Draculaposting - Tumblr Posts
Spent an embarrassing amount of time not realizing it was an email thing and just thought it was Amontillado 2.0
Can't wait for my boy Renfield to hit the scene. I can smell the blorbo content brewing.
Dracula Daily is one tumblr trend that I can absolutely adore and immediately subscribed to the moment I heard about it.
I love the memes, but the part that makes this really great is that I've read the book before, so there's some times, right now for instance, when I know exactly precisely what's going to happen next. Tumblr is gonna have a field day tomorrow.
"Food for thot"
*Dracula tosses a baby in a sack at 3 huddled women*
"food for thought"
Jonathan: what did you call me?
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)
Another little heartbreaking bit of overthinking in dracula is realizing that the villagers weren't just warning Jonathan for his own sake. Dracula has had the countryside under his thumb for centuries, and they are well aware that when he returns to the town, he won't be himself any more. They were probably anticipating some tragedy like the loss of the child since he arrived. No one came with the child’s mother, not even the father. The despair is so thick at this point in the book.
Sometimes self-care is hitting Count Dracula with a shovel
All this draculaposting is taking over my humble wizard blog.
Is it possible to buy stock in foiled Barnes and Noble hardcovers of Dracula? Because I'm about to buy some serious foiled Barnes and Noble hardcovers of Dracula.
The Brides
DRACULA
The woman at the beginning of Dracula, specifically the one that gave Jonathan a crucifix, tells Jonathan to take it for his mother's sake.
At first this seems like nothing more than a spooky phrase simply there to add to the horror of the novel.
But then, we learn that Dracula has been stealing children from the villagers.
Do you think that woman had lost her own child to Dracula? Do you think she saw Jonathan, a man just barely graduated from college, on his first ever business trip, and saw her own child in his eyes?
I wonder. Would her child be his age if they were never taken?
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.
Renfield meeting Dracula at long last
Nothing but sleek kittens and smooth seas from here on out!
well, the man has a point. it does take time to crammle aboon the grees
Son, while you're under my lid you obey my rules, and in this urn we FIGHT MATT KIRKLAND.
Everyone's been posting their admiration for Matt's gumption here, but I feel that it should be mentioned that Bram Stoker was cremated, and his ashes (intermixed with those of his son) are on display above ground at the Golders Green Crematorium.
Matt Kirkland should know that he isn't throwing down to fight zombie or vampire Bram Stoker; he's throwing down to fight a father/son tag team of dust and small bone fragments.
