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GOOSEBUMPS (2023) | SEASON 1

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Can’t help but notice a lack of Taskmaster in the trailer. Does that mean she will be killed off?

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anyway if dracula daily made you realize how great the book dracula is, please read jekyll and hyde, it's also extremely good. and the audiobook narrated by richard armitage is EXCELLENT.

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SORCERER'S SUNDAY!

WILD MAGIC SURGE! Spin the wheel.

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THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY: SEASON 1 -> FAVORITE SOUNDTRACK SCENES

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Is your ship really that iconic if one of them haven't been buried alive and the other haven't tried to dig them out with their bare hands?

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When you are neighbors with the weirdest man (goes both ways).

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So! Dracula didn't follow John Seward to find Lucy because John wasn't courting Lucy anymore by the time Dracula arrived to next to his house. (It's not known how he found Lucy again in London but it's a theory that due to the fact that he had drunk her blood several times in Whitby he had a sort of connection to her and was able to track her and finish what he started: to make her his first vampire in the new land. Perhaps the evidence of this is how the blood connection between him and Mina later connects them mentally too.)

But let me tell you I am fascinated by your thoughts on John and I would like to hear more.

Why on anon, anon? I love to talk Dracula! So absolutely makes me feel better to know I missed something on that (though John and Lucy were still friends so I don’t discount them still seeing each other occasionally) but it makes my neighbor take less sad now and more hilarious tbh.

John is such an interesting character (as they all are and I could write about all of them in length), but listening to re:dracula lately had me attentive to lines I hadn’t before, such as Dracula being John’s neighbor for a while and the tragedy of him being right below their noses.

John is deeply flawed and often the least favorite of the characters in the fandom, though they all display outdated viewpoints of sexism, ableism, and racism. Ignorance from the author himself that was formed from a society that hadn’t gotten with the program yet.

Putting the author’s problematic views aside (as we do with all classic literature for the sake of the story) I still like John as he is one of the characters that Bram stayed in the head of the most.

I would say 75% of the chapters start with Dr. Seward’s Diary. He is a central character of the novel through his storytelling and connections to every character in the story.

But let’s be real, John is a wet cat of a man. He is absolutely pathetic and gets roasted or mentally tortured by Van Helsing every few pages. He runs an asylum but is more of a mad scientist than empathetic to his patients and is no stranger to overworking himself to a concerning degree. We have no clue how many hours of sleep he’s gotten throughout the novel but his storytelling makes it feel like it’s a single digit number.

We know he is an excellent doctor and surgeon, able to emotionally detach himself from problems and is logical and skeptical to a staggering degree. We also know that to be his downfall as well. He cannot connect with Lucy because of this (and only serves to embarrass himself by sitting on his hat-as we are repeatedly reminded of through the story). Van Helsing says on at least three different times that Seward has no game with women.

We also know that John has contradicted himself many times as well. He is emotionally detached, and yet, Mina comments on his thoughtfulness to keep her company when she typed out his diaries. He has emotions, but keeps them under a tight repressed hold indicative of the time and his occupation. He expresses many times that he loved Lucy and yet is able to decapitate her dead body and then talk about it in his diary later that night.

That tells us that John Seward is a very strong man in wills and spirit. He is amazed of Jonathan’s bravery in confronting the Count a second time, and yet, he has done equally as terrifying work in trying to keep Lucy alive and failing. After all, it was a delayed telegram to him that ultimately caused Lucy’s terror filled night and beginning of her ‘death.’

He gave his own blood to Lucy, stayed up countless nights at her bedside, admitted to defeat to call in the help of Van Helsing, still continued his job while attending to a woman who rejected him, aided in the incapacitation of Lucy’s vampire form to save her soul, tracked down the killer of Lucy to save others from the same fate and get revenge, watch a close friend die that he couldn’t save-even as a doctor, and try to move on and marry even after all of that to happen in the span of a few months.

Anyways I guess Seward held more space in my brain than I thought. This was supposed to be me talking about the comedy/tragedy of Seward and Dracula being neighbors and instead went into a character analysis. Oh well, I can always make a post about the former later if people are interested😉

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I’m going to make a shorter post later with just the meme, but one line in the book from Seward’s diary had me ready to write a ten page paper.

“I agreed heartily with him, and then I told him what we had found in his absence, that the house which Dracula had bought was the very next one to my own.”

HOW LONG WERE THEY NEIGHBORS? Did Dracula originally want to eat John but found that the man never slept? Did he follow John one night and that’s how he discovered Lucy? This line is the funniest thing and the saddest at the same time. I always wondered why Seward was chosen as the most prominent narrator and now I know why. Without him, you would not have the same story. He is the connector to every story.

Based on the initial connections at the beginning of the novel, John connects to Lucy which connects to most other characters. He then also connects to Van Helsing and Renfield almost exclusively until they meet other characters.

Idk that one line just made me think more about John as a character than I had before and I thought that was neat. Also hilarious to think of Mr. ‘constantly sleep deprived’ Seward seeing Dracula lizard-climb up the side of his house and just thinking he needs more sleep.

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Once again, you can be an English major. a seasoned journalist. an established author. a famed literary critic...and you will still scratch your head over the junk that makes it big. Public opinion has no worth. Just write what you want.

"But I don't want to share something that isn't perfect" why not? everyone else does.

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"no mature content" brother the novel is mature content

Dracula by Bram Stoker? Mature content? Hardly. I saw worse from the new Goosebumps season on Disney+.

If you want to post things inappropriate for our underage community on tumblr who might like the novel, go make your own community, but get out of here with this nonsense.

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For anyone who loves the novel like I do. Includes discussions over related media like Dracula Daily and Re: Dracula!

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@re-dracula Love that y’all have a Tumblr! Instant follow!!!!! I have been binging it for the last week and am already at September! Phenomenal sound design and voice acting! Really brought to life one of my favorite novels!!!

Currently listening to RE Dracula on Spotify and I am hooked! Perfect background listen when you are working or even a great listen when you are in the bath!

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Currently listening to RE Dracula on Spotify and I am hooked! Perfect background listen when you are working or even a great listen when you are in the bath!

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¾ of the Dracula cast, including side characters: -takes 10 pages of yammering to get around to making a single point-

Quincey Morris, King of Brevity, reading the situation for 0.5 seconds: Uh huh, cool. So where’s the blood going? 

Jack Seward, in tears, both from the Lucy issue and gratitude at not sitting through another corn metaphor for half an hour: I don’t fucking KNOW– 

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You want me to face the consequences of my actions? The thing that killed Henry Jekyll?