#van helsing moment

[anony-geist]

Melville himself apparently thought of Moby-Dick as a man's book and wrote to one of his female friends, Sara Moorehead, to dissuade her from reading it for fear of offending her feminine sensibilities: "Dont you buy it—dont even read it, when it does come out, because it is by no means the sort of book for you. It is not a piece of fine, feminine, Spitalfield silk—but is of the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ship's cables and hausers.[2]" When Sophia Hawthorne wrote to Melville praising the book, his response was one of astonishment: "I have hunted up the finest Bath I could find, gilt-edged and stamped, whereon to inscribe my humble acknowledgment of your highly flattering letter of the 29th of Dec:—It really amazed me that you should find any satisfaction in that book. It is true that some men have said they were pleased with it but you are the only woman—for as a general thing, women have small taste for the sea.[3]" "Next time," Melville tells Sophia, he shall not send her a "bowl of salt water. . . . The next chalice I shall commend, will be a rural bowl of milk." He then inquires politely about the state of her "domestic affairs."[4] Melville's remarks to these women suggest that he was working under certain gender-determined notions of genre.

Content warning: This book contains the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ship's cables and hausers.

I don't think it's just something period-typical because it implies it now isn't, gender-determined notions of genre are still a thing around the world.

I do feel that in Moorehead's place, I'd have gone WELL NOW I'M GONNA. It's funny to me that in general the boys in my American Literature class would comment things like how it's mostly boring or about how this is about the national identity of a young country, meanwhile girls would pipe in about multiple facets.

Amerilit girlies: I have so much to say about Moby Dick!

Herman: absolutely flabbergasted

[noisyghost]

sketches of ark's werewolf form except based on the designs of some other funny dogs i like

[vickyvicarious]

I love Van Helsing's breakdown so much. It's a great description of that kind of feeling. The helplessness, the questioning why everything is arrayed against you, why every time you think you've made progress it just keeps getting taken away. The furious determination to keep fighting anyway. I love the dry sobs, the raised arms.

I also love the way he barely restrains himself just before, smiling Mrs. Westenra away. How he trusts Jack so much that he is completely open about this in front of him. And how he gets right back to it after.

[astrangergivingthestrangewelcome]

It kind of got past me what this moment must have been the first time for VH like imagine going to Mina's like "well I don't know if this will pan out but I don't have any leads and I have no idea how Lucy would have contracted a vampire anyway" and this random woman you just met is like "here is a primary source detailing exactly when and how Lucy contracted a vampire. Oh also idk if it's of interest but if you wanted I have another primary source detailing exactly when and how the vampire came over to England." Like the research success afterglow from that must have lasted several years.

[great-preacher]

[myflowershere]

Goddamn Mr. Jackedman, I can’t believe almost 5 weeks and you just woke up like 10+ years past memories, hacked my mind and fucked my soul. I should cry you a river man.

I swear I am not the same girl anymore.

[stormofstarlight]

The thing that still gets me even 10 years after Young Dracula finished airing is that it was pretty well-established that vampires couldn't use their powers on people they were in love with, and that was. Pretty much the only exception as far as I can recall. Then Vlad wasn't able to mindwipe Jonno because he "cared about him". Like Vladimir that is not the most heterosexual thing u could have done

[papsiguesss]

[shibara]

ok, hear me out What if Van Helsing, but halfway during his first day on the job he realizes how insanely hot the werewolves are, like everyone else did when they saw that movie

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I keep forgetting I have like 2 years worth of art to upload here. Not gonna do it all at once, but I do want to start at some point.

Anyways, have my horny Van Helsing thoughts xD

[mchristelle]

[ifwebefriends]

Dracula Daily/Re: Dracula Highlights! [MAJOR SPOILERS]

May 3rd - The First Day! Our good friend Jonathan Harker starts his journey and has Paprika Hendl!

May 5th - We come face-to-face with the mysterious Count Dracula for the first time.

May 8th - “It is a foul bauble of man's vanity. Away with it!”

May 12th - Dracula moves on the walls like a lizard; Jonathan notices.

May 24th - Lucy Westenra receives three proposals, and we get to meet our favorite cowboy, Quincey P. Morris, as well as Dr. Jack Seward and Arthur Holmwood. Lucy accepts Arthur’s proposal.

June 30th - The last time we hear from our good friend Jonathan for a while. He’s planning a daring escape.

August 4th - The Captain of the ship Demeter makes his final stand.

August 11th - Mina Murray retrieves Lucy from a spooky sleepwalking escapade.

August 12th - We finally learn that Jonathan is still alive!!! He’s sick in a Budapest hospital and is such a good boy to the nurses.

August 24th - Mina Murray and Jonathan Harker get married.

September 2nd - We meet Dr. Abraham Van Helsing for the first time.

September 13th - Mrs. Westenra throws out the garlic flowers, pissing off everyone, including the readers.

September 17th - Dracula attacks the Westenra household, Mrs. Westenra dies.

September 20th - Lucy dies despite the best efforts of Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward.

October 3rd - The MegaEntry. Dracula attacks Mina and she is burned on the forehead. The gang runs into Dracula at his Piccadilly residence and send him running.

November 6th - The Finale. Count Dracula is finally slain once and for all, but not without Quincey P. Morris going to the great beyond as well in the struggle.

November 7th - The Final Day. Seven years after Quincey Morris’ death, Jonathan and Mina have a son, Quincey, named after their late friend. Dr. Seward and Lord Godalming are both happily married. The remaining gang lives happily ever after.

[origami-trust]

dracula, sept 7: "...the husbandman he pull the ear and rub him between his rough hands, and blow away the green chaff, and say to you: 'Look! he's good corn; he will make good crop when the time comes.'" I did not see the application, and told him so. For reply he reached over and took my ear in his hand and pulled it playfully.

Van Helsing setting himself up to make an 'ear' joke for his own amusement? He's metaphoring about pulling a "ear" of corn that will be fruitful given patience, and when John says he doesn't understand yet, he takes the opportunity to pull his ear :3

[vickyvicarious]

When they become such, there comes with the change the curse of immortality; they cannot die, but must go on age after age adding new victims and multiplying the evils of the world; for all that die from the preying of the Un-Dead becomes themselves Un-Dead, and prey on their kind. And so the circle goes on ever widening, like as the ripples from a stone thrown in the water. Friend Arthur, if you had met that kiss which you know of before poor Lucy die; or again, last night when you open your arms to her, you would in time, when you had died, have become nosferatu, as they call it in Eastern Europe, and would all time make more of those Un-Deads that so have fill us with horror. The career of this so unhappy dear lady is but just begun. Those children whose blood she suck are not as yet so much the worse; but if she live on, Un-Dead, more and more they lose their blood and by her power over them they come to her; and so she draw their blood with that so wicked mouth. But if she die in truth, then all cease; the tiny wounds of the throats disappear, and they go back to their plays unknowing ever of what has been.

It seems van Helsing's conception of the way vampirism spreads is very liberal. You don't need to do much special at all. If ever anyone is a victim of a vampire, then they too will eventually become a vampire. Based on what he thinks of Arthur's danger from the kiss, it might not necessarily even have to be from a bite. Or at least, maybe he thought she would bite him when she kissed him, and that would be all it takes.

He also believes that if the 'sire' is killed (to use pop culture vampire lingo which doesn't appear at all in this book I'm pretty sure), all the victims who are still alive will be saved. So long as they don't die before Lucy is killed, every one of the children she has drank from will remain human. But if any of them died, they would become a vampire even if they didn't die immediately or because of her feeding on them.

I don't know that I buy this, simply because it could lead to so exponential a growth of vampires. If this were the case then presumably all the people Dracula has killed thus far would become vampires. Well, maybe van Helsing thinks they only turn into vampires if they have been drunk from at least once, but even then it seems like there would be tons of vampires in Transylvania from Dracula's long life there. Maybe he knows about this and is selective in who he kills, or he somehow ensures they don't rise as vampires most of the time afterwards. But even then I feel like this theory needs some tweaking to make sense.

My personal belief is that death via blood loss is necessary to make a vampire. In rare cases it may be possible to circumvent that by turning them in some other way, but it has to be an intentional act. This definitely slows the spread of vampires but at least it explains why Dracula is so set on a particular prey until the end (in addition to him hating being denied what he wants).

[smooth-noob]

shocking revelations in todays entries folks

[immediatebreakfast]

"Yes," said she, "you are brave. And your friend, I admire and love him." "Well, and I think any one would!" said I. "He has his faults like other folk; but he is brave and staunch and kind, God bless him! That will be a strange day when I forget Alan."

This is so cute, and it's not only a fantastic way to establish a better conection between Davie and Catriona by sharing stories, but also it surprises me how Davie doesn't react with any hint of jealousy towards Catriona's words.

Yes, we can speculate that Davie doesn't express such thoughts because Alan is his dear friend bonded with many near death experiences, yet I think it's more on RLS's writing style around the characters themselves. It would be really easy to dwelve for a second in what could be Davie's discomfort over Catriona admiting Alan even she has not met him, but in the narrative what use would that be? Why would the thematic of the book touch something like when both Catriona and Davie have much bigger problems, and schemes in hand?

It reads almost in a very pragmatical way to establish a new found admiration for Catriona, more when we came from a paragraph of her explaining how she is trying to find herself in between models of masculinity where she identifies with Davie's role of the orator, while balacing her own self as an individual. Moreover, Davie himself finds this admiration a good thing to have, Alan basically changed his life around when they met, and maybe it's a little bit of happiness for him to find someone who doesn't jump to judge Alan by his first seen violent actions.

[great-preacher]

they.