re-dracula · 2 days ago
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Be diligent and check your child's candy this year, just found COUNT DRACULA shoved inside a Twix bar. No words.
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akasanata · 1 day ago
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Happy Mina gets a gun day!
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see-arcane · 3 days ago
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[Dracula] is sure with his so great knowledge that she will come at his call; but he cut her off—take her, as he can do, out of his own power, that so she come not to him.
Dracula Oct 3: "You have aided in thwarting me; now you shall come to my call. When my brain says “Come!” to you, you shall cross land or sea to do my bidding; and to that end this!"
Dracula now: "... I said when my brain says “Come!”
I haven't “Come!” yet! You're not supposed to know where I've been going and certainly not to bring the mafia with you hey HEY"
Mina and her pack of Victorian knights and her husband the knife cryptid sprinting after him at top speed: "I believe in punctuality~"
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treespen · 19 hours ago
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There are several novels in which Mina and Dracula having a psychic link is just an avenue for them to have sexy secret affairs on the astral plane when it would have really been like this
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by @/crawfishcomic
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vampiremirror · 21 hours ago
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My Halloween Costume and also the other role i will be playing in our small dracula production; one of Draculas brides! I made close to everything in this costume myself, even the corset and the moths are made by me. It took some tweaking, but I'm actaully able to see onstage even with the moths near my eyes, and just love the effect they create.
If you happen to be near Witten WERK°STADT on the 1-2.02.25 or Oberhausen Lito-Palast on 22+23.03.25, you can catch our performance.
Tickets are available under www.blackstage.info
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hattiecursedsigh · 1 day ago
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Howdy! Here is the Google Form to take part in the Dracula Secret Santa 2024! Please fill this in to let me know you will be joining in the fun. You will need an email to send the form through. Thank you everyone who has reblogged and said they are interested! :D
If you haven't read the original post, I recommend you do that before filling in the form. I will be posting a FAQ soon.
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ibrithir-was-here · 2 days ago
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Anyone know any good beginning animatic programs? I have a Mighty Need to make a Dracula animatic to "Hell's Coming With Me" cuz ahhhhh what a Jonathan vs Dracula song!!
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vickyvicarious · 2 days ago
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I think I may have found a Van Helsing-Mina dynamic pattern. Mina piping in to show that she knows something that Van Helsing just asked but wasn't expecting her to know.
First, it was when they first met and Van Helsing doubts her having "good memory for facts, for details?" as it's "not always so with young ladies", and then Mina going "I'll do you one better" and then trolling him a little with a sleigh of shorthand. Van Helsing praises her.
Now Van Helsing says
"To begin, have you ever study the philosophy of crime? ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’ You, John, yes; for it is a study of insanity. You, no, Madam Mina;"
Then Mina doesn't say "actually, I have", she instantly proves his assumption wrong. She begins dropping Latin as much as he just did, and cites two contemporary sources on the philosophy of crime (though it's all now debunked pseudoscience) to back up her assessment on Dracula's mind.
I wish I could think of a way to maintain this banter in an adaptation but without a different subject matter, like the study 15th century history instead of criminology.
Anyway, Van Helsing ends up praising her again.
On a slightly different vein, another Van Helsing-Surprise Mina dialogue, followed by his praise:
“When does the next train start for Galatz?” said Van Helsing to us generally . “At 6:30 to-morrow morning!” We all started, for the answer came from Mrs. Harker. (...) "Wonderful woman," Van Helsing murmured.
I don't know if it's a teacher/student dynamic or teacher/young teacher...
Yes, it's so fun! I especially like the way she doesn't get all offended and interrupt to tell him "actually, I-" each time. It's a very characteristic detail. But just as important is the way she doesn't just meekly let his assumptions stand. Instead, she simply demonstrates her knowledge to him, proving that he really shouldn't make underestimate her. And he's astonished and impressed every time because he keeps doing it anyway and it's always fun to watch happen.
It's definitely a recurring detail. The shorthand diary, to an extent also Jonathan's diary, when she anticipated the need to not tell her things after she'd been bitten, when she surprises him with the news that she needs to come along with them, knowing the train schedule (though that was less focused on her from his part), the criminology discussion...
Not every single time I mention is as clearly expressed in dialogue with the exact pattern you pointed out, but in general we keep seeing him thinking she wouldn't know something or needs to be protected from something, only to then find out she's already thinking the same thing if not well ahead of him.
It feels like Van Helsing keeps defaulting to teacher/student or even father/daughter (in a paternalistic benevolent sexism way). But Mina just keeps quietly proving that no, actually they're equals. I guess that could lean towards teacher/young teacher (which actually, they literally were to an extent - Van Helsing was Seward's professor back in the day and before her marriage Mina was an assistant teacher) though it doesn't feel quite analogous to me for reasons I can't put into words.
As for the pseudoscience... I do think the best way to get around it would be to discuss more generally history or battle tactics. Focusing even more on Dracula's past and personality, and Van Helsing's own expectation of what kind of education a man would have had (he has to expect Jack to know it, after all, unless that is changed too) versus a woman. Unfortunately that loses the association of modernity, but I'm not sure what a better option would be to still get across the idea there while maintaining the direction of the conversation.
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is-dracula-daily-today · 11 hours ago
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October 31st
There will be a Dracula Daily update today!
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re-dracula · 2 days ago
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Get your "I went to Castle Dracula and all I got was deeply traumatized" mug here!
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evydraws · 19 hours ago
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the team assembled!
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see-arcane · 1 day ago
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When I had done reading, Jonathan took me in his arms and kissed me.
Mina, tired out of her wits, dark circles, scar burning, pale, gathering maps and red strings and 956 papers: "[hacker voice] I'm in"
Jonathan, springing out of the sofa he had Collapsed on: *dip kiss her in front of everybody*
As is right.
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treespen · 2 days ago
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Noticing a pattern with Jack Seward.
He observes Jonathan's hands a lot
"whilst [Jonathan's] face of white set passion worked convulsively over [Mina's] bowed head, the hands tenderly and lovingly stroked the ruffled hair."
"his hands are cold as ice, and an hour ago I found him whetting the edge of the great Ghoorka knife"
"It will be a bad lookout for the Count if the edge of that “Kukri” ever touches his throat, driven by that stern, ice-cold hand!"
"but at the same time his action belied his words, for his hands instinctively sought the hilt of the great Kukri knife and rested there."
"Quincey raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at her intently, whilst Harker's hand instinctively closed round the hilt of his Kukri."
Once with how tenderly he's stroking Mina's hair, the rest with how much he's sharpening/touching his knife with his icy hand.
Alternatively, Jonathan speaks with his hands a lot when he's silent. And they are either around his wife or around the hilt of his knife.
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isablooo · 1 day ago
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Dracula's Guest doodles ⁺. ⋆˙✧⋆
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immediatebreakfast · 2 days ago
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Suddenly she sat up, and, as she opened her eyes, said sweetly:— "Would none of you like a cup of tea? You must all be so tired!" We could only make her happy, and so acquiesced. 
This is one of the creepiest moments in the whole story for me, up there with Lucy and Mina finding about Mr. Swales' death, and Jonathan realizing that he is effectively trapped in castle Dracula.
It implies everything that could go wrong in their travel, or worse what had already went wrong without anyone having actual power to stop it. Is it Mina despeartely trying to retain any sense of normalcy after such horrifying experience? Or... Is it Dracula who struck a moment of luck to plant terror inside the minds of our crew?
The ambiguous nature of the dialogue, and the fake cheerful tone of it is a grim reminder of the liminal feel of this travel. The same liminal ambiance that Dracula was so atuned with in Transylvania to the point of him making reality look like a dream. Moreover, I would dare to speculate that this is the purpose of such ambiguous yet chilling sequence of events to see a small glimpse of the reactions of the men if the dreaded possibilty of Mina turning into a vampire was fulfilled.
Van Helsing and I looked at each other with understanding. Quincey raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at her intently, whilst Harker's hand instinctively closed round the hilt of his Kukri.
It is not only the words, but how Mina copied the movements of rising from a coffin just at the moment of sunset, and leaving after giving a new report after days of repeating the same words over, and over without avail.
I do wonder, if this moment left such fearful impression on the crew, it would not be an exaggerating thing to claim that Mina must feel like hell is breathing just behind her neck.
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lauralot89 · 2 days ago
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Quincey raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at her intently, whilst Harker's hand instinctively closed round the hilt of his Kukri.
Jonathan is just so ready to kill all of these people at the slightest provocation
love that about him
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