Rereading The Grisha Trilogy I Find Myself Wondering, As I Go Through The Chapters Of S&S And R&R, Would

This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately, especially after the elections for mayors and city councilors that took place in my country, Brazil, in October of this year. Although we have a left-wing president, our senate and plenary are dominated by the right wing (often extreme) of the previous president. I went to vote with great discouragement, because I saw the cities of my country divided into two sides and because I saw a series of unprepared politicians who use faith for their own privilege and who consequently cause discord, hatred and fear among people who kill themselves for politicians who do not even care about the population after running for office. And so they benefit themselves, they want the people tied to fear and blinded by ignorance!

When will we have peace

The last time Trump won, I wanted to have my US friends to be able to move to Europe, but honestly, the politics here aren't much better either. The whole right wing ideology is growing bigger and bigger here too - the last elections had incredibly high votes for rightwing parties in austria (where I live) and also in Germany. Clearly I can't speak about the other countries, but Italy is having a fascism problem as well. Pretty sure it doesn't look much different in other countries. For many years, I believed we were growing more open minded, supportive of each other, successfully changing human rights for the better. But everything is running backwards. How much louder do we need to be? How much harder do we have to fight for the fucking right to exist? How can people believe they're in charge over other people's lives and decisions? What the fuck, humanity.

Press play DJ, it's Saturday night and it's time to play the JonMina playlist!

Every wedding anniversary deserves good music and I was ARDENTLY waiting for this moment

#redracula #minaharker #jonathanharker #dracula #book

How can people making Dracula adaptations look at todays events and be like yeah let’s put a dracumina romance in this… it’s actually appalling.

you ppl love villains/morally grey characters UNTIL they're a woman, then all of a sudden they are annoying, evil and irredeemable

Now I can understand why people have a certain obsession with Zoyalina lol Rereading S&S (actually I've already finished it) I realize how obsessed Alina is with Zoya, I dare say that she is more than Nikolai in her entire duology (of course this was just ironic) but it's real she exalts Zoya in a way that makes any feelings she has for Maly seem like a facade.

Dracula and his terrible fashion sense

(By the way, this reminded me of Hotel Transylvania where Dracula wears a hat that doesn't match, but I don't think it was straw)

“That he be all in black, except that he have a hat of straw which suit not him or the time.”

Dracula Returns

I don't know if you've heard the latest news, but it looks like Dracula is going to return to cinema screens, I just saw on my phone that it will be produced by Luc Besson in partnership with Christoph Waltz. I'm shaking, anxious and afraid of repeating the same rereading from 92, I understand those who like the material, but I really wanted a version closer to what is actually covered in the book. My couple JonMina as an ardent couple that they are, Renfield without stereotypes, Lucy without the tremendous sexualization, Dracula as manipulative and megavillain and without romanticizing him as if he were innocent of something, Van Helsing without his caricatured and even exaggerated format, etc.

and honestly, on all sites it only shows the version of a Dracula wanting to find his wife lost in eternity, please show us the story as it truly is! Why distance yourself so much?!

Above all, and from the bottom of my heart, I hope it is at least a good adaptation.

Para se relacionar plenamente com outro, você precisa primeiro relacionar-se consigo mesmo. Se não conseguimos abraçar nossa própria solidão, simplesmente usaremos o outro como um escudo contra o isolamento. Somente quando consegue viver como a águia, sem absolutamente qualquer público, você consegue se voltar para outra pessoa com amor. Somente então é capaz de se preocupar com o engrandecimento do outro ser humano.

Nietzsche. (via refetuada)