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Day 05: Who had the most interesting job before joining dreamshare?

Yusuf! Expertise with chemistry and a disregard for the law make for some very interesting job opportunities. I think he'd be too cautious to get involved in making drugs - and also quite honestly it's beneath him.

He can make concoctions to accelerate brain function, can you imagine how useful that would be, and how much people would be willing to pay for it? Plus, he could make some really gnarly poisons with how skilled he is. I'd imagine he's worked with the widest array of people of any of them.

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 👁👁

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

It’s worth noting that while Stoker definitely drew upon sources purporting to describe vampire folklore in establishing rules for his own vampires, some of the vampire “lore” you see in play in Dracula is original to him. The mirror thing doesn’t seem to have been around before Stoker. While there are regional superstitions one can track down about needing to cover mirrors in the home of the recently dead to prevent their corpse from turning vampiric, the idea that vampires cast no reflection appears to really have had its start with this novel. What’s more, it was only part of what was planned in Stoker’s notes on vampiric irreproducibility. While it never made it into the final text, Stoker wrote down vampires also wouldn’t show up in photographs (which is might be related to Jonathan conveniently mentioning his kodak camera) and that even attempting to paint a vampire would fail. Apparently painting a vampire was just supposed to end up looking like somebody else. Photographs would either come out black or show a skeleton or corpse.

hey i wrote a gay little cowboy fanfic

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.