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[chongoblog]

INTERESTING

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[spangelkinkmonthly]

Kink of the month: July

This month's kink is...

Puppet Kink

Because I just think we need to bring back this kink that seems to exist solely within the Buffyverse, and once upon a time was one of those things you just had to write at least once, thanks to Smile Time. So, who will the Wee Little Puppet Man, and who will be the Puppet Master? Will you stay tried and true with Angel being all stuffed with fluff? Or, will you switch it up and give Spike a turn at being chew toy sized? Either way, it's sure to be a hilarious and fun ride. 😏

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[dreamsatdusk]

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[cleolinda]

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

[dancinbutterfly]

Noice. Very easy and such a relief.

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[measureyourlifeincake]

dracula cinema sins but the counter goes up every time the book does a racism/xenophobia/antisemitism/orientalism

[trilies]

#ok i thought of this as kind of a silly joke #but also its interesting to think about #how in the same way that cinema sins is a shallow and intellectually bankrupt way of looking at stories/tropes #that does a disservice not only to the movies it ''analyzes'' but also to the concept of media analysis as a whole #simply doing a racism tally on dracula on its own would be a similarly bad way of engaging with the text #as it ignores the role that these instances play both in the story and on its role in history #both as a product of its time and a showcase of the fears held by white victorians #and as a text that continues to be a major influence in vampire tropes/the horror genre as we know it today

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[thegoatsongs]

Dracula, May 5:

“Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter.”

Jonathan, June 29-30

As he went down the wall, lizard fashion, I wished I had a gun or some lethal weapon, that I might destroy him.

The very thought drove me mad. A terrible desire came upon me to rid the world of such a monster. ...I seized a shovel which the workmen had been using to fill the cases, and lifting it high, struck, with the edge downward

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thegoatsongs asked:

Gotta love how the coveted key that Jonathan is so fixated on is all smoke and mirrors. I bet he has nightmares about it.

animate-mush answered:

And he literally never figures it out. He saw Dracula open the door with no key on the 29th, sees that it’s locked again on the 30th ….and goes right back to looking for the key. “A wild desire took me to obtain that key at any risk.” Honey.

And yet this fixation does lead him where he needs to be. It’s looking for the key that makes him go out the window. If he’d given up that quest, or put the clues together that it was impossible, would he ever have found the crypt? Would he ever have learned that he could climb the wall well enough to use it as a halfway viable means of escape? He’s not good at making plans - he spent two solid weeks trying to come up with something and ultimately just circled back to the plan he’d made on May 15th: Get Key Somehow.

And his plan fails. He fails to get the key, because it was always impossible, because there isn’t any key. But the attempt had consequences, and favorable ones. (Moxy Fruvous has a line in a song: “so we tried, and then gave up, because there was no such song - but the trying was very revealing.” There is no such key, but the trying is very revealing!) Just as he fails with the shovel. He wants to kill Dracula before he can spread his evil to England and he entirely fails so to do. But that doesn’t mean the effort is fruitless! He cannot kill Dracula because even asleep he can control his body with his mind and fog his brain with madness and fever and call upon Scholomancy to lock assorted doors (again with the locked doors) - the thing he’s attempting to do is in this moment impossible. AND YET. He marks him. The shovel falls limp from his fingers but he marks him. He dares to resist even when he can’t win, and in so doing he proves that Dracula is not unassailable. On the 29th he doubts that any mortal weapon can harm him but then on the 30th it does. He can be harmed, he can be killed. Maybe not today, maybe not by him, but it can be done. And that’s huge! He failed, yes, but the very act of trying makes a difference. You don’t have to succeed for something to be worth the attempt.

And this same striving in the face of the impossible, this mystic hopeless Hope that pushes through despair, is a major theme of the novel. Tolkien’s Estel. You can’t win. There is no key. Do it anyway.

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[silentzound]

Millie x Moxxie vs Striker

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[paleopinesofficial]

Look at these GORGEOUS dinos and matching player outfits! We had a livestream with our lead 3D artist, Abigail this week on twitch and she showed off some of her favourite matching colours! (There's ALSO a sneak peak at NEW customisation for the full game AND the desert! And Ranch decor!) Alt text below!

You can play the demo right now on steam!

Keep reading

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[genderkoolaid]

also btw im sorry but we HAVE to acknowledge that marginalized people are gonna be into problematic kinks too. there are trans people who are into misgendering & detrans kink there are gay people into conversion/orientation play there are fat people into feederism there are people of color into raceplay there are disabled people into disabled fetishes there are women into misogyny fetishes! for a variety of reasons! and you have to not care. you have to learn that it does not fucking matter. ignore the little gremlin in your brain that tells you that arguing over the morality of what gets consenting adults off is important or worthwhile & that having a fetish = condoning or believing or acting out any of that kink utside a scene or that it makes your activism invalid & you are a Better Activist for not having that kink. that's the devil talking. also no their partners are not inherently evil for indulging in their kinks either. you don't have to enjoy these things or even want to see or hear about them & your boundaries should be respected, but once you start letting people kinks color your perception of them as a person you've already lost. Destroy That Gremlin

[genderkoolaid]

#Yeah some of these kinks aren't morally equal#But I think the idea is that these are things that are seen as “problematic”#And really it's just human behavior on a very large spectrum we are projecting our morality onto#What matters at the end of the day is that those people are safe and cared for#And kinks are just kinks#If they do eventually alter someone's behavior in a negative way#Then it's likely they were gonna get to that place with or without that kink

^^ yeah. These kinks aren't necessarily similar by themselves, but all of them I've seen labeled Problematic Kinks for Bad People, often with very little effort put into understanding the marginalized people who engage in these kinks or their reasons for doing so or how they view their kinks in relation to themselves. & it just ends up being another way of both moralizing sex & using that as a weapon to create intracommunity conflict, and also controlling marginalized people's sexualities & demanding they have the Right, Morally Pure reaction to being marginalized

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[see-arcane]

Everything is tainted in Castle Dracula. Every choice, every comfort, every contour and crevice of just existing in that place becomes distorted with an undercurrent of malice. Everything from being a charming guest (or else) to enjoying a moonlit view (the moonlight is made of eyes and teeth and reaching hands) to the privacy of a bedroom (your things are stolen, you are stripped while unconscious, the door is locked) and even to the simplicity of choosing whether you wish to live or die (why is there a third option, no, no, no, not that, please not that, not this, not forever, please, God, no—). It’s all spoiled.

And this latest entry highlights one particular pleasure that I think may be just as soured for Jonathan as things like being touched or appreciating nature’s beauty.

Laughter.

Every time we have heard laughter since Dracula imprisoned him, it’s been at his expense. Dracula’s laughter. His hired workers’ laughter. The Weird Sisters’ laughter.

Ha ha, look how helpless he is! Ha ha, look how afraid he is! Ha ha, look how crushed he is!

What makes it an especially torturous knife twist, though? The idea that the laughter doesn’t just come from cruel amusement at his situation or what’s planned for him. It feels almost like the laughter of an old team snickering over the expected fretting of the new addition. They’ve seen this play out before. The ladies have, in all likelihood, lived this out before.

The welcome to the castle, the impenetrable locks, the tightening noose of Dracula’s attentions and demands, the pleading at the window for help that will never come, the desperate attempt to make it out only to be stopped short by the precipice or the wolves.

I wonder if that giggling little chat outside the bedroom door is a tradition with them. Speaking and laughing just loud enough to ensure the new addition on the other side can hear and know what’s coming. It reads almost like a sorority’s hazing. It’s just so much funnier when you’re in on the joke, on the giving rather than the receiving end of the requisite assault and those final fatal kisses.

All of this with the expectation that someday, some night, there will be another voice laughing with theirs outside the door as someone new makes their last weeping prayers. Ha ha.