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One thing about Dracula is he's trying to play it cool but he's gotta be FREAKING OUT.

Mina keeps popping up to stop him from eating Lucy. When Mina's gone, some random ass guy (Van Helsing) shows up knowing exactly how to repel him. Turns out, Van Helsing is an old friend of Drac's new neighbor Dr. Seward, who once counted the random girl Dracula chose to eat. Then, some American starts lurking around shooting at him whenever he's a bat, turns out that's another of his snack's former boyfriends. Turns out all these people are friends with Mina because of course they are. Then he finds out that Mina's married to his LAWYER? Who he thought was dead?

He decides to get to the bottom of all of this, he breaks into their house and comes across...notes. Notes on everything he's done so far, itemized, categorized and dated. Notes on where he's been what he's done, who he's seen, everything. Notes on what works against him, his powers, his weaknesses, they know more about him than he does.

It's suddenly clear to him that these people want him dead, and only their caution has kept him alive so far.

Then these people in one night suddenly wipe almost all of his lairs off the board and his wimpy ass lawyer tries to cut him open with a big ass knife. He only survived by slim luck.

Drac talks a big game, but he's gotta be sweating

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All the men: thank goodness we're taking such good care of Mina 🥰

Mina:

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how life feels when i realise men can be beautiful & kind

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Today's joy: one of my coworkers came out and I'm so happy for her!

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October 4

This very creature that we pursue, he take hundreds of years to get so far as London; and yet in one day, when we know of the disposal of him we drive him the fuck out.

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i think one of my favourite parts of gravity falls is just. soos in general. a different show would probably have a character like that- y’know, a fat guy who’s in that early-20s age where nobody wants to acknowledge that nobody knows what they’re doing but they’re not a kid anymore so they’re no longer part of the “marketable demographic” for kids, i think a lot of other shows would make him the punching bag or the butt of jokes or portray him as weird or creepy or a failiure. but no, soos is genuinely a big part of the heart of the show. he’s allowed to be a bit of a dork, and have a non-standard path in life- it’s treated as part of the quirks that make him lovable! the twins think he’s super cool, he’s smart, funny, genuine, kind- and when he gets his own episode in soos and the real girl, his issues with talking to people are just treated as so much more HUMAN than i’m used to for characters in his demographic. it’s really sweet. and i’m glad they do that. i really like soos.

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"You will, I trust, Dr. Seward, do me the justice to bear in mind, later on, that I did what I could to convince you to-night." Is such a cold line from Renfield.

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Funniest thing about Quincy shooting the bat and breaking the window is that he confesses that he's been shooting every goddamn bat he's seen over the past few days.

There's a missing part of this novel that's just the notes of a very concerned conservationist and local police records detailing how they teamed up to find out who's been shooting all these bats in the middle of the night.

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Jonathan Harker, October 3rd

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big day today

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Today's entry (Oct. 3) feels like the crux of the story to me. A few things come into sharp focus: the importance of Mina to their entire mission, the value of open and honest communication, but most importantly love.

It's love for Mina that drives Renfield to oppose his master.

It's love for Mina that spurs her friends into action to protect her.

It's love for Jonathan (and the others) that gives Mina the strength to tell her story and to do everything she can to protect them from herself (should it be necessary).

Mina chooses love and pity for Dracula, even after what he did to her, because now she understands him and that he has even less power than she does to change.

It's love that inspires John, Arthur, and Quincey to guard the Harkers while they sleep.

Some of our crew have known each other for years, but the Harkers only met them days ago. And here they are, ready to fight and die in their defense. They eat together, they cry together, all of them. This recently after John, Arthur, and Quincey avoided showing too much emotion in front of each other. Those walls are gone now because they've faced nightmares and stood against them together.

The whole point of the story is love, and that love can come from anyone at any point in your life, and can impact you deeply.

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October 3

As I must do something or go fucking mad, I write this diary.

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I feel so bad for Renfield. He's only met Mina twice, but risks everything to try to save her. He's beaten and broken by Dracula. Seward and Van Helsing bring him around just long enough for him to tell them what happened, and is immediately abandoned. When they remember to come back to him, he's dead.

He spent his last days in a madhouse (a miserable place to be, especially in those times), tries to do the right thing, but is overpowered mentally and physically, and dies alone.