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header by @transoftheend on Twitter ☺️ Hi! General nerd (NO-AI here), college murdered me (and YET I don't know if it was worth it). Obssessed with tons of stuff, mostly focusing on musicals, horror and narrative podcasts but actually...tons more too Writer (and now published!...though still mainly in AO3, that is) Probably inhabiting a StarFleet ship I serve Lady Hecate and that stalky annoying Eye. All my links: https://marlahectic.carrd.com

DRÁCULA ERA ESTÁ AQUÍ

Hi! Yes, this post is going to be in Spanish, weird of me, right?!

Allons-y!

Como bien es sabido en estos terrenos de Internet, leer Drácula de forma colectiva en sus fechas apropiadas se ha convertido en una tradición MARAVILLOSA...

...pero, claro, si tu primera lengua no es la de Billy Shakes, un poco bola se puede hacer. Así que me he pegado el último año entero traduciendo a mano Drácula (porque el libro original es dominio público, ¿sus traducciones? No tanto) para que este año pueda traer esta experiencia al español.

Espero que os agrade la idea, personitas hispanohablantes/con curiosidad por practicar el idioma con uno de los mejores clásicos de la Literatura-TM en general (y de la vampírica en particular)

Marla

PD: normalmente lo que tengo fijados son mis fics, pero esto me parece más importante, still, ahí está el enlace, just in case (demasiado rato sin Spanglish llevaba ya)

“I can’t help but think that all the little ones seem to end up with me. Louella. Lou Lou. Ampert. … Why do they flock to me?” (SOTR 242) “When the eggs hatch, mine was the first face those goslings saw.” (SOTR 382)

Haymitch is also a “protector of the innocent”, as Johanna called Katniss. They’re so similar it’s crazy.

They make a point that Matt was very confident that Foggy wasn't drinking O'Melveny's that night, which means his senses were fallible. Which means Foggy could still be alive.

iasip fans be like: god i wish they were canon *photo of two men engaging in homosexual acts*

Just realised that, by living with Heather, Matt has given up the last and the only space he had left where he didn't have to lie. Where he could be himself without need for the props of a cane and fumbling hands. All as part of a sacrifice for the non-Daredevil 'normality' that Foggy always wanted him to have.

That's a special kind of self-flagellation.

Thinking about how Wyatt Callow is proof that Dr. Gaul’s and Snow’s assertion that humanity’s essential nature is violent (which is part of their argument for the Capitol’s control being necessary) is false. That “What happened in the arena? That’s humanity undressed… A boy with a club who beats another boy to death. That’s mankind in its natural state.” is false.

I’m sure he had it all calculated. He knew exactly what choices would give him the best odds of survival. He knew that the faster he got out of the initial bloodshed the better his chances would be. He knew that letting other kids die would benefit his odds of survival. He knew exactly what he should’ve done to preserve himself.

And yet, he threw all those statistics and odds, all that reason and logic out the window in the name of protecting Lou Lou, a girl that wasn’t even from his district. He threw it all out the window in the name of helping another human being that was in an unfair situation and had worse odds than him. He knew who the real enemy was; he knew it wasn’t the other kids being taken advantage of by the Capitol just like him.

That is humanity.

I love Wyatt with all my heart

One of my favorite tropes is character with a nasty toxic personality who tries very hard to do the right thing anyway

I like my protagonists sad, tired, bitter, fully convinced they will never get the recognition they deserve, but they still gotta get up in the morning and be a good person

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