#I'm getting a macabre migraine about this I swear

[see-arcane]

That tiktok was posted on twitter along with other ones that are straight up mad that Orlock is ugly and corpse like with a mustache. I'm sorry but you should be required to read Dracula before watching the movie because Dracula is introduced with a mustache and smelling like a corpse, when they go to his London house Jonathan's disgusted by the smell of rot in it, Mina emphasizes that he put "his reeking lips upon my throat..." when he kisses her not to mention that his skin is ice cold like a dead man's. The Count was always supposed to be walking dead that's part of the horror of vampirism in the story!! The sexy sexy Draculas of Hollywood with taglines "for centuries he filled desire in the hearts of women" lied to you

I honestly don't know what it will take to actually get these folks to save themselves. The only rubric they have (and apparently the only one they want) is the Hollywood-washed Count Fuckula Dark Sexprince version of the character, period

Which is especially infuriating as I would bet money they exist in the BookTok girlie spheres with a pretty version of a Dracula hardcover visible in their background bookshelves that they have never once read, let alone opened, and will use Coppola quotes to prove what fans they are of the work, saying with their whole chest that the ~I have crossed oceans of time to be with you~ line is directly from the very definitely for real Dracmina novel Stoker penned uwu

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There is a bottomless well of sexypire fiction out there for you to enjoy, with or without Dracula or Orlok's names stapled on to your cape-wearing Ken doll dom of choice. Go get off to those and get out of the gothic horror pool if you don't like the actual monsters and macabre shit that comes with it you can't take it, for fuck's sake