of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn

notes, musings, and various obsessions

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A bonus episode:

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Episode Three -- the finale!

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I think the real Dracula sequel we need is about how the gang puts their lives back together in the time period between the last chapter and the epilogue.

I think Arthur's fine (his title makes that alright) and Van Helsing is fine (been doing weird shit for decades), but I'm imagining Jonathan's got to put his firm back in order and maybe also beat some "killed Hawkins for his money" allegations (which I can picture him doing with his appealing aura, boundless energy, and Mina's incredible assistance), while Seward has got to get his affairs back in order and also possibly. Deal with some suspicious death inquiries.

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Consider a sequel in which Holmes and Watson are hired by a former maid in the Westenra household to investigate what happened to her employers, and the gang gets pulled in with some highly suspicious and unbelievable evidence. The whole thing is enormously stressful, but finally gets Seward to quit his job at the asylum so not all a total loss?

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Episode Two -- happy Halloween from this radio play!

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Seward's dislike of writing by hand is probably a case of his being left-handed, dyslexic, or used to having his phonograph around. However, for the fun of it, I like to think he's like me and just holds his pen in a weird way that makes his writing messy if he writes quickly and his hand susceptible to writer's cramp after a few minutes. I like writing by hand, admittedly, but I end up finding it irksome if I carry on for too long!

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This version is now available for listening, with episodes on Mondays.

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New adaptation premiering!

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just had the horrible intrusive thought "what if our dear 1890s friends jonathan & mina & lucy & jack switched places with our other dear 1890s friends algernon & gwendolyn & cecily & ... jack"

anyway if anyone has written something that crosses over or mashes up dracula and the importance of being earnest, please point me to it

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I have just finished being in The Importance of Being Earnest, after which I am adapting Dracula into a script, so I have totally had this thought! Dracula would have a great time at first, playing among these oblivious nitwits of the highest echelons of society, but then he'd make the mistake of threatening Jack, and then it'd be all over. Gwendolen would stake him with her parasol. Or Cecily would invite him to tea and get Dr Chasuble to give her some holy water to slip into it. Algernon would be oblivious throughout until the Count didn't even reach for a cucumber sandwich at tea. In the meantime, Lady Bracknell would find to her distress that she and low-born Mina Harker share an obsession with trains and they end up bonding over it.

Maybe the pretty girl Mina and Dracula were both looking at was a Miss Gwendolen Fairfax?

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Two tickets for the Barbie movie please

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Three -- Aloysius gets his own ticket.

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I hope that Nephew Fred’s inner monologue sounds like a middle class Bertie Wooster. “In a spirit of jollity, I decided to extend an invitation to my Uncle Ebenezer, who chews broken nails and bedevils the dreams of mad dogs.”

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I am quite certain that the Muppet Christmas Carol version of Fred thinks like this.

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What I would give for half the audacity of a Wodehouse heroine

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The current musical obsession. Especially the poetry of "no stranger I to the touch of steel" and the gentle desperation of "we're as far north now as I want to come."

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I miss being in some tumbledown little inn with worn carpets and narrow corridors but the best breakfast known to humanity, and a proprietor who honestly wants to tell you about every cool and fascinating sight in the region, and bottomless cups of tea.

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"Burst into tears" is really one of the most striking phrases. You're not just crying, you're so struck with emotion that it wrenches its way out of you. It's powerful because it is real but also rare enough to be overwhelming when it does happen.

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I think, therefore iambic pentameter

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Is there anything more beautiful than the way trees, rocks, and doorways will accidentally frame something far away and draw it to your attention, which you might have missed by not looking at that exact angle?