#re: dracula

[i-eat-bugs-and-dirt]

Soft launching my art by showing you guys some shitty doodles of my favourite (podcast) blorbos that I drew while in class.

[atmothart]

Jon he's really trying here cut him a break

(tumblr crunched the resolution of this comic a lot rip)

[re-dracula]

I can't believe Bram Stoker didn't account for the fact that a lot of people died today.

[my-name-is-not-kimmy]

[agroveinthesavagegarden]

Imagine you’re Dracula, enjoying drinking this tasty girl until finally one night you’re like well it’s been fun but she’s pretty much drained I guess it’s time to find another victim and then they just start… filling her back up? I bet he was like holy shit modern medicine is great, what a time to be undead

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

I'm listening to @re-dracula again now that it's all out, and Dr. Van Helsing has so many good quotes.

[see-arcane]

Jonathan, between meals probably: “Are you sure I’m meant to eat an entire garlic bulb as a palate cleanser?”

The locals, sweating, trying their best to low-key vampire-proof this boy: “Yes. Absolutely. Very traditional.”

[jonathansknife]

What I think: wow I can’t believe the word “hark” means “listen, pay attention” and a major role of the Harkers in the story is to notice important details, record conversations, gather information and otherwise defeat Dracula by listening and paying attention

What I say: my favorite part of Dracula is when the Harkers said “it’s Harkin’ time!” and harked all over the place

[mothmore]

something i am utterly obsessed with is the physical copy of dracula that i recently purchased that has , as part of its foreword , some of the original idea notes that bram stoker had about what dracula’s vampiric powers/traits would be.

one of these is that dracula’s likeness cannot be captured in a painting , he always looks like someone else.

which only leads me to imagine a scenario in which the count lines many of his castle hallways with paintings of himself throughout the centuries but none of them look the same and none of them look like him but jonathan can’t help but notice they all somehow look eerily similar.

he brushes it off , assuming they are simply counts of generations past.

[harbingerofsoup]

dracula is defeated by 1) autism, 2) true love, and 3) incredible violence, and the fact that this isn’t the mainstream understanding of dracula in pop culture is a fucking travesty

[thegoatsongs]

The Spectator [19th century British magazine] thought that while Stoker made admirable use of “vampirology,” the story might have been better had it been set in an earlier period. “The up-to-dateness of the book—the phonograph, diaries, typewriters, and so on—hardly fits in with the mediaeval methods which ultimately secure the victory for Count Dracula’s foes.”

On the subject that contemporaries thought that Dracula was too up-to-date for a vampire story.

Needless to say, the reviewer missed the whole point.

[reignsupreme-inyourdreams]

There is a detail in Dracula that I think modern readers overlook, and I say this as someone who only recently realized the implications of this line.

When Jonathan wakes up after his encounter with the vampire women, he mentions all of the clues that Dracula is the one who put him to bed, and he specifically mentions his watch being unwound.

I never thought much about that detail, but my mother-in-law is really into collecting antique clocks. Last week I spent a lot of time at her house and every day, at the same time, she went around and wound all of the clocks. One day she missed one of the clocks and mentioned that she would have to fix the time on it. This made me realize just how important it was that Jonathan keep his watch wound in order for him to have the accurate time.

I don't recall Jonathan mentioning Dracula owning any clocks; if he doesn't, then that means that Jonathan's watch being unwound is the end of him being able to tell the time accurately. Without that context it seems like a minor slip up on Dracula's end that is evidence to him dressing Jonathan for bed, but with that context it seems like a deliberate attempt by Dracula to further sever Jonathan's connection to reality/sanity, as he has already messed up his sleeping schedule.

So, when you reread the book/listen to Re: Dracula, keep that in mind if you haven't already thought of that. It's an interesting thing to think about.

[re-dracula]

I love that I can cast spell of 99+ notifications. Makes me feel like a wizard.

[meme-meupthotty]

August 6: Dracula

“She is steered mighty strangely, for she doesn't mind the hand on the wheel; changes about with every puff of wind. We'll hear more of her before this time tomorrow.”

[lilmo-on]

“That he be all in black, except that he have a hat of straw which suit not him or the time.”

[wiliecoyotegenius]

HOLD UP

Jonathan describing Dracula's hands back in May:

“Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!” He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. The instant, however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice"

Jack Seward describing Jonathan's hands now:

"We men are all in a fever of excitement, except Harker, who is calm; his hands are cold as ice."

"It will be a bad lookout for the Count if the edge of that “Kukri” ever touches his throat, driven by that stern, ice-cold hand!"

Both of their hands are described as strong/stern, and cold as ice...