“slut Era” I Whisper To Myself As I Rot In My Bed, Sick Like A Frail Victorian Child

"Marjorie Sholes with Studio Cat in the Window" Early 20th century. Source.

no but NOT ONLY does the Dracula novel explicitly show that the men's well-intentioned but extremely sexist decision to exclude mina because she is a woman makes her more afraid and unhappy and also puts her at risk BUT ALSO it shows that after they realize their mistake and start including her again she is actually noticeably happier, despite the dire circumstances, less worried AND she is able to meaningfully contribute to their efforts as a valuable member of the group, thus making them all stronger

it's so striking. many of the characters display very typical attitudes for the time that the book was written but the narrative...kinda doesn't. yes it was written in the 1890s so it's still dated by modern standards, but it makes a very conscious effort to question a lot of traditionalist attitudes and views that would have been prevalent at the time. like, the male characters all think that it makes sense that a woman's nerves would be too sensitive to participate in a vampire hunting mission...but the narrative does not validate this and in fact shows them to be wrong. and only when they change their behavior are they able to succeed.

Also notable that Jonathan is the first one to be able to injure the Count, and is ultimately the one who kills him. And he is the least traditionally masculine and most gender nonconforming of the male characters.

tldr lowkey in the books dracula was defeated with the powers of friendship feminism and gender nonconformity and I think we should talk about that more

I absolutely hate HATE the fetishzision of goth girls/people. I fucking hate it. We need to go back to being weird as fuck, off-putting, odd, whatever. I like being a gross nasty goth with a teeth collection and interested with Victorian medicine and death and has messy smudged grimey makeup and cracked lips and letting spiders crawl into my hands after they fell from their web to put them back. Everything that will make people who just see goth people as just a freaky sex thing to turn their noses because jfc I'm more than that.

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gideon the ninth on my iPod 4th gen (2004-2005)

it natively supports txt files, but can only display 4096 characters per file, so I need to break the book up into bite-sized chunks for it to be actually usable.

Leyton and the Mad Maid finally found a spell to ward off Euron

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Somewhat recently finished project (thriftflip). Don't have a photo of what it used to look like but it's probably easy to imagine because I didn't do much/ changed it dramatically.

Found this slip (including some detachable pretty lace) online a while ago, I haven't worn it because it's "boring" and way too wide/ boxy looking on me.

I hand sewn on some lace I found at a local smaller thrift store and also added lacing (holes) with ribbon.

I've worn it a few times now and it fits really good (it's also very adjustable) and is almost perfect as a base layer with the lacing removed.

It also went through the washing machine unbroken (I'm always terrified of that) and the lace is still glittery.

Anyways I have somewhat of a backlog that I'm hoping to get photos and be able to post somewhat soon.

Unaltered unusable clothes that are gonna be used for something sometime: 10