#drac attack pack

[bluecatwriter]

When I saw this old photograph, I knew that I had to draw the Crew of Light this way, all balancing on top of totally-not-imbued-with-supernatural-power Jonathan. He's normal. It's fine.

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[lorereadsclassics7]

The rest of the Drac Attack Pack: -clearly struggling to get through the people to get to Dracula-

Jonathan mad-eyes-knife-man Harker:

[see-arcane]

Don't you just hate it when you track down a shady ethics-free Victorian laboratory to have a violent talk with the weirdos who threatened people you've made it your penitent life-mission to protect only to discover someone else has beaten you to the punch (and certain organs) and they just so happen to be your resurrected Creator who's been dead for almost a century and it's all So Awkward, ughhhhhh

( @severedfeetpics behold the Creatures!)

[general-sleepy]

Raffles/Dracula crossover where Raffles and Bunny break into Arthur's house and steal all of his shit while he's out of town hunting vampires.

[darkpuck]

Drac Attack Pack Saturday, September 30th, 1893

illustration by Greg Hildebrandt this copy of dracula can be found here on Amazon

[popsicle-stick]

What do you imagine the Drac Attack Pack look like a year or two afterwards when they a permanently changed but no longer Going Through It (and may have just possibly changed out of funerary garb)?

circa 1900

i actually can't decide if jon's hair grows back brown or stays grey/white! i think a lot of ppl like the latter, but i do like the symbolism of both.

but yeah! quincey the younger is on the way and all being said they're very happy!!!! and they look it. i think they (especially mina) take pains to make sure they, uh, come across as Normal as possible.

[disco-tea]

Could you imagine if Renfield had been successful and had actually killed Dracula? like idk how he would’ve done it but he had the upper hand before he looked him in the eyes and fell victim to the thrall. Maybe he could’ve popped his head clean off or impaled him on his stool leg or cut his head off with broken window glass or something. Idk. But could you imagine if Renfield had just showed up dragging Dracula’s corpse to Seward and Van Helsing like a cat bringing a dead mouse to your door?

Well anyway, I think as a society we need and deserves less of Renfield as Dracula’s loyal evil bug eating minion and more of Renfield immediately turning on Dracula and joining the Drac Attack Pack as their batshit insane muscle guy capable of Greco Roman wrestling a vampire for some reason and is actually a sweetheart if you’re nice to him. 

[dathen]

Van Helsing returning to the Drac Attack Pack: How have things been in my absence? You shared WHAT with Madam Mina?? Well, it’s a good thing I’m here to impose traditional gender roles again before something goes wrong!

[brotherdusk]

mina's first letter to lucy was far more impactful to me today than it was in last year's read, and honestly it made me a bit emotional? it's easy to take her skill and efficiency as a typist, researcher, and diarist for granted later on when the stakes get higher and far more dramatic events are unfolding. but today's entry reminds us that she has been working incredibly hard at these things in her spare time, with no goal in mind but to help jonathan in his work, and absolutely no intention of ever profiting from or being recognised for these skills - "I do not suppose there will be much of interest to other people; but it is not intended for them. I may show it to Jonathan some day if there is in it anything worth sharing, but it is really an exercise book."

and because of these thankless, countless hours of research, training and writing, she is THE lynchpin of the drac attack pack's ability to coordinate so well in the final chapters. studious, modest, patient, curious mina, I love you so much and you deserve the world 😭😭😭😭

[bluecatwriter]

Inspired by @yallemagne's amazing post about the cast of Dracula having a Beach Episode... I give you this! (It was fun to just doodle these without looking at picture references— drawing like this uses a very different part of my brain.) Set in a modern AU because 1) I didn't want to do research and 2) I really wanted to draw Van Helsing wearing corn-themed swimming trunks.

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Mina and Jack chillin'.

Lucy and Arthur not noticing they're getting sunburned.

Quincey trying to teach Jonathan how to swim.

And Van Helsing water-skiing!

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[lorereadsclassics7]

'Let Mina be cool too' book progress:

[see-arcane]

I wish for something Dracula as sort of post-apocalypse. Maybe killing him did not stop the infestation, maybe it emboldened other vampires and you have now 100 Ruthvens in his wake having turf wars, maybe his visit awakened legendary dormant ancient evils, maybe it inspired ambitious lords of the dying british/european aristocracy wanting to copycat him and make devil pacts and training in the mountains. And the survivors who experienced it all first hand dealing with it.

Honestly, it stuns me how little has been done with the 'Dracula technically leaving an open spot at the top of the vampire food chain' possibilities. I think Castlevania kind of touches on it, but overall there's just a whole lot of nothing going on in Dracula-adjacent media about it.

Though I will hand the other public domain vampires a pass because, to be honest, I think Count Dracula was the only vampire in literature who was ever concerned about Taking Over the World. Everyone else in the undead scene is just sort of doing the smart thing and. You know. Chilling.

Lord Ruthven wasn't out to conscript others. Dude went out of his way to kill his victims with knives and drink the red runoff, as if to explicitly avoid making other vampires.

Carmilla was out there romancing and drinking girls like an undead Casanova. The vampire who turned her first when she was Countess Mircalla might have been different! But we never find out who that vampire was; we just know about Millie and the growing list of broken/siphoned hearts left in her wake.

Clarimonde, the dead woman in love~, was so bad at making another vampire. Comically, tragically bad at it. All she could bring herself to do was construct a fantasy dreamscape to live in with her human priest crush while taking literally only a single pinprick's worth of blood from him to keep herself going. This, when the priest in question openly declared SHE COULD HAVE HIS ENTIRE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM if she wanted it!

Varney the Vampire was and remains just...terrible at being a vampire. In general.

Countess Dolingen and her undead village, along with Gorcha and the Vourdalak village, both seem to have the whole 'conscript everyone around me/all those I love' angle handled. Except neither group ever ever expands past the borders of their territory. Maybe it's a rule? Maybe they just ran out of people they felt like drinking? Either way, they stopped caring about collecting others and just tucked themselves in their graves to doze once their respective villages were turned.

In short, for somebody to take over Dracula's ~King of the Vampires~ role, we'd actually need an OC to step in. All the actual classic literary vampires, many of whom were kicking well before Dracula appeared on the scene, just are not interested in the undead tyrant game.

(Probably why Dracula had to go around recruiting in the first place. None of the other vampires returned his letters or carrier pigeons for centuries. No, they don't want to join his pyramid scheme vampiric onslaught campaign, thanks. Too busy minding their business and/or dealing with personal drama. Please lose their address.)

[general-sleepy]

*when the Drac Attack Pack can't find Mina in a crowded train station*

Jonathan: "I've got this." *yelling* "Another lovely day being just a solicitor's clerk!"

Mina: "You're a solicitor!"

Jonathan: "Found her."

[ibrithir-was-here]

The Portrait of Dorian Gray: the polycule is in Shambles

(direct opposite of Dracula: the polycule is killing it (literally))

Polar opposites, night and day.

The Drac Attack Pack ought to go over and slap the Dorian Gray folks around (not Basil or Sibyl of course, they get adopted )

[july-19th-club]

quincey morris, passing rifles around to the drac attack pack: when it comes to struggles with supernatural beasts and beings i always like to have a winchester on hand

me, has seen the show: quince buddy you know those dudes will make it so much worse worse

[ourgoodfriendjonathan]

I was thinking about the drac attack pack on the train and how they're passing the time and I imagined them playing a board/card game, but because they are all so sweet, they keep giving the others exactly what they need

Mina: hmm

Jonathan, eagerly leaning over to watch her cards: what do you need, babe?

Mina, showing him her hand: these ones, but I can only exchange them for –

Jonathan: that's okay, I don't need mine, here you go, honey, i love you

Jack: *takes a card* by golly this is the worst card ever.

Van Helsing: *snatches card from him, throws it over his shoulder* take another one. It's fine.

Jack: but – the rules –

Van Helsing: you can get another one if this one was bad. Everyone agrees, right?

Everyone: *shrugs laconically or nods happily*

Van Helsing: the majority decides, it's a rule.