#thanks for the suggestions

[erraticprocrastinator]

My toxic trait as a writer is procrastinating on points that are technically related to my story but aren’t actually relevant at all. I spent an hour today trying to pick the perfect middle name for a character even though his middle name is never going to be mentioned.

#and I couldn’t decide on one by the way #so if you have a 1700s-appropriate suggestion for the middle name of a man named Bartholomew Brimsley let me know #so update I ended up going with Benedict #thanks for the suggestions #writeblr #writing probz #writing procrastination #writing community #writing mood #procrastinating #writers #writers of tumblr #writerslife #writing problems #writer probz

[gynandromorph]

okay if i had to pick a few songs from the big jessie playlist to condense i would pick

God is a Gun by Otep

Autotheist by Baby Bugs

The Main Character by Will Wood

Don't Mess with Me by Temposhark

No Consequences by VersaEmerge

Duality by Set It Off

Super Villain by Silent Child, Kendyle Paige & Stileto

Part Time God by The Bad Dreamers

Love Abuser (Save Me) by Royal & the Serpent

Fight for Me by AlicebanD

martyr by KiNG MALA

Appetite by Casey & Ali Edwards

Between Breaths (An XX Perspective) by Blaqk Audio

Pretend by Stileto & Liza

#god is a gun the opening song in this list and the playlist because i feel like it's a good introduction to Why i wanted to write the story #thanks for the suggestions #also sorry for two stileto songs? #pretend also bookends the playlists because i think a song about how the game of pretend is over is good #the words pretend playing and game all appear in the last 5 lines of the comic #family guy death pose

[same-name-supremacy]

maybe we can use something like cleaver or tomahawk for chef's last name

Smart, I was also think Machete or Banette

#same name shenanigans #same name answers #thanks for the suggestions #td genderswap

[femmesandhoney]

Slacks. And men's dress shoes. Women's dress shoes are a joke, but u can find some nice men's ones for cheap at a thrift store. Maybe check the boys' section if you're small? Button ups also. A couple of nice ties, and a blazer. Blazers can go over lots of stuff. If the women's section blazers are too tight across the arms/shoulders or too short for your torso or cropped, CHECK THE MEN/BOYS' SECTION AT THRIFT STORES. Goddess speed sister :D

listen. i believe you i do. but i am a 5'2 petite woman who can not shop mens half the time bc i also have large boobs 🫡 but for anyone reading this who can!! lol, thank u nonnie, i like the thrift idea tho i don't go as much as i should and checking the mens section would be smart

#im not into suits tbh but im not that masc but i should look for maybe some nice blazers! #thanks for the suggestions

[science-lings]

ok ok neg trope bc i so dislike this: feral gremlin wild. like i just kinda look at that and wonder if we all played the same game. kid's not an arsonist, and even if he was, there's links more prone to arson than wild (legend, warriors). it also leads into this weird infantilization of wild that i think you brought up in the poll but that's just. a whole other can of worms positive trope (also 3 guesses on who my favourite link is skufhskdz): wild and hyrule! being adventure buddies! something about the first link (as in from the first game to be released) and the most recent link being so so similar and their games being so so similar. i cannot get enough of their relationship genuinely

The thing is, as an idea independent from how it can be used within the fan space, I actually like Wild being a little feral. I like giving him a little bit of the nature that he's named after but it's often misconstrued as him being completely unhinged and setting everything on fire when that just isn't really the case, in canon or implied by the game. I think it can be interesting to see him struggle to fit into a world with societal expectations and roles when in botw nearly everyone in Hyrule is extremely nomadic and witness to weird shit. So a weird little guy who kicks monster ass and helps everyone out just isn't that odd. idk, I have a lot of thought about this but I can definitely see how annoying it became when that whole 'feral gremlin' thing became his defining personality trait.

One of my favorite things is putting Wild and Hyrule in a room together. Like, botw was made as a love letter to the first Zelda game, it's huge and filled with monsters and you first meet an old man who gives you something essential to your adventure and you get some very similar spells/champions abilities, and it's all after the end of the world and you save a princess and kill a big ol pig, and it's all about exploring and finding all the secrets to the world you're dropped into and it's very cool to me. They're besties and anyone who disagrees is simply wrong.

#thanks for the suggestions #linked universe #ask andromeda #lu trope talk

[its-a-beautful-day]

Sweet Beetle Dreams

Inspired by @pangur-and-grim new grub and @dimespin comment on this post!

#star's art #my art #artist on tumblr #bug art #Grub #Beetle #Smooth stag beetle #Insect #nature illustration #cozy aesthetic #Thank you khrysteen for the suggestion of a turnip plushie #Oh I also used the photo of Pangur's free suprise grub as the reference #Cause they looked so snuggled #I'm really really proud of this piece #Absolutely blew myself out of the water with the grub and beetle rendering

[laurajameskinney]

too many of you are treating this + the various discussions of real sexual assault/abuse in the notes as fun drama or using this post as a vehicle to spread misinformation so im turning reblogs off until you can behave

#gg og #comics #marvel comics #undescribed #tom king #greg land #cb cebulski #realized the joke of the original post wasnt clear enough so i made this #thank you for izzy sharkjumpers for suggesting tom king cia #1k

[hugs-and-stabbies]

okay i dont wanna wait to post aksjdhf you guys are getting it before twt does hehe ♥

#thank you razorvine for the encouragement 💪💪💪 #dead plate #rody lamoree #vincent charbonneau #dead plate game #rodince #? is that the ship name? #suggestive #my art #posting this at 1:30 am 🥴 #spent pretty much my whole evening and night working on it lol

[joficeandwind]

There's also @dr-k-12 @danganrompa99 @danganronpa-418

:3

#j rambles #kristal #thanks for the suggestions

[rampantram]

Would Lamb like listening to Narinder's heartbeat and vice versa?

I would say so~

As for vice versa..

#thank you for the ask! #art #my art #cult of the lamb #narilamb #cw suggestive

[driftwooddestiel]

im still riding the high of that episode tbh . have some gifs

#ignore the graininess and low quality im doing my best sdklsslkmsdklsd #fionna and cake #adventure time #i forgot simons last name help #simon petrikov #thank yiu tumbkr suggested tags #the winter king #gif #gifset #im having a blast watching this show not knowing what on earth is going on and just enjoying the animation and stuff #spekaing of the animation in thsi scene WAS SO COOLLLL i loved if so much #my art #technically. as in i made the gifs idk its my catchall tag for my creations

[u3pxx]

based on this post that just absolutely killed me when i first read it wheezes

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #laios touden #laius thorden #chilchuck tims #chilchack #sunnysidedraws #thanks starry for this idea they are very ahgfghdj #OK SO I HAVENT FINISHED THE MANGA YET but i love these guys hope i can draw em more once i get the time <3 #suggestive text #im sorry that my first rendered drawing of them was a shitpost SGDJ #tbf my other idea was also . a shitpost so its like lose lose over here pftt #for the better right meme #sunnysidemeshi

[science-lings]

Whoops I’m late to the party but here’s some tropes.

Positive trope! As a traveler Hyrule has a lot of interesting and funny stories to to tell.

Negative Hyrule is a completely ignorant cave boy with the rough intelligent and personality of a 5 year old.

Positive Sky wrapping his sail cloth around someone.

Positive Warriors going full burrito with the near infinite cape he pretends is a scarf.

Negative Time Twilight and Wild’s bonds are treated like they are the only one’s that really matter with the unspoken implication they are the only REAL family.

Positive item trading! One of my favorite trope if rarely seen tropes. Yes Wild show Four your slate and argue over the definition of science. Spinner race time Twilight and Warriors. Let Sky Wild and Wind compare gliding items. Give Hyrule a hookshot! Rings for everyone!

Negative tossing my own take on the Mipha’s Grace is Fairy Bottle With Extra Steps is that we have had some form of Heal by Death in every game except the first. Hyrule has dolls he can find and Legend and Wind even having non fairy items they can purchase to resurrect with. All of them should be aware of the possibility even if only a few have used it. If anything meeting other people who treat dying casually should far more horrific then the simple existence something they can all potentially do.

Positive saying fuck destiny and finding ways to meet again after having to part at the end of the adventure.

You're not late I'm still collecting for the part 2's

Hyrule being a super experienced traveler is so good, this guy has been wandering since he was like eight and he's got a lot of campfire stories. And while I think it's not outrageous to assume that schooling in this era is a little lacking that doesn't mean that he's dumb in any way at all, he's very clever and he knows how to read thank you very much. Maybe he had some education in Calatia. I mean he was smart enough to leave and survive on his own and save his namesake a few times so like.... not stupid.

Any large piece of fabric that the chain owns can and will be used as a blanket. Scarf, sailcloth, cloak, Wind probably has actual sails that he used to have on the king of red lions that he uses to keep the water off of him bc it's more like a tarp than a blanket. Snuggles are inevitable.

While I am a fan of the wolf bloodline, I do get why depictions of it may undermine the importance of found family. I think it's a very valid criticism to point out that it may sometimes put forward the idea that blood family is more valid than an adopted family which could be unsavory, though I doubt that's ever the intention of the authors/ creators. I think that family is a fascinating topic with all these guys who grew up in vastly different but still quite lonely circumstances.

I love it when aspects like items and spells and stories from the other games are shared between the links and utilized to show how vast and different their experiences are. Aside from hookshots, nearly all of them have those bastards.

I mean, anytime people legitimize game mechanics into plot stuff it can be interpreted in different ways so I don't think that 'all of them come back from the dead' is a bad take lol, I think people fixate on Wild specifically with this kind of thing because it is implied he's already died and gone through the whole resurrection thing but more long term, and if that could've just been fixed with a fairy then the entire 100-year sleep just wouldn't have been needed. So it poses the question of if fairies really can bring a link back from the dead. But now I'm rambling...

I'm completely on the side of 'they all meet up in the afterlife as the timelines are assumed to have converged at some point before botw, and it wouldn't mess up the timelines if they just meet up after a few thousand years of waiting. I like the idea that they're watching and rooting for each other. That they've never been alone and there were always some of their brothers watching over them. (I also like to think that Wild caught a glimpse of them when he was placed in the shrine of resurrection)

#thanks for the suggestions #this one was a bit long but I don't mind lol #linked universe #ask andromeda #lu trope talk

[ruporas]

please be true

[ID: Digital Trigun Stampede fanart of Vash and Wolfwood cradling each other. Vash is facing the viewer with his face buried in Wolfwood's shoulder, one hand grabbing at Wolfwood's neck and the other grabbing his arm. Wolfwood is facing away from the viewer and is slightly leaned away, one arm wrapping around to Vash's back, but his hand is hovering, not touching. The background is black with white and red confetti-like and petal-like shapes falling around them. ID END] ID CREDIT

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun stampede #petals and confetti do look similar... #ive been seeing a lot of suggestions that vash might lose those memories permanently and considering how he started off amnesiac about july #in trimax it'd make sense... for some reason i have a drilled in part of my brain that the trauma of losing people (specifically rem) #literally in his arms might haunt him forever #if not the memory of it - maybe the instincts of it? #no matter how tightly he holds onto them they could just as easily disappear as they did before. #5.7.23 - thank you gnomebud for the id! #ruporas art

[mrspookums]

Before marriage, I can safely say that the only two vocal emotions a man can feel is being anger and being horny

#Made with grammarly #thanks for the suggestions #don't reblog

[see-arcane]

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