#DRACULA

[mysharona1987]

[ineffablekink]

Dracula by Bram Stoker because I crave cold chilly foggy nights in this hot ass weather

WHAT ARE YALL READING RN you must tell me

[aquilacalvitium]

[moodsandtenses]

There's something hilarious about how so much subsequent media has positioned Vampires and Werewolves as, like, binary opposite entities, and then you read Dracula (1897) and realize that wolves are that guy's preferred solution to every problem. You'd say something to Dracula about "ah yes, werewolves, vampires' great eternal enemies," and he'd just be like "you mean my subcontractors?"

[kazz-brekker]

in dracula there is a cowboy and the female lead lives. in nosferatu there is no cowboy and the female lead dies. ergo, the existence of a cowboy is highly important for the survival of the female lead in a gothic vampire story.

[poidkea]

I’ve been reading Dracula for the first time, im about halfway through, here’s my take on it so far

The polycule learns about monster hunting

[zapfish-juice]

and nothing bad happend to them ever

[draculas-hairy-palms]

okay but my cousin just made a Twilight-themed ice cream that was an adaptation of sanguinaccio (chocolate blood custard) which really feels like a full-circle moment here

[lynxbatics]

Reading Dracula. When does she show up?

[professorsparklepants]

It is still sooooooo fucking funny that tumblr, the "fuck that old man" website, the villain apologist website, AND the paranormal boyfriend website read Dracula and went "Count Dracula sucks, we hate this dude." Planetary alignment levels of unlikely.

[nik-of-timee]

I wish jonathan harker a very pleasant and normal business trip

[brunette-gremlin]

i like nicholas hoult surrounded by vampires too much

I like when Nicholas Hoult is a sad wet man tormented by vampires

[olaniafish]

[selfsacrificingandroid]

Love that the Dracula novel takes a break from the horrors by spending time with everyone's favorite little freak, Dr John Seward.

[draculas-hairy-palms]

But also like, what’s he doing just appearing at the ends of random corridors several days before he actually disappears the first sailor? Is he just creeping around for the vibes?

I mean yes, justice for the crew of the Demeter. Dracula definitely sees them as expendable. AND. He’s spotted on deck at least as early as July 13, and Petrofsky doesn’t go missing until the 16th. I really don’t buy that he’s just a mindless horror movie villain sneaking around purely to give the crew the willies.

He’s up and about for a reason. And based on his MO throughout the rest of the book, it would actually be a departure from his usual pattern to just snatch a random sailor from behind a barrel. He likes to draw his victims in. He likes them to want it, or at least, not to resist.

The captain writes that Petrofsky is “missing,” not that there are any signs of a struggle. Not to mention the men report that they “expected something of the kind.”

What did they expect, exactly?? That their mate would just vanish? Does the presence of a stowaway usually involve murder? If they thought there was a killer aboard, why were they so reticent to mention it to the captain?

I therefore present my argument to the jury: Dracula was leaving his box to seduce a sailor. Several of the men encountered him, but it was Petrofsky who went to him. The other men may have felt uncertain whether the mysterious man was real or a specter, but they knew Petrofsky was leaving his bunk to pursue it. This uncertainty led them to both expect Petrofsky’s disappearance and at the same time hesitate to raise their concerns — until Petrofsky actually vanished.

I know, I know, I’ve got my bi-colored lenses on (they never come off), but like… give me a more compelling reason for Dracula to be sneaking about??

It's incredible how it took Dracula the first three days of the journey to start to terrorize the workers who are responsible for moving him, and his wooden boxes to england.

Not a single care of how they are the ones that keep the ship moving, all of them are expendable victims in his eyes.