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[blackmagie]

I posted 1,554 times in 2022

That's 1,554 more posts than 2021!

10 posts created (1%)

1,544 posts reblogged (99%)

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I tagged 1,197 of my posts in 2022

Only 23% of my posts had no tags

#dracula daily - 625 posts

#spy x family - 78 posts

#mdzs - 71 posts

#animals - 64 posts

#eeaao - 32 posts

#fashion - 16 posts

#l o l - 15 posts

#one piece - 14 posts

#pokemon - 13 posts

#sailor moon - 12 posts

Longest Tag: 119 characters

#it'll definitely slow down in june & july when we have those big gaps between updates but i think we can keep it going!

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I've read Dracula numerous times throughout my life but I love reading it in this way so far. It's a neat & fresh way to consume the story. It's especially cool to be reading it with half of tumblr, many of whom are apparently reading the story for the first time!

10 notes - Posted May 5, 2022

#4

Mina, my love, it's so good to hear from you.

15 notes - Posted May 9, 2022

#3

Nature is healing

23 notes - Posted June 30, 2022

#2

I totally forgot Lucy wanted to fix Mina up with John Seward lol. Mess.

26 notes - Posted May 11, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

So basically Jonathan is a recipe blogger and Mina is a planner girl on instagram.

213 notes - Posted May 9, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

[almondcroissantsandink]

going absolutely insane because this is one of my favorite quotes from the book

[cjbee]

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

Also here is the Chicken Paprikash version:

[quinceys-levis]

[itsmeimcathy]

Rare footage of dracula trying to make his good friend jonathan's stay at the castle as normal as possible:

[idanit]

solidarity

[moonsun2010]

30 June - Shovel day :)

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

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[codeearth]

Once more have I seen the Count go out in his lizard fashion.

-Jonathan Harker, May 15th

After finally catching up with the entries (of which there were several), you get my dumb little bad sketches! Huzzah!

[drac-kool-aid]

Y'know, something that gets me, is that in the book, Dracula's intentional predation of Lucy starts off with an accidental meeting. Sure, Lucy slept walked, and an argument could be made her path might have been supernaturally influenced, but I say she'd already been a known sleep-walker, and she went directly to a place she was familiar with.

Her stumbling onto Dracula's hiding spot in a very vulnerable state was just an accident, and from there, he intentionally set out to harm her, and through that, everyone around her he could get.

This is sort of related to Jonathan, too. Had Mr. Hawkins not come down with a bad case of gout, Jonathan wouldn't have been sent to Castle Dracula in his stead. Sure, Dracula probably would have had his fun with Hawkins before inevitably killing him, but I doubt he would have drawn it out so long or taken so much delight.

Dracula never sets out with a master-plan to attack Lucy or Jonathan. They just end up in his path and spark his interest. We know that if he isn't interested in you, he'll kill you. He'll, he breaks Mr. Swales neck doesn't even bite him. But the two victims he decides he's going to make suffer the longest he possibly can, he just stumbles upon and goes "oh this will be fun". Later, we see him start choosing victims as a way to retaliate, but for the two inciting incident victims upon which the rest of the story hangs...its just wrong place wrong time.

The reason this struck me is that I was misremembering. For some reason, which I now believe due to thinking about the *through gritted teeth* Coppola film, is that Lucy is sort of hand-picked by Dracula to be his victim. And yeah, the fucking film ain't subtle in its blaming of Lucy's victimization on the fact that she was Too Pretty and Too Flirtatious and Dracula psychically drew her into the garden in a flowing diaphanous dress, but it's really her fault....I hate this movie.

Like, i just read the films Wikipedia plot synopsis, Dracula "psychically seduces" Lucy before biting her. He chooses her out of everyone in England deliberately.

And just...no. That's not what happens. Lucy got so stressed from her wedding that her latent sleep walking started again. Mina gets so tired from the constant stress she falls asleep without meaning to. Lucy went to their favorite spot...Dracula just happened to be there and took advantage and both Lucy and Mina weren't floating along softly into a garden with a fan letting their hair blow, but cold, scared, and covered in mud and blood, and forced to sneak back to the house that way, facing not only the supernatural but the very ordinary horrors of being caught outside at night by a strange man.

Idk. The tragedy is that Dracula didn't set out to fuck with these people. It's just that they were the ones who crossed his path that he took an interest in, and he decided to draw it out as long as possible.

(Oh fuck, this is the crew of the Demeter too. It isn't like Draculas got some big plan. He just decides he's going to play with his food. Had he boarded any other ship it would have ended up the same way.)

I guess in conclusion, I find it odd that adaptions seem to need to find a reason for him doing what he does. Like, Coppola has to conjure up a whole reincarnation backstory at one point, but I don't understand why!! Let Dracula just be an opportunist, his casual cruelty knowing no reason. That makes him scarier.

[chai-en-kaadhale]

*reads dracula* haha i bet tumblr would be so funny about this (words of someone who forgot about dracula daily)

[gryffindraws]

Lucy and Mina, 1887.

[caramelldraws]

A girl dreaming of marriage and children

Aaand one year later: I added some colors!

[jupiterlandings]

“It's a love song,

It's a tale of a love from long again.

It's a sad song;

We keep singing even so”

Dracula Aesthetics:

Lucy Westenra, Cataclysm/Justice

[bluecatwriter]

I'd been wanting to draw this for ages, and finally got around to it today.

[ID in Alt]

[itsmeimcathy]

Love that tumblr just decided to reread dracula this year as if it were a transmigration novel where poor jonathan harker finds himself thrown back in time and has to live through everything again </3 will he have a better time this time around or is he doomed by fate to repeat the same mistakes???

jonathan, waking up alone on a train to bistritz instead of being somewhere sunny with mina: