Ive Read Dracula Before But This Is Going To Be My First Year Joining The Listening Party And I Am So.

I’ve read Dracula before but this is going to be my first year joining the listening party and I am So. Excited.

Once again I have to appreciate that on Tumblr the most anticipated event of the year is a 6-month-long book club and/or listening party of the novel Dracula. Just regular old Dracula the actual novel not a retelling or a TV series just the unabridged novel itself

Aragorn: Ok I’ve been having a total Monday but decision’s finally made - we’re going to rescue Merry and Pippin.

Gimli: Aye! Shall we g-

Aragorn: We’re going to call ourselves The Three Hunters.

Legolas: Sounds rad. You ready?

Aragorn: Our motto is We Run! We Fight! We Love!

Gimli and Legolas: *brief eye contact* *blush*

Aragorn: Our song is “I’ll Make A Man Out Of You”

Gimli and Legolas: Should we just start or-

Aragorn: WE MUST BE SWIFT AS THE COURSING RIVERRRR

Let your raven flags fly, folks! Tis the season of bisexual icon John Uskglass.

Wander a frozen moor in a black gown!

Bury your heart in a dark wood beneath the snow, yet still feel its ache!

Spend your nights dancing in the ruins of a fairy court, and your days ignoring Sir Walter Pole!

Imagine the bleakest of November landscapes, but make it camp!

“I know that if women wish to escape the stigma of husband-seeking, they must act and look like marble or clay - cold, expressionless, bloodless; for every appearance of feeling, of joy, sorrow, friendliness, antipathy, admiration, disgust, are alike construed by the world into the attempt to hook a husband. Never mind! well-meaning women have their own consciences to comfort them after all. Do not, therefore, be too much afraid of showing yourself as you are, affectionate and good-heartened; do not too harshly repress sentiments and feelings excellent in themselves, because you fear that some puppy may fancy that you are letting them come out to fascinate him; do not condemn yourself to live only by halves, because if you showed too much animation some pragmatical thing in breeches might take it into his pate to imagine that you designed to dedicate your life to his inanity.”

— Charlotte Brontë writing to a friend who had been kind to a man she thought was married, only to have him fall in love with her because he thought she was flirting (letter dated April 2, 1845). (via groot)

She is still on the apple crate