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Ilkka fans, come get your crumbs

Bravo also to Robert Eggers for probably the least bad depiction of Transylvania in Western vampire cinematic history:

1. Having actual Romanian actors doing the dialogue in Romanian. You'd think this is a low bar to clear but nope.

2. High quality costume design that looks pretty accurate to 19th century Romanian and Roma peasantry, even down to specific braided hairstyles from the Transylvanian region.

3. Depiction of Roma people but refrains from having them as some typical Hollywood exoticizing role like a magical fortune teller etc. They're in like half a scene, just chilling and playing music in front of an inn.

4. Use of the word "strigoi" which are actual spirits in Romanian folklore, unlike the term "vampire" which didn't exist in Romania.

5. Sorry to the Nosferatu moustache haters, but a Romanian nobleman would have had that exact facial hair.

6. Depiction of religion (nuns, churches) that actually looks like Eastern Orthodoxy and not some vaguely spooky goth Christianity.

“Look not to me for healing!”

Éowyn really invented the “I’m NOT gonna fix him, he can fix himself” mindset and thus began the healthiest romantic relationship in Middle-earth.

Throughout [Donald's diaries] there are suggestions that Donald was a god, or could be a god, and he discusses integrating his mind with the gods or the cosmos: Mathematics is the language of god, however possesses more poetry than abstract validity. Restated as: Perhaps mathematics is the only certain ground today man occupies in the kingdom of god.

— HorsesOnYT, 'Madness at Sea: a Horrifying True Story': a video essay about the psychological deterioration of sailor Donald Crowhurst during an around-the-world race.

Well, recruit? Do you have that dog in you?

People not comprehending Nosferatu correctly might kill me. Yes it's erotic and about pleasure but yes it's devastating and about child sexual abuse. It's a movie about victimhood, about being already dead, about longing for the great beyond, about never feeling safe from your abuser, about always expecting one more rape must be endured. It is about being an ugly victim, a neurotic victim. About your supposed allies tying you down for fear you will rip their world to ribbons. It is about facing the abuser, facing the pleasure the abuser brought. It is about men seeking to silence a plague in the quiet of the night when grooming and abuse can only be destroyed by pulling it into the light of morning.

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Obviously this is NOT done but I think I speak for all Rhaenicent fans when I say that we will take whatever we can get. So anyway here’s my progress on these babies

THE EVIL IS DEFEATED