I should get minimum wage for just being alive
A paper about Irritator's funky pelican like jaws is released.
Me: Goes absolutely insane.
This dinosaur is the only thing I've been able to draw recently. Hope you enjoy my many sketches. :p
Have some extras~
Then the Count turned, after looking at my face attentively, and said in a soft whisper:
“Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so? Well, now I promise you that when I am done with him you shall kiss him at your will. Now go! go! I must awaken him, for there is work to be done.”
Description in ALT
A foul bauble of man’s vanity.
This one is kind of a redraw of a piece I did in 2019! Really old art under the cut. You’ve been warned, lol.
Jonathan Harker’s Journal - Later: the Morning of 16 May.
“I suppose I must have fallen asleep; I hope so, but I fear, for all that followed was startlingly real…”
ngl it's certainly something that Jonathan Harker is Dracula's chew toy for months, with Jonathan narrating everything he can remember experiencing in this "sea of wonders" while being the Count's said plaything, but every single book or comic cover or movie poster or series promo is Dracula menacing Half-Naked Girl
I collected a lot of posters and covers over the last year, and I noticed the same pattern! I’ve got two that do show Jonathan, one that shows the scene where he enters the castle, and one where he watches from the window as Dracula crawls down the castle wall, but of course those haven’t the same creepy erotic suggestiveness. There really seems to rest a social taboo on depicting men as helpless victims.
Which, by the way, was something a lot of artists on tumblr were not shy about. This art work by 0nelittlebirdtoldme is my favorite:
“But a new element has been introduced into the case which may account for his leading the horse from the stable.”
Holmes pricked up his ears.
Holmes once again not beating the cat behavior allegations
I noticed the same! The picture in my head this made is delightful
“I should be most happy to go down with you if I should not be in the way,” said I.
“My dear Watson, you would confer a great favour upon me by coming.”
The most concise summary of Watson’s insecurity vs Holmes’ affection yet
“Silver Blaze,” said he, “is from the Somomy stock,”
I can’t be the only one who did not read that right
“You have formed a theory, then?”
“At least I have got a grip of the essential facts of the case. I shall enumerate them to you, for nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person, and I can hardly expect your co-operation if I do not show you the position from which we start.”
I lay back against the cushions, puffing at my cigar, while Holmes, leaning forward, with his long, thin forefinger checking off the points upon the palm of his left hand, gave me a sketch of the events which had led to our journey.“
Look, the scene that was the inspiration for Sydney Paget’s famous drawing of Holmes and Watson in the train! This one:
“I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go,” said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.”
It’s quite cute that Holmes feels the need to apologise to Watson here. Why, did those two had a date planned?
my friend asked me to pretend to be her boyfriend because her parents are homophobic af but they ended up hating me so much that they were glad when she said she was gay task failed successfully
okay so
- be a goth. conservative christian parents don't approve of goth men. show up to their house wearing all kinds of satanic symbols if you can
- know more about religion than the parents. they'll try to introduce you to christianity because you don't exactly look like a christian but your dad's an ex priest and has a phd in theology so *cracks knuckles* you'll correct them on every little mistake they make
- call your fake girlfriend every annoying petname under the sun. i'm talking about babu, shmoopie, snuffleupagus. when you run out of annoying english terms of endearment call her shit like "my liver" or "my little cabbage" (actual greek terms of endearments but the parents won't know this they'll just think you're annoying :3)
- to continue this, talk to your fake girlfriend in the most high pitched annoying voice possible but talk in your regular voice to everyone else
stare at her older brother's ass for just a little too long- have an annoying laugh. think of sybil fawlty but a stereotypical villain playing a church organ in his castle
- let them quote bible verses to you. then ask "so when were those two destroyed for sodomy?". it's very funny to do this when judas kisses jesus, and it's even funnier when you've just corrected them over a minor mistake in church history
- ask WHY abraham was begging for sodom. it doesn't make sense to you why a good christian man would go and beg for tha-
- be over possessive of your fake gf (dont really do this, it's just an act)
go and fuck her brother in an alleyway.the parents won't know about this so it's an optional step- use words no one knows the meaning of. do this without realising because you always talk like that
- just be yourself! that's enough on its own to make them despise you tbh
yes
"I may add that Miss Burnet's age and character make it certain that my first idea that there might be a love interest in our story is out of the question."
Oh my god Sherlock. We get that a certain male doctor is your type, not a 40-year old governess, but that does NOT apply to everyone Holmes
this strange and sudden friendship between the young Spaniard and Scott Eccles.
Now, what did he want with Eccles? What could Eccles supply?
(via op)
But! But he has no charm!! (said by Very Aroace Holmes who thinks he has attraction pinned to a board and figured out)
“I am a bachelor,” said he, “and being of a sociable turn I cultivate a large number of friends. Among these are the family of a retired brewer called Melville, living at Albemarle Mansion, Kensington. It was at his table that I met some weeks ago a young fellow named Garcia. He was, I understood, of Spanish descent and connected in some way with the embassy. He spoke perfect English, was pleasing in his manners, and as good-looking a man as ever I saw in my life.”
“In some way we struck up quite a friendship, this young fellow and I. He seemed to take a fancy to me from the first, and within two days of our meeting he came to see me at Lee. One thing led to another, and it ended in his inviting me out to spend a few days at his house, Wisteria Lodge, between Esher and Oxshott.”
Mr. Eccles and Mr. Garcia meeting up for some gay sex. It’s not even subtle. ‘I am a bachelor’, ‘as good-looking a man as ever I saw’, ‘one thing led to another’... Sure, Doyle, you could not have made this any clearer
I clasped his hand in silence, and the die was cast.
It's like I always say. At least they hold hands. After all the disgusting racism in this story, at least they hold hands. At least we have that. In canon. They do hold hands. The one thing we can rescue from this story. At the end of the day. Holmes and Watson hold hands.
“I'm sure, Watson, a week in the country will be invaluable to you,” he remarked. “It is very pleasant to see the first green shoots upon the hedges and the catkins on the hazels once again. With a spud, a tin box, and an elementary book on botany, there are instructive days to be spent.” He prowled about with this equipment himself, but it was a poor show of plants which he would bring back of an evening.
This is so fucking cute, but especially after Watson’s Roommate Stat Sheet gave Holmes such a bad score in botany. Look at him go, “prowling about” with his little Botany for Dummies book!! Look at him bringing plants home for Watson to see (and judge, tsk tsk) like a kid’s macaroni project!
I mean this may turn out to be part of an investigation later on but I love it anyway
The suit in which I had travelled was gone, and also my overcoat and rug
Dracula Daily has been a bit light on things I can provide images of recently, so let's have some Victorian overcoats.
The top left is a Chesterfield overcoat, which is also what the man on the left in the top right photo is wearing; his is double-breasted. A Chesterfield is a formal coat, which I think is why it's being paired with top hats here.
The bottom left is an Ulster overcoat, though if the cape were the same length as the sleeves it would be an Inverness overcoat instead. This is a less formal daytime coat.
On the bottom right is an advert for Mackintosh waterproof overcoats. They used fabric coated with rubber, an idea which dates back to the Aztecs, but which in the UK took off from the 1840s onwards.
I don't know what sort of overcoat Jonathan would wear for a long journey to Transylvania, but my guess would be an Ulster or Inverness.