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"And some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth"☆ main @gattmammon--sometimes i write--stan meward

[cattuladaily]

Me: the children of the night, what music they make!

Cats under my window: meooow!!! Meow meow. Meowwwwwww

[hourglass-fairy]

Throwback to when I read Dracula and was inspired by Lucy Westenra to draw a lady in an 1890s nightgown (ref) 🦇

[immediatebreakfast]

yeah the entry is full of panic and good at showcasing his mental state during the daytime but it is rooted in anti-ee and anti-roma racism (i mean a lot of the book is but this is one of the biggest examples). if i adapted it i would definitely remove the people laughing and instead have jonathan unable to be heard from the distance.

Absolutely, it's also a way to exemplify how the author's prejudice can bleed to the text, and how that prejudice is not some rare napshot of the bigotry of the past but a sentiment that still lives in the present.

Yes, this entry is an examination to Jonathan's degrading mental state, where in his imprisonment the only thing he has left is to see how any kind of escape is impossible, but what changes the meaning of the entry it's the intent behind all of the imagery written by Jonathan to describe the Slovaks and the romani workers.

There was no reason to reitare the clothing of the Slovaks except to affirm their "savagery" of Jonathan's first impression of them, nor there was a need for Bram Stoker to include both groups in the scene laughing at Jonathan's despair in order to paint them as complicit in Dracula's actions. Moreso, when we examine the words and adjectives used in Jonathan's writing, they paint a very demeaning picture.

Like you said, it would be far more sensible (and more accurate to the subtext of isolation in this part) to simply have the men not hear Jonathan at all since he is on a very high part of the castle, but what is sadly intented for the slovak and romani characters is to be seen as racist stereotypes to affirm the victorian readers' prejudice towards the actual communities in real life.

[draculadaily-memes]

June 17

[rhymewithrachel]

watching twilight and I keep making myself laugh imagining if it was just alucard or any other vampire instead of Edward. POV nausferatu goes to ur school

[recordplayerbabyyyy]

[charnel-grounds]

Ingeborg Bruhn Bertelsen and Svend Bille in The Vampire Dancer (1912)

[jhoca]

sleeve garters

I just wanted to draw Quincey rolling up his sleeves (how saucy), then of course I needed to draw John and Art too. All of my Dracula doodles are here if you're interested!

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[existential-celestial]

“At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.”

— Edgar Allan Poe, from “The Sleeper,” in The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

[kino-ani]

Dracula's Daughter (1936) Dir. Lambert Hillyer

[draculings]

thinking very hard about Mr. R.M. Renfield on this day (dracula daily folks who don't want spoilers, stop reading here!)

do you ever think about how Renfield was able to pluck the Count from thin air, as mist, and hold him so tightly that he was forced to take physical form to get free again and that Renfield was able to do so simply because he believed that he could, wanted to badly enough and what if October wasn't the first time because I think about that... Just A Little Bit

[lesbianmarrow]

being a vampire is so crazy because every once in a while you remember that you used to be a different person, you used to be somebody with fears and hopes and dreams, but then something burrowed its way into you and ate the person you used to be and now all you feel is hunger

[dailykafka]

— June 8, 1914 / Letters to Felice, Letter to Grete Bloch

[rattusrattus3]

Finally got some better photos of the miniature vampire hunting kit I DIY’d

[marsonbase]

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" "I asked Gemini" Ok, well I asked Professor Abraham Van Helsing(M.D., D.PH., DLITT., ETC., Etc.,), and he gave me an hour and a half long speech that was so full of metaphors that I don't even know what he was trying to say.

[artbyblastweave]

And one thing you should understand is that the underlying guiding moral axiom of this blog is the wholesale destruction of vampires

[artbyblastweave]

Other moral axioms as well but they’re mostly downstream of the vampire thing

[potionsandtinctures]

[nevver]

[nevver]

The Kafka Diaries