#in lizard fashion

[emarie-stone]

[atmothart]

Once more have I seen the Count go out in his lizard fashion

[betterwithpulp]

What was the visual deemed important enough to feature on the FIRST print edition of Dracula?

LIZARD FASHION!

[tanuki-kimono]

Eerie modern yukata/kimono by Furifu, depicting blooming manjushage (better known as higanbana/red spider lily) and what is described as a cute tokage (lizard).

Higanbana are linked to death imagery, because of buddhist higan equinoctial week (where Buddhist services are held and people go clean tombs), and the fact people once believed they bloomed on Sanzu river's shores.

I like to believe the little lizard could actually be a luck bringing yamori (gecko) thwarting the dark undertones - unless we agree on a more ominous imori yokai ;)?

[re-dracula]

Presented without comment.

[see-arcane]

DRACULA IS BACKULA BABEYYY

[zara2148]

Hey, the edit @ghostlygraphist made for my memey Dracula post made it's way into the Dracula Daily book!

... I'm going to be that person who goes "ackshully, that top comment was mine" though. XD

[cuterefaction]

#Trektober Day 9, "Dress Uniform". Julian's missing his dress uniform in 'Move Along Home', but since the one we eventually see him in is pretty unflattering I choose to believe that Garak did a night visit months before 'Cardassians' and got too distracted to actually wake him up.

[ordinarymothman]

"Once more have I seen the Count go out in his lizard fashion."

[icm-art]

Someone should make a zine of 1800s style fashion plates of various lizards dressed as the characters from Dracula and call it Lizard Fashion.

[datasoong47]

[atmothart]

Wouldn't lizard fashion be something like spikes and scales and a frilled lizard collar?

Like so?

(Bonus art under the cut)

[antidiluvianobservatory]

The count today:

[midcenturymorbid]

Illustration by Angus McBride. From Ladybird Horror Classics Dracula, 1984. A children's abridged version of the classic by Bram Stoker.

[see-arcane]

Today’s entry: 

1. Jonathan is solar-powered and the presence of sunshine does +10 damage to Castle Dracula’s Misery Miasma 

2. Jonathan ‘Victorian Spider-Man’ Harker has his first wall-crawling adventure! Hearing Ben Galpin recite his pre-crawling journal entry nearly tore my heart out through my ears! :’)

3. “If I don’t make it, I love you Mina! Good-bye Mr. Hawkins! And Mina!” 

“You said Mina twice.”

“She bears repeating <3″

4. Dracula doesn’t keep anything clean but Jonathan’s little allowed spaces in the castle. On the one hand, I get not wanting to bother sweeping a whole castle solo (you know the ladies are Not helping). On the other hand, it’s a very uneasy element in hinting at just how near to cadaverousness Dracula is, in a way. He is not a living human being and so has no need to touch all the old detritus of mortality. Why would he bother? So it’s all left to gather dust as if it were an abandoned home in which the owner has died, but continues to haunt it.

5. Oh shit, what if those dead eyes really did see him?

6. Oh shit, what if Jonathan left footprints in the dust?

[15-lizards]

Any headcannons for what Cersei would wear throughout her evolution? (from girl at Casterly Rock and Kingslanding to young bride to queen to whatever is going on at the end for AFFC) Love your stuff💕

Tiny Cersei was always dressed in the latest fashions, to the point that her clothes were cumbersome and heavy. She was more heavily dressed than most of the grown women at court, with her fancy brocade panels, pearl lined hoods, and large sleeves. Joanna was very adamant that she look like and behave in a way becoming for a young noblewoman, so Cersei was not allowed the relative laxity children are sometimes given.

As a teenager, Cersei started wearing the fashions of the Reach, as some minor act of rebellion because she found the stifling clothing of the Westerlands boring and prudish. She liked the low cut of the neckline and the excess of fabric in the sleeves and all the gilded lining and embroidery. And she definitely liked the way people looked at her in awe. She wore these until her early marriage too, and everyone copied the modern fashions of the stylish young queen.

Once Cersei starts immediately hating her life, she ditches the fashions of her teenage years and goes back to something more reminiscent of her childhood at The Rock. It's not the exact same, its far more frillier and angular than the smoothness of the clothing of her youth (think the transition from Tudor to Elizabethan fashion, or like mid 1500s to later 1500s), but the general shape reminds her of her youth and mother, and the sheer weight and discomfort of the clothing gives her some kind of sick comfort. Being the narcissist (affectionate) she is, she likes whatever can give her attention and spark jealousy in others. Heavy and patterned bright colored fabric, stiff lace collars, excessive beading, and large skirts for days. She dresses like this for most of the current timeline, and it gets increasingly more garish, until she's arrested at the end of AFFC

And after her atonement, she does a complete 180. Dressing like an old spinster from the stormlands. Her shaved head almost always covered, essentially all of her gowns are shapeless. The only thing that puts her apart from the septas is that her clothing is still decorated and colorful, but much less so than her old wardrobe. This shift is half forced on her by the faith and half chosen as a sort of security response after being harassed and humiliated.