#COUNT DRACULA

[eversoslightlybitter]

The speed that Jonathan just accepts Count Dracula can climb walls is so funny to me.

First time: HOLY SHIT HE'S LIKE A LIZARD THIS IS INSANE MY MIND IS MELTING HE'S NOT HUMAN WHAT HORRIBLE ABOMINATION IS MY CAPTOR???!!!

Second time: Cunt Dracy doin his lizard shit again fml

#dracula daily #jonathan harker #count dracula

[the-illustrative-interloper]

#dracula daily #re: dracula #dracula daily art #dracula daily 2024 #jonathan harker #dracula #count dracula #the weird sisters #the brides of dracula

[paris-in-space]

I hear lizards are stylish this time of year.

#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #paris’s box of classic lit blorbos #my good friend jonathan harker #count dracula #sorry it’s late I’ve been busy

[draculasweedsmokinggirlfriend]

There goes the count, scaling lizard style, out of the castle... AGAIN. Hes just showing off at this point

#'look at me Jonathan #bet you cant do this! #count dracula #re dracula #dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #lizard style

[briarrosefromthedead]

Count Dracula (1970) dir. Jesús Franco

#count dracula #horroredit #filmedit #jesús franco #dracula #jonathan harker #horror #mygifs #the dramatic facial zooms in this movie are everything

[lady-dulcinea]

Dracula thwarts the Sisters' attack on Jonathan & feeds them the infant

from the Milwaukee Ballet's production of Michael Pink's Dracula Randy Crespo as Jonathan Harker Davit Hovhannisyan as Count Dracula

#Dracula #Dracula Daily #Dracula Daily 2024 #May 16th #Jonathan Harker #Weird Sisters #Count Dracula #Randy Crespo #Davit Hovhannisyan #Milwaukee Ballet #Ballet #Dance

[anony-geist]

"The Count's warning came into my mind, but I took a pleasure in disobeying it."

Jonathan unlocked the glee of Defiance.

He probably rebels for the very first time in his life, given that Mr Hawkins' letter emphasizes his obedience and very faithful disposition.

#dracula daily #dracula #jonathan harker #count dracula

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Jonathan: Hi! Good morning! How are you? Hope all is well! Just checking in - could you please confirm if you approve of this contract? If so, I can send you the DocuSign envelope to--

His Client, Dracula: *scuttles down the castle wall like a lizard, again, and vanishes from sight*

Jonathan:

Jonathan: ...Looking forward to your response either way! Much obliged!

#as a legal clerk I understand Jonathan *in my bones* #Dracula #count dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #dracula memes #jonathan harker #my good friend jonathan harker #re dracula #May 15 #15 may #Lizard fashion #🦎👗

[jamie-the-scene-kid]

My second tumblr post and it’s about Dracula and Renfield again

#renfield #dracula #renfield 2023 #robert montague renfield #r m renfield #renfield movie #dracula 1931 #count dracula

[treespen]

The two times so far that Jonathan sees Dracula lizarding seems to be specific

May 12 night: Heading out to post the fake letter to Mr Hawkins (allegedly the one to Mina too)

May 15 night: Heading out to bring fresh blood

Those are things Jonathan doesn't realize upon seeing it happen, but it becomes obvious upon re-read

#dracula daily #dracula #jonathan harker #dracula spoilers #count dracula

[coralcorduroys]

Jonathan Harker: I am so touched by these locals being so sorrowful and scared about me going to Castle Dracula and giving me protective talismans. So kind of that distraught woman to get down on her knees and beg me not to go, can't believe she gave me her crucifix! Anyway business calls

#dracula daily #re: dracula #bram stoker #count dracula #jonathan harker #castle dracula

[saffitaffi]

He angy (part 1)

#Dracula you don’t look so happy #very protective of your little solicitor man #that feeling when your three weed smoking vampire wives try to eat your new boy toy #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #artist #count dracula #Dracula #dracula x jonathan harker #dracula daily #bram stokers dracula #comic #may 16 #dd may 16 #harkula #jonathan harker #jonathan #blue

[vickyvicarious]

If I be sane, then surely it is maddening to think that of all the foul things that lurk in this hateful place the Count is the least dreadful to me; that to him alone I can look for safety, even though this be only whilst I can serve his purpose. Great God! merciful God! Let me be calm, for out of that way lies madness indeed. [...] The Count's mysterious warning frightened me at the time; it frightens me more now when I think of it, for in future he has a fearful hold upon me. I shall fear to doubt what he may say!

Jonathan is very aware of the game Dracula is playing here. It's just like the wolves on the way to the castle (and in fact the way he wards the vampire ladies off is a direct echo of the gesture he used then): he presents himself and the places he has prepared for Jonathan as a welcome escape from greater and more uncontrolled/immediate dangers lurking in wait just outside. Jonathan fell for this trick that first night. He was glad to be inside rather than left alone in the cold and dark with howling wolves, despite his hesitance, and he let Dracula make him feel better. And doing so left him trapped inside this prison.

Now, he's well aware of what is happening, and doesn't want to fall for it again - yet in a way, he has no choice but to do so. The vampire ladies are an immediate and intense danger, but Dracula can keep them away. All Jonathan has to do is rely on him once again. In terms of movements, it restricts him more fully to the places Dracula has already set aside for him. That's bad enough, because those places are secure against escape already, so his prisoner status is even more solidified.

But the much greater danger here is what it might do to him mentally/emotionally. Jonathan knows he has no choice but to look to Dracula for safety, but he can't dwell on the thought without feeling like he's going mad. Because he knows just as well that he will only ever be 'safe' with Dracula so long as the Count wants, so long as he does exactly what the Count asks of him. He's so afraid at the thought that Dracula's hold over him will grow. He's already so smart and charming when he wants to be, manipulative and clever and sadistic. He's already playing at friendship and Jonathan has to doubt everything he says. Except now he finds himself having to doubt his own doubt, too, because maybe some warnings will be genuine. Maybe it will be better for him not to fight so hard against Dracula. Except if he stops doing that, he'll never stand any chance in the long run - but if he keeps trying so hard he'll never get to the long run.

He's completely trapped, and fully aware of it.

#dracula daily #count dracula #jonathan harker #this is another reason i think dracula was very deliberately baiting jonathan with the intent of having him fall for it #i don't think he wanted him to die today but he may have thought he was okay with him getting drunk until he saw it about to happen #but everything about the way this played out is so much in his favor that i feel like there HAS to be some deliberate element to it #dracula meta #my meta

[aotearoa20]

I will say though the ladies are a lot more assertive than I expected. I do love that for them. For all of Dracula’s fixation on ideas of Hunter and Master, for all his disdain of the peasantry and domineering manipluation of Jonathan, his ladies (who are most explicitly under his power) do not care at all.

Like maybe physically he can and is keeping them away from Jonathan but after his notably scary monologue - they laugh in his face, they argue and humiliate him in front of his guest and still assume that he will cater to their needs (which he does)

#rip jonathan ‘I took special pleasure In disobeying him’ harker #you would’ve loved Dracula’s ladies if they were trying to eat you #brides of dracula #weird sisters #count dracula #jonathan harker #first read:) #dracula daily #re dracula #may 16th #dracula’s ladies

[forasecondtherewedwon]

I love this book.

#am reading #Dracula #Dracula Daily #Dracula Daily: May 15th #Jonathan Harker #Count Dracula

[happy-for-harkers]

I love how Jonathan immediately went to peek into Dracula's mail the minute he got the chance

Yeah! I do love that about Jonathan’s character, he is very resourceful!

Even when stuck at Dracula’s castle, even when he’s put up against a threat he does what he can and when he can to save himself. Be it writing down everything he can, just in case it’s of use later on (and it will be!), looking for any way in which he could possible escape, and as you’re saying anon, peeking into mail, gathering any information possible that might help him escape, he’s taking any chance he can to gain any upper hand against the Count.

#dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #count dracula #12 may #asks