#may 15

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Miguel Covarrubias’s illustration for an article titled “Our changing tastes … in 1938,″ from the May 15, 1938, edition of American Vogue. The celebrities of the moment are, from left, Benny Goodman, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Orson Welles, Robert Taylor, Lily Pons, Salvador Dali, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Walt Disney, Dorothy Thompson, and Shirley Temple.

Photo: Posterazzi

#vintage New York #1930s #Miguel Covarrubias #artwork #illustration #caricatures #May 15 #15 May #Vogue #celebrities #trends #tastes #popularity

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Devils Hole Pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis)

(Photo by Olin Feuerbacher)

Conservation Status- Critically Endangered

Habitat- Devil’s Hole in Nevada

Size (Weight/Length)- 3 cm

Diet- Algae; Aquatic plants; Insects

Cool Facts- I actually got the opportunity to speak with one of the lead conservationists working to protect the Devils Hole pupfish. He described holding two buckets full of the pupfish and realizing he was holding the last population left on the planet. These bright blue pupfish are some of the rarest fish in the world. Originally only inhabiting Devils Hole pond in Nevada, they evolved separately from any other desert pupfish species. Starting in the 2010, several pupfish were caught and began an offsite breeding program in an attempt to increase their genetic diversity. Efforts to protect Devils Hole are extensive and water is slowly added to the aquifer to keep water levels steady. 

Rating- 13/10 (As of 2022, only 263 wild adults remain.)

#Animal of the day #Animals #Fish #Freshwater fish #Monday #May 15 #Devils hole pupfish #Pupfish #biology #science #conservation #the more you know

[fightthereality]

Oh my Dear Friend Jonathan Harker, we’re really in it now

#dracula daily #re: dracula #Dracula #may 15 #yearly Dracula read

[maritasdump]

"I don’t know who you think you are, but let me tell you who I am: I am the granddaughter of a hero and a child of a villain. I am a citizen of a fallen Kingdom and an heir to nothing. I will not be defined by my name because I will be the one to define it!"

#weiss schnee #rwby #birthday post #birthday #may 15 #mari.txt #BEST GIRL HAPPY BIRTHDAY

[barrywhelk]

Jonathan sitting at the old writing desk today like

✍️ woe that I must be trapped in this castle, but at least now I can pretend to be a girl trapped in a castle… ✍️

#dracula #dracula daily #dracula bram stoker #jonathan harker #may 15 #he is so transfem tho #female boy solicitor

[akasanata]

Cute Jonathan exploring

And Jonathan invoking the spirits of ladies past, by writing in their desk

#Dracula manga #Dracula Daily #dd #may 15 #Jonathan Harker #pg 42-43 #y #manga classics

[mostly-literary-memes]

Jonathan stumbling through the castle like Daniel in Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

#dracula daily #re: dracula #May 15 #oak table

[chalamet-chalamet]

Timothée for Chanel Official

📸 by Mario Sorrenti

#timothee chalamet #via his instagram #gorgeous #Mario Sorrenti #may 15 #timothée chalamet

[yallemagne]

Once more have I seen the Count go out in his lizard fashion.

Ben Galpin truly captures the defeat Jonathan's feeling here. When you've seen something so incomprehensibly unsettling that the life is drained from you, and you can only think "okay, but what the fuck am I supposed to do with this? Oh? Is this normal? Is this normal? Can I ever financially recover from this?" It's a funny line for how bizarre it is, but it's hard to laugh when you hear Jonathan so dispirited.

Just, mwah. But, in contrast, Jonathan doesn't give up. He takes the opportunity that is presented by Dracula being away and tries all those damn doors again.

And then... he comes to the Room...

Dracula... warned him not to go into the locked rooms... but this room isn't locked. The door is stuck in such a way it would only open if Jonathan put his back into opening it. Now, one could say Dracula simply wasn't diligent enough in locking all the rooms that were off limits... or he anticipated, in some way, Jonathan finding this room by himself. He anticipated that Jonathan would put in the effort to open this one unlocked door. Either way, technically, Jonathan is breaking no rules, but technically, Dracula could still get away with this incompetence if someone were to try to hold him to it. Which, no one can or will.

Then, there is the latter half of Dracula's rules... he told Jonathan he may not sleep anywhere but his own room and the rooms they have both occupied. It, too, feels like a trap: reverse psychology. Jonathan is already weary to be where he knows Dracula goes, especially asleep. And then, Dracula, under the guise of caring for Jonathan's wellbeing, tells him he will only be safe in the rooms that he himself has occupied? Of course, it feels like leaving himself out as bait for the Count.

My lamp seemed to be of little effect in the brilliant moonlight, but I was glad to have it with me, for there was a dread loneliness in the place which chilled my heart and made my nerves tremble. Still, it was better than living alone in the rooms which I had come to hate from the presence of the Count, and after trying a little to school my nerves, I found a soft quietude come over me.

This is the first time that Jonathan is really harsh about the Count. He hates him. He hates his presence, and he hates how it lingers after his absence. But once he can put away his hate, he finds peace:

Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter, and writing in my diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last.

He calms himself by imagining himself as a lady writing a love letter. Anxious - pen shaking and fumbling with some of the spellings - but not fearful. Not scared. Not in danger. He then remarks on the decor. Apparently, it is modern.

It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" cannot kill.

Even with the redecoration, Jonathan can sense the difference between what Dracula would call a new house vs an old one. This room has been done up to fit better with the current era, but nothing could strip away the history lying dormant underneath. Nothing can kill the spirits who linger. No place old enough to have a history is safe, not even London, which prides itself on its cutting-edge technology and its abandonment of the old and backward.

EDIT: okay so maybe I'm wrong about the decor being up-to-date. What if shhhh just enjoy the post.

#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #jonathan harker #may 15

[hey-color-palettes]

The name Hedley

★ #32444a ★ #decdc5 ★ #b4865d ★ #636a6c ★ #665a51 ★

#hedley palette #color palette #blue #orange #brown #gray #request #may 15

[ayoungkiing]

I love how he is looking at her ✨✨✨

#jonah hauer king #halle bailey #I know it was already posted but how lovely #the little mermaid #may 15 #uk premiere

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The $60 million French liner "Normandie," tied up at a Hudson River pier since August of 1939, towers over a policeman and three other men, May 15, 1941. The U.S. Coast Guard seized the ship and converted it for military use.

Photo: Associated Press

#May 15 #vintage New York #1940s #Normandie #15 May #ocean liner #World War II

[thethirdromana]

7th of May:

The curtains and upholstery of the chairs and sofas and the hangings of my bed are of the costliest and most beautiful fabrics, and must have been of fabulous value when they were made, for they are centuries old, though in excellent order. I saw something like them in Hampton Court, but there they were worn and frayed and moth-eaten.

15th of May:

One or two small rooms near the hall were open, but there was nothing to see in them except old furniture, dusty with age and moth-eaten.

Why does one part of Dracula's castle have remarkably preserved ancient fabrics, and in another part they're damaged and moth-eaten? Some theories:

Bram Stoker wasn't really paying attention to the inconsistency. (The boring answer).

Jonathan Harker doesn't know much about fabric, as a middle-class Victorian man, so his descriptions aren't always accurate.

Dracula has carefully prepared the guest rooms but not the parts of the castle that he didn't plan on Jonathan visiting.

Dracula turns into a bat and eats all the moths in his wing of the castle, but [redacted] are either unable to turn into bats or dislike the taste of moths.

In the Great Mouse Detective version of Dracula that happens simultaneously, Dracula is a bat and eats moths. However, he is also very small, so he doesn't get as far as the other wing of the castle.

Dracula controls all the moths in his castle and steers them away from the guest suite, but he actually kind of likes the spooky moth-eaten look sometimes.

The moths are xenophobic and don't like to be in the parts of the castle where there's an Englishman.

Dracula is a keen chemical engineer and the bed hangings in Jonathan's room are undamaged because they are in fact very early synthetic fabrics that Dracula developed while bored some time in the 16th century.

The guest rooms are under some kind of Sleeping Beauty enchantment; the rest of the castle is not. Given everything else going on, Jonathan doesn't notice the enchantment, though it does affect his sleep patterns from the moment he arrives.

Fabric in Dracula's castle operates under storytelling rules, like the toons in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, where it becomes more or less damaged depending on what's spookier in any given moment.

[Update! Courtesy of @animate-mush you can now vote on your preferred interpretation here]

#dracula daily #implied dracula spoilers #great mouse detective link also contains spoilers #may 15

[ohshakespear]

"the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill."

Jonathan Harker, Dracula

#dracula #dracula daily #may 15 #may 15th 2023 #jonathan harker #count dracula #poetry #books #book #classic lit quotes #dark acamedia #literature #classic literature #quotes #dark acadamia quotes #classics #book classics

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 20, 15 mai 1887, Paris. Mantelet en reps de soie. Fichu en sicilienne. Cuirasse en faille. Pardessus d'été, modèles de chez Mme Coussinet, rue Richer, 43. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

Mantelet en reps de soie.

Ce mantelet, fait en reps de soie noir, doublé de surah rouge, est garni au bord inférieur ainsi qu'aux manches avec de la dentelle noire froncée; une bordure de perles couvre le haut de la dentelle et le col droit; des cordelières en perles noires complètent le mantelet.

This cloak, made of black silk reps, lined with red surah, is trimmed at the lower edge as well as at the sleeves with gathered black lace; a beaded border covers the lace top and stand-up collar; black bead cords complete the mantle.

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Fichu en sicilienne.

Ce fichu, fait en sicilienne noire plissée, court derrière, à longs pans devant, est doublé en faille noire; on le garnit avec de la dentelle noire froncée, des franges en perles et des nœuds en ruban de satin noire.

This fichu, made of pleated black Sicilian, short in the back, with long tails in front, is lined in black faille; it is trimmed with gathered black lace, beaded fringe and black satin ribbon bows.

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Cuirasse en faille.

Cette cuirasse, faite en faille noire, est doublée en satin. Les manches sont faites en dentelle plissée et perles. La jaquette est garnie devant en forme de plastron, et derrière avec de la passementerie noire; on l'orne au bord inférieur et au col droit avec une dentelle plissée et une bordure de perles.

This cuirass, made in black faille, is lined in satin. The sleeves are made of pleated lace and pearls. The jacket is trimmed in front in the form of a breastplate, and behind with black trimmings; it is adorned at the lower edge and at the stand-up collar with pleated lace and a beaded border.

#la mode illustrée #19th century #1880s #1887 #on this day #May 15 #periodical #fashion #fashion plate #description #Forney #dress #mantelet #cloak #fichu #cuirass #Modèles de chez #Madame Coussinet

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Long-Wattled Umbrellabird (Cephalopterus penduliger)

Photo by Jesse Huth)

Conservation Status- Vulnerable

Habitat- Central America; South America

Size (Weight/Length)- 40 cm

Diet- Insects; Fruit; Reptiles

Cool Facts- The long-wattled umbrellabird takes the process of courtship to another level. While both sexes have a crest on their head, males sport a massive throat wattle covered in feathers. The length of this wattle can be controlled and retracted while flying or outside the mating season to allow for easier flight. Large groups of males will gather together and are visited by females. The female will choose a single male to mate with and lay one egg per mating season. These umbrellabirds are popular in the illegal pet trade due to their plumage and relatively calm nature. 

Rating- 11/10 (How to impress your date 101.)

#Animal of the day #Animals #Birds #Sunday #May 15 #Long-wattled umbrellabird #biology #science #conservation #the more you know