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Happy Normal Trip East Day!

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Happy May the 4th to all Star Wars fans :)

But you know what else is today?

IT IS THE EVE OF SAINT GEORGE'S DAY! DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT TO-NIGHT, WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES MIDNIGHT, ALL THE EVIL THINGS IN THE WORLD WILL HAVE FULL SWAY? DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING, AND WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO?

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it's the biggest mischaracterization ever that jonathan harker ends up being taken as a clueless man, when literally in the second diary entry of the BOOK he's so uncomfortable and worried he says goodbye to his fiancée.

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Sorry for putting you through the horrors every year Jonny boy.

Spiritual successor to this from last year.

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Everything's going to go right this time. The business trip will be a breeze...Lucy will have her September wedding...this time...

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The locals trying to warn Jonathan Harker about Dracula like

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MY GOOD FRIEND JONATHAN HARKER HAS SENT ME AN EMAIL!

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Wake up babe, the time loop reset. It's time to go to Transylvania.

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Dracula Daily PSA: Please remember Mina Murray is the most important character in the book. Okay have fun

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A little Halloween painting of the Harkers, because they deserve one together! I love drawing vintage photographs.

I'm going to shill for myself here, but if you like the Harkers, please consider listening to the first episode of my partner's and my new horror-fiction podcast, The Holmwood Foundation. Starring the Harkers in a prominant role and very much in gothic love!

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Each yeah her apprehension grows

But wait… this hasn’t happened before, right? This is his first trip as a solicitor…

So why the feeling of déjà vu?

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the offseason’s coming to a close, dracula be upon ye

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Related to my last post; I will be tagging spoilers on posts going into the new season, but only on posts that reference material that happens after wherever we are in the novel. So if you’re a few days behind you might get some spoilers but anything major will be tagged.

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As we approach Dracula Daily season again, just a gentle reminder that, even though it has been going for several years, there are still people who are doing this for the first time, have never read Dracula before, and would like to have as spoiler free an experience as possible, so please tag spoilers!

I know it's a little ridiculous to tag spoilers for a 128 year book, but the chronological reading is so important to Dracula Daily and it's good for people to be able to choose their own experience. It can be a bit alienating if they can't explore the tag and interact with other people excited about the same thing for fear of spoilers. If you're not following along closely and just enjoy keeping up with the memes (which is how I usually do), just try your best to see if what you're posting/reblogging is something that's already happened this year or not.

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mina doesn't know she's bisexual, she just thinks everyone feels that way about lucy, which, given her sample size, is kind of fair. jonathan is dimly aware that he's got Something going on and he tries to pursue it very small safe ways but he still can't really put his finger on it beyond "women??? men???”. jack is a horny leaf in the stream of creation and would probably realize that he's a little too focused on his besties' "manhoods" if he ever got two full weeks of consistently good sleep, but until then he puts it down exhausted mania.

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I respect and understand other character interpretations but imo the thing that gives mina the most sparkle is her diabolical case of internalized misogyny. she just loses her sauce if you take it all out with no fuss. she describes her socially assigned gender role as biting into her, it was draining her lifeblood long before any vampires entered the picture. she can be awesome and cool and better at most things than the men in her life (because she canonically is), but she needs to do that while passing through the nine circles of victorian class/gender hell. this is a suicidal sopping wet cat of a fledgling vampire who once gave up her shoes to her best friend while rescuing her from being ravished in her sleep and then covered her own feet in mud to avoid the risk of anyone noticing she was barefoot and maybe thinking she looked weird. she's problemgirl.

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Just finished reading the OG Dracula and my biggest complaint is that Bram didn’t let Mina shoot a bunch of vampire-controlled wolves from within her Holy Wafer Protection Circle