#bram's notes

[aster-blogging-dracula]

If anyone is interested in knowing about where bram stoker got his information abrout transylvania seen on these past week from, pages 200 to 233 of this edition of bram stoker's notes show an annotated version of what we know he gathered (including the sources he checked) (there's also a few handwritten annotations on these pages about (mostly unused) ideas bram had for the plot (although the first section of the book ellaborates on this much further)

These 33 pages cointain a few spoilers on the editor's annotations below each each transcription (and the rest of the book is obvously full of spoilers for the entire plot), so new redears beware

(examples:)

[spankerella]

Happy Lizard Fashion Day to those who celebrate.

[aster-blogging-dracula]

yup! here are some of the notes bram stoker took from it (see page 140 from this pdf (which would be p129 of the book in it)):

There's something hilarious about how so much subsequent media has positioned Vampires and Werewolves as, like, binary opposite entities, and then you read Dracula (1897) and realize that wolves are that guy's preferred solution to every problem. You'd say something to Dracula about "ah yes, werewolves, vampires' great eternal enemies," and he'd just be like "you mean my subcontractors?"

[artpatine]

so u guys liked that previous drawing a lot, huh

(so we're shipping these two now, right. what does one even call this --- draculashipping?? nosferacula???)

[caffeinatedcatlover]

More Dracula quotes. It’s safe to say that Dracula has become one of my favorite books.

[catvampire]

Dracula at the Finnish National Ballet: ⮡ Harker & Dracula's first meeting [1/2]

Jun Xia as Jonathan Harker Michal Krčmář as Young Dracula

[gentleman-aster]

via @thegoatsongs

Reminder that in 1897 Transylvania was Austro-Hungarian. More specifically, it belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary, of Austria-Hungary at the time.

Transylvania will not be part of Romania until 1920.

Transylvania became part of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1002, and it belonged to "the Lands of the Hungarian Crown" until 1920.

[omgrandomwords]

WHY DID IT TAKE ME OVER FOUR YEARS TO REALIZE HOW MANY TMA CHARACTERS ARE NAMED AFTER HORROR AUTHORS

[ifwebefriends]

I first started reading Dracula Daily about a week or two into May 2022 because everyone and their mom on tumblr were talking about it. Breaking the novel into smaller bite-sized pieces occurring in real time really helped me to digest it better and helped me to get a better idea of how the story was actually paced out. I got caught up on a few entries and kept up with it until around late September/early October when a lot was happening in my life and I couldn’t keep up.

I tried again this year and I also listened to the Re: Dracula podcast which helped me a lot since I’m a visual-auditory learner and I’m not the best at reading. I listened to every entry and usually read the corresponding email at the same time. The podcast was also helpful since I knew about how long it would take to get through each entry so I could plan my time around it. I had a much easier time this year reading the novel. I’m proud to say that this time around, I saw it all the way through to the end.

I’ve had a lot of fun reading and listening to Dracula, telling my loved ones about it, and talking about it with everyone here online! I’ve loved the art, memes, and discussions we all had around this old classic book. The book is so unique and compelling and it doesn’t get as much appreciation and respect as it should.

Thank you so much to Matt Kirkland and the @re-dracula team for providing such a wonderful, immersive, and well-made experience and bringing together a bunch of nerds online. I don’t think I would have ever read this book without you. And thank you to all the other readers and listeners who helped make the journey as much fun as it was. We laughed, cried, cheered, and talked together and I’m so glad that I was a part of it all. I’m sad that it’s over but I’m happy that it happened at all.

[mildmayfoxe]

tonight i’m watching HIGHLANDER (1986) which i’m fairly certain i’ve never seen before but the parking lot sword fight is familiar to me so i must have watched the beginning once. at one time this was on the shortlist of movies for a prospective podcast a college friend and i were talking about doing back in like 2015 (before everybody was doing a podcast but certainly on the upswing) where we would watch & discuss culturally relevant films that i, a film major, had never seen. of course we never did it and i never watched this movie. but you can imagine my delight when queen started right away

[arwenkenobi48]

Dracula And The Crew Of Light: An Unprofessional Pitch

What if an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula actually followed the original plot, focusing on the actual protagonists, the love they share - romantic and platonic - and their epic journey to destroy the titular ancient force of evil that threatens them all?

If I were to make my own adaptation of Dracula, it would be an animated musical

The art style would be reminiscent of either Death Note or War of the Rohirrim; realistic, but still somewhat stylised

The sound design and choreography would be like a fusion of Anastasia and the Demon Slayer stage play

But most importantly, it would actually follow the plot of Bram Stoker’s original novel pretty damn closely

I’d make it so that it’s not just a visual marvel, but an audio marvel as well; that way, audience members with visual impairments can get just as much out of it as anyone else

For examples of what it would sound/look like, I’ve linked several videos below:

This would not only be a chance for many talented artists of every kind to come together to create something unique and beautiful, but would also reignite interest in the original novel and lead to a change in public perception of Dracula as a whole

In the wake of Robert Eggers’ magnum opus, Nosferatu, this film would help boost a growing trend of making cinematic vampires the subject of actual fear once again

As an added bonus: absolutely NO use of AI in the creation of this film and its visuals are not to be used for AI training

As another added bonus: the creation of this film will utilise a revolutionary work ethic that prioritises the well-being of everyone involved, including a four-day work week, the option to work remotely and fair wages for every single person who makes this project possible

And that about sums it up tbh, I got nothing else to add, I just really want to make this a thing

[bsdtakanenohana]

My Opinion On Every Single Bungou Stray Dogs Ship

Part Six- Yaoi Ships I

I’m expecting this section to be this longest considering how many m/m ships and possibilities there are. Also, if you’ve been following me for awhile (unlikely) you might have seen the post where I say I don’t care for/ship m/m ships because, generally speaking, male characters have to have a woman involved with them/very important to them in some way (doesn’t have to be romantic) to make me care about them, which bleeds into my shipping preferences. So I will also be giving my opinion on these ships if one and if both of them were women so you know if I truly don’t care about the ship or if it’s just because of my prejudice against male characters whose story doesn’t revolve around a woman.

Part Five (which has links to all the others)

Akuhara/ Ryuunosuke Akutagawa x Michizou Tachihara: Lmao. I don’t know why I find this a little funny. Do they only ever interact in WAN? Ive only seen a few episodes and I haven’t read any chapters (and I still don’t know how I feel about the chapters being canon 😖) That’s a shame, there’s so many characters we need to see more interactions of. Ugh! I don’t really care about this though, as a romantic pairing. I’d say the same if they were both girls, but I’d probably be more interested in Tachihara’s character if he were a girl. If Akutagawa was a woman and Tachihara still a man I wouldn’t ship; if it was the other way around, I still wouldn’t ship. (But the former sounds better than the latter). And if they were both girls, I’d say the same. 2/10

Akuran/ Ryuunosuke Akutagawa x Ranpo Edogawa: Have they ever interacted? Oh well, I don’t understand the shippers’ minds and what made them think of these two together. I say the same if they’re both girls (and if you’ve been following me you know I say Ranpo should have been a girl!) or if one or the other was a girl. 1.5/10

Albadoc/ Albatross x Doc: Just ship your OCs at this point. 0/10

Atsugab/ Atsushi Nakajima x Jules Gabriel Verne: I’m not one for enemies to lovers. -1/10

Gab “killed” Dazai, Atsushi ain’t ever forgiving that 🫥

Atsugogol/ Atsushi Nakajima x Nikolai Gogol: Same as above. Be grateful I’m not giving it a lower score. -0.5/10

Atsusham/ Atsushi Nakajima x Bram Stoker: why is it called “ham” if his name is “Bram”? Anyways, this is one of those random ships I mentioned earlier. It’s making me giggle for some reason. I don’t ship it, it’s kinda dumb, I’d say the same if they were both women. And if either was a woman. 0.5/10

Atsuji/ Atsushi Nakajima x Kenji Miyazawa: Personally I want to see them interact more, they were great when they had a mission with just the two of them. But I don’t see it as a future ship. If both were girls I would want them to develop a big sister/little sister relationship 😭🩷 If Kenji was the girl, a big brother/little sister relationship. If Atsushi was the girl, I wouldn’t want them to have a big sister/little brother relationship, but I wouldn’t ship it either. 2/10

Atsuranpo/ Atsushi Nakajima x Ranpo Edogawa: Like the above ship, since they have a good platonic relationship in canon, I can see the appeal. But ultimately I don’t ship it. I’d say the same for all iterations of the characters. 2/10

The slightly-annoyed-but-used-to-it house cat with his child owner (that’s what this gif reminds me of, ignore Fukuchi)

Blazai/ Blaise Zabini x Osamu Dazai: Who tf is Blaise Zabini 😭💀 The name sounds familiar. Let me look it up. WHY ARE Y’ALL SHIPPING DAZAI WITH A HOGWARTS STUDENT 💀💀 I’m done. Half a point for creativity (and ten points to Slytherin) 0.5/10

Blonde Fukuchi/ Unnamed Blonde Guy x Ochi Fukuchi: ??? Do I wanna ask? 0/10

This was a little boring, hopefully the next round of ships has better answers! Thanks for reading!

[anti-dazai-blog]

miniseries -- BSD Characters as Musicals

part 1 -- ADA part 2 -- PM part 3 -- Guild

*standard disclaimer that this isn't meant to be taken too seriously

Part 4 -- DOA + Hunting Dogs

Fyodor -- Death Note

why? -- My guy's really out here saying "I am crime and I am punishment." My guy really thinks he's justice incarnate.

anyway go listen to Death Note the Musical

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Bram -- Sunset Blvd.

why? -- purely for the amount he doesn't wanna be here. He is 100% being held against his will.

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Gogol -- Jekyll & Hyde

why? -- do I have to say. Is there anything to say. 'I'm perfectly sane!! ... OR AM I??'

for the record book Jekyll isn't an innocent victim, he did this to himself intentionally to have an excuse to indulge in his undisclosed 'vices'. Anyway the musical's alright but go read the book, it's super short you could finish it in one or two sittings for sure

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Sigma -- Anastasia

why? -- someone looking for identity and family. obviously very Sigma-coded.

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Fukuchi -- Harmony

why? -- the political struggle. This guy tries so hard and picks the wrong side anyway. Fukuchi 🤝 Bobby who was like "let's go back to Germany, surely the politics can't get any worse :("

guy please. you're trying so hard but your politics are so bad.

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Teruko -- Twisted

why? -- it's really "I love working here :D" "wait.... wait oh no D:"

so sorry your workplace turned out to be not so great :(

sorry you had to turn against your boss who you previously looked up to and respected :(

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Jouno -- Phantom of the Opera

why? -- same as Teruko, so sorry your mentor who you loved and respected turned out to be a bad guy. sorry things turned out this way my guy, you did your best though o7

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Tetcho -- Lizzie

why? -- ok wait did you know that there's a Lizzie Borden musical. Did you know that. It's important that you know that.

I think the classic literature side of tumblr needs to be informed that there's a rock lesbian Lizzie Borden musical. I know that's a combination of words you've never heard before. You're welcome.

anyway. A combination of his willingness to kill and whatever he's got going on with Jouno.

and I do believe that, like Tanizaki, he's on the verge of snapping.

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part 5 and 6 coming later this week I hope. There will only be two more parts I think

[akuarchives]

Chapter 117

[gvtz-xd]

[toaster-fire-art]

Happy Women's Day!! have some gals! (And izzy, they're just there i suppose)

@belovedknightdraws come get the kids