genuinely one of my favourite details about Bram Stokers Dracula that isn’t really transferred to the pop culture is that vampires have irridescent eyes, they appear brown at a glance, however when light is reflected on them they seem to go red!
another thing that pop culture latched onto is this idea that you might use a wreath of garlic bulbs to ward off a vampire, however, in the book there is a popular use of garlic blossoms rather than the bulbs. i think these are a lot prettier and way more versatile for stylisation! you could have a garlic flower crown.
also like the cowboy part can we please stop omitting the fact that there is a real ass cowboy in Bram Stokers Dracula and hes from real ass Texas and he has a fucking gun and he tries to fucking shoot Dracula
Let us not forget that the cowboy from Texas also just randomly materializes some jack russel terriers to fight a supernatural dracula rat swarm. Because, oh yeah, that’s a thing dracula can do, is turn into rats?
The internet have people thinking life ends after 25
Turning 30 in april and I just started painting. I’m still an herbalist, still got so much more coming. I’ve been a genetic analyst, a health inspector, a barista, a weight loss counselor, a kennel tech, a medical intern lol. Everyday is just an opportunity for a new beautiful experience. 30 is another year closer to something new.
An Instagram dtiys! For some reason every time I set out to draw Miku (granted, its not often) I can never seem to finish it or make it look good. Somehow I was able to finish this and it looks relatively ok!! I kinda like the zoomed in part more then the actual full thing ;_;
The Pope is not just “some guy” you can throw into your story as an (oppressive) authority figure.
The Blessed Virgin Mary is not some ambiguous pretty woman to be used as as pseudo-symbolism.
St. Joan of Arc is not your cool historical woman.
Rosaries are not pretty necklaces.
These people and things are not just… “things” you can just use as archetypes or “symbolism” for your story. They have histories, they have stories, they have meanings.
People in the notes really bottom-bothered they can’t make everything a ham-fisted Jesus metaphor lmao.
If it pisses off Catholics it’s objectively good
regardless of whether it pisses anyone off or not, what do people think Christianity is but an assemblage of tropes and symbols and appropriation of earlier mythology?
Have you seen the number of forms the Virgin Mary has taken? She’s nothing but an ambiguous pretty woman to be slapped on as many things as possible to give them spiritual legitimacy.
please don’t slap ambiguously pretty women, even if they did give birth to a demigod
I’m not sure evangelizing religions get to use cultural appropriation discourse, given that their explicit goal is to get every human in existence on their side
“don’t do to us what we did to everyone else”
The truth is that Catholicism is based on appropriation and exchange from other historical cultures.
The deeper truth is that every culture that presently exists is based on appropriation and exchange from other historical cultures.
This post makes me want a group of people to beat the shit out of the pope.
@quasi-normalcy Catholicism colonized and stole. Most other religions just overlapped with other cultures and merged mostly peacefully. Catholicism did to indigenous European religions what the Aryan invasion did to pre-Aryan India.
i dont self depreciate anymore. i am hot and sexy and my meat is huge and i dont care about anyone elses opinion on the matter except my own because i am the smartest person on earth
