#lucy westenra

[philtatos-beloved]

Boy I sure am excited for my good friend Jonathan to begin his trip! What a fantastic business opportunity for him :) I'm sure nothing terrible will happen. Also I'm sure his lovely fiancée Mina will miss him terribly, but she will be having a lovely time with her good friend Lucy, and nothing untoward or scary will happen to them either :))))

#Dracula #dracula daily #Jonathan Harker #Mina harker #lucy westenra

[petitelappin]

"For a moment or two I could see nothing, as the shadow of a cloud obscured St. Mary’s Church and all around it. Then as the cloud passed I could see the ruins of the abbey coming into view; and as the edge of a narrow band of light as sharp as a sword-cut moved along, the church and the churchyard became gradually visible. Whatever my expectation was, it was not disappointed, for there, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white."

Mina and Lucy in the kirkyard at Whitby, August 11th.

#my art #dracula #mina murray #mina harker #lucy westenra #digital art #i realized as i was finishing this up that they look very much like how i draw donna and laura but yknow what? #thats not a bad thing! a lot of parallels! a lot of themes! a lot of trying to save the best friend you are incapable of saving #once again I spent too long looking at old clothing catalogues bc i love the little references mina and lucy make to idea of the new woman #and they def talk about it like an Other but also w a bit of awe and im sure theres a lot to unpack there #but it made me wanna put mina in something new-woman-adjacent #lets get her a little bit leyendecker yknow?

[the-crooked-library]

something something the symmetry of horror and seeing yourself in the abyss reflected

#this is crack #but only somewhat #i could be more serious abt this i Could write a full essay #but at the moment i don't have the time and idk if anyone wants to read it #dracula daily #dracula #jonathan harker #mina harker #lucy westenra #dracula daily round 2

[popsicle-stick]

society if vampire lucy survived as the mirror to dracula with her 3 weed smoking vampiric boyfriends

✨commissions open ✨

#wheres that post that said dracula and lucy should deploy their respective polycules in a kind of pokemon battle. yeah that's the thesis #dracula #dracula daily #lucy westenra #quincey morris #arthur holmwood #jack seward #every time i post embarassing art online i feel the need to log off for ten years #i spent too long on this i wanna throw it online and forget!! this is based of a sketch that's like....a year old lmao #lottieart

[dathen]

We’re so used to the sexual reading of the entire book of Dracula, which takes the sensuality of the early chapters and jams everything that follows it into the same metaphor no matter how poorly it fits, but I feel the segment we’re approaching works much better with a lens of chronic illness and disease.

Vampire legends are inextricably intertwined with disease. Many of them are said to have been birthed by burying victims of disease too soon, who later seem to rise from the dead. But what’s more is that Stoker and his family have deep-seated trauma over disease: his mother had to flee her hometown at the age of 14 because of a horrific cholera epidemic, and Stoker himself was bedridden as a child from an illness that no one could identify.

Found this quote from Irish Historian Mary McGarry:

Bram as an adult asked his mother to write down her memories of the epidemic for him, and he supplemented this using his own historic research of Sligo’s epidemic. Scratching beneath the surface (of this essay), I found parallels with Dracula. [For instance,] Charlotte says cholera enters port towns having traveled by ship, and can travel overland as a mist—just like Dracula, who infects people with his unknown contagion.

I bring this up because a lot of academic analysis insists that Lucy sleepwalking is proof of her being the Slutty Woman archetype that needs to be punished. This suggested symbolism is hilarious when put next to the text saying she inherited it from her father, but I’d like to suggest a different angle from the lens of disease suggested earlier:

Lucy’s sleepwalking is a condition that predates Dracula but makes her an easy target for him to prey on. Through the lens of disease symbolism, she now is someone with chronic illness or disability who is especially vulnerable to infectious disease. This becomes a cross-section of Stoker’s trauma regarding disease: his own mystery illness and his mother fleeing a plague.

To wind down my rambles with a bit of a soapbox, I feel this adds a very poignant layer to the struggle to keep Lucy alive. The COVID pandemic showed a horrifying level of casual ableism vs disabled and immunodeficient individuals, shrugging off their vulnerability and even their deaths with “well COVID only kills them.” There’s something deeply gratifying at seeing the way everyone around Lucy fights to the bitter end to protect her and refuses to just give her up to Dracula, whether it’s Mina physically chasing him away or the suitor squad pouring their blood into her veins or Van Helsing desperately searching for cures. The vulnerable deserve no less than this. They’re not acceptable casualties.

#dracula daily #ableism cw #dracula daily spoilers #lucy westenra

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Dracula outside the Westenra estate

#dracula daily #dracula #re: dracula #dracula memes #lucy westenra #count dracula

[daemonologist]

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.

#count tagula #dracula #dracula daily #dracula spoilers #dracula daily spoilers #count dracula #lucy westenra #jonathan harker #quincey morris #abraham van helsing #classics #bram stoker #there is no dracula like *the* dracula and i can never go back #i can never think of dracula as just like. the generic vampire. no he's the original. the progenitor. he's the baddest bitch of them all #vulture chatter

[nedofrisk]

Bloofer lady!!! >:D

#art #digital art #dracula #dracula spoilers #dracula daily #gothic lit art #lucy westenra #gothic literature #goth lit #dracula novel #bloofer lady

[tarriecat]

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.

#dracula daily #dracula #dracula spoilers #dracula daily spoilers #lucy westenra #jonathan harker #abraham van helsing

[lady-arryn]

BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA costumes appreciation: ― Lucy Westenra’s lace dress (costume design by Eiko Ishioka)

#userakrivi #filmedit #costumeedit #periodedit #perioddramaedit #horroredit #draculaedit #dracula 1992 #bram stoker's dracula #lucy westenra #** #*gif #*dracula #*draculacostumes

[thisismyideaofhumor]

Favorite thing about Dracula Daily so far is that yesterday I read a post that had in-depth, well-researched analysis that could easily be mistaken for a published literary criticism of Dracula, except it casually makes a passing reference to "the polycule" without feeling the need to elaborate

#dracula daily #dracula #quincey morris #john seward #van helsing #arthur holmwood #lucy westenra #thisismyideaofhumor #michael goodplace voice Yeah the Dracula polycule we've all seen it

[lezzies4monsters]

#re: dracula #dracula daily #lucy westenra #Dracula #arthur holmwood #jack seward #quincy morris #quincey morris

[livefromcastledracula]

As a long-time fan of Stoker's book, Daily Dracula has me absolutely stoked because after decades of movie and TV adaptations slipping further and further from Stoker's work, and watering down Count Dracula's character into a generic romantic vampire and his enemies into milquetoast Victorian twats, the Internet is rediscovering that "Dracula" is really about a Victorian D&D party going full murderhobo on a megalomaniacal vampire supervillain as revenge for vamping their polycule sweetheart.

#daily dracula #dracula #dracula daily #count dracula #bram stoker's dracula #dracula book #jonathan harker #van helsing #mina murray #mina harker #jack seward #arthur holmwood #quincey morris #lucy westenra

[see-arcane]

Jonathan: "Sir, as much fun as these months of Vampire Hell Staycation have been, I'd really appreciate not getting undeaded and bound for all eternity as another bloodthirsty addition to the castle. The love of my life is waiting for me and I would literally rather be dead than be part of your Polycule (Evil Edition (tm)). Can you please not drink me?"

Dracula, fangs already out: 👀💦

Lucy: "Any chance you could quit abusing my medical condition and siphoning my blood so I can stop waking in tears and maybe not be conscripted as your first conquest on English soil like a cadaverous trophy bride? I'm about to get married to the man I love and begin my life in earnest. So, like. Stop? Please?"

Dracula, bat-flapping to her window: 👀💦

Renfield: "Hello! Hi! I'm right here, ready and willing to get exsanguinated into life-chugging immortality! You won't find a more willing set of arteries in the country! Throat's right here! Drink up!"

Dracula:

#in which Dracula is a Picky conscripting horror #No fear? No fun. #dracula #r.m. renfield #re: dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #lucy westenra

[khokokat]

bloofer lady my beloved 🤍

#dracula #dracula daily #lucy westenra #bloofer lady #sketch stuff #illustration #fanart #bram stoker #bram stoker’s dracula #re: dracula #i misremembered bloofer as bloofy oop #mistake has been remedied mb

[underwhelmingalchemist]

#i thought of this and made it on my phone in about two minutes #so it's not very polished #but everybody in this book is bisexual and poly #mina and lucy very much included #mina murray #lucy westenra #jonathan harker #dracula daily #dracula