#just murray

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

hey why are the Van Helsings always the Vampire Hunting Family in modern Dracula stories. Abraham Van Helsing might be the guy who knows stuff but his family is off in the Netherlands and/or dead and totally uninvolved in the plot. Abraham's great-great grandson has no reason to be doing backflips and chopping off heads or whatever

You know who is a family who hates Dracula so so much and would totally teach their kids how to hunt vampires? The Harkers. Give me a modern vampire story where the protagonists are about to die when out pops Quincey Arthur John Lucy Abraham Murray Harker the Fifth, armed with a giant knife and an encyclopedic knowledge of train schedules

[munster0us]

If There’s Something Strange…

[popsicle-stick]

“Why, this beats even shorthand! May I hear it say something?”

a commission of jack and mina from the scene where he's showing her the phonograph!

[duckysprouts]

“i’ll kill evil incarnate with my bare hands for my husband” mina and “if the Lord rejects you i’ll follow you to hell” jonathan

they’re so in love i wanna be sick

[immediatebreakfast]

I think it's also notable that her expectations for marriage is "the stenography and typing skills I'm cultivating will be useful for work!" instead of more typical housewife skills and having children immediately. It's 1897 and she can't have a career while married, but she's trying to juggle both.

She wants a partnership with Jonathan as her top priority!

Exactly! This is a noteworthy detail that really establishes a lot of Mina's characteristics for the whole novel.

Mina wants to marry Jonathan, she loves him with all of her heart, but her priorities in this future marriage are quite different from one may expect from a lady of that time.

Instead of writing to Lucy about the transition from schoolmistress to housewife, Mina talks about typewrites and shorthand, and training herself like lady journalists (👀), so she can become adept in basically documenting information (👀!!!!).

Why is Mina doing all of this? Because she intends to work alongside Jonathan in his solicitor job. Since lawyering is a profession with a lot of paperwork, then Mina decides to cultivate similar skills as much as she can in order to take charge of that part of the job.

It's incredible how, while she is sad for leaving her current job, Mina isn't lamenting that she can't work because she is (correctly) expecting to work with Jonathan. Housewife skills, home care, and children are last things in her mind. Mina is ready for marriage life, and all of the stuff that comes when you, and your spouse are working in the same space.

[boarwinds]

She's so pretty I had to

[luminouslumity]

How Mina Murray Became Dracula's Girlfriend

And in honor of hearing from Mina today, enjoy this awesome video essay! Because seeing people talk about how much the adaptations ruined the story is my bread and butter!

[moonsun2010]

24 Aug - A long-awaited reunion💍

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

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[goldengroovy]

thirdwheeling because both of them are cowards who cant ask each other out (don't worry they got them free ice cream to make up for it)

[chippy-fresh]

I'm trying so hard not to rant about the 2024 Garfield movie (this is another form of masking) but I'm genuinely annoyed at them turning this into a father/son thing when Garfield's origins in the comic and specials always made it about Garfield and his MOTHER

[ohmerricat]

something about this quote + missy's piano + his guitar. playing clara's theme as a remnant of a lost memory... when nothing is remembered, when nothing is left, still the song continues on. the long song – passed on through generations to every new queen of years, down along the eons. your song is ending but the story never ends

[yourelosingains]

if they don’t look like they’re done with everyones shit together then they clearly aren’t endgame

[iwrite-sinsandtragedies]

Day 5 — Comfort ₊˚✧ ﾟ

Submission for @goldengroovy's @olnfweek2024

MC: Micha

[duckysprouts]

buffy the vampire slayer but it’s mina and jonathan hunting dracula for 7 seasons

[thegoatsongs]

@animate-mush Your kissing question got me curious and I made an ms paint chart hopefully involving everything recorded. Kisses that are not having blood drinking intent (unless you count the Count's June 29 blown kiss to Jonathan as a promise for later tonight).

It seems like the real craven seductress is Van Helsing Van Helsing gets his hand kissed by the most people. In one scene he gets both hands kissed by the Harkers at the same time. Jack is the only one who gives nor receives any, even the journal gets kissed. I put the one Mina gives to the exhausted Jonathan at the hospital as unspecified location, but I personally assume it was on the lips, since they are engaged. Lucy and Mina kiss Quincey at an unspecified location on their first written interactions, but given the etiquette, it is likely on the cheek. Other fun fact, whenever the Harkers kiss mutually Jonathan takes Mina in his arms.

[baltharino]