#I'm watching dracula

[caprart1]

"What's your favorite romance movie?" Oh I don't know probably at the end of Castlevania when Dracula and Lisa get a second chance at life, and when they lay down together their positions form a heart

Look see

Hold on a sec my therapist is calling me

[niamh-writes-things]

hang on a sec, what if instead of dead boy detectives we had vampire boy detectives!

Edwin's circumstances of death would have to be different of course, but Charles can have the same but instead of chilling and waiting for him to die Edwin bites him.

as undead beings they can still see ghosts and all and therefore still try to help them. their reasoning is that they are trying to balance out the evil they do when biting people. they probably have a policy of only biting animals or proper bad guys like murderers and abusers and people who are dicks to women, and they probably steal from the hospital every so often. as much as i like my crazy murder guys, edwin and charles just arent like that, they would want to avoid biting people as much as possible and try to avoid it until they absoloutely have to.

this would make the dynamic with Esther really interesting. she would probably say something like "how are we any different, you feed on the blood of humans, killing them, and my snake feeds on little girls, killing them and giving me beauty!" and instead of an iron cane and an iron collar it's silver. when charles has to go into the snake pit he can just smell all the blood from the girls and he can have a mini crisis.

also they would probably have to rent a room because people can actually see them. jenny probably just thinks theyre fellow alternative people. niko and crystal would definately be a bit afraid, but warm up to them. the interactions with the cat king would have much more tension and stuff.

the story would probably get much darker as our boys actively kill people, but the threat of the knight nurse and edwin returning to hell wouldnt be there. it would probably be replaced with what if one of them is staked, or if we still want the night nurse, she's after them because they werent supposed to be turned, they were supposed to di and go to their seperate afterlifes and she's trying to trick them into goingt to their afterlifes anyway via some kind of magic or a deal with death or something. again with the show being darker, maybe when theyre on a case theres a guy whom was accidentally killed by his abusive father and charles goes a bit mental on him.

charles still gets his crisis because hey, his dad enjoyed inflicting pain on others and he feeds on blood which causes pain so are they the same? can he ever really be a good person as a vampire? is he a horrible person like his dad was?

OOOh and clothes! edwin can keep his outfit because he just isnt comfortable in modern clothes but charles probably embraces the campire aesthetic and goes even more punky than he already is

guys i'm gonna be honest i just really like vampires and i really like dbd and now i need to write a new fanfic

[midnightanddiamonds]

Me, every time Whitaker has a scene in The Pitt:

"Look at my funky little vampire man go 🥹"

[one-in-a-million-fishsticks]

The dichotomy between game!Alucard and show!Alucard is so funny to me.

Like on one end of the spectrum you have the game version, who is much older and more jaded. By the time Trevor, Grant, and Sypha show up he's basically already reached the stage that we see him at as of Nocturne in the show's continuity. Homeboy has seen some shit, and he has a hell of a complex. He's on some grizzled "I've already killed at least a few enemies, what difference will Dracula make?" type shit, he's sick and tired of that old man. Patricide? Sounds great, Belmont! Thanks for coming. I know that this was a totally different and generally underdeveloped version of Alucard character-wise, but he was DOWN TO CLOWN on Dracula in Castlevania III, bestie was ready.

Then, on the other end of the spectrum, we have the show version. Giving off a lot more sad puppy energy than his counterpart, like Castlevania III Alucard had remorse too, but it was WAY less. He's a lot more open about his feelings in that Sypha knows the depression when she sees it, and he definitely acts like a 19-year-old about to commit patricide would. Not helping matters is the fact that show!Dracula was previously way more human and caring than game!Dracula, both versions had it coming but game!Dracula lacked most of show!Dracula's redeeming qualities.

I'm just so enthralled by the possible dynamics between game!Alucard and the other misfits. Obviously everybody is MUCH different in the games, not just Alucard, so that would have a pretty strong influence on the relationships. Game!Trevor, for example, is way more open to forming alliances and a lot less jaded than his show counterpart. Which is hilarious in and of itself, because he basically swaps coping mechanisms with Alucard personality-wise (trying to keep people at an arms length).

All of this to say that game!Trevor probably looked at game!Alucard and said "LOL, hey Sypha? I bet that I can domesticate this one!!!"

[cyclist-of-guilt]

Dracula from Polish National Opera is for free now yt

This tango is from it

[thereideffects]

no new fics in the Elejah ao3 tag for 2 weeks. we used to be a real country

[capn-twitchery]

if i keep pushing the curves in my art twitch is gonna start looking like this. actually who am i kidding twitch kind of already looks like this

[gabe-dasha-formerlynice1cream]

So let me get this straight

The 2024 Nosferatu is just the more-or-less plot of Bram Stoker's Dracula, but with different character names and way more sex, especially between the girl and the vampire count?

So it's just what the popculture would like Dracula to be?

[scarecrowdrugs]

Jonathan Crane seems like the type of guy who'd just casually freak people out as a power play, especially when he's in Arkham. Imagine this freak staring a guard directly in the face while he shoves a random insect in his mouth. You can't tell me that this man wouldn't just eat bugs for fun.

[wormarchivist]

do you think Dracula and the wolfman explored each others bodies

[shanyafromstar]

This meme features official art of Curse of Strahd and some art from my favorite artists: @casketsanctum , @calebisdrawing , @vodoriga-art , @anae-art , @luckyblackcatxiii. I am very happy to discover Ravenloft and see the work of such amazing artists!

[podcastwizard]

heroines in gothic romances are praised for languishing in bed all day but when i do it i'm "lazy" and a "leech on society." make up your mind

[b4sically-ficti0n]

Watching Van Helsing for the first time and have barely finished the first 6 minutes, and I'm already feeling so many kinds of ways.

My prevailing thought is:

"WTF were these people on when they did this!?"

But that's not necessarily a bad thing.

So far this is just weird in a bunch of different ways, but I am vibing with it so far.

[libraryleopard]

i feel like a dracula retelling or adaptation from a romani perspective would be a very interesting and valuable addition to the vampire canon though on the other hand i can maybe understand why a romani creator wouldn't be very interested in that particular story

[addicted-to-the-knife]

Renfield (2023) is one of those vampire movies that gave me everything I could have wanted and more. I haven't felt this way about any vampire media in a long time. Nic Cage was the most perfect choice to play the count himself in this film. Just--- *chef's kiss*