#dracula september 22

[eldritchgriffin]

[ID: The distracted boyfriend meme. The woman walking by is labeled "Beautiful woman with the cool hat," the boyfriend is "Mina," and the girlfriend is "Jonathan." Jonathan has been flipped to face away from Mina, and is instead staring with horror/disgust at "Dracula," a cartoonish clipart vampire looking grumpily towards the beautiful woman /end id]

Mina Harker's Journal.

22 September

(Vampire clipart by Freepik)

#dracula daily #dracula #re: dracula #count dracula #mina murray #mina harker #jonathan harker #dracula september 22 #dracula spoilers #dracula memes #my edit

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Jonathan: *takes his partner for a nice walk, arm in arm*

Jonathan: *sees his unholy abuser down the street*

Jonathan's brain:

#time for a good ol' disassociation nap #jonathan harker #dracula daily #re: dracula #dracula #dracula memes #dracula spoilers #dracula september 22 #dd september 22 #september 22

[its-your-mind]

dr. jack seward: and thus with the burying of my unfulfilled love, my diary ends. if I ever do this again, it will be years and years from now, about completely different people. I will have no more to document now as I return to my dull and mundane life. fin.

count dracula and vamp!lucy about to wreck havoc across london:

#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #dracula September 22

[thegoatsongs]

everyone talks about Jonathan’s shocked reaction to seeing Dracula again but imagine how it was the other way around too

#dracula daily #dracula #jonathan harker #hotel transylvania #september 22

[fiotrethewey]

Am I the only one who noticed that today's episode of @re-dracula shared - something which I had never realised before - that Van Helsing has a wife, who by his words "....alive by Church's law, though no wits, all gone—even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife..." I feel like I've been hit by a train, I had missed this every other time I've read this book.

#re dracula #van helsing #22 september #also jack is so gay for quincey this episode. #dracula #dracula daily

[on-my-way-to-lesser-things]

The Westenra Polycule being cannon by virtue of blood transfusions is probably the absolute funniest way this could have played out and I for one am living for it! Seal your polycule with a blood pact!!

#Dracula Daily #September 22 #“this young sweet maid is a polyandrist! #we KNOW

[thethirdromana]

The Harkers' day trip to London

With my best attempt at finding contemporary or near-contemporary photos, paintings and illustrations.

The train to London:

"We came back to town quietly, taking a 'bus..."

"... to Hyde Park Corner."

"Jonathan thought it would interest me to go into the Row for a while"

"We got up and walked down Piccadilly"

"I was looking at a very beautiful girl, in a big cart-wheel hat, sitting in a victoria..."

"Outside Guiliano's"

(I can't find a photo - contemporary or modern - of Giuliano's, a jeweller at 115 Piccadilly, but this is nearby)

"We walked a little further, and then went in and sat for a while in the Green Park."

They would have returned via Paddington station:

And back to Exeter St David's:

#dracula daily #september 22 #long post

[pop-goes-the-weasel]

Quincey-Lucy parallels!

We have seen Lucy put on a cheerful face so as not to trouble Arthur and her mother.

And now we see Quincey try to comfort Arthur by putting up a brave front. Jack believes that he had suffered as much as them, but he admires him as a "moral Viking".

Both Quincey and Lucy became friends in a way.

#dracula daily #re: dracula #lucy westenra #quincey p. morris #september 22 #yes I know i am late

[galaxseacreature]

#Dracula #dracula daily #mina harker #jonathan harker #September 22 #mine

[yallemagne]

This episode. Hoooooooeeeeeeeeeey.

The service was very simple and very solemn. There were only ourselves and the servants there, one or two old friends of his from Exeter, his London agent, and a gentleman representing Sir John Paxton, the President of the Incorporated Law Society. 

Much like Lucy's funeral in a way, but not sparse for lack of inviting but a lack of people to invite. After all, Hawkins had no family left to him to leave anything to.

Jonathan was holding me by the arm, the way he used to in old days before I went to school. I felt it very improper, for you can't go on for some years teaching etiquette and decorum to other girls without the pedantry of it biting into yourself a bit; but it was Jonathan, and he was my husband, and we didn't know anybody who saw us—and we didn't care if they did—so on we walked.

Mina sounds a bit flustered at the faux pas they're engaging in but still overjoyed at the knowledge that Jonathan is her husband! However, she still needs to justify it: "well, no one will gossip because no one here knows us, so it is fine". Come now, dear, it's fine because it doesn't matter. But oh well, she's getting used to it.

Mina: *detailing Dracula's appearance* "You see, he did not pass the vibe check. His vibes were absolutely rancid."

She really describes Dracula as though she were describing an animal. It's kind of unsettling.

"I believe it is the Count, but he has grown young. My God, if this be so! Oh, my God! my God! If I only knew! if I only knew!"

Youuuu bastards, having Jonathan repeat the lines as Mina continues narrating aghgh.

"Why, Mina, have I been asleep! Oh, do forgive me for being so rude. Come, and we'll have a cup of tea somewhere." 

He's so cute!!! AAAA he is SO CUTE!!! My precious baby, I just want to hold him in my hands. He's so soft and cute and sounds so sweet and unsure, so bashful.

And then Mina begins the next section sounding like she has been crying. She mentions Arthur immediately, which is worth noting because she parallels him. She's lost a father figure and though she hasn't lost a lover, her lover is struggling to keep himself together while Arthur's lost the fight for her life already.

and then Jack comes in egregiously horny, and I just. What do you even have to say for yourself, sir? I think perhaps the way that he describes Quincey hints that he may not know Quincey as intimately as he knows Arthur? Nor as intimately as Arthur knows Quincey. Of course, part of this is just Bram fawning over American men because of his giant man crush on Walt Whitman. Jack's hero worship gives the impression that he's not close enough with Quincey to know his human flaws, at least. He sees him as a moral viking!!

Arthur was saying that he felt since then as if they two had been really married and that she was his wife in the sight of God. None of us said a word of the other operations, and none of us ever shall. 

Jack, are you really so stupid as to think that he doesn't know? Skipping ahead--

"Just so. Said he not that the transfusion of his blood to her veins had made her truly his bride?" "Yes, and it was a sweet and comforting idea for him." "Quite so. But there was a difficulty, friend John. If so that, then what about the others? Ho, ho! Then this so sweet maid is a polyandrist, and me, with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by Church's law, though no wits, all gone—even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife, am bigamist." "I don't see where the joke comes in there either!" I said; and I did not feel particularly pleased with him for saying such things. 

Everyone raved over these lines before ("he confirmed the polycule!! they're all fucking!!"), and they probably still are raving tbh, so I appreciate Re: Dracula properly communicating VH's disdain for the idea and Jack's disdain for VH's disdain. It's more than an offensive joke, VH is bitter at Arthur's words because it would ironically make them all husbands of Lucy, and he morally objects to the idea of polyandry and betraying his wife though he considers her dead to him (comatose? out of her mind? either way, he can't/won't divorce her but still values the virtue of his faithfulness). Likewise, Jack doesn't appreciate VH's apparent derision towards Arthur and the insulting way he refers to Lucy as a polyandrist. But VH assures Jack that he's simply venting to Jack because Jack is his friend, and he dares not to express these harsh feelings to Arthur, who reminds him of his son.

"Friend John, forgive me if I pain. I showed not my feeling to others when it would wound, but only to you, my old friend, whom I can trust. If you could have looked into my very heart then when I want to laugh; if you could have done so when the laugh arrived; if you could do so now, when King Laugh have pack up his crown, and all that is to him—for he go far, far away from me, and for a long, long time—maybe you would perhaps pity me the most of all." I was touched by the tenderness of his tone, and asked why. "Because I know!"

See, this is why he will not tell Jack. Not because he's scared of him. Because he knows that to know is to suffer. He does not wish any suffering upon Jack, though he should realize that keeping secrets has been the cause of much suffering already.

#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #mina harker #jonathan harker #jonmina #jack seward #john seward #morward #it's implied #abraham van helsing #september 22

[lordofseagulls]

"Ho, ho! Then this so sweet maid is a polyandrist,"

#Dracula daily #van helsing #lucy westenra #dracula polycule #September 22

[ourgoodfriendjonathan]

#dracula daily #making memes to cope #September 22 #i keep laughing at this one myself #200+

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Seward: Why on Earth are you laughing? After a funeral?

Van Helsing, monologuing: Ah, you don't comprehend, friend John. See, when King Laugh finds good corn--

Seward, sticking fingers in ears: Never mind-- forget it! I can't hear you! La la la la la!

#i swear these van helsing monologues will deplete seward of all his sanity points #incorrect dracula quotes #abraham van helsing #jack seward #dracula daily #dracula #re: dracula #dd september 22 #dracula september 22 #september 22 #dracula memes #dracula spoilers

[allthebooksandcrannies]

Happy Dracula Polycule Day to all who celebrate!

#now excuse me i need to cry about poor Lucy #dracula #bram stoker's dracula #bram stoker #dracula daily #lucy westenra #the suitor squad #September 22 #van helsing #arthur holmwood #quincy morris #jack seward

[audkitty]

Arthur grieving: Blood transfusions are the new “married in the eyes of God”

Everyone else in the polycule:

#dracula daily #dracula daily spoilers #dracula daily September 22

[your-friend-bram]

September 22

Poor Mina, I hate for her to find out about Lucy's death through Van Helsing— a man she doesn't even know, and through a telegram no less! Then she had to help Jonathan deal with having a "relapse" of his "malady." I can't wait for her to read his journal and realize it's PTSD, and not Jonathan having "fits" or being "crazy." It's a result of him being tortured by a monster that's now in London. The very same monster that not only tried to kill Jonathan, but has succeeded in killing her best friend.

-Bram

#dracula daily #re: dracula #september 22 #mina 'the train fiend' harker nee murray #jonathan harker #dr jack seward #dr abraham van helsing