I Feel Like Everyone New To Reading Dracula This Year Would Probably Benefit From Knowing That In The

I feel like everyone new to reading Dracula this year would probably benefit from knowing that in the original outline, Jonathan at the beginning of the novel was already supposed to have undergone the events in “Dracula’s Guest” where he spent Walpurgisnacht wandering around in a storm and watching a hot vampire lady get struck by lightning before a wolf-that-was-probably-Dracula came and sat on him to keep him warm all night.

I feel like this missing bit of information goes a long way to explaining why he’s sort of like: “Storm. Wolves. Mysterious blue flames my preternaturally strong driver gets out to inspect. Is this a normal part of being a solicitor? (Mem. Remember not to call yourself a clerk. Mina will be proud of you. <3)”

Broke: Mina shares so many of Jonathan's intense academic interests (law, journaling, timetables, etc.) because she's the dutiful love interest who sets her own passions aside to accommodate him.

Woke: Jonathan and Mina are both huge nerds and that's how they fell madly in love in the first place.

Dracula’s Lineage Speech

If anyone for any reason would appreciate a blow by blow breakdown of everything that is going on in the Count’s lineage speech, matching all of Dracula’s dialogue to Stoker’s research sources and describing the historical events being alluded to, I made one of those many many years ago and I’ve copy/pasted it under the cut:

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I liked the Shorthandly youtube channel for learning Pitman, it's got really comprehensive videos and it's well-organized.

Do you know how to write in shorthand? Or do you know of any good resources to learn? Just curious.

I made an attempt several years ago to learn Pitman's Shorthand, which--being popular in Great Britain--would have been a likely candidate for the type of shorthand with which Mina and Jonathan would be familiar. I bought a very cheap fountain pen (which is significant in helping to vary the line width) and looked up a copy of one of the original Pitman's guides on Googlebooks. Alas, I was not that great at building speed and ended up with very pretty writing which was not actually of great use to me in transcribing anything. I've long since lost the knack for it.

I know some of my followers at one point tried to learn Gregg (a system more prominent in America that doesn't require a fountain pen), so if anybody wants to chime in with additional resources, feel free to do so.

"Do you ever try to read your own face? I do"

I'm on the Dracula train

oh wow thats me!!! small world!!

my friend @alcoholmidgit did the art, i am responsible for putting it to music (and for waking my family at 1:30 am with how loudly i snorted when she sent me the picture)

@halfofawhole - OMG, look! 🤣🤣🤣

This damn fic really is the gift that keeps giving!