#arthkael

Carmilla might have been nervous and excited, but knowing Mattie's opinion about relationships with humans, probably she was like "Have fun, kitty-cat, and don't play with your food...or don't play with it too much ;)"

Everytime you post a new episode I think "I have to rewatch Xena!". Then I remember that in Italy it was heavily censored, and I get sad. Keep posting, tho.

Probably because they simplify narrative as: "tragedy is the stuff of epic, while comedy is trivial". Also, angst is more immediate, because usually for us humans it's easier to find things to be upset about. Angst is also universal, since everybody can understand the feelings caused by tragedies and deaths, while not everyone has the same sense of humor, and something that is amusing for you could be lame for someone else. So, angst is easier.

I agree with you there.  Thanks for giving me another insight into this!  Contrived, cheap and unnecessary angst is super easy to write.  It’s also a good excuse to keep your story going when you don’t know what to do.  However, a well written fleshed out story with angst is difficult because there needs to be a balance and a reward fulfilling enough so that your readers don’t get fed up, lose interest, and leave.  When you spend 50+ chapters writing angst and 3 chapters with concluding everything, you’re either left with a masterpiece like Shakespeare or leave your audience with “that’s it???” or unsatisfied and felt like they wasted time.  But again of course, art is subjective d:

One of the problems with UK governs/older citizens is that they probably think that Uk is still an Empire.

Oversemplifying: since they first entered Europe, UK made a lot of requests for “special treatment”. They kept their currency (the GBP was a strong currency, so it was convenient for them), they had a lot of economic/exporting/importing facilitations for food and agricultural laws because they are an island, they had priviledged position thanks to fact that all the great banks had their offices in London, so they had be catered to. Europe made a lot of those concessions fearing that UK would ask to leave. At least, when their economy was still strong, leaving wouldn’t impact them as severely as is doing now, and Europe didn’t want to lose a country that was a precious mean of diplomatic communication with USA. The last concessions happened in February 2016, where Cameron, using the leave as a weapon, blackmailed Europe into promising that, in the eventuality of the formation of a European “Superstate” (an agreement signed in 1975 prospects the slow building a federation of states not only from and economic, but also a political point of view), UK would be exempted and would continue with their own economic policies while keeping all the rights and the subsidies that Europe grants to its members, and that if a European army would be formed, UK wouldn’t be forced to give money and soldiers to contribute. Moreover, the treaty of Rome written in 1957 says that European citizens that choose to live and work in another country of the Union shouldn’t be discriminated, but have the same rights and the same access to welfare that the “real” citizens of that country have. Cameron obtained that UK would be allowed to discriminate, so European immigrants that had just begun to live and work in UK would have to wait from 4 to 7 years before having all the welfare access UK citizens have, while paying the same amount of taxes.

Summarizing, UK attitude toward Europe was “I want the cake and I want to eat it too”.

Now, it’s true that UK, like all the other members, pays a fee to stay in Europe, but all those subsidies, concessions, facilitations and priviledges summed up grant UK an income and a saving of public funds that exceed that money by far. Cameron came home and said to UK citizens that “UK is in a priviledged position in Europe, now, so please vote for the remain”, or something to that effect.

All of these requests, in all these years, gained the UK the nickname of “Spoiled child of Europe”, there were several occasions when UK threw a temper tantrum over decisions that were taken collectively by all the members of the Community, because while they benefitted Europe as a whole, they had the chance to “spoil” UK business with extraeuropean countries.

Now I just heard one of those conservative politicians that “Europe will have to negotiate with us”, and sadly the answers is “Fuck no”. There’s no way that they will keep all their priviledges, and without them they’ll probably have to suffer a loss of 20-40 billion pounds/year, and since most of the banks that have their headquarters in London already said they will leave for Berlin, because of this UK will lose %12 of its GNP when the exit will be finalized in the next two years.

Without considering that UK citizens will be treated as non-EU. What does it means? Well, they’ll have to constantly renew their visas if they have a job in an EU Country, and all those retired UK citizens that bought a home in an European country to spend their last years there won’t be allowed to spend 365 days/year in their country of choice. In Italy if you are a non-EU citizen that bought a house here, you can stay just 6 months a year, then you have to leave for other six months before coming back. Since in Tuscany there are a lot of UK citizens in this situation (and even more in Spain) now I’m curious to see how Farage will solve this problem.

crowley hall

ad1e161 replied to your post “what is the name…. or laura’s dorm i………”

Uh.. I wanna say... Crowley Hall?

Hi, Boss, here’s a list of the things that happened during this season of Carmilla, with the still unresolved plots (up to episode 34). It’s probably inaccurate and incomplete, ‘cause I shoul have rewatched the whole ordeal, but I didn’t care.

The murdering of the VoS kids (unresolved)

Perry has a latin prophecy cut on her stomach, she tells her friends about a dream where crows were eating her and the VoS kids (unresolved)

Lophii has admirers and LaF is still  mentally connected to it (unresolved)

Matska comes to Silas and says that she’s there to sell part of the college facilities to Corvae Corporation in order to save the school from bankrupcy and because the late Dean wanted it

Apparently Mastka finds Perry familiar (unresolved)

The library folds itself out of reality when the Corvae SWATs try to get the books. Apparently Carm gets stuck in it while running from Vordenberg’s minions (unexplained)

Mattie knows what’s happening in the Anglerfish Pit and berates Carm for her ignorance (unresolved, if I’m not mistaken we were never told what Mattie knows about the pit)

the Corvae guys are in the pit with drilling equipment and talk about “The first Gate”

it seems that SumSoc isn’t a secret society that trains warriors, but a college sisterhood that has insane traditions

Baron Vordenberg seems to hold a grudge against Carm because his ancestor loved Carmilla even when she became a monster; Matska says he was a necrophiliac.

LaF frankensteins JP in Will’s body because “Gee, that would be cool”

Crows attack the Anglerfish protesters and Perry (unresolved)

Danny enters the Board as a representant, probably she quits to become the commander of Vordenberg’s army, but during the episodes we are never told if she left the Board or not (so, unresolved)

The board has the power to outvote Matska and the Dean, but when it comes to outvote Vordenberg they can’t/choose not to. Also, apparently decisions can’t be taken if a representative of the students isn’t in the Board, so… (???)

This simply annoyed me, but it seems that Laura forgot that Carmilla was a Roommate From Hell

Various scenes where Perry is shady (finding the files that can shed a bad light on Mattie, framing Mattie, telling her she has always been a murderer, manipulating Danny, closing Carmilla’s call without telling Laura…)(unresolved)

Vordie is souping up his soldiers with something and we still don’t know what it is, maybe the fish blood (unresolved)

Mattie is in Perry’s dreams (unresolved)

Apparently the Corvae guys retreat, and Mattie says that Vordie would never ally with a powerful Occult conglomerate, but it seems that the Baron it’s not above doing that, so here the Corvae guys again, that apparently kill the Anglerfish.

LaF has dreams about a Dead Man in the Dark (unresolved)

Perry blacks out and finds bloody footprints in the apartment. More or less in the same timeframe Vordenberg tweets about being visited by a woman covered in blood. After talking to Mattie, apparently she blacks out again and she wakes up in the north quad, where Danny’s sisters were killed.(unresolved)

OMG. In your glee spoofs there’s a scene where Sue hypnotizes Will, can it be possible that…?