Hey, so I’m super excited that Dracula Daily is a thing, but I feel like I should warn people that one of the main characters in the novel is a guy that runs a lunatic asylum, and his scenes might be kinda hard to read for anyone who’s been through psychiatric abuse.
I would appreciate it if people reblogged this post and didn’t tag it with spoilers or put trigger warnings on it, since it’s important that this warning is seen by the people who need to see it. Thanks!
i love being subscribed to dracula daily as a person that only knows the broad plot of the book Dracula. i feel like im going out for lunch with jonothan harker and hes telling me about a ye olde grinder hookup he had that was basically a tour of the red flag factory
Again you all are missing the point, and missing out on the true comedy of this novel which is: for as strangely cheerful as Jonathan is he IS genre savvy and he DOES think something horrible might happen to him. The last two entries ended with him hoping desperately he’ll get to see his family again. Not the words of someone unaware of the danger he’s in. The comedy of Dracula is how he looks at the warning signs, SEES them, and his reaction is just to be like “:/. I guess this what I signed up for when I became a real estate agent. Should I have seen this coming?” Like this man is willing to risk joining the legions of the undead if that’s where his line of work takes him. Furthermore his naturally buoyant spirit heightens the comedy bc his mind is like “Am I about to die? Man I love my fiance she’s the best! Am I about to die? These mountains are gorgeous! Am I about to die? These locals are so kindhearted! Am I about to die? This chicken is really good! Am I about to die? My boss likes me!!! Am I about to die?
❦ Stoker’s Patchwork Transylvania : Landscapes ❦ In writing Dracula, Bram Stoker’s descriptions of Transylvania seldom corresponded to the actual locations he was describing, but rather they created a fictional landscape made out of a motley of different travelogues describing areas near and around the Carpathians.
For all my Dracula Daily folks who might not read 19th Century lit on the regular “making a hasty toilet” means like … “I freshened up quickly before dinner because I just spent hours and hours on a dusty road and feel kind of gross” not “I am telling you explicitly that I took a shit and was hasty about it”
Our Good Friend Jonathan: I gotta go take a wicked piss
What began as a funny Beauty and the Beast screenshot redraw based on a note in the Annotated Dracula (@rallamajoop explains it better here) has since morphed into some kind of animated Dracula universe concept, in which Jonathan Harker fills in as the archetypical ingenue and gets disney bats to help him dress.
not ppl getting pissy abt other ppl talking abt how gay dracula is already way to ignore all the homoerotic shit in the book and bram stoker’s probable closeted queerness. “b-b-but dracula’s a creepy old villain not a cool sexy love interest!” wow, i WONDER why a book by a closeted queer man who knew oscar wilde that was written JUST after the oscar wilde trial happened would have some sexual anxieties abt gayness in it /s
HI I’m crawling out of my Tumblr lurker hole bc I simply have to post these doodles I’ve been drawing with every entry we got so far. Hope to continue as we go on!
