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Ah, Mrs. Westenra... We meet once again. I still wonder why this madam thought it was appropiate to tell Mina (and ONLY Mina) that she is going to die, and not tell Lucy. You know... Like a good mother would do so her child can properly grieve her instead of implicitly making said child's friend, who is only like one or two years older, the responsible person to announce your imminent death.

But who knows, I'm neither a mother nor an older woman who is on death's door.

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We were coming home for dinner, and had come to the top of the steps up from the West Pier and stopped to look at the view, as we generally do. The setting sun, low down in the sky, was just dropping behind Kettleness; the red light was thrown over on the East Cliff and the old abbey, and seemed to bathe everything in a beautiful rosy glow.

I can see why they would stop to look at the view every time! Dracula, a novel sponsored by the Yorkshire tourist board.

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Lucy had a headache and went early to bed. I saw her asleep, and went out for a little stroll myself; I walked along the cliffs to the westward, and was full of sweet sadness, for I was thinking of Jonathan. When coming home, it was then bright moonlight

I will always find the reading that Lucy sleepwalking to the cemetery is "coding for women who walk alone at night for prostitution" (and thus Dracula feeding on her being punishment) to be extremely unserious because it conveniently ignores the fact that Mina -consciously- takes moonlit strolls all by herself.

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Lucy: *asleep, lying against the side of the window with her whole head out in the open while some kind of giant bird is by her side*

Mina, externally: "Oh my, better put her back to bed so she doesn't catch a cold in this weather. I am extremely calm right now."

Mina, internally:

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14 Aug - His red eyes again!

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

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Lucy and the (very abstract) good sized bird

Winsor Newton Water color and colored pencil on 9x11" master's touch mixed media paper

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"His red eyes again! They are just the same."

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Mina may not have expressed her actual feelings about finding Lucy with her head hanging from the window, but her describing what she did after can tell us how she actually felt.

She was fast asleep, and by her, seated on the window-sill, was something that looked like a good-sized bird. I was afraid she might get a chill, so I ran upstairs, but as I came into the room...

So, after being afraid... That Lucy would get cold yes, Mina ran up to pull Lucy away from such uncomfortable position that she has never done before when she sleep walks, a seemingly normal reaction that Mina would have with no ulterior feelings on a normal day. However, in this entry neither of them had a normal day.

The red eyes, the reminder of the incident of the churchyard, and the frightening image of Lucy hanging over an open window while she is asleep might have made Mina downplay her worrying feelings for her own sake because at least one of them needs to keep a clear head in this situation. Even more when Mina noticed that Lucy is again showing signs of her health declining.

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Poor Lucy. If only you knew.

Originally tried this in my normal style but her nose wouldn’t work so I pulled from my classes last year and tried some semi realistic stuff.

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I really don't know what to write or what to say. Should I mention the bombing that didn't stop, or should I mention the lack of food and famine, or should I mention the genocide and massacres that happen daily, or should I mention the situations in which I may have escaped death? I am really unable to describe my life except in two small words (like hell).

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August 12, 2025 - Representatives of workers at Alyzia, a ground services provider at Brussels Airport, have sent a letter to management requesting that they no longer accept Israeli airline El Al or other airlines serving Israel as customers. The main cause: the announced resumption of Brussels Airlines flights to Tel Aviv, scheduled for Wednesday, August 13. The unions insist that every worker be given the opportunity to choose whether or not they wish to participate in handling baggage and cargo on flights to Israel. "As a union, we will cover these employees. If there is any form of obligation, we will consider action",  said Niels Benoot, representative of ACV Transcom, one of the unions.

The joint union front also calls on airlines to suspend their connections to Israel "until the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank is stopped". This union action echoes a growing wave of stances in the European airline industry regarding the war on Gaza. In France, for example, unions are calling for a blockade of arms shipments to Israel via Paris-CDG airport, siding with the Palestinians in Gaza. [link]

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Daily Dracula sketch for August 13th

In which Mina and Lucy receive a late night visitor.

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13th of August- Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great whirling circles

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[Image ID: Mina Murray stands with her back to the viewer, looking out of her window in whitby. Her brown curly hair is loose and she wears a night dress. Outside the window, a street lamp casts soft orange light into the room. Above it flies a bat, illuminated from behind by the moon. To Mina's left is a frame on the wall containing an embroidered flower. Text in the top left corner reads "13th of August". End ID]

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August 13: “BAT!”

August 12 August 14

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Dear god, Lucy's so creepy

A regular bat, certainly not batcula

We need to start a counter on how many times Mina calls Lucy sweet or beautiful

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