#dracula october 1
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Bram "The GM" Stoker: Jack's lockpick roll was a success, so the bolt shoots back with a rusty clang, the hinges creak, and the heavy, oaken door opens wide. What do you do?
Arthur: Are there rats? I've got an anti-rat whistle! It's got a +9 against rats!!
Bram: You don't have darkvision, so... *rolls dice* ...you don't see any rats, per se.
Jonathan: Okay, then I want to do a spot hidden che--
Van Helsing: Too late! I've already walked in.
Jonathan: What?!
Jack: I guess I follow Van Helsing inside, but only after I mutter some pretentious prayer in Latin, then I go in.
Bram: Classic Jack. Well, since no one did a spot hidden check *rolls a big pile of dice*
Jonathan: *groaning*
Bram: *rolls even more dice* Now as the door shuts behind you and you all search through the decaying ruins, the pungent stench of mildew emanating from the wet stone walls, your dim lanterns barely pierce the thick curtain of darkness, you find only cobwebs and more shadows until... Jonathan, you can't get it out of your head that this feels like Transylvania all over again and maybe, just maybe, there's someone else here. Give me a sanity roll.
Jonathan: UGH! *rolling dice and sweating*
Quincey: Can I cast gun at the darkness?
#i can't be the only one that gets tabletop RPG party vibes here#dracula daily#dracula#re: dracula#bram stoker#abraham van helsing#jonathan harker#dracula memes#dracula spoilers#dracula october 1#october 1#dd october 1#quincey p morris#jack seward#arthur holmwood
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The fog is not your friend, Mina run!!
#i did it i finished an art and I'm v proud!!#dracula daily#dracula#october 1#mina harker#mina murray#fanart#procreate#illustration#i'm finally caught up and I'm very worried for our dear precious minaaa
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Continuing from yesterday. Van Helsing's repeated insistence that they made The Right Choice! is entirely for the sake of stroking the men's egos.
"So far," he said, "our night has been eminently successful. No harm has come to us such as I feared might be and yet we have ascertained how many boxes are missing. More than all do I rejoice that this, our first—and perhaps our most difficult and dangerous—step has been accomplished without the bringing thereinto our most sweet Madam Mina or troubling her waking or sleeping thoughts with sights and sounds and smells of horror which she might never forget."
It's just so obviously for the men's sake over Mina's!! Now, you may say "hey bastard! he's expressing concern for Mina here! what do you mean?" I'll tell you what I mean. This first and perhaps most difficult and dangerous step had no need to be so difficult and dangerous. What keeps them from breaking into the house in the daytime? Nothing, you'll see that it's nothing. VH agreed to Quincey's insistence they act at night because this presents another opportunity to whack his sexist message into their skulls:
"See! You are all shaken and put off by the dilapidated building, but just think how poor weak feeble Madam Mina would suffer had we brought her along!"
Her alleged weakness is leveraged to make the men feel all the stronger for braving a fucking haunted house.
The trauma that VH claims Mina would suffer for the rest of her life if she so much as heard a peep of their manly work is the trauma that Jonathan already suffers. "But he's cured, right?" Not how PTSD works. He was relieved to finally understand that his experiences were real, but that was only the first step to recovery. Imagine how Jonathan feels being told that if he is honest with his wife, she will become like him but with possibly no chance of recovery! After all, she is a woman and he is a man.
"So I shall go, if I may, and cheer myself with a few happy words with that sweet soul Madam Mina. Friend John, it does rejoice me unspeakable that she is no more to be pained, no more to be worried with our terrible things. Though we shall much miss her help, it is better so."
Mina is being kept here. To play fucking cheerleader for this old man. He is keeping her close so he can go to her for comfort, for reassurance that he isn't a thick-headed Dutchman like Renfield said. You are a thick-headed Dutchman, VH. It is not about her safety! She'd be sent home if that were the case! No, it's about tradition! It's about chivalry!
"I agree with you with all my heart," I answered earnestly, for I did not want him to weaken in this matter. "Mrs. Harker is better out of it. Things are quite bad enough for us, all men of the world, and who have been in many tight places in our time; but it is no place for a woman, and if she had remained in touch with the affair, it would in time infallibly have wrecked her."
Jack, I will kill you. I'm going to "infallibly wreck" you, you bastard. VH and Jack's repeated insistence on defending this stupid decision is unlike Jonathan's attempts to convince himself that he agreed to the right thing because oh no, they are not uncertain at all. They are patting themselves on the backs. They are Mrs. Westenra gloating about throwing out the garlic flowers. "I did not want him to weaken in this matter." Please, Jack, I would like him to weaken in this matter. These two only make each other worse, someone please separate them indefinitely.
#dracula#dracula daily#abraham van helsing#re: dracula#jack seward#john seward#dracula rant#vent#october 1#tagging as vent so dumbasses don't get pissy about me not being an unbiased college professor
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Isabel Adomakoh Young does such a fantastic job of crying while delivering her lines.
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Vampire Askin Nakk Le Vaar x Viewer
Made for Dance with the Dead Halloween collab. 2023
Part 3: The Haunted
Lovely orchestrated by @nagumoan
Thank you for allowing me to join! This piece and the whole set of hcs, imagines and AU that were born with it, wouldn't have happened without this event. Wish you a lovely autumn and delightfully dark Halloween!
Traditional art on A4 paper with colored ink and pencils.
#dwtdcollab#nagumoan#I hope 1st October is not too early to post. rules did say 1 to 31 but idk if including the 1st#I have a busy month ahead and was very excited to share#would have included lyrics but didn't want to fill with text too much#is worth checking out Vampire heart by HIM#and the MV of como te olvido by NataliaOreiro. filmed in Dracula's castle#I used askin's panel as reference because its next to impossible to find the right pose#the hand is mine tho sajdbjsadb... or the viewers#blood tw#vampire#halloween#askin nakk le vaar#vampire askin#hope I didn't forget anything but please ask to tag if necessary
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Little tiny lamps
History fact flashlights were patented by English inventor, David Misel, in 1899
Dracula was published in 1897
Science fiction anyone?
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still catching up to dracula and I am going feral at the thought of mina being attacked by dracula and not being able to say anything because the boys™ are cutting her out to keep her safe but they're only endangeringt her! which is what happened with Lucy! and her mom emptying her room of garlic and opening the window!
AND MINA WAS LITTERALLY CRYING ABOUT HOW ALL CHOICES INEXORABLY LEAD TO LUCY'S DEATH NO MATTER HOW GOOD THE INTENTIONS AND! IT'S! HAPPENING!NOW!
I am screaming! I am growling! I am sitting quietly in my bed thinking about this for hours!
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“It is too great a strain for a woman to bear. I did not think so at first, but I know better now… I daresay it will be difficult to begin to keep silence after such confidence as ours; but I must be resolute, and to-morrow I shall keep dark over to-night's doings, and shall refuse to speak of anything that has happened.”
“It is strange to me to be kept in the dark as I am to-day; after Jonathan's full confidence for so many years, to see him manifestly avoid certain matters, and those the most vital of all… I acquiesced. But to think that he keeps anything from me! And now I am crying like a silly fool.”
Something something Jonathan allowing the others to convince him of what men and women “should” do actively hurts his existing relationship which (up until now) has been THE most stable and supportive we have seen… the fact that this is indisputably the reason Mina then can be preyed upon by Dracula AND the reason she feels like she can’t confide in him anymore… ugh.
#there’s an essay to write here about slow radicalization#and how chauvinist/sexist role models for masculinity damage young men’s POSITIVE relationships with women#…….#I’m not going to write it but like. it’s there#dracula daily#october 1#jonathan harker#mine
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There are a surprising number of dogs and wolves in this novel.
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"...which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers,..."
Is this old time speech for "he pulled it out of his ass"?
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Attack_Dog.exe has stopped working.
An 'Infernal-Rat-Horde' problem caused the Woofer to stop working. To reboot Woofer, please:
pick up
carry like baby
put down
Woofer can now restart core process: 'Protecc.ini'
#Go Godalming Goodest Doggos!#dracula daily#dracula#re: dracula#dracula memes#dd october 1#october 1#dracula october 1
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Jack Seward: ‘How do I get an A+ in Friendship with both Mina and Jonathan? Mina wants me to mercy-kill her if she turns, Jonathan doesn’t. This is the worst possible thing that could happen…’
Abraham Van Helsing: “Friend John, we need to go, Jonathan Harker will literally kill us with his kukri knife if you look at his wife sideways right now.”
#dracula daily#october 27#jack seward#abraham van helsing#jonathan harker#Mina is asleep so Van Helsing has the 1 brain cell#Jack just wants a good friendship grade#and also to never have to write with a pen again
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Jonathan is not comfortable with leaving Mina out at all. You can hear it in his voice, you can read it in his constant insistence: "this is the right thing to do even if it hurts, even if it seems wrong, it is right and I was wrong to ever burden her with the truth".
1 October, 5 a. m.—I went with the party to the search with an easy mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am so glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work. Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at all; but now that her work is done, and that it is due to her energy and brains and foresight that the whole story is put together in such a way that every point tells, she may well feel that her part is finished, and that she can henceforth leave the rest to us.
Jonathan is the only one to praise Mina for more than her "goodness" or whatever crap. He praises her strength in letting the men take the reins. Why is it so strong of her to be left out? Because the mental stress of being forced into helplessness is worse than the stress knowing the awful truth. Jonathan knows this for himself. But how could he doubt Van Helsing for even a moment? No, nooo, of course, the man must be right, and Jonathan is still suffering from his earlier madness. Jonathan also praises her energy and intelligence. He hopes that Mina can be satisfied with the irreplicable work she has done for the team and finally rest.
VH praised her intelligence as well, but patronizingly, and to another man as opposed to her. No, to her face, VH praises only her woman-ness, because he would like her "woman's heart" to flourish and for her "man's brain" to cease its work.
I came tiptoe into our own room, and found Mina asleep, breathing so softly that I had to put my ear down to hear it. She looks paler than usual. I hope the meeting to-night has not upset her. I am truly thankful that she is to be left out of our future work, and even of our deliberations. It is too great a strain for a woman to bear. I did not think so at first, but I know better now.
Jonathan didn't think that Mina was incapable of bearing the strain until VH claimed so. VH, the same man who granted him clarity. How could he ever doubt him? Even if he knows deep in his gut that something is wrong with Mina and that this isolation is bad, he doesn't trust his own judgement in the matter, he can only trust the doctor.
Therefore I am glad that it is settled. There may be things which would frighten her to hear; and yet to conceal them from her might be worse than to tell her if once she suspected that there was any concealment. Henceforth our work is to be a sealed book to her, till at least such time as we can tell her that all is finished, and the earth free from a monster of the nether world. I daresay it will be difficult to begin to keep silence after such confidence as ours; but I must be resolute, and to-morrow I shall keep dark over to-night's doings, and shall refuse to speak of anything that has happened.
It is difficult for him to keep her out of it. This is not natural for them. They function best as a unit. Even when they are apart, they can work toward the same goal and strengthen each other's resolve when they reunite again. But Mina isn't allowed to work and Jonathan isn't allowed to confer with her. Jonathan is still able to be productive but is severely held back by this limitation.
I rest on the sofa, so as not to disturb her.
Jonathan punishes himself by forcing himself to sleep on the sofa. He denies himself closeness to Mina, excusing it as not wanting to disturb her. But why would her husband joining her in bed disturb her so terribly? He has no reason to assume it would unless he suspects that he is the cause of her quiet misery.
I am tired to-night, and want sleep. Mina is fast asleep, and looks a little too pale; her eyes look as though she had been crying. Poor dear, I've no doubt it frets her to be kept in the dark, and it may make her doubly anxious about me and the others.
Jonathan, again, recognizes that this decision is doing more harm than good.
But it is best as it is. It is better to be disappointed and worried in such a way now than to have her nerve broken. The doctors were quite right to insist on her being kept out of this dreadful business.
But he goes ahead and says the doctors are right. The evidence and the conclusion don't add up, Jonathan. He worries about Mina's nerve being broken, the same thing he suffered himself. In fact, VH's warnings about Mina being tormented by memories of what they saw in Carfax allude to Jonathan's own PTSD. VH has passively leveraged Jonathan's PTSD against him, saying "you know how bad it is to suffer from nightmares every night. you don't want to force that on your wife, do you?"
I must be firm, for on me this particular burden of silence must rest. I shall not ever enter on the subject with her under any circumstances. Indeed, it may not be a hard task, after all, for she herself has become reticent on the subject, and has not spoken of the Count or his doings ever since we told her of our decision.
Even Mina's doing better at the whole "don't tell Mina anything" job than Jonathan. He's grasping at straws at this point. "See! Mina is content with this awful awful secrecy! I can be, too!" But notice how he... sorta rewrites what happened at the meeting. "...since we told her of our decision." It was not a group decision. This was VH's decision that he had Jack sign off on. But Jonathan pretends that it was a group decision that they all discussed at length together because it feels less helpless that way.
Jonathan knows something's up. But he can't bring it to anyone's attention. He has been forbidden from confiding in his wife, he's surrounded by complete strangers he just learned the names of, and the man whose methods he has a problem with is one he respects greatly.
#dracula#dracula daily#jonathan harker#mina harker#jonmina#abraham van helsing#re: dracula#october 1
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"If I hadn't gone to Whitby, perhaps poor dear Lucy would be with us now. She hadn't taken to visiting the churchyard till I came, and if she hadn't come there in the day-time with me she wouldn't have walked there in her sleep; and if she hadn't gone there at night and asleep, that monster couldn't have destroyed her as he did. Oh, why did I ever go to Whitby?"
Noooo Mina baby don't blame yourself.
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Love that the boys are like "Better keep the lil lady out of it from now on" even though she's done literally all the heavy lifting on the emotional support and research side. And she immediately gets chowed down on by the vampire because she was home, when she would have been better off storming the mansion with them.
But no, she is An Lady which means she has a delicate constitution and never mind that she listened to the tapes of Lucy's death, downed a brandy and proceeded to write up the transcripts in between letting all the men cry all over her shoulder about it.
#dracula daily#re: dracula#october 1#she was just as in love with Lucy as they were#but you don't see her moping around unsure what to do#she is organizing shit and collating files and putting all the puzzle pieces together her own damn self#on top of the emotional support work#I was on board with Van Helsing when he was drinking the Respect Mina juice but now he can fuck right off#and then Mina all like “they're already cutting me out so i better not tell anyone i'm feeling emotional and exhausted out of nowhere”#“or that I can't remember much about last night except Renfield getting all excited”
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