#dracula being DRACULA
Text
I LOVE when a character is at least 200-300 hundreds old and they TALK like one, too. Thinking of Astarion, Halsin, Dracula (in all media, but I am especially fond of Castlevania and Penny Dreadful ones), Alucard, The Outsider (yes, hi, he's 1500 years old God). My fav pals.
All of them coming up with such exquisite compliments, insults, and general comments. L O V E that.
#halsin#alucard#bg3#dracula#penny dreadful#castlevania#the outsider#dishonored#dishonored 2#fiction#halsin with 'my heart' and the way he generally speaks#astarion quoting passages from books#dracula being DRACULA#'the creatures of the night. what music they make.'#not to mention him going full on 'i'm in love with you' with vanessa#all the best stuff really
252 notes
·
View notes
Text
Jon he's really trying here cut him a break
(tumblr crunched the resolution of this comic a lot rip)
#dracula daily#hello im back from the void with shitty dracula doodles#i actually drew this last year but never posted it#here it is now though#count dracula#jonathan harker#Drac reading the english bradshaw guide is still one of the funniest moments in Dracula to me#i know it is supposed to show how he's planning to infiltrate england and appear local#but it really does just come across like he picked it up in a panic and pretended to be reading it when Jonathan came back into the room#and being the weird guy he is thought reading train schedules was really normal behaviour#bram stoker's dracula is a romcom#re: dracula
29K notes
·
View notes
Text
Ive been spending my free time watching dracula adaptations and good god you guys were NOT kidding about them doing jonathan and mina dirty, I have watched 17 movies so far, you wanna know how many of them actually did them justice??
ONE!!! (dracula (2006) i enjoyed it a lot, I'd definitely recommend it)
#@ everyone who reblogged my one post being like 'oh op you have no idea just how dirty they did jonathan'#i know now. thanks for the warning#dracula daily
3K notes
·
View notes
Text
I'm. Uh. Well. There is MUCH to unpack here. I have follow-up questions.
#sms watches lupin#lupin 34#is camilla also god made flesh?#is she the lord's only daughter?#is being born a vampire just...... something that happens or was mary fucking dracula#they're glossing over this information WAY too fast#*1000#greatest hits
1K notes
·
View notes
Text
very glad bestie is having a nice time, was a bit worried when he didn't update yesterday
#dracula daily#dracula#jonathan harker#obsessed with how funny email subscription dracula is while also being the exact same text#my art
34K notes
·
View notes
Text
Vlad meets Lex. He realizes some things.
Vlad meets Lex Luthor at a gala, and Lex is schmoozing hard.
Lex has heard about Vlad's weirdass business deals, knows something isn't right, and he want whatever untraceable power Vlad's got at his disposal.
Lex has done his research, and knows that Vlad got the equipment for cloning, but that no child was ever announced. So Lex starts bragging, going on and on about Kon and talking about the kid like he's a Thing.
And Vlad, listening to this, has some unfortunate realizations about how he was treating Ellie.
So Vlad excuses himself and does some digging of his own, and holy shit do the dead have a lot to gossip about regarding how Superman used to treat the boy, and Vlad...doesn't want to be compared to either of those buffoons.
He's better than both of them combined.
And he's gonna prove it.
He's gonna be the daddest dad that ever dadded.
He'll be way better than Jack, and if he's a better father than Jack then Daniel and Jasmine and Maddie will follow! He just has to learn how to be a good parent.
Easy.
He proceeds to buy every parenting book he can find, and signs himself up for parenting classes.
Ellie, minding her own business, feels a shiver go down her back.
#dpxdc#dcxdp#dp x dc#dc x dp#story prompt#phanfic#vlad's obsession has switched from wooing maddie with money to wooing her with good parenting skills#redemtion fic#vlad slowly starts to have his obsession switch from maddie to just being a good father#ellie fuckin books it#various justice league members have seen a dracula-esque man chasing a white haired kid through their cities#the only one who could have feasibly done anything was J'onn#he read teh general vibe of “LET ME FATHER YOU” and decided to leave it alone#he did tell batman though#maybe he and that strange dracula meta can bond#the man could use more friends
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
pain
#my art#dracula#dracula daily#like i know that each entry has diff pov charas so obv multiple narrators#but like thinking of dracula as the one organising the substack is incredibly funny#would be neat to see an adaptation where dracula is framed more like frankenstein with jonathan being the one telling his tale#then after so much paranoia and increasingly frantic short entries growing more urgent in tone#desperate frightened hes going to barm me Help Me kind of fear#his next entry is just a blackened burned page#and when we turn the page dracula greets the reader.#this got wildly sidetracked off canon its not even dracula anymore. :/
22K notes
·
View notes
Text
Our good friend Jonathan Harker has finally made it to the totally normal house of his new client!
#dracula#dracula daily#re: dracula#he sounded so excited about being a proper solicitor now#💖💖#my good friend jonathan harker#Paris’s box of classic lit blorbos
3K notes
·
View notes
Text
Batman acts as a secondary parent mentor to all the young justice members, so when a mentorless Dani Phantom joins it was only natural that he tried to be a parent mentor to her as well.
Because she's never had a parental mentor figure, Dani's very confused about what Batman's doing.
#dp x dc#dc x dp#dcxdp#dpxdc#dc x dp prompt#Dani being like “What do you mean you all go to him when you have a problem?”#“he's not a counselor or anything.”#“What do you mean you feel most comfortable going to him when there's a problem? Black Canary's a therapist? Isn't that her job?”#“also he's a weirdo that dresses like a knock-off count dracula”
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
Jonathan Harker knocked me flat with this one. his speculation that vampirism spreads because people willingly follow their loved ones into damnation is so affecting. and it's an insight that's so uniquely him. the gothic heroine in him can see Dracula's world in a way the others seemingly can't. he can look at the situation without any concerns of rationalism, honour, god, or any other facet of Victorian society, and reach this truth: we will walk into any horror for love
#dracula daily#3 oct#this is the boy who imagined medieval ladies writing love letters in castle dracula#mina does the same thing from the other angle being willing to trade her immortal soul and choose death to keep him safe btw#but jonathan is the one to apply it as a universal truth#he has emotional intelligence in spades and the heart of a poet
12K notes
·
View notes
Text
We never find out how Jonathan got past the wolves.
Which means there's nothing in the text stopping me from imagining that he befriended them because they aren't vicious without the Count's influence. Just Jonathan and a pack of good boys who decided not to eat him.
#dracula daily#dracula#negotiating with wolves is a skill you learn in law school right?#very minor spoiler: theres a wolf later who goes back to being a good boy when the count isnt influencing him
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
fuck dan’s “what can i say?” compilation- i need to see how many times this man has pulled this move.
#dan and phil#dnp#amazingphil#he just does it a lot???#has anyone else noticed this????#me when i’m being mysterious#i feel like he’s trying to reference dracula?#someone help
685 notes
·
View notes
Text
Y'know, something that gets me, is that in the book, Dracula's intentional predation of Lucy starts off with an accidental meeting. Sure, Lucy slept walked, and an argument could be made her path might have been supernaturally influenced, but I say she'd already been a known sleep-walker, and she went directly to a place she was familiar with.
Her stumbling onto Dracula's hiding spot in a very vulnerable state was just an accident, and from there, he intentionally set out to harm her, and through that, everyone around her he could get.
This is sort of related to Jonathan, too. Had Mr. Hawkins not come down with a bad case of gout, Jonathan wouldn't have been sent to Castle Dracula in his stead. Sure, Dracula probably would have had his fun with Hawkins before inevitably killing him, but I doubt he would have drawn it out so long or taken so much delight.
Dracula never sets out with a master-plan to attack Lucy or Jonathan. They just end up in his path and spark his interest. We know that if he isn't interested in you, he'll kill you. He'll, he breaks Mr. Swales neck doesn't even bite him. But the two victims he decides he's going to make suffer the longest he possibly can, he just stumbles upon and goes "oh this will be fun". Later, we see him start choosing victims as a way to retaliate, but for the two inciting incident victims upon which the rest of the story hangs...its just wrong place wrong time.
The reason this struck me is that I was misremembering. For some reason, which I now believe due to thinking about the *through gritted teeth* Coppola film, is that Lucy is sort of hand-picked by Dracula to be his victim. And yeah, the fucking film ain't subtle in its blaming of Lucy's victimization on the fact that she was Too Pretty and Too Flirtatious and Dracula psychically drew her into the garden in a flowing diaphanous dress, but it's really her fault....I hate this movie.
Like, i just read the films Wikipedia plot synopsis, Dracula "psychically seduces" Lucy before biting her. He chooses her out of everyone in England deliberately.
And just...no. That's not what happens. Lucy got so stressed from her wedding that her latent sleep walking started again. Mina gets so tired from the constant stress she falls asleep without meaning to. Lucy went to their favorite spot...Dracula just happened to be there and took advantage and both Lucy and Mina weren't floating along softly into a garden with a fan letting their hair blow, but cold, scared, and covered in mud and blood, and forced to sneak back to the house that way, facing not only the supernatural but the very ordinary horrors of being caught outside at night by a strange man.
Idk. The tragedy is that Dracula didn't set out to fuck with these people. It's just that they were the ones who crossed his path that he took an interest in, and he decided to draw it out as long as possible.
(Oh fuck, this is the crew of the Demeter too. It isn't like Draculas got some big plan. He just decides he's going to play with his food. Had he boarded any other ship it would have ended up the same way.)
I guess in conclusion, I find it odd that adaptions seem to need to find a reason for him doing what he does. Like, Coppola has to conjure up a whole reincarnation backstory at one point, but I don't understand why!! Let Dracula just be an opportunist, his casual cruelty knowing no reason. That makes him scarier.
#dracula daily#lucy westenra#jonathan harker#re: dracula#dracula#back from impromptu hiatus#adhd kicked in and started feeling guilty for not being caught up#which only made it worse lol
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
"All I see is a slave."
"And all I see is a fool."
#hellsing#alucard#my art#Dracula#THIS WAS SO HARD#GODS#ripping my hair out#how do you think Dracula would react to modern Alucard?#or vice versa?#Alucard fucking hates himself already#like that's canon#Dracula would be insulted at the prospect of being at someones mercy and Alucard would just see the pointless arrogant creature he used to b#I'm on Dracula's side simply because he was less annoying to render and draw#also I shamelessly traced over the casull#im not playing your stupid games old man
566 notes
·
View notes
Note
Wouldn't lizard fashion be something like spikes and scales and a frilled lizard collar?
Like so?
(Bonus art under the cut)
#thank you anon I've been wanting to draw proper lizard fashion for a while and this gave me the motivation I needed#dracula daily#re: dracula#dracula#lizard fashion#The colours I chose here make Drac look like Harry Du Bois - which is appropriate given how I tend to depict his personality in my shitpost#bonus under the cut featuring Dracula's Weed Smorking Girlfriends#personally I really like the theory that the three vampire women are actually dracula's wife and two daughters#since the book never actually calls them his wives and the two subordinate girls are specifically described as looking similar to him#the idea that he turned his family but is no longer capable of loving them (or being loved by them) adds a whole extra layer for me#because he still goes through the motions - goes out to get them food (babies) and provide for them/fulfil the role of a patriarch#but its hollow and loveless and done out of strange obligation/habit - like an echo of being alive#BUT for the sake of comedy I will always draw them as his three weed smorking girlfriends because it's just funnier#or rather as I like to think of them - his three weed smoking EX-girlfriends who spend all day making fun of him and and freeloading#I'm going to tag any art with them in it from here on out as#the ex-wives of dracula#he's going to england to escape their ridicule
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
The Wrong Ship
Dracula, misting out of his dirt box: Finally! Time to enjoy this seafood buffet--
The Captain: I see you’re new to the operation.
Dracula: ...You’re surprisingly, unappetizingly calm about a living corpse man leaking out of a box.
The Captain: Mm.
Dracula: To drink people.
The Captain, checking his watch: Mm.
Dracula: Well, you’re boring me. Point me towards your underlings so I can get on with my meal. As payment you can die overboard.
The Captain: Ah, very new to the operation. There is no crew that you’ll find aboard this vessel.
Dracula: I can smell blood enough to call you a liar.
The Captain: It’s no lie. You will find no crew here no matter how you search. Sniff them out, chase shadows, run laps around the deck. They’ll be there, but never found. Plenty of fog, though. You should feel quite in your element. If a bit peckish.
Dracula, about to chomp the good (?) captain: Not when you are in reach.
Captain Peter Lukas, dissolving into vapor before the Count can get a bite in: I do hope you enjoy the cruise. It’ll be longer than you think.
#in which I daydream about Dracula being loaded onto the fog-laden Tundra rather than the poor Demeter#perhaps never to return to a shore again#good to hear you again Alasdair Stuart#peter lukas#the captain#the magnus archives#dracula#re: dracula#dracula daily
1K notes
·
View notes
Last Seen Blogs
jxylen
釀酒
watermybeans
Untitled
causeilikelix
Cause I Like Lix
butchflewers
“Outside Of Exotic Nuts And Aspirin...”