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May. 5th, 2023 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missizzyDracula Daily has resumed. I considered unsubscribing, but didn't, and I'm glad of it now. If nothing else, it means I'm getting it in installments from the beginning this time; the first time around I subscribed a little bit in and had to catch up on the website.
But I'm genuinely a little surprised by how much it's showing up on my tumblr feed once again. People are finding new insights in the rereading, it seems. This might just become a yearly tradition.
And it's something of a singular phenomenon. Oh, they're doing other 19th century novels in email installments, too; I am finally reading through Moby Dick in its entirety two and a half decades after reading the an abridgement while spending my lunches hiding in my middle school library. And in its first days, one did see the posts about Ishmael and Queequeeg being a married couple-but the stereotyping there is so ridiculously painful, one can only enjoy it so much. And it's not caught on. It's the Dracula Daily and Dracula Daily only that will have this level of success, unless one of the others takes us by surprise.
I'm looking forward to meeting Mina again. First time around, the less than flattering descriptions of her as a character I'd read beforehand kept me from engaging with her at first. I'll try to avoid that this time.
But I'm genuinely a little surprised by how much it's showing up on my tumblr feed once again. People are finding new insights in the rereading, it seems. This might just become a yearly tradition.
And it's something of a singular phenomenon. Oh, they're doing other 19th century novels in email installments, too; I am finally reading through Moby Dick in its entirety two and a half decades after reading the an abridgement while spending my lunches hiding in my middle school library. And in its first days, one did see the posts about Ishmael and Queequeeg being a married couple-but the stereotyping there is so ridiculously painful, one can only enjoy it so much. And it's not caught on. It's the Dracula Daily and Dracula Daily only that will have this level of success, unless one of the others takes us by surprise.
I'm looking forward to meeting Mina again. First time around, the less than flattering descriptions of her as a character I'd read beforehand kept me from engaging with her at first. I'll try to avoid that this time.
