#him and jonathan harker

[whatevertheywant]

On a scale of 1-10,how much do u love your partner?

Me:

[offonaherosjourney]

Why did no one tell me that Dracula was a fucking COMEDY.

The book opens up with Jonathan experiencing a paprika overload. Dracula pretends to be the coachman and drives Jonathan around in circles until he decides he's established enough of a dramatic atmosphere. By day three in the castle Jonathan has picked up that there are no servants and Dracula is secretly doing all the chores, including driving him there. The first time Jonathan tries to shave, the count barges into the room, yeets his mirror out the window, refuses to elaborate and leaves. Jonathan also notices that he is a prisoner in the castle but doesn't dare to bring it up, which... is a mood, but also hilarious. A week into his stay he sees his employer/kidnapper crawling facedown out a wall

[mothmore]

something i am utterly obsessed with is the physical copy of dracula that i recently purchased that has , as part of its foreword , some of the original idea notes that bram stoker had about what dracula’s vampiric powers/traits would be.

one of these is that dracula’s likeness cannot be captured in a painting , he always looks like someone else.

which only leads me to imagine a scenario in which the count lines many of his castle hallways with paintings of himself throughout the centuries but none of them look the same and none of them look like him but jonathan can’t help but notice they all somehow look eerily similar.

he brushes it off , assuming they are simply counts of generations past.

[thatsprettylane]

The real reason we need a book accurate Dracula movie is so Mina can sweep everything off a table and lay out a map and her journal and explain how she knows Dracula is on the river on October 30th.

[cjbee]

Welcome back Jonathan Harker to the 2024 season with the Horrors.

Also here is the Chicken Paprikash version:

[queeniegalore]

“I sat down and simply cried.”

This is one of the saddest and most hopeless lines in this entire book, but I love that Jonathan is ALLOWED to do this, I love the subversive nature of one of the male leads being allowed to show this kind of weakness, and I love that it doesn’t diminish his character or make the audience adore him less. Oh, Jonathan 💔

[kayrma]

thinking about how dracula has never been accurately adapted into a film and thinking about how dev patel would play the hell out of jonathan harker

[high-in-the-tower]

It actually meant so much to me to see the original Mina/Jonathan dynamic honoured in Nosferatu (2024). The way they loved each other so much, did everything for the other, clung to each other in the face of the Count's individual assaults upon them...I'm so used to seeing adaptations take this actually really great couple and tossing them into a blender for the sake of propping up the Count's character and his *not book accurate* relationship with Mina. I was so worried going into this movie I'd been hyping up since the beginning that it would fall into the same trap, and it soothed my fears immediately. The only straight couple ever in my eyes <3

[drac-kool-aid]

Why did Dracula come into Jonathan's room?

Funny answer: Dracula is, as we have established, a bit of a comedian. He was just doing a slap-stick routine.

Scary answer: He is pushing more boundaries and seeing what he can get away with. Jonathan didn't even raise the issue of him entering his room without his permission.

Really Scary Answer: Jonathan admits he only slept a few hours before he got up to shave. Dracula might have entered the room expecting Jonathan to still be sleeping.

[see-arcane]

Dracula: Okay, the doors are locked. The windows facing anything other than the sheer drop of a cliff face are barred. There’s no possible way my good cat friend Jonathan Harker will ever get out. Excellent. Now to take a well-earned corpse nap.

-One Dawn Later-

Jonathan, after scaling a vertical castle wall to sneak into the chapel vault and stare at Dracula in his box: 👁👁

Dracula: ...how the fuck

[brothermouse-skeleton]

Jonathan Harker, having just escaped the most terrifying experience of his life, near death, suffering a brain fever, and recovering in the Hospital of St Joseph and Ste Mary: Have I told you about my fiance, Mina? She's the best.

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker in Bram Stokers Dracula

[draculasweedsmokinggirlfriend]

If Johnathan can be brave enough to scale the castle walls and challenge The Count then I can send this fucking email

[harbingerofsoup]

many tumblr blorbos have risen and fell, but only jonathan harker has the title of our good friend

[ibenology]

I can’t get enough of Jonathan’s complete turnarounds when writing

“I am sure I am going to die here…. Oh! my coach!:)”

“It is a grim and horrific adventure I have embarked upon, surely this is not normal for men such as myself. By the way! I’m a real lawyer now! yayyyy:D”

[almondcroissantsandink]

i've been hearing some very disconcerting things from my friend jonathan. that is, when i hear from him.