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web weave finds that made me want to claw my eyes out

Very fancy potato bear postcard from my collection, unsent and date unknown.

The author's fetish you missed on a first reading because it's so far out of pocket, it never occurred to you that you could sexualise that

We’ve all heard the “should you use modern queer labels or not” argument but honestly even when people go “true, they wouldn’t use the labels ‘aromantic’ or ‘asexual,’” so often the characters describe their experiences as “I never felt romantic attraction” or “I don’t feel attracted to anyone” in ways that makes me go. You are stilllllll thinking about this in an extraordinarily modern online way. That 19th century steampunk detective man will NOT be angsting about having never felt romantic attraction, he would be angsting about being unable to feel moved by the beauty or charm of a woman, or something. And I do think that “attractiveness” language is different from the identity-level idea of experiencing attraction—Sherlock Holmes does not talk about not experiencing attraction, but when Watson says “What a very attractive woman!” Holmes responds “Is she? I did not observe.” (And then Watson calls him an inhuman automaton and calculating-machine and Holmes calls Watson’s judgement biased). Never swayed by the attractiveness of a man or woman, never desirous of marriage, never charmed by the delights of love, all of these feel like some of the variety of ways that someone in this milieu might describe an ace- or aro-spectrum identity more than “never felt attraction” does. Mostly because, like the terms for aromantic and asexual themselves, nailing down an exclusively attraction-based definition of a-spec identities is a relatively new and extremely post-AVEN thing. And yet in fiction everybody knows to articulate their experience as feeling sexual/romantic attraction. And I always want to go nooo how would THIS character think about it?? Not how you think this character SHOULD think about it, how would THIS person in THIS context articulate their feelings?

was it mail-order, the way presumably all of his books and maps are? did they even have cartoonish disguises available by mail-order back in late 19th cent Romania? did Dracula have to sew it himself? i need to know these things!!!

#clearly Dracula goes out irregularly as his own servants. The people in the coach weren't surprised to see him as his 'coachman' #he goes to town in his huge floppy hat and hoitily toitily tells everybody that his MASTER wants this and his MASTER wants that #and if they don't comply his MASTER is going to be angry and scahahary and anyway he's having the time of his life #He's convinced that he's fooling everyone. He is not #but the point is he can just buy whatever and the people will be equal amounts terrified and annoyed but they'll get it for him

*dracula strolling to the village to buy a roast chicken for his Good Friend Jonathan* "it's one roast chicken how much could it cost 1604 romanian lei?"

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Welcome to the 224B Family, Monty.

Monty says please help us get funded so that he can launch a voice acting career.

Me: yes he did. He had Watson.