We've All Spent All This Time Learning That Jonathan Harker Is A Stupidly Devoted Wifeguy And I'm So

we've all spent all this time learning that jonathan harker is a stupidly devoted wifeguy and i'm so pleased that now you guys can learn that mina is exactly the same way about him

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Day 26: If each character was a snack food, what snack would they be?

Cobb: Muddy buddies/puppy chow. I have a lot of good memories of making these with my family. They're easy enough that you can whip up a batch quickly with/for kids. (or if you're also the dad friend of the group)

Arthur: These things. You can't eat just one. Befote you know it you've shoved all 30 into your mouth in one sitting. You still feel good about yourself though, because they're just so tasty.

Ariadne: Angel food cake. Toeing the line between 'snack' and 'dessert' but I, for one, am completely incorrigible and will eat it any time so I think it counts. Light and fluffy and goes great with pretty much any topping. Especially homemade whipped cream. Mm.

Eames: Pigs in a blanket. Easy to make, but absolutely essential. When I walk in to any social gathering and see these, it's going to be a good time no matter what. My team lost the Super Bowl? Well, I know nothing about sports and I've eaten like a dozen pigs in a blanket so it's still a pretty good day for me.

Yusuf: Cold rotisserie chicken straight out of the fridge at 2 in the morning. A snack for when you're up because you're doing something too important for things like sleep or cooking so you're just grabbing whatever food you have in the house.

Saito: Freeze dried mango slices. They're expensive as all get-out, but they're probably one of my favorite snacks. Well worth the price, even if I feel bad about spending so much money on them afterwards.

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Thank you so much!

hello! your post about dracula's guest really intrigued me and so i was wondering if there is any good collection of material that was cut from dracula, or how i'd go about finding that?

So. Things might have changed since I last was really really engaged with Dracula scholarship and resources, but the three major categories of cut material people might be interested in are Stoker's notes for Dracula (which are very rough but show fascinating outlines of events and characters not present in the text), the original manuscript for Dracula (which has a lot of bits and pieces that were excised by the time the text reached publication), and "Dracula's Guest" (which is a stand alone story compiled out of material that Stoker had originally written into the manuscript before what we now have as Chapter 1).

The only way I know of to get the notes is to purchase the facsimile copy of them (available here) or to go to the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia and get reading permissions, although there are a lot of annotated Draculas that will give you info about content in the notes in their footnotes. Because the manuscript to Dracula was in the hands of a private collector (Paul Allen of Microsoft) for many years, the only way for most readers at this point in time to get their hands on manuscript content to to get a copy of Leslie Klinger's The New Annotated Dracula (available here), as Klinger was allowed to examine the manuscript for his annotation project (which is sadly riddled with inaccuracies and replicates some of the bigotries of prior annotators like Clive Leatherdale). HOWEVER, in the process of writing up this answer, I have learned that Emory University has acquired the manuscript following Allen's death and is seeking to have it digitized in the near future.

Lastly, "Dracula's Guest" is available in print and for free on-line in many many places. Gutenberg and Librivox both have free versions of the short story collection in which it was originally published, and people interested in getting deeper into Stoker's broader literary work might want to check them out as well (I will warn to people clicking links that one of the other stories has a racial slur as a title, and that Stoker is reprehensibly racist in ways that show even more strongly in a lot of his non-Dracula work.)

Hope all that helps!

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)”

so don't know why I can't send from my dracula daily account but I love your dd content, wanna become mutuals or whatever?

Sure! What's your dracula daily account i'll follow that too 👁👁