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Never forget that Dracula, one of the most iconic villains in all of media, is first introduced wearing a fake beard and a big hat to pretend to be his own carriage driver
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see-arcane · 11 months
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Jonathan, between meals probably: “Are you sure I’m meant to eat an entire garlic bulb as a palate cleanser?”
The locals, sweating, trying their best to low-key vampire-proof this boy: “Yes. Absolutely. Very traditional.”
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thegoatsongs · 7 months
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The Spectator [19th century British magazine] thought that while Stoker made admirable use of “vampirology,” the story might have been better had it been set in an earlier period. “The up-to-dateness of the book—the phonograph, diaries, typewriters, and so on—hardly fits in with the mediaeval methods which ultimately secure the victory for Count Dracula’s foes.”
On the subject that contemporaries thought that Dracula was too up-to-date for a vampire story.
Needless to say, the reviewer missed the whole point.
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technoturian · 5 months
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Having now gotten to the end of the book, I gotta ask... How on earth did we get here, where in almost every stinking adaptation of this book for over a century has decided the characters worth trimming down or completely cutting out are the two who actually kill Dracula.
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daemonologist · 9 months
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reading Dracula has permanently altered my brain. i can never see count dracula as a generic character anymore. he isn't an ooky spooky horror monster he's the old bitch that imprisoned my boy johnny in his shitass castle and killed my beloved lucy and quincey. abraham van helsing isn't synonymous with badass monster hunters he's a 50-year-old dutch doctor who talks funny. i see things and think oh wow this is just like my favorite characters from my book that was written 126 years ago.
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immabitqueer · 11 months
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IT'S "FOUL BAUBLE OF MANS VANITY" DAY!!! REMEMBER TO THROW YOUR MIRRORS OUT THE HIGHEST WINDOW OF YOUR TALLEST TOWER
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tarriecat · 7 months
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I would absolutely kill for a Dracula adaptation that really delves into the tragedy of manners aspect of it, the way that everyone is so worried about maintaining exactly the right face to the right people and how that makes so much of their situation worse. Everything from Jonathan trapped in the bonds of hospitality to the situation with Lucy's mother to a hundred instances of just not wanting to worry anyone. Like, give me a Dracula miniseries shot like it's Jane Austen.
You could do a whole college essay about how one of Van Helsing's strengths is in the way he disrupts social norms, even though he isn't immune to them.
Credit to everyone who talked about this last year, I definitely didn't come up with it, but it's been living in my head rent-free since last fall and we're watching it amp up again and oh how it hurts.
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popsicle-stick · 11 months
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“Why, this beats even shorthand! May I hear it say something?”
a commission of jack and mina from the scene where he's showing her the phonograph!
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georgiacooked · 5 months
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CW: Death
Dracula Daily sketches for November 6th.
In which events converge.
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cluemami · 7 months
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The thing that gets me about Lucy is that her story isn't about sex. It's about so desperately not wanting to break any hearts that you wish you could marry three men. It's about those hearts being broken by forces beyond your control anyway. It's about unexplained, hereditary illness. It's about the impacts of chronic disease on the patient, their carers and their family. It's about love enduring through sickness. It's about love enduring through death. It's about a fate that was inevitable but so close to preventable. It is about dying of sickness just before treatment is discovered. It's about knowing the cause and dying anyway. It's about mothers losing daughters and daughters losing mothers. It's about watching a young person slip away when they were supposed to live. It's about leaving behind broken hearts, even though you had so much love to give.
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mewtwo365 · 5 months
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Happy Dracula Finale day!
heres a quick silly drawing to commemorate!
Hope you enjoy, and have an AWESOME day!!
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remembersunflowers · 6 months
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dr seward: something terrible with Lucy, she’s drained of blood
quincy: sounds like a vampire
dr seward: and those queer holes in her neck
quincy: yeah, that sounds exactly like a vampire
dr seward: absolutely no idea
quincy: vampire
dr seward: a mystery
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themagnusalchemists · 11 months
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re: Dracula is fucking fantastic so far. love how jonathan spends his whole diary entry fretting over increasingly suspicious behaviour until eventually outright saying he fears he may die, then right at the end is all “ah! the coach! :)” my brother in christ there are Horrors awaiting you
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vioisgoinginsane · 4 months
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Hilarious shit in dracula I can't get over
LIZARD FASHION
Dracula steals a wolf from the zoo and uses him to break a window
Quincey morris, my beloved, 1/2 only good things to ever come outta texas, all of him but ESPECIALLY TRIES TO SHOOT (BAT) DRACULA
Every time Seward is exasperated with van helsing's terrible explanations and, simultaneously, van helsing is exasperated with seward for his skepticism and refusal to consider vampires are real, But ESPECIALLY the corn and "tell me why a turtle lives so long?" "I don't know!!"
Dracula randomly getting a stray hat. (Prob to hide his scar?) That apparently to the English looked old and outta fashion so I can only sorta theorize that he bought it from Transylvania out of nostalgic purposes cuz?????? What the hell???
Reinfield suddenly talking not only sane, but like a higher than average educated gentleman as he pays high complements to VH, Quincey and Arthur when Seward introduces them. And Seward sit there like '??????????????? ' bonus points cuz earlier Harker said he was coming too and then Stoker just completely forgot to write him being in the room at all.
When Arthur and Quincey show up to save lucy at perfect timing (bonus points cuz in @re-dracula Quincey has the most texan sounding theme and it completely shifts the tone of the scene as soon as he's there)
VH literally saying how Seward gets no bitches (in Victorian English)
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nedofrisk · 1 month
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Bloofer lady!!! >:D
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Bram "The GM" Stoker: Jack's lockpick roll was a success, so the bolt shoots back with a rusty clang, the hinges creak, and the heavy, oaken door opens wide. What do you do?
Arthur: Are there rats? I've got an anti-rat whistle! It's got a +9 against rats!!
Bram: You don't have darkvision, so... *rolls dice* ...you don't see any rats, per se.
Jonathan: Okay, then I want to do a spot hidden che--
Van Helsing: Too late! I've already walked in.
Jonathan: What?!
Jack: I guess I follow Van Helsing inside, but only after I mutter some pretentious prayer in Latin, then I go in.
Bram: Classic Jack. Well, since no one did a spot hidden check *rolls a big pile of dice*
Jonathan: *groaning*
Bram: *rolls even more dice* Now as the door shuts behind you and you all search through the decaying ruins, the pungent stench of mildew emanating from the wet stone walls, your dim lanterns barely pierce the thick curtain of darkness, you find only cobwebs and more shadows until... Jonathan, you can't get it out of your head that this feels like Transylvania all over again and maybe, just maybe, there's someone else here. Give me a sanity roll.
Jonathan: UGH! *rolling dice and sweating*
Quincey: Can I cast gun at the darkness?
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