#never dracula

[einsteinbrosofficial]

(staring out the window) when will my friend Jonathan harker return from the war

#dracula daily #I keep trying to look up when the next entry is #and either I have misremembered or been lied to 3 times #so I keep being like OMG DRACULA TODAY #but no #no dracula today #:/ #never dracula #book OVER

[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

[ieidolon]

Insane to me that certain comic book creators who shall not be named dismissed Jonathan Harker as a "milk sop" and a boring character. White-haired avenger with ambiguously vampiric superstrength Jonathan Harker. Most violent and unhinged member of the vampire hunters Jonathan Harker. Ran at Dracula with a kukri knife without skipping a beat and then tried to climb out of a window to pursue him Jonathan Harker. "Like a living flame" Jonathan Harker. Calls his bond with his wife "the holiest love" and determines that if she becomes a vampire, even if Dracula calls her to his side, "she shall not go into that dark night alone" Jonathan Harker. You know. That one.

#dracula #dracula daily #Jonathan Harker is almost tailor-made to be hot to a certain audience demographic #he's traumatized and angry #but not at his wife #never at his wife #he has more reasons than anyone to hate/fear vampires #but if it's his wife #he trusts her implicitly #he has more reasons than anyone else to hate Dracula in particular #but if that's where his wife is going #you bet he's going to follow her #he is so extremely devoted to her #it's the exact contrast you see in so many bad boy romances #between traumatized lashing out and gentle tender protective love

[lilmo-on]

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

#the line that literally made me wheeze #that man surely never failed to amaze me xD #dracula daily #re: dracula #dracula novel #dracula 1897 #dracula #count dracula #art #illustration

[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.

#count tagula #dracula #dracula daily #dracula spoilers #dracula daily spoilers #count dracula #lucy westenra #jonathan harker #quincey morris #abraham van helsing #classics #bram stoker #there is no dracula like *the* dracula and i can never go back #i can never think of dracula as just like. the generic vampire. no he's the original. the progenitor. he's the baddest bitch of them all #vulture chatter

[dramatic-dolphin]

I love how you guys are discovering spicy Hungarian paprika, and yes it is super good! But as a Hungarian I feel like it's my duty to mention that paprika hendl is simply german for our national dish paprikás csirke and it is Not made with spicy paprika. It's got sweet paprika. Jonathan Harker is unfortunately just british.

#dracula daily #paprikás csirke my beloved 🥰🥰 #you can make it spicy i guess but i've never seen it. paprikás csirke is not rly a spicy kinda dish #even the spicy recipes i see make it mildly spicy at most

[staffs-secret-blog]

Just finished reading a letter from my friend Jonathan Harker, I hope he has a nice time during his trip abroad. Doesn't seem too eventful so hopefully it's a nice relaxing stay :)

#original post #dracula daily #wow those trains right? Never on time

[corvys-clover]

Our good friend, Jonathan

He's a madman, he's a little lawyer boy, his mortal weakness is paprika and anyone that hurts his wife is getting chased down with a very large kukri knife-

Commissions open!

@corvys.clover on Instagram

#Jonathan Harker you will always be famous #never shutting up about this man #Ben Galpin's portrayal in Re:Dracula was everything #he just makes me so happy #Jonathan Harker #Dracula #Bram Stoker #Re:Dracula #my art

[see-arcane]

The Wrong Ship

Dracula, misting out of his dirt box: Finally! Time to enjoy this seafood buffet--

The Captain: I see you’re new to the operation.

Dracula: ...You’re surprisingly, unappetizingly calm about a living corpse man leaking out of a box. 

The Captain: Mm.

Dracula: To drink people.

The Captain, checking his watch: Mm.

Dracula: Well, you’re boring me. Point me towards your underlings so I can get on with my meal. As payment you can die overboard. 

The Captain: Ah, very new to the operation. There is no crew that you’ll find aboard this vessel.

Dracula: I can smell blood enough to call you a liar.

The Captain: It’s no lie. You will find no crew here no matter how you search. Sniff them out, chase shadows, run laps around the deck. They’ll be there, but never found. Plenty of fog, though. You should feel quite in your element. If a bit peckish.

Dracula, about to chomp the good (?) captain: Not when you are in reach.

Captain Peter Lukas, dissolving into vapor before the Count can get a bite in: I do hope you enjoy the cruise. It’ll be longer than you think.

#in which I daydream about Dracula being loaded onto the fog-laden Tundra rather than the poor Demeter #perhaps never to return to a shore again #good to hear you again Alasdair Stuart #peter lukas #the captain #the magnus archives #dracula #re: dracula #dracula daily

[origami-trust]

June 24th: The Brides: Hey, Drac, your pet, that you said we would be able to have soon, is escaping out the window. Dracula: No, that was me, I'm wearing his clothes as part of a Scheme (c). Dracula: Don't worry about it. June 25th: The Brides: *watching Jonathan carefully scale the walls* The Brides: ...There goes the Count again. That's fine.

#dracula #dracula daily #dracula spoilers #'that any wickedness which he may do shall by the local people be attributed to me' goes both ways~ #should I say I'm back on my bullshit if I never left

[bloodybellycomb]

saw dracula daily trending and my very first thought was "wait, I thought it was the off season??" as if there is actually an on season for draculas in real life.

#dracula #dracula daily #can never be normal about that book again i fear #birdy chirps

[i-swear-this-is-for-homework]

Lots of “rip to Jonathon Harker but I’m different” posts going around the Dracula daily tag. I’m here to say that I’m NOT different and if I was in a foreign country where everybody was on their knees crying begging me not to go visit a haunted castle I would in fact visit that haunted castle even faster. YES I would regret it YES I would get killed by vampires YES my curiosity is my fatal flaw but at least I wouldn’t have to live through the whole train ride back across Europe second-guessing whether the locals where gaslighting me or not

#dracula daily #I cannot take a sick day at work without 5 hours of ‘but am I really sick?’ #I could NEVER role up to Transylvania for my job and then just go “nope nevermind vibes are off’ #I would PASS AWAY #also I am just. too curious. need to know what’s in the castle.

[atmothart]

Wouldn't lizard fashion be something like spikes and scales and a frilled lizard collar?

Like so?

(Bonus art under the cut)

#thank you anon I've been wanting to draw proper lizard fashion for a while and this gave me the motivation I needed #dracula daily #re: dracula #dracula #lizard fashion #The colours I chose here make Drac look like Harry Du Bois - which is appropriate given how I tend to depict his personality in my shitpost #bonus under the cut featuring Dracula's Weed Smorking Girlfriends #personally I really like the theory that the three vampire women are actually dracula's wife and two daughters #since the book never actually calls them his wives and the two subordinate girls are specifically described as looking similar to him #the idea that he turned his family but is no longer capable of loving them (or being loved by them) adds a whole extra layer for me #because he still goes through the motions - goes out to get them food (babies) and provide for them/fulfil the role of a patriarch #but its hollow and loveless and done out of strange obligation/habit - like an echo of being alive #BUT for the sake of comedy I will always draw them as his three weed smorking girlfriends because it's just funnier #or rather as I like to think of them - his three weed smoking EX-girlfriends who spend all day making fun of him and and freeloading #I'm going to tag any art with them in it from here on out as #the ex-wives of dracula #he's going to england to escape their ridicule

[clefadrylcanines]

May 8th is just around the corner, and do you know what that means? Making cute designs for the Dracula cast so I can get fully invested again and make jokes about a 130 year old book.

Full line up below.

#dracula #dracula daily #bram stoker #count dracula #jonathan harker #mina murray #mina harker #lucy westenra #abraham van helsing #arthur holmwood #quincey p morris #jack seward #renfield #i wanted to make more art last year but i A. didn't have a good spot to post it and B. i was reading it for the first time last year #i was also much slower at drawing and uber busy #better late than never! i am jumping hard and fast on this band wagon again! #my art

[spider-xan]

Regarding Mina's description of Dracula and why it's problematic, a good starting point would be to read the Wikipedia article for physiognomy, which is the outdated pseudoscience of face reading that is unfortunately rooted in racism, antisemitism, ableism, etc., and was very popular during the Victorian era as a way to judge moral character based on facial features.

So when Mina says 'His face was not a good face', she is not just saying that Dracula is ugly (though concepts of ugliness and beauty are not value-neutral either), but that she can tell that he is evil based on his facial features; note that one of the facial features she singles out is a 'beaky nose', which comes from Cesare Lombroso's idea that among other traits, hawk-like noses are a marker of criminality on the basis of criminals being evolutionary throwbacks who are less evolved than non-criminals; many of these allegedly 'criminal' and 'degenerate' facial features are obviously racialized and not associated with Gentile whiteness, but in opposition to it.

Stoker was definitely interested in physiognomy and uses it as a narrative device to show how certain heroic characters are intelligent, perceptive, and educated on the latest (pseudo)sciences (the modernity theme again) - namely Mina and Van Helsing, but also Jonathan to a lesser degree; we will definitely see this idea come up several more times, including explicit references to Lombroso himself.

It is also important to remember that linking physical appearance and morality still happens today - think about how many people say they can tell someone is a bad person bc they're ugly or that 'People get the face they deserve' where good people age gracefully and bad people age poorly, even though aging has nothing to do with personal character.

#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #mina harker #mina murray #abraham van helsing #van helsing #the sad irony with lombroso is that he himself was jewish #yet pioneered a theory of criminality that encouraged bigotry against his own marginalized ethnic group #which is also why it's frustrating when people dismiss mina's bigotry by saying she's an autistic-coded woman and would never #marginalized people can still internalize prejudices that hurt themselves and others #and she is ultimately a narrative device written by a bigoted writer not a real person herself

[atafrd]

This popped up on my FB memories today... nothing has changed ~

#nothing has changed #and it never will #dracula #dracula daily #re dracula #my good friend jonathan harker #dracula obsessed #dracula meme