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The Five Gifts of Hathor

Gorgon Island, February 1952

Gorgon Island is like a perpetual spring garden. The lower parts of the island are dry grass and brush with palms, dragon blood trees, and acacia. Further up the mountain ridges on the windward side are the laurel forests, and above them the pines and sycamores. It’s never too hot or too cold, and the sunsets are so lovely.

Like this evening, with the sky all violets and dusky blues and gold. The sun melting into the Atlantic. This is the time of nightjars, nightingales, and bats. It’s a magical time. Especially when Edith joins Emily on the porch working on some knitting.

“Got Bree down for the night,” Edith says.

“That’s good,” Emily says. The baby’s been sleeping better recently, which bismillah will help them sleep. It helps keep those black dog feelings away from Emily. She’s a far better mother than she gives herself credit for, yet still she runs herself ragged. The healing factor helps a lot, physically, but she needs all the rest she can get. Michael even promised no missions for her until she’s ready and wants to go. They have all the time in the world now.

“How’s the jumper coming along? She asks.

Emily holds up her work. It’s a dark blue guernsey jumper meant for Pat, his thirty-ninth is coming up in March. “Seems to be going decently. Just have to be sure the knitting’s tight. Can’t imagine he’ll wear it as his Sunday best.”

“Dear Pat’s too practical for such things,” Edith says, wrapping an arm around Emily’s shoulders.

They sit quietly for a while, enjoying each other’s company. She presses her face close to Emily’s hair, catching the lingering scent of her perfume - iris as delicate as gossamer serenely ornamenting her skin.

Look at you Edie, being such a maudlin poet.

“I just remembered something,” Emily says, leaning back on Edith’s shoulder.

“Hmmm.”

“Been ten years since we met.” “Really? That long?’ she muses.

“Yes,” Emily laughs. “Funny how all that time went.”

It feels like yesterday as the cliché goes. At the same time it’s ancient history.

“I still can’t believe how nervous I was around you when we first met.”

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Cairo, Egypt, February, 1942

So this is Cairo?

Emily comes into the city at the head of a sandstorm and quartered in a FANY barracks close to SOE headquarters - the worst kept secret in the city. Her bunkmates are nice enough, a few are SOE like her, and the work’s not too bad. It’s translating and paraphrasing intercepted messages. It’s easy enough, but it keeps her thinking.

It’s simple, analytical work that requires her full attention so there’s no room to think about such things as home, France, and especially Lyon. It was simple. For a few hours a day, Emily can ignore the feeling of being set adrift. Listless. Directionless. No one knows what to do with her.

Emily Gower, the heroine who discovered the vibranium smuggling ring. Mentioned in dispatches. She’s also damaged goods. Her cell’s blown up, there’s a body in Lyon, and she’s the lone survivor. What do you do with a girl like her?

Send her far from home to cool her heels and keep her out of trouble. Rotten city to do that, there’s nothing but trouble from the men. With the Axis so near, life becomes desperate.

“I can’t possibly go along, Vera, I’d be the odd girl out. Two couples and the spinster, I’d be a complete bore.”

They’re all in a common room. Emily’s curled up in an armchair with a book by Sylvia Townsend Warner. She tries focusing on it to keep herself from eavesdropping and failing miserably. At least the cover acts as a good screen.

Edith Harker is a FANY driver and heart achingly beautiful. She’s tall with auburn hair and lovely blue eyes. She sort of looks like Ingrid Bergman. Emily sometimes casts her as a heroine from a novel - Helen Graham is where her mind goes most of the time. Harker’s talking with another FANY driver and she’s always friendly enough with people, but there’s a certain solitude about her. Not aloofness. There’s a sadness about her. A desire for connection, but possibly the fear of it, as well.

“Oh come now, I’m sure Bertie could drum up some young man for you.”

“No, no. Don’t go to all that trouble for me. You and Ruby go and have fun. I’ll be fine.”

“Alright,” Vera concedes. “Just don’t keep yourself cooped up, dear.”

Harker politely waves Vera off and collapses into the armchair next to Emily. She sprawls in the chair, legs extended out, taking up as much room as possible. There’s something of a pout as she lets a bored expression pass over her face and stares into middle distance. She’s alone in her own world. All Emily could do was wonder what it was like.

Then Harker sighs and looks over at her and her mouth goes dry.

"Good book?" She asks.

Suddenly, Emily feels her cheeks flush and her hair stand on end. They’ve exchanged polite words before. The requisite “hellos” and “pardon mes’ of life. This was the first time Edith Harker actually asked her something. And all Emily can do is nod.

Harker tilts her head and reads out the title, “Lolly Willowes. Good pick.”

“You’ve read it?” she asks, surprised.

“Of course,” Harker replies.

It’s a bit of an odd book to read, not that Emily didn’t mind more popular fair like Nancy Mitford or Emily Fox-Seton. And she loves Christie and du Maurier. Reading a Sylvia Townsend Warner is like Virginia Woolf in her opinion. It’s good stuff, but people think you’re putting on airs, especially where she’s from. And Bethan Gower’s daughters were always putting on airs according to some.

“I like the idea of running away to become a witch and fall in love with the devil,” Harker adds with a wicked grin. “Seems like the only way a woman can be alone if she’s a wicked witch.”

“Make herself as unappealing to men as possible?,” Emily adds, much to her surprise. It came out so naturally.

“That and to get away from her family. Especially if she wants any independence.”

“Have you read Rebecca? The du Maurier book?” Emily blurts out the question.

Harker raises a brow, “Yes,” she answers. “I liked it well enough. Though the second Mrs. de Winter could have grown a spine sooner.”

“Yes…” Emily says. “So anyway I heard that one of the cinema’s playing the film. It’s Hitchcock directing. And it’s got Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier.”

“Oh, yes! Didn’t he also do Jamaica Inn?”

Emily nods, “Though honestly, the book’s far better. Though I’m biased, I really like the book.”

“Same here,” Harker says. “But I do like Joan Fontaine. And Vera’s right, I should get out more.” She looks over at Emily, an eyebrow arched in curiosity. “Care for the cinema?”

Emily’s taken aback. She’s still astonished that someone like Edith Harker would take any interest in her. It’s thrilling nonetheless and she’s been so lonely. So she swallows back her fear and nods, “That’ sounds like fun.”

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Gorgon Island

Emily and Edith make tea for themselves, enjoying themselves with music and a lot of laughs. They reminisce about the past and talk about all the things Sabrina’s gotten up to. She’s babbling, and crawling, and finds everything fascinating. Hair-raisingly so at times.

“So when was it when you realized…” Emily asks. Maybe a little deliberately coy.

“Realize what?” Edith replies, hiding a smile behind her tea cup.

Emily shrugs with a smile, “You know…” She gestures to indicate their connection. “Was it right away?”

Edith lowers her cup and stares up to a corner of the ceiling. “It did take a bit. Sort of two stages.”

Emily gives a quizzical tilt to her head that gets Edith laughing, “You’ll have to forgive me love, I’m still a recovering Catholic. Had to get over the guilt and all that.”

“I mean, I’m a recovering Calvinist. You’re in good company.”

“Well then,” Edith says, clapping her hands together in mock prayer, turning her blue eyes to the heavens. “Forgive me father for I have sinned.” She turns her gaze to Emily. “I have committed the sin of Lust, for Emily Gower looks ravishing in a red bathing suit.”

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Cairo, Egypt, March, 1942

The barracks have gathered around the swimming pool, some as sunbathers, others as swimmers. It’s one of the few days that is not dominated by sand storms.

Edith sits on a deck chair, reading Jean Rhys and once in a while glancing up at the pool. For the most part, she minds her own business, content under a shady palm with an engaging book.

By chance she needs a sip of her lemonade. And by chance she sees Emily Gower emerge from the pool.

It’s a simple, halter neck bathing suit in poppy red. Modest by many standards. But Emily Gower looks like a nymph of Artemis. A Spartan warrior girl. She’s short and boyish, yet her body is sinewy. Edith’s gaze drinks her in, her imagination wanders to shaded groves and moonlit hunts. She sees Emily stalking through the woods with silent ease, bow and arrow in hand. Poised to strike.

Emily gets over to her deck chair, toweling herself off. She takes off her swimming cap, unpinning her hair and letting it loose. It falls heavily on her shoulders in waves of rich reddish gold, catching the light of the afternoon sun as she runs her fingers through it.

She turns her head and Edith ducks behind her book. It’s rude to stare and she knows her face flushed a vivid red. Since she was a school girl, Edith has known that she’s fancied members of her own sex just as much as she loved men. Sometimes more so. She had been raised to view such feelings as unnatural. As sinful. Something to confess to Father Brady and pray on the rosary about. Hope that God will take away such feelings.

But what if she didn’t want these feelings to go away? If she no longer cared what her father’s wrathful God thought was right and wrong, then what’s holding her back?

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“You make me sound like Betty Grable,” Emily says incredulously. Truth be told, she’s always thought herself rather plain. No matter what people told her, there was always that nagging doubt.

Edith looks at her a bit cockeyed, “Well honestly, you’re not like one of those Hollywood types. But you are striking. Got a way about you that’s rather bewitching.”

Emily leans over the table and kisses Edith.

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Luxor, Egypt, April, 1942

Edith has to duck to enter the tomb. Emily doubts the Ancient Egyptians ever planned for a five foot ten English woman entering the resting place of Nefertari.

Emily would normally make a crack about it, but she’s too transfixed by the ceiling alone. It’s painted a deep blue with golden stars. Her eyes wander to the wall paintings of the dead queen journeying to the afterlife. She’d only seen hieroglyphics as the plain carvings on exposed temples. She never imagined what they’d look like painted.

“Marvelous, isn’t it,” Edith says in a hushed voice.

It seems wrong to speak any louder. It feels more sacred than any church she’s been in.

Quietly, they go around the tomb. Edith studied this stuff at Oxford, and she gives a running commentary on the images and even reads some of the carvings.

They frequently brush up against each other. Stand close. Whisper to each other.

“And this is Hathor blessing Nefertari,” Edith says when they get to a painting on a pillar, “Hathor’s the one with the cow horns and sun disk.”

She nods. It looks like the queen and the goddess are holding hands. The blessing, Hathor placing the ankh on Nefertari's lips, is rather intimate. There’s something gentle about the Ancient Egyptian afterlife. More comforting than the Calvinistic dogma of her youth.

Election never sat well with her.

She feels Edith’s hand brush against hers. Emily is still astonished that someone like Edith would give her the time of day. Let alone invite her down to Luxor with her.

“Em, dear,” Edith says, gently touching her hand without taking it. “You can tell me off if I’m wrong, but I really like you. A lot.”

The room smells of dust, kerosene lamps, and the jasmine oil Edith daubs behind her ears. The caress of Edith’s fingers on her palm sends Emily’s heart racing and raising the heat in her cheeks.

“I like you, too,” she replies, not knowing what else to say. She was more than happy to have Edith as a friend.

“I know…” she stops and sucks in a breath. Emily looks up at her and is surprised by the worried look on her (in Emily’s opinion) angelic face. “It’s just I want to know… “

“Look now,” Emily says, taking Edith’s hand and turns so they’re facing each other. She takes the other hand, stares up at her and says, “I think I don’t just like you, Edith. I think I love you. And I know for damn sure I’ve been wanting to kiss you since I met you.”

“Thank God!” Edith says. She bends down and Emily stands on her toes and before the image of Hathor and Nefertari, they share their first real kiss.

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Gorgon Island

They get ready for bed. Wash faces, brush teeth, the usual routine. Emily goes to check on Sabrina. The baby’s peacefully asleep in her cot. Her hair is dark brown, soft, and downy. Her little hands balled up into fists. Emily wonders what Sabrina dreams of; the sort of adventures she goes on. Hopefully it’s nothing harrowing. She had a rough entry into the world and Emily owes her daughter a happy future.

Edith comes up from behind, wrapping her arms about Emily’s waist.

“She’s such a sweet little thing,” Edith says. She adores Sabrina and that has been such a comfort to Emily. She’s been so happy these past few months she sometimes worries that she’ll wake one day and find it’s all been a dream.

“Em, don’t worry,” Edith whispers in her ear. “Bree will be here in the morning.”

“I know,” Emily sighs. She runs a finger over a soft cheek. She knows exactly what she would do if something happened. “Doesn’t mean I don’t think about it.”

Edith turns Emily around in her arms, cupping her face. “Emily, you are a wonderful mother. And no harm will ever come to Sabrina while she’s here.” Edith kissed her forehead.

“We’re safer now,” Emily breathes out, leaning on Edith. “You make me feel safe.”

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Yugoslavia, January, 1945

Emily is awoken by the sun. The room is so bright. Her vision unfocused. Head swimming and body aching. She’s so disoriented. She doesn’t know where she is. She can barely move.

She needs to get up.

She needs to leave.

Where am I? Why can’t I move my arm?

“Em! Emily, wake up. I’m here.”

There’s a hand on her cheek. Her vision focuses. Hovering above her is Edith. Her auburn is disheveled, falling into her face. Her blue eyes are wide with fear and happiness. Her face is both tired and elated.

“You’re alright. You’re safe, love,” Edith says, tears welling at the corners of her eyes.

Emily tries to speak, but it feels like there’s cotton in her mouth. Edith takes the que and pours her a cup of water. She’s so weak she needs help sitting up. She needs help to drink.

When she’s gathered more of herself, Emily looks down at her arm, bound closely to her body in a sling. She can feel bandages around her shoulder and chest. It dawns on her what happened.

He finally got her.

He won.

Her mind reels. She feels sick. She feels helpless, violated. Dirty.

The tears come and she shatters once more. Everything’s gone to pieces. Emily’s fallen to pieces.

“Emily,” Edith says, holding her hand. “Emily, look at me.”

She takes several shuddering breaths before looking up at Edith. She’s crying, too.

“Nothing’s going to be the same. But you are here. You are safe. And you’re alive. That’s all that matters right now. We’ll be alright.”

Together they weep and mourn what’s happened. Desperately, Emily grasps that lifeline. Desperately, she clings to Edith.

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Gorgon Island

“I should have listened to you,” Emily whispers in the dark. She’s far more restless now - used to fall asleep quickly and then slept like a stone for the rest of the night - and Edith seems a little restless, too.

“‘Bout what?” she murmurs back.

“That we’d be alright. Took me too long to realize that.”

They turn to face each other in bed. It’s dark and quiet. Outside is just the wind rustling grass and leaves.

Edith wraps her arms around Emily’s shoulders and they lay together, head to toe.

“If there’s one thing I know is that you’d always come back.” Edith says. “You just needed to figure that out on your own.”

“Even if it took me a hundred years?”

“I’d wait for you forever.”

They kiss and hold onto one another. They were together now, and nothing would change that.

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Holland Park, London, United Kingdom, November 1950

The trip back to London was abysmal. Nothing but dark, overcast skies and heavy rain from Paris to Calais. The Channel was rough and the train to London was surprisingly crowded. Edith did bring some treasure back from this excursion. More books for the Service’s occult library. And it was surprisingly sunny when she got back to London.

But first, Edith checks in with Maddie and Robby.

She opens the door and is greeted first by the bloodhound, Jasper, with a loving amount of baying and slobber. He’s followed by the twins - Robin and Pippa - excited shouts of “Missy!” (they had trouble with “Miss Edith”) as they ran from the parlour.

“Hello my darlings!” Edith calls as she’s met with the cacophony of excited children and dog. She is swept into the parlour by the twins, wanting to show her something as little children are want to do.

And her heart stops.

Sitting on one of Maddie’s expensive settees is a ghost Edith clung to. One who’s haunting she never wanted to leave. For nearly five years, all she had wished and prayed for above all else, was for Emily to come back.

And here Emily sat, her hazel eyes wide, her hair ablaze in the late afternoon sun. Angel isn’t the right word, but this feels like a miracle.

Edith crosses the room and Emily rises and before either of them can speak they fall into a fierce hug. It’s been so long. There were times when Edith wanted to give up. There were times when she wanted to lose hope.

“I’m sorry,” Emily whispers into Edith’s shoulder between sobs. “I’m so sorry.”

“You’re here, love. That’s all that matters.”

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Gorgon Island, 14 February 1952

Watching from the porch, Emily observes Edith holding Sabrina, showing their daughter all the flowers and insects in the garden.

On a notepad, Emily writes a list.

Five things I am thankful for

That Edith and I met

That we found love

Sabrina

We have a home

Edith never gave up

#mcu #marvel cinematic universe #mcu fanfic #invaders fanfic #marvel comics #marvel #emily gower #edith harker #valentines day #one shot

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melekinh · 1 year ago

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thinking about my ocs Edie and Shannon. (and specifically Shannon cutting Edie’s hair for the first time in 200 years and the relief Edie would feel watching the long, black hair her abuser adored fall to the floor.)

#harker rambles #edith was turned into a vampire by a pimp who groomed her #she escapes him and is picked up by shannon (a truck driver in her 40’s who’s also on the run in her own way)#oc: shannon goode #oc: edith montgomery

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little-desi-historian · 2 years ago

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About Edith Craig.

Sarah Bernhardt would’ve made an excellent Lucy I believe.

Sarah Bernhardt Anne Rice before Anne Rice existed (Affectionate).

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The very first person who portrayed Mina Murray on stage was Edith "Edy" Craig, in 1897, for Stoker's short-lived stage version of the novel. She was an actress, director, producer, designer, and pioneer of the women’s suffrage movement in England.

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hotvintagepoll · 4 months ago

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this is a poll for a movie that doesn't exist.

It is vintage times. The powers that be have decided to again remake the classic vampire novel Dracula for the screen. in an amazing show of inter-studio solidarity, Hollywood’s most elite hotties are up for the starring roles. the producers know whoever they cast will greatly impact the genre, quality, and tone of the finished film, so they are turning to their wisest voices for guidance.

you are the new casting director for this star-studded epic. choose your players wisely.

Previously cast:

Jonathan Harker—Jimmy Stewart

The Old Woman—Martita Hunt

Count Dracula—Gloria Holden

Mina Murray—Setsuko Hara

Lucy Westenra—Judy Garland (rip)

The Three Voluptuous Women—Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and Lauren Bacall

The Agonized Mother—Mary Philbin (rip)

Dr. Jack Seward—Vincent Price

Quincey P. Morris—Toshiro Mifune

Arthur Holmwood—Sidney Poitier

R.M. Renfield—Conrad Veidt

The Captain of the Demeter—Omar Sharif (rip)

The First Mate of the Demeter—Leonard Nimoy (rip)

Mr. Swales—Ed Wynn (rip)

The Correspondent for The Daily Graph—Ethel Waters

Dracula in dog form—Frank Oz with a puppet

Sister Agatha—Angela Lansbury

Mrs. Westenra—Gladys Cooper (rip)

Dracula's solicitors—Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee

Dr. Van Helsing—Orson Welles

Mrs. Bilder is the wife of the zookeeper Thomas Bilder. She is also very fond of wolves.

#dracula daily #dracula casting #hotvintagepoll #minis #silly times

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soulsforscrapbooks · 1 year ago

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How the Dracula Stage Play Influenced Future Adaptations

So I wanted to let people know about the stage adaptation of Dracula, because it established a lot of tropes that have come to define the novel as well as vampire fiction in general, despite the fact that large changes were made when bringing the book to the stage. Sometimes, honestly, it seems like more adaptations pull from the play than the book. Okay:

The original stage adaptation of Dracula was written in 1897 by Stoker himself! Here you can see the manuscript in his own hand:

Apparently he hated how it turned out, because he called it “dreadful” and it was performed only once and then never again. The role of Mina was played by Edith Craig, a well-known figure in the suffragist movement and the daughter of Ellen Terry, Stoker's friend, whom he mentions in the book. The next attempt at adapting the novel would not be until the 1920s, after Stoker had died.

The 1924 adaptation by Hamilton Deane stays fairly close to the events of the novel. Some key points:

The entirety of the action takes place in the Harkers' house

Mina and Jonathan are already married

Dracula is already in England, and the storyline involving Jonathan as a prisoner of the Count has been omitted

To accommodate the female members of his theater troupe, Quincy is now a woman! Her name is still Quincy, and she is described as “feisty,” and is a close friend of Jonathan and Mina. (There don’t seem to be any photos from the 1924 play, sadly.)

It is in this first major adaptation that the idea of the Count as suave and debonair is brought into existence. This change is to allow Dracula to interact more easily onstage with the other characters, whereas in the book he stays an offscreen threat for large amounts of time. This is also the first instance of Dracula wearing a high-collared pointy cape, which was originally done to hide the actor better whenever Dracula had to “disappear” through trapdoors.

Here is Raymond Huntley as Dracula in the 1924 stage adaptation:

The play was a success, and quickly moved to Broadway:

This version, adapted by John Balderston, was a complete revision not just from the book but from the 1924 stage play, and a LOT of changes were made:

Quincy, Arthur, and MINA have been removed from the story. Mina is mentioned as having died mysteriously before the play takes place.

Jonathan’s relationship to Dracula has been completely removed. He is not involved with bringing the Count to England at all. He is also now wealthy, and has traveled Europe extensively, where he has heard folktales about vampires.

Lucy is now engaged to Jonathan, and her last name is now Lucy Seward. This is because……..

John Seward has been aged up and is now Lucy’s father.

The action takes place at Seward’s house/asylum.

Renfield is allowed to just sort of…wander around Seward’s house when the plot requires him to be there. He gets dragged away by attendants whenever he needs to be offstage. He also survives.

The Broadway version also made large changes in characterization:

Lucy is weak and feeble when we meet her in the play. She is helplessly preyed upon by Dracula, and yet is sexually tempted by him when under a trance. She and Dracula share a passionate kiss at the end of Act II, right before she willingly exposes her neck for him to bite.

Jonathan is still concerned for Lucy as she is slowly turned, but he is more wary of her and goes along willingly with Van Helsing’s ideas regardless of how Lucy feels.

Renfield is portrayed as actively malicious, through fearful and subservient to the Count.

Seward is seen as a strong-willed father who leads his asylum with a firm and confident hand. He believes Van Helsing more readily when confronted with the existence of vampires.

Dracula himself is once again depicted as charming and suave, and he spends time during the first act as a mysterious but pleasant dinner guest of the Sewards.

Despite these massive revisions, the Broadway version was a hit, partially to due the charisma of Bela Lugosi, who originated the role. (Below is Bela Lugosi as Dracula along with Seward, Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, and Renfield on the floor:)

Bela Lugosi, of course would go on to star in the 1931 film adaptation. Other famous stage Draculas include Jeremy Brett and Frank Langella (Langella's revival would also give us this amazing Edward Gorey art:)

So we can see that the stage plays influenced many versions that would later come, as well as the idea of vampires in pop culture at large. It’s interesting how the motifs and themes we expect when we hear the word “Dracula” were actually the creation of people besides the author, and these differences don't seem to have been majorly disputed in the last 100 years. Has this happened with other classic novels? I'm not sure, but I'd love to see an accurate adaptation of Dracula in stage or film form, and see how it might influence filmmakers and directors for the future.

#dracula daily #dracula spoilers #theater

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bebemoon · 1 year ago

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CASTING MUTUALS IN SPOOKY MEDIA FOR HALLOWEEN, PT. I

@interluxetumbra ~ margot (la reine margot) | jareth (labyrinth) | clara webb (byzantium)

@shalott ~ blind mag (repo! the genetic opera) | christine daae (the phantom of the opera)

@vampirkaninchen ~ nadja cravensworth (what we do in the shadows) | mina harker (the league of extraordinary gentlemen)

@ayzrules ~ alice liddell (alice: madness returns {video game}) | kang saebyeok (squid game)

@allthestoriescantbelies ~ edith cushing (crimson peak) | sarah (labyrinth)

@zenibas ~ selene (underworld) | william "spike" pratt (buffy the vampire slayer)

@bienenkiste ~ suzy bannion (suspiria)

@naiadereverie ~ hannah von reichmerl (a cure for wellness)

@konvalia ~ mina harker (bram stoker's dracula) | aya tsukimori (fatal frame)

@wrenling ~ carrie white (carrie) | wicked lady (sailor moon)

@blubbingbeautifully ~ star (the lost boys) | tank girl (tank girl) | diva plavalaguna (the fifth element)

@roseverie ~ mirror queen (the brothers grimm) | frieda gellhorn (twins of evil)

@rosehaunt ~ lisle von rhuman (death becomes her) | maria gellhorn (twins of evil)

@melethrille ~ princess nuala (hellboy 2: the golden army) | fiona belli (haunting ground {video game})

@silkfaun ~ princess lili (legend)

@uneorchide ~ nina sayers (black swan)

@blauestunden ~ dani (midsommar)

@senvive ~ saxana (the girl on the broomstick)

@mermaid-lullaby ~ akari (ghost squad)

#kinda wordy #don't care tho #request #hope this amuses some of you- i swear to god it was fun #halloween #collage #mutuals #spooky #film #tv #video games #mine

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most-screwed-by-writers-tourney · 9 months ago

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Tentative list for best horror and thriller girls:

1. Maria from Mad Father

2. Reiko Mikami from Another

3. Bridget, from the webtoon Nonesuch,

4. Ha-Im, from webtoon Never-ending Darling.

5. Riot Maidstone (from Hello From The Hallowoods),

6. Martha from Ravenous 1999

7. Grace, from Ready or Not (2019).

8. Regan Abbott (A Quiet Place)

9. Ava (Ex Machina)

10. Beatrice (Over the Garden Wall)

11. Jennifer from Jennifer’s Body

12. Rozy from the guy upstairs

13. Rachel (Rachel Rising comic book series)

14. Amanda Young, SAW,

15. Wendy Torrance, “The Shining” movie

16. Pannochka - Viy

17. Blind Mag (Repo! The Genetic Opera)

18. Sasha from the magnus archives

19. Mina Harker (Dracula

20. Lex Foster from Black Friday.

21. Charlotte from Hello Charlotte!

22. Carrie White, Carrie

23. Scarlet, I’m the Grim Reaper

24. So Jung-hwa, Strangers from Hell

25. Dana Scully, The X Files

26. Akane Tsunemori, Psycho Pass

27. Mima Kirigoe, Perfect Blue

28. Nina Fortner, Monster

29. Eva Heinemann, Monster

30. Edith Cushing, Crimson Peak

31. Lucille Sharpe, Crimson Peak

32. Ellen Ripley, Alien

33. Clarice Starling, Silence of the Lambs

34. Lisa Reisert, Red Eye

35. Laurie Strode, Halloween

36. Kayo Hinazuki, Erased

37. Hondomachi, ID Invaded

38. Yonaka Kurai, Mogeko Castle

39. Ib, IB

40. Re-L Mayer, Ergo Proxy

41. Kyun Yoon, Bastard

42. Jisu, Sweet Home

43. Lauren Sinclair, Purple Hyacinth

44. Nita, Market of Monsters series

45. Rose the Hat from Doctor Sleep (2019 movie and Stephen King book)

46. Sidney Prescott from the original Scream movies,

47. Jade Daniels, Indian Lake Trilogy/My Heart is a chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

48. Villanelle, killing eve

49. Harrow from gideon the ninth/Locked Tomb

50. Maggie, Everything is Fine

51. Chaerin Eun, Surviving Romance

52. Finn, I’m Dating a Psychopath

53. Rayne Liebert, Homesick

54. Ha-im Yun, Never Ending Darling

55. Ashlyn Banner, School Bus Graveyard

56. Chae-ah Han, Trapped

57. Jeongmin Choi, Dreaming Freedom

58. Frankie, Stagtown

59. India Stoker, Stoker

60. Nam-ra, All of Us Are Dead

61. Ji-woo, My Name

62. Nanno, Girl From Nowhere

63. Emerald, Nope

64. Jessica Jones

65. Susy, Wait Until Dark

66. Margot, The Menu

67. Vera, Just Like Home

68. Rosemary, Rosemary’s Baby

69. Gertrude Robinson, The Magnus Archives

70. Alex, Oxenfree

71. Margaret Lanternman/The Log Lady, Twin Peaks,

72. Audrey Horne, Twin Peaks,

73. Su-an, Train to Busan

74. Ji-a, Tale of the Nine Tailed

75. Cha Ji-won, Flower of Evil

76. Coraline

77. Helen Lyle, Candyman

78. Nancy, Nightmare on Elm Street

79. Mrs. De Winter, Rebecca

80. Mrs. Danvers, Rebecca

81. Shiki Ryougi, Garden of Sinners

82. Kirsty Cotton, Hellraiser

83. Pearl, Pearl

84. Take-ju, Thirst

85. Suzy Bannion, Suspiria

86. Lain, Serial Experiments Lain

87. Asami Yamazaki, Audition

88. Naru, Prey

89. Eli, Let the Right One In

90. The Girl, A Girl walks home alone at night

91. Cecilia, Immaculate

92. Evie Alexander, The Invitation

93. Maren, Bones and All

94. Michelle, 10 Cloverfield Lane

95. Thomasin, The VVitch

96. Emma, None Shall Sleep

97. Contestanta, A Dowry of Blood

98. Brigid O’Shaughnessy, Maltese Falcon

99. Sandra Voyter, Anatomy of a Fall

100. Lisa, Rear Window

#polls

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lauralot89 · 7 months ago

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Support Group for Victorians Stuck in Fancy Old Buildings with Creepy Aristocrats

Current Members:

Jonathan Harker

Edith Cushing

Daniel of Mayfair

Emily St. Aubert

#but Edith Cushing is Edwardian - shut up I'm making the list #Gothic horror

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thewardenofwinter · 2 years ago

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Character Inspo Tag

Tagged by the wonderful Nopal over at @writernopal! Thank you so much, here is their post with some absolutely insane character combinations lol

(also some of these are not characters but real people but I wanted to include them anyway)

Rules: List your OCs and the characters that inspired them!

Very gently Tagging: @sam-glade @elshells @zestymimblo @crowandmoonwriting @captain-kraken @indigowriting @rownanisntwriting and @eurydicefades

Give No Quarter

Circe

Circe of Aeaea (Greek Mythology)

Gamora (Guardians of The Galaxy)

Golsifteh Farahani (Actress)

Wonder Woman and Talia al Ghul (DC Comics)

Sypha Belnades (Castlevania TV show)

Yennefer (Witcher)

Aya/Amunet (Assassins Creed: Origins)

Mix together mommy issues, witchcraft, and ancient knowledge in large bowl with a gilded dagger you get Circe.

Adam Bonny

EDWARD FUCKING KENWAY (Assassins Creed: Black Flag)

Trevor Belmont (Castlevania TV show)

Charlie Hunnam (Actor)

William Thatcher (A Knight's Tale)

Jack Sparrow (Pirates of The Carribean)

Westley (Princess Bride)

Flynn Ryder (Tangled)

You let a BLONDE MAN speak to you like that??? Ceo of 'maybe if he were a little less fuckable we wouldn't be in this mess.'

Henri Bellamy

Ichabod Crane (Sleep Hollow TV Show)

Chris Cornell (Musician)

Julien du Casse (Assasins Creed: Black Flag)

Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992)

Armand (Interview with the Vampire 1994)

The only Frenchman to ever exist, the rest are fake. Don't let anyone lie to you.

The Resurrectioners

Samara Dombroski

Isabel Dodson (Constantine 2005)

Selene (Underworld Series)

Victor (Umbrella Academy)

Sidney Prescott (Scream)

Sarah (The Craft)

Pretty much the human personification of what happens when you gain too much Insight in Bloodborne.

Nazriya Akkineni

Theodora (The Haunting)

Morana *gasp* (Castlevania TV show)

Zoya (Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse)

Satine (Moulin Rogue)

Nancy (The Craft)

Jennifer (Jennifer's Body)

God only made her 5 feet tall because was afraid of her being too close to him.

Zekiah Rush

Chyna Parks (ANT Farm)

Janella Monae (Actress)

Belle (Beauty and The Beast)

Rachel (The Craft)

Karen (Blade)

Resident walking encyclopedia. If you give her a bookmark she might propose to you on the spot.

Dmitriy Mikhailovich

Dmitri Pisarenko (Actor)

Morpheus (Sandman TV Show)

Levi (Attack on Titan)

Viktor (Arcane TV and for his design ONLY that weird mix of a czech/russian accent fucking kills me)

Men with big noses and dark hair>>>>> Frequently pretends he doesn't speak English so people don't talk to him.

What We Undertake

Dolores Clive

Dolores O'Riordan (Singer)

Mina Harker (Bram Stoker's Dracula book)

Edith Cushing (Crimson Peak)

Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice)

Being the village freak isn't easy but someone has to do it.

Charles Morrison

Alan McMichael (Crimson Peak)

Hercules (Hercules)

Thor (Marvel Franchise)

Milo Thatch (Atlantis)

I wouldn't call Charlie a himbo per say because he's actually quite clever, so I guess he's more of a 'golden retriever nerd with really weird interests.'

Vincent Karloff

Thomas Sharpe (Crimson Peak)

V (V for Vendetta 2005)

Jason Dean (Heathers)

Edward (Edward Scissorhands)

Victor Frankenstein (Mary Shelly's Frankenstein)

Voted most likely to disappear under mysterious circumstances in high school.

Reading some of these combinations is giving me whiplash.

— M. Warrin

#tag game #oc inspiration #oc #original character #wip #current wip #The Resurrectioners #What We Undertake #writeblr #writeblr community #character inspiration #writeblr tag game #Give No Quarter #my writing

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measuringbliss · 1 year ago

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Tomb of Dracula Read-Through 3 (#11-17)

MASTERPOST

This is half-horrible, half-hilarious.

So... #11 starts with Dracula going to sleep, eager to take revenge on men who assaulted him in #9. Miles away, something else is going on...

And this machine of horrors makes me wince because I watched a movie in which this thing was a key part, and it was a horrendous experience (but an incredible movie). So that's a ~fun~ coincidence.

Brand is, as you might have understood, my type of man. I thus doubt he'll survive for long. He's helping Faust get his revenge too, but he uses Voodoo dolls (why the hell not).

Meanwhile, Dracula goes to a rave and gets one of the dudes, who gives him intel to reach his assailants... who're about to attack Quincy Harker for Faust. Everything is connected (and I'm omitting some stuff!).

He intervenes and decides, first, to spare Quincy, and second, to hypnotize his foes to throw themselves off a cliff.

It's the first time we actually see this! That's fun.

Dracula vampirizes Brand and sends him do a final job: killing his master. He also dies in the confrontation, and it's actually a quite horrific conclusion. I do like, however, Dracula's relationship with Quincy.

At the beginning of #12, our heroes are fighting my hero (Dracula). And when the Lord of the Vampires threatens to kidnap Quincy's daughter, Drake tries his usual fist superpower...

And fails.

Not only is it a beautiful page, but Quincy's beard makes for great panels. Meanwhile...

Blade is not only drawn as a sexy pin-up, but also revealed to have a girlfriend! His pose in the first panel is very Han Solo-ish... But naturally, Star Wars wasn't out yet in 1973.

It's Dracula calling his enemy! Naturally, Safron doesn't take kindly to it.

We see great color work in the mansion. Dracula also can't help but gloat about how our heroes are going to die and laughing diabolically. He's adorable. But I do wonder if someone's gonna die in this issue...

Blade's here to help, at least!

And oh Lord, the stubble/beard look does wonders to him.

He high-kicks Dracula and makes him leave, but Quincy's daughter... has become a vampire! And as has been foreshadowed multiple times throughout this issue... someone dies. Quincy's forced to kill his daughter. That's not very fun for him.

What was fun was this issue though! It's what I actually expected the series to be before I started reading it, people in a mansion that have to defeat traps. A bit like Scooby-Doo, hahaha.

#13: One thing that I'm sad about is that Blade's facial hair lasted about a page. Shadows! Oh well.

While Quincy and his crew mourn Edith, Dracula watches a boxing match and finds it all very undignified. He clearly doesn't appreciate the inherent homoeroticism.

Ahem.

Anyway, Blade tells us his backstory: his mom died giving childbirth... by a vampire's teeth!

An interesting parallel between Quincy and Dracula is set in this issue: they both have agents in the shadows that are just waiting to answer their command. I wonder if Quincy will die because the others will say he's gone too far.

Both teams fight, and then...

Somehow, I don't believe it.

#14 time!

While Dracula's supposed to be dead, the nearby villagers obey his every command, even after death: they must get their master's body, and kill anyone who's on their path. Oops!

The villagers actually succeed, by the way.

As they take away Dracula's body, the mysterious Dr Sun, elsewhere seems quite interested in vampires as well. Why? Who knows!

We find that Taj's alive (and I'm grateful). However, as Dracula's life escapes his body, the villagers regain consciousness and let him rot in a field. In a nearby church, a man struggling with faith sees in Dracula's shining coffin a sign of God.

Our heroes soon learn of this, as that man, Josiah Dawn, makes a show of the lord's resurrection.

You sure about that, Josiah?

In spite of our heroes' efforts, he removes the knife planted in Dracula's chest, and my husband comes back to life. As he prepares to slay Josiah...

"NoOoOoO! ThE cRoSs! ThE aCcUrSeD cRoSs!"

He's so pathetic, I love him.

Wonderful lighting in these pages as you can see.

Interesting issue. Dracula definitely has issues concerning the old papa in the sky.

In issue #15...

Dracula dies again.

Dear artists, thank you so much for this cover, for I am thirsting.

Actually, the cover lies. Dracula recounts some of his previous exploits. In this particular one, he feigned being killed, and he decided to play with his victim. There the man was, suddenly chased by dozens of rats! He ended up killed by wolves, not so easily avoided...

As Dracula complains about the sanctity of mariage and the lack thereof in recent times, he witnesses a husband blackmailing his wife, who was determined to divorce... and promptly gets pushed off the cliff.

Stunning page. The borders, the cliff shot, Dracula, the juxtaposition between both kisses... and I can't help but say, "slay!", at that woman, who wants to avenge herself.

Later, Dracula speaks to an immortal man who asks him to take him to the pool of blood he used to become immortal.

Dracula enjoys the hunt, however. He loves the thrill, the possibility to gloat. I think he'd quickly get unsatisfied. The reason of the chase is the chase itself.

He got duped. Adorable!

See, that's what I was saying!

Well, what a design!

The Scotsman killed him, by the way.

In the end, Dracula vows to never die again...!

#16 time!

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!!!

In this issue, Dracula fights a skeleton that honestly has a sick-ass design.

I love those panels, too.

Such a great, visually, opponent!

Turns out the man just wanted to be buried in his right place. Dracula takes over the task, understanding the importance of peace.

Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeouuuuus! On a train!!!!! I want to read Dracula on a train, yes!!!!

Dracula's actually searching for one of his dear coffins where to rest, and finds himself in Paris. Unfortunately for him, Blade's there too, ready to throw hands!

Oh, the homoeroticism!

Unfortunately for the heroes, Dracula had a secret FIFTH hideout and gets through the night unscathed.

Next stop: Munich! Dracula wants to go to Transylvania, and he decides to take the train.

My question is: is the Lord of the Undead too feeble to fly from France to Transylvania? I thought he was real powerful, guys!

Meanwhile, Dr Sun finds himself a very competent vampire. Good for him!

*smiles very happily reading the word "Austria"*

Dracula gets scared the shit out of him by a kid pointing a gun on his back, soon joined by his ashamed mom. The kid also compares him to Spock thanks to his ears, and I'm pretty sure Dracula sees this as one of the worst moments in his life. We learn in that same scene that Dracula had two kids, a boy and a girl. Lore!

Anyway, he gets them back to their room. Or rather, he offers to, then quickly drinks some of the mom's blood, who shrieks and alerts everybody.

The French guard of the weird new duo shoots at Dracula several time.

Needless to say, Dracula is *not* amused.

... Dangit, I reached the max number of pictures!

Anyway, the French guy is thrown out, the two heroes find Dracula, gorgeous panels ensue, Dracula shit talks Frank, the second member of the duo dies, also thrown out...

... and a mysterious somebody retrieves their briefcase and announces that as planned (and wanted by Dr Sun), this duo is dead!

Hmmmm!

Next time: a cross-over with Werewolf by Night? Why not!

#dracula #marvel #comics #comic books #vampire #blade

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