“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth—only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.”
Men love to talk about how much it sucks to be put in the friendzone but can we talk about how it feels to be a woman and realize that you didn’t have an actual friend? You just had somebody looming over you, waiting for you to agree to fuck them
Being in the object zone. The fleshlight zone. The sentient real doll zone. The dehumanised zone.
“if mushrooms are the superior lifeform that really calls the shots on this earth, why haven’t they destroyed us yet?” listen to yourself. have we as humans gotten rid of every mountain on the planet just because we are smarter than big rocks? no!! because they don’t pose a threat to us. sure some people die rock climbing or skiing and that’s tragic but mountains aren’t dangerous to us as a global society. do you see where i am going with this. it’s your misplaced hubris that makes you think that humankind is worth destroying to a mushroom. we are a part of the mundane landscape on the surface. we pose no threat to the mycelian era. humble yourself
That is by far the best response to any post like this, I APPROVE
It isn’t explained in the text, so you aren’t missing anything.
So, as with most things in the book, there is a Doylist and Watsonian reading. The Doylist one is rather boring, so I’ll start with that. If the Count moved on and preyed on someone else, we would have to shift to some other set of characters somewhere else in London. Which would understandably make the narrative bigger. So Stoker chooses to keep it limited.
But I really do think the Watsonian explanation is way better in this case. He won’t give up because he has laid claim to someone and he refuses to be defeated or told no. She isn’t particularly special to him- she’s just the person who sleepwalked into the graveyard. But like with his claim on Jonathan (“this man is mine”), once he has decided to sink his teeth into someone, they become his. He’ll come back to Lucy over and over because he’s claimed her.
The fact that someone is clearly giving her blood and guarding her room against him means that there is a battle being fought for her soul. He knows he has adversaries. So no matter how much easier it would be to find someone else, he will not let anyone keep him from what he thinks is his. He will do whatever he has to in order to get past those guards, because that’s how he proves that no one can stop his claim.
And he’ll also leave her with just enough life that the people trying to thwart him have to watch her fade away, because that’s how he shows that he’s more powerful than them. It isn’t about Lucy, it’s about winning.
A&A – Illustrations. I decided to put the comics on hold (forever probably) since I feel like there’s nothing really special about the story. I’ve been quiet this year, just travelling and visiting USA. But hopefully I’ll come back to drawing very soon !
Edit: don’t get me wrong I enjoy my story, but I’m looking to go back to my roots than something overwatchy.
