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optimistpax · 1 year

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TRANSFORMERS AND SOUND EFFECTS

IN LAST BOT STANDING VS THE WORLD IN YOUR EYES

I am fresh out of comic book club and yelling about (idw2) tf sound effects to @autothotsrollout so y’all are getting an unedited, very limited essay on sound effects in (parts of) IDW2 before I pass out

TDLR: last bot standing has more dynamic sfx than world in your eyes and therefor looks more interesting. (I expected better from you Tom /j)

So first, Last Bot Standing. I pulled these from issues 3 and 4 if you’re looking for them.

As you can see, the lettering for sound effects in LBS uses a wide variety of typefaces and stroke effects to give the letters distinct personality. Sometimes they’re large and take up the whole panel, sometimes they’re relatively small. They can be found in the foreground or background or forced into perspective. Also, most notably, they often follow the action that’s happening in the page — following the dust clouds from speeding roddy, following the path roddy skids backwards, in an arc around a point of impact etc. I’m my opinion, the dynamic lettering absolutely makes these panels more exciting and interesting (I acknowledge I’m biased bc fun lettering makes me excited. Some people might just find the good lettering doesn’t detract anything, which is also fine. But imo it def is better with the sfx).

Meanwhile, here are some examples from the world in your eyes (idw2 vol. 1):

I can see what the GOAL is for how the lettering is set up here (only very clean typefaces to evoke mechanical rather than organic sound). But the problem here is that there’s not enough variation. They’re all relatively the same size and sit on top of the artwork rather than integrating WITH the artwork. The typefaces between different sound effects are very similar (if not the same). Otomatopia with the same spellings are not only the same, they’re copied and pasted! The letter variation is exactly the same! We’re lucky if there’s a slight colour variation! Something else that is noticeable is that because of this more rigid copy-paste structure, quite often the sound effects don’t emphasize the movement in the panel, which feels like a missed opportunity. This can be seen especially in the last panel of the page with Megatron and Orion with the “THOOMP” and image of a liquid splash on the panel. The sfx could be curved around the splash or follow the direction of the fall, but instead it’s just placed on top. All these combined make the sfx lettering feel too standardized, flat and inflexible, which is unfortunate because afaik the dialogue and caption lettering is pretty good in idw2, the art is gorgeous, and if the sfx were more dynamic it would really elevate the quality of the comic overall.

If you’d like to read more about how letterers make their sfx match the action on the page (among other lettering tips) you can read more about it here!

#idw2 #last bot standing #do I want to use the blast tag #yeah ok #maccadam #never delivered on that lettering essay last year bc I didn’t wanna transfer all those images one by one from google docs to Tumblr #so y’all get this unedited and condensed essay on sfx lettering instead #rest assured I have not stopped yelling about lettering to anyone who will listen to me after nate piekos book came out #comic theory #optimist.txt #undescribed

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angevinyaoiz · 10 months

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momson enjoyers r truly the most oppressed of the insence enjoyers across media in terms of quantity of good content and yet. Anyways for all our waxing poetic not a single eleanor/richard on ao3 despite being the blueprint (media and ppl historical inspired) doubtless for many literature with The Vibes later. Is it bc none of us will be able to outdo Mr. Goldman

#i could wear you like a bracelet #tliw #the devil's crown delivered for us too but a very different vibe #'why don't u write it yourself'#IM A VISUAL ARTIST #....i do have some cringe comics thumbnailed but i would have to do 10000 more research #also idk theyre so serious to me it goes into hhhgnngng corny territory really fast #different for me than the way i like the yaoiz (boys bonking each other on the head metaphorically)#anyway *devils crown voice* mystical marriage with saint valerie #growling out for gore #confused house of oedipus

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steakout-05 · 3 months

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important post regarding AI and Tumblr

i'm making this post just to make my followers aware that Tumblr is having a deal with selling user data to AI companies. as an avid AI Hater™ i'm incredibly against this decision as i think scraping people's data and using it to train models without them knowing is unethical. here's what to do if you don't want your blog to be a part of this:

go to your Blog Settings. on desktop, click your blog button and then click the 'Blog Settings' button on the right sidebar. on mobile, click the three bars in the top left, scroll to your blog button, open the menu underneath and click 'Blog Settings'.

scroll down to where it says "Prevent third-party sharing for [blog name]" and click the button next to it.

as an extra precaution i'm also discouraged searching for my blog from sites like Google and Yahoo as well. i hate the integration of AI into social media and i hope this AI integration trend burns and explodes into a million pieces.

#i hate ai #fuck ai #all my homes hate ai!!!#the only ai i respect is data soong and his silly lil weirdo family #if data were here he'd hate this #no but seriously i despise the integration of ai into fucking everything. i hate it. i hate everything about it.#it was funny when it was just dalle generating pictures of walter white delivering pizzas but now?#now it's just getting ridiculously unethical and really scary #i hope a really big set of laws are made that practically squash all of this #i hate ai so much i really do #do you understand how annoying it is to search something up only to see that half the results are just generated by ai-#-and have nothing to do with what i fucking searched up in the first place???#i'm so sick and tired of seeing 50 ai generated ''cursed garfield'' images when i'm trying to search up garfield comics it's THAT BAD #i don't CARE if most of my posts are just stupid shitposts i'm not letting midjourney use it as training data for their stupid ai #i might actually just move over to cohost or something because i'm so sick of tumblr's decisions at this point #does this mean i might have to private my art? god i hope not #i want to keep this blog up for people to enjoy because i really do like the shitposts and art i post on here #but if this shit starts to get wild i might have to private it all #cohost is a little smaller and cosier and i like that so i might start reposting everything there chronologically #i would recommend that people make a cohost account and archive their stuff there because the platform seems promising #i hope ai explodes

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dutybcrne · 6 months

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A secret little way into Kaeya's heart happens to be valberries. He loves them greatly, and if someone were to make it a habit to leave him little bundles of fresh-picked valberries to snack on, guaranteed he would end up adoring them.

#hc; kaeya #//Likes to think of when he and Luc used to grab fistfuls of harvested/delivered berries and make off with them #//And Crepus and Tunner would either pretend not to notice; or do a dramatic; comical attempt at 'catching' them #//He does the very same with Klee if he happens to have berries or other snacks and she pops by #//Loves hearing her squeals of delight & surprise when he catches and scoops her right up to put her in Air Jail #//But ye; he LOVES it when people are thoughtful enough to think of him and set aside berries for him; esp Valberries #//Misses for those golden summer days of juice-sticky hands; tangy-sweets; & giggly escapes to the Winery's rooftop quite dearly #//If he happens to make a rather contemplative face while snacking; that's why #//Is also contemplating getting Luc a share of berries. For old times' sake #//Sometimes he goes through with it (& anonymously; given through Addie); sometimes doesn't and gets melancholic #//Him sharing berries is a love language #//If any of his fellow captains (and Klee) happen to be nearby; he Will make it a point to share. And very much Insist upon it #//It being a little pickmeup for the day; he'll call it #//But they know well it's his own little way of saying I love you #//It goes DOUBLE if offered to the person who gifted them. Berries always taste Much better shared; is what he'd say #//And he has the memories to back it up

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fatimajpeg · 2 years

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“honestly frank miller’s dark knight returns 2 was camp in the way i was losing my mind because omg this can’t be real” SCREAMINGGG

NO BUT LITERALLY I could not believe it was approved??? No one during the whole editing process said maybe we should reconsider??

I don’t want to give it the “so bad it’s good” badge of honor but it was so bonkers and batshit (haha) insane i could not believe it was anything but a parody. Like objectively nothing about it was good, made zero sense, no one should read it but my god it was…. an experience

#LIKE there were almost naked news anchors delivering “sexy” news after every 2 pages #superman and wonder woman have a secret weird lovechild #batman is using his batboys to fight the lex luthor dictatorship #dick is a shape shifting immortal joker #i could maybe buy it was parodying male fantasies found in comics BUT THIS WAS ALL SERIOUS ALL OF IT WAS PLAYED STRAIGHT #do not read it lmaooo i just could not believe my eyes #ask #anon

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wingedcatp · 1 month

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Deliver Us is a dark fantasy comic about Mareo's journey to survive in a world straining to stay afloat in clan disputes, demonic strain, and angelic influence. Subscribe to my patreon for just $2 a month to read ahead multiple pages! My card.co so you can find me anywhere

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teaah-art · 2 years

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@sundaralekhan Day 6 - Alternate Universe : Shameless Self Promo Ragtag Misfits

Hindu Cosmology believes in a reincarnating universe. The world we live in starts fresh and pure and progressively gets corrupted. Ultimately, it gets so corrupt that it needs to be destroyed to be reborn afresh - and the cycle continues. One period of this cycle is distributed into four epochs. Wondering which epoch we live in? Well, the worst one - Kaliyug.

Kaliyug is supposed to be a god forsaken era where superstition and blind faith are rampant and corruption increases by leaps and bounds. 'The world is going to shit' is no news for us but how would it have been in ancient times? History tells us there wasn't an era that wasn't corrupt. And here comes my personal project that delves into this niche of Ancient Indian history x Hindu/Hindu derivative mythology in the form of a webcomic.

Ragtag Misfits is based in South Asia of 4th Century BCE - a supposed golden era for Ancient India where the Mauryan Empire flourished and Buddhism took momentum. And yet, it was Kaliyug back then. What did that mean for the world at the time? Ragtag Misfits is set in this backdrop and follows a ragtag band of travellers - misfits, outcasts, crooks, and 'villians' - each on their own quest for their own motives, but pulled together due to fate, destiny, and grand schemes much larger than themselves.

First chapter will likely drop late October/early November on WebToon but I will keep dropping easter eggs on this blog! Though if you are curious and want to expedite the process of me posting Ragtag Misfits content, do send asks about it! External Validation™ is all that keeps me going sometimes 🥲

Other Ragtag Misfits Posts

#sundaralekhan #ragtag misfits #rgtg #new webtoon #original comic #original art #original character #oc art #oc #my art #if you are one of the six followers who used to follow me when rgtg post was pinned im sorry i couldn't deliver by the end of july #things got extremely busy irl #elaborating only on the world setting here instead of characters because this is an 'AU' prompt heh

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planet4546b · 2 years

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the really good thing about this mel comic im working on is that it is cementing one THOUSAND percent that a comic is the right format for s/n. having so much fun breaking this medium in plot relevant ways

#pers #like. very very gneuinely involved thoughts about it!!!! like how dialogue is delivered and who is in and out of frame #and who gets to break the format and how it starts breaking and how its being used.....#i may be a newbie at comics but this is just SUCH a fun medium to fuck with and the way it can imply #things ESPECIALLY about being in or out of the narrative.........hehe im having fun #also!!!! its a very good sign that i can make a page in a handful of hours if inm using this looser style #and i still love how this style looks so im happy to use it. s/n becoming real.....

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wolfofansbach · 9 months

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BEING A LIST OF THE THIRTEEN GREATEST RIVERDALE LINES, ON THE OCCASION OF THAT SHOW'S TERMINATION

As our much loved/hated show comes to an end, I feel compelled to record, for posterity, the greatest thirteen pieces of dialogue to spring from the pens of RAS and his henchmen. It was, of course, originally a top ten list, but I simply could not exclude a few of these treasures. Without further ado:

13.

“I dropped out in the 4th grade, to sell drugs, to support my nana.”

“That means you haven't known the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of high school football.”

Spoken by: an inmate of Leopold and Loeb Juvenile Detention Center, and Archie Andrews.

In: 3 x 2

Yeah, okay, this one had to be on the list. It’s funny, I’ll admit. It’s a great example of the overwrought semi-sincere melodrama that helped make this show so special. It’s low on the list largely because The Normies got their hands on it, so every time I hear someone make a reference I get all “do not cite the deep magic to me, witch.”

12.

“No! No! What are we supposed to do now? I’m horny as heck!”

Spoken by: Archie Andrews

In: 7 x 16

Season 7 is undeniably dreadful, and yet there are diamonds in the rough. The occasion is the failure of a projector, just as Archie and Reggie prepare to watch a pornographic film. The utter desperation with which KJ Apa delivers this line is exquisite. One is made to feel they are witnessing a genuine tragedy.

11.

“Tonight, they’re making an exception and debuting a cover of the song my parents claim they were listening to the night Jason and I were conceived.”

Spoken by: Cheryl Blossom.

In: 1 x 1

Really a fantastic line. A wonderful encapsulation of the casual absurdity of Cheryl’s character, and a foretaste of the lunacy we would plumb in later episodes and seasons.

10.

“In case you haven’t noticed, I’m weird. I’m a weirdo. I don’t fit in and I don’t want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That’s weird.”

Spoken by: Jughead Jones

In: 1 x 10

A genuine classic. “High school football” before “high school football.” One is never entirely sure just how sincere the line is meant to be, both on a meta-level and in-universe. A perfect illumination of Jughead’s pretentiousness. It is made all the better by the occasional cuts to Lili Reinhard’s agonized face.

“At the last dance, multiple students were murdered.”

Spoken by: Principal Holden Honey.

In: 4 x 2

Delivered as an explanation to Toni and Cheryl, as to why there would be no school dance this year. Principal Honey is in fact supremely rational in the cancellation of this dance. This being Riverdale, he is of course treated as an unreasonable tyrant.

“Bro, I know all the secrets of this universe.”

Spoken by: Archie Andrews (evil version)

In: 6 x 5

Spoken as evil Archie reveals his evil plan to keep the parallel universes apart. KJ Apa’s delivery once again makes this line. He is comically sinister. Strangely, he sells it.

“A Vughead kiss, right now, in the present might be precisely what it takes to save a future Bughead from imploding.”

Spoken by: Jughead Jones.

In: 2 x 14

One of those lines that both makes me laugh and makes me genuinely angry. This was a fairly early season, and this may have actually been the first line to get me asking, ‘did they genuinely write and deliver that?’ Extra points for use of the atrocious ‘Vughead’ portmanteau ship name rather than ‘Jeronica.’

“I’m the ultimate wild card. I am the daughter of The Black Hood. The nightmare from next door. I’m training with the FBI and I’m coming for you, you psycho bitch.”

Spoken by: Betty Cooper

In: 4 x 14

Just delicious. Another one of those lines that leaves you somewhat unsure whether or not the writers understood how genuinely hysterical it was. “The Nightmare from Next Door” sounds like an announcer hyping up a wrestler. Spoken with a raw sincerity by Lili Reinhart. Also points for the heavy homoeroticism between Betty and Donna.

“For I am Cheryl Blossom, Queen of the Bees.”

Spoken by: Cheryl Blossom.

In: 5 x 16.

This one really doesn’t require any elaboration.

“Elijah ascended…and I will, too.”

Spoken by: Edgar Evernever.

In: 4 x 5.

Admittedly, this one is only spectacular with context. But in context—the context being that Chad Michael Murray delivers this line while dressed like Evel Knievel and standing in a cartoon rocket right out of a Warner Bros cartoon—it becomes utterly magnificent.

“It’s not queer baiting, it’s saving the world.”

Spoken by: Veronica Lodge.

In: 6 x 22.

It’s actually hard for me to decide whether this one is funnier with or without context. Without context it’s wonderful, but it possibly becomes even funnier when you know that the context is that Veronica needs to kiss Cheryl to transfer superpowers into her body so she can turn into a Scarlet Witch knock-off and stop a magic comet summoned by Sephiroth an English wizard who is also the Devil.

“If there’s no wedding reception, it means the Gargoyle King has won.”

Spoken by: Kevin Keller.

In: 3 x 12.

One of my personal favorites. This is a perfect line because like #3, it requires no real elaboration. There is absolutely no context in which it isn’t hysterical.

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“Word of my exploits serving Nick his comeuppance has seeped into the demimonde of mobsters and molls my father used to associate with, so the five families are sending their youngest and brightest, their ‘princes,’ as it were to, well, come court the rare Mafia Princess who can belly up to the bar with the big boys.

Spoken by: Veronica Lodge.

In: 2 x 20.

This is, in my opinion, the all-timer. Every word is perfect. The rapid-fire alliteration. The use of the word ‘demimonde.’ The entirely unnecessary addition of ‘as it were.’ This is borderline Dr. Seuss. The fact that Camila Mendes delivered it without cracking a smile should have won her an Emmy. No. An Oscar. This line is Riverdale.

#riverdale #veronica lodge #jughead jones #betty cooper #archie andrews #kevin keller #cheryl blossom #edgar evernever

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see-arcane · 30 days

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Our good friend Jonathan Harker is getting ready to leave for his business trip, Mina Murray is picking out a new journal, Lucy Westenra is charming a gaggle of smitten suitors, Abraham van Helsing is wrapping up his lectures, and Castle Dracula is prepping the guest room for a very long stay.

Which must mean that Dracula Season is here again!

‘Dracula Season’ being a catchall term for the voracious reading, memeing, writing, illustrating, analyzing, and general fun-having that’s ensued since Matt Kirkland’s project, Dracula Daily, caught on with us back in 2022. The Substack had already been running before then, but it sparked a conflagration as time went on and readers old and new to Bram Stoker’s Dracula—the actual novel, not Coppola’s fanfiction—devoured it in a way that scratched an itch none of us knew we had. Stoker wrote the book in epistolary fashion, clumping sections together as needed for the pacing without perfect adherence to chronological order. Matt went ahead and put all the events in order and proceeded to set up a lovely chain of emails that delivered entries on those correlating dates.

This style of organization and pacing turned out to not only make the virtual book club that much easier to engage with, but left space in-between to stew on the story and relate with the characters themselves. Every day of waiting in the book feels weightier when you have to pace and sweat and worry in tandem with poor Jonathan trapped in the castle or Lucy wasting away or Mina running out the clock before she loses the fight for her own humanity. And while we sat with the story or the lulls between Dracula Seasons, some of us found ourselves craving more of that ghastly gothic horror goodness to the point that we figured:

“Well. Why don’t I make something?”

And then we did! Tons of creative works have been churned out in the wake of Dracula Daily’s high. I figured that while we’ve still got a bit of time to wait for May 3rd, we should check out all this new stuff in the meantime. (Plus a handful of neat stuff that just clicks with the Dracula itch overall.)

So, in the interest of Dracula Season pregaming, let’s take a look at…

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Blood of My Blood – A recent addition to the Dracula Bad Ending AU pile, and definitely one of the most harrowing and addictive group-produced narratives I’ve ever come across, Blood of My Blood is the dramatically gothic currently-WIP work of @ibrithir-was-here and @animate-mush’s devious design. Give or take a heap of other fascinated folks (hello!) adding ideas to put more Horror into the Horrors that our cast has to face. The premise:

The Transylvanian climax went fatally sour and the Harkers were forced to shelter with Dracula himself, including their half-vampire son, Quincey. Cut to two decades later, and Quincey finds himself out in modern London, smitten with Lu, adopted daughter of Arthur and Jack, and diving into certain bloodstained old documents that detail the real history of how his parents came to live in the castle. Said revelations coming not a moment too soon, as a storm is coming for him straight from the Carpathians…

Dracula Daily Sketch Collection – An array of illustrations that captures every entry beat by beat, the Dracula Daily Sketch Collection by Georgia Cook, alias @georgiacooked was dished out over the course of the last Dracula Season. Some of the most fun character designs out there.

Fanfiction Spotlight: BlueCatWriter – With a whopping 99 works devoted to the novel Dracula (so far, the number may have gone up since I blinked), @bluecatwriter is one of the most prolific and talented fanfiction scribblers out there. Romances, nightmares, and overlaps between the two seem to crop up the most, give or take a crossover. Seems fitting that those blue paw prints have contributed to BoMB too.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk – An ongoing comic in which all your favorite characters from the Classics section get together and tackle some perils ranging from the mundane to the monstrous. Started by the amazing @mayhemchicken and posted on @lxgentlefolkcomic, this series is a love letter to beloved Victorian era lit, with a spotlight on the two couples leading the League. Namely, the Harkers, ala Dracula, and the Nortons, ala Sherlock Holmes,’ “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Mina and Irene are the driving investigative and steering forces here, and still deeply in love with their likewise-infatuated husbands, just like in their canons! What a concept! Alan.

Without spoiling the full character list, just know there are going to be a ton of familiar faces roaming around before you finish reading the first arc. Said arc having conveniently wrapped up just a few days ago! Give the comic and its bonus silliness a look if you’re in the mood for a new comfort-adventure epic.

Re: Dracula – Probably the most well-known and incredible thing to come out of the initial Dracula Daily wave. This podcast is a full audio drama that follows the same format as the Substack, with episodes coming out in time with the entries themselves. And it has an unfairly cool soundtrack. They have a Tumblr with @re-dracula, a site and a Patreon to check out before the series kicks up again on May 3rd. (Also, keep an eye out for their next work, an audio drama in the same style with Carmilla.)

The Soldier and the Solicitor – Another treat from @ibrithir-was-here, this one involves a bit of time travel trouble. Quincey Harker has stumbled out of World War I and into the same dark forest where his father once fled for his life…then runs into the man himself, on that same night. Jonathan Harker, young and starved and lost, who has no choice but to trust this stranger while the Weird Sisters are at his heels…despite said stranger having no shadow. It’s a tasty emotional trek, already complete on Tumblr, but now it’s turning into a Webtoon. While Ibrithir is juggling a number of other stories, she’ll be redrawing spruced up versions of the comic and adding a few new scenes as things unfold.

Substack Stack – You know what’s better than one emailed-out public domain book club? A mountain of them. Just. So, so many of them. You’ll see that a lot of these are finished, but some are still ticking along. Either way, they’re all great picks if you’re craving some more old school lit to fill the void between undead emails.

Frankenstein Weekly – Frankenstein

Jekyll and Hyde Weekly – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Voyage of the Nautilus – Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Letters from Watson – Sherlock Holmes

The Invisible Mail – The Invisible Man

Letters from Bunny – E.W. Hornung’s short stories of the eponymous Bunny and Raffles

Letters Regarding Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster short stories, including the novel, Right Ho, Jeeves

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…The Beetle Weekly – The Beetle (NOTE: Do Not Read This.)

The Vampyres – A novella I finally wrenched through the gears of self-publication as of March this year. Starring a petite but powerful paranormal cast, The Vampyres, centers on an unscrupulous undead fellow who finds that the revenants of the world are being mowed down by an entity known only as ‘Quinn Morse.’ Between trying to save his neck and figure out where the shadowy bastard came from, the Vampyre in question crosses paths with a new paramour and handy human shield in the form of a grieving Good Samaritan. He’s even polite enough to invite the Vampyre into his home while he’s in dire straits! Surely this will end well. All the info is available here and a little author site is over here.

What Manner of Man – This is the one made for everyone who started out hoping there’d be a real love story with our good friend Jonathan Harker and the Count when he was at his most charismatic. Where that sea of wonders dried up into a mire of horror, What Manner of Man by @stjohnstarling keeps things firmly on the romantic tracks. This Substack stars the letter-writing priest Father Victor E. Ardelian as he finds himself meeting with one enigmatic Lord Alistair Vane. It isn’t long before interest turns into intrigue and intrigue into undead intimacies.

The entire novel has been completed—along with multiple epilogues in the author’s Patreon, allowing readers to choose for themselves just how the uncanny romance plays out in the end—and the Substack now has a number of other gothic goodies piling up in the meantime.

NONFICTION

Dracula Daily: A Unique Reading Experience: This one comes courtesy of @realwomenofgaming. It’s a short and sweet piece that amounts to a fun snapshot of the entire Dracula Daily ride. A cozy couple-minute read.

‘Dracula Daily’ is the One Substack You Need a Subscription To: Features my favorite Matt Kirkland interview. @mattkirkland, if you’re still floating around on here, thank you for dispatching our vampire newsletter again this year.

Dracula Daily is Tumblr’s hottest new book club: Alright, the ‘new’ part is worn out by now, but this one is still a delightful article to swing back around to. Two years on, this Polygon piece is a time capsule of those early months when people outside our bookworm bubble realized we were all happily receiving letters from our favorite classic gothic horror blorbos.

“How Mina Murray Became Dracula’s Girlfriend” – Princess Weekes, if you ever read this, thank you, thank you, thank you. I am sending oceans of love and millions of rewatches to your video essay. If you haven’t seen it yet, “How Mina Murray Became Dracula’s Girlfriend” is one of the most refreshing and well-made breakdowns of both the title subject and numerous other issues that have proliferated in the public view of Dracula’s cast and plot as adaptations endlessly warp or outright bastardize the actual novel. An incredibly cathartic watch.

Literary play gone viral: delight, intertextuality, and challenges to normative interpretations through the digital serialization of Dracula: A mouthful of a title for an even more elaborate article about the Dracula Daily phenomenon. This one is a full-on study that analyzes just what happened within the big bloodsucker book club surge and how its ‘wandering reading practices’ enriched the experience for participants.

“The Undying Undead: An analysis of the Dracula Daily community for a theory of online community formation and interaction” – We have a thesis on here! Look at that! @sirangelothebestest’s MA thesis used our vampiric book club as the bones for a massive brick of an academic piece that definitely deserves a look.

…And I think I’ll go ahead and cap things here.

This isn’t everything I got recommended, but if I had squashed all of it in here, I think folks’ eyes would start to fall out of their head. I hope you can find something cool to comb through here. Or, if there’s something great I overlooked, tack it onto the list! We’ve got just two weeks to go until we’re off with Mr. Harker. Let’s enjoy our respite before those castle doors close behind us.

#time for Dracula Season pre-gaming :3 #thank you to everyone who sent in their suggestions!#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula

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