Dude, You're So Real For That

Coyote By: John S. Flannery From: Natural History Magazine 1985

just sat there thinking "why did they pick the most unthreatening striped hyena to be a big bad werewolf?"

my second favorite thing in Nosferatu (1922) is when it cuts to the "werewolf" and it's a hyena with the saddest gentlest eyes you've ever seen

everytime i see this panel i just sit there like

"yeah, alien comics are VERY good and VERY serious."

rock on galgo

tag the vtm oc who has behaved themself at Elysium!

Just something I've noticed

Deadpool and Wolverine movie was great, watched it two times, marvel may be beginning to cook again. Love seeing my kinda friendship realized on the silver screen

In other news robert downey junior is coming back as doctor doom as all people. they may have either made a grave error or a neat idea. possibly both. This makes marvel bros and nerds happy and even bigger nerds somewhat excited.

This franchise will outlive me atp.

jonesy really was smarter than ripley’s crewmates at certain points

I always felt like Jonesy was saying here "thanks man I didn't really like that guy anyway"

Alien (1979)

a very serious book, as you can see

Actual things that happen in the 1897 Dracula novel, without context:

A character has ominous nightmares and attributes them to eating too much paprika

Dracula first appears wearing a fake beard

The person he was trying to fool with the fake beard immediately realizes Dracula and Beard Guy are the same man, due to both having really firm handshakes

We are told parrots are immortal unless fatally wounded

A Texan cowboy opens fire on a bat flitting around a window, and lodges a bullet in the wall of an occupied room

A woman is called a polyandrist for receiving blood transfusions from multiple men

An incorrectly addressed telegram leads to two deaths, multiple druggings, and several children being assaulted

Dracula, while trying to maintain a low profile, takes a lovely trip to the zoo and freaks out the animals so badly that he gets mentioned in a newspaper article

The one character who knows anything about vampires spends a good two-thirds of the book refusing to talk about vampires

Dracula went to Satan's Witchcraft Academy and somehow this is only brought up in two throwaway lines

A character gets stuck inside a circle of communion wafer crumbs

A major plot point of the book is Dracula (who was said to be a brilliant scholar and has the strength of twenty mortal men) realizing he can move boxes without human help

Someone is referred to as "manifestly a prig of the first water"

Two characters have a hobby of reading train schedules

A hospital lets a mental patient escape to see what will happen

A character starts vomiting up feathers from eating whole birds

A doctor refuses to give a medical diagnosis and instead makes a speech about growing corn

Dracula impersonates another character just by wearing the same clothes, despite being taller and visibly much older. This deception is successful.

A character "cleans" a room by eating all the insects in it

Suddenly: rats. Thousands of them.

The heroes progress in their efforts through "the wonderful power of money," i.e., bribery

Dracula has three other vampires in his castle. Their relation to him is never explained, nor are any of them named.

A character insists his salvation depends on having a pet cat

Dracula is thwarted by flowers on more than one occasion

A group of vampires stand in the hall outside a man's bedroom, talking loudly about their plans to eat him. When he comes to the door to confront them, they run away laughing

Dracula wears an unfashionable hat and gets roasted for it

A group of Romanians encounter a disheveled, shouting man and, "seeing from his violent demeanour that he was English, they [give] him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached."

A boat crashes due to Dracula having the munchies

A wolf is thrown through a window and immediately runs off, confused and covered in glass

Dracula makes a bed

Seriously am considering making an art blog so that I can just freely dump all my art in one space. And also maybe a VtM blog. Mayhaps. Maybe.

two weeks to go, lads ... how are we all doing?