#lord godalming

[paris-in-space]

Van helping saying the "I think we're gonna have to kill this guy" meme at Lucy's boyfriend squad when they have to kill Lucy because suffer

It’s a little rough because I wasn’t using my usual setup, but here you go

#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #abraham van helsing #van helsing #quincey p morris #quincey morris #quincy morris #quincy p morris #arthur holmwood #lord godalming #jack seward #john seward #dr seward #paris’s box of classic lit blorbos

[somuchstrdst]

Arthur showing the permit to the Captain:

#djskalçlkfjdklsldf #dracula daily #arthur holmwood #lord godalming #dracula

[skeletonsloverockcandy]

The thing that kills me about the Oct 11th entry with Mina insisting that should she turn into a vampire, she wants the others to kill her, is not just that Jonathan does not promise to do that, but that the way we hear Seward describe the scene—Quincy promising first, Jonathan brokenly asking if he has to and hesitating, the way we know about Jonathan’s private holy vow to Mina in his journal—is that I wonder if Jonathan is drawing his line in the sand.

He’s already made up his mind about what he will do if Mina turns, and now with Mina making the suitor squad promise to kill her, I wonder if now his fear and intention has subtly shifted.

You can almost hear it in that scene as Seward is describing Jonathan’s body language, but as soon as Quincy steps up to make his vow, I can almost sense the shift radiating off Jonathan.

He now has to contend with not only Dracula, but if it comes down to it, also against everyone else there, because he cannot allow Mina to come to harm, by any hand, especially not his own.

I think he was re-evaluating his priorities and loyalties. Yes, he is friends with all these people and loves them and wants them to work together to defeat Dracula and save Mina, but now he has resolved to the fact that there is a possibility of a last stand of “us” (him and Mina) vs. “them” (suitor squad), even if it’s not what Mina wants, he would do anything to keep her safe.

And if you follow the subtext that Jonathan was bit too, he knows he’s on limited time as well at this point, if he even remembers being bit, but regardless would let Mina turn him if he didn’t remember. He knows killing her would not save him like she thinks it would, besides the fact that doing so would destroy him. He would rather be rest assured in the damnation of his own soul than have it utterly destroyed in the act of ending Mina’s life. I don’t think he could go on, and I think he would find it useless regardless, because he would rather die than kill Mina.

And he would rather harm everyone else than let anymore harm come to Mina, even if that means he has to cut down those nearest to him if it means saving her.

When he promised to himself to let himself become undead with her, he’s not only damning himself and Mina, but the whole of London and beyond. And if he’s willing to let the world burn for Mina, I’m willing to bet he’d let his friends burn too.

He now has an ulterior motive and while everyone else will be keeping a close eye on Mina, he will be keeping a close eye on everyone else, because he can no longer trust them not to follow through on their promise to her.

He doesn’t promise.

He won’t kill her.

And you’ll have to go through him if you want to try.

#dracula daily #October 11 #Dracula daily October 11 #jonathan harker #mina harker #mina murray #quincy morris #van helsing #john seward #jack seward #lord godalming #re: dracula #Dracula #bram stoker #dracula daily meta #dracula meta #dracula analysis #my post #original post #skele talks #skele post #gOD THEYRE SO XISNXJANBISSKXJAKXNS THEY MAKE ME INSANE RRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGAAAAAAHHHHHHH #jonathan x mina #holiest love

[toaster-trash]

It’s the gaaaaang (again)

The sillies get a redraw. Ft: me struggling to draw Van Helsing but I think it came out pretty decent. Also know that my Van Helsing is officially a short king so plot twist, he’s secretly standing on a stool. (Anything for his five adult adopted children)

Anyway I actually had a blast redrawing this because despite the seemingly-perpetual-illness we stay winning, also that specific drawing has always been one of my favourites I’ve ever done, not necessarily because it’s good but just emotional value. I fully have it printed and stuck at the back of my copy of the book lmao, and I might have to replace it with the new one. Anyway they are all so dear to me and I’m smooching them all individually.

#gothic lit #classic literature #gothic literature #goth lit #classic lit #dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #re:dracula #van helsing #Jonathan harker #Mina harker #lord godalming #arthur holmwood #dr seward #quincey morris #dracula daily spoilers

[count-skribula]

The Suitor Squad!

Featuring Arthur’s terriers

#dracula daily #arthur holmwood #lord godalming #jack seward #john seward #quincey p morris #quincey morris #dracula #bram stoker #suitor squad

[quicksandbuddy]

Dracula: November 4

Lord Godalming Ever Givens the steam boat

#dracula daily #dracula #arthur holmwood #lord godalming #GODDAMMIT I ORIGINALLY WROTE OCTOBER

[charonnyxtides]

Something Jonathan and Arthur can bond over on the boat is on the fresh loss of a father.

Jonathan was already an orphan, so most likely he already experienced his father's death, but he also lost Mr Hawkins (and Mina says he was devastated by it) around the same week that Arthur lost his father (and Lucy).

They both probably are still wearing mourning clothes.

#dracula daily #jonathan harker #arthur holmwood #lord godalming #dracula #re: dracula

[drinkthebones]

A win for polyamory

This is the most niche joke I’ve ever made.

Consequences? To my actions? How dare Character Portrait Sheet

#Drac U Law #Dracula daily #fanart #my art #fan comic #comic #dracula fanart #Lord Godalming #arthur holmwood #art holmwood #dracula

[almondcroissantsandink]

Dracula mock cover variant 3 - the Abbey at Whitby

#dracula #bram stoker #dracula daily #re:dracula #i'm not kidding anymore I want to design a cover for this novel lmao #i wanted to try the sort of 1950s mid-century modern paper design #i like it! #booklr #book #book cover #art #digital art #csp #clip studio paint #artists on tumblr #the little figures are van helsing #lord godalming #doctor seward #quincey morris #and jonathan harker #i liked drawing the death's head with the batwings :)

[rabbit-hearted-girl]

Van Helsing is like that weird uncle that doesn't know how to tell a story without spending ten minutes walking around the point

#i love him #but omg is he irritating with his long as metaphors #sometimes even the other characters don't understand what he's trying to say #and he'll spend three pages with convoluted imagery and saying that dracula has an infantile brain #and going on and on about how the gang has adult brains and is smarter then him #and I'm like I get ir dude just go straight to tne point for once in your life #dracula #re: dracula #dracula daily #abraham van helsing #jonathan harker #mina harker #quincey morris #lord godalming

[paris-in-space]

Congrats to Art and Jack on their wedding

(definitely real and canon and what Bram meant)

Post-novel Holmward is helping me cope.

#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #arthur holmwood #jack seward #dr seward #lord godalming #john seward #doctor seward #holmward #Paris’s box of classic lit blorbos

[naidje]

october 3rd

rich boy crimes

#dracula daily #manga classics dracula #quincy morris #arthur holmwood #lord godalming #dracula

[toaster-trash]

DEAR GOD DAVID AULT CAN SOB. OW.

#re: Dracula #lord godalming #arthur holmwood #gothic lit #classic literature #goth lit #dracula daily #dracula #gothic literature

[count-skribula]

I love Lucy and Mina gushing about boys and going on vacation, it’s such a nice moment of normality and peace for the girls before they’re sucked into the plot

#also reminder that Lucy is a teenager #she’s so teenage girl in this page #love her with my whole heart #dracula daily #lucy westenra #mina murray #jack seward #arthur holmwood #lord godalming #dracula

[sox-rok68]

Arthur, trying on Seward's glasses: "Wow Jack, you're blind as a bat!"

Quincey, sweating nervously: "As a what?"

#dracula #arthur holmwood #lord godalming #quincey morris #quincey p morris #jack seward #dr. seward

[bluecatwriter]

Why has Arthur dropped out of the narrative?

My headcanon is that he's suffering medical complications from his blood transfusion!

This is a lil scene the night of him donating his blood, featuring him being very dizzy and Lord Godalming Sr. being a very good dad. Rated G, no spoilers. Enjoy!

#my writing #ao3fic #arthur holmwood #lord godalming #dracula daily #re: dracula #dracula fanfiction #dracula (novel) #if you squint there's a little Jack/Arthur in this one too >:)