#plz no sexyleon

[sexyleon]

Dracula has been my favourite novel for just under two decades and I have reread it multiple times throughout the years, but nothing compares to the experience of @re-dracula . Something about hearing the voices of all the characters, experiencing the horror as it happened to them, is more chilling, more compelling, and more terrifying than any other reading experience. Nothing is filled in and nothing is cut out. It’s a 1:1 adaptation that places you between predator and prey. The voice acting, the sound design, the pacing— all of it lends itself to a completely immersive experience that transforms Dracula from a silly little vampire story into a fundamentally horrifying tale.

Anyways, you can listen to Re: Dracula here.

#re dracula #re: dracula #dracula daily #dracula #plz no sexyleon #I know Dracula isn’t a silly lil vampire story but media has definitely watered down his character throughout the years #anyways I love this podcast and it has reignited my love for this book by making me feel physicall ill #I feel like I’m there homies

[sexyleon]

I can’t stop thinking about Chan’s bed bugs, like it’s so objectively funny

First you have a man who spends like a third of his career travelling and staying in hotels and he GENUINELY doesn’t know bed bugs are real

And that man is Australian so his concept of bugs is extremely warped

LIKE HE SEES THE BUG IN HIS BED????? And just????? Flicks it off and can’t be bothered????

Well, he’s bothered enough to inform the front desk of the hotel. Who then. Proceed. To hear there is a bug. In a bed. At a hotel. AND IGNORE IT

And this man SLEEPS NAKED so he got ATE THE FUCK UP

So bad that for his next two concerts, he cannot show half his body cause he is covered in evil little bites

Like part of his infamous choreography is showing the crowd his abs, and two whole shows didn’t get to see it because A BUG

AND EVEN MORE FUNNY. The crowd legitimately thought he wasn’t doing that “sexy” choreography because his BOSS was in the audience

BUT NO. IT WAS. FUCKIN BUGS.

He then proceeded to boil his very expensive clothes and ruin some of them :’)

Iconic, Stay never let him live this down

#stray kids #skz #bang Chan #channie’s room #plz no sexyleon #I HOPE HE DID GET COMPENSATED THO BECAUSE THE WAY THE HOTEL DIDNT EVEN THINK

[sexyleon]

Not to be a hater but I’ve been seeing a lot of posts shitting on various Dracula adaptations for being unfaithful to the book and quite frankly i think it’s unfair. Adaptations aren’t meant to be 1:1 recreations of a thing, they’re literary meant to adapt it into a different media and usually end up becoming a thing of their own. I know there are a lot of aspects of the Dracula book that get lost in these (typically film) adaptations, but it’s not fair to completely discredit them as media because they don’t follow the same structure or narrative as the book. Yes, do I want to see a film adaptation of the Harker’s love that is as faithful and wonderful as the Re: Dracula retelling? Yes, do I want to see Lucy depicted as a victim of Dracula rather than his concubine? Yes, would I like to see the suitor squad in all their glory with their original characteristics? Yes, ABSOLUTELY! But I’m not going to sit here and say that wanting those things makes movies like Van Helsing or Dracula Untold or Bram Stoker’s Dracula or Nosferatu or the Netflix Dracula series or Renfield inherently bad.

#Dracula #Dracula daily #can you at least tag ur shit as Dracula hate at least #it feels like the whole tag is just flooded with people being mad #plz no sexyleon

[sexyleon]

;skdjflksjflsjfdlkjlksfd im a little drunk and i accidentally typed dracular daily instead of dracula alksfjlafj and now i can't stop laughing cause i speak spanish and imagine if dracular meant to dracula and the first conjugation is 'yo dracULO' lsklLSFJFLKSJDFJAJa

#LSKDFJLKSDJF PLEASE JFJ LEP ME #dracula #dracula daily #plz no sexyleon #yo draculo tu draculas nosotros draculamos #id like to think pitbull would find this joke funny

[sexyleon]

Luis Sera who offered to help and protect complete strangers despite the potential of losing his only means of escape. Luis Sera who risked his life to make medicine for people who inherently distrust him, all in the hopes that it would be just enough for them to survive. Luis who spent the last day of his life trying to make amends for the suffering he brought into the world through his research. Luis whose last act was to save someone else, even as he lay dying. Luis whose body lies under millions of tons of rubble, never to be recovered.

#luis sera navarro #luis serra #luis serra navarro #luis sera #re4r #resident evil #plz no sexyleon #i am in pain #separate ways #separate ways spoilers #re separate ways

[sexyleon]

#resident evil 4 #resident evil 4 remake #re4r #resident evil #Leon kennedy #resi #plz no sexyleon

[sexyleon]

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN

Resident Evil Death Island (2023)

#resident evil #resident evil death island #re death island #redi #jill Valentine #Chris redfield #Leon kennedy #resi #plz no sexyleon #I’m unhinged

[sexyleon]

this episode has made me very emotional i am very normal about a whole community joining together to protect one very confused young man from losing his soul

#dracula daily #Dracula #re: dracula #I am very normal about this #plz no sexyleon

[sexyleon]

me, desperately trying to catch up with @re-dracula before the notorious Oct 3rd entry

#Dracula daily #Dracula #re: dracula #plz no sexyleon

[sexyleon]

I love how Luis immediately accepts that he and Leon are going to die when the brake snaps off during the mine cart ride. It shows so distinctly how different they are and how different their minds work. Luis, however competent in battle he may be, is a scientist. He deals in cold hard fact and analyses data as it comes. Leon is a fighter. He’s trained to access situations and look for the best possible alternative. Leon decides they are going to jump, Luis follows him because he knows there’s a chance they might make it.

#serennedy #re4r #re4make #re4 remake #re4 remake spoilers #re4r spoilers #re4r leon #re4r luis #plz no sexyleon #resi

[sexyleon]

#Leon Scott Kennedy #Leon kennedy #resident evil #resident evil Leon #Leon s kennedy #resi #plz no sexyleon

[sexyleon]

Mina Murray is actually such a good friend like my girl straight up said “Lucy is going to have nightmares tonight so I’m going to take her for a walk and tire her out so that she may sleep well tonight” and “Lucy is literally out of the house in her nightdress I am going to risk my own modesty so I may protect hers” and “every night I’m going to lock our bedroom door and wear the key on my wrist so Lucy is protected from wandering out during her sleepwalking” and “those pinpricks on Lucy’s neck aren’t getting better I’m going to call the doctor” and “Lucy’s mom has trusted me with her secret I will not tell a soul” and

#mina murray #Dracula #re: dracula #dracula daily #plz no sexyleon

[sexyleon]

“What’s the matter with me, anyhow?”

THE WAY I SCREAMED QUINCEY MORRIS YOU BIG BEAUTIFUL BASTARD

#re: dracula #dracula daily #dracula #OH MY GOD #I know I know I’m catching up everyone is already a week ahead #plz no sexyleon

[sexyleon]

everytime the @re-dracula team reblogs one of my silly little vampire story posts I feel like a lil super star 🥹🥹

Thank you Re: Dracula team for engaging with your community, it makes the experience so much more special ❤️🧛‍♀️

#re: dracula #plz no sexyleon

[sexyleon]

I felt that post of yours about the Dracula fandom and the way it talks about adaptations tbh, like, I'm someone who was very involved in DD last year and I've written critique myself about Dracula adaptations bc I love comparative analysis and really thinking about the choices adaptations make, for good or for ill, but from my personal experience, a lot of fandom commentary on adaptations isn't really thoughtful analysis, and don't get me wrong, I'm a hater sometimes too and enjoying venting, but I noticed that this year, there were so many posts that started out as thoughtful commentary on the book, then launched into bitching about the evils of adaptations out of nowhere, and people can write what they want, but it got tiring after awhile to be in a fandom with so much angry energy, not to mention the divergence in canon vs fanon that was much starker this year that made me feel like I had read a different book.

Also, every time I see people point at re: Dracula to be like, see, it's so easy to do a perfect 1:1 adaptation of the novel, why can't other adaptations do it?, it's like, it's an audiobook, a movie can't be that long, even a television mini-series would have to make cuts. And I might dislike a lot of choices adaptations make, but creatives absolutely have the right to take a public domain work and put their own spin on things beyond book accuracy as the number one goal - and like, do we truly want a 100% accurate adaptation when the novel is still ultimately a xenophobic reverse invasion story? Like, I would hope modern directors would seriously grapple with those aspects of the original story instead of reproducing Victorian bigotry unquestioned.

Hi, thank you for your response! I'm glad that my post resonated with a few people!

I definitely also felt a shift in energy with this season of Dracula Daily, and I'm pretty sure it is a direct result of the phenomena that is Re: Dracula. Don't get me wrong, I am a HUGE supporter of RE: Dracula, and I found it to be absolutely delightful specifically because it was a 1:1 adaptation of the book, but I also think that it has skewed the way people engage with all the other adaptations of Dracula. You are so right when you say that Re: Dracula's media as audiobook is what allowed it to be so authentic. Even if it was a long-form series, there would have to be creative liberties taken to account for visualising certain aspects of the text. I am 100% sure someone would be able to do it, but it would undoubtedly be a labour of love and expense.

I think the biggest thing that got lost in translation in my post is that I was speaking specifically on the rhetoric of "bad adaptation = bad media." I don't even like to use the term "bad adaptation" because it feels inaccurate and gives the connotation of being holistically terrible; "failed adaptation" or "inauthentic adaptation" seems more apt when discussing how close an adaptation relates to the source material. I think it is unfair for any adaptation to be written off solely on the fact that it does not strictly adhere to the original text. This can be in way of narrative, characterization, theme, etc. I don't think it's fair to say "x adaptation is bad because it ignores x from the text" because that fundamentally dismisses all the other attributes that contribute to whether or not a piece of media is subjectively good (because honestly that's all it is-- subjectivity). Media, especially film and stage, has so many dynamic and moving parts. There are so many attributes that contribute to the success of any one given thing, especially adaptations (which can claim the title with even the loosest references to the source material). I feel like the black and white thinking when it comes to this doesn't really allow for a dialogue to exist between people who enjoy Dracula adaptations for what they are and, forgive me for saying this, book purists.

Understandably, there is criticism against some adaptations that have claimed to follow the source text closely, but very distinctly did not (Ahum, Cappola). However, I think it does everyone a disservice to deny the impact of a lot of these (mostly) films. Someone in the reblogs of my original post did a good breakdown of the origins of the Dracula genre itself, and I think it goes to show that the story of Dracula has a life of its own outside of the pages of Bram Stoker's book.

The most annoying thing about the responses to my initial post was the refusal to believe that anyone was making these comparisons. I really would not have gone out on a limb to rant about this if I hadn't been consistently seeing vent posts in the main tag with mostly negative responses to a lot of different adaptations of Dracula based on the authenticity of them to the text. I admit I was frustrated when I wrote it, but it really was meant to just address the black and white thinking re: failed adaptations making bad media. This is not to say that criticism of adaptations isn't valid, but I think there should be more nuance to this conversation and that's what I wasn't seeing. It's not fun to dive into the broad Dracula tag and find post after post shitting on your favourite media because it isn't like the book.

Sorry this was a bit long! I am just really passionate about Dracula okay!! And I really really really like all the shitty little shows and movies and plays and comics and all other media that comes out of his name (because YES, a lot of adaptations really make vampire synonymous with Dracula and ROLL WITH IT). Vampires are really neat and the Dracula genre of film has been a huge influence on horror media. I think there is a lot to be said when analysing adaptations, but none of it can come from blanket statements against them.

@spider-xan

#dracula #dracula daily #plz no sexyleon #honestly i lived through the hobbit movies and the book puritism that came out of that and i think it has influenced my opinion on this alo #again because there were some that didnt get it: i am speaking specifically on black and white thinking regarding this #if you don't like cappola's film because of all the shit that happened behind the scenes or because of the narrative itself outside of it's #relation to the original text??? i'm not talking about you

[sexyleon]

“letter unopened by Lucy Westenra”

Why don’t you just rip the beating heart out of my chest and feed it to Dracula himself

#Dracula daily #re: dracula #IM #UPSSET #DRACULA #plz no sexyleon