#rant time!

Specifically: In today's entry, Jonathan describes how "Last night the Count asked me in the suavest tones" to write three post-dated letters saying he’s fine and on his way home. Which Jonathan correctly understands as Dracula covering his tracks so it'll take longer for people to realize if Jonathan doesn't make it home.

The thing is, I've seen probably dozens of posts commenting on Jonathan using the word "suave", and it's always from a shippy lens. "Ooh, ~in his suavest tones~ huh", "Jonathan worrying he's about to die but still noticing Dracula's suave tones", etc. etc.

And I get it! Jonathan/Dracula shipping is obviously very big right now, and there are places in Dracula where the homoerotic subtext is very real. I'm not here to say that looking at Dracula through a queer lens, or the lens of whatever your preferred ship is, is incorrect.

But this is a case where I think looking at the story only through that lens is keeping people from picking up on the actual implications here. The point of specifying that Dracula said this "in his suavest tones" isn’t that Jonathan thinks he has a sexy voice. I mean, maybe Jonathan does think that! Who can say. But that's not what matters here, what's significant to the scene.

The significance of Dracula saying this "in his suavest tones" is that he's still putting on the act of the charming, gentlemanly host, even now that he's long past any possibility of Jonathan actually believing it. Not only that, but as his actions become more and more blatantly threatening - he's literally forcing Jonathan to help pre-emptively cover up his own murder - he's actually turning up the act, laying it on thicker than ever. Not just asking smoothly but in his suavest tones. There's something so deeply cruel and mocking and infuriating about that, like he's daring Jonathan to call him out on the act and face the consequences.

and just out of curiosity do you have any pet peeves when it comes to preg fics?

Surprisingly, I don't have much relating to pregnancy writing aside from just remembering that your character is pregnant and depending how far along they are, there are different symptoms they'll be going through like morning sickness in the 1st trimester, but honestly pregnancy is such a wild experience that there are a lot of things that can just happen.

What personally helps me with that is just researching any questions I have like "what does kicking feel like" or "what causes this or that" and Reddit is where I find a lot of useful answers, mainly from comments from people who have actually gone through it along with professionally sourced articles that can put some truth behind certain claims.

ShelterMC was a thing I didn’t really know existed for the longest while. At some point, I read on a comment section somewhere that apparently by the end of the qsmp, Dapper and Pomme actually hatched and were in another server called ShelterMC so, obviously I was really curious. After some digging, I found the vods on YouTube (Which are on Ana’s channel btw) and I didn’t really know what I was watching lol.

I didn’t think much of it and just went back to Qsmp vod watching. Fast forward to like a week ago, I was going through Lumi’s twitter (I was bored lol) and I found a post about ShelterMC. It was a lore video basically explaining her time in Shelter and how her story and Dapper’s wasn’t done yet. (This was a build up to house heir I think) And it made me realize how many people just didn’t really talk about Dapper and Pomme’s lore after the Qsmp. (Or at least I haven’t seen much) And I think it’s such a sad thing because even though I don’t know much about their later character’s (I am only caught up to the election arc in the qsmp rn) I feel like they have such interesting lore and personalities. Especially between house heir with Bad and the mystery behind ShelterMC.

So, for a mini ode in a way to Pomme and Dapper/ Lumi and Shade I am going to make a post talking about ShelterMC and their characters from what I picked up because I think it’s really cool and I kind of have a sneaking suspicion that the ending of house heir is going to destroy me so I am waiting-

As they grew up together Kacchan has always been seeing Deku for the person he is which made Kacchan bully him

Kacchan has always, ever since they were kids, seen Deku as a hero. Never once has Kacchan seen Deku as anything more than a hero. Which is why he says, “That bastard… doesn’t realize how special he is. Must’ve been part of his upbringing even now, where he’s advance so far.”

Which is also why he says, “But you don’t know… the first thing about Deku. He’s screwed up in the head. The guy never takes himself into account. Just says crap like “I’m fine.” All Might became the symbol of peace with the same mindset. So he won’t be the one to stop Deku.”

And guess what? Kacchan was right because that’s exactly what Deku did. “…He’s screwed up in the head. The guy never takes himself into account.” A extremely clear example of this is when Deku ran in to save Katsuki knowing fully well there was a high possibility Deku could have died.

“…Just says crap like “I’m fine.” And in these past few episodes all we seen Deku say is “I’m fine.” And yes just like All Might Deku has the same mindset because All Might was Deku’s favorite hero. A massive All Might fan.

Henceforth, it is why Kacchan bullied him, why he kept his distance, but then all of a sudden Kacchan wanted to keep Deku at arms length. Why?

Easy, because he knows Deku. He has known and has viewed Deku as a hero all along.

And what do heroes do? They not only win but they save. And the main reason why Deku wanted to be a hero was to save others. To put a smile on others faces.

And to further prove the point on this is when Kacchan said, “Make us, you All Might wannabe!”

And then y’all know that one quote Uraraka says, “Who will save heroes when they’re the ones in trouble?”

Look at what Deku sees when he finally hit his limit

Deku has always been looking at Kacchan. He kept his eyes on him, at the same time it was the same way for Kacchan.

And here’s the thing Kacchan says, “Keep your eyes on me.” Why would he say that? Because Deku has been advancing with OFA. Deku has been slowly leaving Kacchan behind. They became equals but at some point one will end up advancing just slightly more than the other which is why,

Which is why Deku finally ended up resting and closing his eyes because the one who hit the final blow and who catches Deku before he could hit the ground was Kacchan.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss. I want to be happy. I want to be positive. The Internet is sometimes an echo chamber. It seems to be a continuous cycle of anger and disappointment. I don’t want to be a bad person but when all you see is negativity about the world we live in, the systems in place, and the people in it, the media we consume etc it gets harder to not be exhausted.