#re: dracula

[re-dracula]

One week!

#re: dracula

[the-illustrative-interloper]

As Dracula Daily 2024 approaches, have a pre-horrors Jonathan! As a treat. I’m sure his business trip will go well this time. :)

#ooh I should do an illustration with that one line from Hadestown #*to know how it ends* #*and still begin to sing it again* #*as if it might turn out this time* #dracula daily #dracula daily 2024 #dracula daily art #re: dracula

[atmothart]

Jon he's really trying here cut him a break

(tumblr crunched the resolution of this comic a lot rip)

#dracula daily #hello im back from the void with shitty dracula doodles #i actually drew this last year but never posted it #here it is now though #count dracula #jonathan harker #Drac reading the english bradshaw guide is still one of the funniest moments in Dracula to me #i know it is supposed to show how he's planning to infiltrate england and appear local #but it really does just come across like he picked it up in a panic and pretended to be reading it when Jonathan came back into the room #and being the weird guy he is thought reading train schedules was really normal behaviour #bram stoker's dracula is a romcom #re: dracula

[my-name-is-not-kimmy]

#dracula daily #last voyage of the demeter #re: dracula #dracula

[mothmore]

something i am utterly obsessed with is the physical copy of dracula that i recently purchased that has , as part of its foreword , some of the original idea notes that bram stoker had about what dracula’s vampiric powers/traits would be.

one of these is that dracula’s likeness cannot be captured in a painting , he always looks like someone else.

which only leads me to imagine a scenario in which the count lines many of his castle hallways with paintings of himself throughout the centuries but none of them look the same and none of them look like him but jonathan can’t help but notice they all somehow look eerily similar.

he brushes it off , assuming they are simply counts of generations past.

#more of moth #dracula #re: dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #bram stoker #i woukd think thag the reason dracula has so many paintings of himself is that he finds it funny or smthn idk #he hires an artist and then they paint him and he pretends to be in a rage and threaten them #then he just eats them #it’s like his way to blow off steam #yeah #that’s it

[harbingerofsoup]

dracula is defeated by 1) autism, 2) true love, and 3) incredible violence, and the fact that this isn’t the mainstream understanding of dracula in pop culture is a fucking travesty

#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #in 2024 we are making sure everyone knows that mina and jonathan are obsessed with each other

[agroveinthesavagegarden]

Imagine you’re Dracula, enjoying drinking this tasty girl until finally one night you’re like well it’s been fun but she’s pretty much drained I guess it’s time to find another victim and then they just start… filling her back up? I bet he was like holy shit modern medicine is great, what a time to be undead

#dracula daily #re: dracula

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

I'm listening to @re-dracula again now that it's all out, and Dr. Van Helsing has so many good quotes.

#dracula #re: dracula #food #I like this quote because it inspires me to be less bad at eating breakfast at a decent time

[see-arcane]

Jonathan, between meals probably: “Are you sure I’m meant to eat an entire garlic bulb as a palate cleanser?”

The locals, sweating, trying their best to low-key vampire-proof this boy: “Yes. Absolutely. Very traditional.”

#he goes to his luggage and finds a courtesy sachet of potpourri #full of wild rose and garlic blossoms #dracula spoilers #dracula daily spoilers #(but not really) #dracula #jonathan harker #dracula daily #re: dracula

[re-dracula]

I can't believe Bram Stoker didn't account for the fact that a lot of people died today.

#re: dracula #I was wondering if this would happen

[jonathansknife]

What I think: wow I can’t believe the word “hark” means “listen, pay attention” and a major role of the Harkers in the story is to notice important details, record conversations, gather information and otherwise defeat Dracula by listening and paying attention

What I say: my favorite part of Dracula is when the Harkers said “it’s Harkin’ time!” and harked all over the place

#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #jonathan harker #mina harker

[dathen]

God the moment I realized that the “holiest love” references for Jonathan and Mina wasn’t some uwu purity sanctified good little married thing but him deciding that loving Mina is more important than salvation itself. That he’d rather be with her than in heaven. That if God rejects Mina, that GOD is wrong. I’M SO FERAL OVER THIS I’M SHAKING

#the queerness of it all though…. #dracula daily #re: dracula #jonathan harker #holiest love

[thegoatsongs]

The Spectator [19th century British magazine] thought that while Stoker made admirable use of “vampirology,” the story might have been better had it been set in an earlier period. “The up-to-dateness of the book—the phonograph, diaries, typewriters, and so on—hardly fits in with the mediaeval methods which ultimately secure the victory for Count Dracula’s foes.”

On the subject that contemporaries thought that Dracula was too up-to-date for a vampire story.

Needless to say, the reviewer missed the whole point.

#it was perhaps one of the Themes #the marriage of the medieval and the future #dracula daily #dracula #re: dracula #dracula spoilers #dracula daily spoilers

[dramaticpandabear]

I love how in the Dracula Daily fandom, we don’t say that we are beginning once again on May 3rd.

Rather, we say “my dear friend Johnathan is preparing for his upcoming trip. I hope he has such a wonderful time and that he brings back some delicious recipes :)”

And I think that’s beautiful

#my dear friend Johnathan #I hope he has such a pleasant journey through the Carpathians :) #dracula daily #re: dracula #johnathan harker #re dracula #dracula

[reignsupreme-inyourdreams]

There is a detail in Dracula that I think modern readers overlook, and I say this as someone who only recently realized the implications of this line.

When Jonathan wakes up after his encounter with the vampire women, he mentions all of the clues that Dracula is the one who put him to bed, and he specifically mentions his watch being unwound.

I never thought much about that detail, but my mother-in-law is really into collecting antique clocks. Last week I spent a lot of time at her house and every day, at the same time, she went around and wound all of the clocks. One day she missed one of the clocks and mentioned that she would have to fix the time on it. This made me realize just how important it was that Jonathan keep his watch wound in order for him to have the accurate time.

I don't recall Jonathan mentioning Dracula owning any clocks; if he doesn't, then that means that Jonathan's watch being unwound is the end of him being able to tell the time accurately. Without that context it seems like a minor slip up on Dracula's end that is evidence to him dressing Jonathan for bed, but with that context it seems like a deliberate attempt by Dracula to further sever Jonathan's connection to reality/sanity, as he has already messed up his sleeping schedule.

So, when you reread the book/listen to Re: Dracula, keep that in mind if you haven't already thought of that. It's an interesting thing to think about.

#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula

[meme-meupthotty]

August 6: Dracula

“She is steered mighty strangely, for she doesn't mind the hand on the wheel; changes about with every puff of wind. We'll hear more of her before this time tomorrow.”

#re: dracula #Dracula #dracula daily #August 6