#to the Harkers in any of their happy endings

[see-arcane]

In which the Harkers have a love that lasts a lifetime. Unconventional as it might be.

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#you know I had to :3 #happy valentine's day #to the Harkers in any of their happy endings #mina harker #jonathan harker #holiest love #dracula #black red white #my art

[skeletonsloverockcandy]

One thing I’m seeing on this re-read of Dracula Daily that I’m already really enjoying, it’s all the little details we didn’t catch before

When we first started we didn’t know who Jonathan Harker was and to us he was just a silly little British man who was ignoring the obvious warning signs, so there was a comedic element to the dramatic irony of him going to Castle Dracula

But now that we know who Jonathan is and we care about him, it hits much harder all the subtle horror elements we missed while focusing on this good friend telling us about his travels

From the first entry, people picking up on the dog barking under his window and being like “is that Dracula? Does it start this early?” Being skeeved out by Dracula’s overly familiar letter to Jonathan, which at first seemed perfectly reasonable except for the name attached at the end, and picking up on all the terrible foreshadowing for what will be Jonathan’s living hell over the next month in his Castle.

And people this time picking up on the bravery of the wife of the innkeeper who gave him a crucifix, begging him to stay or wait, to not go to the castle, of the terror of knowing that Dracula was in correspondence with her husband to get the letter to Jonathan and the sort of subtle threat they must be under at all times, of the significance of “for your mother’s sake” knowing what Dracula does to children. She is no longer perceived as a random background character, but an active player forced to be a bystander who is trying desperately to help this ignorant soul in any way she can even if she knows it might be useless.

I love people realizing Jonathan is skeptical and off-put, but not enough to deter his mission. He’s not oblivious, just making an effort to remain open-minded to the culture and superstitions and beliefs he is not familiar with, since he’s aware it will be wildly different from his own (to the best of his ability for being an Englishman from the 1890s) and pointedly dismissing the things that might be red flags as an attempt to rationalize because nothing truly concerning has happened yet to provoke him to leave, and he doesn’t want to be deterred by something he’s getting worked up for for no reason yet, he couldn’t do his job otherwise and people are depending on him

Idk, I just like this deeper analysis and thought now that people are already familiar and attached to his character, and now know what happens, so they can properly point out when something is foreshadowing later events or themes in the novel, and they can pick up on it quicker

Even something as simple as people noticing the other meals mentioned in the first entry because of all the focus on Paprika Hendl last year makes me happy :)

I like that they are giving our protagonist more credit now, knowing the character he turns into later in the novel (a badass)

It is satisfying :)))

#dracula daily #Dracula daily may 4th #dracula daily 2023 #re: dracula #dracula #jonathan harker #Dracula meta #Dracula analysis #dracula daily may 3rd #paprika hendl #Dracula innkeeper’s wife #my post #original post #skele talks #my analysis

[97keanu]

Keanu characters + couples Halloween costumes:

John Wick:

John wants to say he doesn't do costumes. He complains, gently, saying he's too old to dress up anyways, but he can't say no to you in the end. He thinks you're funny when you suggest being a nurse since you're always patching him up all the time, but he also can't deny the image of you being a sexy nurse either. You also joke about him being a literal baba yaga and he finds that less funny. In the end, you two go as something that's actually as far from his work as possible, something simple and cute that ends up leaving John feeling happy he can have a moment of fun. Even if that is just staying in, watching cheesy horror movies, and giving out candy with you.

Kevin Lomax:

Unlike John, Kevin would totally go for the obvious with an angel/demon couples costume. He might even ask to be the angel just to throw people off, not to mention seeing you in a sexy devil's costume (especially if you're typically an innocent!reader) would really turn him on. He also likes to keep the costumes a bit higher class, so what you're wearing is not coming from the corner store or the mall. No, Kevin is buying you louboutin red bottoms to match a skin tight Alexander McQueen red dress. And, well, maybe the devil horns and tail do actually come from the mall...

Neo:

Neo doesn't want to admit how badly he loves dressing up. He likes being able to be someone else from time to time, just to get away from his typically boring on the surface life. He likely is asking you to be in 90s nerdy pop culture cosplay for Halloween, maybe even leaning onto the more goth side of media. He would take inspo from movies like: The Crow, Blade, Underworld, and maybe even end up asking you to be the Sally to his Jack.

Ted Logan:

Ted would love any outfit that he could easily pull off being stoned in. Think Shaggy and Velma (bill might even tag in as Scooby). Another great one you two cook up is Garfield and Hello Kitty, but Ted also adds that, Garfield is also, of course, stoned. There's also a possibility for you two to get into a lot of silly innuendos costumes as well, but with Ted's mind they would likely not make much sense. Possibility for you to convince Ted on a historic costume and getting him to take you back in time for period accurate clothing. Also, don't be surprised if it turns into a thrupple costume with Bill.

Evil!Ted Logan:

He would think couples costumes are stupid at first, and maybe even berate you about it (crybaby!reader watch out!). His mind would change when he sees there's slasher Halloween costumes at the mall, and he decides he and evil!bill can probably get away with more mischief if they're masked. He would probably try to talk you into being either the final girl from a slasher to reenact some fantasies, or ask you to be a sexy ver. of Ghostface or Freddy.

Constantine:

Constantine doesn't do costumes. He will likely not even end up breaking like Wick, and instead is a meanie about the whole thing. He shows up in that damned suit he always wears while you're out here in your cutest sexy girl outfit (think angel, playboy bunny, cat woman) and only ends up feeling bad about the whole thing after you storm off and cry. He apologizes the best he can, and ends up trying to make it up to you by being more social at the party, and telling your friends that he's dressed as "Vincent from Pulp Fiction" or some other character that comes to mind that wears a suit. Next year, you make him promise to actually dress up, and when you two do it's totally cheesy ones he hates but allows for you, such as Joker and Harley Quinn-esque.

Jonathan Harker:

This ones fun because you two are going to a masquerade! You get the most gorgeous gown with all the frills you please, with a gothic touch of course. Jonathan isn't usually one who dresses overboard, but tonight he has dressed to the nines for you! He looks sleek and dark, stunning in an illusive mask that for some reason has you feeling more of his dom side. Jonathan actually ends up really getting into it, and he charms you all night long as if he's almost another man entirely. The beauty of the masqurade conceals and invites freedom to be someone you're typically not, and by the end of it, you can't wait to take him home. He can keep the mask on tonight.

♰ Please send any costumes you think would work for keanuverse characters, I'd love to hear them! Especially anyone I missed ʚ♥︎ɞ

#john wick x reader #neo x reader #kevin lomax x reader #constantine x reader #jonathan harker x reader #ted logan x reader #evil!ted logan x reader #john wick #kevin lomax #ted theodore logan #john constantine #keanu reeves #my writing #my imagines #neo the matrix

[thebibi]

The weirdest Klinger did was how towards the end of the book he starts going off on long tangents in his annotations about “Oh, CLEARLY Dracula ISN’T dead” and "Mina MUST be in an unhappy marriage".

Lines up with the 1000 sequels about Somehow Dracula Has Returned and Mina and Jonathan not loving each other.

Yeah Klinger actually flip flops on this. Like he annotates Dracula as if its presenting a factual, real case. This is why everything is up for suspect, like Van Helsing speaking German instead of Dutch, or Quincey accidentally firing a gun inside of Jack's asylum because he secretly aligns with Dracula (instead of the obvious answer he was aiming at a flying bat that moved). But at the same time, when he reviewed the "official" sequel by Dacre Stoker, he said there's no way this is a real sequel when the book so adamantly gives closure for everyone (he still liked it though which is wild).

SPOILERS FOR PEOPLE DOING DRACULA DAILY 2023

There's another thing that Klinger totally misses from the epilogue that even stumped me for a while. Basically, Jonathan ends the novel saying "to the happiness of some of us" that they now have a son. Klinger points out "to the happiness of some" means someone from the main cast isn't happy. Since Jonathan is doing all the talking, it must mean Mina.

But that's not what Jonathan means. Its a coded language to explain that the Harkers have had kids while other characters have not. In Cambridge Dictionary I found that "the happy event" also is a euphemism for having a child. Its like when a parent asks their married son or daughter for "any good news" -- they aren't asking about geniune good news but about pregnancy. Klinger hasn't realized that you couldn't have Mina herself be like "I am happy to announce I gave birth", because it was still seen as a bit too intimate for the time. So yeah, weirdly enough despite Klinger's wealth of knowledge in other parts, he completely doesn't realize this. Alas.

#dracula daily #dracula spoilers #leslie klinger #annotated dracula #jonathan harker #mina harker #thebibi answers #thebibi on vampirez

[vickyvicarious]

"whence I knew Jonathan was coming" <3

Mina and Van Helsing trekking through the empty wilderness without any sign of people or any horses to help carry them. if not for her husband radar things could have potentially gotten difficult in a different way

ohhh I love the narration describing the castle. such a picture and so well narrated

oh god "to even try to do so was repulsive to me" oh god

that description of the river. once again so good

Mina calls him the Thing here!

oh her little stutter on "I-I saw him below me"

once again he is only talking about her safety. "you shall be safe" not "we shall be safe"

I love Van Helsing's delivery of "We may be too late."

Van Helsing naturally assumes it's the guys who were coming on horses, but Mina is so focused on Jonathan, on how clearly she senses him <3

ohhh Van Helsing's shout of glee is lovely

always love the wolf howls

the way Mina's voice gets slow and softer as the wind builds and she describes how long the wait lasted...

ahhhh the voices in unison shouting "Halt!" I had to go back and listen again, it made me so happy

"my Jonathan's" <3

Mina sounds so excited when she says "commanded them to stop!"

oh god this all comes down to minutes.

Mina in full on psychic mode today, Jonathan meanwhile emanating 'don't-fuck-with-me' vibes so strong it literally scares people off mid-battle before he throws down the heavy earth box all by himself - the Harkers aren't messing around

ohhh I love the music being 'released' as Jonathan flings the box down.

"All the time I had been breathlessly watching Jonathan" Mina: my husband was extremely hot throughout all this

the parry noises

"the blood was spurting through his fingers" and the noise accompanying... Quincey :(((

ohhhh the sound design for the box opening was marvelously dramatic/creepy

The way Mina's voice trembled as she says "which I knew too well"

Dracula's laugh rising and rising right up till the very end. That BREATHING

I really like her delivery of the line about the look of peace on his face.

ohh the wolves are just scared puppies now

oh noooo the twang coming in. I know what this is forrrr

Quincey resting his head on Jonathan's shoulder as he dies. :'(

Mina's voice fighting not to cry. Quincey's rasping gasping but so warm and soft and happy when he sees her forehead and knows she is saved

this music is so sad

his voice shaking in a little weak laugh on "forehead" oh god

AUGH QUINCEY

I knew it would happen because I saw people talking about it but SAD QUINCEY DEATH SONG GOT ME

the little "heh" after "to make my final moments sweet"

ohh this is so sad. very good. very sad. :( :( :(

#re: dracula #dracula daily #mina murray #quincey morris

[dungeonsandblorbos]

Hello and Welcome!

it's a new year and a lot has happened since the last time i did an intro, including a new campaign starting and me making a new years resolution to indulge my creative side more, so i'd like to re-introduce myself and also say hello to the writblr community!

my main blog is @persnickety-peahen, so that's where all my follows will come from. you can call me any variation of either of my blog names, or just C; they/she pronouns. i'm in my mid-twenties, happily married, queer, and neurodivergent.

i've been enamored with the idea of writing from childhood, but since university a lot of that energy has gotten channeled into TTRPGs due to life circumstances, so now instead of writing i obsess over my PCs and make long, detailed documents full of exploitable backstory content, NPCs, and worldbuilding elements for my DM(s)! :D

yes i am and have always been the designated note-taker in all of my campaigns, why do you ask?

aside from writing and TTRPGs, i enjoy baking, taking wiki walks, and playing Stardew Valley, and lately i've also started teaching myself how to do pixel art. i love the blorbos from my campaigns so much and will impulsively share stories about them to anyone who will listen, hence me making this blog as a place to infodump about my beloveds! content here includes fun stories from the big four campaigns i've been part of, out of context session notes, and especially various kinds of mentally ill blorbo posting, as well as a bunch of reblogs of stuff from the writblr, whumpblr, and TTRPG communities (including pretty dice and dice trays!). someday i might also get around to posting an actual ongoing narrative recap of one of my campaigns, and some of the blorbo-related pixel art i've been making.

i'd love to be more active here, so please feel free to send me asks about any of the characters or campaigns, or even just TTRPG things in general, as i'm always happy to talk about them. i'm also open to writblr tag games, even if they don't fully apply to a TTRPG context—if it gives me an excuse to blab about my blorbos, i will make it work!

see below the cut for a description of my big four campaigns and my player characters from them!

Curse of Strahd Homebrew Status: on haitus but hopefully resuming soon! System: DnD 5e Story: this is a heavily homebrewed version of the 5e Curse of Strahd campaign book (like, we're talking a good 80% or more homebrew) DMed by my husband, @somethingclevermahogony. it's all of your dark queer gothic horror dreams come true! (and also body horror. lots of body horror. and whump, for good measure) it follows a group of naive young adventurers who find themselves lured to and trapped in Barovia, a country banished to its own little pocket dimension in the Shadowfell over 400 years ago as punishment for the atrocities committed by its dread king Strahd von Barovich. here, they encounter challenges and horrors beyond anything they've ever experienced before, including hordes of vengeful undead, capitalist hags who sell hallucinogenic pies made with 'shrooms and children's brain matter, an eldritch not-quite-god and his/their cursed corn farm, a delusional angel who repairs people's broken bodies without care for consent, and, of course, the dread king Strahd himself, as well as his many powerful and loyal followers. all of them seek to manipulate our would-be heroes to their own ends—and unfortunately for everyone, they've been rather successful so far. Main Blorbo: in this campaign, i play a 23-year-old human tempest cleric called Cerris, who is a solid 80% of the reason i made this sideblog. he's my comfort character. he's my bisexual disaster babygirl. he's my rotten soldier, my sweet cheese, my good bad time boy. he's like the dysfunctional lovechild of Clark Kent and Jonathan Harker: a sheltered farmboy of debatably noble birth granted a sliver of divine power by circumstances beyond his control, who just left home for the first time to answer the call of adventure and got stuck here in fantasy Transylvania instead, where he has since become Strahd's new favorite plaything. among other poor decisions, he has 1) gotten romantically entangled with Ireena Kolyana, a fiery though equally sheltered young noblewoman who is unfortunately the object of Strahd's obsessive plans to escape Barovia and conquer Faerun, 2) inadvertently adopted the sweet but chaotic Milo, a halfling boy turned into a horrible monster by Strahd's experiments 400 years ago (the Bagman. Cerris adopted the Bagman), and 3) gotten himself possessed by the angry ghost of Strahd's little brother, Sergei, whom Strahd killed and cannibalized in an unfortunately effective bid to gain godlike power. he has a lot to learn before he's ready to face Strahd, but i believe that one day, Cerris will help save Barovia. Bonus Blorbo: if Cerris is my babygirl, then Milo is my precious little meow meow—hence my tag for him being #meow meow Milo. yes he is the Bagman, and yes he did almost eat my other party member among many other horrible things, but he's also just a traumatized smol bean and i forgive him for everything. if anything happened to him, Cerris would kill everyone in Barovia and then himself.

Ruins of Runet Status: active just went on hiatus actually as of 05/13, should return in the fall System: DnD 5e Story: an entirely homebrew campaign also DMed by my wonderful husband! it's a horror campaign at heart, this time focusing more on eldritch and existential horror. once, the world of Runet was just like any other, vibrant and fantastical and full of magic, connected to the vast network of other worlds and planes across the universe. and then, suddenly, the gods all vanished. magic left Runet with them, and the planet's connections to other worlds were severed irreparably. the result was nothing less than apocalyptic: entire peoples and species died out instantly, cities and nations collapsed, famine and disease and war ran rampant. but the survivors adapted, building a new world from the ashes. now, 600 years after the collapse, magic has returned, throwing the world into chaos once again. and though magic has come back, the gods have not. various powerful factions have all launched investigations into this sudden reappearance, hoping to claim the secret of magic for themselves. at the center of it all sits the Church of Divine Repentance, and a millenia-old conflict between eldritch forces known only as the Mother and the Eternal Body, with the people of Runet caught in the crossfire. Main Blorbo: in this campaign, i play a 29-year-old human fighter/sorcerer named Don Ariel Feliciano Rosalio Sentera Alvedes, from the barely unified country of Restitos*. Ariel is an hidalgo, a member of the untitled nobility, and as the youngest of four sons, he had very little expectations of inheriting anything; even so, excellence was demanded of him since childhood. as a result, he's grown up ambitious and hungry, willing to make himself into whatever kind of person he needs to be in any given moment in order to accomplish his goals. he's charismatic and self-assured, and while he can be slimy and artificial (or else callous and abrasive if he feels you aren't worth his time), he is nonetheless noble in character, enduringly loyal, and committed to the values of noblesse oblige. but don't let his suave Casanova exterior fool you—he's also a bisexual, gender-fucky horse girl and (un?)ethically slutty secretary with a cringefail romantic history! :D he's almost gotten engaged but then ruined everything—twice. his only serious long-term relationship was a secret affair with his employer, a married duke who's old enough to be his father (but don't worry, the duchess knew and was cool about it), which ended abruptly when the duke got assassinated and Ariel found his disfigured body the next morning. and then the duke's oldest son informally accused him of the murder and that conversation went so terribly that he fled the country immediately afterwards to avoid being arrested and executed. no, he's not actually guilty, just a convenient scapegoat, stop fucking asking him if he did it. in conclusion, Ariel is such a fucking mess and i love him. Bonus Blorbo: Malva Oriana is Ariel's 13-year-old warhorse, a beautiful perlino Catalencian Pure (essentially a fantasy Andalusian) he trained himself. she's a bold, intelligent, and well-tempered horse, albeit more than a bit spoiled, and she and Ariel are terribly co-dependent on each other in light of the recent trauma they've experienced. *Additional Note: Restitos is largely culturally inspired by post-Reconquista Spain, and since my character ended up being the only PC from that country, i got to help with a lot of the worldbuilding for it! a fact i took full advantage of! so more than likely, any worldbuilding stuff i post here will specifically be about Restitos

Cauldron & Kettle Questing Co. Status: completed System: DnD 5e Story: this was my second campaign with my university TTRPG group, where my husband was also a player. set in the world of Acquisitions, Incorporated, an actual play podcast by Penny Arcade based around the idea of classic adventuring parties but make it ~capitalism~, this campaign was primarily played out of the official Acquisitions, Inc. playbook, with some additional homebrew expansions and a nice little extra homebrew arc on the end that introduced us to the incredible chaos of the D10,000 wild magic table. the story ended up going real hard on the queer found family vibes, and there were several story beats that made us all real emotional together. we played as the Cauldron & Kettle Questing Company, a Phandalin-based subsidiary branch of the larger Acquisitions, Inc. corporation. we also owned a tea shop called the Cauldron & Kettle Cafe, and we had a steam-powered teapot-shaped vehicle dubbed the Tea Trolley which we put to excellent use in combat. the story followed the Cauldron & Kettle Questing Co. as we established our branch and completed increasingly dire quests for our parent corporation that we were not remotely qualified for. and uh, no, we did not really get any special rewards or pay raises or anything after saving the world—twice—but hey, that's business baby! Main Blorbo: for this campaign, i played a 30-year-old half-elf light cleric/bard named Jun Vyardes. having grown up the daughter of a traveling bard, she's great with change, but never learned how to put down roots. when she left Daddy Bard's side and devoted herself to Vestia, a human goddess of domestic fires and revelry, she thought she'd found her home. for some time, she really was content there—but the road still called to her, so with her goddess's blessing, she set out on a new adventure. she's fiercely devoted to her friends and committed to justice, plays a mean fiddle, and has some great recipes for edibles. after joining Acq, Inc. and meeting the rest of her party, it only took Jun a couple of months to realize that her new teammates—along with her one true love Eleni, a fellow devotee of Vestia—were exactly the home she had always been searching for. and she's going to protect that, whatever it takes. Bonus Blorbo: my husband played Tim Cobbletoss, a 34-year-old half-orc barbarian with the temperament of a british grandma on account of being raised by halfings . . . after his human bard father abandoned him at an orphanage because he couldn't take care of two half-human bastard children at the same time. yes, that's right, Tim and Jun are half-siblings! at first they both hated each other because Jun was jealous that Tim got to have a stable childhood with a loving parent who understood proper boundaries and didn't exploit their musical talent for money or use them as an unwilling wingman, and because Tim was jealous that Jun got to have an actual relationship with their father and learn things from him when all Tim got from Daddy Bard was the family signature ginger hair and abandonment issues. fortunately, though, they eventually got over the mutual jealousy and started bonding over parental trauma, terrible workplace conditions, and a shared love of fantasy weed. and now they're best friends and ruthlessly defend each other against Daddy Bard's nonsense whenever he tries to re-insert himself into their lives.

The Orphic Uprising and The Amazonomachy Status: Completed System: Cypher Story: these were two continuous arcs that together formed the first campaign with my university TTRPG group. it was a homebrew story set in the world of Percy Jackson, following a small group of simultaneously inept and hyper-competent demigods from Camp Half-Blood on their various (mis)adventures. out of character, we called ourselves the Confusion Crew due to the sheer absurdity of some of the shenanigans we got up to. it was delightful. in the first arc, The Orphic Uprising, Dionysus got kidnapped and four campers were singled out by prophecy to go rescue him from the Underworld and stop the children of Nyx from taking over Olympus. and in the second arc, The Amazonomachy, set a year later, the mad queen of the Amazons got it into her head (through children of Nyx-related manipulation, it seems) that, just like the titans had been overthrown by the gods, it was high time the gods were overthrown by their own children. so three of us from the last quest, plus two new unlucky campers who happened to be in the wrong right place at the wrong right time, set about saving the Olympians' asses again. Main Blorbo: in this campaign, i played Nina Grayson, a (at the end of the campaign) 19-year-old daughter of Nike, goddess of victory. Nina was an impulsive, reckless, extremely determined little fighter (emphasis on little, she's 5' tall and like 110lbs), as well as a talented gymnast, dancer, and rock climber, who put so much pressure on herself to succeed—because, ya know, literally the daughter of victory—that she was more than willing to fight dirty if that's what it took to win. she was an absolute monster in combat, nigh unkillable with high damage output and multiple debuff abilities. she was also a menace outside of combat because she put all of her points into physical abilities and left nothing for brains or charisma. yes, indeed, she was a badass buff socially inept himbo lesbian and she ruled. iconic himbo acts of hers include solving a puzzle by punching a horse statue in the face, getting set on fire then putting it out by drenching herself in monster blood, solving a locked door problem by punching the lock open, splitting the party to play double agent without telling her friends she was only fake-betraying them, and solving a bitchy goddess problem by punching said goddess in the face so hard it temporarily killed her. at some point she also acquired the nickname Larry and we made all the appropriate three stooges jokes about it, don't you worry. Bonus Blorbo: in the first arc we picked up a funny little grain alcohol demon who looked like if a cabbage patch doll was an actual baby-shaped root vegetable. we named him Hops and fed him illegally acquired beer. he was our mascot and team pet and beloved child, and sometimes my husband's character, a son of Dionsysus named Chuck Hickey, would throw him like a football at enemies and use him like an Entangle spell. other times he'd just carry him around in a baby björn. both activities were excellent enrichment for Hops.

and that's it! thank you for reading and please enjoy my blog!

#ttrpg stories #dnd stories #writblr #writblr intro #introduction post #writeblr #writeblr intro

[myfanfictiongarden]

Epilogue of Dracula

Seven years ago we all went through the flames; and the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured. It is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy’s birthday is the same day as that on which Quincey Morris died. His mother holds, I know, the secret belief that some of our brave friend’s spirit has passed into him. His bundle of names links all our little band of men together; but we call him Quincey.

In the summer of this year we made a journey to Transylvania, and went over the old ground which was, and is, to us so full of vivid and terrible memories. It was almost impossible to believe that the things which we had seen with our own eyes and heard with our own ears were living truths. Every trace of all that had been was blotted out. The castle stood as before, reared high above a waste of desolation.

When we got home we were talking of the old time—which we could all look back on without despair, for Godalming and Seward are both happily married. I took the papers from the safe where they had been ever since our return so long ago. We were struck with the fact, that in all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document; nothing but a mass of typewriting, except the later note-books of Mina and Seward and myself, and Van Helsing’s memorandum. We could hardly ask any one, even did we wish to, to accept these as proofs of so wild a story. Van Helsing summed it all up as he said, with our boy on his knee:—

“We want no proofs; we ask none to believe us! This boy will some day know what a brave and gallant woman his mother is. Already he knows her sweetness and loving care; later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake.”

Jonathan Harker.

THE END

#one of the best ways to end the novel #too bad we didn't get that in audio format... #things i like #books #dracula daily #bram stoker´s dracula

[waldensblog]

Intent vs Perspective: Twilight as tragedy, not romance.

Alright guys, I know SMeyer ended Bella with Edward, and that it was always her original intent, it’s supposed to be a romance, but the text suggests otherwise. It suggests a tragedy - not a romance. 

I know, I know, this is what I look like rn:

But bear with me.

When SMeyer writes the first Twilight, she had no intention of writing a whole series, just that and Forever Dawn, so she has a plan. But as it went on, the plan didn’t really make sense anymore, though she insisted on using the original plan anyway, very HIMYM style.

So, in Twilight, she’s trying to basically make it like Pride and Prejudice (we could have a whole convo about if the literary comparisons are warranted, if that’s arrogant on her part, etc. but not the point here - the point is her intent). Edward = Darcy, and Bella = Elizabeth. They war with their natures and end up together. I’m not gonna comment on if she succeeded in this venture, just that it was the literary theme she was going for. 

Now, in New Moon, we’re pretty hit over the head that it’s supposed to be Romeo and Juliet. Obviously, Edward is supposed to be Romeo, and Bella is supposed to be Juliet. Bella makes the comparison herself, and thinks of Jacob as Paris. It’s an interesting note, because while I think Smeyer was going for “true love” and all, Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy - both characters die, it’s hardly a good love story/romance. Juliet actually would have better off with Paris. The play is a tragedy that explores how young lovers can often behave irrationally and it leads to their untimely death. In the case of Bella, that’s certainly true when the Volturi basically make it an obligation for her to become a vampire. So far, I’m not getting “romance” vibes, but “tragedy” vibes. 

In Eclipse, apparently, the theme this time is Wuthering Heights (again, we’re really hit over the head with that one). This has to be the most confusing of them all if we’re to expect a Bella/Edward ending. It becomes clear that Edward is supposed to be Heathcliff - the guy that Cathy doesn’t even ultimately end up with, with Jacob then playing the role of Edgar, the one Cathy marries. Throughout Eclipse, Edward/Heathcliff spends the first half behaving terribly, controlling Bella/Cathy’s movements, and banning her from seeing her best friend, Jacob/Edgar. Despite her anger, pointing out how controlling/psycho he is being, she winds up forgiving him, and then a 180 happens, with Jacob now being the jerk. Bella ends up realizing she’s in love with both of them, but chooses Edward - even if he’s Heathcliff, who is a) terrible and not well liked by any Wuthering Heights fans really - not even Bella - and b) not how it goes in Wuthering Heights. It also doesn’t even end with Bella happily announcing her engagement - it ends with Jacob running off into the woods to be alone with his broken heart at losing the battle of keeping her human.

So Twilight is basically “Edward makes his case”, New Moon is “Jacob makes his case” and Eclipse is “who will Bella choose?”, and with the Wuthering Heights/Eclipse theme that she beat us over the head with, it really really reads like it will be Jacob - her personal sun, the one who didn’t leave, the one who put her back together when she was broken, the one she’s known forever, her best friend, who is trying to save her from enthrallment/death, it reads like it’s gonna be a happy ending with Jacob... and then... HIMYMed by the original plan. 

Now... why do I keep going on about enthrallment? Well, it’s not her intent, but you can read that into the text, and if so, you add Bram Stoker’s Dracula into the mix. Edward/Dracula puts Bella/Mina/Lucy under thrall in Twilight, and his absence in New Moon makes her behave like Lucy/Mina when Van Helsing and co. try to cure the thrall. In this case, Jacob would be Jonathan Harker/Van Helsing, trying throughout New Moon to cure the thrall, and getting more and more desperate in Eclipse to do so. He behaves like an ass of course - and maybe he’s seen one too many fairytales where the Knight/Prince breaks the spell by kissing the Princess (a problematic trope itself). So Jacob is Harker, trying to break Mina’s thrall. Ultimately, he fails, because it’s not written as a romance - it’s written as a tragedy. 

#Twilight Saga #Twilight #New Moon #Eclipse #anti edward cullen #Jacob Black #Team Jacob #bruh who knew I'd be sitting here writing a motherfucking essay about this goddamn series

[bluecatwriter]

Mina Harker, 18, 23 :)

Thanks for the ask! :D

18. How do you think they were as a kid? She strikes me as someone who was very anxious from a young age, and learned to manage that anxiety by studying the unspoken rules of any situation and learning to stay firmly within the lines. Very quiet, always thinking and observing. She started keeping a journal as soon as she learned to write, and tried to copy the writing style of her favorite books.

23. Future headcanon. (Already answered, so copy-and-pasted from previous ask) I don't have a set headcanon for Mina's future— in one of my fics she and Jonathan end up having everyone else in the Drac Attack Pack move to Exeter to be with them, which I love, while in another fic the others just visit, and Mina and Jonathan end up adopting a couple kids. Any future where she and Jonathan are healthy and happy is a good future! I do like to think that she fulfilled her dream of becoming a reporter, though, joining the ranks of Dracula-novel journalists who spend inordinate amounts of space describing things. ;)

(Ask game here!)

#ask game #answered #dracula daily #mina harker #mina murray

[see-arcane]

Jonathan Harker: The ‘Absolute Love Corrupts Absolutely’ Villain That Almost Was*

*LONG before Francis Ford Coppola’s Cinematic Gary Oldman Fanfiction

Spoilers ahead for the Dracula Daily enjoyers, because I’m whipping out all my literary receipts on this.

I recently finished speed-rereading Dracula because I have no self-control. In doing so, I got a refresher on quite a few incendiary factors of the book that time had dulled in my memory.

1.     There’s a TON of ‘I’m not like other girls!’ and ‘men good, women dainty,’ and ‘What no I’m not projecting, honest, I just really like the words manful, voluptuous, manful, aquiline, manful, God, and manful again. –Bramothy Stoker,’ so brace for that from basically the whole cast. I’m blaming it partly on Bram Flakes’ own prejudices, of which there are plenty, and the fact that he’d clearly never met a thesaurus in his life.

(I appreciate everyone’s mental revamp of Mina as the New Woman to Lucy’s Classic Damsel, but…oof. Everyone’s in for a harsh Period/Stoker Accurate reminder.)

2.     Brammy Pajamas was either hanging around some exceptionally devout Christians to write some of the second/third act scenes with everyone basically thrashing and wailing and falling on their knees and clasping/kissing hands as they pray to/thank God, all while thinking it was perfectly natural behavior for these characters…or he legit had no clue how any kind of ordinary human being, Christian or otherwise, would react to the situations he puts them in.

(Seriously, it’s not even that everyone’s devout, it’s that they’re all written to act like they’re in a soap opera where the only direction they got was to be as hammy and histrionic as physically possible. You’ll know the scenes when you see them.)

3.     Jonathan Harker has not only been done dirty by every adaptation since the book in terms of being a main character, along with being the character to spend the most time with Dracula in close quarters, period, and being the love interest for Mina—his whole character arc by the second half of the book is the most blazing hot, “If my beloved is destined for damnation, I’m heading to Hell with her, fuck all else,” shit I have ever read in classic literature, full stop.

Not Dracula. Not any character based on Dracula.

Jonathan fucking Harker is the OG archetype for Love Corrupts (Violently), and the canon story avoided him going full tragic villain by t h i s much. You want proof? Let’s go.

NOTE: MAIN SPOILERS STRAIGHT FROM THE BOOK, SHIELD YOUR EYES

Here’s the part most Harker fans scream over, myself included:

“To one thing I have made up my mind: if we find out that Mina must be a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone. I suppose it is thus that in old times one vampire meant many; just as their hideous bodies could only rest in sacred earth, so the holiest love was the recruiting sergeant for their ghastly ranks.”

Good shit, good shit! Jonathan was already prepared to risk falling to his death from a cliff or being eaten by wolves rather than stay in Castle Dracula for a bloodthirsty eternity with the ladies. But now? Mina is quite literally his, “You are worth Hell,” Beloved. But there’s more. Fast forward to one of Team Fuck-Up-That-Old-Undead-Man’s first head-on encounters with the Count. As they’re waiting, Jonathan gets impatient, declaring:

“I care for nothing now,” he answered hotly, “except to wipe out this brute from the face of creation. I would sell my own soul to do it!”

He says as much in front of his Christian+ buddies who, by now, had pretty fair reasons to believe in the legitimacy of Hell and all its demons. Van Helsing is definitely startled and seemingly talks him down from such an oath. Key word being seemingly. Because we jump forward again to a point where Mina, in full saintly forgiveness mode (and apparently selectively forgetting Van Helsing’s history lesson about Dracula’s pre-vampire days being ones of a slaughtering tyrant), saying that if/when they destroy the Count, oh, how happy his soul will be to be free of his torment on Earth, et cetera. Jonathan Harker has a rebuttal to share. Namely:

“May God give him into my hand just for long enough to destroy that earthly life of him which we are aiming at. If beyond that I could send his soul forever and ever to burning hell I would do it!”

God forgives. Jonathan Harker emphatically does not.

Onward again, and he speaks volumes by what he does not say. Chiefly, there’s a point where Mina, now in full martyr preparation should the worst happen, makes the boys swear an oath to destroy her body if/when she succumbs and dies to Dracula’s vampiric poisoning so she cannot rise again as one of his ladies. The boys swear. Mostly. What we get from Jonathan is…

“And must I, too, make such a promise, oh, my wife?”

“You too, my dearest.” (Note: The rest of her paragraph here is full of the most knife-twisting, utterly warped martyr ‘pep talk’ I’ve ever read, and I have no idea how she/Bramarama thought it would remotely convince Jonathan this was all a reasonable and chill thing she was talking about. Anyway.)

It’s important to note that absolutely nowhere in the ensuing text does Jonathan ever speak the promise out loud. He does read the goddamn Burial Service at Mina’s request, which he barely chokes his way through. But he never makes the oath.

Another jump ahead. They are on the hunt for Dracula and, alas, have just missed him at a key point. Most of the gang are shaking their fists at the sky, cursing up and down. And what is Jonathan doing? Well, to quote Jack Seward, just before the epiphany…

“We men were all in a fever of excitement, except Harker, who is calm; his hands are as cold as ice, and an hour ago I found him whetting the edge of the great Ghoorka knife which he now always carries with him. It will be a bad look-out for the Count if the edge of that ‘Kukri’ ever touches his throat, driven by that stern, ice-cold hand!”

And upon discovery of the Count slipping them…

“Harker smiled—actually smiled—the dark bitter smile of one who is without hope; but at the same time his action belied his words, for his hands instinctively sought the hilt of the great Kukri knife and rested there.”

For context, by this point Jonathan had already come at Dracula with said Kukri knife a while back, having nearly landed the blow after charging out of the pack and nearly fucking gutting the Count. For extra context, this is a Kukri knife:

He’s just been walking around with that. For half the book. Plotting.

And, with all of this in mind, we can only assume Jonathan had two plans of action in mind.

Plan A, follow Van Helsing’s lead.

…Not counting the moment he almost bit the Professor’s head off for saying he had to bring Mina along with him to Castle Dracula. Another good scene which includes his very succinct reaction to Van Helsing’s suggestion, even if he does have to agree in the end:

“Not for the world! Not for Heaven or Hell!”

Anyway. If the plan works out, cool. He gets to kill Dracula, Mina is saved. Best case scenario!

But then there’s the unspoken, explicitly unwritten (in case his pages need to be read), but heavily foreshadowed Plan B. They cannot destroy the Count, in time or otherwise. Mina is now either a corpse waiting to awake as a vampire, or a vampire already. The others, true to their vow, mean to destroy her.

Jonathan Harker, true only to Mina, in whatever form she may take, still has that Kukri. And the element of surprise. And a full acknowledgment of the realities of Heaven, Hell, and his holding Mina’s continued existence above them, his friends, his sanity, his humanity, and himself.

In short, all your tragically romantic Draculas can kindly go fuck themselves with a wooden stake. Jonathan Harker is the first and best gothic horror example of a person in love to the point of madness, damnation, and willingness to deceive or destroy anyone who would endanger the one he loves. The only reason we never got to see it in action was because Stoker had to tack on a happy ending. If he hadn’t?

The census would be less four unsuspecting heroes and plus two newlywed vampires.

The End.

Suck on it, Francis.

#Jonathan Harker is a good boy a lovely young man and he Can and Will Kill for His Wife :) :) :) #seriously there's a whole other essay to go with how gloriously fucked up-passionate this stance is within both the time it was written #and the novel itself which is SATURATED with God Christ and more God #for this fucker to have gone through what he did in the castle on top of all the very clear proofs of divine VS infernal goings-on #this dude is flipping the bird to all of it #the whole mess (be it of God or the Devil or fucking Dracula) #none of it ranks higher than Mina in his mind #my guy is fucked up and I love him #jonathan harker #dracula #mina murray #mina harker #dracula daily #spoilers

[yoursecondfirstlove]

Mystery Mania p.11

(Y/n), a popular supernatural podcaster decides to cover the infamous town of Hawkins Indiana for her latest miniseries

MASTERLIST

Will Byers Interview. Raw footage

INT. THE BYERS HOME

Will sits in a chair in his bedroom.

He shuffled uncomfortably in front of the camera.

Y/n: are you ready?

Will smiles nervously and nods.

Y/n: can you please describe the night you went missing?

Will nods again.

Will: yeah, yeah of course. So uh-I was over at my friend Mikes house, we were all playing D&D, and me and my friends all left to go home. I lived the furthest away for there was a little while where I was cycling by myself.

Will looks to y/n for encouragement.

We hear y/n hum.

Will: So uh- I was cycling by myself and I like-I saw something in the road that spooked me I guess.

Y/n: do you remember what you saw?

Will shrugs and looks to the ground.

Will: I don’t know, it was just like-a shadow of something, it was probably and animal or something I don’t know.

Will looks off screen to y/n.

Will smiles to y/n.

Will: so uh, I get spooked and I just steer off the road into the woods. I feel off my bike and like rolled somewhere. I had no idea where I had just ended up so tried to find my way out but I just got more and more lost.

Y/n: how long were you missing?

Will: just uh-just a week.

Y/n: well a week is a long time for a kid to go missing in the woods.

Will nods.

Will: yeah, yeah I was uh-I was in pretty bad shape when they ended up finding me.

Y/n: what was it like coming back, finding out everyone already thought you were dead?

Will scrunches his face up a little, looking slightly tearful.

Will: it uh-it wasn’t great, I guess. I was already bullied but I just started getting bullied like…worse? I guess. That combined with-with all the flashbacks and episodes it was really…

Will begins to tear up.

Will: I’m sorry. I’m really sorry.

Y/n: no, no, no there’s nothing to be sorry for. You need a quick break?

Will nods as he smiles through his tears.

Will: yeah, yeah that’d be great.

Video cuts.

Video cuts back to Will drinking a glass of water.

Will: okay I think Im good now.

Y/n: are you sure?

Will: yeah, yeah Im sure.

Y/n: could you please tell me about any aftermath you went through once you came back?

Will nods.

Will: yeah, yeah of course so uh. I was going to some therapy session, some psychological evaluations after I came back for the uh-for the trauma I guess. It was really hard at first. I got really sick for a little while, which didn’t help.

Y/n: you got sick?

Will nods.

Will: yeah, yeah uh-glandular fever.

Y/n: oh wow…

Will: yeah but uh, things got a lot better, over-over time.

Y/n: yeah?

Will: yeah uh a little bit before the uh-the mall burned down, I actually got to feel like a kid again.

Y/n: so you feel like your childhood was stolen from you after this experience?

Will smiles nervously as he nods and looks into his lap.

Will: yeah, yeah I guess I do.

We hear the door swing open.

Will looks toward the sound.

El: Joyce would like to know if y/n would like to have lunch with us.

Y/n: oh, I wouldn’t want to intrude.

Joyce: oh honey, don’t worry about that, you’re here anyway, we’d love to have you.

Y/n: okay then, that’d be nice, thank you.

Joyce: oh! I’m so sorry, did we interrupt?

Y/n: no, no I think we were just about done anyway. Are you happy to leave it there Will?

Will smiles at y/n.

Will: yeah, yeah I think that’s good.

Video ends

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[thethirdromana]

Can you tell us anything about the practice of Letters of Introduction in the Victorian era?

I'm very happy to answer this! But as I get an increasing number of asks like this, I do want to say up front, I'm not in any sense a historian. I have fun with historical context posts on tumblr and I have a solid layperson's knowledge of a decent chunk of British history, but that's all. I don't want to claim or have anyone assume expertise that I don't have.

I do, however, love random bits of research so let's go.

A letter of introduction was a bit like a modern-day reference, written from person A to person B about person C - Peter Hawkins to Count Dracula about Jonathan Harker, for instance (I assume that's what prompted this question!).

Just as a modern-day reference might say "this person is who they say they are, they worked for me and I can vouch that their skills and experience are what they claim", a letter of introduction does... well, basically the same thing, except for a wider range of functions, including social ones. That could range from "this person is who they say they are, so please permit them to do their job" to "this person is my friend and knows how to behave in polite company, please invite them to your parties".

Here's an example letter of introduction from 1896, about Marconi, the inventor of radio, who was then aged just 21 but who already had promising ideas:

Campbell-Swinton was a notable electrical engineer; Preece was the Chief Electrical Engineer of the General Post Office.

Just like a modern-day reference, if it turned out that the person being vouched for was not a good person to be introducing - maybe they were not quite who they said they were, or they behaved badly - then it would reflect poorly on the person introducing them. A letter of introduction could also be very valuable for the person being introduced as a leg up into whatever part of society they wanted access to. Which is also like a modern-day reference, only much more so, given this was a world with far fewer ways to prove your identity or qualifications.

In Marconi's case, it worked exceptionally well: this letter was written at the end of March in 1896, and by July of the same year he was demonstrating his new technology to the British government.

#dracula daily adjacent #historical context

[silenthillmutual]

15 questions

@sanguinaryrot tagged me<3

Are you named after anyone?

idk where my parents got my deadname from but my real name is from the mythical icarus and jonathan harker from dracula.

When was the last time you cried?

two fridays ago. i was having an episode. don't worry about it<3

Do you have kids?

nope. unless you count the cats in which case yes. but if you mean human or goat children then absolutely not.

What sports do you play/have you played?

i actually used to do dance (tap, jazz, ballet, irish hard shoe & soft shoe) and was on swim team for a while. all of which i stopped doing when i started struggling harder with body image issues & dysphoria. which is a shame because i actually really wanted to learn pointe, but once my ballet teacher left the studio i went to it was all over. i didn't trust anyone else.

Do you use sarcasm?

more than makes sense for me

What is the first thing you notice about people?

...i don't actually know. if i were to hazard a guess i'd say it's probably their eyes: do they were glasses? do they blink a lot? do they make eye contact? i couldn't tell you what color anyone's eyes are though. second guess would be hair (long? short? bangs? color?) or hands (i like hands).

What's your eye color?

gray

Scary movies or happy endings?

these two are not mutually exclusive, but if i had to pick one over the other i'm going with scary movies

Any talents?

if we're talking talent as in 'god'-given/'natural' ability then i was as a kid relatively booksmart and could sing well. how good i was at my other artistic endeavors is like, a kind of murky subject, for a variety of reasons we won't get into here. if you mean 'talent' as in 'what are you good at', i'm decent at writing, proficient in baking, and i can make my partner laugh. if you mean 'what is a fun, weird ability you have' then i got nothing.

Where were you born?

virginia

What are your hobbies?

reading, writing, crochet, video games

Do you have any pets?

my qpp and i have two cats you'll see around sometimes: angelface and sapphire

How tall are you?

5'2"

Favorite subject in school?

in high school it was probably english because i was good at it and it stressed me out the least. in college it was my film classes because that's what i actually wanted to do before my parents railroaded me into the school & major i went with.

Dream job?

a film critic & professor

Tagging?

@yahargulian @go-go-devil @doomednarrative and anyone else who wants to (kinda running low on spoons so feel free to just nab this off me & say i told you to)

#harker.txt

[vickyvicarious]

"We are all here together in freedom, for perhaps the last time! I know, dear; I know that you will always be with me to the end."

+

She looked appealingly to us all in turn, beginning and ending with her husband.

+

The faces of the others were set and Harker's grew ashen grey; perhaps he guessed better than any of us what was coming.

+

"...but what will you give to me?" She looked again questioningly, but this time avoided her husband's face. Quincey seemed to understand; he nodded, and her face lit up. "Then I shall tell you plainly what I want, for there must be no doubtful matter in this connection between us now. You must promise me, one and all—even you, my beloved husband—that, should the time come, you will kill me."

+

"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 [Quincey's]hand.

"I swear the same, my dear Madam Mina!" said Van Helsing.

"And I!" said Lord Godalming, each of them in turn kneeling to her to take the oath. I followed, myself.

Then her husband turned to her wan-eyed and with a greenish pallor which subdued the snowy whiteness of his hair, and asked:—

"And must I, too, make such a promise, oh, my wife?"

"You too, my dearest," she said, with infinite yearning of pity in her voice and eyes. "You must not shrink. You are nearest and dearest and all the world to me; our souls are knit into one, for all life and all time. [...] And oh, my dear, if it is to be that I must meet death at any hand, let it be at the hand of him that loves me best. Dr. Van Helsing, I have not forgotten your mercy in poor Lucy's case to him who loved"—she stopped with a flying blush, and changed her phrase—"to him who had best right to give her peace. If that time shall come again, I look to you to make it a happy memory of my husband's life that it was his loving hand which set me free from the awful thrall upon me."

"Again I swear!" came the Professor's resonant voice.

+

"You, my dearest, will I hope read it, for then it will be in your voice in my memory for ever—come what may!"

"But oh, my dear one," he pleaded, "death is afar off from you."

"Nay," she said, holding up a warning hand. "I am deeper in death at this moment than if the weight of an earthly grave lay heavy upon me!"

"Oh, my wife, must I read it?" he said, before he began.

"It would comfort me, my husband!" was all she said; and he began to read when she had got the book ready.

JonMina tension throughout today. He knows what she's going to ask, he's been dreading and expecting this moment. And she knows what his reaction is going to be. For everyone else, their assent may be a difficult decision but she knows they will agree, knows even that they have done this before. But she's constantly focused on Jonathan throughout the buildup here. She's looking at him first and last, avoiding his eyes sometimes and directly appealing to him at others... meanwhile he's changing colors and groaning and obviously sick and miserable at the very idea of what she's asking.

And he never makes the promise.

Quincey does. Then Van Helsing, then Arthur, then Seward. Jonathan asks Mina if he has to do this, and then she gives him her speech about it which ends with asking Van Helsing to let Jonathan be the one to strike the blow, which Van Helsing agrees to. Jonathan stays silent.

Now, he does pull kind of the same move with her asking him right after to read her the Burial Service. He asks if it's really necessary rather than saying yes, but then does take it up and do it. So you could read this as Jonathan being obviously extremely reluctant to even consider Mina's death (but still willing to do the job if necessary) just like with that reading.

Or perhaps there is a reason Jonathan didn't feel he could write today's entry. Perhaps he couldn't put down on paper his decision to refuse Mina's request here, or at least his inability to acquiesce to it. Perhaps him never agreeing out loud was rather significant.

If he will always be with her till the end, if their souls are as one for all time, if he loves her best- how could he do this? The very language Mina uses to emphasize their relationship and his duty to help her (they do repeated countering of "oh my wife," "oh my husband," as well) may in fact be strengthening his conviction that he must accompany her down this dark path rather than stop her and leave them separated. Since Jonathan didn't write today's entry, it's left to our interpretation... at least for now.

#dracula daily #jonmina #jonathan harker #mina murray

[peachcitt]

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Longest Tag: 127 characters

#and did he just kiss her ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️ on the head a litle soft kiss on the head moment ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️ i feel feral like a rabid dog

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

work title: metamorphosis

tags, as seen on ao3: alternate universe - canon divergence, post season 3, angst and hurt/comfort, fluff and angst, angst with a happy ending, sleepovers, enemies, mental health issues, slow burn, slow build, aged up characters, friendship/love, this is a sleepover fic with like. a lot of extra steps, did i mention the angst?

summary:

“I was thinking about that time you hated me.”

“Why?”

"I don’t know."

“I didn’t.”

“I know.”

or

three years after hawkmoth's defeat, marinette is still trying to figure out her version of normal. there's also sleepovers.

link to read here

art by the lovely @anna-scribbles

and as the lovely anna says, welcome to metamorphosis summer, everybody. enjoy the ride :)

1,227 notes - Posted June 8, 2022

#4

work title: metamorphosis

chapter summary:

He screams, but the sound is muffled, far away, and Marinette takes a moment to-

Breathe.

Push the memory away.

Accept the fact that she’s alone.

link to read here

art by the ever lovely @anna-scribbles

1,365 notes - Posted June 15, 2022

#3

work title: metamorphosis

chapter title: a new way for her to stumble

summary:

Marinette fiddles with her earrings, staring down at her phone but not reading or processing any of the pictures or captions as she scrolls through Instagram. She feels wired, keyed up. Like all her muscles, bones, cells, even, are tensed up and ready for a fight.

Hawkmoth never used to wait a week between akuma attacks. She was lucky if he even waited until the end of the day.

@anna-scribbles finished the chapter 4 title card just in time for y’all to refresh your memory for tomorrow’s update :)

thanks for reading!!<3

1,532 notes - Posted July 5, 2022

#2

work title: metamorphosis

art by @anna-scribbles

chapter summary:

“My lady,” he tries, his voice breaking. “I’m right here, my lady, I’m so, so sorry.”

read the chapter here

i have permission from anna to post her work. as you do not, you should not.

thanks for reading and see y’all next week!!<3

1,811 notes - Posted September 7, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

jonathan harker when he is given terrible omens, driven round in circles for hours, meets the weirdest guy on earth, is isolated in a creepy castle: well this is odd :/

jonathan harker when his shaving glass is thrown out the window: i am a prisoner!! i have been trapped i am like a wild animal!!! how will i be able to shave?? through the reflection on my pot or watch case???? oh my prison guard is SOULLESS and i am DISTROUGHT

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I'm writing Flash (TV) fic and reading Dracula Daily and so here's a Flash Dracula AU that I'm not going to write:

(Warnings: Major Character Death, Child Death, Bad Doctoring. It's a Dracula AU)

Casting:

1. Kamilla Hwang as Mina Murray

Our opening character, currently holidaying in [Whitby] with a dear, dear friend of her fiancé who should be joining them any day now, but he doesn't seem to be sending any letters...

2. Caitlin Snow as Lucy Westenra

Wanted a nice relaxing time at the seaside really getting to know her bestie's new fiancée and thinking about her own upcoming wedding, but her mother is clearly trying to hide something and her own fiancé's father is ill and her best friend appears to be missing and now she appears to have fallen back into her old sleepwalking ways...

3. Cisco Ramon as Jonathan Harker

Kamilla's fiancé and recently made a full solicitor. This will be an easy first job they told him. Travel overseas, get some signatures on this paperwork, he'll be home in no time.

He has been having The Worst Month

4. Ronnie Raymond as Arthur Holmward

Caitlin's fiancé. Loves her so much. Would be with her but his dad's not been doing so well

5. Julian Albert as Quincey Morris

Adventurer. Ronnie's old bud. Also in love with Caitlin but just really, really happy for his friends. Down to shoot a bat.

6. Hunter Zoloman as Jack Seward

There's got to be a twist somewhere, right? He's the head of an asylum. He should not be in charge, really, especially not with that one patient he's dubbed his 'favourite'. Also in love with Caitlin. Bitter she did not choose him. But there's an idea for how to change their fates...

7. Iris West as Abraham Van Helsing

Not a doctor but a journalist, Iris has ended up studying local legends and mythic creatures ever since the loss of her daughter and the rapid decline in her husband's health. She's something of a vampire expert- not that she believes in them, but understanding might give her a way to help her husband. She did not expect it to actually be practical knowledge, but then she hears from Zoloman about the state of his friend Caitlin and maybe there's some truth to the tales after all

8. Barry Allen as Renfield

The latest patient admitted to Zoloman's asylum and his latest source of fascination, Barry is convinced his mother was not murdered by his father but by some monstrous creature she managed to save eleven-year-old Barry from, but one he could not save his own daughter from, and Barry has sworn revenge. Probably has some pet spiders. He gets lonely. Doing some dubious science in his cell. Also gets bored and really, really wants to kill this one guy.

9. Eddie Thawne as Patrick Hennessey

Actually takes good care of everyone in the asylum. Feels bad for Barry. Hopefully someone will promote him when Zoloman winds up dead. Knows a little more than he's letting on

10. And, of course, Eobard Thawne as Dracula

A massive dick

Notes:

We get the reveals as Kamilla does- so what happened to Cisco at Castle Thawne when she reads Cisco's journal, what happened to Caitlin when she gets to read the notes, ect.

This includes the reveal Hunter Zoloman is the one working for Thawne

He's the one who lets Thawne into the asylum to go after Cisco- who was left behind out of concern for his mental health

Luckily Eddie had the bright idea to enlist Barry's help when he figured out what was going on

Zoloman had to bright idea to think Thawne would a) make him immortal and b) make Caitlin immortal and c) this would mean she'd pick him instead of Ronnie

Only Iris knows what this mysterious new "Killer Frost" wandering the nights is and stops her before she can kill anyone, with help from Ronnie and Julian

Barry does fight Thawne and gets very injured for his troubles. This means he's left behind with Eddie when the gang go on a "let's track down Eobard Thawne and murder him" quest, but he does live (it seems unfair for Iris to lose Nora and Barry)

Zoloman's like super dead though. Eobard kills him so he doesn't let any secrets slip not realising Zoloman went and recorded everything in his diary.

Caitlin's dead too. Sorry. Maybe she can be a ghost

Everyone gets a go at stabbing Eobard Thawne

#it's not got a lot of thought put into it #i'm not going to write anything i just had an idea that got stuck in my head #so now it is here written down and not in my head #and now back to gone in a flash #dc tv universe #dc #look i wrote a thing #ish #*