#dracula dreams

[vickyvicarious]

When he went out of the room I could hear the key turn softly. A minute later I went over and tried it, and the door was locked.

Dracula immediately weaponizes his rules against Jonathan here. By locking him in the study he is, without words, bringing up the whole warning that he wouldn't want to go places that are locked, of course. This is the first time a new door has been locked, and it happened at once without any delay or warning. It is a silent threat: Jonathan's freedom of movement can be taken away at any time. His prison can always get smaller if he tries to escape. His privileges can and will be taken away.

He is locked in and left alone for hours. Perhaps there are other reasons as well, but it certainly proves a point on its own.

I love that the key turned softly. And that Jonathan went right over to check it. It again could go unnoticed at least for a while if Jonathan was a good guest who was unsuspicious of his host - but they both know that's not the case, so the soft gentle click of the lock is another kind of entrapment. How long will it take you to check if what you heard is real. How long till you break the rules and try to use a locked door (which has just been locked without warning, but the rules are far from fair). And Jonathan waits only a minute, then he double-checks and confirms his suspicions, like always.

When, an hour or two after, the Count came quietly into the room, his coming awakened me, for I had gone to sleep on the sofa. He was very courteous and very cheery in his manner, and seeing that I had been sleeping, he said:—

"So, my friend, you are tired? Get to bed. There is the surest rest. I may not have the pleasure to talk to-night, since there are many labours to me; but you will sleep, I pray." I passed to my room and went to bed, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. Despair has its own calms.

A couple things happening here. First, Jonathan fell asleep on a sofa again. He was left alone for hours without food and anything to do (though he did have access to the books in the study I suppose) but it's not especially a surprise he eventually fell asleep. Especially given something I'll get to in a minute. And yet by doing so he has broken another rule: don't sleep anywhere but your own room. Bad things will happen if you do. Now, Dracula has engineered a situation in which Jonathan had no choice but to eventually sleep where he was. Not only is this perhaps reminding him of his last nap on a sofa, but it's forcing him into breaking another rule at least potentially. Because sure, this room was designated safe for sleeping previously, but that was then. The door wasn't locked before. Things have already changed. Who knows what might happen now? (When he wakes briefly to go to his room, he doesn't see any new bad things - but does that mean they didn't happen, or that they are still lurking in wait?)

There's nothing Jonathan can do about it, so he plays along. But he doesn't write in his diary then. Part of that must be despair but I also think it is partly that the rules are changing around him and he does not know if he is safe or alone. It has become paramount to keep the diary protected, so he cannot take it out until he is certain of having privacy - and in the study then, he absolutely doesn't have any assurance of that.

And now on to the other thing I said I'd get to: dreaming. Jonathan says with some surprise that he slept well in his own bed, thus implying that was not the case on the sofa (which makes sense after what just happened, but also does fit with the direct wording of the warning on sleeping elsewhere; that it would give bad dreams as well as be unsafe). Also potentially implying that is not the case normally. I strongly suspect that he is having a lot of bad dreams on the regular (and for that matter is likely to be at least somewhat sleep-deprived as a result). Some is only to be expected in this situation, sure, but possibly at least some of them are caused by Dracula himself.

After all, this is yet another time Dracula comments on Jonathan's sleep and mentions the quality of his sleep/directs it ("there is the surest rest"). And just like every other time Dracula has commented, Jonathan's sleep has been as the Count wished for. The fact that he sleeps deeply/dreamlessly every time Dracula tells him to go to bed and get a good rest feels deeply ominous to me. It feels like there is a definite influence at hand here.

#dracula daily #count dracula #jonathan harker #dracula dreams

[plusie]

#plushie #cute #agere #age dreaming #age regression #agedre #system little #little #stuffie #stuffed animal #vampire #black #red #cat #kitty #bear #beanie baby #Dracula #bunny #rabbit #bat #moodboard #png #transparent image #transparent #transparent png

[aranciu]

I made this last year when reading Dracula Daily, but I was too much of a coward to post it. Now I am no longer held back by earthly matters such as "reputation".

This is the original text from the book, but wildly misinterpreted. enjoy

#dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #comic #dracula comic #dracula fanart #fanart #gay #comics #paprika #queer dreams #paprika hendl #may 3rd #may 3 #my art #myart #nswf implication

[clefadrylcanines]

May 3rd, Jonathan Harker’s journal

(Mem., get recipe for Mina.) I asked the waiter, and he said it was called “paprika hendl,” and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians.

I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was "mamaliga," and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call "impletata." (Mem., get recipe for this also.)

Recipe blog casually interrupted by nightmares and the howling of wild dogs. I’m sure it’s nothing.

#dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #may 3 #my art #clefadryl art #now it's time for the ultimate game! is the paprika really that bad or is jonathan just british?! #either way he wants mina to try it too so it must be yummy #sorry about the queer dreams jonathan. get well soon!

[serenfire]

btw i need the dracula daily gang to know that, unlike most paprika in the world that is extremely mild, hungarian paprika is actually hot

#i’m sure jonathan’s spice tolerance sucks ass but! there is a logical reason he has queer dreams #wink wonk #dracula daily #dracula

[anaclarannd]

Am i the asshole for throwing away garlic flowers?

So for context, my (50f) daughter (19f) has been a little sick, so the guy she rejected and his dutch professor (both doctors) come over frequently to check on her and make sure she's ok. Recently the dutch guy brought my daughter some flowers, which i thought was a nice gesture, but this morning i walked into her room and there were garlic flowers Everywhere. I mean door, windows, fireplace, absolutely everywhere, and everything was closed too, which made the whole room stink of garlic. I, of course, removed the flowers and opened the windows because i thought fresh air would be good for my daughter, but when i told the doctors, the older one looked on the verge of tears and then proceeded to go to the kitchen, close the door and violently sob. I thought i was doing the right thing but the professor was so sad afterwards that i started to feel bad. Is this a dutch thing? Or was i the AH?

#dracula daily #i know its a day late but this came to me in a dream #also i did have to wildly guess mrs westenra's age so dont sue me if im wrong

[moonsun2010]

Dracula Daily guy recorded and posted one of his IRL lectures :DDD !!!!!!!!!!!

#dracula #dracula daily #note to self: dd2023 #YESSSSS YESSSS YESSSSS THIS IS MY DREAM YESSSSSS #give me those slides boy im staring at them #im so happy as a non american who couldve never gone to any of these #and as a lit student writing about dracula daily for a project #Youtube

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

I actually don't think I'm going to have time for drawing more dracula stuff anytime soon, what with all my comms and stuff, but here's another drawing from yesterday.

I understand that his death was a compliment to his character, but what if I LOVE HIM???? What about that huh??????

#SORRY TO LEAVE YOU ON THIS DOUR NOTE but it's the only one I didn't share yesterday #werewolf quincey is definitely a possibility here #imagine his body just disappears on their trek back home #and then he has amnesia or some dramatic thing like that #a girl can dream #dracula #dracula 1897 #dracula fanart #quincey morris #quincey p morris #quincy morris #quincy p morris #mina harker #mina murray #traditional art #my art #sketchbook #pencil drawing #pencil art #character drawing #character art #dracula spoilers

[yallemagne]

What’s funny about Jonathan’s magical girl transformation with the stark white hair is that it’s just impossible. Like, yes, we all know it is, but I hadn’t been focussing on that until now.

I was like “yeah, stress can cause early greying bc you’re no longer producing the melanin in your hair--” and then I realized like “wait, why would that change the colour of the already-grown strands as if they were fucking dead coral?” Because it’s not like if you pulled out a strand of your own hair, the colour would fade and go white.

Jonathan’s hair is alive? Dead now, alive before? Jonathan’s out here being Rapunzel from Tangled and everyone surrounding him is like “seems aight”.

#people responding to this post thinking I don't know about Marie Antoinette #I do you can stop now #I know this was a victorian trope you can stop typing #it's like a hair dyer's dream #don't even have to bleach anymore #just experience horrors beyond reasoning and then your head is a canvas #yes it made me think of tangled #yes you will have to restrain me from drafting a tangled au #it's your duty as my followers to keep me from doing it #dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker

[fox-in-the-library]

In honour of Dracula Daily, here's a couple of photos of Whitby Abbey and harbour that I took on a 2019 hiking trip.

#polaroid dreams #photo by me #dracula daily #whitby

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My school was putting on a production of Dracula and the entire cast was at my house for some reason and then a witch set my floor on fire.

#dream #school #dracula #fire tw

[vickyvicarious]

Retired worn out; slept soundly; awaked by mate telling me that both man of watch and steersman missing. Only self and mate and two hands left to work ship.

Throwing this on the pile with my other posts about sleeping. We don't hear of any dreams here, and maybe he was too tired to have them... but after sleeping well for the first time in a while, he woke up into a nightmare.

Dracula is whittling them down, and is keeping them exhausted as he does so. The storm (if you think he caused it) tiring them out, having to do extra work than usual due both to their fears and to crew being missing... Now the Captain getting rest is linked with more death at once than ever before. It must feel awful, so terrifying and frustrating, and yet what can he even do about it?

He can try and search the ship again, but I don't think he believes it's a stowaway anymore, he's short on time and manpower, and they're nearly there...

#dracula daily #captain of the demeter #dracula dreams

[macaulaytwins]

did you guys know that it’s free to daydream about vampires they can’t stop you

#no no it’s true it’s true #‘they’ somehow also being me #I just want to have a nice sleep dreaming of a vampire lover and guess what?? I WILL #wow #vampires #gay vampires #self care #<3 #kinda kidding but also times are tough ok #castlevania #tvc #the vampire chronicles #first kill #dracula #carmilla #alucard #monster fucker #monster fucking #vampire x reader

[zahroreadsthings]

I forgot how jonathan was like damn this paprika absolutely destroyed me... more for breakfast tho <3

#what queer dreams does to a mfer #dracula daily

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

as sympathetic as i am to our mutual friend Jonathan's plight, it still sounds pretty cushy compared to literally any modern retail or service job. "oh no I've been coerced into serving a powerful inhumane monster that feeds on the blood of its victims" yeah babe that's called a megacorporation

#dracula daily #comfy room and prepared meals and a travel stipend? buddy you're living the dream #so okay after intense psychological turmoil you're going to be sucked dry into an empty carcass of your former self #that's just modern capitalism?

[bizarresexyzoom]

Monster Cereal Characters 🍫🍓🫐🍒🍏

#monster cereals #frankenberry #frankenstein #dracula #count chocula #vampire #chocolate #boo berry #blueberry #ghost #cherry #apple #fruit brute #carmella creeper #caramel #horror #werewolf #zombie #cereal #ai art #wombo dream