#dracula daily

[draculasweedsmokinggirlfriend]

Why is My Good Friend Johnathan still in that fucking castle

[vampires-official]

official vampire post

dude stop telling me to count dracula I only ever see the one

[whatdoyouseemartin]

Happy 🪏 Shovel 🪏 Day to those who celebrate! Remember to give your friendly neighborhood vampire a good BONK on the head it keeps them humble.

[sykes]

Jonathan Harker and Count Dracula have very realistic employee-customer interactions; every response from Jonathan is like this

[silasscratches]

I am this person about asylums and medicine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Dracula fandom so y'all watch out.....

writing historical fic set in real places is so scary. what if someone who knows more about Philadelphia's timeline to move from gas to electric streetlamps reads my fanfiction and laughs at me

[depresseddomino]

"The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of."

Not this motherfucker effectively doing

before damning a full grown man to death.

Who knew Dracula was so cunty?

[keeferonies-art]

June 30: SHOVELIN TIME

[selfsacrificingandroid]

I love experiencing Dracula through Dracula Daily and Re: Dracula bc one day it'll be Jonathan Harker crashing out and bashing a guy's face in with a shovel and the next day the story will smash cut to Dr Seward talking about how he saw a guy just straight up catch a fly out of mid air and eat it whole. Absolute cinema.

[heyitscoffeetime]

Happy Anniversary Jonathan hitting Dracula with a Shovel

Dracula Gets Hit With A Shovel (Colourised) (sound on)

… or an artistic rendition of June the 30th

This took me a month to make, but I would have gotten it done sooner if it weren’t for my very old, very capricious computer.

Anyhow, hope you like it. Here’s the link for the version on YouTube if you want:

[see-arcane]

Mina: "Alright, everyone pinkie swear right now to put Vampire Me down if I hop the line between death and undeath."

Van Helsing and the Suitor Squad: "Depressing, but sure, absolutely."

Jonathan:

Mina: "...Jonathan?"

Jonathan: "Yes?"

Mina: "Will you promise to slay me if I get vampire'd?"

Jonathan: "Mina, I will not lie to you."

Jonathan:

Mina: "Jonathan. I need you to look me in the eye and promise to murder me martyr-style if I get too undead."

Jonathan: "Fine. I can promise to kill."

Mina: "Me? Vampire me?"

Jonathan, making unbroken eye contact with the four guys who just promised to behead and impale his wife if she stops being human enough: "I guarantee there will be killing involved if Vampire You happens."

[treespen]

Jonathan says on June 29 that he wishes he had a gun but that he doubts any "weapon wrought alone by man's hand" would harm Dracula.

Yet, despite his doubt, the very next morning he picks up a shovel and tries it anyway.

And that's another reason why no adaptation having Dracula get scarred by this scared human trying to save people while facing something ancient that he believes to be untouchable by mortal hand misses the entire point.

[harkercore]

Jonathan Harker in Castle Dracula for 2 months straight until he snapped

[vampires-official]

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legit nothing funnier than explaining the plot of dracula to a friend who only knows of dracula through cultural knowledge and is not prepared for how absolutely insane dracula actually is

[siena-sevenwits]

Guys, it’s ridiculous how fun Dracula Daily is, especially with the excellent narration of re:Dracula. I didn’t do it the first few times because I severely underestimated how enjoyable it could be. But I just kicked my legs when I realized I had a new letter from “my good friend Jonathan,” and I realized I am experiencing the phenomenon exactly. Some of you all who haven’t tried it should try next year. It’s an awesome way to enjoy it.

[cry-ptidd]

Something I've come to think about recently is that Jonathan, despite being chalked up as a starchy Victorian man, actually reads to me as someone TRYING to uphold victorian ideals and failing (and especially it failing him).

He looks down on the locals and chalks up their frantic efforts to superstition. When he DOES acknowledge that something might be fucked up around here, he can't turn back despite all the warnings because he's broke and it's his very first job. He notices Dracula's weird behavior on day two but keeps it to himself to be polite. He begs Mina to hide the truth of his abuse from him not only because he doesn't want to confront his trauma but also because in subtext he could very well be considered impotent and be institutionalized. He agrees with Van Helsing's decision of not including Mina in the hunt and that fucks everything up.

But then, all the actions that would've been considered various degrees of unconventional are what work for him and what show his true character.

He accepts the "idolatrous" crucifix and it keeps him safe enough to make it out alive. Instead of "manning up" and confronting his captor (which wouldve gotten him killed on the spot) he keeps it low and submits, surviving the castle through his cunning and silence. He is tended to at a catholic hospital and lets his wife take charge of their wedding and trusts her with his mental state. After the bite, he puts Mina before himself in everything. He becomes borderline submissive to his wife, letting her make the decisions in the hunt and going with everything she says (and kisses her on the mouth in front of everyone, and sleeps next to her while she's vampirized). He lets his anger and emotions fuel him and doesnt blindly go along with an older, more experienced man's decisions without questioning them. He and the others best the Count's plans thanks to modern technology. He embraces the new strength and abilities he didn't even acknowledge before, and that deals the killing blow.

Ive seen some people read his becoming like the count and defeating him as him finally embracing his actual self and breaking out of a societal mold; and I have to say, I agree completely.