Sometimes when I go hundreds pages deep into people’s Tumblr archives, I find really funny posts and I weigh the pros and cons of liking/reblogging them.
Pros: I’ll have access to them later because they’re fucking hilarious
Cons: They might think I’m creepy. Despite the fact that it’s public and on the Internet, it is not socially acceptable to let anyone know the extent that you creeped their archives.
I hereby extend blanket permission for anyone to creep on my archive, and to like and reblog posts from it if they want to. It’s really quite flattering.
I notice this happening sometimes, and it always makes my day. Creep away!
Hey dorks: if you reblog something from that deep in my archive, my first assumption is not going to be that you were backreading. I’m going to assume that you saw that post reblogged somewhere else with a dumb comment on it, so you went up the reblog chain to grab it from someone who didn’t have some stupid shit to say. Which is if I notice how old that post is at all. I barely remember what I reblogged last week. Year+ old posts could have happened anywhere from 6 months ago to 5 years ago.
Or that you just have an obnoxiously long que and it finally got posted.
I believe that Bram totally didn’t mean to make Mina as incredibly New Woman as she ended up being, but jeez… its 1897, and the way he portrays romantic love is to show an independently employed woman marrying her beloved while knowing full well he might become a permanent invalid and leave her to solely support the family unit despite all the societally side-eyeable gender inversion that would entail.
He doesn’t, of course, actually go there, and Jonathan revivifies himself and becomes a knife-wielding, hardcore bribery machine of terrible vengeance, but he could go there, and as with every other gender inversion Bram nearly pulls off and then retracts, it’s both super cool and super frustrating.
The life of a writer: Oh almighty google please tell me this highly specific piece of information only me and (1) one specialized historian have any need to know.