#Dracula Daily

[rebloggingrexan]

#Very interesting and correct take!! #I’m about halfway thro reading Dracula and everyone is so nice to each other :)

I think a fundamental difference between book Dracula and Nosferatu is how the protagonists work as a collective. In Dracula, they are the Scooby Gang (trusting, collaborative, polyamorous). In Nosferatu, they are the teens from an 80s slasher (suspicious, deceitful, jealous). The count can be defeated, but only the power of friendship can save Mina.

[cry-ptidd]

"Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together. Come, my husband, come!"

Lucy Westenra 🦇🪦

[urgentkettle]

It is what Lucy would want

funniest part of dracula is 100% Mina inheriting her friend's polycule after she dies. like these three random himbos (or two himbos + jack seward if you want to slice it that way) just collectively announce they'll follow her to the ends of the earth after going through some spooky stuff together and she's like "damn ok, i already have a loving husband but i guess it's what Lucy would want"

[sykes]

Thinking of ways to show Jonathan Harker's "unknown and terrible land" vow played out on a visual medium (film/tv show).

An oath like that being written down works in a novel, especially one that relies on journaling, but it doesn't translate well on screen/stage, where movement and sound is central. (the only time I've seen it attempted was in the 1992 movie and it was... not that at all). I wonder how something so detrimental to a character and relationship can be conveyed. Vocally like confessing it to Mina in private? A fight? Through actions throughout the month? An episode set in the asylum/train/Varna deliving into this?

[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?"

[nice1cream]

They don't wanna admit that Bram Stoker actually beat them to it

I find it incredibly funny that Americans will stop at nothing to Americanize every IP and storyline they can come across. They stop at nothing to take a story line and make it digestible and self grandulating for an American as possible

Except for some fucking reason Dracula is the one exception to the rule because why do they never include the cowboy

[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

[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.

[faithful-grigori]

”#i wonder WHEN these parts get transcribed because that could change the context of her feelings about it quite a bit, #i feel like she'd probably want to do it before they leave. so they can all have the latest version of everything in case they need it, #but at the same time she is officially not in on the secret anymore for now, #so either they just don't for now or they DO which raises the very interesting possibility of someone ELSE transcribing these few days, #jonathan for instance would be fascinating, #but then mina wouldn't get to hear him crying for her and i want that to happen, #it would be a neat echo for her in the same way quincey calling her 'little girl' like he did lucy was, #i don't remember if art has any such echo though i don't think so”

I—I cannot go on—words—and—v-voice—f-fail m-me!

Mina listens to him sobbing again, she must in order to eventually transcribe this too, right? But this time, he's crying for her.

That must hit really hard to hear. The intimacy of her listening to his audio diary really hits home once again...

[spankerella]

Happy Lizard Fashion Day to those who celebrate.

[mariathechosen1]

[wiliecoyotegenius]

big day today

[lauralot89]

Dracula's cape has infinite holding capacity, like the carpet bag from Mary Poppins.

Jonathan Harker or whoever: Oh damn, I forgot my keys. I'm locked out.

Dracula: I can fix that.

Jonathan Harker or whoever: Oh right, since you've been invited in before, you can to use your vampire powers to enter and unlock it from the inside

Dracula, having already pulled a wolf out from under his cape somehow and thrown it like a javelin through the nearest window: wait what

Jonathan Harker or whoever: ...

Dracula: ...

Dracula: Yeah I guess that would have worked too

[see-arcane]

Mina: "Alright, everyone pinkie swear right now to put Vampire Me down if I hop the line between death and undeath."

Van Helsing and the Suitor Squad: "Depressing, but sure, absolutely."

Jonathan:

Mina: "...Jonathan?"

Jonathan: "Yes?"

Mina: "Will you promise to slay me if I get vampire'd?"

Jonathan: "Mina, I will not lie to you."

Jonathan:

Mina: "Jonathan. I need you to look me in the eye and promise to murder me martyr-style if I get too undead."

Jonathan: "Fine. I can promise to kill."

Mina: "Me? Vampire me?"

Jonathan, making unbroken eye contact with the four guys who just promised to behead and impale his wife if she stops being human enough: "I guarantee there will be killing involved if Vampire You happens."

[500-moths-in-a-trenchcoat]

EVERYONE WISH OUR GOOD FRIEND JONATHAN HARKER SAFE TRAVELS TODAY