#like i love dracula but whoo whee mamma mia that plot and also setup. extraordinarily racist in 1897...

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was thinking about this earlier when i briefly saw meems for lunch but i really don't know how you could do a ~modern take on DRACULA SPECIFICALLY without buying into extremely obvious antisemitism and/or icke lizard person illuminati shit... i love vampires deeply and sexily but this one particular book. man. not sure there's anything salvageable there to rewrite. what's attractive about this book (to me!) is the prose and its place in literary history, not... the specifics of its plot

one of the thigns i thought was most interesting in that article i linked (circumcising dracula) was the idea that vampire lore is inherently intertextual... that modern stories rely on pop-cultural knowledge and awareness of existing tropes (and specifically that they almost always explicitly reference existing works, like name dropping authors) which has been really interesting to note as i listen to mckinley sunshine and which like in retrospect is absolutely a staple of the genre, yk? in every piece of vampire media i can think of off the top of my head as an amateur non specialist vamp enjoyer there's some sort of trope rundown, what Works in this particular world, are they sexy draculas or sparkly or ugly (which. what are the traits that makes someone ugly. hm!) those ferati or what... i just think it's neat. everyone wants to revisit other works... i don't think ive seen quite the same thing in like. other fantastical subgenre of networks of intertwined not just tropes but specific Texts... and they all do bow down to The Original Modern Vampire so it's been really interesting to see HOW different mr. dracul adaily is from the pop-cultural shadow he leaves

#those feratu also im still ruminating on that article. ive never actually seen it i didn't know it was like THAT. #like i love dracula but whoo whee mamma mia that plot and also setup. extraordinarily racist in 1897... #not really sure what's left if you take all that out. like. hm. #you'd have to completely change the whole focus and concept and worldbuilding and vampire lore and at that point it's original fiction #dracula daily #adjacent