#“re”entry

[eldritchtechno]

"Re" Entry

It is less you left, and more you were... Dragged out.

That's all you can recall, beyond the screaming, the crushing depths, the writhing down your throat and eyesockets. The reaxhing out to a light rapidly draining into grey as the great Eye of your mother's patron subsumed your reality.

Transformation. It was fitful, being cast again in the boiling of life- a conception, a childhood, your education as a noble daughter of the house Legiana. Your school years and college, your prison stint for your antics with locks, your adventure in a sleepy town with a boastful dandelion leshy and a lion robot duo. Your life.... It felt different as the old was eaten away bit by bit and renewed as you slumbered beneath the lightless black of That Which Drinks The Light's infinite abysses. But in the end... The old you was gone. She was another You, separate, cold, mechanical and liable to replace her own beating heart with one of gears and clockwork. One whos brother would go on to wield a curse so dark the Darkest Things had to cast him into their prison with the like of the first vampire, a warped mummy, and a doomed world all stuck in loops. And you... You were a starlight tossed down again. Fresh memories of your other self, the one before, burning away your mind as you wake up.

It's a sunny day outside. Birds are chirping to herald spring. The first flowers are starting to shake the final frost for blooming. The great ravenous naw of the Hole awaited, where many an event erupted from. And you were on a bench, technical manual sliding off as the sun burned into your eyes, bags packed and a fresh key on your chains. The honking of a taxi horn helped shake you up.

"C'mon, I got three more stops in my shift, ain't got all day!" Yells the driver. Well, you better hurry along then.

You are Paprika Legiana, and you are new but not. Welcome to Isola Radiale, Spirale City.

[moonsun2010]

Made an animatic summarising the entire book as a tribute to Dracula Daily and @re-dracula ! English subtitles provided, with translation by me and @ignitingthesky.

if you like this, do check out my kofi! there's a free pack of every single frame

[endsofthearth]

~10 years older Phantom Thieves rkgk

[west-of-miskatonic]

CONT. of previous sketch and my meditations on Herbert's transition

[coquettesinclair]

WOKE resident evil be like:

chris redFRUIT

jill VAGintine

leon s. kennedy.

claire redFRUIT

ACEda wong

albert wesker.

william birkin.

barry BISEXUAL

eTRANS winters

carLESB Oliveira

rebecca chambers

SHEva alomar

[see-arcane]

In which Arthur and Lucy have a lovely time and absolutely nothing is amiss 💕

Just a little Little Guy commission. If you're interested in your own art, check out my Ko-Fi c:

Also, bonus version because I couldn't resist the temptation of sepia:

[lonestarflight]

Concept art of the Space Shuttle returning from Space.

Artwork by G. Harry Stine

Date: 1978

Posted on Flickr by Numbers Station: link, link

[drac-kool-aid]

Seward's bone deep desire to run away from the asylum is not exactly surprising. There have been a lot of really good meta posts about how the return of Van Helsing into his life is the turning point where we see the caring and good side of him and how we can interpret his life as a student in Amersterdam as one of freedom and happiness. How he is part of the tragedy of manners, how strict social expectations allow Dracula to persist, and how they only exacerbate the unhappiness of the characters.

And I think the tragedy of Seward is that, really, he should not be the head of an asylum. It's a job that brings him no joy, and he's BAD at it. We can all recognize that if your first reaction to going back to work is "What if I just leave it all." That isn't a healthy work environment.

Now, in the modern day, the ability to pick and choose a work environment, even to leave one that is damaging your mental health, is a privilege. (IT SHOULDNT BE, but it is). And, although it is definitely reaching crisis levels in modern times, major changes in your career have almost always been difficult (unless you are really rich, or a particular brand of academic in the 17th-18th century, or both).

Seward can't just leave and become a surgeon. To give up the lofty position of "Head of an Asylum" would be unthinkable in the 1890s, especially for a reason like "Being here is basically turning me into the Joker." Like, how would Seward explain that in polite society? Would they accept that reasoning? Would they create salacious gossip if they didn't? Can Seward leave his position without losing a great amount of social capital?

Probably not.

His rise to head of an asylum, as many have pointed out, was meteoric, to say the least. It has afforded him status and respect and also left him deeply, deeply fucked up. And he can't leave!

I think his desperate attempts to quantify Renfield's behaviors into a new mental illness are telling in this regard. Maybe he is too used to having to meet some sort of expectation, and now he thinks this is the logical next step (It's NOT, but I digress). The feeling of having to keep performing above expectations, grasping at straws to do so, and subsequently burning oneself out (as well as others around you) and engaging in unethical practices? Idk. It sounds like something that would happen today. (tbh there are probably a ton of Sewards out there today, as there are still systemic problems within the mental health system that allow for the dehumanizing and abuse of patients).

It doesn't excuse his behavior. Nothing he does to Renfield is excusable, but I think it does explain some of the *why*. He isn't just cruel for cruelty's sake.

So, tldr I guess: I think reading Seward as someone who got stuck on a career path that he realized was unfufilling and that he ends up hating. Social conventions restrict him from just quitting without and a (socially acceptable) good reason to do so, and a lifetime of being regarded as one of the smartest people in the room means he can not allow himself to fail. Unfortunately, this also means he can not admit when his actions or his ideas are wrong when it comes to his job.

(But he can show that uncertainty FOR Lucy, and TO Arthur and Van Helsing, which speaks his trust and love for them)

[burekstation]

anyway happy anniversary Jonathan and Mina Harker for their Not Dream Wedding at a Catholic hospital in Hungary on a sickbed surrounded by strangers as their only witnesses and yet it still being the happiest day of their lives

[afoxdoeswrite]

I tend to listen to music when I'm going on walks, but Spotify recommended me that Dracula Daily audiobook version, so I figured I've have a listen. Dracula's pretty cool and all, but I always remember it being super long and kinda hard to read through in anything more than little bits, so I figured 'hey, a daily mini thing might be neat to try'.

It is incredible how that team is able to make things scary. I was walking around in broad daylight on a main road, there were dozens of people all over the place, and somehow I felt so alone listening to it that I got chills. Genuinely brilliant, I'm really impressed and this is definitely going to be my background audio for going on walks for a while now.

[tteokdoroki]

‘Gojo is racist’ ‘gojo is a bad person’ ‘gojo is this’ ‘gojo is that’ did we ever consider that none of what gege has written recently goes past surface level ? he is not a good writer. he has said multiple times he doesn’t care about jjk anymore. there are hardly any deeper meanings to character deaths/actions. he’s just trying to fill the space until the manga can end at an acceptable length ☹️☝️

[mercury-sulfide]

just shaking thinking about how long that 80-page Dracula Daily entry is going to be in Re: Dracula. But I also can’t remember exactly what day it happens so one of these mornings I’m going to open the podcast for the new entry and get hit with like a two hour update

[spankerella]

Quincey.... outside... shooting at bats... as one does.

As a Texan, I can confirm that this is one of the most Texan things ever.

@re-dracula, today was *chef's kiss*

[googleeyes]

I love it love it love it when the characters in Dracula start reading the same stuff we've been reading it's like Yayy Book Club :) Tell me more about how much you love Mina

[messrsrarchives]

thinking (bad, dangerous). and im afraid i might need u to yap about my babies my shaylas scorbus. any headcanons u could drop about my babies my shaylas scorbus perchance

RAH RAH RAHHHHH MY BABIES <33333

scorbus is 100% scorpius fell first albus fell harder 🙂↕️ that boy had no idea what was going on until teddy made a joke about draco and harry one random day and he was like.... wait.....

scorpius is the yapper, albus is the listener 🙂↕️ he just yaps about random things and it's the only time albus is ever still!!! but also it's a Great day or a Horrible day when albus is the one yapping. and scorpius stands there like this 🧍🏻‍♂️🧍🏻‍♂️🧍🏻‍♂️ wondering whether he should call someone

albus is a massive clinger btw btw btw. harry might be his aloof self but albus is there laying heads in laps and sneaking up behind and holding a pinkie whilst they walk or squeezing knees under tables - if there is everrrr a moment where he is not touching scorpius to some degree? chaos. outrage.

i also had a thought Once - because one of my fav things about next gen is that its modern day - of scorpius being obsessed with like animal crossing or something and albus is all pouty and annoyed and all "idc about the island !!!!" until he's roped into it too and then he's obsessive and insane about it

you're gonna set me off on a MASSIVE ramble RAHHH but i like the dynamic of two boys who should probably feel ashamed for being in slytherin finding SO much comfort there. the school is mocking them and they're just like "well.... i think albus looks nice in green actually!" "i think its your colour too!"

i love a good angsty scorbus too mhmmmm forced separation? the parents forcing them apart until the parents reconnect??? we have to wait for DRARRY to have a coherent and productive conversation??? i give the boys two weeks until they crumble and go "so.... how's the island going..."