#dracula august 8

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Editor of The Daily Graph: That sounds like quite the storm outside - why don't you mosey around town and ask a few folks about it?

The Correspondent:

#*michael scott voice* i'm fast i'm very fast #dracula daily #dracula #the correspondent #dd august 8 #dracula august 8 #august 8 #the daily graph #dracula memes #dracula spoilers

[scoobhead]

the description of the weekend storm in today's dracula daily and the time words used to describe it made me wonder what day august 8th 1898 was (since evidence pointed to it being a monday in the story) and.....

[Image ID: a screencap from Google listing August 8, 1898 as a Monday. /end ID]

august 8th, 1898 was a monday. august 8, 2022 is a monday. we are perfectly in sync with the days of the week for all of the chronological entries in dracula. the stars have aligned and fate has painted with a gentle hand our harmonious destiny. this is THE year for dracula

#dracula #dracula daily #dd august 8 #nat og #dracula meta #1k #2k #5k

[thethirdromana]

Feeling oddly comforted that everyone did see how brave the captain of the Demeter was, as he'd hoped in his final days that they would.

#dracula daily #august 8 #dracula daily spoilers #once again this is an astonishing way to read a novel

[dracula-dictionary]

Dracula Dictionary, August 8th

sultry: humid and hot

Mulgrave Woods, Robin Hood's Bay, Rig Mill, Runswick, Staithes: villages close to Whitby

steamer: a steamship

Scarborough: a seaside town just south of Whitby

eminence: a rise of ground; a hill

mares'-tails: clouds that have a long slender flowing appearance

assemblage: a gathering

athwart: across

R. A. and R. I.: the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Institute of Art

schooner: a ship with at least two masts where the sails go from front to back rather than from side to side

undulating: moving up and down like waves

rapidity: speed

convulse: disturb or upset severely

spume: foam

lanthorn: lantern

stanchion: a fixed vertical bar or pole used as a support

gunwale: the upper edge of a ship's side

old salt: an old sailor

fetch up: stop

hitherto: until now

a pall: something that covers or conceals

mirabile dictu: it's a miracle

lashed: tied

concussion: a hard blow

spar: a wooden pole that supports sails and rigging

stay: a large strong rope used to support a mast

top-hammer: (should be top-hamper), matter or weight (such as spars or rigging) in the upper part of a ship

derelict: run-down, abandoned

aft: towards the back of a ship

to and fro: back and forth

Admiralty Court: a court that deals with all laws related to the sea

salvage: the ship or cargo saved in a rescue

contravention: contradict, violate

statutes of mortmain: laws that say that property cannot be owned by a "dead hand" (although the "dead hand" usually means a corporation (especially the church) and not an actual dead person)

Casabianca: a poem about a boy who refuses to leave his post on a burning ship after everyone else has already fled

mortuary: a place where dead bodies are kept before burial

inquest: an investigation conducted by a coroner into the cause of death of a person

Yorkshire: a part of northern England

wolds: a hilly region

#dracula daily #dracula dictionary #8 august #dracula daily 8 august #dracula dictionary 8 august

[ifwebefriends]

“masses of sea-fog came drifting inland—white, wet clouds, which swept by in ghostly fashion, so dank and damp and cold that it needed but little effort of imagination to think that the spirits of those lost at sea were touching their living brethren with the clammy hands of death”

#HOOOOOOOOOO BOY #HOLY SHIT #AND RIGHT AFTER THE DEMETER LOGS?!? #BRAM STOKER YOU SICK BASTARD #re dracula #re: dracula #Dracula #Dracula daily #bram stoker #August 8

[wishopenastar]

This text conversation with my friend will forever be in my mind when Dracula turns into a wolf.

There is alt text but I've image description under the cut because Tumblr is finicky re alt text with me.

Also why isn't there DISCOURSE on if Dracula is a Werewolf. I NEED it.

Image Description 1-

a screenshot of a cropped whatsapp conversation, the senders text reads, 'Bruh I hadn't realised fuvking Dracula could turn into a wolf'

the reply comes in five different texts.

Oh

Um

This is embarrassing

I thought he just ran on his 4 legs

And people from faraway thought it's a dog

Image Description 2-

a really bad stick figure drawing of Dracula, he is on hands and knees without them being folded (so that it looks like he has 4 stick figure legs), he's wearing a hat and a red cape, his eyes are two small red dots and he has red lips with red fangs all in really rudimentary drawing.

#Dracula #dracula daily #tumblr reads dracula #August 8 #dracula posting #SORRY THIS DRAWING IS BAD

[yousaytomato]

I need everyone reading Dracula for the first time via Dracula Daily to know that in the actual order of the book, today's newspaper clipping comes before the Log of the Demeter, and the first time I read it I was convinced that the corpse at the helm was our boy Jonathan

#especially because it comes after a 2 chapter silence from Jonathan #full of mina diary entries about 'no news from jonathan....' #Dracula daily #Dracula daily August 8 #Dracula spoilers #Just in case #like i think having the log first makes it clear what has happened but....yeah #its so neat how Mina's diary entry links up even though it's actually a couple chapters later ! #i wonder if stoker wrote it more chronologically and then moved it around after? #woes of emily

[ashleybenlove]

I like that Matt interrupted the day's entries to mention the Demeter movie.

#ashleybenlove posts #Dracula #Dracula Daily #August 8

[rhymingteelookatme]

an incomplete list of the best-read phrases in August 8's re: Dracula

"The wind was then blowing from the south-west in the mild degree which in barometrical language is ranked 'No. 2: light breeze.'" - First example of the delightful roundness of the "ooh" sounds, especially in the number ^_^

"The experience was not lost on the painters..." - the rolling of the r's and the particular sound of the 'e' in the second syllable!!

"White-crested waves [...] with their spume swept the lanthorns of the lighthouses" - take a guess which word here is my favorite. Yep. Spume. ^_^

"and then, mirabile dictu," - my absolute favorite of the whole episode! Combining the rolled 'r' and round 'ooh' and adding a lovely long 'ah' for spice!

"It is a good way round from the West Cliff by the Drawbridge to Tate Hill Pier, but your correspondent is a fairly good runner, and came well ahead of the crowd." - the pride in the fact of being a good runner! I can hear it :D Listen, I know Sasha's a good actor, but everything seems more special just because it's him. (I feel this way about so many people in this cast. Can't help it. Cast of favorites old and new.)

#Dracula daily #Dracula #August 8 2023 #re: Dracula #Sasha Sienna #ALL HAIL KING SASHA #King Sasha of the multiple pronouns might I add

[your-friend-bram]

August 8

I know a thing or two of severe thunderstorms recently myself, dear Whitby correspondent. And I must say, you captured their power and terrifyingly awe-inducing beauty and horror perfectly. Keep an eye on that black dog, if you can find it.

-Bram

#dracula daily #re: dracula #august 8 #the last voyage of the demeter #dracula's voyage #mina dear i miss jonathan too but i can assure you he's not on a boat #it's my favorite character: whitby correspondent #black dog spotted! #bram blogs

[ourgoodfriendjonathan]

On the day of the Demeter's arrival, I (and others) jokingly said "oh captain my captain", and now I find out that this is from a poem by Walt Whitman, whom Bramathy was fanboying very hard for

I read the poem:

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,

The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,

The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,

While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;

But O heart! heart! heart!

O the bleeding drops of red,

Where on the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

Translation: the ship arrived after a scary trip and on the deck, the captain is found dead.

Interesting...

I love it when I catch the writers I'm inspired by in turn being inspired by their favourite writers 🥰

#how many people already posted it? i missed them #dracula daily #august 8 #October 7

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Meanwhile, at The Daily Graph

Editor: Hey, I heard there was a commotion with a ship crashing into the shore last night - you mind writing up a little blurb on that? No more than five hundred words?

Correspondent: I've already written over two thousand words.

Editor: ...

Correspondent: There was a dog.

Editor: Print it!

#happy The Arrival of Count Dogula Day to all who celebrate #dracula daily #dracula #re: dracula #bram stoker #count dracula #count dogula #dd august 8 #august 8 #dracula august 8 #dracula memes #dracula spoilers #The Daily Graph #The Correspondent

[scoobhead]

quickly pointing out that the "full moon" around august 10 described in today's dracula daily matches almost exactly with the "full moon" TONIGHT, august 11, 2022.... coincidence?? i think NOT!!! THIS IS THE YEAR OF DRACULA

#this in conjunction with the monday august 8 thing PROVES it #dracula takes place RIGHT NOW ACTUALLY #dracula #dracula daily #dd august 11 #nat og #dracula meta #also 'full moon' is in quotes bc i'm taking it to mean seemingly full as opposed to literally full #1k

[thethirdromana]

The Demeter finally reaches Whitby:

#dracula daily #august 8 #voyage of the demeter

[barrywhelk]

I feel like the weather man really buried the lead in this newspaper article

If I were him I would have been like CORPSE NAVIGATES SHIP INTO HARBOR and then start describing all of the pretty scenery after we address the horrors

#dracula bram stoker #dracula daily #dracula #august 8

[attractive-nuisance-esq]

civilians trying to climb aboard the derelict Demeter before the coastguard:

#dracula daily #dracula #demeter #Dracula daily 8 august #Mina Murray’s journal