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ebaeschnbliah · 4 years

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Beautiful, isn’t it?

When the sparkling stars of a starry night sky glitter like diamonds on brows and cheekbones ...

TBC below the cut ...

Lucy Westenra in canon and in Dracula BBC:

Appart from the name, there’s not much what Lucy Westenra from Dracula BBC has in common with the original character from Bram Stoker’s novel. She isn’t the best friend of Mina Murray because both women don’t even know each other in this adaptation. Mina has become a character of the past, the old world, while Lucy plays her role in modern times, the new world.

Three SUITORS

Canon Lucy has three suitors - the American Quincey Morris, the psychiatrist Dr John Seward and Arthur Holmwood, the wealthy son of a lord - and it’s the last one whom she loves and decides to marry. For the BBC adaptation some interesting changes have been made.

Arthur Holmwood, the actual fiancé in canon, has been cut out of the story entirely,

Dr John Seward is called Jack in Dracula BBC. In the original story both first names - John and Jack - are used for Dr Seward. But just his close friends, Arthur Holmwood and Quincey Morris, call him that. And while in canon all three men deeply love Lucy, in the BBC adaptation there is only Jack Seward.

Quincey Morris has been turned into a quite recently made acquaintance of Lucy and Jack Seward. Despite of this, Lucy decides to marry the very rich American.

The finest BRIDE

In the original novel, Lucy Westenra becomes one of Count Dracula’s first victims after his arrival in Engalnd and when she changes into a vampire, she starts attacking children. As a consequence her three suitors and Van Helsing join forces and finally are able to free her from the vampire’s curse. They kill the undead woman, who once had been their beloved Lucy, with a wooden stake thrust into her heart and cut off her head.

Nothing of this happens in the BBC adaptation. Lucy isn’t among Dracula’s first victims. When the vampire sets foot on England, an attempt is made to capture him. It fails. A ‘trail of devastation’ leads Zoe Van Helsing then to the Count. Lucy becomes the vampire’s first victim only after his release into freedom from ‘sundial prison’ at the Jonathan Harker Foundation (caused by the intervention of Frank Renfield, his clever lawyer). Lucy never attacks any children, instead she becomes the one who gets followed by a zombie boy who want’s to play ‘peek-a-boo’ with her. It is Dracula himself who then kills the boy before he can reach Lucy.

And maybe ‘victim’ isn’t even the correct term to describe Lucy in this story, because according to Dracula, in five hundred years she is the only one who willingly opens up her veins for him. Lucy loves to dance and it is on the dancefloor where the Count lies first eyes on her and is quite fascinated by the young woman deeply immersed in her dance. ‘My finest bride’ is what Dracula calls her. And Lucy Westenra is indeed a very beautiful, young woman. She is also strongly focused on her outward appearance. In the additions to this post I wrote about Lucy’s attitude towards her own beauty an how this might connect her to Sherlock.

She seems to think that people only like her because she is beautiful. The beautiful lady, she calls herself. Quincy, her fiancé, seems to confirm Lucy’s conviction when he says that he wonders if she would be into him if he wasn’t rich … ‘but then, would I like her if she was ugly’. If ‘being rich’ translates into a ‘rich supply of interesting cases’ … can ‘beauty’ be translated into ‘cleverness’? Because this is what Sherlock is quite strongly focused on … his more than average cleverness. He seems to think that people only need him or are interested in him because he is very clever. ‘Utility? How do I have utility? … he asks Mycroft (the brain) in HLV. And Lestrade (work) admits in ASIP that he only consults Sherlock because he needs him ‘every time the police are out of their depth’. Sherlock defines himself by his cleverness, the same way Lucy defines herself by her beauty.

More about BEAUTY

Interestingly, BEAUTY is something which is also refered to in Sherlock BBC several times.

In TBB Sherlock looks up to the night sky and - much to John’s astonishment - describes it a beautiful. Obviously John thinks that Sherlock doesn’t care about things like that … the universe full of beautiful, glittering stars. Sherlock corrects him and says that he can appreciate beauty even if he doesn’t care about it.

In TRF Jim threatens the head of the jury to take away the beauty of her children if she doesn’t follow his instructions (’If you want your beautiful children to stay beautiful’). Isn’t it usually the life of someone which gets threatened in situations like this and not beauty?

In TSOT, during the stag night preciding the wedding with Mary (Mary), Sherlock (the Virgin) answers John’s (Madonna) question if he’s ‘pretty’ with ‘beauty is a construct based entirely on childhood impressions, influences and role models.’

In TFP Sherlock describes Eurus’ music as beautiful and when a guard indicates that this music ‘kills you in the end’ , Sherlock agrees but maintains his view … ‘Aye. Still beautiful, though’.

But the most interesting piece of dialogue happens in HLV. Here - after a positive drug test - Molly directly compares Sherlock’s extraordinary mind to beauty. She slaps him three times hard in the face and scolds: ‘How dare you throw away the beautiful gifts you were born with. And how dare you betray the love of your friends?’

Sherlock’s mind is called a beautiful gift which he should not through away lightly. And it is Molly - a John-mirror - who accuses Sherlock of doing exactly this when using drugs. But if drugs represent the ‘chemistry of love’ in Sherlock’s mind palace, what does this say about the John-mirror Molly and ultimately about John himself? ... ‘Don’t indulge in romanic love and sex because it will destroy you in the end’?

About CHANGES

Another feature of interest is modern Lucy’s almost unchanged outer appearance after Dracula starts drinking her blood. This distinguishes her clearly from his other brides - Jonathan Harker and Agatha Van Helsing - who show rather quickly physical signs of their transformation into a vampire. Both lose their fingernails one by one (more on that in this post) and especially Jonathan becomes haggard and frail in rather a short time. Nothing of that happens to Lucy, though her … let’s call it ‘incubation period’ ... is much longer than with Jonathan and Agatha.

JONATHAN HARKER: ‘You will remain with me for one month’ Count Dracula informs him at his castle and later Sister Agatha tells Harker in Budapest that ‘You’ve been here nearly a month’. But Harker has been almost entirely transformed into an undead already after the first month, which ended when he jumped down from the Count’s castle.

SISTER AGATHA: ‘It’s four weeks to England’ Count Dracula tells Sister Agatha. In the span of this time she loses all of her fingernails but her outer appearance doesn’t change that much.

LUCY WESTENRA: Dracula meets her for the first time the night after his release from the ‘sundial prison’. Three Months later Lucy’s hen night takes place. It’s the same night in which Zev finds her uncouncious at the graveyard, almost drained of most of her blood. The next day Jack visits Lucy at home because she doesn’t want to see a doctor. She’s too weak though to wake up. Some time later Dracula turns up and drinks the last remains of Lucy’s blood. Despite the timespan of three months Lucy neither loses a fingernail nor shows any other sign of transformation (appart from looking drained and weak from the bloodloss on her very last day.

STARS that sparkle and glow

And then there is Lucy’s favourite way to do her make-up and dress herself. It seems this girl doesn’t only love sparkling jewelry and shimmering garments, she even decorates her face with glittering tinsel. Stars glow on her brow and cheekbones … as if she wants to wear the universe on her face. ‘Beautiful, isn’t it?’

Those glittering stars on Lucy’s face, sparkling like diamonds in the sky, almost at once reminded me of something but It took a little while before I realised what it was ... a song from the Beatles:

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

The song was written by John Lennon in 1967. It didn’t take long and speculations arose that the first letter of each of the title nouns spelled "LSD", the initialism commonly used for the hallucinogenic drug. Though Lennon repeatedly denied that he had intended it as a drug song, those rumours never ceased entirely. According to Lennon, the song's fantastical imagery is attributed to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Whatever the truth may be, that song has been recognised as a key work in the psychedelic genre. (Wikipedia)

Lyrics & Audio

Picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly a girl with kaleidoscope eyes cellophane flowers of yellow and green towering over your head look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Ah

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers that grow so incredibly high newspaper taxis appear on the shore waiting to take you away climb in the back with your head in the clouds and you're gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Ah

Picture yourself on a train in a station with plasticine porters with looking glass ties suddenly someone is there at the turnstile the girl with the kaleidoscope eyes

Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds ……

It’s not difficult at all to find several things in those lines rather quickly, which - maybe - have also meaning in Sherlock BBC. The river, water, tangerines, yellow and green, the sun in someones eyes, bridges, a rocking horse, smiles, newspapers, people with their head in the skies who climb in the back of taxis, train stations, ties and looking glasses … mirrors. ‘Alice in Wonderland’ has been related to Sherlock BBC very early on and by a lot of people, especially the rabbit theme … ‘going down the rabbit hole’ … because rabbits turn up several times throughout the whole story.

With some imagination, even Sherlock’s deerstalker hat (the ‘death firsbee’) could be addet to that list, because according to Sherlock himself: "It’s got flaps ... ear flaps. It’s an ear hat, John". And of course, Sherlock’s connection to drugs has also been discussed at great lengths, particulary since the Christmas Special ‘The Abominable Bride’ which is commonly known as ‘Sherlock’s drug induced Victorian fantasy’.

Just like Lucy, Emelia Ricoletty, the ghostly bride, calls herself ‘beautiful’ ... 'face white as death, mouth like a crimson wound’ ... precisely as a vampire would look who had just drunk from the warm blood of a prey ....

Thanks @callie-ariane for the Sherlock scripts.

July, 2020

#beautiful isn't it #stars like diamonds #starry night sky #lucy in the skys with diamonds #dracula bbc #sherlock bbc #lucy westenra #the beatles #vampires

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maxparkhurst · 4 years

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How did you create your characters? What was your process?

TMI Tuesday: How did you create your characters? What was your process?

// <offers out a chair> You’re going to want to sit for this. It’s going to be a LONG story. For those who’re looking for a short answer: I’m actually in the middle of creating these two. Edits and tweaks are always being made to make them appear real and true. And it’s thanks to everyone on here and in-game that they’ve progressed so much.

Now for the long version.

Evolving as an Author:

Maxinora and Augustine Parkhurst are a culmination of ideas inspired by a myriad of things. The process of creating them isn’t linear. It has a lot of pit falls, unexpected twists and turns, and a ton of hills. To understand how we got the current versions of these two, we need to go back a couple years ago.

It’s the summer of 2012. In efforts to get me off of his account, my Dad gifted me my own. This was when I made my first ever serious roleplay character- a hunter named Evelon Holmwood. Well, at the time I spelled it like Evavllyn but...Yeah. We’re going to gloss over that fact. Now, Eve was my pride and joy for the last several years. I played this character nonstop, refusing to play or write about anyone else. In retrospect, I used this character more as therapy than anything of creative merit.

Eve’s story was basic at best. But I got better with story-telling the older I got. Unfortunately, her story got so convoluted that I had hard time salvaging anything from it. Now, you’re probably asking: How does this relate to Max? Fear not. I’m getting there. It was around this existential crisis that a mutual friend of my boyfriend and I convinced us to leave WoW and hop on SWTOR. My boyfriend was more than eager to make the switch but I was skeptical. Leaving WoW meant leaving Eve. And was I ready for that?

He assured me I was and helped me make a character on SWTOR. This was the first iteration of Max. A bounty hunter from Nar’Shadda named Maxinora Fenrik. My intentions was to make her a lowkey copy of Eve. At this time, I wasn’t very confident in my writing abilities and liked to stay in my lane. But, the more I roleplayed this character the more she took on a life of her own. She evolved past Eve and exceeded my expectations. Playing a new character bolstered my confidence and while I no longer play SWTOR -due to OOC reasons- I still have fond memories with this character. I enjoyed this character so much that I reused several components of her design when making Max. Some which include her name and being blind in one eye.

I flipped between the MMOs when Legion dropped. Expenses started to pile up and between the two subscriptions I didn’t have the time to play both. In the end, WoW won my affection and I made a Blood Elf because I had friends on Horde Side. Rorien Hawkthorne was her name. A drunk artist and master assassin. She’d be the second iteration of Max. She had an older sister complex, an affinity for being melancholy, and it was my first experience with playing a character who could kept secrets- or tried to at least. Another new character under the belt and I was feeling a little more confident in my story telling abilities. I’d probably would’ve kept playing that character if not for OOC drama happening in a guild I was in. The fallout had me jump back to the Alliance where I indulged in creature comforts. It was back to Eve.

Tumblr made an entrance in my life around then as I ventured forth with a refreshed look on my hunter. I salvaged what I could and made a half-decent story. A lot of her misadventures are still posted up on her blog @evelonholmwood On the side I made the third iteration of Max. A fire mage and blacksmith combo by the name of Rowan Celwick with her younger brother Thomas Celwick. They were just two orphaned kids trying to make a life in Stormwind. Rowan was an arcane drop-out and blacksmith wannabe and Thomas...Was...Well? Thomas? A glorified side-piece? A way to garner pity for Rowan. I didn’t place a lot of emphasis on them or their characters. My main focus was Eve. But these two would be the underlying foundation of Max and Auggie’s characters.

I eventually took a hiatus from WoW and focused on more personal writing. The details are boring so I’ll gloss over it by saying that creating a character completely from scratch was the final push in the right direction for me. Fast forward several months to a year aaaaaand BOOM! Pandemic.

Writing is an escape for me. It’s one of my best coping mechanisms during trying times. And when nothing else works, I over indulge in some Warcraft. So, I resubbed. There was hesitance when re-entering the RP scene. I didn’t leave Eve’s story off on an convenient note. For lack of better phrasing, I wrote myself into a hole I couldn’t get out of. So, with the help of my boyfriend, I decided it was time to give Eve her happy ending and shelf her for good.

Which put me in a dilemma! Who was I going to RP? Well, you remember the Celwicks? They became my newest project.

The Creative Process:

I knew the Celwick story was weak and read much like a middle-school fanfiction. Revising was a must. But there were integral pieces to their story which I enjoyed:

Familial Sacrifice

Juxtaposing concepts

Intertwined Fates

These were themes I could work with and evolve. Keeping these in mind, I started to deconstruct the Celwick story line. They were no longer Gilnean but Kul’tiran. This prompted a name change from Celwick to Parkhurst. And I won’t lie, I like the sound of Parkhurst better than Celwick. Thomas became Augustine and Rowan became Maxinora (Mainly because I actually HAD the name Maxinora and not Rowan). The little changes got me hyped for the characters.

Next, I started to trim away the unnecessary details that bogged down the narrative. Things that either didn’t fit or made the timeline too convoluted were replaced. Pyromancy was a great example. The age I wanted Max to be wouldn’t yield to her understanding of Pyromancy. At least, not to the level I WANTED it to be. SO, I turned it into lament’s magic. Alchemy. (I also always wanted to play an alchemist since watching FMA)

A girl with two professions seemed excessive as well. I had to look at why I wanted her to be both an Alchemist and a Blacksmith. The answer was simple. I just liked the juxtaposition of an intelligent woman being rough and tumble. Which made me ask: Was Blacksmithing necessary to achieve that imagine? The answer was no. To pay respect to her previous iteration, I made their parents blacksmiths. It also let me keep themes of fire in her concept. The change in profession brought on a change in her appearance. I made her a little more slender to fit with the alchemist appeal.

Max’s aesthetic was brought on by my previous characters. Rorien inspired more internal facets of Max while Fenrik inspired outward appearances. Max’s auburn was strictly a decision made on the fact that I had one too many character’s with black hair. There wasn’t any other reason for it.

Designing Max was easy. The real challenge was with Augustine. Up until that point, all I had to go on for his character was Tommy Celwick and...Well. There wasn’t a lot there. He wasn’t much more than a poorly used trope and I considered doing away with him all together. But I realized that I REALLY liked the trope and I liked what he did for Max’s character. So, I buckled down and made myself think through all the reasons why Thomas Celwick -AKA Augustine Parkhust- needed to exist.

I decided that I needed him in order to present themes in Max’s story. He was the foil to her character. Cynic older sister? Meet optimistic brother. He also appealed to not only the three themes listed above, but also the newest one I wanted to explore: two sides of the same coin. Max and Augustine are simultaneously the same, having similar traumas, and yet different. If for nothing else, Augustine could help propel Max in the right direction. Be her moral compass, you know? With a bit of half-assing here and there, I managed to get a decent character out of Augustine. Took the cliche nerdy brother idea, physical design and all, and ran with it. Shortly after I made their Tumblr account. In no way did I expect this BOY to take on a life of his own. Like, Auggie knocked on my brain’s door and was like, “Yeah. No. I’m not a side character. Give me my own story...”

Which will bring me into my final point!

The Characters Write Their Own Story:

I’ve never been able to sit down and plan a story. My mind doesn’t work in such a structured fashion. It wanders and explores. When I’m creating, I’m watching. Watching the scenes play out before my eyes as these characters take what I’ve given them and grow into something almost independent of me. The basic pieces of Max and Auggie’s back story, along with character design, were purposeful. Yes. But everything that came after was THEM.

It’s cliche, I know, but I can’t describe this experience any other way. These two grew outside of my influence and now dominate a space in my brain. They talk, work, and interact without me. I mean...Not REALLY. But...It feels like that. It feels I’m watching through a keyhole and just recording what I see as their story plays out.

I guess a better analogy is me being the director. I’m watching the movie in the stands as two actors improv. On good days, I’m in control and rework scenes until I’m satisfied with the results. Try this. Move here. Say this. On bad days, I don’t see anything. My actors went home. The lights are off. Show’s cancelled for the day. These days make me sad...But they’re worth it because on the BEST days...The best days Max and Auggie run the whole show, and I am watching through the keyhole as their story unfolds little by little.

It’s truly magical.

The last part of their creation was the voice. Character voice, for me, is like building muscle. You need to work out. Start small and work your way up in weight. Every little piece I wrote made their voices stronger; and that’s including asks and threads. Interacting with other characters helped to flesh them out as people. And while it was hard and intimidating at first, it’s started to become easier.

Wrap-Up

My method is messy and untrained. I don’t claim to have any secrets. My knowledge of writing is mediocre at best. But I’m having fun. And that’s were the real magic of any character comes in. Fun. Because if you aren’t writing about something that sparks your soul- either with love, happiness, hatred, etc- then it’s nothing more than a forced, hollow husk. Writing is meant to evoke emotion. At least in mind. And want to express complex emotions and share them. In a perfect world? My characters -any of my characters- resonates with someone. They become the escape someone needed. That’s the ultimate goal.

It’s thanks to all of you that Max and Auggie have come this far. It’s from their interactions with others that they’ve managed to evolve into something incredible- especially Augustine. He just kept shining brighter and brighter until I felt obligated to make him an in-game character. So, you all are just as much a part in the creative process as me. Thank you!

And a special thanks to my boyfriend for always being a sound board for my rambling ass <3

THANK YOU FOR THE ASK, ANON! Sorry I posted an essay...<3

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theholmwoodfoundation · 3 days

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Love that the first ever line we hear from Johnny's ghost is his wife's name.

Jonathan Harker truly is Just That Man.

Mina is the first thing he thinks about in the morning, and the last thing he thinks of before he sleeps.

Being dead has not changed that.

#the holmwood foundation #the holmwood foundation podcast #Jonathan Harker #In this house we love the Harkers #mina harker

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georgiacooked · 13 days

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Drawing the Jeremy/Jonathan version of THIS painting, and I just really like this pre-Jonathan additions version of him. Disgruntled Man.

#art #artists on tumblr #the holmwood foundation #the holmwood foundation podcast #jeremy larkin #jonathan Harker #10/10 grouch King

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camelliagwerm · 4 years

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mina things because i’ve been meaning to get this all down -- there are some spoilers for the main ‘chasing ghosts’ storyline and wastelanders under here.

(dr.) mina holmwood, b. 13 january 2048; trans woman, she/her. neutral karma.

s.p.e.c.i.a.l: 9, 11, 12, 13, 13, 10, 8 // a lot of these higher stats come from mutations.

notable perks: shotgunner (+ expert and master), team medic, starched genes, nerd rage, chemist, green thumb, enforcer, skeet shooter

favoured weapons: shotguns, owning both an anti-armor gauss and pump-action variant.

born in lewisburg, greenbrier county in west virginia.

was a pioneer scout as a child, getting to the rank of possum.

started out as pre-med at wv medical school in morgantown (rebranded as vault-tec university), before moving into pharmaceuticals.

was friends with and later (briefly) dated penelope hornwright while at vault-tec uni; they were in different programs but met at a fraternity party.

in 2076, she was in the process of doing her phd while working with arktos pharma on a highly sensitive experiment called project paradise. for her work on a chem known at the time as formula p and her excellent results in pre-med, mina was invited by vault-tec to join vault 76 as their resident doctor.

mina didn’t originally wish to join 76, but was encouraged by executive david thorpe, who intended to erase any record of the contribution mina made to the project to take more credit for himself once she was ‘out of the way.’

once the vault doors opened, mina began studying the scorched plague and continuing the work left by the responders, while trying to find the overseer who had disappeared not long after reclamation day.

she took the time to also return to arktos pharma to recover her research in the hope it might be useful -- only to learn that thorpe had erased any trace of her involvement in project paradise. she ran the project once more, took the recipe for formula p, and shut the project down for good afterwards.

not at all sorry to see that thorpe had become a scorched -- considering it ‘karma’ for what he did, but she at least had the decency to put him out of his misery.

travelling across appalachia in search of her overseer and her fellow vault-dwellers, mina began learning about the history of those who had came before: the responders; the raiders; the free states; the brotherhood of steel -- before learning about the enclave.

was accepted as a member of the appalachian chapter of the enclave and rose through the ranks to become the new chief science officer.

her main work with the enclave is developing synthesized strains of mutations found out in the wasteland to use to their advantage out in the field. mina often used herself as a guinea pig for these mutations; by 2103, she has successfully used seven mutations and managed to negate the worst of the consequences: marsupial, bird bones, eagle eyes, egg head, scaly skin, adrenal reaction and speed demon.

as the rumours of gold hidden somewhere in appalachia began to spread, mina began working with both the raiders at crater and the settlers at foundation to get the gold, supposedly in another vault in the mountains. decided to work with the raiders when it came to breaching the vault, not wanting to risk the settlers who she felt were far less suited to the job.

helped synthesize an oral innoculation against the scorched plague for the newly arrived settlers (primarily from pittsburgh) and the returning raiders in 2103.

has permanent scarring from a scorchbeast attack across her left eye. wears an eye patch.

met commander sofia daguerre in 2103, who she’s now in a relationship with.

#oc: mina

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fiotrethewey · 3 months

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ALT TEXT:

Copy of Dracula, with an inscription inside it that says October 04, The ending needs a re-write. Keith

Found this whilst clearing out my old flat. Back when I was 14, I had an amazing family friend who inspired my love of Dracula, this was how he signed the book he gave to me. He sadly passed away when I was 18. I miss him every day.

20 years later, working on @theholmwoodfoundation I can safely say don’t worry Keith, I’m absolutely rewriting the ending.

#dracula book #dracula #re dracula #the holmwood foundation #fio thoughts #my work #it’s been an emotional week #but this has really made me smile.

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prismmarketingco · 3 years

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Through her Pocket Rocket Foundation, Jamaican track legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has given full-year scholarships to five student-athletes from various institutions in the island nation. The scholarships cover all of the student's school expenses, including tuition, uniforms and books. A total of 55 students have benefited from Pocket Rocket Foundation academic scholarships since the foundation's founding in 2012. Among the winners are Tafada Wright of St Jago High School, Kimesha Beckford of Manchester HS, Anecia Taylor of Holmwood Technical HS, St. Andrew High School's Olivia Peterkin, and Malachi King of Wolmer's Boys High School. Each second to fifth-grade kid received a $50,000 check at the handover ceremony, while sixth-graders received a $60,000 check. Sponsor GraceKennedy Limited also provided grocery baskets for the students. In addition, Digicel Jamaica provided the students with $10,000 in gift certificates to Sangster's Bookstore and Hi-Lo Supermarket, as well as free phone credit. At the Wolmer's Girls High School celebration on Friday, Mrs. Fraser-Pryce said the following: "The foundation's mission has always been to provide financial assistance to deserving Jamaican high school athletes. Jeanne Coke of the Wolmer's Old Girls' Association supported me throughout my high school years, and I want to carry that kindness on to our current and future student-athletes." Although the past two years have been difficult, Mrs. Fraser-Pryce says the Pocket Rocket team is still devoted to the foundation's mission and the positive impact they aim to make. Thanking her sponsors, the racing star went on to praise the organizations and individuals who have supported the foundation, which she highlighted had been able to help young people. (at Kingston, Jamaica) https://www.instagram.com/p/CW53_C8L-oh/?utm_medium=tumblr

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theholmwoodfoundation · 15 days

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THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION PROLOGUE/TRAILER

It's finally here! Please enjoy the trailer/prologue for Season One of the Holmwood Foundation. Starring Rebecca Root, Seán Carlsen and Attila Puskas.

FILE TAKEN FROM THE WORK RECORDER OF MADELINE TOWNSEND, JUNIOR ARCHIVIST AT THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION, LUCY WESTENRA BUILDING, WHITBY.

LISTEN ON SPOTIFY, OR AT THE ACAST LINK BELOW:

CW: Brief Sirens. Loud Static

The Holmwood Foundation is a Found Footage Horror-Fiction Podcast.

We follow Maddie Townsend (Rebecca Root) and Jeremy Larkin (Seán Carlsen), two co-workers at the Holmwood Foundation: a secret organisation that has been maintaining and studying the remains of Count Dracula for the last 130 years, as they are possessed by the ghosts of Jonathan and Mina Harker, and embark on a nightmare road trip, carrying Dracula's severed head across the UK in an effort to stop him once and for all.

Find the Trailer transcript on our website, if required.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: https://www.theholmwoodfoundation.com/

Please like and share if you enjoy, and keep an eye on our socials (you can find us on Tumblr, Insta, Twitter, Tiktok and Facebook) in the coming weeks for both our Pilot Episode and our official Season One Kickstarter!

#the holmwood foundation #the holmwood foundation podcast #Dracula #audio fiction #horror podcast #horror fiction #gothic horror #jonathan Harker #mina harker #podcast trailer #queer audio drama #vampires #Spotify #jeremy larkin #maddie townsend

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theholmwoodfoundation · 4 months

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Welcome to the Holmwood Foundation

Sanguis Vita Est

The Holmwood Foundation is a Found Footage Horror-Fiction Podcast created by Fio Trethewey @fiotrethewey (Big Finish: Gallifrey War Room, 18th Wall Productions) and Georgia Cook @georgiacooked (Big Finish: The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles, Gallifrey War Room, BBC Books, The Dracula Daily Sketch Collection). It is a modern day sequel to the gothic novel Dracula. We are currently working on building interest while we record and create the pilot episode ahead of crowd funding in October.

What is the Holmwood Foundation about?

Our story follows Jeremy Larkin (Played by Sean Carlsen) and Maddie Townsend (Played by Rebecca Root), two co-workers at the mysterious Holmwood Foundation, as they are possessed by the ghosts of Jonathan and Mina Harker, and embark on a road trip across the country in an effort to achieve their ghost's wishes: to stop Dracula once and for all. This is a story about identity and self discovery, family loyalty and devotion, all wrapped around a nightmare of a road trip with a rejuvenating severed head, incredibly sincere Victorian ghosts, and an analogue recorder. (Content Warnings for blood, horror themes and possession)

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When can we listen to The Holmwood Foundation?

Find us on Acast here: https://shows.acast.com/667084e3abc94e79816dfa56/episodes/66e016252571af1294775f52?

We plan to release the pilot during the Kickstarter in October, 2024. However, once crowd funded, we hope to release the first season in Spring 2025. Follow for further updates as production progresses!

Social Media Links here: https://linktr.ee/theholmwoodfoundation

Who are the Cast and Crew?

The Holmwood Foundation are proud to present the cast and crew for our pilot episode: Across the Moors.

Rebecca Root as Maddie Townsend and Mina Harker, and Sean Carlsen as Jeremy Larkin and Jonathan Harker.

Other voice talents include:

Samuel Clemens as Arthur Jones Becky Wright as Thrall & Phone Voice Jessica Carroll as Newsreader Luke Kondor as Robert Swales and featuring Attila Puskas as Dracula

Joining our crew we have Samuel Clemens as Director, Katharine Armitage as our Script Editor and Benji Clifford as our Sound Engineer and Designer

Extra Content:

Between now and October, we will slowly be sharing small pieces of related content related to the Holmwood Foundation. These might be emails, or obituaries, maybe even interviews. Follow the links below to find all of that content together:

Frequently Asked Questions Production Updates OOC Answered Asks Extracts Foundation Emails Holmwood Foundation Art

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