ID: A two-page comic of Jonathan Harker and Count Dracula. Jonathan looks at Dracula with an open, curious expression. There is remnants of shaving cream on his face and a small, bleeding scratch on his cheek. Dracula glares intensely as he gripped Jonathan’s chin. The middle panel zoomed in on the red rosary around Jonathan’s neck and Dracula immediately looked unease, the caption near his face says “x-files theme.” The bottom panel zooms in on the silver-backed mirror on the dresser behind Jonathan. Dracula takes a deep breath and leans back. Second image, Dracula calmly reaches for the mirror, still holding Jonathan’s chin. He then chucks the mirror out of a window, shattering the glass. With the same calm expression, Dracula states,“ And this is the wretched thing that has done the mischief. It is a foul bauble of man’s vanity. Away with it!” End ID.
I know in the novel he opens the window before yeeting the mirror into the courtyard, but I think this reaction is funnier.
“Enter freely. Go safely, and leave some of the happiness you bring!”
Dracula illustration for spooky season. Wanted to take influence from early 20th century illustrators, especially Kay Nielsen and Harry Clarke, but also from Ayami Kojima and the art of Castlevania in general (Dracula from Castlevania netflix is the Dracula iteration I would most like to smooch)
i am getting somewhat suspicious of this count dracula. jonathan wrote that he is behaving kinda oddly, and that he is talking as if he’d been there for all of those historic battles centuries ago
what really tipped me off though is that he calls himself “a dracula”, which, yes, could just be referring to a person belonging to house dracula, but dracula is also the romanian word for dragon, and according to some legends dragons can take the shape of a human at will
so currently i’m thinking that our friend jonathan harker might have been imprisoned by a dragon
we have not heard from our friend jonathan in three days, so now i am starting to worry that he has been eaten by the dragon
we have heard from johnny! he has not been eaten by the dragon yet!
however, dracula has been described as moving “just as a lizard moves”, so this is further proof of my theory
I’ve watched “Dracula, The Musical” and it’s the first (out of five!) Wildhorn’s musical that didn’t make me cry – so, what the hell? I came here specially, for crying. Every musical before had at least one and most of the time two songs which squeezed a tear out of me, but here – nothing. Probably you just can’t make a thrilling musical out of such a boring book. By the way, reading the book (the first half of it, but still) helped me dearly to understand the plot, because otherwise, I’d probably be still wondering: “What the hell, there was a guy eating flies?”. Okay, they tried to make it a little more interesting than in the book, I would even say they tried to make a little more “Tanz der Vampire”-ish (this vampire musical appeared a few years earlier, so…) – (Spoilers!) they made Mina fall in love with the Count and him fall in love with her too so that he, not wanting the life of a vampire for her, asks her to kill him and she does and mourns him at the end. I checked – in the book, Harper and Quincey kill Dracula, and Mina was being a vampire and controlled by the count for a short time. By the way, getting back to the music, “The Heart is Slow to Learn” sounds so much like “His Eyes” and “Someone like you” (from “Jekyll and Hyde”) and “If I Could Fly” also sounds so familiar, but I can’t name a particular piece it reminds me of… Probably, I should stop listening to Wildhorn’s musicals for some time…
“I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. (Mem. get recipe for Mina.)”
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“My dear Count …what on earth distracted you?”
Someone called Jonathan a Himbo and I was reminded that he had time to do a full double take before Dracula even made the decision to defenestrate his mirror.
(Everyone and their Mother has already made this joke but I am a simple man with a one tack mind.)
I didn’t think I’d be looking up recipes vaguely alluded to in a 125 year old book in the year of our lord 2022, yet here I am, gleefully awaiting an e-mail update from my friend Jonathan, and ‘Paprika Hendl’ is delicious.
And though I, like Jonathan, am similarly afflicted with being British, I was not unduly ravished by thirst
seeing Dracula actively being depicted not as some handsome, romantic Hollywood hearthrob but as a creepy, weird old geezer adds 10 years to my lifespan
