yesssss my favorite ocs that aren’t originally my ocs but characters from marryats phantom ship which i grew so attached to that i basically adopted them as my own❤️🩹🫰🌅🏝️
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yesssss my favorite ocs that aren’t originally my ocs but characters from marryats phantom ship which i grew so attached to that i basically adopted them as my own❤️🩹🫰🌅🏝️
Holy shit, VanderDecken might legitimately have one of the strongest Devil Fruits when you translate it to DnD rules. I had to nerf this fishy incel into the ground to even make it remotely fair.
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Fun things I found (or at least think I found) over the past three days of chilling at Trinity College’s manuscript’s room looking up Stoker related materials.
Vanderdecken (The W. G. Wills play based on The Flying Dutchman that Stoker reviewed while Henry Irving was starring in it) is full of all sort of grade A, super interesting, Dracula-pertinent material, and if I'm prepared for a weird dive into the interconnections between theatrical adaptations of Polidori's The Vampyre and early Wagner, it might actually be starting point for some fascinating work on the development of literary tropes relating to vampires in the theater... despite being, itself, vampire free.
Like seriously... it's like a version of the archtypal Polidori-based Bride of the Isles style play only the cursed hell marriage at the end goes through and everybody is rooting for it.
Emily Stoker (wife to Bram's brother Thornley) was friends with a small girl named Gwendolyn who picked violets for her when she was sick and then wrote a heartbreakingly adorable symapthy card to Thornley on handwriting practice paper. I cannot really communicate how very endearing it was.
I got to read letters from Florence Stoker in which she was incensed enough to write out the word "h...ll."
Oliver St. John Gogarty wrote a scandalous newspaper paragraph in the 1930s concerning Thornley Stoker and his family, which is what resulted in Florence almost sort of swearing. I really need to drive home, however, that this means the real world inspiration for Ulysses' Buck Mulligan got into a fight with the extended family of the real world inspiration for Dracula's Abraham Van Helsing (or... at least... one of the many inspirations for the latter figure. I could go on about Thornley and VH for a while.)
Noel Stoker's correspondence to Harry Ludlam shines a lot of light on what parts of the Harry Ludlam Stoker biography we should/should not be taking with a grain of salt. It also talks about how, as a child, he probably got to gold leaf some Lyceum stage sets with Joseph Harker, the stagehand whose name was allegedly given to Jonathan Harker. I find this tremendously adorable.
There's a postcard from an unknown sender indicating that Florence's great-grandmother is buried at the nave at Exeter Cathedral. If you want to get into some really convoluted theorizing (and I'm not saying I do), you could use this to possibly link the Balscombe family line to Mina Harker and the Stoker family line (with its ostensible Irish-Dutch lineage) to Lucy Westenra.
Noel apologizes for his illegible handwriting which is really very considerate but totally unecessary when you have read the rest of his family's handwriting.
explaining my version of flying dutchman/fliegende holländer...
this is gonna be a long post so BUCKLE UPPP!!!!
OK so I'm gonna go from the very beginning when I read "The Phantom ship" (1839) by Frederick Marryat in 2022. set in the early 1600s, a young dutch man, Filip Vanderdecken, has to save his dad from eternal damnation bc he challenged God when he tried to round Cape horn, resulting in his ship becoming a ghost ship which is just aimlessly sailing waiting for salvation... Filip has to be very secretive about travelling to save his dad since nobody wants to actually seek out the ghost ship, because everytime a real ship has the unluck to see it, something bad is bound to happen.....
ALOT MORE under cut..
the drama is insane....
I have so much to say about this OK
☆ "Sinut!!"
that’s my sister in the background…
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48911918/SINUT.mp3
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