#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.

[thatdoodlebug]

this moment is so important to me lol

[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.

[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

[rosetyler42]

Pretty proud of how this came out! @heartsong1994 requested the twins grabbing Drac's nose like baby Mavis in one of the deleted scenes for the first film.

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[papsiguesss]

[great-preacher]

they.

[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]

Your talk of hands made me focus immediately whilst reading in this

"Very shortly after [Lucy] opened her eyes in all their softness, and putting out her poor, pale, thin hand, took Van Helsing’s great brown one; drawing it to her, she kissed it."

Augh such a good emphasis on their differences... On top of it hers is a dying hand (she should have been living and preparing for her wedding and playing tennis and writing back to her worried Mina) and while he's old and full of life ready to carry her will, he should be watching her walk down the aisle with Arthur not with Desth

Yes, definitely. Poor, pale, thin - Lucy's wasting away here, whereas Van Helsing is full of life and vigor comparatively. Even though she is young and he is old. It also emphasizes their dynamic, with Van Helsing's hand being "great" and thus implied to be much bigger than hers, leaning in not only to her current frailty but to him seeing her almost like a child he must care for, and her finding comfort in his protection.

"Down the aisle with Arthur not with Death" oooof but I love the way you said that. Especially with the timing of her staking happening on what would have been her wedding night. In a way Arthur, in being the one to kill vampire!Lucy (or at least, do the main part of it, with the doctors stepping in to cut her head off after), walks her to death himself. But a proper death, not becoming the kind of predatory Death of vampires.

I also really like this moment for how it preludes a later one, when Mina too is preparing for her death:

"When you shall be convinced that I am so changed that it is better that I die that I may live. When I am thus dead in the flesh, then you will, without a moment's delay, drive a stake through me and cut off my head; or do whatever else may be wanting to give me rest!" Quincey was the first to rise after the pause. He knelt down before her and taking her hand in his said solemnly:— "I'm only a rough fellow, who hasn't, perhaps, lived as a man should to win such a distinction, but I swear to you by all that I hold sacred and dear that, should the time ever come, I shall not flinch from the duty that you have set us. And I promise you, too, that I shall make all certain, for if I am only doubtful I shall take it that the time has come!" "My true friend!" was all she could say amid her fast-falling tears, as, bending over, she kissed his hand.

Lucy knows she is about to die, knows at least to some degree that she is about to become a vampire. This moment you point out happens because she is both thanking Van Helsing for protecting Arthur from her mere moments ago... and also requesting that he protect Arthur from her after death, by killing her. She doesn't say so as clearly as Mina does, but the meaning is obvious: "My true friend, and his! Oh, guard him, and give me peace!"

So it's the request for death before they can harm anyone, the hand used to make the promise, the kiss on said hand in gratitude. It's the exact wording in some places, both the men saying I swear and both women calling them my true friend.

The imagery makes me think of knights and their ladies, and the devotion that each man shows to the oath taken in these moments holds true. Van Helsing waits alone in the graveyard all night, fully prepared to die at Dracula's hands for Lucy's sake. Quincey dies ensuring that the moment he swore to act against Mina will never come.

They are great moments both.

[smooth-noob]

shocking revelations in todays entries folks

[imsorryimlate]

whenever adaptations do the whole “oh magical vampire hunter van helsing dna” thing, whoever has the magical vampire hunter van helsing dna should find out that it traces back to like, van helsing’s second cousin who was a dentist or something, rather than mr. dead-wife-dead-son-gay-married