One thing that I love about this entry is how Jonathan noted the bare contained rage that the Count has towards him.
It's such a tiny detail that could be lost in the middle of all the emotions in the Gothic conflict between Jonathan and Dracula, but when one examines it from the angle of how their employer-employee relationship evolved into a symbolic abusive husband-wife relationship, it just clicks.
The pretense of normalcy is held together by Jonathan playing the feminine gothic role of newly wed wife trying to not set off Dracula who is the husband that has all the power in their dynamic. Moreover, since Jonathan is playing his part so perfectly it makes Dracula eager to break him down, to see how much he can push before Jonathan snaps. It's a power play that depends on fear, and interest, one that the Count has for another purpose too.
He knows that I know too much, and that I must not live, lest I be dangerous to him; my only chance is to prolong my opportunities. Something may occur which will give me a chance to escape.
As much as Dracula loves the game of pretense that he forced Jonathan to play (which our good friend has been handling amazingly) he knows that he doesn't want to waste too much time on him. Jonathan is an amazing solicitor, and an even better plaything, but the Count still hates him for trying to defy him when it's supposed that Jonathan should be deadly afraid of him.
Dracula is a conqueror, a nobleman, and a man who has already shown Jonathan what happens to the people he "loves" once he doesn't find them interesting anymore. It's not an if, it's a when, and once Dracula manages to either mentally break Jonathan completely, or kill him on June 29 he will be able to clear one last line that connects both Transylvania, and England.
The Count can't really start new if he brings a bride that can defy him isn't he? Better to leave all behind.
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I'm so prepared for dracula daily my good fellows
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Ah i cant take this! in need an AU where Jonathan and the girlies bond over their mutual distain of Dracuala and bec9me friends. And I cant write it yet because I dont know what happens next!
I just need Dracula to come back one early morning and find Jonathan and the girlies reading or playing chess or something in the dining room ( they came in via the window ) and getting absolutely livid.
And one of them says in the most whingey little sister voice, "What? We're not touching him"
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idk guys when people come over to my place I also say “welcome to my house, enter freely and of your own will” it’s a very normal human person thing to say
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Reading Dracula makes you particularly hate the fact that movies and adaptations have been so adamant on putting Mina with Dracula and treating Jonathan as a cold Englishman because that man ADORES Mina. We're only at the very first pages of the book and already, he talks about her all the time. "Get this recipe for Mina", "write about the trip to give all the details to Mina", like PLEASE. There's not one entry in his journal where he doesn't mention her or even dedicate his words to her when she'll find the notebook. This man is OBSESSED with his fiancé !!
(I'm editing this because someone mentioned it in the reblogs, but my introduction to Dracula was the french musical and Jonathan LOVES Mina in that one. It still pretty much adapts Coppola's version more than the book, but they gave a whole song to Jonathan as to how he feels completely helpless and betrayed when Mina cheats on him with Dracula. But he still stays at her side ! She's the one to kill Dracula but he's always around to support her ! He stands on business during the whole musical !!)
(also the musical makes dracula silent and he expresses himself through dance and through three other characters who are basically personnifications of his soul, his conscience and his emotions. that part is dope asf)
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the scientific name for the grackle is gracula quiscula so now next time i see a grackle i will call it count gracula
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He angy part 6: wake the boi
If the art looks a bit off it’s because some of my ribs spontaneously popped out yesterday (also that why I didn’t post this then lol)
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Christopher Lee Appreciation Week
Day 2
some Hammer Dracula faces
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"It seemed as if the whole, awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion."
Bram Stoker's Dracula | portfolio | prints
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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
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“That he be all in black, except that he have a hat of straw which suit not him or the time.”
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