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dropthecop · 1 year ago

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saw a dracula daily post saying it was like a timeloop story the way people were reading it year after year and the characters were going through The Horrors again and again the same way as before, and the post asked which dracula character would be the one who knows about the timeloop and tries to break it, and i would like to submit for consideration that none of them know about it because WE are the ones who know

#my post #like okay obviously first of all dracula isnt a timeloop story and to look at it that way is just meta and not canon or what stoker intende #but i think it's pretty cool meta so i want to explore it for a second #and if we stick with the concept of ''my friend jonathan is emailing me!'' that puts us into the story! we know jonathan!#we are the ones free from the time loop but we also know that we can't ever break it bc that's the nature of stories #our good friend jonathan is doomed to go through the horrors every year and we know this but can only watch #bc while making jonathan into our dear friend inserts us into the story in a way #we are obviously still Not Actually IN the story and are doomed to watch from the outside as everything goes wrong again #this isn't like. a deep and insightful take or anything and i'm aware of that #it's literally just the nature of stories #but i thought that adding the timeloop layer on top made something interesting and this is my house so i get to post whatever i want #if you look at it as a timeloop then we're dooming our good friend jonathan to the horrors year after year by choosing to read the book #again and again #if you were wondering the original post i saw concluded that quincey was the one who would be aware of the time loop #dracula daily

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