DEI Chin? This Is Some Kinda Antisemitism Or British-brained Franco-phobic Victorian Racism I Just Know

DEI chin? This is some kinda antisemitism or british-brained franco-phobic victorian racism I just know it.

I'm again reminded why Dracula became (and remains) such a hit. The suitors and Van Helsing's days-long hunt of Lucy seems normal enough, to us who know of vampires now, but when the book was first released, Van Helsing would've come across as blasphemous and ungodly for what he asks of them. Something that's reflected in all the boys' reactions, and only slowly drawn away as pieces of evidence are shown, and rebutted, and reexamined, until finally they believe him - and then commit, and reach some measure of peace as Lucy is at last laid to rest.

Stoker did an excellent job of drawing his contemporary audience into his story, assuring their own doubts and skepticisms. Through Van Helsing, he asks them to trust that what is being done has purpose, that the characters are acting not out of madness but out of a deep and noble understanding of Evil's weaknesses.

I can only imagine how hard a sell that must've been for its time, and looking at how he managed it is fascinating.

I will genuinely never forgive anyone involved in making The Imitation Game for their absolute travesty of Alan Turing’s story.

He was intensely autistic, and gay, and *kind*.

He mentored people below him in the programme - including women, who pretty much everyone else was crappy to.

He had terrible allergies and went cycling in a gas mask in the country to avoid then, and when he got overstimulated at parties he pulled incredibly daft elaborate “walking into a cupboard” leaving gags to handle them that left everyone screaming on the floor despite the silliness.

He got on really well with kids and never talked down to them. He gave his neighbours his sugar rations on their kids’ birthdays so she could always make them birthday cakes - even when he was being persecuted after the war, even when he was suffering horrible side effects from the tortures they put him through.

He was such an utterly, genuinely lovely human being, and he deserved so much damn better, and at the very *least* he deserved to be portrayed as who he was in the 21st fucking century instead of falling into a whole slew of horrifically harmful stereotypes that erased the fucking gift he was to us all over again.

Chorus girls, c. 1923.