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“China produces more rainbow flags than anyone. My nightmare is there is a factory with nearly slave labor, forced to live within the factory complex and get up every morning and have to churn out more and more rainbow tchotchkes.” He says he didn’t create the rainbow flag in order for others to profit off of “rainbow junk”.

He is horrified by some of the things he has seen. He says, “Walking down Castro Street, I can’t pay my rent, but I see rainbow dildos in the shop windows and rainbow keychains, rainbow rings, rainbow candles and so on.” He said it is similar to when the best music ends up as elevator music. He is gratified that the power of the rainbow caught on as rings, but that power can be diluted by over-commercialization.”  

-Gilbert Baker, creator of the Pride Flag

#this is so heart shattering
7468  ·  10 months ago
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Bram Stoker’s Known Sources for Dracula

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A compilation of the books Bram Stoker mentioned in his notes outlining Dracula, with links to available online versions of the texts. (Bolded entries had excepts copied in the notes.)

Folklore and Superstition:

Dreams, Sleep, and Mesmerism

Transylvania and Other Regions

Other:

  • Anecdotes of Habits and Instincts of Birds, Reptiles and Fishes by Sarah Lee (1853) [Google Books] [Archive.org]
  • “The Birds of Transylvania” by Charles A. Danford and John A. Harvie-Brown (1875)  [Archive.org: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3]
  • Fishery Barometer Manual by Robert Henry Scott (1887)  [Google Books]
  • History and Mystery of Precious Stones by William Jones (1880) [Google Books]
  • Superstition and Force — Essays on The Wager of Law, The Wager of Battle, The Ordeal and Torture by Henry Charles Lea (1878) [Google Books] [Archive.org]
  • A Whitby Glossary by Francis Kildale Robinson (1876) [Google Books - 1855 Edition]

Possible Sources Not Mentioned in Stoker’s Notes:

  • Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals by Sarah Lee (1852) [Project Gutenberg] [Archive.org]: By the author of Anecdotes of Habits and Instincts of Birds, Reptiles and Fishes; contains a section on vampire bats.
  • The Land Beyond the Forest by Emily Gerard (1876) [Google Books] [Archive.org]: By the same author of “Transylvanian Superstitions.” This book has frequently been cited as a source in scholarship, although Stoker took no notes from it.

Adapted from a list compiled by Elizabeth Miller at Blooferland.com [x]. It is not clear if every source listed was ultimately used, and Stoker no doubt had access to other pertinent texts which may not have been personally noted by him as sources.

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London Library Texts Discovered to Have Stoker’s Marginalia in 2018

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As I’ve been bringing up Stoker’s sources/notes a lot over the past weeks, I should probably bring this back again. People who want to have a wild time over on GoogleBooks during the gaps between entries might appreciate this.

2936  ·  10 months ago