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My Dracula Daily tags

Heyo! Big time Dracula Daily reblogger here. feel free to follow or just to look for certain posts using my tags. like i said, big time reblogger (and i try to stay organized and consistent with the tags!). Draculadailytracker, Cattuladaily, ourgoodfriendjonathan, draculadailyreactions, and atundratoadstool are good blogs to check out too!

SO WHAT ON EARTH IS DRACULA DAILY?

‘tis a daily (kinda daily) newsletter that syncs up to when Dracula characters are doing shenanigans through the year! (or are, uh, not quite shenanigan-ing and are actually quite... dying-ing)

like, literally, it’s the 1897 novel by Bram Stoker we’re talking about here. runs from early May to some point in November idk exactly when it ends and i like it that way

you can sign up HERE and you can check out past installments HERE!

TABLE OF CONTENTS (order of sections)

IMPORTANT TAGS

ART(hur Holmwood) (i kid) (just art)

Quick character tags for convenience (LINKS LEAD TO SPOILERS, but no spoiler characters in this section! hoping to make a separate but more complete [and spoilery] character name masterpost)

BY DATE (the big one!!)

some bonus tags

IMPORTANT TAGS

(and if i miss putting any tags on a post -- or multiple posts! -- absolutely do feel free to pop me an ask or a message pointing them out. i’m trying to be organized here! :p)

• #dracula daily for pretty much all the vampire content, with few exceptions, even if not specifically Bram-Stoker-Dracula-related. if you were already following me before my Dracula Daily hype, you can block this tag. no offense taken lol

• #dracula spoilers is a tag you may want to block; it’s both for things that haven't yet been mentioned in Dracula Daily + posts that have multiple dates on them and are spoilery. e.g. if you want to look at the 3 May posts but there's also a mention of something from 5 May that might be a surprise, i'll toss the spoilers tag on there.

• #dracula important is a handful of posts that are both helpful links to things, such as a podcast that republished their work in the order of Dracula Daily in case you don’t have a chance to read the text itself (can be helpful for the longer entries and busier weeks), as well as posts that give historical context and let you know when Bram Stoker’s being especially racist or sexist in ways that many readers might miss

• #dracula notable (if you want to check this out but don’t want to get spoiled, be sure to check what date everything refers to. that might be in the header of a post or it might be in the tag label.) this tag is a combination of both especially important information (like, okay, Bram Stoker, who are you maligning today and what should we know about that) + simply some of my favorite posts. so, ’tis a mix of serious and goofs!

• #dracula meta is for background information, like how certain things would have been interpreted at the time of Dracula's publishing, info on Bram Stoker's life, his biases (heads up: RACIST RACIST SEXIST XENOPHOBIC MAN alongside other info too), and info on his thought processes. other related non-Dracula-universe info too. (regarding spoilers, same note as with the "dracula notable" tag: check post headers and tags for dates so you don't get spoiled)

(remember! you do not need to know everything about Bram Stoker’s background to read the story! this tag is a big part for fun / interest! really all you need to know is there are some questionable themes and portrayals in Dracula because of Stoker’s negative biases, but, other than that, you can just enjoy it! :) )

• #dd by itself is my non-Dracula Daily reblogs. i started that system and tag name early on and it's a bit confusing if you think about it for half a second, 'specially given my date-specific tags, but eh, it works

MORE TAGS UNDER CUT!

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ART(hur Holmwood) (i kid) (just art)

• #artsy dracula for the sincere and pretty stuff

• #dracula art for teh meems

(note that sometimes posts are tagged as both because yay)

QUICK CHARACTER TAGS FOR CONVENIENCE

(not putting spoiler info here lol) in order of appearance!

• #bram stoker (well, he’s the author and he doesn’t do any fourth wall breaking, but i’ll include him here lol)

• #jonathan harker (our good friend!!)

• #count dracula (you know this guy!)

• #mina murray (our good friend’s fiancée!)

• #lucy westenra (our good friend’s fiancée’s good friend!)

• #dr. john seward (a dude in charge of a psych hospital! [note: you don't have to like him. just know that, for the story's context, he is supposed to be a good guy, even if not necessarily a perfect guy])

• #quincey morris (a cool dude!)

• #arthur holmwood (a dude!)

• #r.m. renfield (a notable patient of Dr. Seward’s!)

(• #matt kirkland (creator of the Dracula Daily newsletter!) )

BY DATE

the format here is "dd (date) (month)," so the start of Dracula Daily and a glut of paprika memes would be "dd 3 may," but here, to make things pretty, i'll just list them without the "dd" at the start.

exceptions so far: • September is “sep,” so 3 September is “dd 3 sep”

(i may not stay on top of updating this list of all the dates, but i’ll still be tagging posts correctly!)

• no date��(#ddn) (posts that aren’t spoilery and don’t have any other tag, such as those that also aren’t a “dracula meta” post and don’t relate to a specific day.)

BONUS: APRIL

• 21 April • 25 April • 28 April • 30 April (one queued for 2024 lol)

MAY

( “ &* ” just means “i need to get some entries for this date, either because i reblogged very few posts or because i didn’t reblog anything”)

• 3 May (paprika!)

• 4 May (Jonathan gets a rosary and people are scared for him!)

• 5 May (Jonathan meets the count and is served a tasty chicken!)

• 7 May (discussing the count's property in London + Dracula’s just a little guy reading the Bradshaw’s Guide)

• 8 May (RIP in pepperoni Jonathan's foul bauble of man's vanity [i.e. mirror] + Jonathan sees the Count making his bed + the count talks about his family's history and bloodline [here's a GREAT breakdown on all that!])

• 9 May (Mina chattin' with her buddy Lucy!)

• 10 May

• 11 May (Lucy replies to Mina and informs her of a crush!)

MANY OF THE DESCRIPTIONS HAVE SPOILERS AFTER THIS POINT. CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN RISK

(remember, you can edit the tags in the url or search my blog for the proper dates' tags manually if you don't want to risk being spoiled by descriptions here. again, format is "#dd (date) (month)", like "#dd 15 may", with "dd" meaning "dracula daily")

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• 12 May (Jonathan is scared of the count and sees the first lizard-like crawling!)

• 13 May and 14 May

• 15 May (🦎 LIZARD FASHION 🦎 and Jonathan is trapped then finds an old-fashioned desk!) (this is one of the exceptions to the “dracula spoilers” tag. often if there’s just mention of the count doing some lizard crawling, i’ll put this date’s tag on there lol. “Once more have I seen the Count go out in his lizard fashion.”)

• 16 May (the three vampire ladies!)

• 18 May (ruh-roh our good friend Jonathan's not hallucinating!)

• 19 May (our good friend Jonathan is in the toils! [in which he has to write three letters])

• 24 May (COWBO [sic] AND DOCTOR HOURS AND LUCY HAS QUITE THE DAY)

• 25 May (Seward's first podcast installment [poor Renfield] + Quincey invites Holmwood for drinks)

• 26 May (ART! he has news that shall make ears tingle)

• 27 May

• 28 May ( [okay, legit, Jonathan is super racist and also uses two really bad slurs. call those groups Romani instead] Jonathan tries to send some letters with the help of some Romani outside the castle!)

• 30 May

• 31 May (ruh-roh! our good friend’s papers, writing utensils, travel info, and the clothes he traveled in have disappeared!)

JUNE

• 5 June (Dr. Seward talks with his patient Renfield, who’s been collecting pet flies! cute! :) [this is an insect positive blog <3 ] and we’re told we won’t get more Dracula Daily for quite a bit of time :( )

• 17 June ( (Remember to call the locals Romani, not the g- or sz-words Jonathan calls them! those are legit really bad slurs!) some locals deliver items to Dracula’s castle! and Jonathan’s been locked in his room now!)

• 18 June (Jonathan cudgels his brains! and Renfield clears the flies out of his room! ...oh. they were for his new spiders)

• 24 June (Dracula wears Jonathan’s clothes into the nearby towns to pose as him! + Jonathan sees the woman vampires start to materialize through dust! + Dracula kills a child and then kills the child’s mother with a bunch of wolves!)

• 25 June (Jonathan attempts lizard fashion for himself for the first time and sees Dracula... asleep?? well he’s vibing)

• 29 June (Jonathan wishes he could shoot the count and is faced with wolves when he tries to leave!)

• 30 June (SHOVEL WHACK DAY + “Faugh! Mina is a woman, and there is nought in common” + “Good-bye, all! Mina!” [Jonathan attempts his final Castle Dracula escape...] )

JULY

• 1 July (Renfield cleans his pet spiders out of his room and snatches and eats a fly!)

• 8 July (Seward begins unconsciously cerebrating! ...for a while)

• 11 July

• 18 July (Demeter log begins!! the captain and crew are unsettled. and Matt Kirkland -- creator of Dracula Daily -- takes more liberties than usual in his newsletter’s layout)

• 19 July (Renfield has a lot of sparrows and now really wants a cat!! + “A kitten, a nice little, sleek playful kitten, that I can play with, and teach, and feed—and feed—and feed!” + “I only asked for a kitten lest you should refuse me a cat. No one would refuse me a kitten, would they?”)

• 20 July (Renfield eats his birds and Seward comes up with the term zoöphagous!)

• 22 July (Demeter log: a good day! everyone relieved after rough three days)

• 24 July (Demeter log: another man missing, first mate angry at panicking crew + Mina meets with Lucy and enjoys the scenery. Mina and Lucy meet some old men by the shore)

• 26 July (Mina takes comfort in her journal and worries about both Jonathan and Lucy, the latter of whom has restarted an old habit of sleepwalking)

• 27 July (Mina’s worried about Jonathan :( Lucy is doing better, but Arthur’s dad is very sick)

• 28 July (Demeter log: second mate volunteers to watch after four days of a maelstrom)

• 29 July (Demeter log: second mate missing :( )

• 30 July (Demeter log: nearing England, two more men missing; only four people left)

AUGUST

• 1 August (one of the old men who Mina and Lucy met is named Mr. Swales! yabblins! he talks about tombstones. and Mina is still worried about Jonathan :(((( )

• 2 August (Demeter log: another man missing. God seems to have deserted them)

• 3 August (Demeter log: the first mate is convinced It is on the ship and jumps offboard to save himself! + Mina worries and recognizes Jonathan’s letters aren’t quite right)

• 4 August (Demeter log: the captain finally sees Him and ties himself to the ship’s wheel!)

• 6 August (Mr. Swales apologizes for the “wicked things” he’s said of the dead and Mina and

• 8 August (OUR SPEEDY WEATHER-LOVING CORRESPONDENT REPORTS ON THE DEMETER’S LANDING IN WHITBY + the storm doesn’t bother sleeping Lucy and Mina keeps worrying about Jonathan)

• 9 August (our correspondent reports again! this time, the report is about the search for the beloved Clearly Innocent And Harmless Doggo from the Demeter and the Demeter’s origins and cargo)

• 10 August (...goodbye, Mr. Swales :(( + dude kicks his dog at the funeral for the Demeter’s captain! and Lucy is down at the funeral but cheers up after seeing some cows! + Mina does some complaining about the New Woman [seems probably complimentary to our views, but that wasn’t Stoker’s intention] )

• 11 August (some dark figure is spotted in the churchyard behind sleepwalking Lucy! Mina daubs her feet in mud to appear as if she has shoes on and surely it's only a prick from the pin that left the marks on Lucy's neck!)

• 12 August (Lucy still tries to leave while sleepwalking, but she's feeling better! Mina's worried about Jonathan and appreciates Lucy's comforting! + SISTER AGATHA WRITES BY DESIRE OF MR. JONATHAN HARKER)

• 13 August (Sleeping Lucy points at a giant bat out the window!)

• 14 August (Lucy and Mina see a stranger with bright red eyes! + Mina catches Lucy leaning out the window in her sleep!)

• 15 August (Arthur’s dad is feeling better, but Lucy’s mom expects to die soon from a weak heart! A sudden shock would be almost sure to kill her!)

• 16 August

• 17 August (Lucy is weakening and was found leaning out the window! and her safety pin wounds seem to not have healed! + Some deliverymen are instructed on how to leave some boxes at an entirely normal house in London!)

• 18 August (Lucy’s feeling better and recalls a nightwalking event!)

• 19 August (MINA GETS NEWS FROM JONATHAN AND WILL BE SEEING HIM SOON!!! + Renfield dismisses everyone, for the Master is at hand! + the modern Morpheus, C2HCl3O H2O! ...No! None to-night! + Renfield ran to the house neighboring the asylum!)

• 20 August (Renfield’s in a straitjacket and “three nights has the same thing happened—violent all day then quiet from moonrise to sunrise”! Dr. Seward will assist in another escape!)

• 21 August (Deliverymen acknowledge the boxes were delivered!)

• 23 August (Renfield didn’t escape even with purposefully eased security--Hark! The unexpected again! He escaped. and eventually watched a giant bat!)

• 24 August ( (in 2022, accidentally sent as two parts!) HARKER WEDDING HARKER WEDDING HARKER WEDDING + Jonathan gives Mina his journal kept in Castle Dracula + Lucy starts a diary in imitation of Mina... and feels alone :((( )

• 25 August (Lucy’s mom doesn’t let Lucy sleep with her and Lucy is in distress, but she’ll try to keep a cheery face for Arthur...)

• 30 August (Lucy writes a joyful letter to Mina about the time she spent with Arthur, says Arthur called her fat (complimentary), that she’s eating like a cormorant, mentions her mom is feeling better... and announces she and Arthur will wed on 28 September!! [i’m so happy for Lucy ;;A;;] )

• 31 August (Arthur writes to Dr. Seward, asking him to check on Lucy, even though he knows it will be painful for Seward)

SEPTEMBER (a busy month!! hold on!!!)

if you want some audio readings to help stay caught up, scroll down the archives of Cryptic Canticles’s Dracula Daily audio readings to get to any dates you may need

(note i use “sep” instead of the full “september” in these tags, e.g. #dd 1 sep)

• 1 Sep (Short. Art’s dad not doing well :( )

• 2 Sep (Seward can’t figure out the cause of Lucy’s illness and writes to a past professor and mentor + ‘EYO A CERTAIN DOCTOR -- M.D., D.PH., D. LIT., ETC., ETC. -- HAS ALREADY WRITTEN BACK TO SEWARD)

• 3 Sep (Van Helsing first meets with Lucy and smacktalks Seward right in front of him)

• 4 Sep (Renfield is cringe [as goes the memes] and starts eating flies again, then later denies all interest in zoophagy + Seward telegraphs Van Helsing that Lucy is improving)

• 5 Sep (Lucy improving still more!)

• 6 Sep (Terrible change for the worse. Seward informs Mrs. Westenra of van Helsing’s incoming presence so they can freely come and go)

• 7 Sep (C O R N. CORN! and some of Arthur’s blood is transfused into sickly Lucy)

• 8 Sep (Dr. Seward stays up as Lucy sleeps, Mrs. Westenra doesn’t see the need for the fuss, and Lucy is scared to sleep until Seward reassures her. Van Helsing will join Seward tomorrow morning)

• 9 Sep (Lucy is feeling much better and urges Seward to rest)

• 10 Sep (Van Helsing gently wakes Seward BUT LUCY HAS WORSENED SUDDENLY :(( Dr. Seward transfuses some of his blood into her. she wakes much improved and unaware of what happened. Van Helsing will stay the night with Lucy while Seward goes back to the asylum)

• 11 Sep (garlic flowers!!)

• 12 Sep (Lucy comforted by the garlic flowers)

• 13 Sep (Van Helsing cries after Lucy’s decline from her mother removing the flowers. third blood transfusion, this time from van Helsing. Seward is confused and distressed by the whole ordeal)

• 17 Sep (Lucy’s doing much better + Renfield tries to stab Seward and laps up Seward’s blood that he drew + Van Helsing sends a letter urging Seward to be at Lucy’s but the letter is 22 hours late + THE WOLF AND THE DEATH OF MRS. WESTENRA + “UNOPENED BY HER”: A LOVELY LETTER FROM MINA)

• 18 Sep (in 2022, a clerical error! accidentally sent in three parts. interview with Thomas Bilder the zookeeper who talks about Bersicker (Berserker) the escaped wolf

+ Seward and van Helsing are unsettlingly yet hilariously good at breaking and entering to check on Lucy and her family + QUINCEY MORRIS FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSION AND FOR TOTALLY CALLING IT ON VAMPIRES + Lucy weeps for her mother. later under hypnosis she tries to rip apart her memo about the wolf

+ another “Unopened by her” from Mina. Mr. Hawkins passed away)

• 19 Sep (Seward doesn’t expect Lucy to live in her weakness. Quincey patrols the property and Arthur tries to cheer Lucy)

• 20 Sep (Patrick Hennessey!!! reports the day’s happenings to Dr. Seward. Renfield doesn’t respect Hennessey and escapes to attack men moving boxes on a cart + a trick of the light, Seward says, makes Lucy’s canine teeth appear longer and sharper in her illness. Lucy acts differently toward the garlic flowers depending on if she’s sleeping or awake, Lucy’s throat wounds disappear, van Helsing refuses Lucy and Arthur a last kiss and Lucy is grateful. “We thought her dying whilst she slept, And sleeping when she died.”)

• 21 Sep (Lucy and her mother’s funeral formalities are attended to + van Helsing, naturally, suggests cutting off Lucy’s head + Mr. Marquand isn’t the best at condolences + Arthur cries to Seward and wishes to not be called Lord Godalming)

• 22 Sep (Mina and Jonathan go to Mr. Hawkins’s burial, and later the Count is spotted + Mina gets news of Lucy and Mrs. Westenra’s passing from a Mr. Van Helsing + Lucy and Mrs. Westenra’s burial then Quincey and Arthur depart + KING LAUGH + FINIS)

• 23 Sep (Mina is relieved Jonathan’s doing better, and she decides to read his journal from his time away)

• 24 Sep (Mina types all of Jonathan’s journals, for she recognizes there may be crucial information in them, whether they’re strictly accurate or not + Van Helsing writes to Mina to ask her help)

• 25 Sep (article x2 about the Bloofer Lady + Mina telegraphs van Helsing to meet with her + Mina and her widdle shorthand prank to van Helsing, who ends up praising her profusely + Van Helsing and Mina write to each other to aver Jonathan’s journal is accurate)

• 26 Sep (“Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.” + Jonathan is assured and relieved + CORN: PART 2!! Van Helsing is obtuse to Seward in his wish to be gentle then SLAMS THE NEWS ON SEWARD + tombbreaking and “That only proves one thing ... That it is not there.” + tombbreaking and candle sperm + van Helsing and Seward leaving a child only referred to as “it” in view of a policeman)

• 27 Sep (Dr. Seward and van Helsing again stay the night in the cemetery, where Lucy’s body now lays, and van Helsing decides Arthur must be convinced too + Van Helsing writes a memo of his plan to seal Lucy into her tomb, in case he doesn’t return)

• 28 Sep (Seward realizes van Helsing must be mad)

• 29 Sep (BIG DAY OF HAPPENINGS: Quincey “Laconic” Morris + Arthur, Quincey, Van Helsing, and Dr. Seward meet tumultuously before going to observe Lucy. the observation is a horror especially to Arthur + “nosferatu” + Arthur kills Un-Dead Lucy in a terrible moment + Dr. Seward to Mina about his diary: “You see, I do not know how to pick out any particular part of the diary.” + Mina and Dr. Seward exchange their stories and Mina types Seward’s + Jonathan talks with several people to learn what happened to the Count’s cargo)

• 30 Sep (’nother long day!! Jonathan and Mina spend the night at Seward’s and Renfield asks to be released home + Jonathan talks with more people about the Count’s boxes + Van Helsing loves praising Mina, she meets the rest of the Suitor Trio, and Arthur mourns on her shoulder and sobs to her + Renfield cleans his room before Mina sees him + “Why, I myself am an instance of a man who had a strange belief.” + Quincey “Laconic” Morris: Part 2 + Scholomance mention: Part 1! + 🦇 🔫🤠 + it is decided to leave Mina out of further vampire-related matters)

OCTOBER (another busy month!!)

NOTE: OCTOBER 3 IS THE LARGEST ENTRY, OVER 50 PAGES. MAYBE START READING AHEAD IF YOU WANT. and again, you can scroll through the Cryptic Canticles archives to listen to any dates you need

• 1 Oct (the Suitor Trio, van Helsing, and Jonathan go with Seward to meet Renfield and Jonathan is then ignored [lol] + Renfield civilly insists on his release before breaking down to try and convince Seward

+ Dracula’s home with rats and Arthur’s TINY TERRIER DOGES + Mina is tired and has queer dreams + Jonathan bribes some information from a guy + Renfield doesn’t want souls and also says, “I don't take any stock at all in such matters,” but then sets up to attract more flies

+ Arthur gets a magical time-traveling response about Count de Ville’s manor [Jonathan and Arthur meet with the person who sends the response tomorrow, 2 Oct. oops, Bram Stoker] )

• 2 Oct (Seward gives Mina a sleeping draught to help her restlessness + Jonathan finds the depite and bribes more to learn about the Count’s secound house + a reasonable laconic man is “manifestly a prig of the first water” + Jonathan goes to the Aerated Bread Company (the ABC) a man who was supposed to be watching Renfield “dozes” and then, later, Renfield is in physical peril)

• 3 Oct

(^IT’S THE DAY. IT’S THE 50 PAGE ENTRY, THE LONGEST DAY, 16,000 WORDS)

(Renfield is grievously injured, with his back broken and the right side of his body paralyzed. he talks about the night he first met Dracula, that he knew Dracula was taking Mina’s blood, and how he tried to attack Dracula. Renfield shortly after dies

+ everyone except Mina and Jonathan witnesses Dracula cursing Mina with the Vampire’s baptism -- Jonathan and Mina are in a hypnotized stupor

[+ hehe Van Helsing falls on the floor when breaking down the door]

+ Dracula burned the manuscripts about him and melted the phonograph cylinders, but fortunately Seward’s safe has another copy

+ Mina informs that Jonathan hitting Dracula with a shovel left a scar on the latter’s forehead

+ it’s agreed that everyone must know all undertakings, especially Mina

+ Mina vows she would kill herself if she finds herself possibly acting in a way that might harm those she loves, but Van Helsing urges this must not happen, or else she surely will be a tool for Dracula

+ Van Helsing discusses many of the limits of Dracula’s powers

+ Jonathan wants to stay with Mina during the day as the plan to enter one of Dracula’s properties is undertaken, but Mina insists he go, as his law knowledge maybe useful

+ Van Helsing is overexcited and insensitive about how Dracula “banqueted heavily”

+ awkward forced cheer breakfast

+ Van Helsing tries to bless Mina to protect her, but the Sacred Wafer burns and scars her forehead

+ “It was then time to start. So I said farewell to Mina, a parting which neither of us shall forget to our dying day; and we set out.

“To one thing I have made up my mind: if we find out that Mina must be a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone.“

+ Van Helsing sanctifies the earth in the Carfax lair and it is made uninhabitable for Dracula

+ “I have written this in the train.”

+ a locksmith opens Dracula’s Piccadilly residence for Quincey and Holmwood, the boxes of there dirt are sanctified, and then Jonathan, Seward, and Van Helsing wait for Quincey and Holmwood to either sanctify the dirt at the additional addresses they found or for Dracula to arrive

+ Seward observes that Jonathan appears to have greatly aged in the single night

+ Scholomance mention: part 2!

+ first mention of “child-brain” and Dracula’s experiments

+ jumpy at the telegraph boy’s knock, who delivers a message from Mina about Dracula hurrying to Piccadilly

+ another knock at the door... and it’s Quincey and Holmwood, who destroyed many more boxes of dirt

+ Seward mentions how his hunting parties with Holmwood and Quincey often had Quincey as the leader and planner

+ BOUNDING IN! IT’S THE COUNT!

+ Jonathan rips at some of Dracula’s loot with his kukri, Dracula tries for an evil monologue then jumps out a window and escapes

+ one box left

+ Quincey lies down as guard in front of the Harkers’ door)

• 4 Oct (Van Helsing hypnotises Mina + Van Helsing through Seward’s phonograph tells Jonathan to stay behind with Mina)

• 5 Oct (HAT OF STRAW DAY + why is van Helsing allowed to narrate [“with blood,” “of blood,” “child-brain”] + Van Helsing himself uses the phrase “the Vampire’s baptism of blood.”

+ Seward and van Helsing are concerned about Mina’s connection to the Count + Mina takes the minutes for one meeting, but then she, Seward, and van Helsing are concered about her connection to the Count and she askes Jonathan to keep her in the dark. “I felt that from that instant a door had been shut between us.” she is joyful afterward + weapons and transportation are discussed)

• 6 Oct (Mina convinces the men she must come with them + Quincey “Laconic” Morris: Part 3 + Jonathan makes his will to leave everything to Mina if possible, then to “others who have been so good to us”)

• 7 Oct

• 8 Oct

• 11 Oct (Mina asks to be killed if she turns + Jonathan could not bear to record the meeting and Seward himself loses his composure doing so)

• 14 Oct

• 15 Oct (the crew continues waiting for the Czarina Catharine to be sighted. Mina has regained color but mostly sleeps, and hypnotising her at sunrise and sunset has become easier + Judge Moneybag)

• 16 Oct (“Mina’s report still the same”)

• 17 Oct (Arthur talked with the ship owner, a special messenger will keep the group in the know, and Jonathan doesn’t mind being hanged for the murder of the Count or for being forceful against anyone who tries to stop the vampire hunters)

• 18 Oct

• 19 Oct

• 20 Oct

• 21 Oct

• 22 Oct

• 23 Oct

• 24 Oct ( “A whole week of waiting.” + “Czarina Catherine reported this morning”)

• 25 Oct (writing by hand irks Seward, but he’s a good noodle and does so because van Helsing says to + Mina is more lethargic, even if retaining her color, and Seward and van Helsing are suspicious of her + Seward, shut up about euthanasia. it’s good you don’t have your phonograph and weren’t able to ramble about it + Jonathan’s hands are cold as ice and he sharpens his knife + Mina’s sleepiness is more suspicious than usual)

• 26 Oct (Czarina Catherine no longer reported, but there are patches of fog)

• 27 Oct (still no news of the ship, altho Mina’s report has changed to say “the waves are very faint”)

• 28 Oct (Czarina Catherine reported + MINA IS THE TRAIN FIEND + Arthur is surprised they can’t Uber a train + Van Helsing refers to his friend Hans Andersen and talks about duck-thoughts, swan-thoughts, child-thoughts, and man-thoughts + THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP UNSELFISHNESS)

• 29 Oct (the group is taking a train from Varna to Galatz + last night, Mina needed more prodding under hypnosis and then “raised both her hands, palms upwards, as if lifting a weight.” + then she offered tea + her sunset report has changed)

• 30 Oct (LONG EVENTFUL DAY, BUT NOT AS LONG AS OCTOBER 3. Mina answers quickly under hypnotism, then cuts off and pales before waking + Quincey only speaks English and thus stays behind with Mina

+ Van Helsing, Seward, and Jonathan are aided by Mackenzie and Steinkoff [per Arthur's telegraph] and let onboard the Czarina Catherine, which "never had so favourable a run." + the CC's captain [more sailor accent!] further reports the Romanian crewmembers wanted to "heave overboard a big box" and that, in the morning, a man came aboard to receive a box marked for Count Dracula. the captain gives the name Immanuel Hildesheim and Hildesheim's address

+ fez! + Hildesheim sends the group to one Skinsky, whose body was found in the wall of St. Peter's churchyard, throat torn open

+ JONATHAN IS RELEASED FROM HIS PROMISE TO KEEP INFO FROM MINA

+ Quincey gets Mina a “Traveller’s” typewriter and Seward needs to continue writing his journal entries by hand lol

+ Mina shares a clever memo in which she figures out Dracula’s plan and Jonathan finds that super hot and Van Helsing calls her their teacher

+ Arthur and Jonathan plan to follow Dracula by steamboat [Arthur is an “experienced hand” at working a steamboat]; Quincey with Seward to follow by horse; Van Helsing and Mina also to follow by horse

+ Jonathan is wracked with memories of Castle Dracula and of Mina’s predicament. “Have you felt the Vampire’s lips upon your throat?”

+ more sexism in that Mina needs to be saved from seeing certain things :i

+ MINA GETS A GUN MINA GETS A GUN

+ Mina sings the praises of men and money

+ Mina gets a saddle with a movable horn

+ Mina and Jonathan painfully part ways)

• 31 Oct (Jonathan and Arthur continue on their boat through the cold and frighten people on the river + Van Helsing and Mina are in a group, and Van Helsing stocks up on horses while Mina wishes she could be out in the country in different conditions + Mina writes briefly about God and Jonathan)

NOVEMBER (NEARING THE END!!)

• 1 Nov (Jonathan and Arthur pretend to be Romanian authorities, and they get news that a large boat going unusually fast has gone by + Dr. Van Helsing is laconic + Mina can’t abide garlic and calls the locals superstitious)

• 2 Nov (Jonathan was allowed to sleep because he was so exhausted [thank you, Art] + Seward, Quincey, Mina, and van Helsing are busy traveling + Mina frets about her unholy uncleanliness)

• 3 Nov (short entry: Seward hears at Fundu that ship has gone up the Biztritza. and Russian Fashion!)

• 4 Nov (Art is an amateur fitter. ...he wrecked the boat + Mina is chipper and tells van Helsing she’s already eaten. Van Helsing is afraid, afraid, afraid!)

• 5 Nov (Mina again doesn’t eat, and van Helsing and she sit in a circle surrounded by communion wafers as the vampire women taunt Mina. Van Helsing’s and Mina’s horses freeze to death + Seward sees the Romani troupe conveying Dracula + Van Helsing enters Dracula’s castle and kills the vampire women)

• 6 Nov (Mina and van Helsing watch the final showdown through binoculars, Jonathan scares the Romani with his angry anime aura, and two people die)

• 7 Nov (SEVEN YEARS LATER. Art and Seward get married [to each other, naturally, definitely], Mina and Jonathan have a son named after their vampire hunting group, Jonathan still has to focus on praising Mina)

• 9 Nov :)

SOME BONUS TAGS

• prep (posts of people hyping Dracula Daily before it starts!)

• after (recaps, epilogue-ish non-November-7-specific posts, etc.!)

• other (Dracula-related posts that don’t directly relate to the story but may be spoilery for people who haven’t read it yet! like The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolks's posts. also basically a “miscellaneous” tag for posts i can’t otherwise figure out huehue. as of adding this edit, i have one scheduled post with this tag but none currently posted)

• ddn (posts that don’t really relate to any specific day and aren’t spoilery)

NOTE THESE LINKS CAN HAVE SPOILERS. MORE BONUS TAGS:

• "do it eat dracula" for the Best Dracula Theory that Renfield should end the story by eating Dracula

• "dracula is a comedy" for yeah

• (honorary mention of the "speedy correspondent" tag because i love them)

• “dracula without context” for posts that are extra silly or confusing when not attached to a “dracula daily” tag or that simply could have believably been posted without any story context

• “dracula headcanon” is a combination of silly posts as well as posts that genuinely color how i read and understand the story

&*need to figure out:

- day Arthur’s father died; before 20 sepa

#do feel free to reblog and like!!!#i made this post both for my reference and other people's reference #dracula daily #dracula notable #me #meeeeee!!! lotsa me #note #also note to re-bold the dates' links. internet glitched and i lost those #pinned #dracula important

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thedyingmoon · 5 years ago

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"My friend, welcome to the Carpathians. I,... am anxiously expecting you,... at the Borgo Pass. My carriage will await and bring you to me. I,... trust your journey from London has been a happy one,... and that you will enjoy your stay,... in my beautiful land.

Your friend,... V."

***

"Do you believe in destiny? That,... even the,... powers,... of time,... can be altered for a single purpose? " As if in a trance, V went to the table and picked up your picture, protecting it from the flame of the candle but not from the dark ink that just spilled on it due to his carelessness and on his haste to hold it.

And as the old Count looked at you, Nero felt a complete sense of dread washing over him.

V smiled as he cradled the picture like a lost belonging. "The luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds,... true love."

"You found (Y/N). I thought she was lost. We are to be married as soon as I return." Nero happily told the Count as he pointed at your picture at V's pale hands. "Are you married, Count?" He asked as he noticed the Lord of the castle looking at your picture with a strange expression he couldn't quite tell. "Sir, are you married?"

"I was married once." Count V answered, a single tear rolling down his jade eye. "Ages ago it seems. She died."

"Oh. I'm very sorry."

"She was fortunate. My life, at its best, is,... misery." The Count told Nero as he gave your picture back to him. "She will no doubt make a,... devoted wife. And you, a faithful husband."

In a space of a few seconds, the frown and sadness on the Count's face vanished as he made Nero sit back down on his chair.

"Come. Write now, my friend, to your firm,... and to any loved ones to say that it shall please you,... to stay with me,... until a month from now."

Nero looked up at V, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "A month? Do you wish me to stay so long?"

V leaned in closer, his sinister eyes telling him that the Count was already up to no good. "I will take no,... refusal."

***

"I love him! I love him!" Your best friend, Lady, exclaimed as she came out of her room, twirling and waltzying about as she gracefully ran towards you. "I love him and I said yes!" She sat down next to you and held your hands.

"Oh, finally!" You shook your head as you smiled at her. "Don't tell me. The Devil Hunter with the big sword?"

"Oh, no, no. To my dear number three." Lady answered you. "Lord Vergil Sparda." She cleared her throat. Changing her tone to match that of her butler's, she announced, "Lord and Lady Sparda! And you are to be my Maid Of Honor. Please, say yes."

The smile on Lady's lips vanished when she saw the frown on your face. "What is it, (Y/N)? It's the most exciting day of my life!" She sighed as he shoulders slumped in sadness. "You don't seem to care,..."

"It's just that I'm so worried about Nero." You showed Lady the letter you received from your fiance. "This letter I received is so cold, it's so unnatural. It's not like him, at all!"

"Oh, (Y/N), don't worry."

***

"See me. See me now,..."

In your haste, you bumped into someone as you turned, dropping the perfume you just bought from the apothecary. A small and dainty gasp escaped your lips as his glove hand caught it with an unbelievable speed and offered it back to you.

"My,... humblest apologies." He said as you glanced at him with wide, surprised eyes. "Forgive my,... ignorance. I,... recently arrived from abroad, and I,... do not know your city. Is a beautiful lady - ?"

"The purchase of a street atlas is a sixpence. Good day." You simply answered as you snatched the bottle of perfume away from his hand.

You were about to walk away when he called you back.

"I have offended you."

You looked back at him and saw him still standing there where you left him.

"I' am only looking for the Cinematograph. I understand it is a wonder of the civilized world."

"If you seek culture, then visit a museum. London is filled with them. Excuse me." You answered as you finally left him.

But, not even a minute has passed when you saw him again smiling at you when you turned around a corner.

How did he get there so fast?!

"A woman so lovely and intelligent," He began with a smile as you tried to ignore him. "... should not be walking the streets of London without her gentleman."

Finally losing your patience with the annoying man, you turned back at him and fired at him. "Do I know you, sir?! Are you acquainted with my husband?!" You emphasized, hoping for the man to get the hint. You tilted your head to the side at the location of the police department. "Shall I call the Police?!"

The man opened his mouth to say something else but, he simply dropped it. He slightly bowed his head as he gave you an apologizing look. "Husband? Then, I shall bother you no more." He tilted his top hat and walked away.

Feeling guilty of what you just said, you followed him. "Sir, it is I who have been rude." You spoke, not really knowing why you even bothered to talk to him, a complete stranger, in the first place. "If you're looking for - "

"Please," he gently cut you off as he looked at you through his blue - tinted pair of glasses.

Those jade eyes, you thought. They look so,... familiar,...

"Permit me to introduce myself." He announced as he removed his top hat and bowed at you like a true gentleman. "I,... am Prince Vlad,... of Sagite. But, you can call me V."

You smirked at the name and title he just revealed to you. "A Prince, no less?"

"I' am,... your servant." He replied as he wore his top hat once more.

"(Y/N) (L/N)."

Your eyes widened even more as this enigmatic man who called himself V went closer to you, his deep eyes never leaving yours. "I,... am,... honored,... Madame (Y/N)." He declared as he took your gloved hand in his and gave it a chaste peck.

You gave him a genuine smile and gestured towards the location he was looking for - the Cinematograph.

This mysterious one,... something drew you to him. He looked so familiar, so gentle,...

It's as if you've been with him before in a past life,...

"This way."

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A/N:

Just an experiment! These are snippets of a Dracula and Devil May Cry 5 crossover with an Alternate Universe V X Reader theme ( V as Vlad Dracula and you as Wilhelmina Murray ). And I must say I really like it. I may publish it here for real after 🖤 I See My Future Before Me 🖤 and 🖤 In Silence, I Weep 🖤.

But, would anyone take interest in it? If not, oh well, still gonna post it. It's just so good that I can't ignore it.

What do you think about it?

🖤🖤🖤

Cast, so far:

V - Count Dracula / Prince Vlad of Sagite

Nero - Nero Harker ( Jonathan Harker )

Lady - Lady Westenra ( Lucy Westenra )

Vergil ( Yes! He's a different character here and a separate man from V! ) - Lord Vergil Sparda, Esquire ( Lord Arthur Holmwood, Esquire )

🖤🖤🖤

#devil may cry 5 #dracula #v #v x reader #v x you #crossover

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writings-of-a-narwhal · 6 years ago

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40 for Eirs for the angst prompts?

thank you!! i don’t think this is super angsty, but that’s just me! warning for blood and stuff!

40. “Do you think I wanted this?”

prompt list!! send me one?

With shaking legs Eira steps back from the imposing figure before her. The woman steps forward, a smile that Eira knows can be nothing but cruel stretched across her face. Eira stumbles into a table. A vase falls onto the stone floor, the noise that it makes while it shatters making Eira want to claw at her head- but she can’t. Her hands are frozen, fingers curled around the edge of the table.

“Oh, darling, why are you so scared?” Her voice sends a shiver down Eira’s spine, it makes her want to fall to the floor and sob. “I merely did what you told me to do.”

“Do you think I wanted this? All this suffering?” Eira’s voice fails her as tears well in her eyes. “I wanted to right the wrongs that had been done to my people, not add to their struggles.”

“You should have specified that when you asked me to help you.”

Eira recoils as the woman stretches out an arm. Still, cold fingers touch her cheek and make bile rise in her throat.

“You poor, naive girl. Did you honestly trust me to do as you said? Are you truly so trusting as to not question someone who arrives just in time to save your pathetic country?” She laughs harshly, sounding like nails on a chalkboard to Eira’s sensitive ears.

“You said you were related to Holmwood, and he-”

“People lie, darling. My name isn’t Holmwood nor has it ever been and I never wanted to help you. I am Jayah and I came here to take control and that is exactly what I am going to do.” As she speaks, her right hand pulls out a knife.

Eira shudders and attempts to back away again, but her muscles don’t respond. She can’t move, even breathing is a struggle. All she can do is stare at the woman who she thought was her ally in all this.

When the knife pierces her flesh, Eira can feel every single fiber being cut, she can hear the muscles and flesh tearing. She doesn’t feel herself falling, but she feels her body hit the floor. Jayah’s feet come closer and Eira closes her eyes.

“Sweet child, if you hadn’t had caught on to my plan, I might have let you live. You really are forcing my hand here.”

Her condescending voice sends a sense of rage through Eira. No matter how naive this Jayah thinks she is, she is still smart, that much she knows. She’s been able to make plans to help her country, to help Lumi figure out complex puzzles, and to uncover Jayah’s true identity, however unexpected that was. She’s smart enough to find a way out of this.

What would Amary do? She thinks, trying to remember everything about her elder sister, trying to figure out how she thinks, but she doesn’t have much time. Her thoughts race, she’s unable to keep up with them.

“You’ll have no more blood left in your body soon, darling, I hope you enjoy these last few moments, knowing that you’re alone and no one will come to save you.”

Eira opens her eyes, seeing Jayah step over her before disappearing from view. Soon, the sound of the door clicking shut echoes through the room. She tries to push herself to a sitting position, but she just collapses, her own blood coating her hands as she slips. Tears stream down Eira’s face, mixing with blood.

I’m not Amary, I can’t force myself through this. I don’t want to die.

taglist! let me know if you want to be added or taken off!

#the narwhal's writing #OC: Eira #it's been so long since i've written for Eira this might not be in character #and also...i tried writing for Jayah #i also don't know how in character she is either

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eowyntinsel · 6 years ago

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First Chapter

Please forgive me if this sounds preachy. The church had been a big deal during that time, and religion was brought up on occasion in the original that this is a spin off from. I had a bit of trouble with this first chapter, but I enjoyed writing it nonetheless.

I Suppose That One Starts at the Beginning

Everyone thinks that they know what happened to Lucy Westenra. Her sad story consists of a young woman with a proper upbringing that was pursued by three good men, wedded one that became a fine lord, was turned into a vampire by a monster, and then put to rest by her beloved. Well, at the very least, that is what they think they know, including the very group that laid her to her final rest. I would know better, though. Why? Because I am Lucy Westenra, and this is my story.

Now, I had been given a proper education and went to church like mother and father said any honest woman should. However, I had a nasty habit of asking questions that mother always said were inappropriate of a lady. Father always suggested that I was born before my time. I guess that is what got me “in trouble” in the first place. Everyone would say that Mina helped keep me in check, and maybe she did. She was always a proper forward-thinking woman. I sometimes wondered if that was why he never cared for when I mentioned her.

I had cared for her as well as the three kind men, who had pined for my affections. I had wished that I could have married them all. It would have made it so much easier than having to break any of their hearts, but such thoughts were improper of a lady, especially of one of my station. They were very kind and understanding, and I do believe that they loved me until the very end.

Now, I barely knew the man that John had called to save me, but I’d like to think that he was a kind soul if a bit eccentric. I could tell, though, that there was a deep seeded hatred towards the monster that turned me. The hatred was quite mutual, and I began to understand why when the doctor was allowed to ramble on. Although, he had been very kind in dealing with me, despite his feelings towards the one that turned me.

The monster in question, a one Count Dracula, was actually a man with a dream. Most might have called him mad, and the doctor had once compared him to having a child’s brain. He was so much more than all of that, though. He was far from the monster that he has often been portrayed as, whether by the letters or diaries of my friends or the any other source of information and stories, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

I suppose that one starts at the beginning when they tell their story, much like our heavenly Lord did for His Son in the “Gospel of John”. I am no savior though, nor is he. We were but two children that found each other in the dark of night.

Now, if one were to start at the beginning, then it might be best to start with when I met the three dear men that wished to wed me. Mina was away, and I had envied her for it. She was just as beautiful as they would say I was, and she was in love, what I wanted more than anything. However, she was so much more than that, she was ambitious, wanting of a career, to be a woman of the future. I had longed to be like her, to travel and do something with my life. She barely even had time to write to me, she was so busy in living her life, and it left me feeling a little sour.

I was working on a handkerchief at my mother’s behest when she came in with a charming young man. I paused to admire the new soul mother had brought into my life. He looked positively angelic with his fair curly locks. With the fair skin typical of a man of status, it caused his deep blue eyes to stand out like sapphires. He towered over my dear mother like a friendly giant with that sweet, bashful smile of his. I was taken with him on the spot.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Miss Westenra,” he said, taking my hand and kissing it. “Your mother has told me so much about you.”

“I wish that I could say the same,” I chortled, hiding my smile behind my other hand.

“Dear me, my apologies, I am Arthur Holmwood,” he stated, bowing.

“It’s a pleasure,” I replied, taking his hand and asking him to sit with me for a while.

I had asked our maid to fix some tea while Arthur and I chatted with each other. I learned a bit about him as we chatted. He was the son of a lord, and happened to be good friends with my family. He hoped to escort me to a gala that was coming up. I was positively thrilled with the idea.

We talked gayly over tea and cakes for a while. We laughed every so often. When it was time for him to leave, I was upset to see him go. I followed him out as far as was acceptable for a lady, wishing that I didn’t have to be held to such standards.

Arthur paused, turning back. “Miss Lucy, I would like to meet you at the next Pop, if that is alright?”

I smiled, feeling giddy over the thought. “I would be delighted.”

He smiled, winked at me causing me to blush, and went away. It pained me to watch him go, but I was excited about the thought of seeing him again. I rolled my eyes when my mother commented that he would be a perfect match.

Granted, it had crossed my mind that I was almost 20 and I had yet to be proposed to. Why did a woman have to marry a man in order to be complete herself? Why must a woman be measured by the number of men who wish to wed her? Was a woman’s only purpose to marry and birth children? Why couldn’t she make something of herself of her own choosing?

I had to stop my train of thought for I was treading in dangerous waters. This is how arguments with my mother always started. I would have my revolutionary, unladylike schemes and she would hint that I was a heathen destined for Hell for going against the Holy Father. Surely, our Lord would commend me for trying to be a forward thinking woman. At least, that is what I would like to think. Then mother would be cruel and ask why I couldn’t be more like Mina. Father, with his perfect timing, would interject then saving me from saying something that I would regret.

This time, I decided to simply dismiss myself to my room. I slid back against the door once I was safe inside the one place I found solitude and sighed. I didn’t wish to be such a disappointment, really I didn’t. Was it my fault that either the Lord or the Devil had blessed me with the need to know why the world had to work the way it did?

I glanced up and saw my writing set. A sudden urge to write to my dearest Mina hit me as I rushed over. Grabbing a pen and paper, I wrote furiously all my frustrations down. If I could speak freely to anyone, it was Mina. Once I had written what I felt was everything, I folded the letter and slipped it into its envelope and sealed it. I went to my door and called one of the maids, asking her to have it mailed for me. I breathed a sigh as soon as she went away feeling much lighter now that I had expelled my troubling thoughts on paper.

I looked out my window at the garden below and noticed that the roses were in bloom. They tended to be so beautiful with their various shades of colors. I always loved the white roses and how they shone brightly against the dark green of the leaves. However, for some reason, I could only see deep red roses that looked like droplets of crimson against a field of green.

#dracula #lucy westenra #Come what may #my nanowrimo #my nanowrimo novel #nanowrimo #chapter one #bram stoker

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