#Master Harker

[theresas-sound-world-blog]

Theresa’s Sound World recommendation:

I really enjoy watching the music video essays by Trash Theory on YouTube. A few of the essays that I enjoyed the most were ones on Hüsker Dü, The Prodigy and Fugazi, plus The Grunge video is excellent too. These video essays are insightful, well-researched and edited. Here’s a video from a few years ago that I found absolutely fascinating, the story of ‘How Soon Is Now?’ by The Smiths ⭐️

#underground music #theresa’s sound world #uk #punk #music blogger #music blog #shoegaze #music writer #indie #master harker #alternative music #dreampop #sadcore #lofi #folk #gimme indie rock #alternativerock #vinyl #slowcore #tsw #indie blog #the smiths #morrissey #johnny marr #80s Indie #Youtube

[master-harker]

My homemade Diddley Bow/ One string Blues Slide Guitar

#alternative music #master harker #uk #underground music #indie #bluegrass #blues #blues music #blues guitar #diddley bow #Diddley bow guitar

[immediatebreakfast]

The image of those poor train station employees in Klausenburg seeing Jonathan coming to the ticket booth is so funny. Imagine being in your work station of the day, and you see a guy in just his dirty dayclothes, feet caked up in mud, looking he survived a fight to the death with any animal he encountered, unbathed and unshaved, trying to buy a train ticket with ancient gold coins while shouting in a mix of English and basic German. Imagine being in that situation.

#They probably went ''Oh my fucking god another unhinged british tourist what do we do???'' #''should we give him the ticket???'' #''I'm sorry sir please calm down we have to see where these gold coins come from'' #Then the station-master is done and just gives him the ticket because the other passengers around the booth are looking scared #dracula daily #jonathan harker

[were-writes]

So, Jonathan's letter that Dracula burnt today, that was the shorthand one, right? Like was Dracula mad because he does know shorthand and now he knows Johnathan is on to him, or was it 'an insult to friendship' because he thinks Jonathan has a secret made up best friend language with Mina like besties do when they're little kids, but not one with him and he's feeling left out?

#dracula daily #My good friend Jonathan Harker is a master of subterfuge and espionage #He didn't sign the letter #Which no one else could have written #That'll fool him #Want to see Jonathan enter his gaslight gatekeep girl boss era #Claim one of the brides gave him the letter and the gold to post it #He just thought he'd write to his boss at the same time #Start some drama girl #Treat yo self

[kissmefriendly]

The Dracula Take Down Team would be an absolute nightmare at quiz night

#they all bring in their specialities and wipe the floor with the other teams #Seward Quincey and van Helsing would absolutely get into an argument over some answers with the quiz master #art is their general knowledge guy - doesn’t even matter what the question is he KILLS the general knowledge category #Mina would be all current events #Johnathan would 100% know hyper specific laws and literature #Van Helsing can do math and geography #Seward is latest tech and science #come on I need this #they would KILL the other teams! #mina would also be so good at local history omg #only a nightmare to the other teams #they’re banned from 3 different pubs #within 2 months #dracula daily #dracula #johnathan harker #mina harker #abraham van helsing #jack seward #lord godalming #quincey morris #AU where Lucy’s there as well but is either not involved and just supporting everyone OR she’s extremely competitive #lucy westenra #go get em girl

[ubyr-babaj]

As a disabled man I look at some readings of “Dracula” and “Master and Margarita” and there’s this trend of: “A female character has a male love-interest who’s kind of Bland, so I’ll break them up to ship her with an asshole Enticing Evil Force TM/female best friend/literally some random guy who was nice to her once”, and it’s kind of interesting that both Johnathan and Master are disabled in some way. Johnathan is implied to develop some form of C-PTSD, Master canonically has psychosis (and probably autism) and literally can’t work.

I just want some relatable discussion of the situation where your romantic partner is your caretaker and you feel like you’re dragging them down and are scared for your life in case they die/leave you. Is that too much to ask for.

#dracula #dracula daily #mina harker #master and margarita #mikhail bulgakov

[argyleheir]

Fave trope: tweedy guys & the monsters they love 🖤

#realized this morning i’ve sought out this dynamic #for my whole ficcing career #to varying degrees #dracula x jonathan harker #aziraphale x crowley #charles x erik #henry x abe #doctor x master #lestat x louis #among others

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

Last night I had a dream that I was driving around in "the He-Man universe" with a heroic Vampire!Mina Harker in a car or something. I'm pretty sure that the only reference to He-Man which actually appeared was Evil-Lyn.

I've never watched anything He-Man.

#shenanigans #masters of the universe #evil-lyn #dracula #dracula daily #mina harker #mina murray #vampy mina #queue continuum

[kforkourtney]

I'm gonna pretend I posted this on Friday the 13th😅. Taking inspiration from Dracula, this scientist, which one could interpret as Mina Harker (née Murray), has become a master in Chemistry and Hematology. Her clothing echoes the dark suits that scientists and doctors wore in the 1800s. Whether she has gone insane in finding a cure to her vampirism, or is obsessed with blood's scientific properties, one only hopes that her husband hasn't become a victim in her insane experiments! Happy Inktober!!💕🦇

#digitalart #illustration #fanart #digitalillustration #art #vampire #vampire art #vampire girl #mina murray #mina harker #count dracula #inktober #inktober2023 #spooktober #spooky month

[theresas-sound-world-blog]

A video (link below) of me explaining a companion piece playlist which I created based on bands & artists I mentioned in my recent live performance review of Chris Farren & Ravetank at Exchange Bristol, England.

Along with tracks by Chris Farren & Ravetank, I include a track, music video or life performance of every band or artist I mention in my review.

Click on my Linktree in my IG profile (or below) & follow links to my all new YouTube channel. (Playlist link also below) There you will find the playlist!

Love, James! 💛

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#MusicBlogger #MusicBlogs #Indiepop

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#alternative music #underground music #theresa’s sound world #master harker #uk #tsw #indie punk #Chris Farren #Ravetank #blogger #video blog #music

[master-harker]

From a year ago…When you’re at a handfasting, sat in an orchard by Glastonbury Tor, dressed as a Knight, playing a Nick Drake tune ⭐️

#alternative music #master harker #uk #punk #underground music #theresa’s sound world #tsw #slowcore #lofi #folk #shoegaze #music blogger #indie #music blog #sadcore #dreampop #masterharker #anti-folk #guitar #music writer #Wiccan #pagan #Glastonbury #Glastonbury Tor #Nick drake #Youtube

[marypsue]

You know, for years I've been thinking "the whole half-vampire situation and 'kill the head vampire and free any half-vampires' thing in The Lost Boys is so unique, I've never seen that particular approach to vampire turning in any other vampire story, and it really fits the story well, I wonder how they came up with it" and.

It's Dracula. It's literally just what happens in Dracula. Michael Emerson and Mina Harker 'having to kill the master vampire whose blood (which you ingested) is slowly turning you into a creature of the night in order to become human again' handshake meme.

#blinding flash of the obvious here tonight #the lost boys #given the number of different takes on what it takes to make a vampire that I've seen over the years #and managed to also trace back to Dracula #('you have to be drained to the point of death and then fed the vampire's blood' - Lucy #'you have to be bitten by the vampire' - also Lucy #'you have to be bitten by the vampire specifically three times' - also also Lucy #'you have to be fed the vampire's blood' - Mina) #it is honestly kind of embarrassing that I never really looked to Dracula as a potential source of how to STOP being a vampire

[pitviperofdoom]

Team Kill-Dracula as a DnD Party

Van Helsing: Cleric, Grave Domain. Probably the easiest choice. As a doctor he’s the party’s principal healer, he’s the one who keeps whipping out holy symbols and prayers, and he has all the know-how on identifying and dealing with all things Undead. Also Van Helsing using Path to the Grave would be incredibly badass.

Arthur Holmwood: Ranger, Beast Master Conclave. This one’s a gimme. We already know he hunts regularly, it’s the pastime of choice for rich lordly types, and he spent one notable scene summoning and skillfully handling some dogs.

Quincey Morris: Fighter, Cavalier Archetype. I definitely knew he was the party’s fighter, but it wasn’t until I did some digging that I found out there was a fighter type with an emphasis on mounted combat. My man is a COWBOY. Admittedly Matt Mercer’s Gunslinger homebrew is also tempting, but since it has more emphasis on tinkering, I thought the Cavalier perks would fit Quincey a little more.

John Seward: Cleric, Mind Domain. This man gave me SO MUCH TROUBLE because everybody else slotted so neatly into their classes and I could not for the life of me figure out what fit him. I finally landed on cleric since he’s the second doctor in the party, and when I did a little more googling I found out that mind clerics were a thing, which is both incredibly cool and fitting for the guy who has given me psychic damage multiple times.

Jonathan Harker: Barbarian, Path of the Berserker. He’s just. He angy. When he swung a machete at Dracula and stole his lunch money I was like “Yeah that was a Reckless Attack. He definitely had advantage on that.” Once his wife got the chomp all bets were off. He Would Like To Rage.

Mina Harker: Bard, College of Eloquence. I debated between this and College of Lore, but I landed on eloquence because this woman’s charisma is high as fuck, she grants inspiration every time she opens her mouth, and she seems to know exactly what to say to whoever she talks to, from her husband to Lucy’s suitor squad to Renfield. Let’s be real, she united the whole group single-handed and probably would have charmed her way into being the face of the party if Van Helsing’s paternalistic Victorian sensibilities hadn’t kicked in. Unfortunately she also has one level in warlock with an undead patron she doesn’t want, but on the bright side she can cast Eldritch Blast now.

#dracula #dracula daily #dnd

[see-arcane]

God, this entry is really a master class in how to show the fallibility of a direct POV and how to tell the character in question is ludicrously oblivious.

The lethargy grows upon her, and though she seems strong and well, and is getting back some of her colour, Van Helsing and I are not satisfied. We talk of her often; we have not, however, said a word to the others. It would break poor Harker's heart—certainly his nerve—if he knew that we had even a suspicion on the subject. 

Jack. This man lived for two months with four active vampires. He knows. And he knows you know. He did not just magically un-learn all the facts and leave you and your idol alone on top of ‘Me, An Intellectual’ Mountain. 

Van Helsing examines, he tells me, her teeth very carefully, whilst she is in the hypnotic condition, for he says that so long as they do not begin to sharpen there is no active danger of a change in her. If this change should come, it would be necessary to take steps!... We both know what those steps would have to be, though we do not mention our thoughts to each other. 

Jonathan knows those steps too, Jack. He read about Lucy, Jack. He can tell when Mina is being Different, Jack. He knows what you and Abe are thinking of, Jack. 

We should neither of us shrink from the task—awful though it be to contemplate. "Euthanasia" is an excellent and a comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

Jonathan ‘Never Puts Down His Kukri Knife’ Harker is so glad you agree, Jack! Raise one hand against Mina and you’ll see just how into it he is.

It’s just...wow. Whether Stoker intended it or not, he perfectly encapsulated the ‘Would Never Make It to the End of a Horror Movie’ characterization. 

#I'm trying to give Jack some leeway here #Jonathan is probably using whatever parts of him aren't focused on Murder Dracula energy to mask the fact that #no; he is NOT Arthur Holmwood #he is NOT steeling himself to kill his wife #he is preparing for a worst case scenario the rest of the crew can't begin to imagine #or prepare for #god #jack seward #jonathan harker #mina harker #dracula #dracula daily

[vashhanamichi]

It’s a bit insane how much Harry is like Dracula’s Mina Harker — she too is marked on the forehead by the story’s villain, her violation feels sexual like Harry in the graveyard, and she shall go where her master, her maker, her butcher calls her — like Harry goes to Voldemort when Voldemort calls to him. Mina is also surrounded by men who want to protect her but ultimately cannot, because if she turns, if she becomes Dracula’s, she is lost — death is her only escape. Harry was Voldemort’s Horcrux from the start, he was always lost.

#harrymort #dracula #harry potter #mina harker #ofc voldemort is very much like dracula himself

[0hcicero]

Some Dracula Daily first entry thoughts:

Stoker really is a master of the slow reveal and of worldbuilding for a *purpose*. The details of the aprons and the folk costumes, the food and the history all *seems* scattered and meandering in that touristy way, but it serves to do a few things:

- separates Jonathan and the reader from the people, and paints them as - in his own words ‘barbarian’ and other. Not necessarily because they are, but because this is an effective means of create *distrust* from the reader to the people of Transylvania - we see what Jonathan sees, just some folksy people clinging to bygone traditions, a superstitious lot - quaint, but not *exactly* with it, like your great uncle who goes on about ancient aliens.

- layers discomfort like colour on an oil painting. Biarritz is old and has seen its fair share of calamity, and bears the scar of that - fire and war both. Interesting historical/worldbuilding fact, but the fact that it still shows that, but he doesn’t over-explain it? It’s so matter of fact! It just *is*. Then the note about famine and disease emptying it further, again, related as mere fact, no extraneous detail describing the empty streets or the charred beams and crumbling plaster, but layers it in there too. This place is quiet and forlorn and shows its wounds. This is not a place of safety. But for Jonathan Harker, it’s just that quaint, othered, old world. If it were just like this in England, would his danger-meter start spiking?

- shows just how off Jonathan’s sense of risk and danger is because he sees this place and these people as ‘other’ — he chooses to normalize the present worries of Bistritz as remnants of history, and distance himself from the people, who could provide him current, effective knowledge (they’ve been surviving through the danger, surely they know how to help him survive as well), because this is not civilized England, but some far nation so different from his own, tra-la-la, how quaint!

The dread this all builds so quietly from day 1!!! Impressive! Ugh STOKER I enjoy it more and differently every time I read it! Poor Jonathan.

#dracula daily