#Jonathan Harker x Count Dracula

[grimgrinningghost456]

🦇Random Drac fact of the day! 🦇

If he ever lets Jonathan leave the castle to hunt alone, the second he gets back he gets tackled and then forced to sit and get nuzzled for an hour

it looks cute, but in reality, the count is re-scenting him. Nuzzles can be for affection but they’re first and foremost a type of claiming tactic. That doesn’t mean it can’t be cute. (Johnny only lets the Count do this because he finds the Vampire’s resulting purrs endearing)

#froggy croaks #vampires #Harkula #Drac facts✨🦇 #Jonathan Harker x Count Dracula

[theblueprincess590]

The More I read Bram Stoker’s Dracula the more convinced I am that Dracula wanted to fuck John Harker. Like the dude made the guys bed for christ sake

#dracula daily #dracula memes #count dracula #bram stroker #dracula #bram stroker’s Dracula #jonathan harker #shipping I guess but not really #dracula x jonathan harker #I do but also don’t ship them #old school toxic Yoai

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Any of you fellow Dracula fans also producers, film crew, etc. like me?

I'm writing a Dracula movie which, slowly but surely, I will direct - and I can't be the only one on set who is "Totally Normal" about JonMina.

If any of you Dracula fans are filmmakers - or know people who would love to help - hopefully we can make a Dracula feature film together that finally does the book (and fandom) justice!

#dracula daily #dracula #re: dracula #fandom #fan filmmaking #dracula movies #dracula adpatation #filmmaking #directing #writing #film #dracula is queer #as bisexually as possible #movies #dracula fandom #count dracula #jonmina #jonathan harker #mina harker #jonathan x mina #mina x jonathan #bram stoker #mina harker supremacy #holiest love #filmblr #movieblr #indie film #fan film

[anakinisvaderisanakin]

I’m probably far from the first to say this BUT.

Dracula and Jonathan being romanticized or reinterpreted as a couple makes way more sense than Dracula and Mina. At least from a narrative standpoint and judging by their interactions in Stoker’s original novel. Which. Knowing about Stoker’s sexuality makes a lot of sense. 

Why has no one based a movie or novel off of this idea? I would love to see it.

#dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #count dracula #mina murray #dracula x jonathan harker #thoughts #lizard fashion #bram stoker #gothic romance #gothic horror #vampires

[saffitaffi]

On my yearly re-listen to OSPs Dracula reading! Thought I’d take a crack at drawing the characters, maybe I’ll do some more if I feel like it. Drac’s design is pretty heavily inspired by the OG Hotel Transylvania Drac designs (they’re so good omg)

#Dracula #art #count dracula #jonathan harker #dracula x jonathan harker #seriously though it’s super hard to find good references to what the characters look like in the book #because every time I try to look it up all the shows and movies descriptions come up instead #and of course I couldn’t help but put a little red on Dracs design #but also #dracula is so gay omg #Drac x Jonny is toxic af but also so good mmmmm #bram stocker's dracula #spooky #halloween #happy halloweeeeeeen #harkula

[night-eyes1]

#I don't think bram secretly gay stoker see that coming #Or did he ;) #dracula daily #jonathan harker #count dracula #Dracula #bram stoker's dracula #bram stoker #mina murray #lucy westenra #mina x lucy #lucy x mina #dracula x jonathan

[livefromcastledracula]

Dracula and Mina

Alas, work has pulled me away from tumblr right at a pivotal moment again, but here we are, so I'll make some thoughts here on a number of topics; Lucy, Renfield, and Mina.

Starting with the most recent; Dracula's 'visitation' to Mina. (T/W: discussions of sexual assault) This scene is so often framed in adaptations as some sort of love scene, building from the Jack Palance 1974 edition, which was both the first to feature Dracula being explicitly Vlad Tepes in his backstory and the first to feature the 'lost love' subplot - in this case, Lucy, with the attack on Mina being his wrathful vengeance for the gang killing his vampire bride after he had finally found her again.

The Palance edition borrowed this subplot of a vampire pining for his reincarnated lover, not from any canonical Dracula, but from Barnabas Collins of Dark Shadows. Before this, while Dracula could be seductive, he was a ruthless, predatory bastard - see both Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee's performances - it was here with this lesser-known, though still quite good, Dracula adaptation that the course starts to divert.

This of course set the stage for romantic and sexy Draculas of subsequent adaptations, Louis Jordan, Frank Langella and Gary Oldman among others all depicting various tiers of Dracula as the tragic, romantic and suave villain, sometimes antihero.

Which brings us further and further from Stoker's calculating monster, and from the original intent of this scene, which still reads to me as one of the most chilling and uncomfortable scenes of the book - really it's the climactic horror scene of Dracula, the last time the heroes are caught flat-footed by the Count's power before they take the fight to him, and the culmination of the slow-burn establishment of Mina's selfless heroism, the strength of her relationship with Jonathan, Renfield's tragic arc, and the idiot ball the cast has been grabbing by leaving Mina out of their boy's club.

Without whitewashing it, the scene reads unambiguously as an assault, with Mina attacked in her bedroom by the Count, subdued with physical force, fed upon and then forced to drink Dracula's blood. The aftermath leaves her bruised, traumatised, and declaring herself 'unclean'. It's not a subtle metaphor and it's not meant to be. It is meant to make your blood run cold and to me, Mina's grief and shame and self-loathing, Jonathan's impotence and despair, and the horrified reactions of the gang, it is brutally effective.

It also re-establishes the stakes of Dracula and the threat of the villain; maybe they are fighting the good fight to avenge Lucy and stop the Count's attempt to conquer England, but there are very personal stakes too. If they fight Dracula, he will bite back, and their loved ones will suffer and die.

Here I think it's important to step back and note what Stoker handles in what to me reads as a surprisingly modern response; though Mina bears the physical and emotional scars of her encounter with Dracula, her 'hysterics' are brief (and entirely fucking justified given the circumstances, my god) and she is quick to reassert her strength and composure and seize agency of her situation, declaring that since the worst thing has already happened to her, she can have no more fear. From here, her role as the group's brains and heart is not only undiminished, it gets stronger, as the other characters start relying on her more and sidelining her less. As paternalistic as Van Helsing is here (and boy do we get a lot of long rambling Papa Helsing speeches here) it's Mina who ultimately has the strength of will to not only decide first to die human rather than share Lucy's fate, and then to accept fighting that to the end alongside her companions.

Jonathan's reaction to her scarring, too, is something left out of most adaptations, and I think it flies under the radar as one of his most powerful character moments; here in this story, which only gets more Catholic from here, with all the characters fervently fighting for immortal souls against this agent of the Devil, etc etc, Jonathan Harker is willing to consciously damn his own if it means that Mina won't face eternity alone.

For a good English Protestant boy who's already suffered horribly at the hands of vampires, this is monumental, stands in stark contrast to the fate of Lucy and Arthur, and makes total sense for a man who loves his wife more than his own soul. This - the loss from the story of Dracula's brutality and cruelty, Mina's courage and resilience, and Jonathan's bottomless devotion - is why I can't stand adaptations flipping the script on this scene and everything it implies, even if it is uncomfortable and awful to read, it's supposed to be, and it defines so much about all three of these characters going forward.

#dracula daily #daily dracula #dracula #count dracula #jonathan harker #jonathan x mina #mina murray #mina harker #mina baddass #bram stokers dracula

[mrsmarymorstan]

"How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him when I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me! Beware how you meddle with him, or you'll have to deal with me."

#Dracula #Dracula Daily #morstan reads dracula #drac x jon #Count Dracula #jonathan harker #greatest hits

[chococherryheart]

[the women lifting cake to their mouths and staring directly into each other's eyes]

Lucy: I'm so in love with my man

Mina: I, too, am in love with my man

Lucy: I found another man who would be better for you

Mina: tell me more

Lucy: he owns an entire lunatic asylum

Mina: I've got chills

Lucy: let's disrobe in front of the fire and talk more about how horny we are. for men

#dracula: a love story #dracula #dracula daily #count dracula #mina #mina x lucy #jonathan harker #omg they're so gay i love them

[james-vane-stan]

seeing all the fanart for may 16 like UGH PLEASE MAKE THEM MORE GAY

#dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #count dracula #dracula x jonathan harker

[linsaangs]

soft drac jonny relaxing on the couch?

protection from his three blood sucking girlfriends

#yeah sure i'll draw that #my art #dracula #dracula daily #dracula x jonathan #count dracula #jonathan harker #this pairing is so funny to me #leg of bicuriosity

[grimgrinningghost456]

🦇Husband Shenanigans🦇

Drac: …..shit

*Johnathan, absolutely demolished, having Face planted on the ground below the tower after trying to take flight as a bat for the first time*

Drac: ……..Johnny?

#froggy croaks #vampires #Harkula #Jonathan is fine #just completely out of it #he’s not too happy either #probably the one time Drac acually is worried about him #Jonathan Harker x Count Dracula

[yallemagne]

Happy Halloween!

I started late today, I’d been carving a pumpkin dressed like a vampire. Also I just completely procrastinated not knowing what to draw. This is the last day... and I almost didn’t draw something sexy. 

I made the eyes much too big and then much too small on the first two sketches, making young Dracula look unsexy as hell, but I paid penance with the second page. Which is why I put the second page first because it’s just much better. 

#strangely enough dracula just looks best wrinkly and balding #because of the darker lines on Jonathan #he kinda looks in-focus while dracula is blurry #I find that neat #Happy Halloween #count dracula #jonathan harker #dracula x jonathan #?? maybe #dracula daily #dracula #dracula fanart #Fanart #art #traditional art #dractober

[nico-nico-suavecito]

Waiting to see how long it takes for this website to fall into a Dragathan/Jonula frenzy. I think one more instance of Dracula trying to seize Jonathan by the neck will get us there.

#dracula daily #johnathan harker #dracula #dracula x jonathan #dragathan #jonula #may 8 #count dracula

[mikaharuka]

A Touch Through Time - Official Post

So... the reveals for the Rare Male Slash Exchange (RMSE) finally happened today, so here I am sharing the three fics I wrote for it!

All three fics are in my Masterpost and my Mizuka's Odyssey series!

So... I wrote for Dracula, Fire Emblem Awakening, and Persona 3! [links go to AO3 - all three fics are rated M and have 1000 words]

This fic is particularly special, because my assignment was none other than my friend, Birdie (@0nelittlebirdtoldme)! She managed get me into the Dracula TV show that aired on BBC in 2020, and... well, as a vampire writer myself, I had to take a stab at other vampire fandoms, and I can promise you that this won't be the last of it ^_^

Title: A Touch Through Time

Fandom: Dracula (TV 2020), Dracula - Bram Stoker

Ship: Dracula/Jonathan Harker

Rating: Mature

Category: M/M

Word Count: 1000 words

Summary: Jonathan follows after Dracula and his hands, over the course of their relationship and through the sands of time.

You may be interested? @mrsmungus, @udaberriwrites, @magma-saarebas19, @aislinnstanaka, @lena-hills, @bees-and-sunshine @bleepbloopbotz, @sliebman10, @axolotlsupremacyowo, @tsunderewatermelon, @0nelittlebirdtoldme, @argyleheir

#my fic #slash fic #bbc dracula #dracula #dracula daily #dracula x jonathan harker #harkula #count dracula #hand kink #hand and finger kink #vampire #vampires #dracula fanfiction #rare male slash exchange #mizuka's fic updates #mizuka's fandom odyssey #slash ships #slash fanfiction #rarepair

[miseru346]

No 3 Forbidden Taste (JonathanXDracula)

After 7 years since they vanquished the vampire known as Count Dracula, Jonathan Harker didn't expect the tragedy that befall him on that day, leading him to live a life under the Count's rule. However, once it ended, he opened his eyes to realize he was returned to the time, before he was attack by Dracula's female companion.

It’s the long awaited Dracula arc, how did Jonathan became one of the “villains”, let’s see~~

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48582301/chapters/122545429

#count dracula #jonathan harker #brides of dracula #dracula novel #fanfiction #gay fanfiction #dracula x jonathan #dracula x brides #mina harker #quincey harker #Arthur Holmwood #jack seward #john seward #abraham van helsing