Whumper decides to take Whumpee shopping with them, and while they’re being dragged along behind their captor, forced to hold all Whumper’s grocerios as they’re handed to them, they see Caretaker out the corner of their eye.
last of the animal terrarium series~ I had to take a long break due to being super sick for a while but I’m so glad have to finished the 6 part series~ Thank you all who suggested which animals I should draw :D
Do you like enemies to lovers because it’s hot or do you like enemies to lovers because you think of yourself as unlovable & unworthy of love and therefore like the idea of someone seeing all the worst in you right away and still falling in love with you anyways
Count Dracula, reclining on a sofa casually reading a railway timetable: I am being so normal right now
My favorite explanations for this moment, in order of how much they make me laugh:
Likely Doylist explanation: Bram Stoker wants you to realize this is weird and feel nervous about the Count because of it.
Likely Watsonian explanation: This is another facet of Dracula’s studying, so that he’ll blend in better once he gets to England.
Unlikely but funny Doylist explanation: Bram Stoker (as will be shown later) thinks this is a reasonable thing to do, in the face of society’s disapproval.
Funnier Watsonian explanation: While Jonathan was fetching paperwork, Dracula ran into the other room, set the table at superspeed, ran back to the library, grabbed the first book his hand fell on, and carefully posed himself to look like he’d been there the whole time. Whereupon he realized that he had picked up the Weirdest Possible Casual Reading Choice but didn’t have time to pick another book and now has to brazen it out. Like a cat, Dracula at all times has to act like He Meant to Do That. He’s studying train timetables - of course he is! That’s a completely reasonable and normal human thing to do in preparation for moving to a new country! Train travel is a vital piece of British infrastructure that he needs to understand!
Jonathan now thinks that Dracula is a train enthusiast.
Also consider: dracula is just a huge train enthusiast just, you know, on top of being dracula
Absolutely wild explanation: several vampire myths cast vampires as having obsessive compulsions to count certain things like knots or poppy seeds when presented with them. Dracula is legitimately reading the train timetable because vampires just find that stuff hard to not read. Vampires just fucking love tedious structured categorisation, be it counting or timetables.
Oh no, now I wish to write an urban fantasy in which large portions of bureaucracy and quality control are dominated by vampires because their attention to detail means they’re far more reliable and into the work than humans. Vampires found their niche and it’s the kind of tedious work most humans would be bored to tears with. There’s a long running joke about vampires working in haematology labs because when it comes to using a haemocytometer you just can’t beat a vampire.
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