#Lucy westenra

[vivienvalentino]

Bram Stoker’s Dracula — 1992, dir. Francis Ford Coppola

[tiffycat]

Felt like drawing a bunch of Dracula memes just to be silly :p

[cucumbermoon]

I thought some of you Dracula folks might enjoy my mother’s painting of Whitby Abbey. Shared with permission.

[mewtwo365]

this is a little out of order but i saw an internet quote from the physical dracula daily book and had to draw it - that Lucy was playing out an Otome dating sim while Jonathan is having the worst time of his life XD

i hope you enjoy this silly drawing, and have an AWESOME day!!

[wiliecoyotegenius]

Modern Dracula retellings of any media tend to erase Lucy's mother, in favor of making Lucy more grown up (and thus her encounters with Dracula to be hot), more sexually forward (only to get punished for it), and an independent woman. Often claiming that this "fixes" her story.

However, Mrs Westenra is important to exist partly because it makes Lucy such a Persephone figure.

A daughter (kore/κόρη) on the cusp of adolescence and adulthood, taken forcibly away from the living to the land of the dead by the lord of Death, to marry him (white clothes in her tomb, when she was supposed to be in a bridal dress soon), to dwell in darkness for eternity under his ultimate power.

Lucy also dies/"goes to the underworld" on the Autumn Equinox, signaling winter coming and light (the meaning of Lucy's name) fading for darkness to reign.

Peresphone's abduction to the underworld, a girl taken away by death too early, mourned, was meant to be a tragedy. And so is Lucy's story.

[vvanillavveins]

Is she Lucy Westenra, or is she just a vessel for the writer's barely disguised fantasy of a women being punished for her promiscuity? Is she really"Bram Stoker's" Lucy Westenra: a naive, innocent 19 year old, with a cheery personality and a bright future ahead of her? Or has the writer instead just slapped her name on an OC that behaves nothing like her, and- with none of the grace or decorum that Lucy's tragically short story deserves- sexualized her slow and agonising death as much as possible, whilst very unsubtly doing their best to blame her for being murdered, so that we won't object to her being killed again later in an even more gruesome and sexual manner?

[iwantajaneaustenlife]

every year this is the saddest day 😭

[immediatebreakfast]

Happy "Van Helsing calls Seward bitchless in front of Lucy" day to everyone! 🌹🌹🌹

[lady-dulcinea]

Count Dracula preys on Lucy while she's sick & alone

from the Milwaukee Ballet's production of Michael Pink's Dracula Luz San Miguel as Lucy Westenra Davit Hovhannisyan as Count Dracula

[jellolegos]

happy pride month to lesbian vampire Lucy and her gf

[linnytheseagull]

A gothic literature hyperfixation has possessed me so I made this

(This took way longer to make than it reasonably should have)

[paris-in-space]

I love proposal day

[tiffycat]

Lucy and her three weed smoking boyfriends

[memento-morieris-carpe-noctem]

May 24th

[nortism]

[rikiteekeetavee]

Cultural osmosis: Lucy is the socialite, the extroverted one, ditzy blonde who won't stop flirting with everyone and can't stay in one place or not strike up conversations without a care. An adventuress. Mina is the introverted bookworm whose eyes are lowered shyly and has one friend. Her quiet pure nature steals Dracula's heart.

Mina in the book: "If I won't immediately explore the entirety of this town, climb 199 steps to document every ominous and morbid nook and cranny, and talk to the locals there to befriend them so they'll tell me everything I want to know, from barghests to whaling, I will EXPLODE."