#rip mr. swales

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Mr. Swales, July 24: Don't you worry, young miss, there's nothing spooky here in Whitby these days.

Dracula, August 10: There is now.

[yallemagne]

Dracula Callout Post

I could put away my anger towards you for ceasing to be a GILF, it's none of my business and I wouldn't have fucked you anyways.

BUT YOU CAN'T GO AROUND KILLING THE REST OF THEM YOU BASTARD!!! YOU BITHC! MR. SWALES HAD A GRANDDAUGHTER!! THAT MAKES HIM TEN TIMES THE GILF YOU EVER WERE!!

[see-arcane]

Mina, stranglehold on her composure, about to snap her pen in half: Okay! Okay. So, we got a portentous omen of death in the ghost ship with the ghastly sea captain corpse tied to his ship with a bottled account of an inhuman murderer arriving with a hellish storm. Followed by the unceremonious Terror Death of my newest old man friend right in the place where Lucy and I sit. Followed by a man kicking his dog in front of us and sending some kind of empathic horror-signal to Lucy. Followed by my daily and increasingly intense bout of Worry for Jonathan who continues to be missing in another country. Which country? I don't know! Still! Sure hope he's not part of the Hot Slaughter Summer queue, ha ha! At least Lucy is doing better with the health and the sleepwalking and whatnot! :) Let's hold onto that one single mote of good news! :)) Surely we can wring a microdrop of positivity out of that! :)))

Dracula, in his beachside rental suicide grave: :3c

[draculasweedsmokinggirlfriend]

New Tally Idea for Dracula Daily

Drac kills by bites vs Drac kills by frights

[akasanata]

The girls in the cemetery is such a nice visual

RIP Mr Swales

Poor girls

The scared dog and the cows were not included.

Someone please draw the girls being chased by cows 🙏

[antidiluvianobservatory]

Mr Swales had to be killed off quick because he's far too genre savvy and would have resolved the plot too quickly.

Alternatively, Dracula could not understand the old man and killed him out of frustration.

[hotvintagepoll]

this is a poll for a movie that doesn't exist.

It is vintage times. The powers that be have decided to again remake the classic vampire novel Dracula for the screen. in an amazing show of inter-studio solidarity, Hollywood’s most elite hotties are up for the starring roles. the producers know whoever they cast will greatly impact the genre, quality, and tone of the finished film, so they are turning to their wisest voices for guidance.

you are the new casting director for this star-studded epic. choose your players wisely.

Previously cast:

Jonathan Harker—Jimmy Stewart

The Old Woman—Martita Hunt

Count Dracula—Gloria Holden

Mina Murray—Setsuko Hara

Lucy Westenra—Judy Garland

The Three Voluptuous Women—Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and Lauren Bacall

The Agonized Mother—Mary Philbin (rip)

Dr. Jack Seward—Vincent Price

Quincey P. Morris—Toshiro Mifune

Arthur Holmwood—Sidney Poitier

R.M. Renfield—Conrad Veidt

The Captain of the Demeter—Omar Sharif (rip)

The First Mate of the Demeter—Leonard Nimoy (rip)

Mr. Swales—Ed Wynn (rip)

The Correspondent for The Daily Graph—Ethel Waters

Dracula in dog form—Frank Oz with a puppet

Sister Agatha—Angela Lansbury

Mrs. Westenra—Gladys Cooper

Dracula's solicitors—Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee

Van Helsing is described at length in the novel. He is Dr. Seward's old mentor, possessing "an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, an indomitable resolution, self-command, [....] and the kindliest and truest heart that beats." According to Mina, he is "a man of medium height, strongly built, with his shoulders set back over a broad, deep chest and a neck well balanced on the trunk as the head is on the neck. The poise of the head strikes me at once as indicative of thought and power. The head is noble, well-sized, broad, and large behind the ears. The face, clean-shaven, shows a hard, square chin, a large resolute, mobile mouth, a good-sized nose, rather straight, but with quick, sensitive nostrils, that seem to broaden as the big bushy brows come down and the mouth tightens. The forehead is broad and fine, rising at first almost straight and then sloping back above two bumps or ridges wide apart, such a forehead that the reddish hair cannot possibly tumble over it, but falls naturally back and to the sides. Big, dark blue eyes are set widely apart and are quick and tender or stern with the man's moods." Van Helsing tends to talk through funny stories and bizarre metaphors, is one of the first to consider the supernatural in Lucy's illness, and comes from Amsterdam.

[yallemagne]

Mr. Swales: "Oi, bastard! What happened to yer head?"

Dracula: "What did you just say to me, plebian?"

Mr. Swales: "What're ye? Deaf? What happened to yer forehead? Anger the missus?"

Dracula: *feels forehead, finally notices shovel scar* >:0

Mr. Swales: >:D

"There is an additional cause in that poor old Mr. Swales was found dead this morning on our seat, his neck being broken."

I fucking hate it here.

Not only it is horrible to lose Mr. Swales so suddenly; just after Dracula specifically came to Whitby, but also read how he didn't get the peaceful death that he yearned so much to have.

He was found with his neck broken! On top of that, he died scared and alone.

I don't want to link every death to Dracula's arrival, but this really feels like his doing. Moreso since Mr. Swales was the kind of old man that does take the things he talks about seriously.

RIP to Mr. Swales, whatever you said to Dracula was probably spectacular and accurate.

[fandomaddictwut]

RIP Mr. Swales I never understood a single thing you said

[thedupshadove]

RIP Mr. Swales, Stoker knew the readers wouldn't be able to handle you and Van Helsing on-page at the same time.

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Mr. Swales, politely asking Dracula not to kill him: ...Narblins?

[serial-serializednovelreader]

Nova’s Thoughts - Dracula Daily - August 10

In which Mina is once again…upset…

Man, that seat Mina found just comes in handy! They’re able to see the captain’s funeral, enjoy the sights and…oh, MR. SWALES DIED ON THAT SEAT THE SAME MORNING?!?! In a mysterious way with his neck broken and a face frozen in fear?! I don’t know about y’all, but I would not sit in that seat if I found out a man died there the same day. Just me? Just me. Pretty gothic of them to do so, I will give them that.

RIP Mr. Swales, you were a real one and oddly introspective towards the end there 🫡…I wonder if you saw a big dog before your death? Maybe one that turned into a man…? Just wondering.

Pro tip: if your dog is acting strangely, LISTEN TO IT. They have sixth senses and usually can tell if there’s a vampire coming your way (which isn’t at all relevant to this story I’m sure /s)

There is something really strange about that seat to make the dog scared like that. Poor puppy :( (yes I’m one of those that will consider a 14 year old dog a “puppy”). I’m glad Mina tried to comfort it.

I also feel for Lucy…I’ve also been described as “hypersensitive” before. :/ deep empathy can be great, but can also be difficult to live with at times.

Love that Mina’s like “yes I’ll try making her walk a lot to tire her out so she won’t sleepwalk. That’ll work :)” Mina is TIRED I can tell 😭😭

As evidenced by her next line at 11 p.m. “Oh, but I am tired!”

C O W S :)

Mina may not believe in the New Woman but I believe in her. <3

Speaking of, very right about the proposal thing. And she thinks we’ll do a good job of it too 🥹 (could I be interpreting that wrong? Sure. But hey, I’ll take it)

Wow she can’t even complete her worries about Jonathan now…she’s really bad off I think. I feel like it parallels how towards the end of Jonathan’s stay in castle Dracula, he would end off every entry with mentioning Mina. Just…them <3333

[annabelle--cane]

rip mr swales and mrs westenra and mr hawkins. these senior citizens are dropping like flies. I'm sure lord godalming will be fine though.

[silver-soul-girl]

man i cannot believe mr swales died like that 💀 dracula definitely was a part of it. rip legend

[greenbeanmakes]

Here we have Mr. Swales about to give life advice that no one asked for. RIP

[gardenofshadcws]

Dracula Daily Day 40

Mina Murray’s Journal

RIP Sea Captain, you shall be missed

And Lucy continues to get worse and worse my BABY

RIP Mr Swales too. Well, he wasn’t wrong that he wasn’t long for this world

DON’T KICK THE DOG WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU D:

This poor pupper, he’s just trying to tell you something and you’er throwing him around.

And now we’re back to the happy shiny “nothing’s wrong, you’re jumping at nothing!”

The way Mina describes Lucy sleeping is so sweet. We love the queens

Lucy’s better! Everyhing’s fine!