#dracula daily adjacent

[thethirdromana]

Can you tell us anything about the practice of Letters of Introduction in the Victorian era?

I'm very happy to answer this! But as I get an increasing number of asks like this, I do want to say up front, I'm not in any sense a historian. I have fun with historical context posts on tumblr and I have a solid layperson's knowledge of a decent chunk of British history, but that's all. I don't want to claim or have anyone assume expertise that I don't have.

I do, however, love random bits of research so let's go.

A letter of introduction was a bit like a modern-day reference, written from person A to person B about person C - Peter Hawkins to Count Dracula about Jonathan Harker, for instance (I assume that's what prompted this question!).

Just as a modern-day reference might say "this person is who they say they are, they worked for me and I can vouch that their skills and experience are what they claim", a letter of introduction does... well, basically the same thing, except for a wider range of functions, including social ones. That could range from "this person is who they say they are, so please permit them to do their job" to "this person is my friend and knows how to behave in polite company, please invite them to your parties".

Here's an example letter of introduction from 1896, about Marconi, the inventor of radio, who was then aged just 21 but who already had promising ideas:

Campbell-Swinton was a notable electrical engineer; Preece was the Chief Electrical Engineer of the General Post Office.

Just like a modern-day reference, if it turned out that the person being vouched for was not a good person to be introducing - maybe they were not quite who they said they were, or they behaved badly - then it would reflect poorly on the person introducing them. A letter of introduction could also be very valuable for the person being introduced as a leg up into whatever part of society they wanted access to. Which is also like a modern-day reference, only much more so, given this was a world with far fewer ways to prove your identity or qualifications.

In Marconi's case, it worked exceptionally well: this letter was written at the end of March in 1896, and by July of the same year he was demonstrating his new technology to the British government.

[motherofmonstersao3]

Benign, not banal.

[ibrithir-was-here]

Made another rough comic for the “Time Traveling Quincey Harker helps save Jonathan” AU

Original concept here

Part 2

[wheres-hoid]

This is an RE: Dracula (Bloody FM) appreciation post 💕💕

[pyratical]

so curious about The Roommates. They seem to have completely different manifestations of power to Dracula? like, hypnotism and turning into shadow/moonlight and still drinking blood (or wholesale consuming children). We never see them shapeshift, crawl, or even hunt for themselves. They seem to be quite content to just. Ghost around and taunt Jonathan, and wait for Drac to bring home the babecon (sorry).

[vickyvicarious]

[imsorryimlate]

okay, time for the promised brainrot post, which concerns the expansion of the JSFCU (jack seward feminisation cinematic universe).

so i made this post about how van helsing was subtly feminising jack, and well, today’s entry didn’t exactly deter me from that idea:

I suppose there is something in woman's nature that makes a man free to break down before her and express his feelings on the tender or emotional side without feeling it derogatory to his manhood; for when Lord Godalming found himself alone with me he sat down on the sofa and gave way utterly and openly.

my immediate thought when i read this was “but van helsing has had two breakdowns in front of jack”, which, of course is a testament to how much he trusts him, but also accidentally implies that jack has a woman’s nature.

which kind of shows how he misread his own role in those interactions; he tried to act stern with van helsing as if he were a woman, because in jack’s mind, van helsing wasn’t acting like a man. but maybe he was? maybe he was acting like a man in front of a woman. jack just didn’t know that was the role he’d been cast in.

anyway, disclaimer that this isn’t like, a serious analysis, it’s just for fun, and of course i recognise the problematic nature of these gender roles etc, etc.

[reblog-house]

WAS THAT THE SOUND EFFECT OF WHEN YOU PUT ON THE FREDDY MASK IN FNAF 2??!?

NO FUCKING WAY. IT IS. JACK SEWARD LEAVING THROUGH A WINDOW SOUNDS LIKE WEARING A FREDDY MASK. GIRL. I LOVE WHEN SOUND EFFECTS COINCIDE.

I keep repeating that segment. It 100% is, no doubt about it. Goddd I can't stop laughing.

It's at 7:21 btw.

[lewdhat]

Jonathan’s entry about following the boxes of dirt to find out where Dracula lives is so much funnier if you remember that Dracula is literally John Seward’s neighbor.

[yuzu-all-the-way]

Today's the start of Dracula daily?????

Asagiri, when I get you...

^bsd fandom has not finished suffering

[thebibi]

We all joke about how Jack is a maidenless virgin who should get laid but honestly I think the real frustration would be that he'd never mention it in his diary. And especially not where Mina would have to hear it. He'd just have a good night's sleep and talk about things with vague post-nut calmness about how he believed the stupidest shit last night or if it was a good romp he'll be all smiles and super accommodating and we would speculate if the sleep was really that good or if he got some late night "exercises" in as well

[thethirdromana]

Broke: vampires are vulnerable to the trappings of Christianity only, particularly Catholicism, no matter how dubiously applied. (See: Van Helsing's Communion wafer grouting).

Woke: vampires are vulnerable to sincere faith of all kinds, and atheist vampire-hunters need to believe very strongly in the Power of Friendship or their love of Star Trek to get by.

Bespoke: vampires are vulnerable to the faith that they followed when they were alive, and hunters tracking down an ancient vampire are obliged to learn about Neo-Babylonian theology or Middle Palaeolithic bear cults.

[motherofmonstersao3]

Just looked at my Dracula Daily posts. "Freya maintains a consistent formatting scheme challenge. Difficulty Level: Impossible."

I think bemusement is probably the appropriate response. That, and adjustment. I'll leave the odd ones out up as proof of my (mild, very banal, and more personally than actually annoying) failure.

[ibrithir-was-here]

So!! Currently redrawing "The Solider and the Solicitor", and just published the first chapter on Webtoon, which happens to be a brand new chapter not seen in the OG comic! So give it a look if you like!

[cinemaocd]

More vaguely worried sunset pics....

[amethystsoda]

Which dracula are you today??