#grail diary

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I have an ambitious idea for a multi-media project

Long: details under cut

Preface:

Adam Savage is known for making meticulous replicas of the Grail Diary from Indiana Jones 3; they're printed on authentic onionskin paper, stitched together and bound with leather like a real old journal would be, stuffed with inserts like folded up drawings, maps, post cards, letters, wax rubbings, tickets from ships and blimps, receipts, to-do lists, photos made to look like they were taken with late 19th/early 20th century cameras, an old silver certificate dollar, Hitler's autograph, you name it. The ten dollar word of the day is "verisimilitude." These super high fidelity replicas are more than just props, they're meant to feel like a real lived-in historical document kept by a globetrotting adventurer from the 1890s to 1930s.

Gravity Falls Journal 3 wanted to be like this, but it's mass market, printed on glossy paper with fake weathering and fonts that look like handwriting. If Adam Savage made a Journal 3 replica, it would look and feel like a real field journal from the 1970s; it would have crinkly yellow pages with mold/water damage, the cover would have brass or gold foil inlays, each entry would be handwritten (and you would be able to tell it wasn't just a font because every letter would have realistic variability in shape and size, there would be a different number of lines per page, the margins would drift, it would be sloppy and illegible in parts)

JJ Abrams published a book that came close to this aesthetic, a nice midway point between the Grail Diary and Journal 3 in terms of quality. A collab with Doug Dorst, the book is sold under the title "S." but once you take it out of its slipcover it's a meta-fictional artifact made to look like an old cloth-bond library copy of a (fictional) novel from the 1940s called The Ship of Theseus by VM Straka. The text of the novel is inconsequential, a dry story about a sailor being Shanghaid onto a pirate crew (it's actually pretty authentic, evoking the feeling of being forced to read an overrated novel for high school English class), but the book is full of faux-handwritten notes in the margins with multiple characters trading it back and forth (with different colored pens used to show the passage of time), telling a whole new story about their attempts to crack the case of the author's mysterious disappearance/death and an academic conspiracy trying to stop them. It is VERY dense. VERY confusing. You have to work out the timeline yourself because each character has annotated the book from start to finish over multiple passes; you'll be flipping back and forth like a choose-your-own-adventure. And the icing on the cake is that there are dozens of inserts stuffed throughout the pages; newspaper clippings, posts cards, a napkin from a fictional university restaurant, old telegrams, folded notes written on loose leaf college-ruled paper, a cipher wheel, etc. It is mass market like Journal 3, but with a much closer attention to detail like Adam Savage's Grail Journals. The inserts are impressive as part of the meta-narrative, but they don't hold up to as much scrutiny. Owning the book is more interesting than the book itself.

My idea

I want to create a boxset for Dracula in which the story is separated out into its constituent parts; Jonathan Harker's illegible shorthand journal, piles and piles of letters between Mina and Lucy and Van Helsing and the suitors (each with their own recognizable handwriting), real playable wax cyllinders with Dr. Sewards voice recordings, the water-damaged journal from the captain of the Demeter, newspaper clippings about the horrible storm and the large dog and "bloofer lady" sightings, and then a big stack of typewriter carbon paper where Mina painstakingly collated it all into the manuscript for the novel itself. The novel claims to be stitched together from a hundred different sources, and this boxset would actually BE the original sources! There would be old 1890s kodak photography, Jonathan's train tickets from across the continent, maps showing the exact paths of the Demeter and Dracula's dirt shipments and the suitors' chase along the rivers back to Transylvania. Lucy and her mother's wills, stationary with Lord Godalming's letterhead, an old rosary, a crucifix, some garlic flowers, lots and lots of communion wafers, Dracula's book of train schedules, and MOST IMPORTANTLY OF ALL the paprika hendl recipe!

Dracula Daily allows us to experience the story chronologically, but I would like to experience it the way the characters themselves would have, piecing together all the disparate clues over the course of 6 months. It would be an enormous and unweidly boxset, like the special edition of a video game.

The framing narrative would be that the box itself used to belong to Bram Stoker. He was a close friend to the Harkers, and they gave him all their first-hand documents so he could eventually publish their story.

I don't even know where I'd start!

[averinna]

I am still pissed at this video insinuating that there's little to not interesting female characters in the whole medium of anime and manga so I made this list. I tried to make the less well known at the top of it.

There's different experience, setting and even representation. Comedy, tragedy, melancholy, adventure, action, yuri and even asexuality... i tried to put as much as diversity in the genre too.

Don't forget to check the trigger warnings for theses before to start them.

If you want to do something similar, use this link.

PS some I forgot :

Gundam Witch

Octave :

I'm in love with the villainess (read the manga) :

The apothecary diaries :

[culturevulturette]

Be careful, the Easter Bunny's a little salty this year.

[giffypudding]

This pleases my soul

[fairytwles]

found the foundation i ran out of over a month ago in a random supermarket after thinking it was discontinued

[domsunny2016]

Jordan Riverside

[hanzajesthanza]

this is how i imagine geralt & co. showing up at beauclair

[deathd0llie]

[indyflanery]

[coldbrewnette]

Is glossier discontinuing skywash in pebble??? The shade isn’t on sephora anymore and out of stock on their website……….

[madstronaut]

#5 - "the carpenter's cup."

I poisoned some of these chalices

Drink from one anyways for fun

[forbidden-interlude]

I never finished neon genesis Evangelion

[zaddizu]

𝓐𝓟PS FOR SCRIPTING Y𝓞𝓤𝓡 DRS

1 . rooms

aka, my holy grail for curing in classroom boredom. it’s in the name, you make cute little bedrooms. good for visualising.

2 . lifa app

it’s a shock if you haven’t seen this already, as it’s the shifting app. anywho, it’s specifically made for scripting.

3 . photo note

photo note my love. it’s a fake instagram basically, and i fucking love it.

3 . twinote

same thing but twitter.

4 . diary with password

to keep track of your journey.

5 . paper

okay, this is a bit more dr specific, but it’s good if you keep a journal — or something to keep track of the days — in your dr. the apps basically a journal, it’s good for visualising if you have one.

okay, that’s it. lazy post today. ٩(๑´0`๑)۶ if i get the motivation i might do a quick post for the circus event.

[culturevulturette]

2025 Movie Diary

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975).

Pretty much one classic skit after another. Indispensable for the retention of one's sanity.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

[ikeukiss]

close ain't close enough | 𝐬𝐣𝐲

୨୧ pairing:sim (jake) jaeyun x fem!reader || ୨୧ word count: 0.3k || ୨୧ genre: fluff, smut || ୨୧ tags: teasing, body worship, fingering, downbad!jake || ୨୧ synopsis: "Do you need me to finger you first?" + "That tickles." || ⟢ AUTHOR'S NOTE: Requested by two anons but decided to make one story for both!

↪ WANT A DRABBLE DIARY ENTRY? REQUEST ONE.ᐟ

How did you get here? Your new boyfriend simply asked for one kiss during the ad break of a video you both were watching in your bed, and then it was all over. Slotted between your legs, Jake works your mouth open with his tongue as his chilly hands skate over your lower stomach. Your mind grows fuzzy with the way he touches you like a holy grail, slowly committing the contours and lines of you to memory.

"That tickles, Jaeyun," you say as he skirts the hemline of your underwear with his thumb. A part of your voice sounds with worry. Even in your desire, you recognize this will be the first time you've ever been together intimately.

Jake doesn't laugh or flit away the nerves on your face, instead planting soft kisses all over it. He knows he's not your first, nor are you his, but those facts don't completely dissuade a person from asking the obvious questions. He can see them all in your eyes. What if we don't fit sexually? What if it goes in a way that we didn't expect? What—

Jake finally kisses your lips again as he drags your underwear down, the concerns on your mind fading away like fog on a windshield the longer he teases you. He's unsurprised to find wetness pooling at your center when the pads of his fingers touch between your legs.

He quirks an eyebrow up when your whimper into his mouth. You feel foolish in an instant, the concerns you came into this situation with baseless. If you're already this slick with want, he may not even need to prep you at all.

It doesn't stop him from asking, though. "Do you need me to finger you first?" he asks before biting down on your bottom lip.

Your eyes roll into the back of your head as he runs his index and middle finger over your clit, your hips bucking up at the contact. "If you don't want me to last long, then sure."

Jake chuckles and trails kisses down your jaw. "I have all the time in the world, especially to make my girl come."

@gyubakeries @loserlvrss @yvnempire @addictedtohobi @filmnings @g0r3wh0rre

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𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑫 𝑴𝒀 𝑶𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑹 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑲𝑺 𝒐𝒓 𝑱𝑶𝑰𝑵 𝑴𝒀 𝑻𝑨𝑮𝑳𝑰𝑺𝑻𝑺 © 𝖠𝗅𝗅 𝗐𝗈𝗋𝗄𝗌 𝖺𝗋𝖾 𝖼𝗋𝖾𝖺𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝖻𝗒 𝖧𝖤𝖤𝖢𝖧𝖶𝖤; 𝖣𝗈 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝗋𝖾𝖽𝗂𝗌𝗍𝗋𝗂𝖻𝗎𝗍𝖾 𝗈𝗋 𝗌𝗍𝖾𝖺𝗅 𝖼𝗈𝗇𝗍𝖾𝗇𝗍.

[arthur-two-sheds-jackson]

It's... Monty Python's Media Masterpost!

Here, my fellows, as I promised, are the links for nearly every Python content released and available on the internet (missing only the Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) complete oratorio and PDF versions of the books - including Michael Palin's diaries), for the Python-obsessed, brain-fried completist like me. If you ever need to have easy access to something, just click on the links! And if you or someone you know wants to get into the Python fandom, just refer to this post!

Enjoy!!!

[Audios are in blue, TV shows, docs and specials are in green, films are in orange, games are in red and other kinds of content are in pink. (I chose the videos based on whether they were in good quality; most of them are in HQ or close to that when possible.)]

Monty Python's Flying Circus (Internet Archive version - Google Drive version)

Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus

Another Record

Previous Record

And Now For Something Completely Different

1971 Montreux Special

Labour Party Instructional Film

Birds Eye Peas Industrial Film

Close-Up Industrial Film

Matching Tie and Handkerchief

1973 sketch for Dutch TV

1973 French TV appearance

Is This a Record? Guinness Film

Live at Drury Lane

The Holy Grail

Live at the City Center (side 1 - side 2)

Life of Brian (Internet Archive version - YouTube version - The Pythons' 1979 a.D. BBC documentary - 1979 debate on Saturday Night, Sunday Morning)

Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Internet Archive version - YouTube version)

The Meaning of Life (complete with The Crimson Permanent Assurance!)

Parrot Sketch Not Included (Life of Python)

1990 Omnibus documentary

Monty Python Sings (Again)

Python Night (Paramount Comedy Network mockumentary)

Live at Aspen

Spamalot (concert film featuring the original Broadway cast - playlist of original Broadway cast recording)

Channel 4's 2006 documentary

Almost the Truth: Lawyer's Cut (with Russian subtitles... don't worry, I have BRICS immunity, I'll cover you) (part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6)

Holy Flying Circus (by @anythingcanhappeninmay and complete with bonus thingies!)

A Liar's Autobiography (the movie - audiobook narrated by Graham Chapman)

Live (Mostly) (And Now For Something Rather Similar)

Monty Python at 50 radio broadcasts (by @gordonsgano)

Michael Palin: A Life on Screen

Graham Chapman's Pre-Python Home Movies

Terry Jones' Home Movies

Michael Palin's 1978 Home Movies

The Holy Grail flash game

The Holy Grail PC videogame (at the Collection Chamber blog)

The Meaning of Life PC videogame (also at the Collection Chamber blog)

Complete Waste of Time PC videogame (also also at the Collection Chamber blog)