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Hello :) my main Tumblr is @theboringprincess, side blog @santhebore, this one is mainly an archive
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Underappreciated things about original book!Dracula: turns up in a giant fake beard to pick Jonathan up, claiming to be a coachman working for himself, for no particular reason. Despite having red eyes, visibly sharp teeth, superhuman strength, and being the only person Jonathan meets in the entire country who speaks German fluently.

Jonathan still falls for this.

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Underappreciated Drac Facts, Part 2: reads train schedules for fun.

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Underappreciated Drac Facts, Part 3: after eating the entire crew of the ship he was taking to England, turns into a wolf and jumps off the ship as it hits the shore. The entire town the ship crashed in immediately decides they need to adopt the poor doggo, and are very sad no one can find it.

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Underappreciated Drac Facts, Part 4: apparently bit Lucy in the same tiny fang holes every time. How long did he waste every night lining that up exactly right? Is that why it took him so long to kill her?

Bonus underappreciated Dracula (the book in general) fact 1: Van Helsing makes Lucy a wreathe/necklace of garlic flowers. I am not sure if the author was aware that garlic flowers look like Koosh balls on stalks.

Bonus underappreciated Dracula (the book in general) fact 2: Van Helsing claims the River Lethe and the Fountain of Youth smell like garlic.

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Underappreciated Drac Facts, Part 5: mind-controls a wolf out of the zoo to have it headbutt a hole in Lucy’s window rather than doing… literally anything else, starting with “taking a break to chew on one of the thousands of other nubile young women he now has access to” and going on to such complex plans as “grab a shovel out of the tool shed.”

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Underappreciated Drac Facts, Part 6: when they’ve got Lucy’s window sealed shut and covered in garlic and are sitting up with her while she sleeps, he spends literally all night every night flapping against her window in bat form like a moth flying into a porch light.

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oscar wilde

  • had three middle names
  • spoke five languages
  • was sentenced to prison for sodomy
  • was 16 when he had his first kiss
  • loved to travel
  • had an eidetic memory
  • lied about his age on his marriage certificate
  • held seances at his house
  • spoke with his hand in front of his mouth bc he was embarrassed by how supernaturally white his teeth were
  • kept a vase of flowers on his writing desk to neutralize the smell of his ashtray
  • had a passion for interior design and aesthetics—his drawing room was painted blue and covered in dragons, he even pressed feathers into the plaster to make it look cool
  • the kids at his school called him “grey crow”
  • one of the reasons he didn’t commit suicide was bc he was afraid he would go to hell for it
  • his favorite word was ivory
  • his last words were “i am in a duel to the death with this wallpaper, one of us has got to go”
  • his grave, in paris, has become the target of mass quantities of lipstick kisses. no lie. it’s literally covered in lipstick stains. and a sphinx. he also asked to be buried with his former lover’s ashes
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I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside of you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It’s hollow.

E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler  (via quoted-books)

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