#may 28

[catsvrsdogscatswin]

Stoker’s (and Jonathan’s) depiction of Romani people in this day’s update was of course racist as hell, but every time I reread Dracula I have to snort at this part, because when I first read it as a tiny little gremlin I 

A) had no idea that the words Stoker used were slurs

B) was oblivious enough to human nature that I was like “why would anyone ever knowingly be xenophobic”

and thus, C) completely missed the racist insinuation that All These Foreigners Are In League With Evil and came to the conclusion that the Romanian equivalent of a moving crew that Dracula hired obviously just, like, had no idea that he was a vampire, and when they saw Jonathan toss the letters to them they figured it was a mistake and went to tell Dracula like “Hey boss, your guest dropped his letters out the window, you wanna put ‘em in the mailbag properly instead?” without even knowing that they were dooming Jonathan.

Surely this is the only reasonable assumption we the readers are supposed to make from this part of the text, thought 11-year-old me, appreciating the tragic irony of Jonathan’s cry for help getting thwarted by other people thinking they were helping him, as years of deeply-ingrained European racism flew over on jet wings above my head.

#Dracula Daily #Dracula Daily May 28 #May 28

[on-this-day-mcr]

On this day, May 28

In 2022: My Chemical Romance performed their ninth show of the 2022-2023 Swarm tour in Cardiff, Wales. At this show, Gerard Way wore a Swarm merch t-shirt spray painted with the words "DRINK PISS PISS BLOOD", and the words "Sit. STAY. BEG." were written on the drums. (🖤)

Watch the show here!

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#ridiculous sentences to type #WHAT was the thought process #may 28 #2022 #swarm era #tour date #also there were like no good pro shots of this show :(

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Green Grocer Cicada (Cyclochila australasiae)

(Photo in Public Domain)

Conservation Status- Unlisted

Habitat- Southeastern Australia

Size (Weight/Length)- 4 cm

Diet- Tree sap

Cool Facts- Called a green grocer when green in color and a yellow monday when yellow, these cicadas are one of the loudest insects in the world. They create a piercing buzz noise by flexing their timbal ribs along their carapace, their call reaching up to 120 decibels. After repeated exposure to a noise this loud, people can experience hearing loss. Of course, the green grocer uses its call to attract mates with louder calls being the most attractive. These cicadas live up to seven years with the majority of their lives spent underground as nymphs. Only their last six weeks of life are spent in their adult form.

Rating- 12/10 (Only 20 decibels quieter than a jet engine.)

#Animal of the day #Animals #Insects #Cicada #Sunday #May 28 #Green grocer #Yellow monday #biology #science #conservation #the more you know #cw: insects

[akasanata]

A little bit of hope for Jonathan...

Only for it to be burned in the flames

Love the way Dracula is drawn, like he's enjoying himself

#Dracula manga #Dracula Daily #Jonathan Harker #Dracula #pg 49-50 #manga classics #may 28 #dd #y

[yallemagne]

Note that Dracula does not actively retaliate against Jonathan. He retaliates against the letter, for sure, but he does not punish Jonathan exactly as one would expect. He keeps the act up. Which is possibly an even worse punishment.

Jonathan already knows about the Romani, which is interesting. Of course, functionally, Bram is giving us world-building and using Jonathan as a vehicle for that, but the description of the Romani is not one that would lend to too much confidence that they would help Jonathan, as they are clearly aligned, however knowingly, with the Count.

Who must have told Jonathan about them? Possibly one of his previous hosts, but I opt to say it was the Count.

Imagine that: Jonathan inquires about the only staff he has seen so far in Dracula's lands, and Dracula's answer is to squash Jonathan's hope by saying those "lawless" men answer only to himself. However, Jonathan still tries, he can't let himself give into his despair and give up without trying such an obvious means of escape. He knows that, in all likelihood, Dracula could be lying when he says these people are unlike the locals that helped Jonathan in the past. Though, Jonathan still takes precautions to make sure the full extent of what he knows isn't revealed if this is a dead end.

Unfortunately, the Romani are aligned against Jonathan, but possibly not with ill intentions. In all likelihood, they don't know Dracula's nature, or, if they do, they have to ignore it out of desperation, because no one else would ever employ them. It is serve Dracula or starve. They parallel Jonathan, in a way. They see a frantic man trying to appeal to them in a foreign language, and all they can do is accept what they believe he might be saying and continue on with their work.

There's also the possibility that it is more of Dracula's duplicity. Who is to say the man that took Jonathan's letters and payment did not parse Jonathan's meaning? Perhaps he did but was killed on his way to deliver them to a post office. And Dracula reframes it as the men being completely loyal to him. The belief, then, is not that sending more shorthand letters through them is dangerous because the Count will intercept them himself, but that the Romani will deliver them to the Count whether out of ignorance or malice. The latter is quite hopeless. It means that Jonathan cannot get by on the grace of others-- that the only humans he has seen in so long are either unknowing or uncaring of the danger he is in.

Dracula burns the letter but allows the inconspicuous one to be sent. He's mocking Jonathan for his attempt, letting his message be sent but not the one that matters.

"The letter to Hawkins—that I shall, of course, send on, since it is yours. Your letters are sacred to me. Your pardon, my friend, that unknowingly I did break the seal. Will you not cover it again?" He held out the letter to me, and with a courteous bow handed me a clean envelope. I could only redirect it and hand it to him in silence. 

He, once again, reframes the situation. Oh, if Jonathan had simply written all he wanted to say clearly in that letter to Mina, there would have been no issue with it, since Jonathan's letters are sacred. Never mind the desecration of Dracula opening the letter to Hawkins. He then forces Jonathan to participate in the mockery by having him reseal the envelope.

When he went out of the room I could hear the key turn softly. A minute later I went over and tried it, and the door was locked.

Remember Dracula's warning from before?

"Be warned! Should sleep now or ever overcome you, or be like to do, then haste to your own chamber or to these rooms, for your rest will then be safe. But if you be not careful in this respect, then"—He finished his speech in a gruesome way, for he motioned with his hands as if he were washing them. [May 12]

Locking Jonathan in the study now is a passive threat that, if Jonathan does not stay in line, Dracula will relinquish his protection over him. Though the study is presumably one of the safe rooms, there is only guaranteed safety if Dracula provides it.

When, an hour or two after, the Count came quietly into the room, his coming awakened me, for I had gone to sleep on the sofa. He was very courteous and very cheery in his manner, and seeing that I had been sleeping, he said:— "So, my friend, you are tired? Get to bed. There is the surest rest. I may not have the pleasure to talk to-night, since there are many labours to me; but you will sleep, I pray."

Dracula locks Jonathan in the study so he has no choice but to fall asleep there and not in his room. Jonathan is only able to go back to his room once Dracula comes in to retrieve him. Before, Dracula placed the guarantee of Jonathan's safety in his own hands. "If you do this, if you don't do this..." But now he's taking it back. "If I decide you must die sooner than promised, you shall."

I passed to my room and went to bed, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. Despair has its own calms.

Sleep is only a short reprieve from Jonathan's waking nightmare. He can't rely on the help of his fellow humans, Dracula can and will take back his hospitality on a whim-- Jonathan has nothing to hope for except a night of dreamless sleep.

... I reframe the latter half of May 28 in my fic Orice-- *gets shot*

#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #jonathan harker #count dracula #may 28

[hey-color-palettes]

Can you make Blue Phazon Color Palette from Metroid Prime series?

★ #63c8d7 ★ #4688e5 ★ #4d59c9 ★ #1847b6 ★ #102c54 ★

#blue phazon from metroid prime palette #color palette #blue #request #may 28 #i would like to state for the record that i am barely or not at all familiar with 99% of media you guys send in #so if it's inaccurate my sincere apologies :(

[ayoungkiing]

5/28/2023-BTS ✨✨✨

#love this #jonah hauer king #the little mermaid #halle bailey #prince eric #tlm #may 28 #new IG post

[happybirthday-unusannus]

Happy 3rd Birthday to

“Only ANNUS-es May Watch This Video”

#unus annus #markiplier #crankgameplays #Ethan bestie #may 28

[musickickztoo]

Wendy O. Williams  

May 28, 1949 – April 6, 1998

#wendy o. williams #plasmatics #april 6 #may 28

[sweetdreamsjeff]

May 28, 1995

#jeff buckley #lover you should've come over #may 28 #1995 #live #musique #plus #misiqueplus

[todaysdocument]

“Dear President Truman,

I am 9 years old and I think it was a disgrace that in Washington 51 children were not let in to a hotel because 4 children were colored.  The capital is supposed to be for freedom.” May 28, 1948.

Collection HST-OFF: Official Files (Truman Administration)

Series: Official Files

File Unit: Official File 93B

Transcription: 

93-B

May 28, 1948

Dear President Truman,

I am 9 years old and I think it was a disgrace that in Washington 51 children were not let in to a hotel because 4 children were colored.  The capital is supposed to be for freedom.  I am proud to be an american but this makes me feel ashamed because in my own classroom we made up a play on brother hood.

Sincerly,

J. Jagliarin

---

x

[Drawing of 2 children, one with a colored-in face and one with a light face]

[Drawing of a person at a hotel, with words "no room"]

#archivesgov #May 28 #1948 #1940s #Truman administration #segregation #Jim Crow #letter to the President

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 22, 28 mai 1865, Paris. Toilettes de Melle Lise, 17, r. Nve. St. Augustin. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

Description de toilettes:

Robe en toile écrue très-pâle. — Le bas de la jupe est bordé avec une corde en laine rouge, remontant sur toutes les coutures réunissant les lés; au-dessus de cette corde, c'est-à-dire sur le bord de la robe, se trouve une guirlande de coquelicots avec feuilles, et tiges, le tout brodé en laine. La jupe est nouée par devant avec une cordelière de laine rouge. Corsage blanc, en nansouk, brodé au point russe, en laine rouge. Paletot pareil à la robe, bordé et brodé comme la robe. Chapeau rond en paille d'Italie avec grande plume blanche et petite plume rouge. Gants nuance chamois. Ombrelle blanche recouverte de dentelle noire.

Robe en foulard lilas, festonnée par devant depuis les pieds jusqu'à la taille, avec des boutons en passementerie lilas, ornés de perles blanches. Au-dessus de l'ourlet de la jupe (cet ourlet a seulement 3 centimètres de largeur) se trouve une légère broderie en lacets lilas, très-étroits, mélangée de perles blanches. Corsage montant, orné d'une basque en forme d'habit, entièrement faite en passementerie lilas, mélangée de perles blanches. Le corsage est boutonné devant jusqu'au cou. Grand bournous en dentelle de laine blanche. Chapeau en tulle lilas, brodé en perles blanches, orné d'une très-courte frange en marabouts lilas qui entourent le visage. Ce chapeau a été dessiné chez Mme Aubert, modiste, rue Neuve-des-Mathurins, 6.

—

Dress in very pale ecru canvas. — The bottom of the skirt is edged with a red woolen cord, going up on all the seams joining the lengths; above this cord, that is to say on the edge of the dress, is a garland of poppies with leaves and stems, all embroidered in wool. The skirt is tied in front with a red wool cord. White bodice, in nansouk, embroidered in Russian stitch, in red wool. Overcoat similar to the dress, bordered and embroidered like the dress. Round Italian straw hat with large white feather and small red feather. Chamois shade gloves. White umbrella covered with black lace.

Dress in lilac scarf, scalloped in front from the feet to the waist, with lilac trimmings buttons, adorned with white pearls. Above the hem of the skirt (this hem is only 3 centimeters wide) is a light embroidery in very narrow lilac laces, mixed with white pearls. High bodice, adorned with a basque in the shape of a coat, entirely made of lilac trimmings, mixed with white pearls. The bodice is buttoned in front to the neck. Large bournous in white wool lace. Hat in lilac tulle, embroidered with white pearls, adorned with a very short fringe of lilac marabouts which encircle the face. This hat was designed by Mme Aubert, milliner, rue Neuve-des-Mathurins, 6.

#La Mode illustrée #19th century #1860s #1865 #on this day #May 28 #periodical #fashion #fashion plate #description #color #Forney #dress #Lise #cape

[galaxseacreature]

Jonathan Harker really classing up the depression nap by saying instead "despair has its own calms"

#Dracula daily #May 28 #Jonathan Harker #mine

[akasanata]

Today has big bangers such as

"a vile thing, an outrage upon friendship and hospitality"

And

"Despair has its own calms"

#dracula daily #dd #may 28 #y

[dailykafka]

- May 28, 1914 / Franz Kafka diaries

#May 28 #1914 #may #franz kafka #the diaries of franz kafka #diary #diaries #writing #quotes #franz kafka diaries #daily kafka

[hey-color-palettes]

palette based on the song hand me my shovel im going in pleaaase 🙏 with some bright green if you can incorporate it

★ #202055 ★ #449c5a ★ #adc467 ★ #ae6144 ★ #9a4072 ★

#hand me my shovel i'm going in by will wood and the tapeworms palette #music palettes #color palette #blue #green #orange #pink #request #may 28