#our friend jonathan

[nico-nico-suavecito]

On the experience of reading Dracula Daily whilst also living through the current political climate.

As much as we joke about Jonathan's reaction to the events of May 8th, I don't find it unbelievable.

Because in the midst of pandemic, war, climate catastrophe, and trans and abortion rights being stripped away with a new piece of horrible legislation coming out on a daily basis, all I can do is focus on The Things That Need to Be Done™, but it is a damn surreal experience to be doing these things in the midst of chaos. To focus on being Productive by avoiding grief and fear and thought itself.

But I don't know what else to do. I don't know how to escape the castle. I don't know how the story ends. I just keep waiting for the next chapter, and hoping for the best. For our friend Jonathan, for us.

#dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #roe vs. wade #abortion #trans rights #abortion rights #may 8 #count dracula #transgender #our friend jonathan

[summersfirstsnow]

Catching up on Dracula Daily... Mina really has that kind of face, doesn't she? (The kind of face that makes people talk to her unprompted about their mortality and impending demises.)

#it has happened twice now #I'm sure this is fine #oh mina we're really in it now #dracula #dracula daily #our friend jonathan

[only-when-i-write]

Reading Dracula for the third time now. Second year via dracula daily and it keeps getting better each time. Can’t wait to discover new reasons to roast van helsing for his losy job as the savior of the day.

»new scheme of villainy« ~ 31 May

#dracula daily #bram stocker's dracula #our friend jonathan

[redrum-my-dear]

Dracula, his eyes enormous: You cry out of the window? You cry out of the window for HELP? Oh! Oh! Jail for Harker! Jail for Harker for One Thousand Years!!!

#Dracula daily #Dracula #Drac daily #Jonathan Harker #Our friend Jonathan

[mywingsareonwheels]

Oh Gods, reading Dracula at this pace really does massively bring home the horror. Our dear friend Jonathan has been there for ages now. Fuck. He needs bringing home and then he needs a whole bunch of good quality therapy. :-(

(Bram Stoker also needed to be less racist and antisemitic, mind you. *sighs*)

#dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #our friend jonathan

[justaslime]

#dracula daily #dracula #WHO ELSE IS FUCKING HYPE TO HEAR FROM OUR GOOD FRIEND JONATHAN

[msfbgraves]

Mina and Jonathan Harker are such good examples of the fact evil can never really know who it is up against.

Jonathan Harker is a mild mannered junior solicitor. Mina Harker is a former etiquette teacher turned housewife. There is nothing to distinguish them from anybody else but they're this great nobleman-turned- monster's greatest foes. They're ordinary people living ordinary lives, until when confronted with great evil their strength of character becomes all that stands between him and victory. You can't target them in preparation because you'd have to target the whole world. They don't stand out. They're not seeking greatness. They simply stand for love, and they don't stop.

#our good friend jonathan #mina harker #dracula daily

[catpriciousmarjara]

Conversation between a reddit user who migrated to tumblr and a tumblr user I saw on discord just yesterday.

Him: Why are people so obsessed with Dracula? Is it like a collective vampire fetish or....?

Her: Oh no it's not the Count we like! It's everyone else!

Him: ....like this Jonathan you go on about in #babygurl?

Her: Yeah! Our good friend Jonathan Harker who sends us the most delightful emails... Though he's been having a rough time of it recently...

Her: You should check out our cowboy too! He's wonderful!

Him: ........

Him: okay.

Him(about 20 mins later): What exactly is a Paprika Hendl?

#reddit to tumblr migration #Jonathan Harker #Our good friend Jonathan Harker #Paprika Hendl #lmao #was wheezing as I read this #had to share #Our beloved and beloathed Hellsite(affectionate) and it's peculiarities #Dracula Daily #Re:Dracula

[kreftropod]

Absolutely loving the fact that, despite Dracula being adapted to death and back by media over the last century, a lot of people don't actually know the original story. As in, here we are, in 2022, tagging spoilers for a 125 year old novel that most people thought they knew from it's countless adaptations but turned out to not know at all. It's great. I love it. Thanks for sharing your first-time reactions to this comedy of an old book.

#it's good to remember that we have 125 years of hindsight when reading this though #people back in 1897 didn't know the things we know today #their worldview was very different from ours and they didn't know all the spooky tropes we know today #since yknow this book was part of the ones who started those tropes to begin with #yes Dracula is a comedy by todays standard and please continue to make fun of our Dear Friend Jonathan and Domestic Teeabo Dracula #but also remember that this book is Old as Fuck #and very old timey English(tm) #so there's inevitably gonna be descriptions and character-opinions that reflect that #just good to keep in mind #anyway love yall #keep on what you're doing #I'm having a blast reading all of your funny Dracula posts #Dracula Daily #Dracula #Bram Stoker's Dracula #babbling in the tags I guess

[polvillodecanela]

Jonathan: *lives the most horrific and traumatic experience known to humankind and manages to escape with barely his life*

Also Jonathan: Sister Agatha, please write my boss that I was a good boy™ and my job was done, but I'm a tiny bit tired so I will rest here for a while (人 •͈ᴗ•͈)

#dracula daily #Dracula #we finally got to read some news of our good friend Jonathan Harker

[pawswithprose]

it’s nearly time

you can almost smell the paprika

#dracula daily #Dracula #our friend #jonathan harker

[beneaththefloorboards]

Finally got the time to finish my little sketch of our good friend! May he see happier days

#dracula daily #dracula #gothic lit #re: dracula #jonathan harker #our good friend jonathan #in the toils #art #watercolour art

[only-when-i-write]

No news from Jonathan since May 19.

#dracula daily #bram stocker's dracula #jonathan harker #our friend jonathan

[my-name-is-not-kimmy]

#dracula daily #bram stoker #bram stroker #our good friend jonathan

[supermauswithagun]

What did Jonathan Harker see in Budapest? pt. 2

Our dear friend Jonathan returned to Budapest! Except that he is not in the condition for more sightseeing. :( This time he will only see, as follows:

an ambulance. (No victorian era gentlemen were harmed while taking this photo. This is just a demonstration where doctors of the first ambulance company of Budapest were showing off their newest equipment at the 1896 Millennium Exhibition.)

The Old Szent János Hospital. Last year I’ve made a post about how the Hospital of St. Joseph and Ste. Mary did not exist, and why I think Jonathan spent his time recovering in the Old Szent János. Basically that was the only hospital in Budapest close to the Buda Hills where nuns were tending male patients. Jonathan asking for money to pay for his hospital stay suggests that he was in the Old Szent János, since this hospital mostly admitted poor and homeless people who could not pay for their treatment. (A new and more modern hospital was under construction, but it was opened a few years after Dracula was published.)

Except that I was wrong. Some people suggested that because of poor Jonathan was rambling about vampires and such things, he could have been taken to a mental hospital, and the Lipótmező Asylum fits Sister Agatha’s description just as well. Lipótmező is also in the Buda Hills, nuns were taking care of the patients, and it resembled a sanatorium more than the Old Szent János. Despite being an asylum, Lipótmező was a state owned hospital under strict medical supervision so there were no random experimenting like our other dear friend Dr. Seward did in Carfax. Anyway, here’s a picture of the Lipótmező as well, you decide which one you prefer for your upcoming fanfics.

And of course the nuns. In case of both the Old Szent János and the Lipótmező, they’ve belonged to the Company of the Daughters of Charity. Here’s one of them with a patient in front of the New Szent János Hospital in 1938.

Sadly I did not found any photos of the interiors of said hospitals, but here we have a picture from the 1896 Millenium Exhibition, showing hospital beds and a doctor’s uniform.

And if we were talking about fanfictions, let me be a little bit overindulgent here. I just love to imagine that after their wedding, when Jonathan starts to feel better, he and Mina try to use their remaining days in Budapest to make some good memories together before [spoiler]. They should really visit the Buda Hills, and have a picnic at the Normafa.

Or, if Jonathan feels up to it, they should walk all the way to the Gloriette at the top of the János Hill.

I just want them to be happy, okay?!

Again, all the pictures are from around 1897, the year when Dracula was published (except the one with the nun).

Sources under the cut: 

1. Ambulance:  Fortepan / Budapest Főváros Levéltára. Levéltári jelzet: HU.BFL.XV.19.d.1.10.250

2. Old Szent János Hospital: postcard published around 1890.

3. Lipótmező Asylum: illustration in Vasárnapi Újság from 1895.

4. Daughters of Charity nun: Fortepan

5. Hospital furniture: Fortepan / Budapest Főváros Levéltára. Levéltári jelzet: HU.BFL.XV.19.d.1.10.180

6. Normafa: Fortepan

7. Gloriette: postcard published around 1900.

#personal #history #hungary #budapest #bram stoker #dracula #dracula daily #sightseeing with our friend jonathan #i love to be a librarian

[msfbgraves]

The last place where I would have thought to find a study in kindness is Dracula

But Mina is kind and Jonathan is kind and Mr. Swales is kind and Sister Agatha is kind and the people of Bistritz are kind and the Captain of the Demeter is kind and Count Dracula is monstrous because he is a bully who loves to fuck with people and Lucy is kind and Quincey is kind and the people on the train from Klausenberg took Jonathan too, even though he was in a state!

It is Human Kindness vs Monstrous Villainy, this book.

#bram stoker's dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #mina murray #our good friend jonathan #i could go on #and that is wonderful #kindness