#dracula: my solicitor

[origami-trust]

Dracula, May 16th: "Hold on a minute, you're telling me Dracula has roommates?" I'm with Dracula Daily on this one.

They may be called "brides" but taking your housemate's clearly labeled food the moment they are out of the place is the most sitcom Roommate thing ever.

[mothmore]

freaking out about exams in may but also reminding myself my good friend jonathan harker will be back and it will all be okay

[cry-ptidd]

Mina in the first drawing (♥️) looks like she's looking towards jonathan from your other profile drawing where he has brown hair as still innocent baby lawyer

They don't know ❤️

[ibrithir-was-here]

You know how Quincey definitely ate some folks in WWI (whoops)? What would be real effed up is if the first person he ate was Scott. Your bestie is bleeding out in your arms and you try to kiss it better even though you know you're not gonna and unfortunately this Awakens Something In You. On top of all the grief and horrors of war you suddenly have to deal with Oh No, He's Delicious.

(I don't think this necessarily works at all but the thought came to me in the night and I felt the need to share)

AHHHHHHHHHH

Welp, thank you for breaking my heart 💔💔💔 and Quincey’s 🥺

(So Scott has Second Sight, so the bits with Blue are when he's Seeing the future)

Click for better quality

Happy Valentine's Day! 💔💔💔

[see-arcane]

Do you think Jonathan would have preferred the more straightforwardly hostile Orlock hosting? Also I like how Dracula says "Now write 3 different dates on your final three letters that seal your death date" and Orlok says "you gave 3 days exactly".

Jonathan would probably react similarly to Thomas in that spot, albeit with him taking a moment to write everything down. At the same time, I think Jonathan ‘Count Charmer’ Harker would actually be able to wheedle an ounce more sociability out of Orlok versus Thomas’ pure paralyzed terror. If nothing else, Jonathan knows how to get an egotistical undead aristocrat monologuing

[mycupofrum]

James Potter has travelled to a distant land to meet the mysterious Count Blackula...

Line art done with my non dominant hand. :) The stabiliser on the brush helped a little but this was for sure not easy... But I loved drawing this!

@drawprongsfootbadly

[bimorebooks]

The first four chapters of Bram Stoker’s Dracula are the gayest thing I’ve ever had to read for class, bar none.

[smooth-noob]

More solicitors behind the locked doors was a joke from last year when Dracula was asking how many solicitors he was allowed to have

Ahhhhh I see, thanks for the context!

[dracula-sticky-notes]

Can confirm this. I was the bug.

Jonathan Harker In College vibes

[singingbookwormwithrainbowheart]

Mina has no new news from Jonathan, poor dear heart. But at least she now knows he is alive!

Lucy is pale and not well, sleepwalks all over the room at night and the wounds on her neck - the ones Mina thinks is from the safety pin - are not looking well or healed at all.

Lucy's mom is still dying slowly (and Lucy still does not know).

Also, some letter are sent between solicitors, concerning 50 boxes that are to be shipped to a house in Purfleet.

[themoonking]

vlad your obsession with the real estate agent is ripping this polycule apart 😭

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Sexiest Podcast Character 2024 — Scripted Undefeated Bracket — Round 3

Propaganda

Jonathan Harker (Re: Dracula):

#tim i love you but JONATHAN SWEEP #is there anything sexier than vowing to follow your love into hell? to turn on your friends to join her? #to sharpen your kukri with steady cold hands? to go from a polite and scared solicitor to a determined man bouncing at the chance to kill- #your and your wife’s abuser? to go through hell and come out the otherside fighting? #and yet be willing to enter said hell as one of its demons for your love? to betray all for her despite seeing exactly what said hell has to #offer?

Mod Note: This is only the Jonathan Harker from the podcast Re: Dracula. Do not vote on the basis of any other Jonathan Harker.

Mari Datuin (Hi Nay):

Shes pan, shes fillipina, she might be God. She talked to the cops without a lawyer, and let them into her home without a lawyer [DONT DO THAT] but she did it for the plot. She’s gorgeous, shes chubby, she loves bubble tea. She was the mediator/ divorce lawyer for a breakup between two of her friends. She has reasonable beef with old people, shes fighting a cult, she is viciously allergic to therapy. Objectively a Character Of All Time. Listen to the podcast if you haven’t.

Additional propaganda below the cut:

Jonathan Harker (Re: Dracula):

At last, proper recognition for our boy Jonny!

#HOT JONNO RIGHTS #nothing is sexier than deciding you’ll become a monster alongside your wife

Mari Datuin (Hi Nay):

#in her defence the cops were hot but also she was wrong for that even if she ends up loving them ; do not let cops into your house #character of all time 🥹

#MARI SWEEP

#i don't go here but i read filipina and felt my pinoy pride shine through

#<- you should go here come to the dark side

#Mari is the sexiest sexy podcast character she has it ALL

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

Mari Mari Mari Mari Mari Mari Mari Mari Mari Mari Mari Mari Mari Mari Mari Mari Mari Mari Mari Mari

[happy-for-harkers]

Elaborating on this now that I’m less sleep deprived: it does make sense, as seeing the count crawl down a wall is the only thing Jonathan couldn’t have possibly excused for the strangeness of Transylvania.

Manipulation? Well, he might be overreacting and there’s more important things to do. (And we know Dracula is a good gaslighter as well.)

Being disallowed from entering rooms, being made to stay up too late, write letters he doesn’t truly want to, realising he’s become a prisoner? It’s alright enough, because these things are real and he’s dealing with a human threat, which lays in boundaries of what Jonathan can and can’t do against it. Maybe the Count is simply strange.

Seeing Dracula crawl down a wall? There is no way to excuse that as anything else than what it is, and neither deny non-humanity of the Count, as well as that, now, his strange treatment of Jonathan is undoubtedly intentional as well.

Our Jonathan is standing against a supernatural kind of danger that cannot be denied anymore, either out of fear or hope, as it has became reality and, therefore, is inescapable.

I love how it was Jonathan seeing Dracula crawl down the wall like a lizard that finally got him to lose it from the fear, not the manipulation, not coming to a realisation he’s a prisoner, just the fact there’s a guy crawling down a wall

[ibrithir-was-here]

Was in a drawing slump again so did some self indulgent mood boards for my Next Gen Classic Lit OCs and their stories

Dracula

(Canon Timeline/The Solider and the Solicitor versions, since Blood of My Blood usually gets all the attention)

(I suppose Scott is technically next gen of a different book but he gets pulled into the Dracula sphere so it counts)

Frankenstein : The Wretched Family

The Picture of Dorian Gray : Rosemary is for Remembrance

The Phantom of the Opera : Second Stanza

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

(I should do more for Mira/come up with a story name for her stuff)

Anyway, enjoy!

[see-arcane]

Love the terror in sleeping Jonathan

"Sleeping Jonathan," a short and ominous fairy tale of queer dreams, unseen dogs, and nighttime visitors with no sense of personal space.

[immediatebreakfast]

Once again, the underlying themes of spousal abuse between Jonathan, and Dracula resurface after the chain of events that distracted both of the dance of societal manners is over. Or, let's say, after so many things happened that Dracula deemed today good enough to "punish" Jonathan for what he has done, despite never breaking the paper agreement of employer and employee.

Because, for all that matters to Dracula Jonathan has not a single bit of power to do anything against him, and that he is trapped in his hands for the time being... or until Dracula gets bored of the poor solicitor just like he got bored of the three brides he now keeps on a dusty room.

Every scrap of paper was gone, and with it all my notes, my memoranda, relating to railways and travel, my letter of credit, in fact all that might be useful to me were I once outside the castle... The suit in which I had travelled was gone, and also my overcoat and rug; I could find no trace of them anywhere.

It's a surprise how blantant Dracula makes to Jonathan that not only he won't leave the castle, but also how he can treat him like a "disobedient" wife by taking away everything which could help him on the outside. The narrative is painting this horror from the angle of the ever growing isolation of Jonathan which spells his death... But, by combining last entry where our good friend almost succeeded in communicating with another human (which ended up with Mina's letter specifically being burned), and how today Dracula answers with taking away his identification, his money, and his clothes, it's very compelling to read this from an angle of spousal abuse.

Financial, physical, and emotional abuse were now being studied in the victorian era, except it was only focused on the lower working classes where the close knit homes, and the packed people were not equiped to hide abuse towards wives from neighbors. Where it could be hidden? On the privacy of the middle and upper class houses.

In an essay about victorian domestic abuse Jenna Dodenhof says "For many Victorian women, the ideal home described by Davidoff and Hall isolated them from society and hid their suffering from the world at large." Where is Jonathan now? On the highest end of the class hierarchy, on the isolated castle of a wealthy noble where he is forced to play the role of "new young wife" if he wants to survive, and now suffering of the very same "invisible" abuse that many victorian women suffered on the privacy of their homes.