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ahhh excellent today’s Daily Dracula chapter is that part mentioned in Shadow of the Vampire, where the very real vampire Count Orlok talks about how terribly sad it made him to see Dracula try to remember the ways of caring for a man.
Dracula hasn’t had servants in 400 years and then a man comes to his ancestral home, and he must convince him that he… that he is like the man. He has to feed him, when he himself hasn’t eaten food in centuries. Can he even remember how to buy bread? How to select cheese and wine? And then he remembers the rest of it. How to prepare a meal, how to make a bed. He remembers his first glory, his armies, his retainers, and what he is reduced to. The loneliest part of the book comes… when the man accidentally sees Dracula setting his table.
I think maybe a big part of Dracula Daily’s success (and perhaps also the success of all those Netflix reality tv shows like Love Is Blind??) is that media has become so asynchronous. You can never really talk to your friends about any shows because either it’s “Oh, I haven’t seen that but it’s on my list” or “I watched that ages ago, I barely remember it, remind me who [character X] was?” or “STOP TALKING, I’m on Season 2, no spoilers!!”
And it’s kind of upsetting, because we cannot really discuss media anymore the way people were able to when a show was on TV and everyone kind of experienced it together. Synchronous media is an event, it’s fun, everybody can participate! Now we’re drowning in recommendations of what we “should watch”, and the list gets longer and longer, but even when we do get around to a particular show, we almost never properly discuss it with the friend who recommended it and it’s just frustrating.
So yeah. My take is that humans actually kind of really enjoy synchronous media consumption, which has been greatly reduced by streaming, and perhaps Dracula Daily is filling that gap for us right now, you know?
okay jokes aside dracula daily is such an ingenious way of promoting and enjoying classic literature. bringing back the experience of reading it like a serial novel but through email?? connecting the narrative experience to the textual form but in a modernised way?? the epistolary novel at its peak!!! that shit is so cool!!!! and seeing people reading it for the first time and getting their live reactions?? fucking blessed!! maybe it’s the nerd in me but i think it’s genuinely awesome
Here, have some wonderful moon knight comics excerpts:
Okay. Someone needs to explain Spidey’s “little bit”. We have a Canon explanation, right?
@epicmusic42 They often fight crime together, and Moon Knight apparently straight-up asked Spider-Man out once, to take ‘a quart of caviar and a few bottles of wine’ to celebrate with a ‘fancy dinner’ after having taken down a crime syndicate together, only to be left ‘glum’ when rejected.
The fact that Dante created the most popular image of the afterlife with absolutely no theological basis for it will still be the funniest thing to me
Church: Heaven is eternal connection with God, while Hell is total separation from Him. Anything else is only speculation.
Dante: Actually Hell has layers like an onion, and the devil is big and mean and also frozen. People are fighting and there’s a mountain to get to Heaven and a nice place for babies. Also I know this because I went there with my friend :)
Dante: I had a dream where I astral projected into hell with the famous poet Virgil who I am totally Best Bros with. I wrote a poem about it if you wanna read it idk
Several Popes: Thank you king I am commissioning fan art of you
I was reading some old - like, 1960s old - papers by Japanese academics and found one that described miko as “necromancers.” Which isn’t strictly incorrect, but I’m pretty sure that even back then it would have had very different connotations than intended.
Either way, I ended up drawing this because of how much it tickled my funny bone. And it ended up taking a couple months because university ate my time.
Again you all are missing the point, and missing out on the true comedy of this novel which is: for as strangely cheerful as Jonathan is he IS genre savvy and he DOES think something horrible might happen to him. The last two entries ended with him hoping desperately he’ll get to see his family again. Not the words of someone unaware of the danger he’s in. The comedy of Dracula is how he looks at the warning signs, SEES them, and his reaction is just to be like “:/. I guess this what I signed up for when I became a real estate agent. Should I have seen this coming?” Like this man is willing to risk joining the legions of the undead if that’s where his line of work takes him. Furthermore his naturally buoyant spirit heightens the comedy bc his mind is like “Am I about to die? Man I love my fiance she’s the best! Am I about to die? These mountains are gorgeous! Am I about to die? These locals are so kindhearted! Am I about to die? This chicken is really good! Am I about to die? My boss likes me!!! Am I about to die?
