridge at 2 in the morning. A snack for when you're up because you're doing something too important for things like sleep or cooking so you're just grabbing whatever food you have in the house.

Saito: Freeze dried mango slices. They're expensive as all get-out, but they're probably one of my favorite snacks. Well worth the price, even if I feel bad about spending so much money on them afterwards.

Dracula’s Lineage Speech

If anyone for any reason would appreciate a blow by blow breakdown of everything that is going on in the Count’s lineage speech, matching all of Dracula’s dialogue to Stoker’s research sources and describing the historical events being alluded to, I made one of those many many years ago and I’ve copy/pasted it under the cut:

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our boy jonathan, rotting away in castle dracula and having to pretend he's chill with it: