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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 20h

This is five minutes from a city bus stop. This is how stupid it’s gotten. They’ve had to use clams on their signage.

Sign that was worth the spinal damage said no one ever

Injured in Lynn canyon 100% not the vibe

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 03/10/2026

I did an epub to send out to someone so I'm just gonna

“Bram was my friend, and I cared for him,” Doyle said slowly. “I do not wish to injure his reputation or his memory by confirming any such surmises. He had his weaknesses and his vices, just as any man does. But knowledge of those vices have been effectively suppressed. I do not see how aiding you would further your investigation, and I will do nothing to injure Florence.”

“Therein lies your injustice to him, sir,” Ingrid said coldly, her English fraying into that strange parlance with her increasing agitation. “You call him a man of vice, but I see no such parallel to what I may call vice. I see no such weaknesses, except maybe that he lie from the pressures of social expectation. He is not a felon, or a murderer, or a cruel man who preys on the weak. If he love more than one person, is that a sin? If his partner he love brings education to this Mrs. Harker with his comforting words, what vice is in that, please?”

“Ingrid,” Quincey interjected. “Are you saying—”

“I need not say it,” she said, gesturing to Doyle. “This so famous man who writes mysteries and speaks of the persistent injury by the warping of body must understand that to warp the mind and the heart against its natural will also creates injury.”

“I see you’re up on your Hirschfeld,” Doyle said with a small smile. “And I do not hold Mr. Stoker in contempt for his inclinations. I only lament the needless pain they have caused him, and his family.”

“I do not wish to cast judgement on the fellow,” Quincey said, feeling increasingly unspooled. “As you see, this letter was delivered to me in answer to the deaths of my parents. If there is any connection that might allow me to bring justice to them—”

“Perhaps there is,” Doyle admitted. “I want to help you, but I must extract a solemn promise from you. If you pursue this line, and it proves fruitful, the police must not know the particulars.”

“You are afraid for your big name,” Ingrid scoffed. “The threat of scandal rules men of your class, but you defen…

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 03/10/2026

Why is my fire tv promoting this. I mean, a dremel is very useful. We use them when trimming the tang on fencing blades. I have a scene in a book where someone threatens a captive with one. But I’m not sure what this is about and I’m afraid to find out

Weird promotion for a dremel that looks like some kind of documentary advertising

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 03/10/2026

Okay I haven’t been here for a while what the holy shit is happening here with this crosswalk. I thought it was one weird diagonal but it’s actually a boxed X. I ended up standing like an idiot at one corner not realizing it was all-crossing

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 01/10/2026

This might be overkill. This is how I use saves in concert with iCloud. I have a draft save file and a backups file. They're both iCloud. I now always open from the same "Main Edit" file which syncs across devices. I'd definitely confuse myself if I was just using backup files-and just *one* file.

draft file list, backup file list, and scrivener backup settings.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 01/10/2026

since I'm geeking about Scrivener this is still my favourite thing because *fuck* I double words a lot.

$the \b([A-Z]+)\s+\1\b regex equation for finding doubled up words in scrivener.$

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 29/09/2026

I can never make a small snack. I have to have a whole flavour and texture array.

Snacks including cheese, chicken, olives, olive oil apple and tomatoes

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 29/09/2026

I can already tell before I’ve even started that listening to this before bed is a bad idea.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 29/09/2026

it just gets better. Also I guess they had to change the his majesty 'cause elizabeth died in 2022.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 29/09/2026

“Buh buh now AI tells me all the things!” Yeah I can tell all the things with my human memory. And if I can’t do that I can look it up. And if I need ideas I have a recipe book. And here it is.

Anthony Bourdain holding a leg of meat in front of his giant dick with the words if you put love in your food you can taste it

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 24/09/2026

I wrote this 6-7 years ago, and it's cheesy villain dialogue, but I still love cheesy villain dialogue. Sergei is a cheesy villain. He gets to have fun. Someone needs to have fun after the apocalypse.

“Let her go,” came Delaware’s low voice.

Rachel felt Sergei’s contemplative hmm resonate through him as held her tighter against chest. “No,” he concluded with mock regret. “Put down your weapons and I’ll think about it.”

Shoot him, Rachel tried to say, but the grip on her throat was too tight. She struggled, hoping to turn him, provide a target for one of the River to take the shot, but it was absolutely useless.

“Not going to happen,” Delaware said, but she could see the doubt in his face. He knew if he downed his weapons, the fighters behind Sergei would blow him and his team away, but she could also tell his fear for her was in danger of overwhelming him.

To make matters worse, Rachel felt a thin thread of sensation against her throat and realized that Sergei had pressed the knife’s edge against it. Delaware’s eyes widened, moving from her to Sergei, struck with indecisiveness.

“Look at him,” Sergei hissed into her ear in Russian. “He really thinks I’ll do it.”

“My word of honour,” Delaware continued. “We’ll settle this, just you and me.”

“Really.” Sergei’s laugh was disbelieving. “Your little brother believed in honour too, until I gutted him like Christmas dinner.”

Delaware’s face darkened with fury, but before he could act, there was a click from the shadow of the racks. Everyone’s attention went to Lucretia. She stood, two hands on the Desert Eagle now levelled at Sergei’s face. He seemed momentarily fazed, but not by the danger she presented. It was her presence that confused him—as though the order of things had somehow been violated.

“Don’t,” Delaware said quietly, directing his words to her without turning his gaze from Sergei. “Please.”

Rachel met her eyes, willing her to take the shot. It was the best opportunity they would have.

“I don’t think we’re going to work out, darling,” Lucretia said to Sergei, her voice a monotone. “Fun while it lasted.”

Sergei glanced around, reassessing the situation. “Shame.”

He seemed unsure if Lucretia would…

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 24/09/2026

I was expecting to salvage some leaves off this cut mint, but it’s done okay for 20+ days in the fridge. In fact it’s actually perfect.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 22/09/2026

Yeah I’m supposed to be asleep but I also wanted pasta.

Puttanesca with blackened tomatoes on top

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 21/09/2026

breaking my rule about not posting script because this is never going to get made but if it does I'll be including the festival of butter tarts and rush, because it's exactly the kind of thing that would precede the invasion

MACK
Listen, don't worry about this. It's one small, kooky historical typo. No one wants to contest anything. No one cares that much about us. They'll just redraw the border, and it'll be a one day story.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 21/09/2026

Sunset over Vancouver being all moody

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 17/09/2026

I figured it out look how fancy.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 17/09/2026

The contrast is so intense that my iPhone can’t capture it against the sky

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 17/09/2026

The contrast is so intense that my iPhone can’t capture it against the sky

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 15/09/2026

renewed this domain today so might as well flog it! Would you like a satisfyingly violent and sexy post-apocalyptic trilogy where the bullshit people all die pretty much instantly in the first part? First five chapters are up at www.republicofinfidels.com

book covers for the republic of infidels trilogy

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 13/09/2026

I wasn’t gonna ink this doodle of angsty teenage Vlad Dracula but you made me want to play with my pens.

Pen and pencil sketch of a young man with long dark hair looking grim

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 13/09/2026

right when I'm working on it? really?

right in front of my meme with dragonblood book cover

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 13/09/2026

In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, everyone gives Control shit for drinking "that beastly tea" because they are all palette deprived degenerates. Jasmine pearls. Three of these are enough for a whole teapot. They hit like a brick and get even better with reuse.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 11/09/2026

We have a street that’s Canada backwards. For a really long time I didn’t notice this and thought it was a real word.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 09/09/2026

I call this a garrotted egg. ‘Cause that’s what I do to it. With floss. Six minute egg steamed the foodwishes way

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 09/09/2026

I don’t go to delta by bus so much that this is the first translink double decker I’ll have ridden.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 08/09/2026

you think I'm kidding, I'm not fucking kidding. I wasn't old enough to drink until a year after I graduated so I actually don't know what PBR tastes like, I only know I didn't get it.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 08/09/2026

okay also I'm chapped I didn't use my credit on this. It wasn't published in audio, and I didn't know. It's not like there's a newsletter, and if there were it would be full of bollocks and poprocks. October. Feh.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 08/09/2026

Look at this bad boy. Man the business owners who are so pissed about losing a few parking spaces are gonna be so mad when they get an insane amount of extra business and this neighbourhood thrives from the north shore feeding into it

Map of the new rapid bus from park royal to Metrotown

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 07/09/2026

lil sunset over downtown Vancouver skyline.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 06/09/2026

just a lil ballpoint sketch of a victorian lady with freckles

ballpoint sketch of a victorian lady with freckles on lined paper

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 06/09/2026

caught some water damage at some point, but yeah, is cool.

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 05/09/2026

I couldn’t pull it off but this would make the year’s best Halloween costume for someone.

Captain Canada move to the back of the train PSA

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 01/09/2026

Post something random or you might an awful September but probably not

The uh oh you made a serious fucky wucky now you have to get into the forever box meme

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 31/08/2026

Posting Ch 1 of the WIP because why not. One of the things I find most tedious about vampires is figuring out each particular set of rules. So I just opened with Abraham Van Helsing laying it all out in a letter, including my Dracula conceit. Solved! victoriadecapua.com/dragonblood-...

book cover dragonblood a banner with a dragon above a city scape

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 31/08/2026

I didn’t want to get a picture of them but just for lols

A drawing of two disproportionate cops in windbreakers

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 28/08/2026

Wrote/rewrote a scene! I never have a real method for cracking into draft 2. I just have to dig around for a thread to pull on. Right now I'm going with "write 3-4 scenes of stuff that's either reimagined or raw" that have been cycling in my brain.

calvin and hobbes calvin doing one pushup and saying reward please

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