#note to self: dd2024

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6 November - It's finally over 🌅

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (i would say new readers beware, it has spoilers for the book but well... we are at the end already)

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Amazing!!! Your Seward looks so good here and this is such a cute meeting doodle :D I had to draw my own take @erosyrup

Meet Dr. Seward! 🦇 

Thank you guys so much for loving the Harkers!! @moonsun2010 left a tag about their chinese Seward so of course I had to incorporate that into my belief system. I now cast my Asian laser beam onto Seward!

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5 June - The Dracula Drought begins

a redraw of this art from DD2023!

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16 May - The weird sisters are here!

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

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8 May - Jonathan has a shaving accident

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

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Ooo omg thanks for this!! I'll definitely keep this in mind then. Any attempts to figure out outfits beyond a basic suit and tie keep inducing headaches

Sure! What styles do you see Edwardian Mina prefer?

I was going to say that I don't know enough about fashion history to have thoughts on this, but it turns out I have loads of thoughts anyway.

Up until Mr Hawkins' death, Mina's dress sense would have been relatively constrained. Victorian clothing was expensive. A particular difficulty for teachers in the kind of school where Mina (presumably) worked is that they had to project the lifestyle of the upper-middle and upper-class students that they catered to, but on salaries that made that kind of lifestyle a stretch to afford. Clothing would have been a significant part of that. I think it's plausible to say that Mina would have dressed in whatever she could afford that projected the right image for work, and there wouldn't have been room in her budget to reflect her own tastes all that much.

All that would change, of course, when Mr Hawkins died, Jonathan inherited and suddenly the Harkers are rich. I imagine that would feel quite daunting at first. Probably a little upsetting too, because if Mina was going to ask one person to advise her on how to dress now she can afford to do it stylishly, that person would be Lucy, and Lucy is gone. (I know that Lucy says she doesn't take enough interest in dress to describe the new fashions, but the fact that she brings that up out of nowhere in the middle of an unrelated letter makes me think that however boring she finds fashion, she probably had it foisted on her. And she would, had she lived, have loved to help Mina spend her newfound money on buying lovely things).

But I think by the time the Edwardian period came around, Mina would be able to fully enjoy dressing well. I didn't know much about Edwardian fashion but I was browsing the V&A online collection and found their collection of clothing that used to belong to a socialite called Heather Firbank. She was about 10-15 years younger than Mina would have been, but her clothes feel very Mina-ish to me.

Like, it's not just me, right? These are Mina clothes?

I particularly like the symbolism of Mina moving from dark, heavy Victorian clothing in the 1890s, to leaving that troubled period behind and wearing things that are lighter, more comfortable and easier to wear.

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4 August - The captain of the Demeter makes his last stand

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

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12 May - 🦎🦎🦎

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

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If there's one thing I've seen over and over again in the Dracula Daily + Re: Dracula fandom, it's the desire for an animated adaptation. Not of media-inspired-by, but of Dracula itself. And so, I've made:

...something that is decidedly not animated.

Yet.

I'm hoping to get Dracula Reanimated (tentative name) in exactly 1 year from now, by the end of DracDaily's 2025 run, perhaps even the beginning of it if I'm really good. But in all honesty, it could take till 2026 given the teeny complication that 1) I've no animation skills whatsoever 2) fulltime job.

So, I hope you'll stay around for the next 2 years at least to see this completed.

In the meanwhile, if you'd like to support a project by actual professionals, try @theholmwoodfoundation . It's a found footage horror fiction podcast by @georgiacooked and @fiotrethewey set in a time long after the events of Dracula, and yet the characters find themselves haunted (literally) by vestiges of the past.

Goodnight, stay safe, and rest well.

[moonsun2010]

25 June - Jonathan gives lizard fashion a go

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

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one of the coolest parts of Dracula Daily that I've come to appreciate is seeing posts from new readers excited to read Dracula (Daily) for the first time! now that we're coming up on the 3rd (well, 4th technically) year of Dracula Daily, you'd kind of expect readership to just drop off now that people have had their fun (which is perfectly fine btw). and its like, that's definitely happening and no year will compare to DD2022 and DD2023 (which had the advantage of Re: Dracula beginning its 1st year), so its still surprising to see new readers come in. People have already discussed DracDaily as a refreshing counter to the culture of binging-then-forgetting media, but it really does get more apparent with each run. Something about the fact that there are still new people interested in joining it past the initial meme/novelty of it is just, really nice! DracDaily is still kinda in its early stages though, so we'll only know how the fandom survives in like DD2025 probably, when even Re: Dracula will be in its 3rd run.

Welcome!! Enjoy the run, and I hope you'll stay. Its fun :)

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29 Sep - The grim conclusion

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

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11 Oct - Mina gives a speech. The group makes a promise (Jonathan makes another).

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

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7 November - The epilogue—now, a new story of our own making begins.

These are ending illustrations for an animatic, which you can watch here!

If you'd like to look at these in higher resolution, my kofi has a free zip file of it—pay what you want.

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4 Oct - In which Mina gets hypnotised

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

This bit here actually parallels an earlier bit when Lucy encounters Dracula on 11 August, except of course, now Mina is the one in control:

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11 Aug - Mina finds Lucy in the churchyard

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

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