Heart Shaped

MISS CONGENIALITY 2000 — dir. Donald Petrie

Sits bolt upright.

What if. Trans aro/ace Jonathan Harker and lesbian Mina Murray who are best friends getting married to keep each other's secrets

More thoughts because this won't leave my head actually.

I imagine Jonathan's life trajectory would probably quite similar to many of the actual trans people alive in the 1890s whose stories we know--I'm in this for the history after all, which is to say, he probably began living as a man as a teenager. I think Mr. Hawkins has to know, given that Jonathan isn't just his assistant, so good on Mr. Hawkins for being remarkably open-minded? But also their half-familial, half-mentor-and-protege relationship might well explain Jonathan having landed the position he did, even as someone with a fairly big secret. Meanwhile Mina not only also knows, but very well might have been the one to encourage him to go through with it, since I am here for the idea that they've known each other since they were fairly young.

And then of course, there's Dracula. Who I think figures it out--whatever tips him off could be a good replacement for the shaving scene, and I think unfortunately for Jonathan only makes Dracula more intrigued by him. I imagine other things about the captivity would be additionally intolerable for him at that point. (Worst case scenario: what if there were a vampire keeping you prisoner and making your dysphoria worse?)

Mina, of course, is off having her own complicated thoughts about Lucy's engagement--and perhaps a bit resentful of the men who are able to court her openly--and growing increasingly anxious for her fiancé when she finally receives a letter saying a young English woman suffering from brain fever was brought some time ago to a convent in Buda-Pesth and has only just been able to provide the name of a friend back home.

They two of them aren't able to be married there as in the original novel, but Mina takes care to pack some of Jonathan's clothes when she goes, knowing he'll be wanting them as soon as he's well enough to travel.

I have blurrier thoughts from there on out--it feels like the suitors ought to find out at some point, just because I like the idea of it being another couple secrets binding the group together. Seward in particular probably has some knowledge of inversion theory and it could be fun to make him the sort of doctor to see Jonathan's case as an example of successful "treatment" (it was rare for that to be the case, but I know of actual historical instances not that long after Dracula is set where it did actually happen!) Also I like the idea of the suitors all considering Jonathan "one of the guys" knowingly. Self-indulgent, maybe, but I'm already rubbing my queer little hands all over this story, I might as well do it to the fullest.

One other thing is for certain though--in this version of events, it's Jonathan, not Mina who ends up partially-turned in October. Dracula seems to have a tendency to target young women for that, and I think it would really get into the gender of it all to have him again target Jonathan--who is not one, but who most of society would perceive as one if they knew the truth. I also think it's shortly after this that Jonathan and Mina do have a--incredibly hurried, intensely bittersweet--legal marriage ceremony, with the logic that Lucy might have had to go to her (undead) grave without one, but none in the group wish to let it happen to anyone else.

(Ironically, Jonathan is very neutral on the idea of being married, but the wedding makes him cry anyway)

Sisyphus call me his boulder the way I get rock hard whenever I fight him

@cikdik

….huh?

do not get cik started on sisyphus i’m warning you steer fucking clear

there are more straight2gay comics, of mordecai and rigby, than there are stars in the universe.

I love those "asking cosplayers at a con what their day job is" videos because it's always like

*muffled voice issuing from a huge suit of armor* im a cybersecurity specialist

Passover seder at UC Berkeley’s Gaza solidarity encampment (via twitter)

[Image Described:a crowd of people circling a blue tarp covered with pre-packaged food. Most prominently in the photo are two individuals in the front row, side-by-side with their backs turned and raising cups in a toast. The one on the left has a kufiya (white with a black fishnet pattern on it) wrapped around their head, and the one on the right is wearing a watermelon-patterned kippah. End I.D]

i think its so funny that alumni from schools like harvard and columbia that were there during the protests in the 60s-80s are expressing support for students currently protesting against the genocide in palestine, and random zionists that were NOT at these protests in the 60s-80s have the never ending audacity to tell these alumni "well thats different, what you protested was good and what they're protesting is bad." as if protesters against the vietnam war and apartheid south africa were not also demonized, arrested, brutalized, and even killed for their activism. history only remembers them fondly after the damage has already been done.

I think what’s incredibly funny is that now if anyone tells a tumblr user that they went to go visit their friend (a completely normal thing to say) without knowing the meme, they’re going to get the stupidest reaction because of how terminally online the other person is. Which is exactly what the original comic was about anyway.

unfortunately no eclipse photography can ever outdo the waffle house one from 2017

i don't even know who took this pic. the only person who claims to know the photographer was this person who uploaded it to reddit without naming them. it just adds to the mystery of it

I know this photo!

This is a picture Nick Martino took outside a waffle house in Tennessee in 2017. It's still up on his Instagram page.

Finally a good fucking source

the good news is jk rowling will die within our lifetime

shes almost 60 years old, we'll get to hear about it in the next couple decades

no multi option, agonize and choose, no results option, pick one to find out or scroll onward

the number of y'all in the notes mentioning how good the choices are/how hard it is to choose got me preening like "i am going to get a good grade in neurodivergent/disabled, a thing that is both normal to want and possible to achieve 😌"

does anyone else feel weird & not good or is it just me

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Pt. 1"

Reblog if it's the same year as it was yesterday, 2024

It took me way too long to realize this was just the lyrics and not a real life representation of what it feels like to have chronic pain...

I think it's supposed to be both

what did she mean by this