#Dracula first edition

[moonsun2010]

8 July - Meet Seward, Renfield, and a little bird

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

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[fanofspooky]

Scream King - Charles Dance

[vamplire]

me consuming every piece of vampire media instead of having a social life:

[redversaillesrose]

Note to self: If I ever publish my vampire story, use this post as a reference of what the cover of the first edition should look like to make it a pillar of vampire literature.  

[stjohnstarling]

I’ve just finished a reread of The King in Yellow. The edition I read had a bunch of classroom questions at the end and god these are stupid “what do YOU think yellow symbolizes?” Like what they want some poor kid to just guess? "Oh yellow reminds me of sunshine and piss :)" Well you can't trick me I know too many useless facts!

If you've spent as much time as I have reading obscene trash informative and educational literature, you know that in the Victorian era, pulp books were published with yellowish covers because the cheap paper of the time had a yellow tinge to it, so yellow caught on as a symbol of sensational literature in general. Yellow was the colour of the lurid, the immoral, the transgressive. It was associated with the Decadent movement (which most of the short stories in The King in Yellow are about) whose main periodical in England was called "The Yellow Book." There are a lot of strange and ambiguous things in The King in Yellow but this is not one of them. It's really frustrating for me to watch the Cthulhu-industrial complex pretend there's no context for this novel!

[rosie-the-demon]

My drawings for Renfield week day 1: Past!

I am shock that I willed my body to produce art. My friends and I all did it together and watch a bunch of Dracula movies together

10/10 Renfield day :)

[beevean]

It is done.

After two years, Grip is done, and my old character study of Hector and his relationships with Rosaly and Isaac is complete.

I'm so happy ❤

[starlene]

To the Finnish high school/community theatre doing The Addams Family the musical this spring, I say: I sincerely wish you the best of luck, the most broken of legs, the most sold out of performances. May Thalia bless your production.

To the Finnish publicly funded professional theatre doing The Addams Family this autumn, I say: FOR SHAME, if you even know what the word "shame" means, which I highly doubt, seeing how you're putting on the bazillionth production of The Addams Family the musical in this godforsaken country. With my taxpayer money. FOR SHAME!!

[marietheran-archived]

You know what? I really want to do this

[jimmyclueless]

aaa greenscreen dress :]

[asterdeer]

crawling up the walls bc of oscar isaac frankenstein. oh my god. crawling up the walls. i want to eat electricity this is a gift for me in particular thank you god and jesus and guillermo del toro (holy trinity)

[sheyhem]

Twitter had a thing and I was compelled to make designs for both of these two on the spot just for this meme lmao my two favorite british men on a no good very bad trip involving kidnappings, medical malpractice and an unhealthy dose of the horrors <3

[dandelion-wine-in-autumn]

Alan Ryan, Vampires: Two Centuries of Great Vampire Stories

Illustrated by my love, Edward Gorey 🖤

[paulgadzikowski]

[elderwisp]

dang i really do think about my oc's and their first kiss with their person and man... maaaaan

[drowningparty]

Anyway, fuck Dr Seward. He took away Renfield's agency, never showed him respect, and encouraged his delusions b/c he saw Ren as a novelty he could use to "advance [his] own branch of science" (90) if he made a study of him. Renfield comments on this when he stops eating live animals, saying Seward will need to get himself a new patient with zoophagy (320), b/c he knows that's all Seward wants — an interesting case study, not to sincerely help him.

Seward regularly puts Renfield in a straitjacket, chains him to a padded wall despite his awful cries (127), has his staff hurt him, and still has the audacity to think Ren should view him as a friend when he views Ren as nothing but a "pet lunatic" (179). And Ren does call him a friend, words dripping with sarcasm, but the sarcasm goes over Seward's head, he's such an egotist. He doesn't even get, when Ren says: "They think I could hurt you! Fancy me hurting you!" (132) it's b/c Seward's the one with all the power, hurting him.

Renfield's powerless in that asylum. He can't seriously hurt anyone. Seward just doesn't see himself, or his actions, as abusive. But he doesn't view his patients as fully-rounded people. It doesn't matter who they were before they came to him. Renfield's life before his delusions? Never comes up in his entries. Who he could be after he left, if his condition were managed? Irrelevant. All Seward sees is a case study that could make him famous. If he actually cared about his patients welfare, he'd have listened when Ren came to him in distress.

Ren only served Dracula b/c he took advantage of him, a desperate, lonely, delusional, queer, mentally ill older man who had once been respected by his peers before losing everything, and fed his fixed idea. A man who no one would believe. A man who would be easy to kill once he'd served his purpose. A man who wouldn't be missed, if he disappeared. Men like that disappear all of the time.

Seward saw the danger Renfield was putting himself in by meeting Dracula alone, but didn't stop him. When Ren tells him he'll die if he isn't sent away, Seward refuses to help. Renfield wanted to escape. His death wasn't a 'sacrifice,' that implies it was his choice to stay & die for someone he hardly knows. If Seward answered his prayers, Renfield would have fled and saved himself. He'd have neither helped nor stopped Dracula. B/c he wanted to live! He was in love with life! His entire monomania revolved around the desire to live by any means necessary, even stealing what hours he believed the lifeblood of a fly could give him! Instead, Seward kept him trapped in his cell, and left him to be murdered like a rat in a cage. A tragedy that could have been avoided if anyone had simply listened to him!