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craig960114 · 8 days

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why my brother sqaig will help me take over the world

In the imaginative world where Craig reigns supreme, his brother Sqaig emerges as a formidable ally in their quest for global domination. While Craig possesses cunning and adaptability, Sqaig brings his own unique strengths to the table, making them an unstoppable duo poised to reshape the world in their image.

Firstly, Sqaig complements Craig's abilities with his own brand of charisma and charm. While Craig may excel in clandestine operations and behind-the-scenes manipulation, Sqaig shines in the spotlight, captivating audiences with his magnetic personality and infectious enthusiasm. Together, they form a dynamic duo capable of rallying followers from all walks of life to their cause.

Secondly, Sqaig's ingenuity and creativity add a new dimension to their plans for world domination. While Craig may rely on tried-and-true tactics, Sqaig isn't afraid to think outside the box and innovate. Whether it's devising bold new strategies or leveraging emerging technologies, Sqaig's inventive spirit ensures that they stay one step ahead of their adversaries.

Furthermore, Sqaig's unwavering loyalty to his brother Craig strengthens their bond and solidifies their alliance. In a world where trust is a rare commodity, Sqaig's steadfast commitment to Craig serves as a powerful foundation for their partnership. Together, they weather the storms of opposition and adversity, emerging stronger and more determined than ever to achieve their shared goals.

In conclusion, the union of Craig and Sqaig represents a formidable force in the world of global politics and power struggles. With their complementary strengths, unwavering loyalty, and shared ambition, they stand poised to conquer all obstacles in their path and usher in a new era of dominance and influence. Beware the rise of Craig and Sqaig, for their reign may soon be upon us.

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iturbide · 6 months

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Summer Storm

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He watched as the smith deftly worked her glowing iron with swift hammer strikes before finally plunging it into a nearby trough of water, letting it bubble and steam before lifting it out to take a closer look at it. Miryn supposed she must have been satisfied, because she lay it on the anvil before turning toward him -- and a wide, toothy smile spread across her face when he raised his hand in greeting.

“Afternoon, Kayla,” he called, idly unbuckling his top pack with one hand as she moved to join him, her stiff leg lending her a rolling gait.

“Miryn! Market day already?” she asked conversationally, stripping her gloves and loosening her mane of tawny hair from the net keeping it out of her face and off her neck while she worked. “Must have been a good day, if you’re here so early.”

“Sold out, in fact,” he grinned. “I hope that won’t cause problems with my order?”

“Oh, of course not,” she scoffed, hauling a crate up onto the counter. “Twelve bottles, eight vials, and I did some trading to get some more of those little clay jars you like from one of the potters.” She gave him a conspiratorial wink as she lay the wares out on the counter for inspection, the rippling glass ranging in color from green to a pale cornflower blue.

He lifted one up to the light, smiling at the play of color across the scarred and slightly scorched counter between them. “Beautiful work, as always. How much?”

“The usual -- though I’ll give you a discount if you have more of that burn salve,” she added with a wink.

“Well, what do you know: I just happened to bring a few jars along,” he said, feigning surprise as he opened the lid of his pack, moving the leather scraps aside to withdraw them from their padding.

She whooped as she snatched one up, removing the lid and dipping a finger into the ointment. “You are the best,” she said, dabbing it onto the red marks around her elbow where stray sparks from the fire had landed. “This is the only thing that actually works, you know -- the apothecary down on market street has something he says does the same thing, but I swear it just adds a rash to the burns. And it’s greasy, too, absolutely awful stuff.”

“I’m glad I brought along an extra jar for you this time, then, if three didn’t last you between markets,” Miryn chuckled, digging into his coin satchel and starting to count out the gold pieces. “Are you getting busier?”

“Everyone around here is: the guard put in an order for more blades, and no forge is big enough to do it all without taking an age to finish, so everybody’s been pitching in. Of course, since I work both glass and metal, I’m starting to think I might need an apprentice.” She pulled her hair back again, this time tying it into a high tail with a charred leather cord. “You know anybody looking to learn the blacksmithing trade?”

“Afraid not,” he said, beginning to transfer the new glassware into his pack. “My sister’s happy with her trade, and I don’t think she keeps the right hours for a smith, anyway -- no one wants to listen to the forge going all night.” Kayla shuddered at the thought. “Six preserve, someone would have my head before the week was out if I tried that. Well, it was worth a try, at least."

#original fiction #nanowrimo #summer storm #look i know she is a very minor character #but kayla's been hanging around as a minor character #for more than a decade at this point #i love her she needs spotlight time

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chanelslibrary · 7 months

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𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩: 𐂂 Shadow & Bone 𐂂

🌞This series has such a special place in my heart because it was the first series that got me back into reading after taking a break while going back to school.

🌞While I wouldn’t say this series is my “favorite” it lead me to Six of Crows (which is one of my all time fave series)!

🌞Also who can resist the Darkling?! a truly morally gray character with such a tragic backstory😩😚

•Have you read Shadow & Bone? And I’m always up for debates about the tv series!! LOL

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bruttomisandro · 1 year

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I am strong believer that Fernsong, Sorrelstripe and Hollytuft were supposed to be the new main characters of AVOS, since it fits better with Hawkwing's Journey timeline, but someone love Bramblestar a little to much I supposed

#warrior cats #a visions of shadow #c'mon they Litterally made the timeline nosense by making alder and spark be born much later #it's infuriating becasue all alder and spark personalities could have worked totally fine for fern holly and sorrel since they have nothing #alderheart #Sparkpelt #i am really this close to wipe out sparkpelt and Alderheart rn and give them the spotlight #what about Bristlefrost and her sibs? we can totally find a way #stormcloud #even if i prefer storm x cherry and still baffled bayshine and myrtlebloom arent just their kids #fucking hate this books rnenebe #i actually love alderheart and Sparkpelt #vut if u didnt know about them and u got fernsong and hollytuft it would be the samw #and Nightheart could have still have his own thing goin on since lionblaze is still firestar's grandad

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mala-sadas · 2 years

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in the last two days i’ve gotten new canon content for all five of my favorite pokemon trainers, this is the best timeline

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oflgtfol · 1 year

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maybe im being a “back in my day” annoying person but fr i miss the old painted covers of the warrior cats books they had so much charm and personally and mystical childhood wonder to them. theres something empty and soulless about the new art. no shade to the artist i guess like its still impressive on a technical level bur its just so like weirdly sleek and it screams Corporate Minimalism thats just so common nowadays im sick of it. like not even warrior cats can escape it

LIKE LOOK AT THIS. random closeup of a cats face with indistinct background. vs charming little paintings of cats that is wildly dissonant with the book title. even as a kid with no experience doing literary analysis i thought the contrast between an ominous title like “rising storm” and this quaint little cover was so intriguing. the new cover gets rid of that contrast and doesnt even do anything interesting with it

idk it just makes me kinda sad. the new covers just dont have any of the magic and wonder that the old ones had that had drawn me in as a kid. they had the opportunity to genuinely do some new and interesting things and then they just did the most boring covers ever. they dont create a mystery or intrigue or any hint of the story theyre literally just a cat staring at you. Like ok who cares

#the old covers were so genius in a way i didnt appreciate until seeing the new ones #like even with no knowledge of the story they still create a story yknow?#and they play directly into the title #forest of secrets has a secretive atmosphere!! moonlit shadows! a cat under a spotlight staring at you !! its secretive and mysterious !!!#rising storm has that tension between the quaint little scene and the title rhats so interesting when youre going into it blind reading it #for the first time #fire and ice has such nice complementary covers and shows a BATTLE !! like the clashing of two elements #and then in the center are two ominous cats fucking staring at you !!#ITS INTRIGUING!! the covers are INTRIGUING !!#the new ones are just. one fucking closeup of one cat. Who cares about that #brot posts #wc posting

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ingredientsonline · 9 hours

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Category of the Month: Plant Protein

#In recent years #there has been a remarkable shift in the way people approach their dietary choices. The spotlight is now shining brightly on plant-based pr #a trend that's taking the health and nutrition world by storm.

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comicbooktradingcards · 2 years

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Team Spotlight | Fantastic Four

Version 1 || Version 2 || Version 3

#fantastic four #marvel #comic book trading cards #thing #ben grimm #human torch #johnny storm #mister fantastic #reed richards #invisible woman #susan richards #marvel trading cards #team spotlight

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celestialcomedy · 4 months

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Local Space Horror chilling in the cold snow. Tendrils flicking the snow piles to make even more flurries in the air. Theres some noise from the melting void thats hard to make out, what ever it is at lest they sound happy

#spotlight duet ( ic )#[ 47ft horror playing/causing a snow storm ]

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averagemrfox · 8 months

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It's ok. Take your time lol

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #It's the moonbeam spotlight of shame that really makes this lol #her first turn consisted of threatening and getting damaged by my moonbeam and busting her ass on the ice from Jeihera's ice storm lol

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see-arcane · 8 days

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Our good friend Jonathan Harker is getting ready to leave for his business trip, Mina Murray is picking out a new journal, Lucy Westenra is charming a gaggle of smitten suitors, Abraham van Helsing is wrapping up his lectures, and Castle Dracula is prepping the guest room for a very long stay.

Which must mean that Dracula Season is here again!

‘Dracula Season’ being a catchall term for the voracious reading, memeing, writing, illustrating, analyzing, and general fun-having that’s ensued since Matt Kirkland’s project, Dracula Daily, caught on with us back in 2022. The Substack had already been running before then, but it sparked a conflagration as time went on and readers old and new to Bram Stoker’s Dracula—the actual novel, not Coppola’s fanfiction—devoured it in a way that scratched an itch none of us knew we had. Stoker wrote the book in epistolary fashion, clumping sections together as needed for the pacing without perfect adherence to chronological order. Matt went ahead and put all the events in order and proceeded to set up a lovely chain of emails that delivered entries on those correlating dates.

This style of organization and pacing turned out to not only make the virtual book club that much easier to engage with, but left space in-between to stew on the story and relate with the characters themselves. Every day of waiting in the book feels weightier when you have to pace and sweat and worry in tandem with poor Jonathan trapped in the castle or Lucy wasting away or Mina running out the clock before she loses the fight for her own humanity. And while we sat with the story or the lulls between Dracula Seasons, some of us found ourselves craving more of that ghastly gothic horror goodness to the point that we figured:

“Well. Why don’t I make something?”

And then we did! Tons of creative works have been churned out in the wake of Dracula Daily’s high. I figured that while we’ve still got a bit of time to wait for May 3rd, we should check out all this new stuff in the meantime. (Plus a handful of neat stuff that just clicks with the Dracula itch overall.)

So, in the interest of Dracula Season pregaming, let’s take a look at…

FICTION

Blood of My Blood – A recent addition to the Dracula Bad Ending AU pile, and definitely one of the most harrowing and addictive group-produced narratives I’ve ever come across, Blood of My Blood is the dramatically gothic currently-WIP work of @ibrithir-was-here and @animate-mush’s devious design. Give or take a heap of other fascinated folks (hello!) adding ideas to put more Horror into the Horrors that our cast has to face. The premise:

The Transylvanian climax went fatally sour and the Harkers were forced to shelter with Dracula himself, including their half-vampire son, Quincey. Cut to two decades later, and Quincey finds himself out in modern London, smitten with Lu, adopted daughter of Arthur and Jack, and diving into certain bloodstained old documents that detail the real history of how his parents came to live in the castle. Said revelations coming not a moment too soon, as a storm is coming for him straight from the Carpathians…

Dracula Daily Sketch Collection – An array of illustrations that captures every entry beat by beat, the Dracula Daily Sketch Collection by Georgia Cook, alias @georgiacooked was dished out over the course of the last Dracula Season. Some of the most fun character designs out there.

Fanfiction Spotlight: BlueCatWriter – With a whopping 99 works devoted to the novel Dracula (so far, the number may have gone up since I blinked), @bluecatwriter is one of the most prolific and talented fanfiction scribblers out there. Romances, nightmares, and overlaps between the two seem to crop up the most, give or take a crossover. Seems fitting that those blue paw prints have contributed to BoMB too.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk – An ongoing comic in which all your favorite characters from the Classics section get together and tackle some perils ranging from the mundane to the monstrous. Started by the amazing @mayhemchicken and posted on @lxgentlefolkcomic, this series is a love letter to beloved Victorian era lit, with a spotlight on the two couples leading the League. Namely, the Harkers, ala Dracula, and the Nortons, ala Sherlock Holmes,’ “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Mina and Irene are the driving investigative and steering forces here, and still deeply in love with their likewise-infatuated husbands, just like in their canons! What a concept! Alan.

Without spoiling the full character list, just know there are going to be a ton of familiar faces roaming around before you finish reading the first arc. Said arc having conveniently wrapped up just a few days ago! Give the comic and its bonus silliness a look if you’re in the mood for a new comfort-adventure epic.

Re: Dracula – Probably the most well-known and incredible thing to come out of the initial Dracula Daily wave. This podcast is a full audio drama that follows the same format as the Substack, with episodes coming out in time with the entries themselves. And it has an unfairly cool soundtrack. They have a Tumblr with @re-dracula, a site and a Patreon to check out before the series kicks up again on May 3rd. (Also, keep an eye out for their next work, an audio drama in the same style with Carmilla.)

The Soldier and the Solicitor – Another treat from @ibrithir-was-here, this one involves a bit of time travel trouble. Quincey Harker has stumbled out of World War I and into the same dark forest where his father once fled for his life…then runs into the man himself, on that same night. Jonathan Harker, young and starved and lost, who has no choice but to trust this stranger while the Weird Sisters are at his heels…despite said stranger having no shadow. It’s a tasty emotional trek, already complete on Tumblr, but now it’s turning into a Webtoon. While Ibrithir is juggling a number of other stories, she’ll be redrawing spruced up versions of the comic and adding a few new scenes as things unfold.

Substack Stack – You know what’s better than one emailed-out public domain book club? A mountain of them. Just. So, so many of them. You’ll see that a lot of these are finished, but some are still ticking along. Either way, they’re all great picks if you’re craving some more old school lit to fill the void between undead emails.

Frankenstein Weekly – Frankenstein

Jekyll and Hyde Weekly – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Voyage of the Nautilus – Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Letters from Watson – Sherlock Holmes

The Invisible Mail – The Invisible Man

Letters from Bunny – E.W. Hornung’s short stories of the eponymous Bunny and Raffles

Letters Regarding Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster short stories, including the novel, Right Ho, Jeeves

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…The Beetle Weekly – The Beetle (NOTE: Do Not Read This.)

The Vampyres – A novella I finally wrenched through the gears of self-publication as of March this year. Starring a petite but powerful paranormal cast, The Vampyres, centers on an unscrupulous undead fellow who finds that the revenants of the world are being mowed down by an entity known only as ‘Quinn Morse.’ Between trying to save his neck and figure out where the shadowy bastard came from, the Vampyre in question crosses paths with a new paramour and handy human shield in the form of a grieving Good Samaritan. He’s even polite enough to invite the Vampyre into his home while he’s in dire straits! Surely this will end well. All the info is available here and a little author site is over here.

What Manner of Man – This is the one made for everyone who started out hoping there’d be a real love story with our good friend Jonathan Harker and the Count when he was at his most charismatic. Where that sea of wonders dried up into a mire of horror, What Manner of Man by @stjohnstarling keeps things firmly on the romantic tracks. This Substack stars the letter-writing priest Father Victor E. Ardelian as he finds himself meeting with one enigmatic Lord Alistair Vane. It isn’t long before interest turns into intrigue and intrigue into undead intimacies.

The entire novel has been completed—along with multiple epilogues in the author’s Patreon, allowing readers to choose for themselves just how the uncanny romance plays out in the end—and the Substack now has a number of other gothic goodies piling up in the meantime.

NONFICTION

Dracula Daily: A Unique Reading Experience: This one comes courtesy of @realwomenofgaming. It’s a short and sweet piece that amounts to a fun snapshot of the entire Dracula Daily ride. A cozy couple-minute read.

‘Dracula Daily’ is the One Substack You Need a Subscription To: Features my favorite Matt Kirkland interview. @mattkirkland, if you’re still floating around on here, thank you for dispatching our vampire newsletter again this year.

Dracula Daily is Tumblr’s hottest new book club: Alright, the ‘new’ part is worn out by now, but this one is still a delightful article to swing back around to. Two years on, this Polygon piece is a time capsule of those early months when people outside our bookworm bubble realized we were all happily receiving letters from our favorite classic gothic horror blorbos.

“How Mina Murray Became Dracula’s Girlfriend” – Princess Weekes, if you ever read this, thank you, thank you, thank you. I am sending oceans of love and millions of rewatches to your video essay. If you haven’t seen it yet, “How Mina Murray Became Dracula’s Girlfriend” is one of the most refreshing and well-made breakdowns of both the title subject and numerous other issues that have proliferated in the public view of Dracula’s cast and plot as adaptations endlessly warp or outright bastardize the actual novel. An incredibly cathartic watch.

Literary play gone viral: delight, intertextuality, and challenges to normative interpretations through the digital serialization of Dracula: A mouthful of a title for an even more elaborate article about the Dracula Daily phenomenon. This one is a full-on study that analyzes just what happened within the big bloodsucker book club surge and how its ‘wandering reading practices’ enriched the experience for participants.

“The Undying Undead: An analysis of the Dracula Daily community for a theory of online community formation and interaction” – We have a thesis on here! Look at that! @sirangelothebestest’s MA thesis used our vampiric book club as the bones for a massive brick of an academic piece that definitely deserves a look.

…And I think I’ll go ahead and cap things here.

This isn’t everything I got recommended, but if I had squashed all of it in here, I think folks’ eyes would start to fall out of their head. I hope you can find something cool to comb through here. Or, if there’s something great I overlooked, tack it onto the list! We’ve got just two weeks to go until we’re off with Mr. Harker. Let’s enjoy our respite before those castle doors close behind us.

#time for Dracula Season pre-gaming :3 #thank you to everyone who sent in their suggestions!#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula

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