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Scribble M. Horror

@scribblemhorror.bsky.social

aka Shy Owl https://www.imaginaryhistory.org/scribblesandhorrors/

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Anthony Oliveira@meakoopa.bsky.social · 3d ago

I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…

• panters cannot pant hım; looks like someone else (38b) • insensitive to music (38b) • despises death and the dead (38b) . is affected only by relics that are older than he is (38b) • can create evil thoughts in others, banish good ones, and destroy will (38b) • cannot be photographed; photographs come out black or like a skeleton corpse (4, 38b) • can tell if bodies are dead or alive (4) • sees man semingly dead and says "no" (4) • has to be brought or carried over threshold. Dracula visits an asylum where he stumbles on the threshold (4, 16) • named "Count Wampyr" (1) • can determine and prove if people are sane (24) green taper with blue flame in Count's house (43va)
Ash Flanagan@ashflanagan.bsky.social · last wk.

lmao no it is not. It just isn't. It is fully within the norm for a negative review where the writer feels strongly. This is Roger Ebert.

"Troy" is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Hunter, according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue. The movie
Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.

People don't seem to want to admit that "I would be ashamed to have written any part of this" is shockingly harsh language for the average film review. She's within her rights to say it, and she knew exactly the response she would get for it, but it's definitely an eyebrow-raiser

The Onion@theonion.com · last wk.

SPARTA, OH—Noting that her desires were becoming increasingly less subtle, local man Tommy Hull confirmed Monday that his girlfriend, Bess Glickstein, kept dropping hints about wanting a 17-hectare mausoleum complex.

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Scribble M. Horror@scribblemhorror.bsky.social · 2w ago

So far at least, all of the pressures which usually harry me when keying—feeling like my entries are not good enough, difficulty in coming up with something thematically appropriate, the great creative burden of having to find *something* to put in each room—none of these worry me with the tomb