#daily van

[itsmezzoe]

Honey, I just want to rest on you

[see-arcane]

Van Helsing: “I hope it’s okay if I, a man-stranger, compliment your wife in front of you”

Jonathan ‘Does Not Know What a Jealousy Is’ Harker: “I have my entire schedule cleared in the hopes of hearing people talk about how great Mina is. Please go on.”

[tiffycat]

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

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Van Helsing & Mina: We're going to defeat Dracula with the power of friendship!

Quincey: And this gun I found!

[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.

[nortism]

[moonsun2010]

6 November - It's finally over 🌅

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (i would say new readers beware, it has spoilers for the book but well... we are at the end already)

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[immediatebreakfast]

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

[illmissthecrowning]

Dracula Daily hive it’s time to wake the fuck up!

[fatimazainab]

Vincent van Gogh // Mitch Albom

[aquilacalvitium]

Dracula: Has survived hundreds of years. Has been through many wars. Has seen many many generations come and go. Has killed thousands of people. Finally sets his sights on England to continue his undead existance of murder and terror.

Three English men, one Dutch man, one American and a recently married, potentially newly pregnant woman:

[evydraws]

Seven years ago we all went through the flames; and the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured. Jonathan Harker

art zine & prints | digital version

[lasarusbird]

Van Helsing: It's a good thing we left Madam Mina alone and in total ignorance to keep that pretty mind of hers safe from the horrors, these rats we just faced would have given her nightmares for sure because she is a woman, she's instead right now calm and peacefully resting at the asylum

Mina at the asylum:

[thebibi]

They should make a Van Helsing Barbie since she can be a professor, a meta physician, a philosopher, AND a lawyer

[treespen]

I was undressing in my own room, when, with a premonitory tap at the door, he entered, and at once began to speak:—

Van Helsing, barging in: "Friend John we must -stop screaming it's me- we must behead Miss Lucy"

[see-arcane]

In which the Harkers take advantage of the lull between diary entries.