#may 11th

[lady-dulcinea]

Mina & Lucy play keep away with Jonathan's letter from Transylvania

from the Northern Ballet's production of David Nixon's Dracula Abigail Prudames as Mina Murray Antoinette Brooks-Daw as Lucy Westenra

[kindlythevoid]

May 11th, Letter from Miss Lucy Westenra to Miss Mina Murray

Dracula by Bram Stoker // @fairycosmos // Pinterest // Us Against You by Fredrik Backman // Daniel F. Gerhartz // To My School Friends by Nivya // Old Friends by Ben Rector // Pinterest // Dracula by Bram Stoker // butterflies rising // Passion by Francisco Soria Aedo // Strawberry Blond by Mitski // Paul and Virginia by Alessandro Puttinati // Pinterest // Dracula by Bram Stoker

Jonathan Harker's Insta Begins Here, Mina's Interlude (prev), Next Insta Post

[myfanfictiongarden]

Mina, I must stop. Good-night. Bless me in your prayers; and, Mina, pray for my happiness.

[memento-morieris-carpe-noctem]

May 11th

[aotearoa20]

Me: okay so i know enough about the story of dracula i shouldnt get attached to lucy westerna

Lucy: Oh, Mina, couldn't you guess? I love him. I am blushing as I write, for although I think he loves me, he has not told me so in words. But oh, Mina, I love him; I love him; I love him!

Me: giggling a school girl at a sleepover

Me:

Me: well shit

[theriverpointace]

awwwww

standout quote: “He is a doctor and really clever. Just fancy! He is only nine-and-twenty, and he has an immense lunatic asylum all under his own care.” [jack seward mention! i love thinking about him so i'm excited haha]

quote to draw: “But oh, Mina, I love him; I love him; I love him!” [isn't she adorable omg!! also i'm not one for romance or sappy gushy lovey stuff but i cannot deny how freaking sweet it is that they're so in love. mina and jonathan, lucy and arthur. i love them!!]

[greypistacchio]

and tell us lucy, is seward's chill in this room with us right now?

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Bathory - Of Doom

[serial-serializednovelreader]

Nova’s Notes - DD - May 9 & 11

I’m combining both of these entries into one since I have similar thoughts about both!

First off, yay we get our first time meeting Mina and Lucy!!!!!!!! And may I just say it’s great to see these girls being besties and chatting? You can tell just by the way they write that they have known each other a long time. Bram actually did a good job writing these women talking to each other. It feels natural and organic. Finally a “men writing women” moment where I don’t want to gag. I will still never get over the adaptations pitting these two lovely ladies against each other!! Why do we still feel the need to make them “compete.” Ugh :(

Mina’s Letter - I love how she starts right away with “forgive me for not writing you.” She already KNOWS Lucy is going to get on her for that, lol. Also her gushing about Jonathan is adorable and I love how she talks about writing to him in code. Those two nerds, they’re going to end me with their cuteness. Also, studying lady journalists to help with your journalism? What a queen doing that research. As she should! Again, it’s the bare minimum, but Stoker really did a good job with this one I must say. Seeing her be hopeful about Jonathan’s trip to Transylvania and the subsequent promise of seeing places like that together is a bit sobering. :( that is, until we reach her PS!

“You have not told me anything for a long time.” This line makes me want to laugh for some reason and I’m not quite sure why? Maybe it’s because I can hear a slightly scolding tone when she says it, or maybe because I can totally see me telling one of my friends this, especially to goad them into telling me the tea. Either way, it’s great.

“I hear rumours, and especially of a tall, handsome, curly-haired man???”

I’m convinced Stoker read my texts or something because LOL that’s literally how I type! The idea of her writing “???” is adorable and I love it so much. Also by “rumors” does she mean Lucy’s mom? I’m pretty sure she means Lucy’s mom. I think it’s funny the first really descriptive thing we really hear of Arthur is his curly hair!

We can get a good glimpse of Mina’s personality just by this letter. We can already tell she’s genuinely excited to be married to Jonathan and help with his work. She is also very methodical, as she is thinking of several different ways she can practice her stenography and shorthand to help assist him. Like Jonathan, she does her research by reading up on how women in similar fields conduct their craft. She is obviously hopeful and in love with him, as she dreams of seeing new places with him after they are married.

However, she does not neglect Lucy in her missive! While her letter is mostly about Jonathan (which I assume is likely due to to Lucy asking after him and most engaged people do tend to talk about their fiancé — just look at Jonathan), she does take time at the beginning and ending of the letter to a) assure Lucy she misses her and b) tell her the latest news ASAP!! This shows that she deeply cares about her friend, even with her impending nuptials.

Lucy’s Letter - “I must say you tax me very unfairly with being a bad correspondent. I wrote to you twice since we parted, and your last letter was only your second.”

Yep, sure enough, Lucy gets on Mina for not writing to both of her letters (I do wonder if Mina answered everything that was in both letters…). Of course, it’s in a good-natured way and it gives me the same vibes as Rarity from MLP:FIM fainting into a couch or something and I am HERE FOR IT (for those who don’t watch the show, I genuinely mean this as a compliment. I love Rarity -- also I could probably make a whole post about Dracula characters as MLP characters, hmm…).

“Besides, I have nothing to tell you. There is really nothing to interest you.”

*Proceeds to list the hottest gossip* I love this girl so much. She has my whole heart.

“Some one has evidently been telling tales.”

Yep, definitely Lucy’s mom! I would love to see the letters between Mina and Lucy’s mom tbh.

Also when talking about Arthur, it’s so adorable because you can tell at first she only tries to sprinkle in a little bit about him, like “oh he’s just someone I met” and then it quickly morphs into “we met this guy who would be great for you” (Seward mention!!!! Can’t wait to meet everyone’s favorite pathetic wet cat /pos) to “I’m already picking up his slang and using his first name and did I mention IM IN LOVE WITH HIM????”

You can already learn so much about Lucy from this first letter. She’s sweet and caring to the people around her, lively about everything and a bit unsure about love (since she doesn’t quite know if Arthur loves her back). I looked up her age (idk if that counts as spoilers but I’ll tag this as such just in case) and she’s 19!!! This is exactly the kind of letter I would expect a 19-year-old to write to her best friend. I just love how excited she sounds, as she should!!! She’s a young girl in love, perhaps for the first time, and wants her best friend to know. I do love how she tells Mina “write back to me IMMEDIATELY with your thoughts.” Same, Lucy, same.

Back to Seward. It’s so funny to me that he wants to make a psychological study of her while staring straight into her soul and she seems to be chill with it!! Like she still loves Arthur, but she’s also not put off by Jack, either. He’s just got that neurodivergent urge to study her under a microscope and honestly, who can blame him? I can also see why Lucy would ship Seward and Mina together; obviously, I’m a diehard Jonmina shipper (and I’m pretty sure Lucy is too, she just likes chaos), but I feel like Mina and Seward would totally bond over train schedules and other nerd stuff.

So, to sum it up, I love both of these girls and their friendship so much and I can’t wait to see more of them!!! Eeeee

[taylorz-nicholasg]

Perfection! 👌🏾

[planetbeanie]

Todays beanie of the day is Lizzy the Lizard (blue)

Birthday: 5/11/95 • Average sale price: $7

[sspellmen]

I want an invite here. There’s a hottie every week.

[baldrysbaddies]

Hey Mr. Baldry

[thinkrp]

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[therainbowwillow]

Dracula Daily May 11th Thoughts:

Spoiler warning! Proceed with caution!

-Who is gossiping about Lucy? I don’t think this is ever answered, actually.

-Mina dodged a bullet getting engaged to Jonathan rather than Lucy’s suggestion, Jack Seward. That would’ve been a wild ride.

-“I think he is one of the most resolute men I ever saw, and yet the most calm. He seems absolutely imperturbable.” Are we talking about the same person???

-Jack Seward intensely stares at people to read their emotions. Nice.

-Lucy canonically makes faces in front of the mirror.

-“He says that I afford him a curious psychological study…” holy shit, Seward is a terrible flirt.

-Lucy is so cute!!! She loves himmm! Go, Art! :D

-“I wish I were with you, dear, sitting by the fire undressing…” She can love him AND her.

-“…and, Mina, pray for my happiness.” oh ouch. That’s gonna become sad real fast.

-Lucy’s sign-off is “L”! This is adorable (we don’t want any secrets getting out, do we!) but also our last single-letter sign-off was Dracula’s “D” so that’s a little ominous.

[notnowricky]

Happy one month anniversary to May 11th 2024 aka videogate day* and the reactions from the fandom.

People were upset but understanding, sad but supportive.

Me? Not supportive. Not understanding.

I was standing in the cleaning supplies aisle of my local drugstore scream-whispering to my bestie about his hair.

Fans hypothesized that Red Light marked a new era for him and maybe he didn’t identify with his older mv anymore. Maybe in the course of reinventing himself he needed to shed his past and we had to accept that.

Well, I’m here to tell you that I was not that girl. I was this girl ⬇️

Don’t take the stuff I love!! Please, I can’t take it.

My outburst also prompted one of the most hilarious text messages I have ever received.

I’m so glad that after all these years I can still surprise my bestie. It’s priceless.

And thanks for giving ’em back Omar. Don’t ever do that again.

💖

*In case you don’t know, several of Omar’s older music videos suddenly disappeared from his YouTube channel that day: Dum Acoustic Version, La mesa, Om om och om igen, På min telephone toda la noche, Jag e nån annan, Todo de ti… The fandom was flustered.