Just saw a TikTok complaining about ‘kitten’ as a pet name in fanfiction and while I do agree with their discomfort on that one the comments were FULL of people mentioning all the other common pet names ?? Like honey babe baby sweetheart etc ?? Is your partner just supposed to call you by your name the whole time ????????

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What I wouldn't give for an adaptation that humanizes the brides instead of humanizing Dracula.

They deserve more of a story than they are given in the original text.

Mina Harker née Murray Slays The Competition!

[ID. A gif of Mina Harker flashing a smile, as Dracula’s brides stare at her slack-jawed with pumping heart eyes. Mina wears a black walking suit jacket, dark grey blouse and her hair in a low bun. She has a cruciform burn mark on her forehead and small fangs. END ID.]

my school librarys copy of dracula has bite marks on it???

Let me just say, I love how the wound from Jonathan's shovel attack is still visible on Dracula. I think part of why I'm so delighted about it is that I didn't expect it to remain! We have a basically immortal being here who we have observed become younger through his consumption of people's blood and souls. And yet, even his restoration to his apparent prime was not enough to erase his wound alongside his wrinkles. Count Dracula may have left a terrible psychological mark on Jonathan, but Jonathan left a mark on Dracula as well.

Seward was so funny he really said "Oh it's so nice of van Helsing to distract Jonathan with more vampire lore while we wait in this uneasy life or death situation!" and in reality Jonathan was clutching his knife in Murder Mode commanding "Explain it plainly or don't fucking bother"

May 11: Live Jonathan Reaction

May 9 May 12

May 8: I think maybe Dracula is pretending to be the other staff, kinda weird huh.

May 9

The problem of age, growth, and death, 1908

Everyone: "Man, how does Van Helsing know so much about Dracula and vampires?? Must be a personal connection between him and the Count."

Me: *pulling my hair out trying to rewrite the September 30 meeting scene* "IF YOU ACTUALLY FUCKING READ HIS MONOLOGUE TWENTY TIMES OVER YOU WOULD KNOW HE KNEW NONE OF THIS INFORMATION PRIOR TO THE STORY."

Maybe not none. But. Let me just. Most of the shit he says is filler. "Let me tell you, it's gonna be fucking spooky" is what he says like fifty times over in twenty words or more each time.

"Alas! Had I known at the first what now I know—nay, had I even guess at him—one so precious life had been spared to many of us who did love her."

Van Helsing says that if he knew all the info he's about to dump on us about vampires, they could have saved Lucy. Meaning he didn't know jack shit. He most certainly didn't know who Dracula was.

"Even friend Jonathan, who lived with him for weeks, did never see him to eat, never! He throws no shadow; he make in the mirror no reflect, as again Jonathan observe. He has the strength of many of his hand—witness again Jonathan when he shut the door against the wolfs, and when he help him from the diligence too. He can transform himself to wolf, as we gather from the ship arrival in Whitby, when he tear open the dog; he can be as bat, as Madam Mina saw him on the window at Whitby, and as friend John saw him fly from this so near house, and as my friend Quincey saw him at the window of Miss Lucy. He can come in mist which he create—that noble ship's captain proved him of this; but, from what we know, the distance he can make this mist is limited, and it can only be round himself. He come on moonlight rays as elemental dust—as again Jonathan saw those sisters in the castle of Dracula. He become so small—we ourselves saw Miss Lucy, ere she was at peace, slip through a hairbreadth space at the tomb door."

Then finally he starts saying things that he may have already known since he cites no specific examples: night vision, requiring invitation, no power in the daytime, the sunrise and sunset bit, etc.. He does cite an example of what "unhallowed ground" vampires can enter uninvited, but that's just to illustrate his point. But then he talks about his friend Arminius.

"I have asked my friend Arminius, of Buda-Pesth University, to make his record; and, from all the means that are, he tell me of what he has been. He must, indeed, have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of Turkey-land. If it be so, then was he no common man; for in that time, and for centuries after, he was spoken of as the cleverest and the most cunning, as well as the bravest of the sons of the 'land beyond the forest.' That mighty brain and that iron resolution went with him to his grave, and are even now arrayed against us. The Draculas were, says Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and again were scions who were held by their coevals to have had dealings with the Evil One. They learned his secrets in the Scholomance, amongst the mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the devil claims the tenth scholar as his due. In the records are such words as 'stregoica'—witch, 'ordog,' and 'pokol'—Satan and hell; and in one manuscript this very Dracula is spoken of as 'wampyr,' which we all understand too well."

Van Helsing is really just like me for real oh my god. He sounds like me after just having gone on a Wikipedia binge. He knew absolutely nothing about Dracula before, and he really wants to capitalize on all the new shit he just learned.

"We know from the inquiry of Jonathan that from the castle to Whitby came fifty boxes of earth, all of which were delivered at Carfax; we also know that at least some of these boxes have been removed. It seems to me, that our first step should be to ascertain whether all the rest remain in the house beyond that wall where we look to-day; or whether any more have been removed. If the latter, we must trace——"

*gunshots* Anyway.

More fucking fuel for the stop fucking painting him and Dracula as mortal enemies fire. He's literally just an old man who reads a lot, he's not a badass vampire hunter, Dracula didn't kill his gf or some shit, and he's probably never successfully dealt with a vampire before. Also, more ammo for my if you deny Jonathan's importance to the story one more time-- gun.

[CW: Shit gets bad I’m so sorry] 

Utena keeps talking about food. It’s the lowest on the hierarchy of needs: the base survival instinct. She’s on autopilot mode. And she keeps referring to this morning’s breakfast, tomorrow’s lunch, because they’re Not Here, Not Now.

ELEKTRA: I am the shape you made me. Filth teaches filth.

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I like how it’s implied that everytime Lestat and Claudia do piano lessons, Louis has the job of turning the music sheet pages. Like Lestat could’ve legitimately did that himself. Who even assigned him this role of page-turner? Leave that man alone and let him decorate the christmas tree.

Interview With The Vampire vampires bully Nosferatu

Episode 4 of Interview With The Vampire on AMC+