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gellavonhamster · 6 months
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Got myself an edition of Dracula I've wanted for a long time - the one illustrated by Becky Cloonan - so here are some of my favourite illustrations (in phone camera quality, with the kitchen tablecloth in the background, sorry):
Jonathan's first illustration, the Weird Sisters, GET SHOVEL'D IDIOT
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The Captain (you've probably seen this one before)
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Basically every illustration featuring Renfield, they're so great. Good for him
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Mina Harker, everybody (and YES she gets her canonical gun)
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Our dear girls
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The "get a job! stay away from her!" illustrations
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LUCY
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Jack being a brooding emo prince (again, good for him)...
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...and, in particular, this little illustration of his first meeting with Mina. My favourite 19th century tech nerds.
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The best couple in Gothic literature according to me:
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Quincey looking almost exactly like his dark twin (Ethan Chandler in Penny Dreadful)
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The 'Avengers assemble" one
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(that's far from every illustration in the book, I simply didn't take pictures of every single one)
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theoscout · 5 months
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Hear me out: Dracula D&D (5e) AU
Jonathan's a battle based bard. You need charisma when you're a solicitor. Feel like his charisma was the reason he was able to survive in the castle for SIX FUCKING MONTHS without dying or getting chained to a wall, he got it bad but let's all admit he could have had it a lot worse! Also his bribery phase is pretty entertaining LOL. Think he'd be in the college of Swords or Valor.
Mina's a rogue. From what I understand of her, she's got a wide breath of knowledge that a rogue would have, and she's a teacher so she'd kind of have to be like that. Unsure about subclass because I can't decide between Inquisitive or Phantom.
Quincey's a ranger because obviously
Arthur's an artificer, just because from how it looks, it seems everyone's using him as the Uncle Pennybags of the group, and that's what artificers tend to end up as. Possibly a battle smith, with the steel defender being one of his dogs
Lucy's a Druid. I was originally going to make her a cleric for symbolic and ironic reasons, but I just get druid vibes from how she talks from re:dracula and there's also a bit of symbolism in how Dracula can corrupt nature.
Jack's a wizard because he's interested in advancing knowledge and goes to great and memeically unusual lengths to archive his work. Possibly an enchantment wizard because of how he's interested in studying human minds. He'd write his diary entries in his spellbook using the same method for transcribing spells and use all his expensive ink and stuff in the process.
Renfield's a barbarian, he's been described as being very strong and I'm pretty sure you need a strong constitution to eat all those birds and bugs without getting an upset stomach. Strength and constitution are what barbarians are best known for. Beast barbarian because it gives a bite attack and I just KNOW that Renfield's the kind of person to bite people LOL
Abraham Van Hesling's probably a multiclassed character, but I suppose that if he had any 'main' classes he'd be a bard or rogue for the sake of skills. He'd be all over the place. His player probably optimised him for maximum skills. Probably a Lore Bard or Knowledge Cleric if we had to stick with one class.
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atundratoadstool · 11 months
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I know you've listed the character ages already, but what about physical descriptions? I remember Van Helsing being described as having red hair and blue eyes and I know Lucy's a blonde, but that's it.
Stoker is both frequently very spartan in his physical descriptions of characters and obsessively interested in detailing their facial features owing to his zealous belief in the thoroughly racist science of physiognomy. Here's a breakdown of what we know in the text plus some notes on how these features possibly operate in relation to Stoker's views, experiences, and research:
[CW: Spoilers and a fair number of mentions of Stoker's inescapable racism/antisemitism under the cut.]
Jonathan Harker: Jonathan is barely described but in possession of hair that turns white over the course of the novel. He possibly has a beard or a lot of stubble following the unfortunate yeeting of his shaving mirror. Like many of Bram Stoker's hunky lawyer protagonists, he's more often describing characters than being described by them.
Mina Harker: She is described by Seward as "attractive," "sweet-faced," and "dainty looking." She also has eyes that blaze like "pole stars," which is a very common description in Stoker's greater body of work (See: Stephen Norman in The Man and Teuta Vissarion in Lady of the Shroud) and match with his rapturous descriptions of real world actress Geneviève Ward. While it isn't as common a denotation of willfulness and determination as aquiline noses, it's generally used to indicate female characters who are very hardcore and may obtain a gun. Her skin is light enough for the red mark she obtains to be clearly visible upon it, although I will note that Mimi Salton from Lair of the White Worm is both undeniably a Mina 2.0 and mixed race/darker skinned, which might be worth considering in the realm of headcanon given how frequently Stoker just recycles characters and their physical attributes.
Lucy Westerna: She's pretty, and her weight and appearance definitely fluctuates over the course of her illness. Her hair is laid out in "sunny ripples" while she's alive. She becomes a "dark-haired woman" while undead. This frustrates many many critics and commentators. It's been proposed that the "sunny ripples" just refers to the gloss on her dark hair. It's been proposed the blondeness/darkness hair is an indicator of her innate goodness/evilness... like Smurfette (which has--again--some Stoker-typical racist implications). The most obvious Doylist explanation is that Stoker cannot track characters' hair color much as he cannot track all his dates.
Jack Seward: Strong jaw. Nice forehead. Immense lunatic asylum. He's also mentioned as being thin in comparison to Renfield and Lucy thinks he's handsome (although obviously not as desirable as Arthur).
Arthur Holmwood: His hair is curly. He is tall. He is also a hottie, as attested to by Lucy and by Jack (who finds him very manly as he kills his vampire fiancee).
Quincey P. Morris: I haven't recalled or been able to look up any major descriptors. He apparently carries himself like a "moral Viking" (as Jack attests in the midst of commenting on yet another friend's manliness). I went into some detail as to how he reads in terms of race here and how it might mesh with Lucy's comparison of him to Othello.
Abraham Van Helsing: After the Count, he's the most thoroughly described character in terms of physiognomy, and that physiognomy... is more or less the spitting image of Bram Stoker as he describes himself (...you know, Abraham "Bram" Stoker, who has the same first name as this super genius great-at-everything character). He's got sensitive nostrils, big forehead bumps, a nice jaw, a big mouth, a strong build, and red hair. I wrote a comparison between him and Stoker here. I will also note that the forehead bumps are a phrenological feature denoting creativity and that Jonathan remarks that he apparently has eyebrows incompatible with self doubt.
R. M. Renfield: He appears to be swoler than Seward even if his swoleness is to no avail against Dracula.
Dracula: There is a lot to unpack with Dracula. He has an aquiline nose, which is one of the absolutely most significant recurring features in Stoker's greater corpus (See: The Judge from "The Judge's House"; Solomon Mendoza from The Watter's Mou; Don Bernadino from The Mystery of the Sea; Joy Ogilvie from Lady Athlyne; and Edgar Caswall from The Lair of the White Worm), and this trait was shared by his boss and Idol Henry Irving. It undoubtedly has physiongomic significance to Stoker, who seems to use it to denote command and leadership, although it is worth noting that Cesare Lombroso mentions aquiline noses as a feature of murderers and that many critics have pointed out its potential connections to Stoker's antisemitism (and specifically the suspicion regarding Jewish immigrants in the wake of the Jack the Ripper killings). Dracula additionally has a "domed forehead," which can paradoxically be associated in physiognomy with both high intellect and mental feebleness. His sharp teeth are a trait Stoker associates with "a militant instinct" (Lombroso, again, connects them with murderers) and are described in much the same way he describes Alfred Lord Tennyson and Sir Richard Burton's teeth, although he took notes from Sabine Baring-Gould's Book of Were-wolves in which sharp teeth are a werewolf trait. We also have pretty explicit evidence that Dracula's unibrow, pointy nails, and hairy palms are also from Baring-Gould. Overall, Dracula seems to be a real hodgepodge of physiognomic traits that seem to haunt Stoker's work, racist criminological theory, and actual folklore.
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fullsaw · 6 months
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I finished reading Dracula and I have some thoughts:
Quincy P. Morris COME HOME the kids are STARVING i NEED YOU
Mina Harker is the most competent person on the crew why did they keep underestimating her she could literally shoot Dracula dead
holy SHIT was Lucy's death tragic AND THEN ARTHUR HAD TO FINISH THE JOB??? Van Helsing you are messed up
Also, Abraham Van Helsing, multitasker much? He literally has so many titles he had to add Etc. at the start of a letter
Jonathan being an absolute mess over his wife will forever be adorable
Dr. John Seward get your shit together. Thats it.
Renfield I will always support you and your weird behaviour keep it up
The End Note accidentally implies that Arthur and Seward got married and all i have to say about that is gay rights
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spooh52 · 1 year
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Seven years later
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lvl3glassfrog · 5 months
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"Good!" said the Professor, "both good. But neither must go alone. There must be force to overcome force if need be; the Slovak is strong and rough, and he carries rude arms." All the men smiled, for amongst them they carried a KUKRI THAT HAS BEEN CONTINUALLY SHARPENED FOR TEN DAYS STRAIGHT GO JONATHAN GOOOO
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bluecatwriter · 1 year
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I am SO. STINKIN'. EXCITED for how this drawing turned out! I've never even attempted anything so complicated before, but my deep yearning to draw all the Crew of Light (director's cut, in which the director is me, and they all live) forced me to take my art to a new level! I'm so happy. :D
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hanaasbananas · 2 years
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sobbing, at van helsing going "oh no I can't tell him about vampires but I CAN involve him in my plans to CHOP LUCYS HEAD OFF AND PULL OUT HER HEART"
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dreamystarzkay · 9 days
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My Favorite Movies As A Goth
The Crow
Ginger Snaps
The Lost Boys
Van Helsing
Silver Bullet
Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters
Hocus Pocus
Queen Of The Damned
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Beetlejuice
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Rob Zombie's Halloween
House Of 1000 Corpses
Trick R Treat
Bram Stoker's Dracula
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sartanism · 1 year
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Since Dracula is my favourite horror media I had to refine them again for halloween. These took ages to draw fkgfj but Happy Halloween for everyone!!
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the-bitch-files · 1 year
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Songs for Dracula Characters
During Dracula Daily, I decided to assign some songs to the characters that could be included in a playlist. The songs are compiled here, and there are four (4) songs for each main character, except Van Helping and Renfield as I only gave them two (2) songs each. The song assignments are based on the vibes of the song itself or the lyrics featured and relate to the characters themselves and/or their situations in the story. My choices also reflect my own musical preferences, so if there's a particular song that you think would fit that isn't on here that is likely why.
If you have any thoughts about my choices or your own suggestions, let me know!
MINA
Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks Train in Vain - the Clash Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode Shadow the Night - Pat Benatar
JONATHAN
Time is Running Out - Muse Lovesong - the Cure 500 Miles - the Proclaimers Hotel California - the Eagles
COUNT DRACULA
Shopping for Blood - Franz Ferdinand Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran Devil Inside - INXS Vlad the Impaler - Kasabian
LUCY
Just a Girl - No Doubt Night Crawling - Miley Cyrus, Iggy Pop Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac Spellbound - Siouxsie & the Banshees
ARTHUR
Andy You're a Star - the Killers Landslide - Fleetwood Mac Lovesong - the Cure Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
QUINCEY
Knights of Cydonia - Muse Timber - Pitbull, Kesha Cowboy Blues - Kesha Curious - Franz Ferdinand
JACK
Weird Science - Oingo Boingo She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes Mr. Brightside - the Killers
RENFIELD
People Are Strange - the Doors/Echo & the Bunnymen Feed My Frankenstein - Alice Cooper
VAN HELSING
Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode All These Things That I've Done - the Killers
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dodger-chan · 1 year
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There's something to be said about Van Helsing pressing Renfield to explain himself; offering to help if only Renfield would give him more information.
Also about the fact that Renfield, in trying to appear sane in front of Seward can't say (likely even literally can't depending on Dracula's power to compel him) "if you keep me here I will be forced to let a monster in," when he's talking to some of the few people that would believe him.
Side note: Fuck you, Seward. Renfield is a person, you invited strangers into his room, introductions are in order.
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atundratoadstool · 1 year
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hello! i have a question about this line from renfield's introductions speech in seward's diary on october 1st: "When an individual has revolutionised therapeutics by his discovery of the continuous evolution of brain-matter, conventional form are unfitting, since they would seem to limit him to one of a class." to me in 2022, "the continuous evolution of brain-matter" as a discovery that could "revolutionise therapeutics" scans as something like the concept now termed neuroplasticity, the idea that the brain retains some ability to physically change in response to stimuli throughout adulthood. i was curious about whether that would in fact be what stoker might have meant to refer to so i did some light googling and found that the concept seems often to be attributed to william james, writing in 1890, but also that it was not accepted by the field of psychology until later. so now i'm just curious if you can shed any light on this - what the line is in fact supposed to indicate van helsing's great discovery to be, and whatever it is, whether stoker thought of it as a real scientific discovery he assigned in his text to his supergenius scientist, or whether it was an idea he viewed as fictional that he thought sounded cool, and its resemblance to later science is a fun coincidence.
I had never considered that it might have been a reference to William James work (I'm completely delighted by the suggestion!), and I very much believe Stoker could have had at least passing knowledge of James's theories. Something I love to bring up (and that is especially pertinent in the wake of the end of Renfield's arc) is that Stoker's brother, William Thornley Stoker, has very firmly been established as a consultant for the novel, and that Thornley was a brain surgeon.
Part of the documentation in Stoker's notes for the novel is a diagram Thornley made him showing the motor cortex of the brain such that Renfield's injury could be accurately described. The actual trephination scene with Renfield is lifted more or less directly from an article Thornley wrote: "On a Case of Subcranial Haemorrhage treated by Secondary Trephining." Jack Seward's sentiments on vivisection also replicate some of Thornley's sentiments in the piece. Van Helsing's "We learn from failure, not from success" seems to have been taken from Thornley's "A Contribution to the Surgery of the Brain" and is echoed his 1894 "Some Lessons of Life" (where a Van Helsingesque "festina lente" also crops up). It is very very evident to me that Stoker had access to medical knowledge concerning the brain and that brain science is something constantly in the background of Dracula. While I have no present knowledge of a connection between James and Thornley, I would be completely unsurprised if Stoker learned of early theories of neuroplasticity through his brother and incorporated them in the novel.
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I love how everyone loves each other so much in Dracula 🥹 Almost every time something beautiful happens I have to stop and read it again because it’s so lovely I want to experience it again 🥹😭🥰
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