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roman senator accusing his political enemy of sexual immorality but as he gets further into his speech it becomes increasingly clear he doesnt actually know what any of the things hes accusing him of are & only vaguely knows what happens during sex

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roman senator accusing his political enemy of sexual immorality but as he gets further into the speech it becomes increasingly clear that he only knows because they were doing the sexual immorality together

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kaiserin-erzsebet

I think one of the keys to reading Dracula is to accept that he can and does represent multiple fears at once. The tendency to project the fear of sexuality in Jonathan's diary (and I stress that this is fear of same sex attraction when it comes to the Count) creates a blind spot to other readings.

Take this description of Lucy: "She eats well and sleeps well, and enjoys the fresh air; but all the time the roses in her cheeks are fading, and she gets weaker and more languid day by day"

It reads not like a fear of sexuality, but rather as a fear of unknown and incurable illness. Which, given Bram Stoker's unexplained childhood illness, was probably a very present fear for him. Dracula shifts from a figure who represents illness that is able to strike a young person without warning and without explanation.

There is no sexual figure seducing Lucy, there is just the slow decay of health with no explanation, even for someone who is young and has their life ahead of them.

#dracula #meta

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harocat

One thing that made me lol about Till the End of the Moon is how TTJ went from some guy who was never given the opportunity to train as a warrior in his life to a hyper competent at everything all around man on the battlefield.

Like yes a lot of it was that he gained those demonic powers, so any blasting, flying, etc. was in his range of abilities and he could probably defeat most enemies with that alone. But sword fighting? Being extremely adept at horse riding? Archery? How was he holding his own against Xiao Lin in combat? Where did this even come from.

It's one of those rule of cool things, which is mostly fine, ~~and I wouldn't care at all...~~ if ~~we got to see Li Susu fight more.~~

harocat

#we were robbed of so many scenes of him struggling in order to gain those skills #I wanna see his cringefail horseback riding and archery #we get to see how he gets his education in literature and politics #it would make sense to show more physical training also #or like. him having really weak fundamentals in fighting and just forcing his way through with demonic powers -@redpearlearring

This would be so great!! Considering he was basically malnourished when we met him, it would be cool to see him working to build up his physical strength during those training scenes as well.

The idea of him just being kind of scrappy and forcing his way through on demonic power (and his smarts) alone would also be really neat.

#ooooh yes #tbh I thought that ttj wasn't carrying at sword at first into battle with xl #was because he wasn't experienced enough with them compared to xl #seeing as the only ''training'' ttj got before he became emperor was watching xl in secret #so he would be relying mostly on demonic cultivation and such #till the end of the moon #meta