#since september daily

[museenkuss]

OCTOBER. the first lines in a new notebook. chestnut mousse. studying runway shows. the scent of leather. rainy nights spent reading. mini perfume atomisers kept in overstuffed handbags. chai. hunting down the perfect paisley scarf. poached pears with vanilla sauce. jotting down thoughts on scraps of paper that’ll be found inbetween the pages of a book, years from now. honey face masks. learning poems by heart. dark chocolate and red wine. Draculean nightmares and Wildean dreams (opulent, melancholic, homoerotic).

#Museenkuss #monthly thoughts #dark academia #it’s Oscar Wilde’s birthday on the 16th #don’t forget!!! #Bosie was a libra too btw. THE libra x libra couple imo #I was about to say it’s a cautionary tale but tbh there’s a ‘goals’ aspect to it isn’t there #Libra are just like that #Dracula daily #<- I’m still stuck at the beginning of September and since I do read it at night the horror does translate #also I do think those two - D nightmares and W dreams - can be very similar #weren’t Stoker & Wilde friends? #anyhow. I do love horror and Dracula really does hit. I was surprised to be honest #because of course you know the story etc your it still REALLY sucks you in #October

[kirby-the-gorb]

#kirby #kirby shoes #(was that the tag I have no idea) #(tumblr doesn't tell me very well anymore if it's a tag I used before or not) #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #I have been looking for new shoes since may #I finally found the right pair today #(it is september) #they are really these colors (approximately)

[vickyvicarious]

Jonathan 🤝 Renfield

Fine, I shall then imitate Dracula!

Yes!

Except Jonathan's imitation is with the goal of "remain human, destroy Dracula." Renfield's is with the goal of "transcend humanity, become like Dracula." So they're... slightly at cross purposes there.

But yeah. So many parallels.

#dracula daily #renfield #jonathan harker #this is in reference to 4 september btw #though it could also apply slightly to the climb out the window and seek out dracula's resting place as well #that's less an imitation on renfield's part since he hasn't seen lizard fashion so far as we know #burekstation #replies

[immediatebreakfast]

I wonder if Van Helsing could tell that this time is best to be used just between Jonathan and Mina. Reading each others' inner thoughts apparently over and over was likely something that left them raw but with Catharsis (the fear and the pain seeming less according to Jonathan) after reading about each others' silent struggles from Oct1-3

Van Helsing may be trying to get them to have the chance to have full catching up after days of mutual concealment, reversing his earlier role of encouraging secrecy.

Honestly if that is what he is trying to do then that is The Best decision Van Helsing has ever made since he was introduced. I say that with full honesty, letting them alone to grief in eachother arms is the best course of action for both Mina and Jonathan.

And it's also the best way to start an apology too.

#The best move of Van Helsing since september #dracula daily #dracula #abraham van helsing

[mxcottonsocks]

For those of us reading both Dracula Daily and The Woman in White Weekly, it's possibly just worth noting that the Bloofer Lady's hunting grounds are "in and around Hampstead Heath" and that Walter Hartright first met the woman in white having just crossed the Heath.

Nowadays, Hampstead Heath is entirely surrounded by London, but in the 1850s-90s when The Woman in White and Dracula were written, it was on the edge of the built-up area of London, on the boundary between city and country.

I wonder if this made it a sort of "liminal space", a place which acts as a sort of threshold or border, a place between other places, a place which is partly one thing and partly another, and that it was this liminality which made it a compelling place for writers to set strange goings-on?

#hmm #i've been hanging onto this thought ever since part 1 of twiww but i didn't want to mention it until the bloofer lady came up in dd #but now i'm less sure of my point lol #i would be interested in hearing other people's thoughts if anyone has them #the woman in white #the woman in white weekly #1st epoch part 1 #dracula #dracula daily #25 september

[galaxseacreature]

The shortness of today's entry leaves me plenty of room to imagine Mina shut up in her room reading Jonathan's diary. It really mirrors the reader's experience beginning Dracula.

Of course, Mina is reading handwritten pages of shorthand. The reader is given the clarity and distance of plain English text. The form encapsulates the difference in relationship to the story. For a reader picking up a horror novel, they've opted in for the safe thrill of fictional terror. For Mina, it's real, tragic, and personal. But both know from the beginning that something terrible must happen, only not what it will be. Both can experience the dramatic irony of the early warnings from locals and signs things are not quite right long before Jonathan could.

Mina reads the whole journal at once. For Dracula Daily readers this is very different from the slow, suspenseful crawl of the updates. But it is very likely for a reader tackling the novel in the usual manner to be drawn into reading quickly to see what happens next.

On the other hand, Mina at least knows Jonathan survives his ordeal, undercutting that tension. Although if a reader has been spoiled, is familiar with adaptations, or has read the novel a decade ago and dimly remembers a few plot points (hello) it could be the same. And I have no idea how much a reader in 1897 might have known going in; it would be interesting to see how the book was marketed.

And of course Mina reading the diary brings her closer than any other character to knowing what the reader knows. She didn't see the full course of Lucy's illness, but she saw the beginning in Whitby, plus the shipwreck and surrounding events. She could really start putting the pieces together.

#dracula daily #september 23 #mina harker #this is long and doesn't have much of a point #i just really like thinking about when the form a work takes reflects the story #and these characters keeping so many records write so that it can be read! they must interpret too! #also it's a little funny thinking of Mina compressing everything we've been unpacking since May into one afternoon #just furiously reading and thinking back to her stupid vacation and then suddenly being like ''wait....boxes of dirt?! ...fuck'' #mine

[alren-ki]

I just did the catboxes, for the third week in a row, without having to force myself, without feeling like my body wants to collapse into parts, and the only reason I didn't do them yesterday was I didn't have cat litter.

Y'all I think what I'm doing is working, I'm getting my fucking body back.

#awled rens rambles #I- you genuinely have no idea how much #this time last year #I was ready to give up #I was in agonizing amounts of pain almost daily #I was doing the catboxes maybe twice a month feeling extremely guilty and helpless about not doing it more #I couldn't go grocery shoping without my pain spiking into the stratosphere- even on a good day #I was helpless and trapped and in pain and tired #all the time #I can't count the amount of times I went and cried on my porch to get some feeling of going outside #I couldn't get a doctor's appointment until *September* #and I felt the lowest I had since I was 16 and regularly having meltdowns that got pointed at myself #and now #I'm getting better #it's not everything #I still can't drive or really leave the house on my own #but it's so much more then it was #I'm gonna go cry for a bit now #I always expected to lose my body some day #I never expected to get it back

[yallemagne]

"And now for you, Madam Mina, this night is the end until all be well. You are too precious to us to have such risk. When we part to-night, you no more must question. We shall tell you all in good time. We are men and are able to bear; but you must be our star and our hope, and we shall act all the more free that you are not in the danger, such as we are."

For clarity, this post is sarcastic. I’m making fun of the dumb professor and his shitty rhetoric. 

Ah yes, we can’t possibly frighten the woman. She’s shown herself to be remarkably calmer in the face of the truth about vampires than any of our male cast, but she’s a woman so. 

Oh, and we will keep the man with PTSD specifically regarding vampire (CONSTANT EXPOSURE TO THIS SPECIFIC VAMPIRE FOR MONTHS ON END) on the team. Because he’s a brave boy, and brave boys don’t have panic attacks and they certainly don’t get triggered by reminders of their trauma. 

Scratch all the times he has had one, Mina has documented a few instances of night terrors and of course the 22nd but NOOO. He’s a man, he’s got a great manhood, leave Mina out of the team. 

#dracula daily #dracula #mina harker #van helsing #abraham van helsing #van helsing's classic misogyny #September 30 #not to mention mina has been the only one to recognize Jonathan's trauma #she has been the only one to witness its effects on him #and be able to help him through them #but since it is no longer a convenient plot device #JONATHAN IS APPARENTLY CURED

[thethirdromana]

I'm starting to think that Bram Stoker's thing about 'the New Woman' on the 10th of August was less about expressing some deep-seated anti-feminism and more just... a joke.

Like how a writer in the modern day might have their character say, "I had a burger for lunch - I imagine those snowflake vegans wouldn't like it!". Which would be just as out of character for a modern-day Mina, but wouldn't mean the whole novel should be read as a polemic against plant-based foods.

#dracula daily #august 10 #posted september 12 because apparently i think slowly #later events might prove me wrong #it's been years since I last read this book

[ashleybenlove]

“The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and her mother might be buried together.” 

BUT HAS MINA AND JONATHAN BEEN NOTIFIED?

SEWARD, HAVE THEY BEEN TELEGRAMMED?!

#ashleybenlove posts #Dracula #Dracula Daily #September 20 #(Since it's technically dated for yesterday I'll tag it as such)

[proficient-in-hoarding-deadlines]

someone (probably pretending to be) from my university tried calling me on whatsapp just now. like 5 times in a row. but i didn't get any emails from them before or after the calls (which would be the regular way to get ahold of me) so i didn't answer

feeling pretty unsettled. what the fuck. if you wanna expel me, fine, just inform me via email you freaks

#i honestly don't know what would the want from me during the summer #is it something with the dorm? #is it about the exam i will have to retake in september? discussing that this early?? #i maintain i would be so much easier for everyone to just expel me since my 2nd year #especially if it saves me from having to suffer any more phonecalls #fuck #daily frustrations

[genderqueer-karma]

guys can i talk about that fucking guy. clap if you think i should talk about that fucking guy.

(accidental ramble in the tags. oops. don’t read if you don’t want to read a crisis.)

#yo it's d :) #you already know who that fucking guy is unless you’re new here and that’s none of you so . #i need to start asking my friends if i can talk about that guy but it’s hard honestly #he literally takes up 50 to 80 per cent of my mind on a daily basis #even when i’m not thinking about him i’m thinking of him #i’ll see something blue and be like ‘wow! yk who really likes the color blue?’ and suddenly my brain is flooded with thoughts of Him #don’t get me wrong i love him but i realize that other people don’t care about him as much as i do so i’m trying to dial it back #still. it’s hard. #especially knowing that other people know how to contain themselves and i’m just sitting here raw out in the open like this #to be honest idk how i managed to survive school because since september i’ve kinda been living in mana hell(/heaven. depending on the day) #some people say they have addictive personalities and honestly i think that’s me #my brain is addicted to him! i literally study this man’s face and mannerisms and can tell you exactly how he smiles when his expression #is otherwise neutral. i can relay unnecessary amounts of his band history to you and have watched WAY too many interviews and videos #and the worst part? i literally told myself ‘hey! you can’t get like this again’* because the last time was really bad! it was destructive! #*(about a person.) i literally cannot function sometimes for just thinking about this guy. #i rarely listen to music besides his anymore and can literally tell you characteristic features of his composing! it’s kind of embarrassing! #like i’m a music nerd but i’m not THAT big of a music nerd. i usually can’t tell you things like that. most i can do is tell you #instrumentation. but whenever i listen to something he *mightve* composed i can automatically confirm or deny. #that’s not normal !!!!!!!! #having over *2000* pictures of a person you’ve never met in your phone is not normal! #but despite me being in the goddamn TRENCHES. i love him so so so much. #he genuinely makes me so happy. seeing images/videos of him from any time period makes me go ‘!!!’ because i think he’s the coolest! #and he’s so inspiring. he’s part of the reason i took up drawing again and regained some passion for music. #thus ends my tale of woe.

[1morteveryday]

265/365 👣

#daily mort #september 22 2022 #HAPPY ELEPHANT APPRECIATION DAY #THE ONLY HOLIDAY #first day of autumn wasn't near as important he will celebrate that tomorrow #it's been a hot minute since i've drawn elephants that aren't webkinz. good to see i draw them exactly the same as i did in middle school #also ONLY 100 MORTS LEFT... #mort's animal friends #anna's faves

[ultraviolencced]

the only thing keeping me alive is paul and my cat

#not good today lads #like my pilots tattoos aren’t even doing the trick #i have 0 people irl to talk to or spend time with when i feel this way #can’t go to my sister or mom the only people i interact with daily #i spend all day everyday on the verge of tears #i don’t do anything i can’t work i dropped out of college twice from different schools #the last time i saw anyone i consider a friend was in september when we trespassed on a dairy to spend time with cows #she’s not like a super close friend she’s my best activist friend but vigils kinda stopped and that’s the only time i spent time with other #people and like vigils aren’t fun like being at a slaughterhouse isn’t a fun hangout #we would always smoke weed after which was good but that’s not a thing anymore #i’m just an inconvenience for everyone whether or not they actually say it it’s true #i haven’t been able to give my mom rent since 2020 i don’t have an actual income my ssi application hasn’t been processed even tho i filed #it in 2020 i was able to get food assistance but not cash assistance i have to drive to a doctors office 45 miles from me once a month and #gas is $4 now and i can’t afford that my sister hasn’t payed me for the phone bill which is $60 #the seattle trip was such a horrible idea and i never should have done it #it was so expensive and i should have never thought it was a good idea the rental car was more expensive than it was supposed to be #the hotel should have been $129 and pre paid but it was $280 which took almost all of my money after i paid the phone bill and insurance #the only time i leave the house is to go to the fucking hospital twice a week and every few months a doctors office and for what #like it’s not really doing anything but slow the progression of it but like im still sick nothing will change that there’s no cure #shut the fuck up taylor

[dreamertrilogys]

what starting school does to a mf

#i caught up on dracula daily at one point in september i think so that’s why there’s only 23 unread emails #.txt #starting school as in i fell off track in september and i haven’t managed to get back on since

[mejomonster]

My healths still having a time, but u have been feeling hunger more reliably and lemme tell u what. It's nice

#rant #my health issues #djdjd real talk though as far as i cqn tell. feeling hunger DAILY AGAIN is a nice STABLE sign my gi system #is working more and more reliably. and DAILY! Regularly!!!!! #which is just. so good. so good. eons better than this time last year #i havent puked in a month!!! ive felt hungry every day for a month!!! ate when i felt hungry!!! #still having gi issues of significant severity. but hearing and feeling hunger again reliably is a miracle #im so grateful #i havent felt hunger reliably since last may. may 2021. it was so fucked up #i didnt feel hunger at ALL between september 2021 to june 2022. which was so fucked up #idk what body part controls hunger but it was Broken for a full fucking year damn #its finally healing to a degree im so happy