#lyn reads dracula

reading dracula daily and i’m about to start signing my emails as “your friend, ALLYN” for absolutely no reason

classic horror snobs will be like Let’s discuss this book Just as Horror like it’s MEANT to be but DON’T talk about the sexual anxieties in it that inform the horror OR the race/immigration anxieties OR the gender anxieties. it’s Just spooky monster creature and horror is IN NO WAY informed by societal anxieties/fears and the creator’s particular hangups. we Can’t Talk about That

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