#Dracula Daily starts tomorrow!

[the-illustrative-interloper]

It's a love song

It's a tale of a love from long ago

It's a sad song

We keep singing even so

It's an old song

It's an old tale from way back when

And we're gonna sing it again and again

[sonnywortziks]

honestly completely unprepared for dracula season this year. i shouldve made chicken paprikash yesterday to celebrate but unfortunately i woke up at 5pm and ate warmed up leftover spaghetti for dinner and then didn’t do anything else

[anime-academia]

Thinking of my good friend Jonathan Harker on this fine night. I hope he will have a good trip to Transylvania

[youweremyversaillesatnight]

i’m already reading three books rn and i have two more borrowed from the library BUT there’s no wait for the tdou ebook. should i check it out (to reread, not first time)

[draculadrawalong]

May 2 - Prelude

Dracula Daily starts tomorrow, but in the meantime our dear friend jonathan harker is dealing with some train delays. 🕒🚂 Hopefully everything's gonna work out once he gets to the Count's castle

[atundratoadstool]

Before Dracula Daily starts tomorrow, people eager to hear from Jonathan Harker might be interested in knowing that there's good evidence that the first chapter of the book was originally Chapter III, and that in the first two chapters, Jonathan was possibly supposed to have:

Checked out the Pinakotek art museum.

Visited a leichenhaus in Munich where Count Dracula was seemingly hanging around pretending to be a dead body before apparently popping back to life.

Attended a performance of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman (which probably ties into Stoker's fascination with the play Vanderdecken, which Henry Irving starred in) .

Done all the stuff in the short story "Dracula's Guest," which includes (1) having a scary time on Walpurgisnacht before having his scary time on St. George's Eve, (2) finding a mysterious mausoleum in which a blonde woman--implied to be the blonde vampiress who later features in Dracula's castle--has a giant iron stake in her and gets struck by lightening in a storm, (3) spending the night in the snow with a wolf--who is probably Dracula--sitting on him to keep him warm and abrading his throat with its file like tongue.

[starlitartworks]

Dracula Daily 2024 starts tomorrow, and like last year, I'll be drawing along! You can follow along here on tumblr, or on my instagram. Make sure to pack some garlic and crucifixes for your travels! 🦇

[the---hermit]

More cross stitch updates! In the past few days I've made so much progress!

30|04|2024

Today was quite productive and still I managed to get enough breaks and rest when I needed it. I am very happy about this and I hope I can keep this up. I am still procrastinating in picking a new fiction read because nothing from my unread shelf calls to me at the moment. I do have a couple of non fiction books I have been slowly reading so I am not left without a read, but I would like to finally settle on a good fiction book to escape from reality in my free time. Still I will have to read a lot for uni so maybe it's better for me not to start any new books I cannot keep up with. I am listening to Monstrous Agonies a lot, and I can confirm it has turned into my comfort thingsTM. The way it makes me feel calm and comforted is unreal. I am also very excited for dracula daily to start at the end of the week. I think I will be listening to the podcast version like last year because it was phenomenal. As for actual study updates I have finally started to dive in the articles I found yesterday and I can proudly say I have read and annotated two full articles today. I was expecting to get less done. I still have to write a couple of general notes on my notebook for the last article, but I'll be doing that tomorrow.

today's productivity:

read in the morning (still reading the historical essay because I cannot pick a new fiction book uuugh)

started reading and annotating the articles I found to write my English lit paper (I worked on two today, which feels like a great start)

practiced Irish on duolingo

continued working on my cross stitch project

planned the rest of my week since I will be working on a couple of mornings

[love-liberty21]

Listening to "Dracula's guest" in anticipation of Dracula daily and @re-dracula starting again tomorrow ♥️

[spider-xan]

I'm not going to write a post about this myself, but amidst the fun of the three suitors in today's entry, if you're a first-time reader who may have psychiatric abuse, institutionalization, etc. as mental health or trauma triggers, I recommend checking out this excellent post by @crepuscol last year which marks off which Seward updates involve the asylum and doctor-patient interactions, as that part of the story involving him and Renfield starts tomorrow on May 25; I know someone last year also wrote detailed summaries of those entries for people who might not want or be able to read them directly, but I don't remember who it was - if anyone does, please add a link!

This could be an entire post itself, so I'll try to keep this brief, but Seward is arguably the most complex character in terms of morality in a story where everyone else is either Good or Evil, as he is ultimately capable of both great heroism and great harm, even if he harbours no evil intent; as such, he is a difficult character to discuss on many levels and things will get heated for understandable reasons, but it's important to remember that we should look at his character as a whole - neither sanitizing nor exaggerating his bad actions, neither erasing his good actions nor using them to excuse the bad ones - in good faith when analyzing him, as all aspects of him are important to the narrative and themes.

Also, since we're all doing Dracula Daily for fun, no one is obligated to read those updates if you can't or don't want to, and similarly, be understanding of those people even if you disagree, especially when a lot of the ableism in those entries still happens today, as psychiatric wards are the modern successor to asylums.

[secretmellowblog]

Okay, here are some random panels I’m personally looking forward to at the online Les mis convention Barricadescon starting tomorrow!! (note that this off the top of my head, and they’re in no particular order, and that I am excited for all of em.)

(Also note that it’s the last day to register, which you can do on their site here. You can also see the full program of all the panels/their descriptions here.)

1. I’ll say any of the Guests of Honor (Jean Baptiste Hugo, the descendant of Hugo will be talking about his project photographing his ancestor’s house; Christina Soontornvat, author of the award-winning Les Mis retelling “A Wish in the Dark;” and Luciano Muriel, playwright of a 2018 play about Grantaire.)

2. @psalm22-6 ‘s panel “Early Transformative Works,” which is about the earliest Les Mis retellings, parodies, and “fanfics” from the 1800s/early 20th century. They’ve shared deeply cursed sneak peeks with me. Apparently in 1863 a man wrote a “proper Christian” retelling of Les Mis where Javert is reimagined as a proper Christian woman following poor criminals around giving them charity while they keep rejecting her kindness. Powerful. Javert as Mary Sue. (Note that I may be explaining poorly because I haven’t seen the panel yet.

3. History podcaster David Montgomery’s panel “The Yellow Passport: Surveillance and Control in 19th Century France,” which dives into the role of the police and strategies of government surveillance at the time Les Mis is set!

4. My own panel “Why Is There a Roller Coaster in Les Mis,” which I shared the first five minutes of here. There’s an actual scene in Les Mis where Fantine rides a roller coaster so I made a full defunctland video on how that roller coaster got to Paris in 1817, the fascinating historical context behind early roller coasters, and why it became defunct.

5. @thecandlesticksfromlesmis ‘s panel “Beat for Beat,” analyzing the script of Les Mis 2012 and contrasting it with the book and musical. Discussion of 2012 is almost overwhelmingly always about its music or cinematography, and I’m fascinated to hear someone finally analyzing the screenplay/ structural changes.

6. Morbidly curious for “Lee’s Miserables,” the academic panel discussing the paradoxical popularity of a censored version Les Mis in the Confederate South (with all the references to the evils of slavery carefully removed of course)

7. “Barricades as a Tactic,” a panel discussing how barricades actually functioned as a tool of warfare historically and the echoes of them in the modern day.

8. All the little social meetups, including the Preliminary Gaieties drinking game!

9. I’m biased because I’m also helping present this one, but the @lesmisletters panel (on the Dracula-daily inspired Les Mis readalong happening now.)

10. “The Fallibility of History in Les Miserables,” by @syrupsyche. It’s a panel analyzing the way Hugo often treats Les mis as a story that he learned about through research/gossip, rather than a fictional narrative— analyzing where Hugo does that in the text and what it means thematically.

11. The Unknown Light Examined, by Madeleine— a panel analyzing the chapter where the Bishop confronts the elderly revolutionary, and is forced to re examine his political beliefs! An iconic chapter, and the abstract is very compelling.

But also a lot more, check out the exhaustive list here XD. And also register at this link!

[stjohnstarling]

The first installment of What Manner of Man goes out tomorrow! So if you'd like to read the experiences of an innocent priest sent to a forgotten island and confronted by a seductive vampire — a queer gothic romance sent to your inbox in the form of Dracula Daily-style letters — this is your last chance to sign up before it begins.

At the moment We're at 2960 subscribers, which honestly blows me away. Where did you all come from???

I do wonder, though, if we could possibly get that number up to 3000 before it starts tomorrow? 😈

Sign up here!

[shiro-e-tan]

Dracula daily is starting tomorrow and I am excited to finally join it after missing it for 3 years in a row!

Join now

[theriverpointace]

so dracula daily starts tomorrow, aka the day after my college classes end

it's nice, it feels like a little reward for finishing my work :D

[fandomcrazy6226]

Liveblogging Dracula Daily - May 4

Part 2 of this with another journal entry from Jonathan. In other news that's just me, today is my senior prom and tomorrow starts tech week for the spring musical so I'm about to be very sleep-deprived in the coming week.

But that's not why you're here, you're here for my first reading of Dracula. So I'll get into that now

I mean, how bad could Dracula really be, he's so dedicated to good hospitality! And that landlord is either being rude or is too scared to keep it up. And I'd bet him and his wife know something and just don't wanna talk. Media literacy for the win! /s

Bilingual moment, too excited to stay in one language. Is it worth making the guess that the language she was mixing in there was Hungarian? I got an anon saying how there's a lot of Hungarians that are called something different in this sort of sense, so I'd assume that's the other language she's speaking.

O H fun, all the evil things having power. Y'know, if those trains had all been on time I think he would've missed that by a day. Oh and I guess this is where the whole crucifix-against-vampire thing comes from?

And a late coach, so wonderful. Will this poor man ever get transportation on time? Jonathan loves Mina so much, he's always referencing her and they're not even married yet like I really hope they both survive so they can get married and be happy together

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[dreamerwriternstargazer]

So… this morning didn’t go exactly to plan since I was feeling quite out of it and I did get an hour and a half of studying done, but I planned three hours

I meant to stay up and I was alert enough but then when it hit 6 I felt a bit off and not even energetic enough to paint so I decided to lie down for what became an hour

Had some… bad dreams… nothing truly disturbing just uncomfortable. Wanting to reconnect with someone except she’s related to… someone I don’t ever want to be around again and *shrugs* it threw me since I haven’t had a dream alluding to Laurie in a while. The last one was… very bad so just getting a hint of “hey please let me set you up with my cousin” again was enough to upset me awake.

So I woke up quite shaken, I think that was probably the coffee kicking in from Suhoor as well, I’m still shaky now. Typically when I have a strong coffee I’m a little more high strung and therefore more tough on myself when things don’t go according to plan.

That said, I could have pushed through the tiredness but I don’t think I’d feel very alert and I actually got almost the rest of my plan done, just need to find the quotes I want from my last source, and I can start on my first draft when I get back home Insha’Allah. I think considering the caffeine boost is so potent right now I could probably utilise it to my advantage and skip the rest break I scheduled for when I get home. If I still need rest then I’ll take my rest break ^_^ but otherwise this way I can use it to make up for the missed hour this morning. Heck if I’m halfway between study and ah I need a break, I’ll make it an art break, I didn’t label it with nap after all just “rest” ^_^

To temper the high strung feelings I’ll probably try to listen to some calming recordings or cafe vlogs

*claps* I’m also really excited for Dracula Daily tomorrow, I actually spent part of my free time this morning infodumping about it to a friend and I may have gotten her into it 🥰 I hope so. I’m gonna try to stay on track with it this year, I do prefer the audio though so Re:Dracula will be my primary source Insha’Allah. Wonder how I’ll do with Oct 3rd this time round… 🤔 it’ll be my first time listening/reading it on my own.