#I'm doing the 'watch Tumblr from the sidelines with popcorn' experience

[mariana-oconnor]

There is something - and I am sure this has already been said by someone - but there is something to be found in that, in this era of binge watching and devouring 'content' like ravenous caterpillars desperate to become butterflies, a book - the original binge content, published as a complete whole, purchaseable complete, devourable at whatever speed your own mind and life dictate - has been taken and de-bingeified. Rather than everyone going out immediately and just reading the novel from cover to cover - it's not even in copyright, you can get it for free! - there's a whole host of hungry, eager readers who are waiting for the instalments as they come, who lament the days with no updates, who moan and cry and know that if they wanted to they could easily cure their own hunger, but they are choosing not to. They are choosing anticipation. They are choosing delay. They are choosing to draw out their own pleasure.

Dracula Daily and will power and the antithesis of binge-watch culture, that's all I'm saying. It's a thing. There's something there.

#Dracula Daily #binge watching #Also something something Dracula on the Demeter something something #I don't know #I'm not actually reading Dracula Daily #I'm doing the 'watch Tumblr from the sidelines with popcorn' experience #But it's fascinating #Qd