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I don't know how far the Dracula Daily phenomenon has made it onto Tumblr, but basically all of Tumblr fandom is doing it now - follow that link and you will get what, if anything, happened on this date in the original novel Dracula emailed to you every day until November. Enough of Tumblr is doing it that suddenly to everyone's surprise (especially the person running it) it's basically become the big new serial fandom; it's been top tag on Tumblr for a week and everybody is talking about what Jonathan Harker wrote them from his business trip yesterday.
I have not actually ever read the priginal novel, but I have read Makt Mykranna once and watched the old incomplete Nosferatu tape many times, so getting Dracula but slightly scrambled is on par for me! It's been fun so far.
(There's also a fully produced podcast version in the same order if you prefer audio.)
There's a lot of people on Tumblr talking about how this is clearly fitting an unfilled need for the old kind of fandoms where you got an episode every week and talked about it for a week (or, possibly more of a parallel, an upd8 at frequent intervals). The advent of streaming shows that dump an entire season at once has made that rare and people miss having that synchronized experience!
Of course I've been doing it with Galactic Journey and their Star Trek fandom re-enactment watchalong for more than half a year now, so I'm just nodding along like I told you so. It's nice to have one where I have more community that whoever is at the watchalongs and whatever came in the mail in the latest zine though!!
Speaking of the Star Trek one, we're in summer reruns now, and I gave myself permission (now that we're seeing a little bit of fanfic in zines) to start whatever post-ep fanwork inspires me the day after. So far it's mostly been small bits of dialogue on topics like the difficulty of command and how James Kirk sleeps around (affectionately) that I then never finish, but at least I am writing things! And trying to do fanwork in a setting where all I have for reference is the novelization, my memory, and whatever's in the few zines I got my hand on is definitely interesting! Even in my earliest conscious forays into fanwork (also Star Trek in the 90s) there was at least the knowledge that things like scriptbooks existed if you wanted to go deep. And VHS tapes.
Anyway, I cheated a little on last week's post-ep, because literally the only fanwork I wanted* to make was this, which required going online for a screenshot, but c'mon!!
*the fanwork I /want/ most after that episode is Kirk and Mudd having to team up on a con for some contrived reason and blackflirting the whole way while Harry can't decide if he's offended or turned on by Kirk being a better con-artist than he is, but I don't want to have to make that one myself.
I have not actually ever read the priginal novel, but I have read Makt Mykranna once and watched the old incomplete Nosferatu tape many times, so getting Dracula but slightly scrambled is on par for me! It's been fun so far.
(There's also a fully produced podcast version in the same order if you prefer audio.)
There's a lot of people on Tumblr talking about how this is clearly fitting an unfilled need for the old kind of fandoms where you got an episode every week and talked about it for a week (or, possibly more of a parallel, an upd8 at frequent intervals). The advent of streaming shows that dump an entire season at once has made that rare and people miss having that synchronized experience!
Of course I've been doing it with Galactic Journey and their Star Trek fandom re-enactment watchalong for more than half a year now, so I'm just nodding along like I told you so. It's nice to have one where I have more community that whoever is at the watchalongs and whatever came in the mail in the latest zine though!!
Speaking of the Star Trek one, we're in summer reruns now, and I gave myself permission (now that we're seeing a little bit of fanfic in zines) to start whatever post-ep fanwork inspires me the day after. So far it's mostly been small bits of dialogue on topics like the difficulty of command and how James Kirk sleeps around (affectionately) that I then never finish, but at least I am writing things! And trying to do fanwork in a setting where all I have for reference is the novelization, my memory, and whatever's in the few zines I got my hand on is definitely interesting! Even in my earliest conscious forays into fanwork (also Star Trek in the 90s) there was at least the knowledge that things like scriptbooks existed if you wanted to go deep. And VHS tapes.
Anyway, I cheated a little on last week's post-ep, because literally the only fanwork I wanted* to make was this, which required going online for a screenshot, but c'mon!!
*the fanwork I /want/ most after that episode is Kirk and Mudd having to team up on a con for some contrived reason and blackflirting the whole way while Harry can't decide if he's offended or turned on by Kirk being a better con-artist than he is, but I don't want to have to make that one myself.