#Pall Mall Gazette

[thefictionaledition]

Reform bill latest: Deadlock in lords as vote looms

Last chance for change

Hopes fade for the young lord

Still missing: Viscount Tewkesbury, Marquess of Basilwether

[hotvintagepoll]

this is a poll for a movie that doesn't exist.

It is vintage times. The powers that be have decided to again remake the classic vampire novel Dracula for the screen. in an amazing show of inter-studio solidarity, Hollywood’s most elite hotties are up for the starring roles. the producers know whoever they cast will greatly impact the genre, quality, and tone of the finished film, so they are turning to their wisest voices for guidance.

you are the new casting director for this star-studded epic. choose your players wisely.

Previously cast:

Jonathan Harker—Jimmy Stewart

The Old Woman—Martita Hunt

Count Dracula—Gloria Holden

Mina Murray—Setsuko Hara

Lucy Westenra—Judy Garland (rip)

The Three Voluptuous Women—Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and Lauren Bacall

The Agonized Mother—Mary Philbin (rip)

Dr. Jack Seward—Vincent Price

Quincey P. Morris—Toshiro Mifune

Arthur Holmwood—Sidney Poitier

R.M. Renfield—Conrad Veidt

The Captain of the Demeter—Omar Sharif (rip)

The First Mate of the Demeter—Leonard Nimoy (rip)

Mr. Swales—Ed Wynn (rip)

The Correspondent for The Daily Graph—Ethel Waters

Dracula in dog form—Frank Oz with a puppet

Sister Agatha—Angela Lansbury

Mrs. Westenra—Gladys Cooper (rip)

Dracula's solicitors—Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee

Dr. Van Helsing—Orson Welles

Thomas Bilder, zookeeper—Lon Chaney Jr.

Thomas Bilder's wife—Elsa Lanchester

The Reporter from the Pall Mall Gazette—Hattie McDaniel

The carriers are working class men dropping off some heavy boxes of dirt who get berated and then attacked by Renfield outside the asylum. They then successfully talk Dr. Hennessey into buying them several rounds at the pub as payback. Today's Dracula Daily episode can be found here.

[thegoatsongs]

Speaking of contemporary reviews of Dracula, I found this one from Pall Mall Gazette (1897):

"Mr. Bram Stoker should have labelled his book ‘For Strong Men Only,’ or words to that effect. Left lying carelessly around, it might get into the hands of your maiden aunt who believes devoutly in the man under the bed, or of the new parlourmaid with unsuspected hysterical tendencies. ‘Dracula’ to such would be manslaughter."

Ok mid-book Van Helsing

[haggishlyhagging]

While in the past the legal wrongs of woman in the marriage relation, in which she is robbed of name, personality, earnings [and] children, had a tendency to drive her to live with man outside of the authority of church or state. The occupations recently opened to her, whereby she can gain a reputable livelihood by her own exertions, [have] greatly increased the ranks of single women. No longer compelled to marry for a home or position, the number of young girls who voluntarily refrain from marriage, by choice living single, increases each year. No longer driven to immorality for bread, a great diminution has taken place in the ranks of "public women." No longer forced by want into this life, the lessening number of such women not meeting the requirements of patrons of vice, resulted in the organization of a regular system for the abduction, imprisonment, sale and exportation of young girls. England and Germany most largely [control] this business, although Belgium, Holland and France, Switzerland, several counties of South America, Canada and the United States are, to some extent, also engaged in this most infamous traffic.

Foreign traffic in young English girls was known to exist long before the revelation of the Pall Mall Gazette made English people aware of the extent of the same system under the home government. It was this widely extended and thoroughly organized commerce in girl-children which roused a few people to earnest effort against it, and secured the formation of a society called "Prevention of Traffic in English Girls." To the chairman of this society, Mr. Benjamin Scott, was the first official suggestion due that terminated in that investigation by Editor Stead, which for a moment shook the civilized world and held Christian England to light as a center of the vilest, most odious, most criminal slave traffic the world ever knew.

London, the great metropolis of Christian England (the largest city of ancient or modern times) is acknowledged by statisticians and sociologists to be the point where crime, vice, despair and misery are found in their deepest depth and greatest diversity. Not Babylon of old, whose name is the synonym of all that is vile; not Rome, "mother of harlots"; not Corinth, in whose temple a thousand women were kept for prostitution in service of the god; not the most savage lands in all their barbarity have ever shown a thousandth part of the human woe to be found in the city of London, that culmination of modern Christian civilization. The nameless crimes of Sodom and Gomorrah—the vileness of ancient Greece which garnered its most heroic men, its most profound philosophers—are but amusements among young men of the highest rank in England—West End, the home of rank and wealth, of university education, being the central hell of this extended radius of vice.

-Matilda Joslyn Gage, Woman, Church and State

[lavinaigrette]

One year after the death of Count Dracula, Jonathan and Mina Harker strive to stitch their lives back together and fight the lingering shadows of the horrors that they have faced. But when a series of mysterious deaths and prophetic visions pull them back into the sinister world of the preternatural, the Harkers must confront the reality that forgetting is easier said than done.

Meanwhile, an inheritance scandal involving London’s decaying nobility drives Lord Godalming to question what he truly wants from life and forces Dr. Seward to reckon with the mistakes—and ghosts—of his past.

For England is a haunted country and some monsters cannot be killed.

Chapter Index

*Will be updated as chapters are posted.

Part I. September–November

Chapter 1: Foreword

Chapter 2: The Pall Mall Gazette

Chapter 3: Jonathan Harker's Journal

Chapter 4: Western Morning News

Chapter 5: Letter, Edward Crawley to John Seward, M. D.

Chapter 6: Dr. Seward's Diary

[whiteshipnightjar]

Marie At The Mill

by Joanna Newsom

(HORNS)

I see you coming down in your cherry wool coat bare to the throat like Marie at the Mill. Where might you go from your lowly amour where they hoard you like gold in the hill.

Sent from my side to the cold riverbed, Marie, you go ahead; I will follow in time. The work keeps me here with a few pioneers magnetizing a permanent line. Save for the coat, there was nothing to bring. It was found you could sing, you were sent to the Bay. At Seminary, you passed and were buried; I rose there the very next day.

For if you weren’t born at the right time, my dear, just keep trying and trying and trying again. As for the end, it is not what you fear, you’re just slipping a glove from your hand.

Like this: down, down, down, down your wrist down, down; the list of lives, husbands and wives, dozens of times around again and then,

out of all of the girls, heartbroke, alone, and to rot, and called me the heir of Melba and myth. I crossed the Atlantic, from Boston to Nantes on the hand of my dear Mr. Smith.

Then came his talk of perdition and sin like a cold winter wind come to blow me away. I was impatient and sought education on stage and the Champs-Élysées. I left on my own with the clothes on my back and my old name intact, and my own bills to pay. I left him in debt with his feathered grisette; alouette, je te plumerai. I had the honor to sing Mendelssohn on the Ternary lawn for the brave and the few. But it was my joy to be called to Bayreuth from who toiled a slave comes anew.

They prance for gentler worthiness and everyone who ruled a king may wander in rags for things done and undone and done and undone.

I wed Mr Russak, a fan, and producer of amateur music. All embedded in pearls, held court in Newport, amused myself before I threw off the veil of the world. And when in time he sank under the sea, what he deeded to me was enough to begin as secretary and past emissary; I rose through the ranks from within.

My carnelian snuff bottle carved as a peach and a small sterling wagon — well, that was part of the set — consigned to the waters of Elliot Beach, left behind with your Pall Mall Gazette.

And it was not luck, put me there by his side when the old Colonel died, and the adepts appeared, and all* what they share, well, you had to be there but I’ll tell you if you wanna hear.

Henry, your work here is done, Annie will carry it on, Marie, write it all down, ‘til the keynote is found. You run it up and down and round and round and round and

so I filled as I could all the gaps as a pilfer for good and only good, through some lapse that I’ve long forgot I wanna write to King and only transcribe the thoughts of the boy from the beach with his pervious soul. Poor little teacher got you, do it as you’re told. And even so there is danger here in the sun. Honey, tell me what has Sirius done? I hear it all but I cannot assume none may I follow to the Octagon Room; the boy from the beach beckoned and called, Lord, he’ll leave and unhand it all.

I see the clock on the wall, I hear the knock on the door but that is all.

(HORNS)

And when my work here is through, Henry, will you find me anew a little stranger, my old friend, hold me and win me again and again and again, all over again, all over again, all over again.

There’s a lodger in me larger than me saw the cross in the garden where your process came to be and cut you free, though your father tried to reunite with you and yet* he was allowed to die. Despite the lies, we are grist in the mill.

On the list I am Helios still, Sun-Wielder, Brunhilde, spun in shields, running round, and round, and round, and round, and round, and round, and round.

[corallapis]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 15th January 1924

—

Tuesday 15th January 

Dined with the Vansittarts. She is a charming woman, if a bit affected. He is most delightful, clever creative with the gentlest of smiles. He was most successful as Lord Curzon's secretary until He married. Lord Curzon always works his underlings to death and he was jealous of the time Mrs Vansittart occupied. Duff Cooper¹ was at dinner and we sent Diana² a cable of 'good luck' as it was her opening evening in New York where she has gone to play the Madonnna.

—

1. Alfred Duff Cooper (1890-1954) had joined the Diplomatic Service in 1913 and served in the Grenadier Guards for the last eighteen months of the war, being awarded the DSO. He married Diana Manners (vide infra) in 1919 but was a career womaniser, which she tolerated. He became Conservative MP for Oldham in 1924 but lost in 1929, returning to Parliament having won the Westminster St George's by-election in 1931, holding the seat until 1945. He quickly attained junior office and in 1935 became Secretary of State for War. In 1937 he became First Lord of the Admiralty but resigned in 1938 over the Munich agreement. Churchill deployed him in various roles between 1940 and 1944, when he became Ambassador to Paris, a post he held until 1947. He was knighted in 1948 and raised to the peerage as 1st Viscount Norwich in 1952.

2. Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners (1892-1986), by courtesy Lady Diana Manners, was the youngest daughters of the 8th Duke of Rutland, but seems to have been the daughter of Harry Cust, one of the Souls, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and Conservative MP. Celebrated as one of the most beautiful women in England, she was a member of the Coterie, her generation's equivalent of the Souls, where she met Duff Cooper, whom she married much against the wishes of her family. She appeared in some silent films and was asked to play the Madonna in Karl Vollmöller's wordless stage spectacle The Miracle, directed by Max Reinhardt, to huge acclaim: she toured the production for twelve years. The money she made allowed Cooper to enter politics and her many absences facilitated his womanising. When he was ennobled she continued to be known as Lady Diana Cooper, on the grounds that 'Norwich' sounded to her like 'porridge'.

[gardenofshadcws]

Dracula Daily Day 71

"The Pall Mall Gazette," 18 September.

Bears in Disney World, wolves in London, what next?

Stoker’s dialects are so hard to read

DON’T HIT WOLVES WITH A POLE WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

You don’t name a well-behaved wolf Berserker.

Oh hey Dracula been a while we didn’t miss you stop upsetting the puppies

Awooo!!

In what universe are wolves not smart or able to fight? I mean, sure, this one’s not used to the wild and zoos in Victorian England were not nearly as good about encouraging natural behaviors but for a wolf-keeper this guy does not know what he’s talking about

Oh hey Berserker welcome home

Dr Seward’s Diary

A whole lot of things may have happened

The slowly building tension of the “chain of doom” is just as horrifying as yesterday’s entry.

God, reading the aftermath of this hurrrrtttts.

But she’s not dead! There’s still a chance! Save the girl!!!

We believe in you Van Helsing! You can do it!

Ayyy she’s breathing!

Yes, because leaving her with the maids went so well last time.

QUINCEY!!!! HE’S BACK! It’s been so long I almost forgot about our favorite cowboy

Art do you really want to know how Lucy is?

The fact that this transfusion doesn’t go as well as the others is heartbreaking. Quincey was their last hope, everyone else is exhausted. If this doesn’t save her, she’s done.

“Don’t trouble about it now.” VAN HELSING THIS IS THE PERFECT TIME TO TROUBLE ABOUT IT WOULD YOU PLEASE COMMUNICATE THIS IS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.

This man is infuriating.

Please stop telling Art that Lucy is getting better.

Quincey asking what’s going on is pretty much the embodiment of that gif of the guy walking into the burning room with pizza. Poor guy’s been so left out.

“One of those big bats they call vampires” And yet he’s still closer to figuring things out than anyone but Van Helsing and he doesn’t even know it. Lucy’s just like that poor horse.

Also not how vampire bats work.

Maybe we should have thrown out all our calculations and properly watched Lucy earlier?

She’s awake!

Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra

Another death???

Shit’s getting real

Mina’s helping Jonathan believe in himself awww :’)

“Your own happiness” Um. About that….

[hellsitesonlybookclub]

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Chapter 15

The Time Traveller’s Return

“So I came back. For a long time I must have been insensible upon the machine. The blinking succession of the days and nights was resumed, the sun got golden again, the sky blue. I breathed with greater freedom. The fluctuating contours of the land ebbed and flowed. The hands spun backward upon the dials. At last I saw again the dim shadows of houses, the evidences of decadent humanity. These, too, changed and passed, and others came. Presently, when the million dial was at zero, I slackened speed. I began to recognise our own pretty and familiar architecture, the thousands hand ran back to the starting-point, the night and day flapped slower and slower. Then the old walls of the laboratory came round me. Very gently, now, I slowed the mechanism down.

“I saw one little thing that seemed odd to me. I think I have told you

that when I set out, before my velocity became very high, Mrs. Watchett

had walked across the room, travelling, as it seemed to me, like a

rocket. As I returned, I passed again across that minute when she

traversed the laboratory. But now her every motion appeared to be the

exact inversion of her previous ones. The door at the lower end opened,

and she glided quietly up the laboratory, back foremost, and

disappeared behind the door by which she had previously entered. Just

before that I seemed to see Hillyer for a moment; but he passed like a

flash.

“Then I stopped the machine, and saw about me again the old familiar

laboratory, my tools, my appliances just as I had left them. I got off

the thing very shakily, and sat down upon my bench. For several minutes

I trembled violently. Then I became calmer. Around me was my old

workshop again, exactly as it had been. I might have slept there, and

the whole thing have been a dream.

“And yet, not exactly! The thing had started from the south-east corner

of the laboratory. It had come to rest again in the north-west, against

the wall where you saw it. That gives you the exact distance from my

little lawn to the pedestal of the White Sphinx, into which the

Morlocks had carried my machine.

“For a time my brain went stagnant. Presently I got up and came through

the passage here, limping, because my heel was still painful, and

feeling sorely begrimed. I saw the Pall Mall Gazette on the table by

the door. I found the date was indeed today, and looking at the

timepiece, saw the hour was almost eight o’clock. I heard your voices

and the clatter of plates. I hesitated—I felt so sick and weak. Then I

sniffed good wholesome meat, and opened the door on you. You know the

rest. I washed, and dined, and now I am telling you the story.

[ladysunamireads]

Mycroft's Nightmare

Mycroft's Nightmare by enola28

“Can you explain to me why our sister is on the second page of the Pall Mall Gazette?” Mycroft asked.

Sherlock raised an eyebrow and looked at the paper. Sure enough, there it was. Youngest Holmes spotted on a promenade with Lord Basilwether.

“Must have been a slow news day,” he said nonchalantly, before offering the paper back to Mycroft.

“Must have been a slow news day?” Mycroft repeated in disbelief. ----- Or - Mycroft gets wind of Enola's adventures and companions and is less than pleased.

Sherlock, on the other hand, puts Mycroft back in his place.

Words: 996, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Enola Holmes (Movies)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, Enola Holmes, Viscount "Tewky" Tewksbury, John Watson

Relationships: Enola Holmes/Viscount "Tewky" Tewksbury, Enola Holmes & Sherlock Holmes, Enola Holmes & Mycroft Holmes & Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes & Viscount “Tewky” Tewksbury, Mycroft Holmes & Sherlock Holmes

Additional Tags: Sibling Rivalry, Takes place after EH2, Mycroft regrets making Enola Sherlock's ward, Sherlock gets revenge on Enola's behalf, Fluff, Protective Sherlock Holmes, Sibling teasing, Sherlock meddles in Enola's affairs, Tewksbury is understandably horrified

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44460457

[thefictionaledition]

[hotvintagepoll]

this is a poll for a movie that doesn't exist.

It is vintage times. The powers that be have decided to again remake the classic vampire novel Dracula for the screen. in an amazing show of inter-studio solidarity, Hollywood’s most elite hotties are up for the starring roles. the producers know whoever they cast will greatly impact the genre, quality, and tone of the finished film, so they are turning to their wisest voices for guidance.

you are the new casting director for this star-studded epic. choose your players wisely.

Previously cast:

Jonathan Harker—Jimmy Stewart

The Old Woman—Martita Hunt

Count Dracula—Gloria Holden

Mina Murray—Setsuko Hara

Lucy Westenra—Judy Garland (rip)

The Three Voluptuous Women—Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and Lauren Bacall

The Agonized Mother—Mary Philbin (rip)

Dr. Jack Seward—Vincent Price

Quincey P. Morris—Toshiro Mifune

Arthur Holmwood—Sidney Poitier

R.M. Renfield—Conrad Veidt

The Captain of the Demeter—Omar Sharif (rip)

The First Mate of the Demeter—Leonard Nimoy (rip)

Mr. Swales—Ed Wynn (rip)

The Correspondent for The Daily Graph—Ethel Waters

Dracula in dog form—Frank Oz with a puppet

Sister Agatha—Angela Lansbury

Mrs. Westenra—Gladys Cooper (rip)

Dracula's solicitors—Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee

Dr. Van Helsing—Orson Welles

The Pall Mall Gazette reporter is an intrepid reporter who is not over-fond of wolves.

[thegoatsongs]

Before I left him I remembered what Jonathan put in his diary of the Professor’s perturbation at reading something in an evening paper at the station at Exeter; so, seeing that Dr. Seward keeps his newspapers, I borrowed the files of “The Westminster Gazette” and “The Pall Mall Gazette,” and took them to my room. I remember how much “The Dailygraph” and “The Whitby Gazette,” of which I had made cuttings, helped us to understand the terrible events at Whitby when Count Dracula landed, so I shall look through the evening papers since then, and perhaps I shall get some new light.

So Mina

Remembered from Jonathan that Van Helsing had read in a newspaper something that shocked him

Realizes she must find the report he read (it was about The Bloofer Lady)

Observes that Jack keeps his newspapers in his office

Tells him to hand over the ones she wants (One of them dated at Lucy's final attack)

Had already cut articles from other papers she had deemed interesting, one containing The Demeter report

Now has acquired (1) Captain's Log (1) Wolf Escape story (1) Bloofer Lady attacks story

Each of those gives insight into Dracula's past crimes, patterns, behaviors, and powers, such as fog powers, invincibility during nighttime, ability to turn into animals ("dog"), ability to control animals (wolf), and how new vampires hunt

This girl is both a journalist and a detective

[sdwolfpup]

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#5

I think a lot about "morally gray Brienne" and what George's intention is with her arc, about the fandom's tendency to believe that what she has to learn is what they think Jaime will teach her, which is that she's going to have to compromise her morals and become less "pure" because that's the way the world works. That he's going to make her more cynical as a sign of growth.

I've never liked that possibility, myself. But I've never been able to actively articulate what it is I do hope Brienne learns; how I hope she'll change in George's arc without losing her innate hope and belief.

I realized today while scrolling my dash that this tumblr post is what I do actually want her growth to be. That Jaime will tell her the equivalent of this, from that post (bolded parts from the post, but relevant):

There’s something bad about everything if you dig deep enough. As long as we live in flawed human societies we’ve got to make the best of what they offer us. If you have the choice and means, please, do support those who do good, but also, don’t beat yourself up over not living up to an unattainable ideal.

No one can. You’ll just make yourself so miserable, you either burn up and stop fighting entirely or you’ll make yourself a non-productive, depressed heap just out of a bleeding heart left unchecked. You can’t make a change to this world if you refuse to engage in it.

I don't think Brienne refuses to engage in their world right now, but I do see her -- especially after whatever happens with Lady Stoneheart -- potentially shutting down because of the horror of what she feels she's forced to do, the fact that sometimes there is no good option; that sometimes the good option is doing what it takes to keep yourself going and that's okay.

I think Jaime's power is that he understands that deeply, he's just gotten so sunk in the choices he's made in multiple bad situations that he thinks there's never a good choice, and I think that's where they can meet in the middle and help each other become the best versions of themselves: she can give him the hope to fight and he can give her the strength to.

130 notes - Posted October 29, 2022

#4

So am I to understand --

that this is Dracula:

247 notes - Posted May 15, 2022

#3

All of Dracula was worth it for this one, sarcastic line:

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us

Perfect, no notes, continue onward with great joy, Mr. Pall Mall Gazette Reporter.

412 notes - Posted September 18, 2022

#2

Something something the parallels between Dracula and his three women and Lucy and her three men, all bound by the blood they've given/had taken, send post.

845 notes - Posted September 18, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

My favorite thing about Dracula Daily Tumblr Edition is that we have all gone from "look at our good friend adorable woobie Jonathan Harker discovering spices" to "RIP HIS THROAT OUT, J-HARK, YOU'VE GOT THIS."

4,583 notes - Posted October 17, 2022

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