Dracula Mode - Tumblr Posts
personally i am sick of the cryptic shit on tumbler dot com. all of a sudden people are making vague references to a daily dracula and i am just supposed to roll with the punches and think on the fly. i am supposed to understand. but the truth is i don't even know which bloodsucker we are vagueblogging about. is it the real dracula or the one from hotel transylvania. or are we simply making a new dracula every day????? i don't know a lot but that seems unsustainable. to me personally
Or you could be cheeky and assume that Dracula just stole the bag where he keeps his toupée.
Marzi, maybe you can help. In the newest post of Dracula Daily, Dracula (spoiler???) steals Harker’s things including his ‘rug’. Curious, I researched & literally all the info I found re: railway rugs was: they’re cited in Victorian novels, used as a blanket or hung up for privacy & some folded into ‘carpet bags’. No existing images. Do you have any more info? Were they made of rug-like materials? How did people keep their things from falling out of the rug-turned-bag without side seams? Thanks
Believe it or not, I've actually seen miniature versions from the 19th century! At least one.
(Novelty candy container in the form of a railway rug, also often called a carriage blanket. It resembles a blanket rolled up and bound with leather straps. Late 19th century. Sold as a dolls' accessory on Ruby Lane.)
As for the bag function, can't help you there, I'm afraid. This is the first I've ever heard of that (carpet bags being, usually, normal sewn bags made of leftover carpet scraps). I did find a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson, about having a railway rug "in the form of a bag," but that almost sounds more like a sleeping-bag sort of thing than Blanket Origami. (source. the blog author infers that the bag could be "opened" into a blanket, but that doesn't sound like what Stevenson is describing, to me)
CONSUME THE COUNT CONSUME THE COUNT CONSUME THE COUNT
I feel like Renfield’s creature-eating accounting works kind of like mercury poisoning, in the sense that animals are being calculated to contain a higher and higher concentration of life the farther up in the food chain they go (life content of spiders is based on number of flies they’ve consumed, then birds go exponentially higher with number of spiders eaten plus number of flies each of those spiders ate, and so on.)
On that basis, the best and most powerful thing Renfield could possibly eat is Dracula. Which I am 100% sure is not how the book ends, but it would be pretty amazing.