#Dracula Daily

[onyxbird]

That's the point where his journal fully switches from being (at least partly) videos, photos, and typed notes backed up to the cloud* to being kept entirely on paper in shorthand. Fortunately Jonathan was also picking up nice journals as souvenirs for himself and/or Mina on his travels, so he's got something to write in.

*Mina is going to have shared access to his cloud storage forevermore after this. He's never getting into another situation where his journal/notes are just sitting there in the cloud where his wife could read it and come to his rescue but doesn't have access. The videos and photos are mostly from the early part of the journey when he still had decent signal. Once he's at the castle, he never has enough reliable signal to make calls out, but most of his typed notes manage to upload when it gets a weak connection.

Obsessed with the idea that a modern Dracula reimagining could have Count Dracula tossing Jonathan’s smart phone out the window, declaring it to be a “foul bauble of man’s vanity” and the bit would still work. XD

[evydraws]

Jonathan and Mina Harker - close-up of my art zine cover illustration

[signalfirefly]

like, I get the joke, haha, white english boy thinks paprika is spicy, and yeah, it's funny, but I feel like a lot of you don't realize hot paprika is a thing

[ibrithir-was-here]

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[lemonlinelights]

Awwww

Dracula season may be over now but I am still very much obsessed with these two

[vvellerr]

goku3.33 r6! did you know the sun is setting on the city

[amberkendslacy]

[lavinaigrette]

Chapter 5 is here! Come read about Arthur attending a séance and being really confused by his fellow rich people. Also, bonus points if you notice my single use of the word "orbs" in honour of Bram Stoker. It's what he would have wanted.

[moodsandtenses]

There's something hilarious about how so much subsequent media has positioned Vampires and Werewolves as, like, binary opposite entities, and then you read Dracula (1897) and realize that wolves are that guy's preferred solution to every problem. You'd say something to Dracula about "ah yes, werewolves, vampires' great eternal enemies," and he'd just be like "you mean my subcontractors?"

[starkidlabs]

Dracula and Jonathan’s Tango - from The Polish National Opera production of ‘Dracula’.

With Choreography by Krzysztof Pastor and Music by Wojciech Kilar.

[stainlesssteellocust]

I’m sat drunk in the beer garden of a rock bar and some chick is happily explaining that “So Jonathan Harker goes to this castle in Transylvania and he doesn’t know he’s in Dracula, right” to a guy who seems totally enthralled and I wish them nothing but the best

[thadymiller]

I love both of them so much.

Shout out also to Mina for choosing to reveal her discussions with Van Helsing and their discoveries about the journal to her husband.

I bet it was not an easy choice, especially after being told by doctors, including Van Helsing, to not shock Jonathan. She had no idea how he'd react to revealing not only that she broke the seal and read her "wedding gift", but that she shared it, and that everything in it was real, every horror he experienced. But Mina took the risk at supper... And it was rewarding!

Yeah... she may have suspected it would help him, but she didn't know. The day before she was debating with herself over whether she should try and handle everything for herself so as not to bother him:

There may be a solemn duty; and if it come we must not shrink from it.... I shall be prepared. I shall get my typewriter this very hour and begin transcribing. Then we shall be ready for other eyes if required. And if it be wanted; then, perhaps, if I am ready, poor Jonathan may not be upset, for I can speak for him and never let him be troubled or worried with it at all.

I think if he had reacted badly - to the news that she'd read his diary, that it was real, that there really is a solemn duty - Mina would have tried to keep protecting him by promising that she would deal with this for him. It would have been even harder on her, but she would do it. She was prepared for that.

But happily, it didn't turn out that way. Jonathan felt validated and much more secure in his mind after she told him, and also felt renewed energy as he prepared to seek revenge/atonement. (Revenge for what Dracula has done to him. Atonement for the ways he unwillingly helped Dracula be better able to harm others.) Of course, his trauma by no means has just gone away and will surely continue to affect him in the future, but telling him was clearly the better choice.

And Mina had to tell him. She was clearly careful about it, tried to break the news gently. She emphasized her concern and the validity of his experiences, showed him Van Helsing's letter too. But she knew she had to tell him, because there clearly is a solemn duty coming, and Jonathan wanted to know if that ever happened. So she tried not to shock him, but above all she honored his wishes and was honest with him. And it helped so much.

[the-swift-tricker]

jonathan harker on may 12th: i witnessed with abject terror as the count descended the sheer stone wall of the castle face first as a lizard would. the unmitigated horror of the spectacle haunts my waking hours like an inescapable nightmare. this man or this thing shall surely be my undoing.

jonathan harker on may 15th: saw the old bastard do the crawling trick again and honestly fuck him it's not even that impressive i don't even care anymore i hope he falls.

[thestuffedalligator]

It is November of 1893. You have just killed a vampire. Exhausted and worn, you close your eyes and rest.

You wake up. It is May of 1893. You are on a train en route to Transylvania. Your diary says you have had queer dreams lately.

You try to believe it.

(An old woman puts a rosary in your hands. You accept it without question.)

You are a guest in a castle you have never been in before (you recognize every hallway and know without trying that every door is locked). Your host is a man you have never met before (you killed him you killed him you killed him he had turned to dust and there was blood on the snow).

One morning you cut yourself while shaving.

There is nobody behind you in the pocket mirror’s reflection.

You turn fast, and the razor is like a Kukri knife in your hand.

[spankerella]

Happy Lizard Fashion Day to those who celebrate.

[mariathechosen1]