#thinkin bout mina and her ‘man’s brain & woman’s heart’

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

something about the way that killing vamped-up lucy is a full on Boys Adventure that seward recounts from being in it and of course impressed by van helsing’s command and also one of the most violent & gross scenes in the book, and then for the death of dracula - the big bad! the titular role! - we spend the scene with mina, watching with the old man from a distance through the snow… idk what to make of it exactly but it feels like it says something ultimately about what kind of book this is. and of course i love that mina is the one who gets to bring the story home - and the cleverness of the fact that we know they win the second we realize with relief she’s writing again, which must mean she’s been restored to herself.

#dracula daily #thinkin bout mina and her ‘man’s brain & woman’s heart’ #& that bram quote i can’t find rn where he’s like ‘will the world ever believe a man can have the heart of a woman’ #idk the book is violent & gory & scary but also in many ways it is startlingly soft and gentle #there’s a real fundamental sweetness at its core #and the fact that it chooses to close the story proper through the perspective that would most bring that to the fore…. #like in some ways it almost feels like it ‘should’ be jonathan right? #jonathan brought us into this world; jonathan takes dracula out as his final revenge for his half year of hell #but he’s not the one who sees the story to its end; it’s mina who watched it all go down #mina who after everything finds relief in glimpsing an instant of piece on the monster’s face…. #idk!!! in its final pages this novel has once again found a way to genuinely surprise me