I feel like people have heard about the time Bram Stoker sent his tinder bio to Walt Whitman but haven’t actually read the tinder bio so in honor of Dracula Daily’s return (and me finding my copy of Dracula that actually had the correspondence between Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman), here’s Bram Stoker’s pass at Walt Whitman:
I am not Shelley and you are not Godwin and so I will only hope that sometime I may meet you face to face and perhaps shake hands with you If I ever do it will be one of the greatest pleasures of my life. If you care to know who it is that writes this, my name is Abraham Stoker (Junior). My friends call me Bram. I live at 43 Harcourt St, Dublin. I am a clerk in the service of the Crown on a small salary. [’How did I get the impression that he was still in college?’] I am twenty-four years old. Have been champion at our athletic sports (Trinity College, Dublin) and have won about a dozen cups. I have also been President of the College Philosophical Society and an art and theatrical critic of a daily paper. I am six feet two inches high and twelve stone weight naked and used to be forty-one or forty-two inches round the chest. I am ugly but strong and determined and have a large bump over my eyebrows. I have a heavy jaw and a big mouth and thick lips - sensitive nostrils - a snubnose and straight hair. I am equal in temper and cool in disposition and have a large amount of self control and am naturally secretive to the world. I take a delight in letting people I don’t like - people of mean or cruel or sneaking or cowardly disposition - see the worst side of me. I have a large number of acquaintances and some five or six friends - all of which latter body care much for me. Now I have told you all I know about myself. [’And a mighty graphic picture it is too: I seem to see you not as in a glass darkly but as in the broad day lightly: I do, I do!’]
Bram Stoker originally penned this in 1872, but only sent it to Walt Whitman along with a second letter in 1876 after attending a meeting at Dublin’s Fortnightly Club, where he had, in his words, participated in a “hot debate” over Whitman’s poetic “genius”
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Hi!
I was wondering if you could get screenshots of the amusement park seen in Identity Crisis and Flirting with Disaster along with that one park in Reality Trip when they fight Fullghost! Freakshow?
I need them as art references for developping lore around Goosebumps Park(yes, that's the name I gave to the amusement park) for my ongoing fanfic and even share it to everyone for their fanfics and fanarts as a separate post later on.
Season 1, Episode 14 - 13
Season 2, Episode 6 - Identity Crisis
Season 2, Episode 10 - Flirting With Disaster
Season 2, Episode 17 - Reality Trip
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putting aside the screaming over the tragedies of today, this entry marks the first time our disaster doctor duo commits a (suspiciously well-coordinated) breaking and entry. i have so many questions about jack's time in amsterdam
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Daily Ficlet 8
I’m challenging myself to write a little ficlet every day, using the prompts from this list. Today’s prompt is gas station.
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"What a turn of events!" Robin says gleefully once they make eye contact over the counter. "I get to come harass you at your job now."
"Please do," Eddie whines from his side of the counter, draping himself across it. He's careful to hover his face just above the counter because now that he's working with the general public, he's realizing how disgusting other people can be and he is not going to shove his face into where all these gross people touch.
"That fun?" Robin laughs.
"Yeah, fun, that's the word."
"What, not loving the graveyard shift at Gas and Snack?"
"Could be worse, I suppose," Eddie agrees, straighten to look at Robin. "I could be the morning shift. That dude has to show up when I leave. Can you imagine getting up that early?"
Robin rolls her eyes at him and fishes out her wallet. "Can I get $3 on pump one?"
"How's it feel to be a free bird, Robin?" Eddie asks, taking the money and setting the pump.
"Weird. It's been a week of the car and I already miss calling Steve for ride."
"You could just. Do that. He's not going to be upset if you ask."
"I know," Robin says, "I was just hoping to make it longer than a week before I broke down. Feels needy, you know?"
"You and Steve? Needy?" Eddie gasps, "Since when? No, but really, he misses you just as much. Heck, even if you drive, Steve'll be happy to just run errands with you."
"Oh! Why hadn't I thought of that!? See, this is why we keep you around, Munson. That beautiful brain of yours."
"No, I'm pretty sure it's because my boyfriend loves me and enjoys my company."
Robin pretends to think about it before she says, "No. I don't think that's it. It's definitely because you are the ideas guy in our trio."
"Then who are you and Steve?"
"Clearly I'm the brawn and he's the beauty," she flexes her arms, and being fair to Robin, it's nothing to laugh at. "Anyway, better go pump that. But have a good night, Eddie!"
"Night Robin!"
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no but actually I love messing with the disaster lineage. like. yeah, what if Dooku was Obi-Wan's master? What if Qui-Gon was Anakin's master? what if Obi-Wan did end up being Ahsoka's master? let's add on to it. Dooku as Asajj's Master. Asajj as Ahsoka's master. Rael as Obi-Wan's master. Anakin as Rael's padawan. Ky Narec as Dooku's padawan. Sabine as Anakin's padawan. Luke as Qui-Gon's padawan. Yoda as Obi-Wan's master. Ahsoka as Yoda's padawan. feel free to keep adding on to it the possibilities are almost endless
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