#Dracula’s Demeter

[see-arcane]

I was between Dracula's Demeter and The Route Of Ice And Salt and you've saved me from a coin toss haha

Happy to save another from Reader’s Regret 🫡

[my-name-is-not-kimmy]

[doctorgeekery]

Made the mistake of going on Twitter and saw this RANCID take on the “Last Voyage of the Demeter” movie. At least the replies are on point. This is very funny.

[tytolito]

"strange things are afoot aboard the demeter....."

[moonsun2010]

4 August - The captain of the Demeter makes his last stand

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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[memento-morieris-carpe-noctem]

July 18th

[treespen]

Remember: The boxes in the Demeter are all firmly sealed.

Dracula's box has a few holes (for misting himself in and out of it), as Jonathan observed, but the boxes are all firmly nailed shut.

There is no way for a person to get out of those. The Captain knows this. That's why he doesn't suspect anyone hiding in there.

[thegoatsongs]

People who have not been sleeping well in Dracula so far (July):

-Mina is having a nocturnal existence because Lucy is keeping her awake because she's sleepwalking

-Lucy is sleepwalking

-Jack Seward suffers from insomnia to the point of seeking chloral

-The Demeter crew sleeps sparsely and restlessly as doom lurks every night

-Jonathan had a nocturnal existence from May to the end of June because Dracula kept him up almost every night. Currently dead or haunted by nightmares

People who have been sleeping well:

-Dracula

-Except that one (1) day when his sleep got rudely interrupted by a shovel in the face

[immediatebreakfast]

"I can't make her out," he said; "she's a Russian, by the look of her; but she's knocking about in the queerest way. She doesn't know her mind a bit; she seems to see the storm coming, but can't decide whether to run up north in the open, or to put in here. Look there again! She is steered mighty strangely, for she doesn't mind the hand on the wheel; changes about with every puff of wind. We'll hear more of her before this time tomorrow."

Let's pause the grieving atmosphere between Mina, and Mr. Swales' words about to see the funniest dark comedy tone of the situation.

Dracula, a wealthy nobleman who has been landlocked for god knows how long, decided that the sailors who were just doing their job were expendable enough for him to kill and torture. Why would he care about the fate of simple humans when they are there to serve him as both food, and entertaiment at the expense of their lives; the Count only needs them to steer the ship near enough to Whitby right?

Well, after Dracula pushed the captain towards absolute terror after this trip from hell, which in return strengthen his indomitable human spirit, which made him tie himself to the wheel with the holy object that symbolically makes the ship herself untouchable to Dracula's hands... There he is.

The mighty conqueror of romania, the terrifying shadow that lurks the night, a living myth defying time as he feeds on the life of his victims... trapped in a ship where he cannot touch anything that matters thanks to his over indulgence, lack of actual care for his own plans, and once again underestimation of humans.

A shovel was not enough to make Dracula truly understand.

[queeniegalore]

I know there is sunrise because I am a sailor…

Godspeed to the Captain of the Demeter, he was the best of us 😭

[evydraws]

This ship is a hunting ground...

[life-or-something-like-lt]

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) Creating Dracula Featurette

[your-friendly-sleep-demoness]

the last voyage of the demeter is to dracula what rogue one is to star wars because you know that everyone is fucked before you even start watching but you still end up getting attached

[barghesthowls]

Now I don't personally believe that Dracula was for real terrified of Mina, however, he did flee after seeing this dainty girl (who saw him in the graveyard with his red eyes and immense figure) not faint or scream or freeze or flee despite her obvious fear but run straight at him.

Dracula is at his worst when something he wasn't anticipating happens. He wasn't expecting Jonathan to pick himself up and literally crawl up the castle walls and dare try to kill him. If he was expecting that, he'd not be having a scar now. He wasn't expecting the Captain of the Demeter to defy him by tying himself up on the wheel with a crucifix. If he did, the logs would have been gone now.

Mina woke up and ran into the night defying every fear, convention, risk, to save Lucy from man or beast. That wasn't on his Bingo card. He was forced to stop hurting Lucy and fled.

Then Mina wakes up again, sensing something wrong, and goes to the window and spots him. He flies closer a couple of times but she remains there. He's forced to flee again. Mina believes she scared the 'bat'.

To me, these two scenes establish a few things.

-Bravery as a core trait for Mina.

-Mina as the one who hunts Dracula down.

Jonathan wounded him in his box, the Captain denied him apotheosis, but Mina made him run.

[warrioreowynofrohan]

I think Dracula’s destruction of the crew of the Demeter is for more reason than just him wanting a snack. I think, for whatever reason, he wants to arrive in England with no witnesses. He’s in one of the boxes; his weight would be noticed when they were unloaded. It would be difficult to be sure of conveniently getting off the boat separate from the boxes, both because he can’t leave it as a man (there was no passenger) and because he can’t cross running water. The death of the crew lets him crash the boat directly into the shore, so it is in physical contact with land, and then depart it as a wolf.

He’s not miscalculating. He’s causing the mist on purpose. He’s getting rid of the crew on purpose. He’s crashing the ship on purpose.

[lavinaigrette]

Imagine if The Last Voyage of the Demeter just ends with a twenty minute sequence of Dracula trying to singlehandedly steer the ship into Whitby without crashing.