I was just thinking about this

Dude, I wonder what would happen if we pinned Victor Frankenstein, Herbert West, Henry Jekyll, and John Jack Seward against each other in a argument....

Like, I would pay money to see this, because we all know DAMN WELL John and Henry would cave in relatively soon within the argument, leaving Victor and Herbert to argue for the rest of the time...

Actually, Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Frustrated that a good Dracula adaptation doesn’t exist I just made my own movie poster for the movie that should exist but somehow doesn’t!!!

Y’all have no idea how long I’ve been saving this photo of my cats for, for this precise moment.

Poor man.

The autism is autisming....

A fun little detail about Re: Dracula is that they hired three whole actors from The Magnus Archives and typecast them beyond belief.

Johnny Sims as a rational man committing his discovery of The Horrors to tape

Alasdair Stuart as a sad, lonely sea captain

Karim Kronfli as an unfathomably old man Causing Problems On Purpose

If you're ever worried about two characters in your story having the same name, just remember that in Bram Stoker's Dracula there's literally two guys in the main cast named John

My heart goes out to the child who I can only assume was named Quincy Arthur John Abraham Harker. Like imagine growing up and finding out that you were named after four grown men with mommy kinks who hunted down and brutally murdered an immigrant furry because they were down bad for your mother

Okay, so, I wasn't going to scream into the uncaring void of the internet about this but I gotta. A lot of people have been dunking on Dr. Seward about the August 19th entry, and especially about the phrase, "These infantesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow. Oh, if men only knew!" But when I was first reading the book, this was one of my favorite quotes, and frankly it's not as about Seward as everyone is making it. It's a reference to Matthew 10:29, which says "are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father's knowledge." (NIV) It is right in the middle of a passage about Jesus appointing his disciples and giving them both encouragement and instruction for the persecution they will face when they follow him, and you won't believe what is written only a few verses before in 24-26: "The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household! So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. "

So here we have Jesus telling his disciples not to fear the servants of Beezlebul, or the devil, because they are no greater than the devil himself, and really the devil's not such a big gun compared to God himself, who the disciples follow.

In 'Dracula,' we have Renfield serving his master who is Dracula, in similar authority structure to the devil, but he is also not to be feared in comparison to the power of the forces of good, and the verses after that even discuss the fate of evil which (spoilers) forshadows the end of the book and the character Dracula himself. If you ask me, using a scripture passage to foreshadow your entire book in such a subtle way is honestly just BRILLIANT and I love it.

Moreover, the particular verse he chose to actually reference helps to highlight the differences between Dracula (an embodiment of men's evil) and God. Seward is not bragging that he is in charge, or miffed that Renfield does not treat him as such, he is noticing a change in behavior, as Renfield often WOULD defer to him as a higher authority in the past. Seward is not illogical to think this is because Renfield has come to believe there is an even higher authority to appeal to, and is not wrong when he says that a human higher authority makes no distinction between men. Dracula does not care if someone is a lunatic, a beloved lady, or a lawyer, they are all prey to him, and he will use them to his own ends. Similarly men whose ultimate goal is to benefit themselves and make a "god" of thier own interests stop seeing others as individuals, but as means to an end. This is in direct contrast to the God who sees every sparrow that falls, and who seeks a personal relationship and to foster personal relationships between those who follow him. This is a trait shared by the crew of light in the book. They have a father in Van Helsing, brothers and sisters, and husband and wife in each other, and all love each other so deeply and tenderly, just as God cares for the sparrows, and so much more for his own people. Meanwhile Dracula has slaves he must bend to his will. He has the brides, who obviously don't even like him much. Dracula, in choosing to selfishly disregard the feelings of those he considers prey has made himself thoroughly and completely alone, and that is what makes evil so weak.

Maybe it is just Seward being arrogant, but in my understanding of the allusion, it's an expert highlight of the difference between good and evil, light and dark, selfishness and love, distance and relationship, the contrast of which is a central theme of the whole book. For let us not forget that Dracula was once a man, a man who has been twisted into the opposite of everything humanity was supposed to be, and that is what makes him so very horrific.

(Also just read Matthew 10. The whole thing lines up very well and it's super cool. Way to go Mr. Stoker.)

actually devastated, we finished Dracula and I wanna cry (I did)

Anyways, here's some silly doodles we did between each chapter whilst reading! :'D

(We'll likely redesign/resketch these characters, then post them on here, if we haven't already)

Since this copy isn't ours, the sticky notes we plan to leave in there will be shipped off to our school, where any loser in our local area may find them, so that's cool or whatever 💀💔

A family could be Vampire Hunt Cult ♥️

Mina has two hands and neither are for Dracula

One for Johnathan. One for Lucy and her three husbands.

Ending of Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula: Big Epic Chase Scene

Ending of the novel: Dracula gets stabbled by a cowboy and decapitated by a white haired, slightly unhinged Malewife

Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra

(Unopened by her)