#grail diary

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I have an ambitious idea for a multi-media project

Long: details under cut

Preface:

Adam Savage is known for making meticulous replicas of the Grail Diary from Indiana Jones 3; they're printed on authentic onionskin paper, stitched together and bound with leather like a real old journal would be, stuffed with inserts like folded up drawings, maps, post cards, letters, wax rubbings, tickets from ships and blimps, receipts, to-do lists, photos made to look like they were taken with late 19th/early 20th century cameras, an old silver certificate dollar, Hitler's autograph, you name it. The ten dollar word of the day is "verisimilitude." These super high fidelity replicas are more than just props, they're meant to feel like a real lived-in historical document kept by a globetrotting adventurer from the 1890s to 1930s.

Gravity Falls Journal 3 wanted to be like this, but it's mass market, printed on glossy paper with fake weathering and fonts that look like handwriting. If Adam Savage made a Journal 3 replica, it would look and feel like a real field journal from the 1970s; it would have crinkly yellow pages with mold/water damage, the cover would have brass or gold foil inlays, each entry would be handwritten (and you would be able to tell it wasn't just a font because every letter would have realistic variability in shape and size, there would be a different number of lines per page, the margins would drift, it would be sloppy and illegible in parts)

JJ Abrams published a book that came close to this aesthetic, a nice midway point between the Grail Diary and Journal 3 in terms of quality. A collab with Doug Dorst, the book is sold under the title "S." but once you take it out of its slipcover it's a meta-fictional artifact made to look like an old cloth-bond library copy of a (fictional) novel from the 1940s called The Ship of Theseus by VM Straka. The text of the novel is inconsequential, a dry story about a sailor being Shanghaid onto a pirate crew (it's actually pretty authentic, evoking the feeling of being forced to read an overrated novel for high school English class), but the book is full of faux-handwritten notes in the margins with multiple characters trading it back and forth (with different colored pens used to show the passage of time), telling a whole new story about their attempts to crack the case of the author's mysterious disappearance/death and an academic conspiracy trying to stop them. It is VERY dense. VERY confusing. You have to work out the timeline yourself because each character has annotated the book from start to finish over multiple passes; you'll be flipping back and forth like a choose-your-own-adventure. And the icing on the cake is that there are dozens of inserts stuffed throughout the pages; newspaper clippings, posts cards, a napkin from a fictional university restaurant, old telegrams, folded notes written on loose leaf college-ruled paper, a cipher wheel, etc. It is mass market like Journal 3, but with a much closer attention to detail like Adam Savage's Grail Journals. The inserts are impressive as part of the meta-narrative, but they don't hold up to as much scrutiny. Owning the book is more interesting than the book itself.

My idea

I want to create a boxset for Dracula in which the story is separated out into its constituent parts; Jonathan Harker's illegible shorthand journal, piles and piles of letters between Mina and Lucy and Van Helsing and the suitors (each with their own recognizable handwriting), real playable wax cyllinders with Dr. Sewards voice recordings, the water-damaged journal from the captain of the Demeter, newspaper clippings about the horrible storm and the large dog and "bloofer lady" sightings, and then a big stack of typewriter carbon paper where Mina painstakingly collated it all into the manuscript for the novel itself. The novel claims to be stitched together from a hundred different sources, and this boxset would actually BE the original sources! There would be old 1890s kodak photography, Jonathan's train tickets from across the continent, maps showing the exact paths of the Demeter and Dracula's dirt shipments and the suitors' chase along the rivers back to Transylvania. Lucy and her mother's wills, stationary with Lord Godalming's letterhead, an old rosary, a crucifix, some garlic flowers, lots and lots of communion wafers, Dracula's book of train schedules, and MOST IMPORTANTLY OF ALL the paprika hendl recipe!

Dracula Daily allows us to experience the story chronologically, but I would like to experience it the way the characters themselves would have, piecing together all the disparate clues over the course of 6 months. It would be an enormous and unweidly boxset, like the special edition of a video game.

The framing narrative would be that the box itself used to belong to Bram Stoker. He was a close friend to the Harkers, and they gave him all their first-hand documents so he could eventually publish their story.

I don't even know where I'd start!

#dracula #dracula daily #art project #multimedia project #epistolary #box set #special edition #idea #bram stoker #jonathan harker #mina murray #mina harker #abraham van helsing #lucy westenra #adam savage #grail diary #journal 3 #the ship of theseus #project

[buddygroove]

#holy grail #indiana jones and the last crusade #indiana jones #grail diary #harrison ford #Instagram

[hanzajesthanza]

this is how i imagine geralt & co. showing up at beauclair

#cahir: ‘it’s only a model’ #let us ride… TO BEAUCLAIR! #when they begin to go to breakfast every day… did they sit at… a round table #the elbow-high diaries #monty python and the holy grail #f: a hansa’s a hansa

[bambixbaby]

#girlblogger #my virtual diary #current favs #girlhood #lana del ray aka lizzy grant #my holy grail #made by me

[the-martyrfication-of-the-matron]

what do you think of Aphmau having a purse goat, like instead of a purse dog she has a purse goat.

Oh of course.

Just a teeny goat in her purse that she feeds napkins whenever they go to a restaurant.

#obviously she feeds it nice food too but it eyes up those napkins like they’re the holy grail. #aphmau #aphverse #aphblr #minecraft diaries #mcd #mystreet

[dollyandgrimm]

HOLY SHIT

ONE OF MY GRAIL DOLLS HAS BEEN OBTAAAAAAAAAAAAINED

No body tags, face paint is aged appropriately for something labeled "original vintage", back of the head stamped with Pleasant Company, stripes on the leggings go all the way up (according to a comparison of vintage-35th anniversary-BeForever Samanthas video, the 35th anniversary Samantha's stripes only went to the bottom of her bloomers but the lace edging on the top of the leggings is inconclusive). Her penny and locket are METAL (they were so cold when I brought her inside)! Ribbons are frayed, hat maaay be missing a ribbon (will have to double check), she has some green marker staining on a leg and her bloomers are missing, so not perfect and yet.

Samantha was a literal steal at fifty two American dollars. I have wanted her since I was like 8. I can't pinpoint an age (maybe some time in the 90's? MAYBE. I am no AG expert) but I have a for real American Girl Samantha!

#doll diary #american girl dolls #american girl samantha #samantha parkington #my grail dolls probably seem petty or cheap to some #i don't care #you get raised poor that shit stays with you

[indyflanery]

#indy's adventures #The Grail Diary (source material) #young indiana jones

[coldbrewnette]

Is glossier discontinuing skywash in pebble??? The shade isn’t on sephora anymore and out of stock on their website……….

#skywash in pebble is my HOLY GRAIL EYESHADOW #what am I going to do without it 😓 #diary

[forbidden-interlude]

I never finished neon genesis Evangelion

#and I had either one or two episodes left #I just didn’t care #other animes that are considered holy grail almost that I never finished #bleach #steins gate #future diary #parasyte #91 days #my hero academia #black clover #the list goes on

[myoddessy]

soft launches are out?? | george clarkey

summary— where a household name of uk youtube meets an awkward comedian through a mutual friend and chaos ensues (bruna marquezine fc!)

December 2022

January 2023

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March 2023

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#george clarkeey #george clarke #george clarkey #george clarkey x reader #george clarkey x y/n #george clarkey x you #george clarkey imagine #george clarkey fic #youbute x reader #youtuber x reader #imallexx #gkbarry #max balegde #lewis buchan #arthurtv

[curatedstupidity]

Forging Hitler's signature from a particular movie is surprisingly hard.

#prop building #film props #grail diary #personal

[444you]

ways i maintain a cozy life 🦋

i hope you guys can find something in this post that could be helpful(:

heating blankets

provides me so much comfort & warmth. i have it on the entire day 😭 either on low or high, no inbetween

music

i personalized made my own playlist, i put the most whimsical and feminine music i could find. i recommend to listening to comforting songs as well, but not the ones that make you feel a bit sad

baking

always at my happiest when i bake

comfort shows

the shows i tend to watch are pretty little liars, girlfriends, desperate housewives, gossip girl, the vampire diaries, bad girls club, sex and the city

however sometimes the drama can get to me, if it’s too much. i forget i’m not in the show sometimes. for those moments, i’ll put shows like h2o, the summer i turned pretty, barbie life in the dreamhouse, and new girl on.

showers before sleep

i feel so relaxed in water. this includes swimming, showers, beach, pools, and etc. it provides me a great amount of comfort and sleepiness. this helps me sleep better than usual

taco bell

isn’t always the healthiest but if i need some comfort or i’m just feel down, i’ll get a cravings box from taco bell

visuals

put things in ur room that make you feel at peace especially if you’re a homebody. this is important if you spend most of your time in your room. for me, i always loved baking as i previously mentioned. so i’d get a diffuser with gourmet scents. fairy lights as well. cheetah print blankets.

rain

whenever it rains i’ll sit on the patio, put my headphones on and listen to music to recharge.

nostalgia apps

i tend to lead to games or apps that give me nostalgia. this includes wattpad, tumblr, moviestarplanet, purple place (they got in the app store 🫶🏾) , roblox, or episode. 

public places

when it comes to going to the grocery store, mall, or coffee shop. i’ll go alone especially because i spend my time in my room. when the noise is too much, i’ll put my shows or music on. however, i try to go on a movie date with my friend atleast once or twice a month.

reminders

i’m a very optimistic person but i’m also very sensitive. when i encounter negative people or situations, i tend to get discouraged easily. i solve that by watching “hopecore” or “humans are cute” videos on tiktok. i always try not to feed into my sadness by looking at videos about being mistreated or an ex. i search for videos that talk about having a big heart is a gift. how the right one will come to me. honestly for any situation you’re in.

just dance

y’all don’t come for me. just dance is my holy grail. it’s fun and its my way of doing “cardio”

naps

i try to nap after work or classes before i tend to get low energy. i don’t nap more than 2 hours, that way i feel more refreshed instead of drained.

#pac #pick a card #pick a picture #pick a pile #tarot cards #tarot #pink pilates princess #it girl #self care #self love

[harrisonarchive]

Photo by Jim Selby, © Mirrorpix.

“Terry Gilliam (another and inexplicable love at first sight) was with me the night in May 1975 when we attended the first screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail at the old Directors Guild building on Sunset. I think I knew George was supposed to be coming, and was slightly anxious and even unsure about meeting him, as I had heard what a raving fan he was, but I was blown away when he appeared at the end in the darkened cinema, and hugged me and launched straight into the first of many intense conversations, which began as monologues and then, as I grew confident and emboldened to interrupt and share my thoughts, became long and deep conversations about everything in our universe: life, death, love, the nature of religion; hours of sharing and ‘catching up’ as he called it, as if he too felt he’d known me before, and his apothegms and memories and jives and rants enlivened my life for almost thirty years. We had retired to the projection room to smoke a jay and were finally kicked out of there and went off to A&M Studios […]. We then went on to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, where I was staying, and talked and talked and talked, oh my God how he could talk. This was the quiet one! He never shut up. Thank God.” - Eric Idle, The Greedy Bastard Diary (x)

#George Harrison #Eric Idle #Terry Giliam #Olivia Harrison #quote #quotes about George #George and Eric Idle #George and Olivia #George and Terry Gilliam #George and Monty Python #1975 #1970s #fits queue like a glove

[celerydays]

could you walk us through what notebooks & journals & pens /etc you use - they look so good!

I would be SO happy to, you have no idea!!

Alright, let's fucking GOOOO~

Starting off with my current "workhorse" pens - I have like *checks notes* 36 fountain pens and a bit too many inked up atm, but these are just the ones I'm currently reaching for or have inked up more often than not:

TWSBI Go (F): Kinda ugly! But also kinda cute! It's cheap and works great (I friggin love TWSBI pens tbh) and it has a little hole on the cap where you can attach a lanyard or charms, like I did! Makes it cuter imo and it's kind of my emotional support pen these days.

Opus88 Pocket (EF): This 2022 edition has a little Moon tarot design on the cap so it's pretty much the pen I use exclusively for my witchy/tarot practice journals! A lil bummed the cap doesn't post, especially since its a shorter pocket-sized pen, but not a deal breaker and I still love it.

Pilot Custom 823 (F): My grail pen that I've literally coveted for years and just recently acquired at the DC Pen Show this weekend! It's only been a day but I think it could potentially become my favorite pen. Ever.

Pilot Prera (CM): This is my third Prera lol. I just think they're great and really underrated pens! Also a recent acquisition from the DC Pen Show and this cursive M nib is suuuuper fun to write with.

Pilot Vanishing Point (EF): My favorite pen for planning! Super fine-tipped for writing task lists and schedules and love that it's so convenient/quick-draw with the click mechanism.

(I'm totally a Pilot pen ho, can you tell? asdjflaglsg)

Journals/Planners/Notebooks under cut–

Sterling Ink B6 Common Planner: For a good chunk of this year, I was in this planner because I honestly love the size and all the layouts. Super practical and flexible as a system. 10/10 would go back. I've used it to plan, as a reading journal, as a tarot log...

But I get the itch to move around so it's been sitting a little unused since like June, oop.

Leuchtturm A6: I started craving something tiny and minimal so I've been bullet journaling in this pocket notebook for the last month or two and I'm really enjoying it!

Standard-sized Tomoe River Paper notebook: This is pretty consistent in that I don't change up the system itself, but I'm in and out of it for memory keeping/scrapbook journaling! It's almost always a Tomoe River paper notebook of SOME kind that I usually buy in A5 size to go to FedEx and get it cut down to standard. Though I'm thinking of getting a blank Midori MD A5 to have cut down next time - I've been liking the freedom of blank pages for journaling instead of anything lined or gridded.

I really need to catch up with it tbh, but I love sitting in an explosion of printed photos, stickers, and washi and going ham with the pages.

(I do have a flip through of my January-March 2022 pages on YouTube)

Midori MD Cotton B6 Slim: I also have this sketchbook that sorta turned into a visual sketch diary of sorts. I fell off a while ago but want to get back into it because it's super fun to work in and to look back on!

Wide-sized Cosmo Air Light notebook & A5 Filofax Malden: These are my tarot/witchy journals. Grimoires I guess? One is for journaling and all my messier notes while the other is more for reference and ease of organization.

A5 Leuchtturm: I didn't know if I should include this guy, but I've been writing it in a lot recently so I guess I will lol. This is like truuuly a miscellaneous™ notebook.

I got this A5 notebook back in 2017 to use as my very first bullet journal, then found out that this size is personally waaaay too big for me to use as a bullet journal so I hopped off of it pretty quick. It now sits on my desk because since it's mostly blank I'll just pick it up to use it to write literally A N Y T H I N G.

Most recently, I wrote like 5 pages in one night on notes for a fanfiction piece I was working on (I'm not a writer, this fic is never gonna see the light of day by anyone but me lololol. Hyperfixation is so wild; I've put 80k+ words within just 10 days into it so far and it's been hella therapeutic.)

That's all, I think!?

It's funny because I actually have a NEW notebook arriving tomorrow that I'm going to try out as a bujo/commonplace/omni journal of sorts?? I might write an update post after I've set that up and see how I like it <3

#journal #journaling #bullet journal #memory keeping #notebooks #fountain pen #grimoire #sketchbook #commonplace book #tarot journal #cel journals #anon #ask #celerydays

[idleglowingpixels]

If the Monster High brainrot wasn't obvious enough, I found all the diary entries that come with photos (Something I had no idea was a thing -- I unfortunately never owned a MH doll NIB) AND Y'ALL I CAN'TTTTTTT DUDE I'M GONNA CRYYYYYYYY

This two-pack is one of my all-time grails I hope to buy some day without having to do too much TLC (especially Frankie's white hair q-q). And if there was a way for me to get a physical copy of this specific diary alongside them I would pay good money for it, seriously. They're so supportive of each other, the little goobers! (9qHq)9

As much as I love their ship, I love it in a post-Jackson-and-Holt-coping-with-each-others-existence version, like give it a year or two and it'd probably be chill. It's like, they both care about each other a lot but there's a biiiig existential crisis that one of them's going through, so for now it's on pause. But as far as current/present canon is concerned, I do find they have the best interactions when they don't have to worry about others making assumptions about them and are just hanging out together. It's very sweet and it's why they're easily my favorite characters in the franchise (and Holt too, he just happens to not be here in the diary entry for obvious reasons). There's soooo many characters I love in the series, they just happen to give me the most dopamine haha!

But also I NEED to call out the bit where he says "I got so red I thought my hair might catch fire" because HOOOOOOO THE AU IDEAS I HAVE THAT LITTLE DETAILS LIKE THIS ONLY CONFIRMS 'cause I like to think he gets super flushed when he's embarrassed or panics and ESPECIALLY around Frankie cause he doesn't wanna make a fool out of himself around her and--and and my whole thing about him and Holt that I can't spoil for my future fic about it but I REAAAAALLY want to spoil aaAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

I am a perfectly healthy person I swear :D Totally not posting this at 2am wdym???

#linposts #I feel lowkey really bad about my lack of updates for my other stuff #but at the same time it's OCTOBER #*SPOOKY MONTH* #And that's Monster High's whole vibe #also it's my own blog so I can let the brainrot go as wild as I let it ig lol #but yeah dfghgfdsfgh #the little blorbos q-q👌 So wholesome #monster high #jackson jekyll #frankie stein

[dollyandgrimm]

HOLY SHIT

ONE OF MY GRAIL DOLLS HAS BEEN OBTAAAAAAAAAAAAINED

No body tags, face paint is aged appropriately for something labeled "original vintage", back of the head stamped with Pleasant Company, stripes on the leggings go all the way up (according to a comparison of vintage-35th anniversary-BeForever Samanthas video, the 35th anniversary Samantha's stripes only went to the bottom of her bloomers but the lace edging on the top of the leggings is inconclusive). Her penny and locket are METAL (they were so cold when I brought her inside)! Ribbons are frayed, hat maaay be missing a ribbon (will have to double check), she has some green marker staining on a leg and her bloomers are missing, so not perfect and yet.

Samantha was a literal steal at fifty two American dollars. I have wanted her since I was like 8. I can't pinpoint an age (maybe some time in the 90's? MAYBE. I am no AG expert) but I have a for real American Girl Samantha!

#doll diary #american girl dolls #american girl samantha #samantha parkington #my grail dolls probably seem petty or cheap to some #i don't care #you get raised poor that shit stays with you