#also dracula/frank

[ilovecathtates2]

Just Bloxham and Dr Helsing being pals™

And Bloxham entering Dracula’s home after the final scene

[senkuishigaymi]

Just watched Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022). Totally loved it (I love all movies!) but mostly because since Johnny turns into a monster, it felt like he is completely free. All these time, his dork side is always interrupted or tamed somehow but now he is JUST so FREE and even friendlier.

Although he is still better of as himself (human) as the ending approaches! </3

[hoybero]

hello there tumblr people. camp was very fun tbh i wanna go back:,) there were a surprising amount of renfield fans there. there were many(three) fics written and passed around that i will not be sharing but it was great. i guess all i needed to do to make friends was well A) start a random dnd campaign at 6am using playing cards instead of dice cause i had none. but also B) literally talk about nothing but renfield. i recommend going to a camp of literally only gay people.

[darchildre]

So Kaye and Dracula get married in what is, frankly, a pretty cute scene. Frank then bursts into Kaye's house, reveals that he's been following her, demands to know where she went after he lost her, demands that Dracula leave town and Kaye get the marriage annulled, and then shoots Dracula multiple times.

Again, Frank has not even the slightest suspicion that Dracula is a vampire at this point.

This is the movie's hero, ladies and gentlemen. A stalker, terrifyingly controlling, and an attempted murderer.

Seriously, this movie is so weird because we're clearly meant to think that all the dudes trying to do horrible things to Kaye are correct because we know Dracula is a vampire, but they don't. So instead everyone comes off as absolutely terrible and Dracula seems like Kaye's best option.

[stimmingmushroomstudios]

Frank Wildhorn is a composer not a writer! There's Always a Tomorow is a banger song and the way it ties in all the previous musical motifs is super well done. The Longer I Live is the quintessential vampire song and the way his voice changes is brilliant.

[navigatorsghost]

@koilungfish yes, you do!

(Fun trivia btw: the story goes that when Frank Langella was offered the role of Skeletor, he knew little or nothing about the original show and almost turned the part down until his kids begged him to take it. He then proceeded to put his entire ass into his performance for their sake and is absolutely the best thing about the whole movie.)

Skeletor (Frank Langella) from 'Masters of the Universe' (1987), ''Impact'', #48, 1993

[knitmeapony]

I wasn't going to post again about this... and then I got the cost estimates.

My beautiful baby boy needs surgery, and I could use some help. As many of you know, I had emergency GI surgery myself less than a year ago, and between that and some very necessary repairs to my house (the plumbing here is terrible, sigh) my savings are totally wiped out.

My lil fella means everything to me, and I'm going to take on the debt no matter what, but if you have a little bit to spare please consider clicking the link above, or at least reblogging this post.

If you'd rather -- I also have a shop where I sell my art, mostly tiny paintings of internet things. https://knitmeapony.bigcartel.com/ I even have some Dracula Daily things like this:

https://knitmeapony.bigcartel.com/product/dracula-paprika-hendl

I'll be listing as many paintings as possible, including the Midnight Burger paintings and other things on @knitmeapainting

Thank you for any help you can offer!

[damian-navarro-art]

BATGIRL & ROBIN

Finally guys after all the sneak peeks… my Cassandra Cain and Mia Mizoguchi Short Story! CASS AND MAPS!

I’ve been posting it on my instagram all this month and last week on my twitter but i had totally forgotten to post it in here, for 2 months there wasn’t a day i wasn’t thinking on them and i would have loved with all my heart to do something even longer but… building up a story, thinking over and over the layouts, drawing and coloring with this level of detail all on my own is really hard and i can’t but feel guilty of taking this long for just this 7 pages, but as little that is, with all my heart i just really hope you like them :’) , I tried to put many little easter eggs and references but i will mention some at the end to not spoil your reading.

Thank you for reading! Please let me know what you think!

Okay, so some of the esster eggs:

PAGE 1: that Adam West Batman & Robin climbing a building shot which actually came to me from Bruno Redondo’s cover of Nightwing actually , and the rest of the panels hugely inspired by Batman The Animated Series!

PAGE 2: a portrait of Niccolai Tapes( The Mas Monk) on his early years and at his side Matt Wagner himself! , then a newspaper with a Batman based on his first appearances and a reference to the events from Batman vs the Mad Monk by Matt Wagner, and then ofc all the room filled with a bunch of objects taken exactly from the same pages of Matt when he draw The Monk’s Castle on the same book. and finally the book of Dracula for the same reason ;) , all this layout was inspired by one of the most iconic pages from Pax Americana by Frank Quitely

PAGE 3: all the vampires were based physically on Voldermort’s Death Eaters! but also the girl in black is Dala! Mad Monk’s more loyal acolyte which in the book she always desired to become a vampire but never could! , but from left to right, Barty Crocuh Jr. , Dala as Bellatrix, Peter Pettigrew, The Monk was “Voldemort” , then Snape, Lucius, Narcissa and Fenrir Greyback, and that last panel was a BLADE reference 🙂‍↕️🙌

PAGE 4: this whole Cass yellow panels with speedlines were supposed to represent the same kind of panels that Damion Scott drew when Cass was moving really fast in her Batgirl run, the whole layout was based on a page of Jamal Campbell from his Green Arrow run

PAGE 5: shot referencing the killing joke joker and batgirl cover, you can see a “Red sun” mode on the bat-flashlight apart from the Ultra Violet setting, them. Maps bites the Monk as she used to do a couple times in Gotham Academy, and Cass final attack is a reference to one of the moves she does in her 2000s run to stop the heart beats of a thug , and those circles were inspired by David Aja’s work on his Iron Fist and run!

PAGE 6: the building on the background purposely resembles the Bat ears, the GCPD have the uniforms from BTAS and you can see also Detective Montoya and Jack Ryder interviewing her :), Maps little hearts are taken from Karl Kerschl who used to do them on Gotham Academy a couple times, and finally the Grapple Gun reference from all the time Maps mentioned it on Gotham Academy 🙂‍↕️,ohh and the box of the gift was also the same feom Shadow of the Batgirl when Barbara gives her suit to Cass!

PAGE 7: Frank Miller’s Batman and Carrie Kelly cover 🙂‍↕️🫶

THANK U GUYS 🫶

[hotvintagepoll]

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.

[thethirdromana]

Ages of Dracula casts

This ask made me wonder how close past Dracula casts were to the ages of the characters as established in the novel. Looking at these adaptations:

Dracula (1931)

Horror of Dracula (1958)

Dracula (1974)

Count Dracula (1977)

Dracula (1979)

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Dracula (2020)

In some cases characters are merged or changed; I've associated each character with the person who comes closest to having the same name.

Jonathan Harker (early 20s)

Dracula (1931) - David Manners, 31

Horror of Dracula (1958) - John Van Eyssen, 36

Dracula (1974) - Murray Brown, 37

Count Dracula (1977) - Bosco Hogan, 28

Dracula (1979) - Trevor Eve, 28

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Keanu Reeves, 28

Dracula (2020) - John Heffernan, 39

On average, Jonathan Harker is cast as 32.

Mina Murray (early 20s)

Dracula (1931) - Helen Chandler, 25

Horror of Dracula (1958) - Melissa Stribling, 32

Dracula (1974) - Penelope Horner, 35

Count Dracula (1977) - Judi Bowker, 23

Dracula (1979) - Jan Francis, 32

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Winona Ryder, 21

Dracula (2020) - Morfydd Clark, 31

On average, Mina Murray is cast as 28.

Lucy Westenra (19)

Dracula (1931) - Frances Dade, 24

Horror of Dracula (1958) - Carol Marsh, 32

Dracula (1974) - Fiona Lewis, 28

Count Dracula (1977) - Susan Penhaligon, 28

Dracula (1979) - Kate Nelligan, 29

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Sadie Frost, 27

Dracula (2020) - Lydia West, 27

On average, Lucy Westenra is cast as 28.

Jack Seward (29)

Dracula (1931) - Herbert Bunston, 57 (aged up to be Mina's dad)

Horror of Dracula (1958) - Charles Lloyd-Pack, 56

Dracula (1974) - none

Count Dracula (1977) - Mark Burns, 41

Dracula (1979) - Donald Pleasence, 60 (Lucy's dad in this one)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Richard E Grant, 35

Dracula (2020) - Matthew Beard, 31

On average, Jack Seward is cast as 47, and also assigned Dad.

Quincey Morris (mid to late 20s)

Dracula (1931) - none

Horror of Dracula (1958) - none

Dracula (1974) - none

Count Dracula (1977) - Richard Barnes, 33

Dracula (1979) - none

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Billy Campbell, 33

Dracula (2020) - Phil Dunster, 28

On average, Quincey Morris doesn't exist. But when he does, he's 31.

Arthur Holmwood (mid to late 20s)

Dracula (1931) - none

Horror of Dracula (1958) - Michael Gough, 42

Dracula (1974) - Simon Ward, 33

Count Dracula (1977) - none

Dracula (1979) - none

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Cary Elwes, 30

Dracula (2020) - none

On average, Arthur Holmwood doesn't exist either. But when he does, he's 35.

Van Helsing (a generation older)

Dracula (1931) - Edward Van Sloan, 49

Horror of Dracula (1958) - Peter Cushing, 45

Dracula (1974) - Nigel Davenport, 46

Count Dracula (1977) - Frank Finlay, 51

Dracula (1979) - Laurence Olivier, 72

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Anthony Hopkins, 55

Dracula (2020) - Dolly Wells, 49

On average, Van Helsing is cast as 52.

[fanlore-wiki]

Featured Article: Dracula (1980 zine)

This week's Featured Article fits right in with spooky season, it's Dracula, the 1980 zine edited by Lori Chapek-Carleton.

The Dracula zine was focused mostly on the 1979 film "Dracula" starring Frank Langella, although other Draculas were also represented. It's an anthology that features a variety of fic and art, including a Star Wars crossover which was later nominated for a Fan Q award. Although it was intended to be an annual zine available every year around Halloween, only one issue was ever published.

Curious? Head over to Fanlore to find out more!

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[princess-glassred]

IT UNIVERSAL MOVIE MONSTERS AU!!🎟📽🎬🎞

As the title suggests, this is a IT AU based off the universal movie monsters, but it has it's own original plot instead of just being aus for all the movies. Let's go!

Bill 🧛‍♂️🦇🩸

Bill was born in 1476 as a part of the Denbrough family of vampires, and he was raised with all the expectations that came with it. He spent the majority of his childhood living in castle Dracula as his family were once good friends with the count. A couple things that are important to know about vampires in this AU are that they can indeed have kids, the just age suuuuper slowly, and the majority of vampires are not actually evil. They eat mostly animals and stay in their palaces for the most part, but there are indeed vampires who don't care about controlling their thirst and indulge in killing, thus giving vampires their bad reputation. Dracula is more of a hero in this world, taking care of vampires and siring only people who expressly ask to be turned. The most peaceful of vampires were those from the Denbrough line, as they truly just wanted to enjoy their unlives in peace. But alas, tragedy struck the Denbrough's in the 1500's, when their darling youngest son, George Denbrough was visciously killed. He was only seven in vampire years, but he was still hunted down and killed in the middle of the night when he was playing by himself. A very well known vampire hunter discovered George and sent a stake right through his heart, but ended up being killed by Bill's father before he could kill anyone else.

Bill blamed himself for this, and his parents didn't really help his grief at all. The whole Denbrough family was rocked by this loss, and eventually Zach and Sharon decided to hibernate forevermore so they didn't have to experience a unlife without Georgie. Bill declined joining his parents to watch over the castle and study under Dracula as his protege, and after Dracula was vanquished himself Bill basically inherited the whole place. He threw himself into writing to cope with his miserable loneliness and essentially spent the next four hundred years wallowing in grief over it all. When he finally gets chased out of his castle and is forced to get reacquainted with others it brings out a whole other side of his personality. He doesn't want to lose anyone else anytime soon so he becomes a very overprotective leader and friend to the people in his life.

Eddie ⚡🔥

Sonia Kaspbrak always longed for a child, but she never got the chance to have one due to infertility and the tragic death of her husband Frank. She became a bit of a hermit in later years, she was always super smart and used to work as a nurse in a few hospitals before shutting herself off from the outside world. In her isolation she got the idea to create something brilliant that she could love in her husbands place while also being the son she always wanted. She began grave robbing and stealing all the limbs she needed for her project, but most of the parts came from her dead husband. She used her sewing talents to stitch all the pieces together and named him Edward Frankenstein Kaspbrak, with his middle name being a monsterified twist on her husbands name, since that is low key what Eddie is.

Eddie doesn't look much like the universal pictures version of frankenstein, but he does have the bolts, and all his limbs are stitched up and mismatched, and he has heterochromia like in the book. He's fairly intelligent, and he should be, given that she constructed him the most marvelous brain from the most genius dead guys. Even though she knows he is very smart and capable, Sonia is still insanely protective over her baby boy (who's not even a baby, she constructed him to be an adult). He is forbidden from leaving castle Kaspbrak or talking to anyone lest he sets off an angry mob, but this doesn't sit right with Eddie who longs for the friendship and comraderie of his fellow man. Eddie is still much to fragile for the outside world though, he has trouble walking and even just a little exercise can make him lose his limbs. His lungs are also pretty fragile too considering they were the one body part she couldn't find a super fresh pair of in all her grave robbing.

Eddie does eventually get to leave castle Kaspbrak, but not really of his own accord. A violent mob breaks out and they attack Sonia for grave robbing and trying to create monstrosities in her castle. Before Sonia was killed though she tried to satiate her sons desire for a friend by building him a partner, and that... didn't really go as planned either.

Beverly ⚡👰🏻‍♀️

Beverly was created by Sonia with the one and only purpose to be Eddie's bride, but Sonia didn't count on Beverly having a mind of her own. She does liked Eddie- as a friend, and nothing else. She's not keen on being the bride of Kaspbrak, she still wants to explore the world and make something out of the life she's been given. Sonia didn't make her any clothes when she was born so she ended up designing herself a dress completely out of medical bandages, white sheets, and gauze. She has two white streaks in her hair and a variety of scars all across her body. She has the brain of a young woman who died fleeing her abusive husband, and that's most likely where her hesitance for marriage stems from.

Bev flees castle Kaspbrak with Eddie after they are chased out, but they confide in each other as best friends and confidant until they can find others who are like them. They find famous vampire William Denbrough and incorperate him into their group (much to his reluctance). Beverly and Eddie seem to be fine for the most part but they're both longing for true companionship and a family that can understand them. Bev wants someone to love her so dearly, but not someone she was built to be loved by. Maybe she can find someone like that along her journey, but until then all she can do is agonize over why she was built to solely be Eddies decoration.

Richie 🌕🐺

Richie Tozier was actually just a normal guy for his first sixteen years of being alive, until a streak of bad luck ended up getting him turned into the wolfman! Now he's basically an outsider, and not even a particularly cool one either. He used to have it all, an affluent family, a big fancy house, a business he would one day grow up to inherit, but then it was all taken from him with one stupid curse.

It all started when Richie hit pubtery and was just getting into the whole "finding your soulmate" bs and was looking for just about anyone who suited his fancy. He flirted a bit with one of the manors maids and he flirted back, but what Richie hadn't expected was for the maid to fall for him so incredibly hard. He adored Richie, almost obsessively, and that was too bad because Richie quickly lost interest in him and tried to move on from their sort of kind of flirting to an real relationship with... you know, someone he actually liked. Bad move, because as it turns out, out of all of the servant boys he could have betrayed, of all the maids he could have spurned, Richie had to mess with the one with a secret. Richie got the witch.

The witch was so spiteful and angry that Richie wouldn't love him that he not only cursed him to become a wolfman, but also did some black magic fuckery to off Richies entire family too. Then he lead a big mob after the monster, claiming HE was the one who killed the Toziers, and Richie had to hide away in a swamp for the next couple of years. Such a miserable string of events followed by the isolation of living out in a swamp for the remainder of his teen years made him a little crazy. When he's not writhing around in pain from his werewolf curse he's talking to himself in silly voices so he feels less alone and cracking dark jokes to keep him grounded. He has to isolate himself like this or else he'll hurt himself or others, but thankfully Bill and the other monsters find him and are mostly immune to his attacks. Safe to say Richie's fallen from grace, and he fears that the only way he can really be free of this hell is a silver bullet right between the eyes or the power of christ. Either way, he's pretty fucked.

Ben 🐠🌊

Ben is not human, plain and simple. He has a similar build to most humans, he has a few human traits, but for the most part he is basically an oversized fish. He was found at the very bottom of a black lagoon in the amazon rainforrest, and his body has evolved in such a way he could survive perfectly in such conditions. He has webbed finers and feet to help him swim through water, sharp teeth to help in devouring fish he catches, gills AND lungs to let him breath both above water and below, and in addition to all of that he's also pretty overweight to keep himself warm in such icy cold water. He's a miracle of evolution, a pure marvel of science, so obviously he was kidnapped and brought back to the ""civalized"" world to be studied in a lab. He was utterly miserable there, but the losers all pitched in and broke him out of there.

Now he's allowed to walk around as he pleases and stay in a big bathtub most of the time, and the longer he hangs with them the more he learns about how to act more humanoid. Bev even teaches him to talk and write the same one Sonia taught her to talk and write. Ben even named himself Ben because it sounded similar to "Bev". He's pretty in love with her, or as in love as a fishman and a reanimated corpse could be. Will this ship sink or swim? Who can say, but at the very least it's not like Bev has many other options.

Mike 🏜🪲🐪

Mike was discovered buried in a one thousand year in the middle of Egypt. He sporadically woke up once every a hundred years to dig the the tomb he was in and take a look around. There he found a plethora of information in books, scrolls, and artifacts he could research if he was feeling like it. Most of the time tho he just napped wrapped up in guaze for a really long time, and honestly who could blame him? Mike does not remember most of his life before becoming a mummy, but he remembers his father and his mother, and he remembers the animals they raised, and most importantly he remembers how he became a mummy in the first place.

A long time ago one of the worst pharohs egypt ever had was being overthrown in a coup, and as part of that coup they were going to execute his young son and make an example out of him. Mike', deapite being a peasant himself, couldn't stand to let a kid die so he did all he could to help that kid escape to safety. He thought of himself as a protector in that way, but the others disagreed and proceeded to punish mike for sympathizing with the royals by wrapping him in gauze and locking him in a tomb with scarab beattles forever and ever. This curse made him immortal, although he did indeed rot and decay over time (but not enough he was just straight up a corpse, he's just got a bit of that tim burton face goin on ngl).

As a mummy he has a few interesting powers, he can summon small imitations of the plauges of egypt, he can control scarab beatles, and if hes truly pissed off he can suck out your soul (but Mike doesn't really wanna do that). He's an overall pretty sweet guy despite the whole... being a mummy thing, and the losers saved him at the same time they saved Ben. He's got a bit of a romance going on with Bill, since they're both undead and have been alive the longest out of all the losers. Maybe they can go on a romantic date to a mausoleum.

Stan 🧫��🔬

Stanley Uris is a man of science first and foremost, ans as a man of science you must do what you can in the pursuit of your goals, no matter the danger you may find yourself in. Stanley has been called many things in his life, a coward, a mad man, a freak, but perhaps those were the exact reasons he liked science anyways. There was always a risk with science, but they were risks you could still forsee and control (most of the time). Stan's house functions as a hide out for the monster losers because, quite frankly, Stan is such a weirdo he doesn't give a shit if monsters hide in his house. Besides, he's been working on something truly special, and pretty soon he won't be too far off from his monster friends.

Stan might love his life, he has a nice job, a nice wife, and a nice house, but there is one part of him he's never been satisfied with and thats his cowardly instincts. He longs to be released from the prison of fear and allowed to flourish as the scientist he is, so he created a potion to purge him of such a vice and split him into two. It was fun at first, thrilling even, but eventually it got so out of control Stan couldn't figure out where he ended and the other person in his body began. His other half proved over and over again that he was more monsterous than any of his monster friends, and unfortunately he keeps coming out more and more frequently. Stan can only hope that his new friends can help ease his burden, but there's only so much they can do to stop the good doctor from turning into his evil other self.

Henry 🕯🗡🪦📿

The Bowers family have been monster hunting as far back as the stone age, so killing monsters has been Henry's god given birthright. Monster hunting doesn't really pay the bills so most Bowers find themselves working lowclass positions as maids, butlers, and servants, but such circumstance just makes them more blood thirsty. Henry is a proud descendant of the man who killed George Denbrough in cold blood and he has been wanting to hunt down Bill just to finish the job. He's very good at what he does, he has ties to the catholic church, a huge stock of weapons, tricks, and schemes to help defeat the monsters, and a team of insiders that will aid him on his journey.

Henry really couldn't give less of a shit how nice these monsters are, all he wants is to make his daddy proud and eliminate anything in his way. He's naturally PISSED when he finds out Sonia Kaspbrak has found a way to create life itself using science, and if he knew what Stan was doing in his lab he'd probably pissed about that too. He will not rest until Bill Denbrough's head is on a pike he can carry around like cotton candy, he wants him dead and he wants him dead NOW.

Connor 🔮🪄

Connor Bowers has a secret, a dirty little secret he cannot tell a soul because if he did he'd be done in quicker than you can say "hocus pocus"; he's a witch. And furthermore, he also happens to be the witch that fell in love with/cursed Richie. He keeps all of that a very tight knit secret though, because if Henry discovered his own cousin had begun practicing the dark arts and creating monsters out of petty spite he'd lose it. He first discovered the power of magic while working as a maid for the Toziers and he became infatuated with Richie. Ofc he rejected his advances and it didn't end well for him, but ehhh. You win some you lose some.

He's still totally obsessed with Richie upon seeing him again all these years later, and Richie is still just as repulsed as before. He tries to strong arm him into loving him, promising if he just agrees to be his he'll reverse his werewolf curse and even make Henry forget he was the werewolf at all, but richie doesn't take his deal. He knows agreeing to that is no better than agreeing to be someones love slave and he'd rather die. Still, Connor ain't giving up. He'd sooner encourage hid cousin to kill all of Richie's friends than give up on him.

Vic 🧭🗺

Vic is much more into the world of researching monsters than killing them. He's an amatuer explorer and uses that to help Henry find more monsters to catch and kill for the ""betterment"" of mankind. He was the archeologist that dug Mike out of his tomb AND he was the explorer that caught Ben in the amazon. He studied them both extensively while he could, but when they were both broken out Henry got very mad at him for not allowing him to just flat out kill his subjects.

He's often using his intellect to try all kids of crazy shit like turning himself invisible or inventing new weapons for Henry, both of which makes people wonder if he's more of a madman or a scientist. Ehhh, Probably just a mad scientist.

Belch 🫁🫀🧠

Belch is an ex igor who helped Sonia Kaspbrak create life, then dipped after he realized it was highkey an abomination againsr god. He has a hunch and was raised in a circus most of his life before Sonia took him in and offered him steady work in exchange for his descretion. He is the only reason Henry even knows Eddie or Bev exists and he's also probably the most genuine ally Henry has on his team. Unfortunately though he is still just an Igor and igors are not really well known for their intelligence.

Patrick 🧬🎩

Patrick is the other half of Dr. Stanely Uris that he tries to hide. Stan had succeeded quite wonderfully in his goal to eradicate his cowardice, because Patrick has no emotions what so ever. He's wanted for the death of ten men, eight women, four children and a whole heap of innocent little animals he killed for funsies. He pretends to be Henry's friend when really he just enjoys being part of all the chaos and trying to kill things. He doesn't let him know he's secretly Stan half of the time, not because he's afraid or anything, but simply cause its more fun this way. Plus he gets to mess with both Stan and Henry by playing both sides here, it's a win win.

Greta 💋🦷🧛🏻‍♀️

Greta is kind or a non descript vampire in this au, although she's based heavily off of Dracula's brides. She is the exact kind of evil vampire that gives the rest of vampire kind a bad name, and the worst part is how effortlessly she blends into the human world. Henry doesn't even know she's a vampire, even though it's pretty damn obvious. Her big plan is to help Henry until he kills Bill and lets her take over his whole position as a countess.

She's vain, cruel, haughty, and just all around unpleasant, and interestingly enough she's the only one who knows Connors witchy secret and isn't telling, just in case he learns about her being a vampire and gets any idea about telling.

She's always dressed up in the finest jewels and dresses due to her wealth, but Henry truly believes she's just a bit eccentric like all women are. He doesn't even know she can turn into a weird freaky bat creature and pick people op out of the air for a quick snack. It certainly doesn't help that she can basically hunt down the losers anywhere through smell alone, and she's been known to be extremely sadistic when playing with her food.

[nelyoslegalteam]

#WOULD KILL DRACULA AND SURVIVE#listen maedhros feanorion and jonathan harker are fundamentally the same genre of person. no im not elaborating just trust me. #actually that’s a lie i made a long unhinged post elaborating but like #‘​‘his spirit burned like a white fire within’’ / ‘‘in fact he is like a living flame’’

PLEASE elaborate on Maedhros and Jonathan being the same kind of person! Is Jonathan the living flame quote?

YES LISTEN OKAY YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND. first of all i have been unhinged already here but. look i just really love a character who makes decisions they know are putting them in danger because they’re bound to some duty beyond themself. love a character who was trapped and imprisoned and makes for a juicy study of what the power structure of that entrapment was like (and for maedhros i have to shout out @outofangband for just utterly sinking their TEETH into this in the BEST way). love a character who SHOULD’VE died, who DIDN’T, except they did go through some kind of metaphorical death. and now they’re back. and they’re not as soft and measured as they used to be. and now they’re spurred on by rage and trauma - and also the desire to protect their people (maedhros has his little brothers and also All Of The Noldor, jonathan has mina) from the horrors that they faced. and they WILL face those horrors. violently. with a knife. no matter how much it opens their own trauma, they’re taking the blow. and fuck do i LOVE a character who’s willing to meet the worst version of themself along the way, who’s willing to Become The Thing They Fear for the people they love. (maedhros, who refused to burn the ships, doesn’t want to be the kind of person who slaughters refugees. but he will be that, for his family. jonathan doesn’t want to be dracula. but for mina, he’ll turn to vampirism without second thought.)

also listen. a character who is physically changed by what they went through, as a metaphor for the way their trauma has altered who they are. maedhros losing his right hand. jonathan’s hair turning white. you see. you get me.

AND YEAH. YEAH THAT’S A DIRECT QUOTE ABOUT JONATHAN!!!!!!! it’s from the october 3rd entry, where jack describes jonathan as such:

The poor fellow is overwhelmed in a misery that is appalling to see. Last night he was a frank, happy-looking man, with strong, youthful face, full of energy, and with dark brown hair. Today he is a drawn, haggard old man, whose white hair matches well with the hollow burning eyes and grief-written lines of his face. His energy is still intact; in fact, he is like a living flame. This may yet be his salvation, for, if all go well, it will tide him over the despairing period; he will then, in a kind of way, wake again to the realities of life.

(emphasis mine but!!!!!! TELL ME THAT ISN’T THE MOST MAEDHROS-CODED OUTSIDER POV ON JONATHAN HARKER EVER)

anyhow. i love them both dearly. and the living flame quote is one of my favorite lines of all time <3

[la-femme-au-collier-vert]

IWTV Season 2 Sources & References

(The 1st 4 were cited by the Writer’s Room)

The Ethnic Avante-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution by Steven S. Lee

Paris Journal 1944-1955 by Janet Flanner (Genet)

The Vampire: A Casebook by Alan Dundes

Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles: An Alphabettery

The Fly cited by Jacob Anderson

King Lear by Shakespeare cited by Rolin Jones

Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin

Sebastien Melmoth by Oscar Wilde

Amadeus (1984)

The Lost Boys (1987)

Gaslight (1944)

Batman

Casablanca (1942)

Now, Voyager (1942)

The Third Man (1949) cited by Levan Akin

An American in Paris by George Gershwin (1928) cited by Daniel Hart

Moulin Rouge (2001)

The Phantom of the Opera

Les Vampires (1915)

Dracula (1931) credit to @vampchronicles_ on twt

Le Triomphe de L’amour by Pierre de Marivaux

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin cited by Jacob Anderson

Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean Paul Sartre

Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Vampire’s Kiss (1988) credit to @talesfromthecrypts

Les Morts ont tous le Meme Peau by Boris Vian credit to @greedandenby

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Barclay Beckett credit to @rorscachisgay on twt

An Enemy of the People by Ibsen

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Vie de Voltaire by Marquis Condorcet

Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction by Edward Fullbrook and Kate Fullbrook credit to @iwtvfanevents

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes credit to @iwtvfanevents

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Artists and Salons Referenced:

R-26

Palma Vecchio

Andre Fougeron

Elsa Triollet

Fred Stein

Lisette Model

Gordon Parks

Miguel Barcelo

Taxidermied Javelina by Chris Roberts-Antieau

Ai WeiWei (wallpaper)

David Hockney (Lemons)

Wols 

The Kiss of Judas by Jakob Smits

Salome by Louis Icart

Ophelia by John Everett Millais

Shelter by Peter Macon

The Kiss by Edvard Munch

The Vampire or Love and Pain by Edvard Munch credit @iwtvasart

Ruiter on Horse by Reiger Stolk credit @ iwtvasart

Portrait of Frank Burty Haviland by Modigliani credit @iwtvasart

Self-Seers II (Death and Man) by Egon Schiele credit to @90sgreggaraki

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters by Goya

Movie & Play Posters on set (in chronological order by year):

Tarzan and his Mate (1934)

Avec le Sourire (1936)

Les Deux Gosses (1936)

Le Jour Se Leve (1939) about a man who commits murder as a result of a love triangle and locks himself in his apartment recounting the details as the police attempt to arrest him. Credit to @laisofhyccara

Nuit de Décembre (1940)

Mademoiselle Swing (1942) about a girl who follows a troupe of swing musicians to Paris.

Les Enfents du Paradis (1945) about a woman with many suitors including an actor and an aristocrat.

Fantomas (1946) about a sadistic criminal mastermind. This version includes a hideout in the catacombs where he traps people.

Quai des Orfevres (1947) watch here

Monsieur Vincent (1947)

Le Cafe du Cadran (1947) about a wife’s affair with a violinist.

La Kermesse Rouge (1947) film about a jealous artist who locks up his younger wife and a fire breaks out while she’s trapped.

Morts Sans Sepulture by Jean-Paul Sartre (play) also published in English translations as “The Victors” or “Men Without Shadows” about resistance fighters captured by Vichy soldiers struggling not to give up information.

Mon Faust by Paul Valery (play)

Musical Influences:: @greedandenby collected all music used in Season 2 here.

Henry Cowell

Meredith Monk

Howling’ Wolf

Shirley Temple

Jason Lindner Big Band

The Teeth

Carlos Salzedo

Alice Coltrane

Thelonius Monk

David Lang

Caroline Shaw

Gadfly by Shostakovich (for Raglan James)

musical career of Martha Argerich

Season 1 here (these lists are updated regularly)

Season 3 here

[kvothes]

Can you rec some poems about being trans and in the closet ? Maybe something hopeful? I've been struggling lately and would love some poetry to help me through it 💚

i'm not sure how many i know that are specifically about being in the closet, though danez smith's "waiting on you to die so i can be myself" springs immediately to mind. nonetheless, here are a few of my other favorite trans and nonbinary poets:

miller oberman (on trans)

jameson fitzpatrick (mirror at shalott)

gabrielle calvocoressi (my perimenopausal body cistern disappointing how surprising)

kayleb rae candrilli (sestina written as though genesis)

other poets: paul tran, torrin a. greathouse, taylor johnson, cameron awkward-rich, jos charles, quenton baker, eileen myles...

troubling the line is an anthology of trans poets; the book RED by chase berggrun is all transfeminine erasure poems of bram stoker’s dracula; diane seuss doesn't identify as trans but the poem that begins "i wanted to be the boy" from frank: sonnets is also excellent if you can get your hands on a copy (i don't have mine with me or i would take a photo for you!)

[ninadove]

Nina reads Dracula 🦇

September 29th

Long one today, but Quincey’s here, so everything is right in the world. ❤️

First of, the boys are going grave-robbing as a gang! 🎉

"The more we talked, the more puzzled we got, till now I can say for myself that I'm about up a tree as to any meaning about anything."

"Me too," said Quincey Morris laconically.

"Oh," said the Professor, "then you are nearer the beginning, both of you, than friend John here, who has to go a long way back before he can even get so far as to begin."

GDHSKSKSKS THE BURN. Completely gratuitous too, John hasn’t even spoken yet.

Therefore may I ask that you promise me in the dark, so that afterwards, though you may be angry with me for a time—I must not disguise from myself the possibility that such may be—you shall not blame yourselves for anything."

🥺

"That's frank anyhow," broke in Quincey. "I'll answer for the Professor. I don't quite see his drift, but I swear he's honest; and that's good enough for me."

[Sigh] ❤️

"Would it not be well to hear what I have to say?" said Van Helsing. "And then you will at least know the limit of my purpose. Shall I go on?"

"That's fair enough," broke in Morris.

Spoken like a man who immediately thought VAMPIRES after eavesdropping for two minutes and a half ❤️

"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part. Believe me, we are now on the verge of one. But I have not done. May I cut off the head of dead Miss Lucy?"

I love the way he asks like a kitten eyeing your food. I can has head of dead (<- important precision) Miss Lucy? 🥺

His voice broke a little, and he went on with a voice full of pity:—

"But, I beseech you, do not go forth in anger with me. In a long life of acts which were often not pleasant to do, and which sometimes did wring my heart, I have never had so heavy a task as now."

Day I-don’t-know-how-many of asking for Van Helsing’s backstory

"For her—I am ashamed to say so much, but I say it in kindness—I gave what you gave; the blood of my veins; I gave it, I, who was not, like you, her lover, but only her physician and her friend. I gave to her my nights and days—before death, after death; and if my death can do her good even now, when she is the dead Un-Dead, she shall have it freely."

Ok, let’s pause here for a second. I understand why so many authors directors artists etc. have developed an erotic fascination for vampirism. I see the themes, you see the themes, we nod in understanding.

But I have to wonder why the blood transfusions were not co-opted in the same way?

Like!!! We keep going back to them!!! Van Helsing in particular is so uncomfortable about the implications of sharing his blood with this young girl who was another man’s fiancée! Arthur compares it to an actual wedding ceremony!! John and Quincey let their own blood be drawn because they also loved her!!! WHY ARE BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS NOT ROMANTICISED IN THE WAY VAMPIRISM IS.

Can you imagine the creative possibilities? The poetry of giving such a fundamental part of yourself without expecting anything in return? And pushed to its extreme — the devotion that has you wasting yourself away when there is no hope of saving your lover? COME ON don’t tell me it’s not fascinating!!!

"Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together. Come, my husband, come!"

Oh oh.

"But of the most blessed of all, when this now Un-Dead be made to rest as true dead, then the soul of the poor lady whom we love shall again be free. Instead of working wickedness by night and growing more debased in the assimilating of it by day, she shall take her place with the other Angels. So that, my friend, it will be a blessed hand for her that shall strike the blow that sets her free. To this I am willing; but is there none amongst us who has a better right? Will it be no joy to think of hereafter in the silence of the night when sleep is not: 'It was my hand that sent her to the stars; it was the hand of him that loved her best; the hand that of all she would herself have chosen, had it been to her to choose?' Tell me if there be such a one amongst us?"

Oooooooof

There, in the coffin lay no longer the foul Thing that we had so dreaded and grown to hate that the work of her destruction was yielded as a privilege to the one best entitled to it, but Lucy as we had seen her in her life, with her face of unequalled sweetness and purity. True that there were there, as we had seen them in life, the traces of care and pain and waste; but these were all dear to us, for they marked her truth to what we knew. […]

"And now, my child, you may kiss her. Kiss her dead lips if you will, as she would have you to, if for her to choose. For she is not a grinning devil now—not any more a foul Thing for all eternity. No longer she is the devil's Un-Dead. She is God's true dead, whose soul is with Him!"

🥺🥺🥺

Then we cut off the head and filled the mouth with garlic.

Whiplash

And now onto Mina being cute:

"I was only entering my diary."

"Your diary?" I asked him in surprise.

"Yes," he answered. "I keep it in this." As he spoke he laid his hand on the phonograph. I felt quite excited over it, and blurted out:—

"Why, this beats even shorthand! May I hear it say something?"

Baby girl… Baby… ❤️

"You helped to attend dear Lucy at the end. Let me hear how she died; for all that I know of her, I shall be very grateful. She was very, very dear to me."

MINAAA 😭😭😭😭

"But do you know that, although I have kept the diary for months past, it never once struck me how I was going to find any particular part of it in case I wanted to look it up?" By this time my mind was made up that the diary of a doctor who attended Lucy might have something to add to the sum of our knowledge of that terrible Being, and I said boldly:—

"Then, Dr. Seward, you had better let me copy it out for you on my typewriter."

I love her your honour ❤️

"You do not know me," I said. "When you have read those papers—my own diary and my husband's also, which I have typed—you will know me better. I have not faltered in giving every thought of my own heart in this cause; but, of course, you do not know me—yet; and I must not expect you to trust me so far."

OH SHE SPEAKS LIKE VAN HELSING ERGO LIKE DRACULA

"I know that Lucy told you of me; she told me of you too."

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

And back to Seward:

I was so absorbed in that wonderful diary of Jonathan Harker and that other of his wife that I let the time run on without thinking.

“Wonderful” certainly is one way to describe it, yes.

"That is a wonderful machine, but it is cruelly true. It told me, in its very tones, the anguish of your heart. It was like a soul crying out to Almighty God. No one must hear them spoken ever again! See, I have tried to be useful. I have copied out the words on my typewriter, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as I did."

Mina continues to be the real MVP

And back to Mina:

Fortunately I am not of a fainting disposition.

Oh trust me, I know.

The world seems full of good men—even if there are monsters in it.

THANK YOU YES THAT IS IN FACT THE POINT

[Still traumatised by the 1992 movie]

I remember how much "The Dailygraph" and "The Whitby Gazette," of which I had made cuttings, helped us to understand the terrible events at Whitby when Count Dracula landed, so I shall look through the evening papers since then, and perhaps I shall get some new light.

WHAT A WOMAN.

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