#jonathan harker's insta

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Part One, Part Three, Part Four

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THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION PROLOGUE/TRAILER

It's finally here! Please enjoy the trailer/prologue for Season One of the Holmwood Foundation. Starring Rebecca Root, Seán Carlsen and Attila Puskas.

FILE TAKEN FROM THE WORK RECORDER OF MADELINE TOWNSEND, JUNIOR ARCHIVIST AT THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION, LUCY WESTENRA BUILDING, WHITBY.

LISTEN ON SPOTIFY, OR AT THE ACAST LINK BELOW:

CW: Brief Sirens. Loud Static

The Holmwood Foundation is a Found Footage Horror-Fiction Podcast.

We follow Maddie Townsend (Rebecca Root) and Jeremy Larkin (Seán Carlsen), two co-workers at the Holmwood Foundation: a secret organisation that has been maintaining and studying the remains of Count Dracula for the last 130 years, as they are possessed by the ghosts of Jonathan and Mina Harker, and embark on a nightmare road trip, carrying Dracula's severed head across the UK in an effort to stop him once and for all.

Find the Trailer transcript on our website, if required.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: https://www.theholmwoodfoundation.com/

Please like and share if you enjoy, and keep an eye on our socials (you can find us on Tumblr, Insta, Twitter, Tiktok and Facebook) in the coming weeks for both our Pilot Episode and our official Season One Kickstarter!

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BONUS REVIEW: Discord's Holiday Party (Cloutchase Friendsim)

Played in April because my friends' schedules didn't line up in time to play it during the winter holidays

Previous volume reviews for context: [1][2][3][4][5]

Event spoilers below the cut!

I don't think I need to add any further context since this is a bonus review of a bonus episode! Though, less of a review and more of me gushing about things I liked from the update. I may be like four or five months late but hey, who cares when I still had fun! >:D

I love the implementation of Insta's camera, glad she's getting use out of it. Is this sprite new? It's been a while so idk

BEGONE VILE VERMIN, YE SHAN'T PLAGUE THIS STATE WITH THINE PESTILENCE AND GREASE

I actually really like this Discord sprite. Like really really like it. I have a natural affinity for feral white-haired masc-presenting characters, but like in this very specific flavor. With Dracula season approaching, this is giving me major Jonathan Harker vibes ohohoho-

Deserved </3

Also it almost looks like Twitch and Discord are wearing matching socks awh. Love the paint splatter background, btw. This is deffo Andy's art style, hi Andy if ur reading this!

I love the self-awareness here. Go off plastics, polluting our cerebral fluids, slayyy

Ok seriously I have a lot of screenshots of just Discord making this face its just so perfect and I just- ahem I mean RAP BATTLE!!!!!!!

My friend Ams clocked this as a Donkey Kong rap reference before I did. I hereby applaud her 👏👏👏

Ok I also love this Twitter sprite because I just think Twitter is super duper pretty and- ahem I mean CAMERA! Yeah... camera

sdfhsfgdsgds that is not very poggers of you Twitch. I mean, Kik I can understand but AMINO? Srsly tho the friend code :<

Considering Discord was how I escaped my Amino phase, this image resonates with me... kinda

I can't believe Parasocialite made it into canon. 👏.👏.👏. I'm slow clapping you, AJ, if you're reading this

This event was a lot of fun and I like how there's no bad ending, just two routes with changing character arcs depending on if you do the gift exchange or not. I'd say my favorite is the route where you don't do the exchange, since that adds more development to Twitch's relationship with both Discord and Kik. I do love how everyone stole Twitter's gift in the other route though, that was hilarious. I don't remember which route was the rap battle but that was so fun. My friend Knight voiced both Tumblr and YouTube so just hearing him rap against himself was a delight and two fifths

That wraps up my reviews for the week though! Sorry if this one is a little less organized than my usual volume-specific ones, but I wanted to give the event its own post! Especially since I'm so late to the party

The holiday party... eyyyyyy. Okay nevermind-

Keep making these great stories and this great art! I'm happy to be a fan of this series and I'll continue to support you guys when I can! <3

I'll also try and get Ams and Knight to make their own OCs 👀 we'll see how that goes

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modern day jonathan harker would be like a travel blogger. he posts a pic of the paprika hendl on his insta story. he posts photos of the trip and writes the diary entries on his blog. all his followers are scared for him and begging him to be normal and go home and he’s like “wtf guys don’t be insensitive that’s their local customs. they probably treat every traveler this way” while he recieves his fifth crucifix of the day

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Given how many eyes must pass over a script during phases of editing and rewriting, that final episode of BBC Dracula was remarkably...holey. Many, many inconsistencies, loose ends and redundancies - and much laziness.

First. Positives. Performances, effects, certain bright glimmers of rich dialogue.

Dolly Wells and Claes Bang fucking sparkled. Bang was as repulsive and attractive a Count as one could hope for. (Let's not mince words, he's fucking gorgeous. God. And the eroticism of his appeal matters.) Wells was mercurial and witty and more than his match.

However...

One especially egregious writing hole to begin with. Dracula outright declared his (peculiarly hurried) fascination for the unique Lucy Westernra to be grounded in her willingness to open her veins to him. The first in 500 years, apparently. We see Agatha doing that very thing, and beating Lucy to the punch by some way, just over a century ago...

Mina was utterly redundant. She had no effect on the plot whatsoever. It isn't at all clear why she is included in the story. Jonathan's attachment to her never seemed half as affective as that to Dracula; the Count would have found "Johnny" regardless, and would have been invited in. Once dismissed, she disappeared. Poof. Gone.

The point about Zoe's distaste re. the source of funding was, if intended to be a subtle allusion to Dracula's sponsorship of others in the Demeter episode, too subtle by far. In either case, this point also became redundant. A curiously laboured repetition of the issue that never actually went anywhere.

The whole confinement/Wifi password/lawyer scene was so silly I hardly know where to begin. So I shan't.

Jack's storyline was, similarly to Mina's, dead weight. Assuming his ultimate purpose was the staking of the woman he loved, Lucy's final death could well have (and should have) been accomplished some other way than having a worryingly suicidal young woman be punished for an obsession with her beauty. Her narcissism, most irksomely, was completely unmoored from any social or cultural origin: it was irritatingly disingenuous to have it exist in a vacuum. (Note: the only other person to take a selfie in the show was another young woman who is immediately killed in a violent fashion. When Dracula takes advantage of Insta-culture to locate victims i.e. through Tinder, it is amusing. When women do it, it's reprehensible).

The general shallowness of the engagement with the new characters. Jack, Lucy, Zoe...there was simply insufficient time or focus on any one of them. Things were, clearly, rushed.

Dracula's sexual behaviours and the topic of reproduction. This is never expanded on, except, it seemed, for the purpose of queerbaiting. Given his other brides, it is heavily implied that vampire reproduction must occur between those of the opposite sex: Dracula's half-teasing/half-earnest enquiry about Jonathan wishing to be his bride simply uses bisexuality as a hook on which to hang the prurient misapprehension of the writing. Dracula himself appears to be libidinous but not erotic: he simply uses eroticism as a weapon to entrap and misdirect. Yet the show repeatedly coded Dracula's lack of gender preference in victims as (bi)sexual "greediness". Ravening his way through the Demeter - which gluttony is even pointed out by Agatha - relied on a lazy trope. As did the conjuring up of Agatha's apparent queerness in the context of promiscuous vow-breaking.

The Peekaboo child. Gratuitous. We know Dracula has no qualms about killing children, as per the first episode.

The fear and shame of Dracula at the end. This had the germ of a great idea: they just didn't stick the landing. That the nonsensical limits that had been set on Dracula (sunlight, invitations, the cross) should prove to be illogical precisely because they are the darlings of internalised guilt was an interesting touch. But they had Zoe/Agatha blurt this out in a few lines of dialogue, when it deserved to be unpacked far more thoroughly (especially given the various instances of wasted time in this episode re. Renfield, Jack, practically the whole Harker foundation shenanigans).

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Reasoning: Creating each new entry fills me w/ stress instead of joy. I haven't updated in weeks. I am severely behind. But do not want to disappoint y'all, which is why I'm asking instead of dropping off completely. <3

What is jonharker97? jonharker97 is Jonathan Harker's Insta page that I have been creating, which follows the entries of Dracula Daily, presumably when they are released. It was last updated on July 12th and updates can be found here. <3

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Two in a day!!! :D Yes, I know it was really short shh let me have this victory please. (May 18th)

(format/creative thing for each chapter drop is subject to change based on poll results/time/op's whim/etc.)

So I started Dracula Daily. Feeling the creative juices for it.

If I ever remember what the third option is I'll let y'all know. (It may have been doing Jonathan's insta via canva and then the first option may have just been writing a snippet so who knows :/)