Dracula: a novel of hot Victorian sluts
In honor of Halloween, cartoonist Kate Beaton read Dracula and made a series of comics about the classic vampire novel. In a series of strips gets at the book's true face of horror: sexually-liberated women.
Beaton is primarily known for her historical comics, but lately she's turned her attention toward classic literature. And this week, she decided to read Dracula, which inspired this tweet:
I'm reading Dracula, it's a book about sluts. Sluts are pretty exciting and sexy but you don't want them in the house, as they ruin society.
eta: More comics here: [link]
eta²: Notes from the artist:
I love it when Halloween comes around and I get to make comics for it! Here we have Bram Stoker's Dracula, a book written to tell ladies that if you're not a submissive waif, society goes to hell and ungodly monsters are going to turn you into child killing horrors and someone is going to drive a bowie knife through your heart/cut off your head/etc. As you deserve! Thanks Bram! I wrote it down so as to remember it.
But don't get me wrong, I prefer my vampires to be moustachioed 1890s types more than the sexy kind you see nowadays. Maybe Carmilla was sexy, I forget. Anyway.
I don't have Halloween plans, but tomorrow I'm going to learn how to worm compost, which is SPOOOOKY.
I am so over everything right now, and I can't bring myself to focus on the big task I have to have done on Monday, so now I'm just planning to work over the weekend, which is a huge bummer.
I have a group of MOMS Club kids and moms coming over for a Halloween party in an hour. I'm not even close to ready.
Tomorrow is a bigger Halloween party for the kids in Owen & Liv's classes.
Then Trick or Treating on Sunday.
Cute, GC!
Have fun in Vancouver, ita!
Those who are having cruddy workdays, I hope they go better soon.
Feel a little bit otherworldly from lack of sleep but otherwise doing okay. I think my father was shocked to see me up at this hour. Hopefully I can make it stick.
I have to walk to the middle school construction site again to see if I can talk to the foreman. I get all paranoid about stuff like this. My dad suggested talking to them to see if we can get some of the extra soil for the raised beds. I so don't want to do it. It was hard enough to force myself to do it once. He wasn't there and I left a note. He didn't answer. Now I gotta force myself again. The only reason I'm forcing myself is because buying this much potting soil would bankrupt me.
Oh yeah, Have fun, ita!!!
Oh noes! America's biggest export (celebrities!) is in trouble!
More details on Charlie Sheen's wild night:
Charlie Sheen Found Nude In Restaurant, Screaming N-Word: Report
This is
before
the hotel incident.
When Charlie failed to return to the table, his assistant went into the bathroom looking for him.
"When the assistant opened the door, there was Charlie standing there naked with cocaine all over his face!" the source said. "He was delusional and just completely lost. Totally out of it."
What a maroon.
Matilda will dress up as Wonder Woman at 2:15 PST and parade around her school. On Sunday we go trick or treating.
I went back to the Lush site as well and wrote this:
I was in your Lush location at Macy's on State Street in Chicago intending to restock on a number of things since I love the fall/winter scents. However, in browsing around, one of the first things I saw was the "Flosty Gritter" bubble bar.
I had to read over the product name and description several times to assure myself I wasn't imagining things. How, how could you name a product that in this day and age? It is appalling, and far beneath a company like Lush. I unloaded my basket and left the store.
Your "About us" page on the website lists your commitment to a range of issues. I notice race issues are not among them - until yesterday, I wouldn't have thought they needed to be. But apparently one of the oldest and most common racist tropes did not raise an alarm anywhere along the product development and marketing chain? It is truly shameful.
My biggest regret is not saying something to the store personnel at the time. At this point, I'm not sure I'll be back.
Not terribly articulate, but I feel better.
