#i honor them daily

[maalidoesart]

this scene is bery VERY wenzhou coded

#i think about them daily #i was thinking of who to put where but i settled with this since zzs at the beginning of the show just qanted wkx to shut up #like my guy wkx was making heart eyes while zzs was (secretly falling in love) & kinda annoyed lol #art #fanart #drawing #天涯客 #word of honor #word of honor fanart #tyk #tyk fanart #tian ya ke #wenzhou #wenzhou fanart #wen kexing #zhou zishu #priest #danmei #danmei art #danmei novel #princess mononoke #ghibli #ghibli redraw #studio ghibli #princess mononoke redraw #shl fanart #shl

[yaepyep]

hahaha ep 3 broke me so i drew the adorables to cope ha haha

#link click #shiguang daili ren #时光代理人 #lu guang #cheng xiaoshi #qiao ling #i love them sm your honor

[strangestcase]

I want- no, I need for dracula adaptations to stop reading Lucy and Mina as the madonna/whore complex.

what makes them so compelling is that they're just some girls. Lucy is rich, kinda naive and ditzy, super sweet, and everybody loves her and thinks she's so nice. Mina is rather dorky, a nerd, a working class woman who's super in love with her equally dorky boyfriend.

neither is the madonna and neither is the whore. they're literally just women.

Lucy is friendly and nice and sweet and remains a virgin, and her reward is being preyed upon by a monster that turns her into one of his kind, a shriveled husk of a girl, a walking corpse devoid of personality that can only crudely mimic the person she used to be to further devour literal children. her body is twisted and her mind is destroyed, and she did absolutely nothing to deserve that other than being the essence of all that's good in this world. Because Dracula wants to destroy all that's good in this world.

Mina is spunky and transgressive. She is hard-working, and wants to further study and work to be a good wife, which in her books involving learning skills that women had only begun to learn at the time. She's a proto-feminist and literally complains that the moral standards of the time don't allow her to have premarital sex. Mina is just a regular woman who gets married and has sex and enjoys is, and, get this, she still gets preyed upon by Dracula. Because Mina also represents goodness, but in a different angle- she's weird, and smart, and loves science and technology, and she's helping a crew of amateur vampire hunters. Of course Dracula wants to destroy her as well.

Lucy represents the goodness lost to everything Dracula is a stand-in for (illness, war, conquest, ignorance; we also have to be aware that he's also a stand-in for the Scary Foreigner, for jewishness, for the East, etc). Mina represents the ultimate triumph of science and good.

Stop trying to make Victorian era characters fit sexist stereotypes that were only created for modern horror. There is Victorian era sexism present in Lucy and Mina's writing, but to force them into the madonna/whore dynamic absolutely kills the strong points on both characterizations. Which is only made worse by the fact that, despite the (nowadays obvious) underlying misogyny in Dracula, its female characters are surprisingly three-dimensional and respectfully written for the time. We can't take that away from it.

#doc talks #dracula #dracula daily #dracula spoilers #gothic fiction #gothic literature #rant #long post #lucy westenra #mina murray #mina harker #in short: I love them so much your honor

[verycrispyeggs]

thinking about the harkers growing old together... mina's hair starts to grey and jonathan kisses her hair with a laugh. "its about time we match," he would whisper, his hair still a stark white decades after his trip to transylvania.

mina's heart flutters every time jonathan smiles, not just because he's being cute, but because it deepens the laugh lines around his face. she makes sure to kiss every wrinkle. they are proofs of age, proof that they survived, proof that despite it all, they still manage to laugh and smile.

they both learn to give each other massages when arthritis begins to set in. they can't go on too many walks anymore, so instead they spend their days sitting by their open window, or sometimes on their favorite park bench. maybe they feed the birds while they do.

they tell their story, over and over, to their children, and then their grandchildren, who probably think that the two of them are just making up a scary story. even so, mina and jonathan make sure that they never leave home without some sort of protection.

and some nights, they think of eternity. jonathan looks at the scars on her spotted, leathery skin and remembers a vow he made once. "do you ever wonder what immortality would have been like?"

mina presses a kiss to his neck. "sometimes," she answers. "more often now, with the two of us so old." it would have been lovely, she thinks, to spend eternity with jonathan at her side.

but growing old with him is so much sweeter. mortality just makes every moment they spent with one another all the more precious.

when she relays that to her beloved husband, he looks at her, her face marked with deep wrinkles, and kisses her soundly.

even after years of marriage, each kiss still feels like the one they first shared as husband and wife. and jonathan would still go through it all again to win her hand, to gain the privilege of growing old with her.

maybe jonathan will die first, or maybe mina will. maybe the other will die soon after of a broken heart, or maybe the other will stay alive for much longer, determined to keep living for the both of them.

maybe they pass away quietly in their sleep, maybe they pass after a long fight against dementia. maybe they reunite in the afterlife and spend eternity together, maybe there's nothing waiting for them after death.

im just emotional about the harkers growing old together yall.

#dracula daily #dracula #jonathan harker #mina murray #mina harker #i love them your honor

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

"Oh, God, let these poor white hairs go in evidence of what he has suffered, who all his life has done no wrong, and on whom so many sorrows have come."

This I know: that if ever there was a woman who was all perfection, that one is my poor wronged darling.

#LET'S KILL DRACULA PLEEEEEASE! #they're taking turns saying No You're Perfect on the record over and over again #i love them your honor #dracula daily #dracula #re: dracula #jonathan harker #mina harker #jonmina #dracula memes #dracula october 3 #october 3 #dd october 3

[caenith]

The very beginning of the First Age was such a bad time for Fingolfin:

his youngest son is killed,*

he learns that his older brother, who is the reason why all of them are right now in Beleriand, has been dead for a while,

one of his nephews is a prisoner in Angband and nobody really knows his fate,

a civil war might start any day now - Fingolfin's people are not in the best mood after the horrors of Helcaraxë and Fëanor's host did not follow Fëanor because of their love for Ñolofinwë.

And now his OLDEST SON AND HEIR, precious Fingon DISAPPEARS. Maybe someone saw him leaving the camp and going north, with just a bow and his harp? Or maybe they suddenly realize that prince Findekáno has not returned from his walk? Anyway, Fingolfin panics - this is a dangerous, unknown land. Angband is so close. Orcs can be anywhere. It could even be another trap set up by Morgoth to capture yet another prince. But Fingolfin can't stand losing another child. He won't lose another child.

If elves' hair could turn gray as a consequence of stress, Fingon would surely be welcomed back in the camp by a white-haired figure strangely resembling his father.

And just as Fingolfin can finally sit down and rest (Fingon is most certainly grounded, Maedhros seems to be recovering, feanorians behave, at least for now), he gets the crown. No rest for poor Ñolofinwë, apparently. Just new responsibilities.

*if we consider a version of the story that includes Argon, what we will most certainly do for the maximum drama :)

#silmarillion #tolkien #silmarillion daily #fingolfin #fingon #Poor Fingolfin #I always liked him A LOT #but the guy did not have it easy #Also Fingon Best Boy <3 #I love them Your Honor

[caseclosedsoulsold]

What a day to try to join tumblr and say that I love THEM

#bojan x martin #bomartin #bojan cvjetićanin #martin jurkovič #joker out #i love them your honor #i'm going insane #i'm gonna post about them daily #why are they like this #my favorite roommates

[gentleman-aster]

Reasons why Count Dracula is babygirl:

Fictional

Old man

Homicidal

Kinda gay

Beyond redemption

Spooky and isolated

Tries to act formal and like his plans work but is actually pathetic and kinda silly

#i can fix him :3 #Oh let's forget *certain* allegories from the book ok? #this is just a silly post! so let's just take the book literally:333 #your honor my bbg needed to eat and go on with his malevolent plans #I would play some romantic vampire music and sing and dance and spin him around musical style #while he acts like the character who isn't aware he's in a musical #cause he's not in a musical I'm just silly like that #and that's how he falls in love with me :333 #and I tell him cool science facts and intermingle them with talking about ecology and peace and love on the planet earth #and THAT'S how I fix him :333 #still a bloodsucker tho #count dracula #dracula daily #dracula

[lonleyhumanbeing]

Imagine how much courage it must have taken Baz to ask Simon to his house for Christmas. Like he has loved Simon consciously for about 3 years now, and right when they stop fighting for a moment, he asks Simon to hang out with him for 2 weeks, essentially. To help find his mothers killer, of course but also they can’t spend all their time on it.

I feel like we missed a lot of Baz’s character from not getting his thoughts and feelings before he asked and after he was rejected.

#carry on #simon snow series #rainbow rowell #Simon snow #baz grimm pitch #they take up all of my headspace your honor #there will be daily posts about them until I finish the series #LONG LIVE CHAPTER 61!!!

[piratekane]

i got an ask in my email that never showed up in my inbox that was basically looking for book recs and since only one person asked for my opinion and because this was the year i fell back in love with reading, i'm going to do a myspace Top 8 books i loved this year, in no particular order:

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein this is basically a love story. it's a love story and you won't change my mind. i don't mean romantic love except that i mean best friends loving each other to and through the end of the world can be romantic and we should say that more often. because this a book about war and its terrors but it's also the love story between two best friends and what they'll do to get back to each other. it has probably one of my favorite protagonists ever - actually, two of my favorites. Wein tells a devastatingly perfect story and i promise your heart will swell and sink and tie itself into tiny knots. kiss me, hardy! kiss me quick! 5 stars, i cried at the end

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo i was late to the SoC books and boy am i glad i finally showed up to the party. this book was perfection. i immediately fell in love with each crow and spent the whole book screaming that if nina and matthias didn't kiss ASAP that i was going to throw something. i also was yelling about kaz and inez, do not think i was not doing that. kex brekker you deserve love you street rat. @dealanexmachina had to deal with the screaming through this. and i think it's going to be a repeat read in 2024 just so i can experience the care and craftsmanship that went into each character, their nuances, and how it wove perfectly together into kaz's brilliant plan. 5 stars, i immediately read the sequel like a hungry jaugar hunting down a person wearing that calvin klein scent

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson brando sando is... prolific. and it was overwhelming to jump in, but i started with tress and not any of his other books (a problem i have rectified) and what a bang it was. this book is, in a word, hilarious. the narrator is a fantastical being with an aversion to linear thought and a predilection for hilarity. the humor in this book is unlike any of sandos other work and really shows that he has the ability to stretch. the premise is very clever and very cool and just very fun. tress is brave and smart and that's celebrated, not punished. plus who doesn't love a talking rat? i'm looking forward to his other secret projects 4.5 stars, the narrator is my favorite sando character

Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak okay, this is billed as horror, but i wouldn't really say horror and would lean more into the mystery billing than anything. maybe thriller. and it's outside my usual genre and is definitely more suited to my wife's tastes but she finished this book in three days (and usually takes 3 weeks-to-months to finish books) and when she said i had to read it, i said yes dear and picked it up. i'm glad i did. it's an illustrated mystery and as the author writes in the notes, those who pay attention will be rewarded. the ending was a twist i didn't see coming, like, at all. and it was clever. but once the ending started to unfold it was a mad dash to the finish. 5 stars, my wife recommends this

The Nevernight Chronicles by Jay Kristoff now, i know. this is actually 3 books, not 1. but hear me out - they must all be read. it's nonnegotiable. these books were recommended by tumblr user @fiddleabout and am i so very glad they were. mia is unhinged. there's no other way to put that. the girl is fucking off. her. rocker. and no one in her life is any better. they're all just as freaking crazy. but they're my crazy comfort killers. i went on for hours about mia and ash, to the point that my wife shut the bathroom door in my face because i tried to follow her in there talking about them. this series is bloody and more than once i was like, he can't possibly make this any bloodier but he CAN and i think this book is better for it. found family, check. unhinged teenage protagonist, double check. endless fun, check in triplicate. 4.5 stars, i am never not thinking of ash and her vision of a house on a lake and softness

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon obviously i read priory first and obviously i loved it but ADoFN was... mind-blowing. maybe because priory enriched the world of ADoFN and i was already familiar with all the intricacies of it (though there was certainly more to learn) but reading this just... the bridging Shannon did, the connections she made between priory and ADoFN and how we ultimately saw the way ADoFN threaded some of the loops we saw closing in priory, it blew my mind. the utter romance of it all, my god. i read this monster book in a single day, i couldn't put it down. i emerged from my ADoFN cocoon like andy samberg in that one SNL skit where he plays a teenager who just woke up. i was changed(TM) 5 stars, i was a changed man

Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo i immediately jumped into the rest of the Leigh's work (i went through SaB first but she's so strong at the end of this Grishaverse) and while i love all my SoC babes, nina was a favorite and honestly i'd recommend both King of Scars and this book. tumblr user fiddleabout was blessed to follow along with my completely unhinged livestream of this book and when (spoiler) zoya and nikolai finally got over themselves and K I S S E D, i put the book down and took a lap. then i picked it up and screamed again as nina's arc unfolded. 5 stars, i have a lot of thoughts about the kind of man nikolai is (peg)

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty i'm a bit of a sucker for a pirate book. even more of a sucker about a woman pirate, and amina is a woman pirate of the highest caliber. this book is either intentionally funny or unintentionally hilarious. amina's biggest flaw is that she's constantly ogling her demon ex-husband's cute butt - honest to god. otherwise, she's perfection. badass, scrappy, jacked. amina is all of those things and then some. so she has a bit of a past that winds up coming back to bite her in the ass and then she's thrust back onto a ship where she has to chase down an old crewmate's daughter - can you blame a girl for being the most kickass pirate in all of the seas? no! should you? absolutely not! just let amina live out her life ogling ass and sailing leisurely, please. 4.5 stars, i want to sail on amina's ship even though i'm afraid of boats. and the ocean. and things living in the ocean. and generally the water.

( ͡❛ ᴗ ͡❛)👍 and now you know, cause it's mike's pirate's super short show! ( ͡❛ ᴗ ͡❛)👍

#i am not a book reviewer by trade and i think this proves that BUT i loved reading this year and i loved these books and most of them #were recommended so i hope if something catches your eye and you read it and you love it you remember that people are #always looking for something to read and you might know the story that could knock their socks off #very grateful for friends who tell you their favorite books #it's like sharing a piece of yourself and it is an honor #i hope you read in 2024 and i hope its something you want to share with other people #merry 2024 ya filthy animals from me to you #(tell me if you read any of these and like them pls) #also if you get the reference at the end i personally apologize but that is part of my daily lexicon byeeee

[diavorchid]

welcome to dracula daily, Jack! thanks for subscribing to the podcast, Mina!

(ps. click for better quality) || sorry for the inaccuracy of... everything i just wanna see them hangout ok<3

also everyone has to know my mind was fighting over drawing this vs suitor squad sleepover

#dracula daily #jack seward #mina harker #john seward #mina murray #dd sept 29 #september 29 #my art #my post #i love them your honor #dracula fanart #jack & mina

[bluecatwriter]

Every time Jack mentions Arthur and that fondness comes into his voice I gain 10 years on my life.

#*facedown in a puddle of happy tears* #i love them your honor #re: dracula #dracula daily #jack seward #arthur holmwood

[ryesillustrates]

When the chaplain and the sisters had left me alone with my husband—oh, Lucy, it is the first time I have written the words 'my husband'—left me alone with my husband, I took the book from under his pillow, and wrapped it up in white paper, and tied it with a little bit of pale blue ribbon which was round my neck, and sealed it over the knot with sealing-wax, and for my seal I used my wedding ring. Then I kissed it and showed it to my husband, and told him that I would keep it so, and then it would be an outward and visible sign for us all our lives that we trusted each other; that I would never open it unless it were for his own dear sake or for the sake of some stern duty. Then he took my hand in his, and oh, Lucy, it was the first time he took his wife's hand, and said that it was the dearest thing in all the wide world, and that he would go through all the past again to win it, if need be.

#dracula #art #illustration #dracula daily #my art #illustrator #jonathan harker #Mina murray #Mina harker #watercolor #watercolor illustration #watercolors #i just rly love them your honor #historical fiction

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

I looked eagerly, and in the window of my own room saw Mina. I waved my hand to her, and nodded to tell that our work there was successfully accomplished. She nodded in reply to show that she understood. The last I saw, she was waving her hand in farewell.

#i know they just went through the worst day of their lives but i still believe the harkers wave to each other outside their house every day #your honor i love them #the harkers #jonmina #jonathan harker #mina harker #jonmina my otp #holiest love #dracula daily #dracula #re: dracula #dracula memes #october 3 #dd october 3 #dracula october 3

[3584-tropical-fish]

Realized that I can now share all of the Dracula art I did over the course of Dracula Daily! Feat. One of my most ambitious projects in the past e few months, Mina and Jonathan designs, and Mina and Quincey as an art piece I saw at a museum :)

#dracula daily #dracula #mina harker #mina murray #mina murray harker #jonathan harker #quincey harker #I love them your honor #I’ve been holding onto these for months #fish’s-art #you can see my Jonathan design change #unfortunately my Mina design changed too which sucks because I loved how I drew her in the Mina sketch page but I was never able to #replicate it #oh well

[wingedknightrose]

if I were to do an adaptation of Dracula, I think I would add a scene within the next couple of days here, and that scene is: the cast hold a memorial for Renfield.

it starts with Mina. Mina, who's had a couple of days to process the initial horror of what's happened to her, only to for a realization to finally sink in - Renfield tried to protect her. he died trying to keep Dracula away from her, even though they'd barely known each other, even though they'd spoken only twice. Mina's natural empathy and her own troubling lack of self-worth wouldn't help this situation, and she'd end up...distressed, if not having another breakdown.

Mina is distraught, the others might initially chalk it up to the whole impending vampirism until she actually explains, that's she's upset because a man died for her, a veritable stranger, and she can't even go to his funeral because they've got to hunt Dracula and people would ask questions and- and- she just wishes she could do him that little bit of honor, give him that smallest regard, because he died for her.

and then Arthur speaks up, and suggests they hold a private memorial. Arthur also strikes me as terribly empathetic, he's known plenty of suffering of late, he wants to help. and, well, Renfield did give everything to try and help. just as Arthur respects Van Helsing for giving so much to help Lucy, so to will he offer the same to Renfield.

Jonathan is immediately on board. not just for Mina's sake - though make no mistake, he is in part looking for something, anything, to help Mina find comfort - but because Jonathan, more than any of them, realizes just what standing up to Dracula would have taken. he knows how strong, how powerful, how utterly cruel Dracula is in the most personal way. he knows the amount of courage it would take to stand up to that. and for him to have done that not even for himself, but for another? for Mina? yes, he believes Renfield deserves the same amount of respect and mourning that any of the others would, should they fall while undertaking this task.

Quincey won't argue. Jack and Van Helsing...I feel like they'd go along with it, if only for Mina's sake, even if they haven't been treating Renfield with any of the common courtesy he was due as another human being. heck, you could have one of them make an off-hand comment about how it's so sweet of Mina to mourn the poor lunatic, only for someone else to curtly inform them that mad or not, Renfield was still a man, and had they all treated him more like one perhaps this never would have happened

but even if you don't put the callout in there, I still think it'd be a scene worth adding. to acknowledge that Renfield had been as much part of the fight against Dracula as any of the rest of them, and that he had given everything to see it through

#dracula #dracula daily #r m renfield #c'mon dracula adaptations where's my 'the crew actually morn renfield because he was a person too' scene #yes yes prejudice against the mentally ill etc etc but i still think mina would be torn up about it. like the man litereally DIED for her #let her acknowledge that! let the others acknowledge that! let them honor him for that!