#redracula — Public Fediverse posts
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We seem to be drifting to some terrible doom.
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We seem to be drifting to some terrible doom.
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Happy "Jonathan Harker hits Dracula in the face with a shovel" day to all who celebrate
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What shall I do? What can I do? How can I escape from this dreadful thing of night and gloom and fear?
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What shall I do? What can I do? How can I escape from this dreadful thing of night and gloom and fear?
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“Despair has its own calms.”
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“Despair has its own calms.”
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“I am surely in the toils.”
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“I am surely in the toils.”
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“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.”
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“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.”
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“I feel the dread of this horrible place overpowering me; I am in fear—in awful fear—and there is no escape for me; I am encompassed about with terrors that I dare not think of...”
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“I feel the dread of this horrible place overpowering me; I am in fear—in awful fear—and there is no escape for me; I am encompassed about with terrors that I dare not think of...”
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“I am no longer young; and my heart, through weary years of mourning over the dead, is not attuned to mirth. Moreover, the walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements. I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may.”
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“I am no longer young; and my heart, through weary years of mourning over the dead, is not attuned to mirth. Moreover, the walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements. I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may.”
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“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
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“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
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It’s almost that time again. 🦇
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It’s almost that time again. 🦇
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Goodbye, dear Friend. To the brave, the very best, Quincey P. Morris.
Always my favourite character, always sad when the time comes.
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These past few days of #DraculaDaily / #ReDracula, with Mina slooooowly vampirizing, are great. Her evil laugh!!
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We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways; into a whole world of dark and dreadful things.
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We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways; into a whole world of dark and dreadful things.
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#DraculaDaily / #ReDracula Oct. 12: okay can we agree that Mina getting them to read the burial service for her is just fucking goth as hell. almost as goth as when Van Helsing is reading the "prayer for the dead"* while Arthur is staking Lucy.
also,
Oh, my friends, you know as well as I do, that my soul is at stake
is that a pun
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#DraculaDaily / #ReDracula Oct. 6: oh boy time to share the funniest fucking Dracula fanfic I've ever read, "Live Seward Reaction", inspired by these Tumblr posts (see fig. 1)
It is the events of Oct. 6, but from Dr. Seward's point of view. The voice and style are dead on. It just dials Dracula's already barely repressed homoeroticism up one (1) tiny notch. To quote one commenter, "I am giggling and kicking my feet."
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“He is finite, though he is powerful to do much harm and suffers not as we do. But we are strong, each in our purpose; and we are all more strong together…. This battle is but begun, and in the end we shall win…”
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“He is finite, though he is powerful to do much harm and suffers not as we do. But we are strong, each in our purpose; and we are all more strong together…. This battle is but begun, and in the end we shall win…”
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CW: Dracula Daily, spoilers for 128-year-old book
I love the moment of realization: "Merciful God! The Count has been to him!"
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“We are trying to do our duty in a very sad and terrible case; we can only do as we deem best. What else have we to hope for, except the pity of the good God?”
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“We are trying to do our duty in a very sad and terrible case; we can only do as we deem best. What else have we to hope for, except the pity of the good God?”
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Happy October! 🎃 On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 766), I celebrate the #Dracula "group read" experience. 🦇 #DailyDracula #ReDracula #BramStoker #Gothic #Books #Bookstodon #SFF
Here is the link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/starshipsofa-766-jay-caselberg/id166360307?i=1000729457545
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Happy October! 🎃 On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 766), I celebrate the #Dracula "group read" experience. 🦇 #DailyDracula #ReDracula #BramStoker #Gothic #Books #Bookstodon #SFF
Here is the link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/starshipsofa-766-jay-caselberg/id166360307?i=1000729457545
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Yesterday's #DraculaDaily / #ReDracula: love how Seward gets one (1) good night of sleep and is immediately like "nm van helsing's losing it"
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“Oh, how we are beset! How are all the powers of the devils against us!” Suddenly he jumped to his feet. “Come,” he said, “come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.”
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“Oh, how we are beset! How are all the powers of the devils against us!” Suddenly he jumped to his feet. “Come,” he said, “come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.”
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“No trifling with me! I never jest! There is grim purpose in all I do; and I warn you that you do not thwart me.”
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“No trifling with me! I never jest! There is grim purpose in all I do; and I warn you that you do not thwart me.”
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#DraculaDaily #ReDracula Sept. 10: realized the VA who plays Mrs. Westenra is also Acantha in #TheSiltVerses!
Other Re: Dracula VAs in TSV include Graham Rowat (various bit parts in Re: Dracula) as Paige's dad and Felix Trench (Renfield) as the hapless politician Adjudicator Cross. David Ault (Arthur Holmwood) and Jonathan Sims (John Seward) both have memorable guest appearances in individual episodes but, uh…they get killed off pretty fast…look, it's a horror podcast, ok?
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors. Here, in a case where any shock may prove fatal, matters are so ordered that, from some cause or other, the things not personal—even the terrible change in her daughter to whom she is so attached—do not seem to reach her. It is something like the way Dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
Happy #GallWeek2025!
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P. S.
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors. Here, in a case where any shock may prove fatal, matters are so ordered that, from some cause or other, the things not personal—even the terrible change in her daughter to whom she is so attached—do not seem to reach her. It is something like the way Dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
Happy #GallWeek!
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So in this latest entry, Lucy starts getting blood transfusions—first from Arthur, then from Seward and Van Helsing as well.*
Dracula was published in 1897; the ABO blood groups were discovered a mere 4 years later, in 1901.
What's the smallest gap you know of between a plot point appearing in a novel and a scientific discovery that renders it implausible?
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time (published June 2015), which famously features Uplifted Portia jumping spiders, a minor plot point turns on their inability to hear. In October 2016, researchers discovered that jumping spiders can hear (news article), and since then hearing has been discovered in many other families of spiders.
Can anyone beat this?
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* All the transfusions are successful. The riskiness of blood transfusions, well known by then, is never mentioned. However, it's portrayed as a last-resort emergency measure where the risk of Lucy dying is far greater if she doesn't get a transfusion. This is another example of the novel stretching the bounds of known science/technology for artistic licence (the phonograph, which Seward uses for often long audio recordings, was less than a decade old and the cylinders could only record a few minutes' worth). -
Seward, 3 September:
He would not give me any further clue…[H]is very reticence means that all his brains are working for her good. He will speak plainly enough when the time comes, be sure.
Van Helsing, 7 September:
My friend John, when the corn is grown, even before it has ripened—while the milk of its mother-earth is in him, and the sunshine has not yet begun to paint him with his gold, the husbandman he pull the ear and rub him between his rough hands, and blow away the green ch
me: So that was a motherfucking lie
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"Afraid to go to sleep! Why so? It is the boon we all crave for."
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"Afraid to go to sleep! Why so? It is the boon we all crave for."
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“It was a shock to me to turn from the wonderful smoky beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows and all the marvellous tints that come on foul clouds even as on foul water, and to realise all the grim sternness of my own cold stone building, with its wealth of breathing misery, and my own desolate heart to endure it all.”
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I’ve been waiting for you, #VanHelsing!
“He is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day, and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind. This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, and indomitable resolution, self-command, and toleration exalted from virtues to blessings, and the kindliest and truest heart that beats, these form his equipment for the noble work that he is doing for mankind, work both in theory and practice, for his views are as wide as his all-embracing sympathy.”
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“We seem to be drifting to some terrible doom.”
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“There seems to be some doom over this ship.”
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“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”
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“What shall I do? What can I do? How can I escape from this dreadful thing of night and gloom and fear?”
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“Despair has its own calms.”
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Dracula, May 25.
Introducing Seward and Renfield! (Plus more hilarious slang from Quincey.)
I feel like the Re: Dracula creators were like: "Okay, time to cast 'stuck-up Brit narrating tales of horror into an antiquated recording device'…" "SAY NO MORE FAM"
(MP3)
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Dracula, May 24:
I wish I could get three proposals in one day!
(Do I plan on accepting any of them? No. But it would be awfully flattering. I'm just saying.)
Your daily "everything was more dangerous in the Victorian era": Dr. Seward's fidget scalpel
even by a black man
Lucy that's racist <thats-racist.gif>
So, if you didn't know, there is an honest-to-God Texas cowboy in Dracula the original novel, and you absolutely must listen to Giancarlo Herrera's performance in Re: Dracula (MP3, 13:07). Fall in love immediately or your money back. Just fucking do it
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“I am surely in the toils.”
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so they got the #ReDracula cast to voice act a bunch of #DraculaDaily Tumblr posts and memes and here's the chronologically apropos one for a Dracula version of "Witches on Tinder" https://www.tumblr.com/re-dracula/697025428919058432/for-every-10-we-raise-weve-got-a-dracula-meme
(The original, for anyone who hasn't watched this delightful video: https://youtu.be/5KO2IjWI9fA)