i read your meta from a few weeks earlier about how the harkers are hypocrites in their vows because if they were in each other's shoes they'd have made the same choice as them, and that stoker considers their love as too intense and too much for the proper social mores and morals in the narrative, but i wonder, if that's the case, wouldn't the narrative be punishing them for it with death or worse?
There's a lot of rambling I could go into about Stoker's Christian+ motives for the way the Harkers' story plays out, but I think once the vampires and the holy varnish flakes off, it all comes down to the guy's own wishful thinking. Really, what any writer of ribald, intense, ultimately ecstatic romance comes down to.
The narrative doesn't punish them (all the way) for their beyond-God-and-Devil love for each other because 1) Kind of a shitty lesson to say that Loving Too Much = Evil and 2) It's emotional escapism. It's been implied that Stoker wasn't a straight man and that a lot of Mina's mannerisms are a result of his using her as his own insert.
A character able to love and be loved past the point of good pious Christian allowance by a man who is at turns a gentle sweetheart and then a righteous and livid avenger for his beloved's sake! No, he will not destroy her! Not for all the urging of the angels, for humanity or sanity! No matter what his love is, be she imperfect or even monstrous, he will protect and join her..!
You see the appeal. And so it would be implied in the reverse (though of course that might skew Too Ellgeebeetee to have Jonathan as the imperiled maiden figure set to be collected by the Count), as Mina shows her likewise unexpectedly unwavering love and championing of Jonathan when he is not only a less-than-classic Man's Man even pre-Transylvania, but also struck ill, weak, and heavily traumatized. For all that they are good people, and Mina is heavily repressed in her Not Like Those Silly New Women! insistences, the Harkers are unconventional as hell.
Both in their manner with each other and with the strength of their love surpassing any edict of society and/or the threat of losing Heaven itself; a possibility shown so callously by the scarring of the Wafer on Mina's brow. If Jonathan wasn't already decided in his path, I think that visual probably made the choice irreversible. Because for all the others' talk of 'Lucy looked so much more at peace after we staked her heart and chopped her head off! She's surely with the angels!' our good friend Jonathan Harker has had more experience with the profane than the divine than all of them put together.
God is powerful against vampires. That doesn't automatically make Him just. And there's no guarantee that the pearly gates really will accept an ex-vampire's soul beyond 'Well, we assume that'll happen.'
If there's even the slightest chance that Mina is barred from the Son's protection, doomed to be either a monster on Earth or hellbound after it, Jonathan will ensure whatever her status is, he Will Be Beside Her. He is willing to damn himself to protect and join her.
We as the audience can't help but feel for that heartfelt dedication.
Just as we would feel pretty fucking pissed if Bramothy decided to inflict an extra dose of misery on the Harkers in a 'No no, loving each other too passionately is a sin! Let's torment/kill them about it for a good saintly ending!' So the narrative is a little stacked in their favor.
God is supposed to be love. Just as He made Abraham stop before striking the killing blow to Isaac--a test all along!--He is implied to have a hand in the heroes' quest and their ultimate harrowing climax. Helping them toward a happily ever after that they more than earned.
Or, the short version:
The Harkers: 'If this vampiric mess doesn't get fixed, I'm breaking up with humanity and getting vampired with my beloved. RIP to Christianity and humanity, but if they aren't here for my loved one, I want no part of them.'
God: 'Shit, that's fair. Let's go fix that vampire mess then. Harkers OTP4Ever'
At least I think that was the message Stoker was going for.
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I can't stand masculine women. I am transmasc and I try a lot to be percieved as a man but I am only seen as a tomboy only because some girlies think being its fun to dress like a guy.
I understand where you're coming from, and I'll presume this isn't bait, but: your anger is misplaced, and the way you are expressing it is only hurting women, and it will not make transphobes have a change of heart.
It isn't appropriate to hate an entire group of people because other people are transphobic. As a trans man, transphobes don't hate me because there are butch women, they hate me because I'm a trans man (and, let's face it, butch and GNC women are in the same boat. Transphobes are often just as hateful toward GNC/butch women). Transphobes don't care what you are if they know you are deviant. They will never respect a butch or transmasc because transness and GNC inherently go against their worldview.
I'm sorry, anon, that people are transphobic, I really am. But misogyny isn't going to fix the issue. If GNC women didn't exist, you would still have the same issue because transphobia is the problem, not GNC women.
I really hope you can build connection with GNC people because it really shows you a whole lot. I've found a ton of GNC women who are on my side and recognize my maleness and celebrate it with me. Gender deviants tend to get where trans people are coming from, because society treats them just as shitty. Do not let misogyny go unchecked because society is transphobic.
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did you see that josty deleted his instagram :/
yeah i did. and i’m sorry, but fuck everyone who’s ever said a single bad thing about him. leaving comments of his unrelated posts about something he clearly had no part in is absolutely ridiculous, and fuck you if a single negative thought about him has ever crossed your mind. you get traded the day after your birthday, from a team who was at the time projected to win the stanley cup, to a team who made a first round exit. after being ripped prematurely from your development bc the team you got drafted to needed every ounce of good hockey they could get. being a core part of the rebuild of said team. being called a draft bust and a million other things. being called “bad at hockey” by people who are supposed to be your fans. “bad at hockey” and being a first round draft pick? make it make sense. it doesn’t. tyson jost deserves better than everything he has ever gotten and he has never been appreciated for the kind of person he is, one that never has anything bad to say about anyone other than himself, which is unfair. the avalanche dragged him through the mud and used him until he was deemed not good enough, and not to mention the fact that who he was traded for contributed next to nothing to the teams run to the cup. he put his whole heart and soul into that team and tried his hardest on a team that for some reason just happened to contain a few elite players which somehow meant he wasn’t one just because they were. tyson deserved to be there the entire playoffs and especially last night when they won. so yeah, i’d deactivate my instagram too if i got to watch guys who used to be my “best friends” and “brothers” get the one thing i dreamed of and talked about winning with them.
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