#there's that weird chinese trains comment jonathan does make though

[spider-xan]

Some people really need to learn how to differentiate between text and headcanons when doing literary analyses, like, if I, a Chinese person, decided to headcanon Quincey as a Chinese-American cowboy, that's perfectly fine, but it would be unfair and inaccurate of me to accuse the text and Bram Stoker of being racist and Sinophobic for killing off the one Chinese character in the novel, you know?

Likewise, it's fine if I want to headcanon Mina as an asexual lesbian for personal reasons, but that can't really be the basis for me arguing that the epilogue is textually aphobic and lesbophobic for Mina to have had a baby with Jonathan and that's why the epilogue is bad and wrong.