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You know what? No, no mention of famous songs, schools, compagnies or school.

Just use ‘known fairytale company’ or oldest school of the region. The moment you made a country up without making it clear if this is an alternative earth or a secret society, then become dumb.

I will let the disney and Jurassic park reference go because they are classic enough to stand the rest of time.

And a Loki in the movie Thor ragnarok mention 😩

Or, instead of the tabloids you could read a newspaper?

Ugh. If you are writing a fantasy (or adjacent) world please stop mentioning real people.

Especially Taylor Swift. I am getting so sick of seeing her being mentioned in every contemporary romance.

Shall I count how many times this will happen? Because the counter is on 2 so far.

Yeah, dad was a bit power hunger all along… because his reasons are very flimsy.

Insomnia you were good for once.

Bwoah cannot sleep and not in the mood for an audiobook. So forcing myself to finish this…

I think I should’ve dnf’ed this some time ago.

😹 I do not think cats would care what language you are talking to them in. They think all humans are just very dumb cats.

Ugh I do wish they would have kept the Japanese prefix. The English ones feel too limited. There is nothing wrong with putting an extra page of how the prefixes are used.

Force English speakers to learn about different cultures! I mean the manga takes place in Japan and that way the difference in respect/closeness between -chan, -san, -sama, and I suspect -sensei would be a lot easier on me 😬

Ahh a scène between Moko and Kyoko!

FIGHT!

I love the friendship between Kyoko and Moko so much 😭

I am so glad that it did not turn into some 'female frenemies' nonsense.

... Let's knock on some wood.

Dude. I have no idea what happened next! My memory is useless.

That is practical advice yet so deeply sexist.

If fan-culture is just a fraction as what is described here... That is so very creepy 🫪

Oh man... These kids. They are breaking my heart. So determined and mature yet with the simple-mindedness of a child.

Still they communicate better than most adults despite their culture. I do think I am missing some nuances here..

*snort* Ren mature? He is what? 22? I remember being a clueless idiot at that age.

I mean... I still kind of am but my impulse control has gotten a lot better 😤

Re-reading to catch everything I have forgotten before starting volume 17!

I am not a fan of the narrator Nell Canning...

I fokking love this book. Cannot wait to write a somewhat coherent review about it. I will not do it justice. My secondhand copy is old though, I wonder if they would ever reprint it.

Van Helsing: “Well, I shall explain.”

Me: “NOOOO bring me death!”

Van Helsing is so boring. Such a pompous arse. Also I suspect he thinks he is very funny but everyone is just smiling to be polite.

Leonard, you sassy bitch. How I keep adoring your footnotes.

Hyena’s do not deserve the slandering they get. They are way cooler than that!

Oh man even with Elena telling you what she felt at the time I think this scene hits different if your were in the system. In fact it could count as a trigger for some fosterkids which is wild to think about.

Elena is such a shithead. She is the epitome of: 'Oh no, the consequences of my actions...'

But sure, blame Jeremy 😬

Again, the only story with cheating in it I can enjoy despite that happening. I still think that is very strange of me, normally it is one of my squicks. But it fits the storyline and character development.

<spoiler>I do like it when they discover that the mutts are human killers and not culturally werewolves therefore missing all the skills they would otherwise have learned.

It really ties into Elena's acceptance that she is and what that means to her. The good and the bad</spoiler>

Oh my fokking god, Clay would be called autistic today!

This shows the conversation I had with my sibling in a different light.

Damn. Ok.

I am all caught up! I adore my tandem reading and looking the footnotes up by Leonard Wolf.

The podcast Re: Dracula titled this day's episode: Baptism of Blood: Van Helsing gives a speech

He monologues a lot this day and I have such trouble following him because he is a bit of a blowhard. 🫪

Mina my love, you are too hard on yourself...

Wolfe is such a snarky biatch in his footnotes. I love him.