#dracula-daily

[screamscenepodcast]

for everyone reading Dracula Daily and being like -- “why did Dracula snarf down the entire crew of the Demeter like a real glutton like that? How much does he need to eat?” -- I need you to understand Dracula’s entire motivation in this novel. The reason he’s old and decrepit at the Castle is that he hasn’t been eating. This is the whole reason he’s leaving for England. The population of the local villages know what he is so he can’t lure people in or go hunting among the peasants anymore. He has to force things. He has to kidnap babies. And he’s feeding them to his brides to keep them young and beautiful while he ages from lack of food. He keeps Jonathan in his Castle for so long and finally the night before he leaves he loses his self-control and feeds on him, just a little, as a treat. He doesn’t need to eat the entire crew of the Demeter, he’s been going without food for a long time now. But he can and this crew has no defences against him, so he’s going to. He’s a starved man at an all-you-can-eat buffet and while he tries to pace himself at the beginning (the initial deaths are quite spaced out) by the end he, again, loses self control and just chows down. Note this behaviour -- this is the second time he’s lost self control right before the end of a plan -- it’ll be a recurring pattern. But the entire reason he’s going to England is that it’s an entire country filled with people who’ve basically never even heard of vampires and have no way to defend themselves. It’s for food. He’s an apex predator who’s eaten up his food supply and needs new hunting grounds.

#dracula #dracula-daily #reading comprehension #crew of the demeter #vampire feeding #nomnom

[tranquil-traveler]

All of tumblr, when Jonathan eats another paprika dish, even though the previous one gave him queer dreams, disregards the pleas of dozens of people to stay away from that one evil, and experiences a hellish coach ride, yet still continues on to the castle:

#dracula-daily #dracula daily #dracula #tumblr-read-along

[ravnervn]

It’s the first day of our bestie Jonathan’s work trip to Romania, let’s wish him the best of luck <3

#Dracula #dracula-daily #dracula daily

[captain-of-the-fallen]

Got my wisdom teeth removed today which means I got to read today's dracula daily twice with no prior knowledge

#dracula daily #dracula-daily

[ignanimus]

imagine if peter hawkins instead came...

absolutely no clue what would change because i have no idea what happens in the book anway or if that guy shows up any time. I think he would work as a blorbo too tho

#dracula daily #dracula-daily #?

[mariathechosen1]

#twitter #this feels like a containment breach #dracula daily

[corpsebrigadier]

Love to be on a website where I can join such hit 2022 fandoms as "century old public domain novel being read very slowly" and "half-century old mafia film that does not actually exist."

#fandom #Dracula Daily #goncharov

[justaslime]

Van Helsing in movie adaptations: Dracula's nemesis

Van Helsing in the book: Dracula's real estate lawyer's wife's girlfriend's fiancé's boyfriend's university professor

#dracula daily #dracula

[dathen]

Still obsessed with Arthur Conan Doyle’s letter to Bram Stoker gushing about how wonderful a book Dracula is, but particularly how it makes such a good template for leaving fic comments, so I’m gonna to a BREAKDOWN:

Just say you loved reading it - “I am sure that you will not think it an impertinence if I write to tell you how very much I have enjoyed reading Dracula.”

Comment on a detail of the craft or structure that impressed you - “It is really wonderful how with so much exciting interest over so long a book there is never an anticlimax."

Comment on how it emotionally affected you - “It holds you from the very start and grows more and more engrossing until it is quite painfully vivid.”

SHARE YOUR BLORBO FEELINGS - “The old Professor is most excellent and so are the two girls.”

Show appreciation for them as an author - “I congratulate you with all my heart for having written so fine a book.”

Next time you don’t know what to say on a fic you enjoyed, just use the ACD method~

#dracula daily

[joshisepic2222]

Genuinely 2022 has been an amazing year for tumblr memes

I mean we had so many good ones:

#girl ban

Lennon Asscrack

Horse Plinko

Blorbo from my shows

The variations upon blorbo(glup shitto, skrungly, poor little meow meow)

Eeby Deeby

It's me boy, the PS5 inside your brain

Live Slug reaction

Crabs

Eurovision Pussy

Tumblr Blaze Launch ft. Catholic evangelism and My immortal

Twitterpocalypse

Dracula Daily

Thank goodness he's straight actually

Pikaman

July(Shinso Abe's death, British gov collapse)

Gougar

September 8th(Queen dead, sansweep)

They unbanned tits- wait no they didn't

The Lettuce is Pm now

Twitterpocalyspe 2 he actually bought it this time

Tits are legal for real this time

2nd Anniversary of Nov 5th ft. Ryan Reynolds

And Now

Goncharov

In general something has definitely been in the water this year when we look back at the memes.

#twitterpocalypse #Horse Plinko #Goncharov #uk politics #dracula daily #blorbo #live slug reaction #November 5th #hashtag girl

[screamscenepodcast]

I’ve seen a lot of good discourse in the Dracula Daily tags about how Arthur calling Lucy fat isn’t an insult, but in fact a compliment that indicates her returning health, with information being given that the beauty standards of the time would have associated heavier figures with healthier and more desirable women. This is all true and good (ignoring the tuberculosis romanticization that was sort of like the heroin chic of the era), and I thought that it might be helpful, in backing up these posts, to share some examples of “sexy” photography of the period Dracula is set in (early 1890s) to back this up.

#dracula #dracula-daily #beauty standards #victorian era #women #french postcards #GET PLUMP #dummy thicc #hourglass #lucy #lucy westenra #arthur holmwood #lucy is fat

[communistcephalopod]

hypothesis: vampires are magically vulnerable to light originating from the sun

observation: moonlight has no effect on vampires, despite being a reflection of the sun

conclusion: this aversion is not a result of light or its origin, but some property of sunlight only present in direct contact

hypothesis: vampires are extremely sensitive to uv radiation

#the notes are just people pointing out that i'm like the last person to think of this #sorry. i'll try better next time. #vampire #shitpost #dracula daily #are they doing that again this year? #i miss it

[atmothart]

Jon he's really trying here cut him a break

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

#dracula daily #hello im back from the void with shitty dracula doodles #i actually drew this last year but never posted it #here it is now though #count dracula #jonathan harker #Drac reading the english bradshaw guide is still one of the funniest moments in Dracula to me #i know it is supposed to show how he's planning to infiltrate england and appear local #but it really does just come across like he picked it up in a panic and pretended to be reading it when Jonathan came back into the room #and being the weird guy he is thought reading train schedules was really normal behaviour #bram stoker's dracula is a romcom #re: dracula

[myhummingbirdbluelove]

This is book canon now and nobody can change my mind.

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A lot of y'all won't see this edit because of how reblogs work, but I feel it is important to share what I've recently learned about this production:

Mina and Van Helsing are played by the same person.

Thank you and you're welcome. May you all be blessed with crabs.

#dracula a comedy of terrors #dracula #my good friend jonathan harker #jonathan harker #dracula daily #tiktok

[thethirdromana]

Broke: vampires are vulnerable to the trappings of Christianity only, particularly Catholicism, no matter how dubiously applied. (See: Van Helsing's Communion wafer grouting).

Woke: vampires are vulnerable to sincere faith of all kinds, and atheist vampire-hunters need to believe very strongly in the Power of Friendship or their love of Star Trek to get by.

Bespoke: vampires are vulnerable to the faith that they followed when they were alive, and hunters tracking down an ancient vampire are obliged to learn about Neo-Babylonian theology or Middle Palaeolithic bear cults.

#this is why ancient vampires are so powerful #in the absence of any other historical or archaeological evidence you have to cart around a full stone circle to defeat them #dracula daily adjacent posting

[my-name-is-not-kimmy]

#dracula daily #last voyage of the demeter #re: dracula #dracula