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[poisonwithkaffeflavour]

Happy birthday to Wihelmina Waltz and A Styrian Rhapsody!!

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[imaseawitch]

Supremely disappointed in the Demeter movie. Spoilers ensue!

Let's start with what I liked:

I'm glad they decided to make Drac a hideous freak because at least he was interesting to look at. They showed him a lot (too much?) so thank goodness he was cool. You could maybe even play it off within book rules by saying that Dracula takes many forms, and if he wasn't worried about appearing as a man to fool others into entering legal trade of real estate/cargo transportation services with him, maybe he was appearing as this freaky gargoyle version because he just could.

The chef character was at least kinda compelling and I liked the storyline of him taking out one dude so he could steal a rowboat and try to escape, only for Drac to find him, kill him, and bring the empty boat back to the Demeter - ominously! If they'd played into the dramatic irony and played closer to the book story, it still would have fit and worked well.

Which is a great transition into what I did not like.

Firstly, they should have leaned a lot heavier into the dramatic irony. We as an audience know we're in for a Dracula movie...but the characters do and should not! They could have showed Dracula (in his freak ass form) taking out these dudes one by one, but the characters of the story? All they see is blood on the deck, and another man missing. You can draw out the characters and the story by making them decide how to react to the mystery and if/how to plot against each other.

If you read the subtext of the book, then you can maybe infer that the first mate has heard of Dracula, but you don't really know. None of the crew know of him. So you could have made it so some were skeptical, some were convinced it was supernatural, others are convinced it's some sort of religious punishment (the chef character story fits in), and they split into factions. So you're getting tense, charged moments between characters, but meanwhile you're also getting the horror porn satisfaction of scenes of Drac taking out each crewman (maybe overlaid, cut by cut...I can just imagine the cinnamontopography...

They showed Dracula to the other characters too soon. Characters knew it was a creepy being amongst them too soon. The horror lies in the wonder: is it a monster? Or is a man amongst us a monster?

They honestly could have added the dog and the boy and the doctor and maybe even the lady and still made the book story work. The lady didn't need to know about Dracula though. She could have been just an actual stowaway; easily Dracula's first victim, due to her proximity, and desire to remain hidden from the other crewmates. But somehow, Dracula is interrupted before he can drain her. Maybe by the dog, who barks and raises the alarm? But then the crew thinks the dog was just alerting them about the stowaway, not the monster. You could have had a whole scene where the captain promises the invented ship's doctor character about how he won't record her in the log, because maybe she has some troubled past she's escaping from. Then it's like an explanation as to why she isn't in the book, but it fits the story anyway. Some of the crewmates can blame her for the disappearances: whether it's bad luck because she's a lady, or maybe she is really a murderer, or maybe she's secretly working for Dracula! It all plays into the drama, and even the viewers don't know if she's working for Drac or not because she wasn't there in the novel.

The first mate should have been the one who vaguely knew the story of Dracula. Maybe he grew up just outside of Dracula's reach, but heard stories of village children going missing closer to the mountains. He's in denial at first: he's a skeptic, and he refuses to believe that this old wives' tale is actually responsible for something as serious as his actual crew's lives. But as the evidence becomes more and more clear that it really is Dracula, he doubts his sanity until, until! It's just him and the captain left. In his madness, he refuses to stay within the lantern light by the captain. Instead, he goes below deck and tears open the crates one by one. Dracula, sated with the blood of the rest of the crew, only smiles at him.

Here's where you get the real good shot of Dracula looking like a real nasty little bitch, all creepy and shit. You have only gotten glimpses so far, quick shots almost as though they're from the perspective of a crewmate getting hunted. But now, the first mate sees him, chin still blood-stained (maybe the last person Drac killed was the little boy and the body is missing, but the first mate walks into him sucking that son down like a capri sun) and the first mate comes out from below deck, hollering about true evil and throws himself off the side, just like in the book.

The captain refuses to go below deck, believing the first mate killed the others, including the boy, so he lashed himself to the wheel...until Drac comes for him too! He's out, awake constantly, through bitter night and blaring sun, so even he isn't sure when he finally sees Drac. But he does, and he records it. And just as he sees land, we get a nice gorey scene where Drac takes out the captain.

Cut to the ship landing at Whitby. At the very beginning of the movie, it started with the gathered townsfolk trying to explore the ship. For the last bits, maybe you get some scenes of them gathering together to see this weird ship (Mina and Lucy cameo???) But at the very end, all you get is the ships crashing near the docks (big gasp from the gathered townsfolk) and the dog jumps off and runs away. We end with a shot of this dog coming right at you as it jumps off the ship.

Anyway, I still have more critiques.

There were just too many people alive at the last bit. I think the tension builds when slowly you're left with 4, then 3, then 2, then only 1 person to man a full sized sailboat. Part of the horror is being alone at sea! Not just that people are dying, but you're being left without them in a perilous situation.

They also chose to show other people get infected with vampirism (which I don't like because you can't become a vampire unless you drink the blood of a vampire, but fine they can just change the rules. I don't like it but that's maybe a me problem.), and subsequently those bitten die when exposed to sunlight. So why didn't the crew just all nap on deck during the day (with shifts) and kept watch all together overnight? To me it's so obvious that it becomes a plot hole.

#the last voyage of the demeter #dracula daily spoilers #book dracula #dracula novel #dracula movie #analysis

[studywithjennifer]

whitby abbey, where dracula arrived in england

#dracula #dracula daily #count dracula #mina harker #jonathan harker #my good friend jonathan harker #literature #books #reading #bookblr #dark academia #academia #academia aesthetic #history #whitby #whitby abbey #my posts #york trip 2023

[thefandomlifechoseme]

me, when Jonny Sims appears in any piece of media he's been part of: oh hey. what's Jonny Sims doing in this piece of media I started consuming solely because Jonny Sims was in it.

#jonny sims #slay the princess #the mechs #the mechanisms #the magnus protocol #tmagp #tma #the magnus archives #re dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #dracula book #dracula #thirteen storeys #family business

[evydraws]

"It seemed as if the whole, awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion."

Bram Stoker's Dracula | portfolio | prints

#dracula #acrylic painting #evelyne park #illustration #book illustration #traditional media #my art #traditional painting #book cover art #artists on tumblr #dracula daily #vampire art #gothic horror #horror art #dark fantasy #book cover #evydraws #fantasy artist #count dracula #bram stoker

[vinceaddams]

Defeating Dracula is a lot more paperwork than the movies make it out to be.

#dracula #dracula daily #books #re: dracula

[zegalba]

Bram Stoker’s Dracula, First Edition (1897)

#dracula #bram stoker #bram stocker's dracula #book #bat #1897

[nausikaaa]

i know he's evil but i do have to respect Dracula for the sheer freak factor. like the man couldn't be less normal if he tried. THERE IS NO REASON TO SCALE THE WALLS LIKE A LIZARD. YOU OWN THE CASTLE. YOU CAN WALK. but no he is a little freak at heart and must be weird as fuck at all times lest he take psychic damage. and personally i can relate.

#also lmao apparently in one of the Anne Rice books Lestat himself is like 'now why the fuck would he do that?' #HE IS JUST A TERMINAL WEIRDO #dracula daily #re: dracula

[my-heart-of-heart]

I’ve been waiting for this one…

#I’ve had this qued since May #the best line in the book #October 28 #dracula daily #Dracula #mina harker #johnathan harker #abraham van helsing

[tishtasharoo]

“I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

One of my favourite quotes in the book said by Mina Harker and for some reason it stuck with me

#dracula daily #dracula #qoutes #books

[nerdpoe]

Vlad meets Lex. He realizes some things.

Vlad meets Lex Luthor at a gala, and Lex is schmoozing hard.

Lex has heard about Vlad's weirdass business deals, knows something isn't right, and he want whatever untraceable power Vlad's got at his disposal.

Lex has done his research, and knows that Vlad got the equipment for cloning, but that no child was ever announced. So Lex starts bragging, going on and on about Kon and talking about the kid like he's a Thing.

And Vlad, listening to this, has some unfortunate realizations about how he was treating Ellie.

So Vlad excuses himself and does some digging of his own, and holy shit do the dead have a lot to gossip about regarding how Superman used to treat the boy, and Vlad...doesn't want to be compared to either of those buffoons.

He's better than both of them combined.

And he's gonna prove it.

He's gonna be the daddest dad that ever dadded.

He'll be way better than Jack, and if he's a better father than Jack then Daniel and Jasmine and Maddie will follow! He just has to learn how to be a good parent.

Easy.

He proceeds to buy every parenting book he can find, and signs himself up for parenting classes.

Ellie, minding her own business, feels a shiver go down her back.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #story prompt #phanfic #vlad's obsession has switched from wooing maddie with money to wooing her with good parenting skills #redemtion fic #vlad slowly starts to have his obsession switch from maddie to just being a good father #ellie fuckin books it #various justice league members have seen a dracula-esque man chasing a white haired kid through their cities #the only one who could have feasibly done anything was J'onn #he read teh general vibe of “LET ME FATHER YOU” and decided to leave it alone #he did tell batman though #maybe he and that strange dracula meta can bond #the man could use more friends

[vampire-carmilla]

“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula.

I'm very happy with my new copy of Dracula, it's very stunning. 🖤

#dracula book #bram stocker's dracula #gothic literature #vampire novel #mine #my pics #dark academia books #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #bookstan #books

[wulfhalls]

me and the besties reading about our honorary girl mutual jonathan harker liveblogging his business trip like

#dracula daily #txt.me #love our silly little book club xoxo #10k+

[kimabutch]

Point 1: Dracula is set in the 1890s.

Point 2: Red Dead Redemption 2 is set in 1899.

Point 3: Dracula’s characters include the cowboy Quincey Morris, whose good good friend is named Arthur.

Point 4: Red Dead Redemption 2 canonically has a vampire in it, whom the player character Arthur can hunt and kill.

Conclusion: ????

#I’VE CONNECTED THE DOTS #dracula #book adventures #rdr2 #my stuff

[artemisyates]

Some Mina and Jonathan Harker for the end of spooky season. ♥

#happy halloween #mina murray #mina harker #jonathan harker #dracula #daily dracula #re: dracula #dracula art #dracula daily #dracula daily art #dracula daily 2023 #dracula fanart #gothic literature #gothic lit #classic literature #classic lit #gothic lit art #classic lit art #english literature #classic books #spooky season #character art #art #my art

[livefromcastledracula]

As a long-time fan of Stoker's book, Daily Dracula has me absolutely stoked because after decades of movie and TV adaptations slipping further and further from Stoker's work, and watering down Count Dracula's character into a generic romantic vampire and his enemies into milquetoast Victorian twats, the Internet is rediscovering that "Dracula" is really about a Victorian D&D party going full murderhobo on a megalomaniacal vampire supervillain as revenge for vamping their polycule sweetheart.

#daily dracula #dracula #dracula daily #count dracula #bram stoker's dracula #dracula book #jonathan harker #van helsing #mina murray #mina harker #jack seward #arthur holmwood #quincey morris #lucy westenra