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[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.”

#he goes to his luggage and finds a courtesy sachet of potpourri #full of wild rose and garlic blossoms #dracula spoilers #dracula daily spoilers #(but not really) #dracula #jonathan harker #dracula daily #re: dracula

[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.

#it was perhaps one of the Themes #the marriage of the medieval and the future #dracula daily #dracula #re: dracula #dracula spoilers #dracula daily spoilers

[technoturian]

Having now gotten to the end of the book, I gotta ask... How on earth did we get here, where in almost every stinking adaptation of this book for over a century has decided the characters worth trimming down or completely cutting out are the two who actually kill Dracula.

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[dathen]

We’re so used to the sexual reading of the entire book of Dracula, which takes the sensuality of the early chapters and jams everything that follows it into the same metaphor no matter how poorly it fits, but I feel the segment we’re approaching works much better with a lens of chronic illness and disease.

Vampire legends are inextricably intertwined with disease. Many of them are said to have been birthed by burying victims of disease too soon, who later seem to rise from the dead. But what’s more is that Stoker and his family have deep-seated trauma over disease: his mother had to flee her hometown at the age of 14 because of a horrific cholera epidemic, and Stoker himself was bedridden as a child from an illness that no one could identify.

Found this quote from Irish Historian Mary McGarry:

Bram as an adult asked his mother to write down her memories of the epidemic for him, and he supplemented this using his own historic research of Sligo’s epidemic. Scratching beneath the surface (of this essay), I found parallels with Dracula. [For instance,] Charlotte says cholera enters port towns having traveled by ship, and can travel overland as a mist—just like Dracula, who infects people with his unknown contagion.

I bring this up because a lot of academic analysis insists that Lucy sleepwalking is proof of her being the Slutty Woman archetype that needs to be punished. This suggested symbolism is hilarious when put next to the text saying she inherited it from her father, but I’d like to suggest a different angle from the lens of disease suggested earlier:

Lucy’s sleepwalking is a condition that predates Dracula but makes her an easy target for him to prey on. Through the lens of disease symbolism, she now is someone with chronic illness or disability who is especially vulnerable to infectious disease. This becomes a cross-section of Stoker’s trauma regarding disease: his own mystery illness and his mother fleeing a plague.

To wind down my rambles with a bit of a soapbox, I feel this adds a very poignant layer to the struggle to keep Lucy alive. The COVID pandemic showed a horrifying level of casual ableism vs disabled and immunodeficient individuals, shrugging off their vulnerability and even their deaths with “well COVID only kills them.” There’s something deeply gratifying at seeing the way everyone around Lucy fights to the bitter end to protect her and refuses to just give her up to Dracula, whether it’s Mina physically chasing him away or the suitor squad pouring their blood into her veins or Van Helsing desperately searching for cures. The vulnerable deserve no less than this. They’re not acceptable casualties.

#dracula daily #ableism cw #dracula daily spoilers #lucy westenra

[jellolegos]

I love you with all the moods and tenses of the verb.

18 September

Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra. (Unopened by her.)

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[daemonologist]

reading Dracula has permanently altered my brain. i can never see count dracula as a generic character anymore. he isn't an ooky spooky horror monster he's the old bitch that imprisoned my boy johnny in his shitass castle and killed my beloved lucy and quincey. abraham van helsing isn't synonymous with badass monster hunters he's a 50-year-old dutch doctor who talks funny. i see things and think oh wow this is just like my favorite characters from my book that was written 126 years ago.

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[immabitqueer]

IT'S "FOUL BAUBLE OF MANS VANITY" DAY!!! REMEMBER TO THROW YOUR MIRRORS OUT THE HIGHEST WINDOW OF YOUR TALLEST TOWER

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[tarriecat]

I would absolutely kill for a Dracula adaptation that really delves into the tragedy of manners aspect of it, the way that everyone is so worried about maintaining exactly the right face to the right people and how that makes so much of their situation worse. Everything from Jonathan trapped in the bonds of hospitality to the situation with Lucy's mother to a hundred instances of just not wanting to worry anyone. Like, give me a Dracula miniseries shot like it's Jane Austen.

You could do a whole college essay about how one of Van Helsing's strengths is in the way he disrupts social norms, even though he isn't immune to them.

Credit to everyone who talked about this last year, I definitely didn't come up with it, but it's been living in my head rent-free since last fall and we're watching it amp up again and oh how it hurts.

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[popsicle-stick]

“Why, this beats even shorthand! May I hear it say something?”

a commission of jack and mina from the scene where he's showing her the phonograph!

#dracula daily #dracula #mina harker #jack seward #mina murray #she's so excited about the technology and he's so excited to show her...........i love this scene so much #mina coming back to jack's place and seeing the disorganisation and is like damn bitch you live like this? #those plants haven't seen water for a while LMAO #i just realised i was gonna have him holding his glasses in his left hand & forgot.....F #dracula spoilers #dracula daily spoilers #lottieart

[agroveinthesavagegarden]

What if this year Jonathan gets to the castle and Dracula is just a normal guy.

#dracula daily #dracula daily spoilers #in case anyone doesn’t know that he does get to the castle #and Dracula is in fact not a normal guy

[re-dracula]

Renfield stop fighting people these scuffles take so long to sound design

#re: dracula #dracula spoilers #dracula daily spoilers

[berenshand]

quincey morris was rootin, he was tootin, BY GOD he was shootin.... and most of all. he was kind.

#he bought mina a typewriter. he said John Medical Malpractice Seward can use a pen but Queen Mina needs a typewriter #i jest but truly i love that he did that hes so sweet. #😔😔😔 #dracula daily #dracula daily spoilers

[puzzledemigod]

Dear Mina,

Today three guys asked for my hand in marriage. The first was kind of a loser nerd, the second was a sexy cowboy, and the third was my crush (we made out lol). I wish polygamy was legal.

Love,

Lucy

#dracula daily #dracula daily spoilers #the COWBOY'S HERE #let the polyamory start babey #what do you mean that's not what happened of course it was

[technoturian]

Just imagining Dracula in his dirt box on the Demeter every night like,

“I shouldn’t. I know I shouldn’t. I’m going to be strong, I’m a strong confident count and I have self control. No more late night snacks. Not gonna do it...

Oh heck it, I’m on vacation, let’s be bad.”

#Dracula #Dracula Daily #Dracula Daily Spoilers #my guy THOSE ARE YOUR CREW #you're gonna be floating alone on the ship if you don't stop!

[dathen]

I am incredibly fond of Jonathan trying to SAVE COUNT DRACULA FROM THE WOLVES by banging on the side of the carriage hoping to scare the wolves away from one side and allow him to break through. My brave little toaster :((

Dracula probably thought this was HILARIOUS.

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[lithiumseven]

Jonathan on June 25th

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