#world dracula day

[vampirekitten]

In honor of #WorldDraculaDay, I worked with Midjourney to reimagine Bram Stokers Dracula characters in an anime art style. 10/10 would watch this in a heartbeat.

#vampire #anime #vampires #vampirecore #vampire aesthetic #dracula #count dracula #world dracula day #horror #midjourney

[dancinginashesandshadow]

#world dracula day #dracula #bram stocker's dracula #jonathan harker

[nosferaboo]

Quiet but lurking ✨🖤🦇

#nosferaboo #nosferatu #clan nosferatu #vampire #fangs #vamily #monster girl #the glass coffin #the lost boys #goth fashion #world Dracula day #world goth day

[argyleheir]

Dracula first edition | May 26, 1897

#have always loved the yellow #so striking #dracula #world dracula day #dracula daily #book art

[mydadisdracula]

HAPPY WORLD DRACULA DAY 🧛‍♂️ Reblog this post if My Dad is Dracula is your favorite webcomic about a dad who is also Dracula! 💖

As a Dracula Day treat I want to share with you a secret collaboration I’ve been working on with Makeship, a Dracula and Son plush! 🧸

The preorders are limited, so join the mailing list to follow along! 👇

#dracula #dracula posting #count dracula #dracula memes #my dad is dracula #comicstrips #webcomics #wholesome memes #relatable #relatable comic #world dracula day #dracula day #relatable memes #comic #comics on tumblr #makeship #plushies #web comix #comix

[octobersociety]

Happy World Dracula Day! Bram Stoker’s novel was published this day in 1897

#Dracula #bram stoker #vampires #World Dracula Day

[holycatsandrabbits]

Happy World Dracula Day! On this day in 1897, Bram Stoker published his novel Dracula. 

If you’d like to write a vampire story yourself, you can check out my Weird Wednesday blog for two vampire posts with writing prompts!

Dearg-Due: Irish Vampire

Outwit the Undead with this One Weird Trick

Sample prompt for Dearg-Due: Oops. Perhaps over the centuries, everybody forgets about the vampire's grave and the importance of the stones on top of it. The pile might get moved by weather, people building something out of stone, or people who wanted to make a different pile of stones in some other place, for reasons. Or maybe people do remember the grave, and the stones are moved on purpose: either skeptical people taking souvenirs from a famous grave, or a believer with a motive. Perhaps another wronged woman might want to free the Dearg-Due. Or somebody who wants a certain man killed and is hoping a vampire might lend a hand. Or somebody who just wants to watch the world bleed. In any case, the stones get moved and that is Not Good.

Ao3 ~ DannyeChase.com ~ Linktree ~ Weird Wednesday writing prompts blog ~ Ko-fi ~ Newsletter

Photo is of Bela Lugosi as Dracula in the 1931 film "Dracula." Image is in the public domain

#Dannye writes #writing prompts #Dracula #World Dracula Day #vampires #writing #writers on tumblr #writeblr #writeblogging #writing inspiration #writing community #Weird Wednesday blog #blogging #horror prompt #horror

[sweetieplague]

🦇 Happy belated World Dracula Day 🦇

#dracula cosplay #dracula #universal monsters #bela lugosi #dracula 1931 #dracula 1931 cosplay #bela lugosi dracula #world dracula day

[dzgrizzle]

Guy the Cat is celebrating World Dracula Day.

#Dracula #World Dracula Day #cat #cats of tumblr #dark academia

[mercuryexile]

Vampires? On my internet? It's likelier than you think

#vampires #vampireposting #world dracula day

[ladywatereton]

“I Have Crossed Oceans of Time to Find You.”

Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1992.

(ok, i should learn how to make edits shorter)

#ladywatereton #quotes #bram stocker's dracula #tumblr #world dracula day #happy dracula day #claes bang #gary oldman #penny dreadful #christopher lee #christian camargo #dracula #vlad tepes #count von count #dracula untold #edit #fantasy #books #soft goth #gothic #love at first bite #monster romance #romance #period romance #love

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

Fitting we're all reading dracula on world dracula day. Hilarious it was only two sentences today.

#dracula #dracula daily #world dracula day

[itscritiquegeek]

Surrogate Lovers: The Female Body as Proxy for Consummating Homoerotic Desire in Dracula

Happy World Dracula Day! 

Dracula was first published on this day in 1897. To celebrate it’s 125th anniversary, here’s part of my favorite paper I wrote ten years ago in undergrad. Original paper covered Frankenstein, Dracula, and Carmilla.

The Gothic novel combines that which is natural and familiar with the unnatural and unfamiliar in order to create the sense of uncanny dread that is hallmark of the genre. At its height in the 19th century, the subversion of Victorian ideals and the exploration of deviant behavior was a key part of the gothic and, in particular, the sub-genre of the Monster gothic. Though never explicit, homoerotic subtext runs rampant throughout Bram Stoker’s Dracula - from the Count’s possessiveness of Jonathan to the homosocial friendship of Lucy’s suitors. Restricted by the standards of the time, however, none of these would-be queer relationships are allowed to express their desire in the usual manner; instead, the male subjects consummate their desire via a female surrogate through the exchange of blood. 

Our primary polycule is of course compromised of Quincey, Arthur, and Jack. Not only are these men old friends, war-time buddies, but in this post-war world they all fixate on one woman... Lucy Westenra. Lucy, who so boldly asks “Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?” In this question she establishes herself as a sexual deviant in the eyes of the time, thus becoming the perfect candidate to act as proxy for the homoerotic marriage between her suitors. Though the men cannot express their love for Lucy, and by extent one another, in the traditional physical sense, her declining health unites them in a way that was previously impossible.  Through their blood transfusions, the three suitors and Van Helsing—who also expresses a level of attraction to Lucy—unite in one body.

In her work Our Vampires, Ourselves, Nina Auerbach writes: “Dracula forges this male community of passionate mutual admiration, but he cannot join it. Only indirectly, by drinking Lucy’s blood after the four men have “married” her (and each other) in a series of transfusions can Dracula infiltrate the heroic brotherhood (Auerbach 82).”

Dracula’s drinking of Lucy’s post-transfusion blood is a violation of the contract the four men have created with one another; he is an outsider, uninvited, imposing himself upon their sacred union. The drinking of Lucy’s blood not only establishes him as an active agent in the ‘marriage’ (whereas Lucy herself is a passive body), but the very nature of his participation is contrary to that of the other men. Instead of putting blood into Lucy in a symbolic act of penetration (male body fluid entering the female host), Dracula’s bite, though penetrative, removes the fluid that binds the men in the marriage. This can be seen as a reversal of the sex act, a further “abomination” in the eyes of Victorian heteronormativity.

After the death of Lucy, the role of surrogate falls to the next available woman—Mina Harker, adding Jonathan to the homosocial polycule. This quick shift from Lucy to Mina brings into question whether or not the identity of the surrogate truly matters, or merely that she exists. (Note, this was written before I’d considered the coding between Lucy and Mina. They really went from Lucy to her girlfriend!) When Dracula targets Mina as his next victim, he again acts as the catalyst for the homoerotic marriage to be consummated in the new surrogate. By forcing Mina to drink his blood, Dracula formally introduces himself into the marriage, thus increasing the horror of the situation for the men. Their already diluted marriage (considering they did not directly give their blood to Mina as they did with Lucy) has once again been tainted. The elimination of Dracula becomes their primary concern out of vengeance and a need to restore the sanctity of their union - the men are eventually successful in this mission.

Outwardly, Dracula holds up the moral ideals of the time as the most aberrant characters are ultimately punished; in reality, however, it remains queer through the homoerotic marriage. Lucy is ultimately destroyed as is the direct mingling of blood that unites the men in marriage. Dracula, the source of the reversed sex act, is also destroyed through an act of manly sacrifice on the part of Quincey Morris. While the disrupted marriage of the remaining companions cannot exist as it once did, it continues on via their surrogate. Through Mina and her son Quincey, the mingling of the blood continues. The young Quincey becomes a product of the homoerotic polygamist marriage, a true symbol of the love the men felt and continue to feel for one another.  TL;DR The men of Dracula all fixate on the same woman, first Lucy, then Mina, because they all actually want to bang one another but can’t because of heteronormativity. Giving blood transfusions to the same woman is the closest they can get to sexy times with each other. This book is very gay. 

#this book is very gay #it's all queer coded #this was my favorite college paper #I'd argue this is applicable to a lot of stories as well #like twilight #edward and jacob are def actually gay #happy gay dracula day #world dracula day #dracula daily #dracula #vampires are gay #but so are the humans in this book #my best friend jonathan harker

[artblooger19moon]

World Dracula Day

On this day in 1897 the novel Dracula was first published. 

In celebration of World Dracula Day, I’m showing so far my favorite different versions of Dracula that I have seen so far :

The first one is Bela Lugosi from DRACULA 1931, the second one is Gary Oldman in Brams Stroker’s Dracula (1992), the third one is Dracula from the anime Castlevania, fourth one is ALUCARD from Hellsing and the last one is Luke Evans in Dracula Untold.

#world Dracula Day #Dracula #bela lugosi #dracula 1931 #famous monsters of film land #classic horror movies #gary oldman #brams stroker’s dracula #castlevania #alucard #Hellsing #luke evans #dracula untold

[mydadisdracula]

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY FROM MY DAD IS DRACULA! 🧛‍♂️ If you’re missing a father figure or just look forward to a "Hi Son!" each day, MDiD is here to give you Dracula Dad approval 💖 Enjoy some of my fatherly faves and reblog to spread the love! 🥰

📣 ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT for the Dracula and Son Plush! HERE 👇

#fathers day #parenting #fatherson #world dracula day #dracula day #Dracula #comic #wholesome #cute #webcomics

[eldritch-macabre]

Happy World Dracula Day (May 26th, the anniversary of the 1897 publication of Dracula by Bram Stoker).

#dracula #world dracula day #hammer horror #christopher lee #gothic horror