#may 3rd

[aotearoa20]

Well i dont know what y'all were so worried about - apart from a couple of late trains it seems your dear friend jonathan is having a great time on his buisness trip

[aranciu]

I made this last year when reading Dracula Daily, but I was too much of a coward to post it. Now I am no longer held back by earthly matters such as "reputation".

This is the original text from the book, but wildly misinterpreted. enjoy

[lostamber]

May 3rd

[scribloom]

hey every

[memento-morieris-carpe-noctem]

May 3rd

[serial-serializednovelreader]

Can we talk about “Mem. get recipe for Mina” for a second? Because other than just being a line that makes me smile EVERY time I see/hear it, it’s also the first mention we get of Mina!

I love this line for a multitude of reasons. It’s such a casual way to name drop a character and we don’t get any further elaboration on her, but we can gather that a) Mina is important to him in some way b) she will appear later and c) he is thinking of her even while being immersed in his travels, which is basically all he talks about for this first entry. She is really the only mention he brings up outside of these travels (except for when he mentions researching his trip in London), his tie to his “real life.”

I think it’s one of the few times I’ve seen an author drop in a character’s name like that and not have the POV character we’re reading from elaborate on who they are, why they want the recipe, etc. (it���s also heightened by our reading Dracula Daily reading experience, of course, since we’re not binge reading). It’s truly the art of show, don’t tell.

[respect-the-kitty]

Happy happy birthday to Deal Daniel!

[a-pain-in-the-neck]

Dracula Daily — May 3rd

Jonathan reads Dracula’s letter

[lucisphere]

have a very may 3rd: special edition, and fill your dark soul with light!

[funfeminism]

If I had a girlfriend, I, too, would make a memorandum every few sentences to remind myself to find recipes I think she would like

[favficbirthdays]

Happy Birthday

Tesla (3rd May 2405)

Trigun + Trigun Stampede

[kisiel-z-kosmosu]

happy spam day folks :p That might as well be his actual birthday if deltarune is set in 202X.

and a pocket pocket version. They are ghost partially bc it's funnier to draw and my headcanon.

funfact: I refrenced anime-style robot figurines for leg joints.

[theriverpointace]

so as i do dracula daily this year, i wanted to choose two quotes from each entry: one that stood out to me, and one to draw. here's yesterday's. it's a bit late, but hopefully i'll be more punctual as we go on!

standout quote: “I asked the waiter, and he said it was called ‘paprika hendl,’ and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians.” [paprika hendl, ofc!!]

quote to draw: “I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina.” [i loved how from the start he was missing mina. i love them.]

[serial-serializednovelreader]

One more thing I forgot to mention about our good friend Jonathan Harker is that he writes “I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina.”

I know he likely just meant that specific passage discussing the history of Transylvania, but I think we can take it further to mean most of the dairy as is. He becomes more detailed after that and while it’s in shorthand, you do get the feeling he’s writing more, like he’s realizing he *needs to be writing more* so he can recount this to Mina later. So, we wouldn’t have Jonathan’s account in such vivid detail if it wasn’t for his love for Mina.

Essentially, Jonathan’s journal in its final form is a love letter to Mina. And I think that’s beautiful!

[myspilledguts-n-stuff]